Sunderland Banter Archive September 29 2013

29 Sep 2013 20:09:31
Our Goalkeeper position is becoming very worrying Westwood look's out of his depth at this level and as he trudged of today his confident's look's on the floor and mannone look's no better after witnessing his equally poor performance in the cup against the mk dons we should have bought an adequate replacement for mignolet and not a cheap squad filler option I'm interested to hear what other fan's view's are regarding the current problem

Yes I agree

A fair few of goal we've coincided has been down to his error

Westwood is far better than Mannone and after two years on the bench certainly deserved his chance but I would have gone for Tommy or Shay last summer.

Our goalkeeper will help to take us down, unless we start banging in a few goals.

He could do anything with the 3 goals. I don't rate him but today he had a decent performance.

Spot on mate, puled a couple of good saves off but my heart was in my mouth when liverpool were attacking. A couple of times there seemed no communication between him and the two central defenders.

Well we are being linked with Lille Goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama
Pretty good!

Both our keepers arn't good enough, Westwood never comes off his line for set pieces, unlike mignolet who cleared everything and his reactions are slow when the ball is on the ground, can't get down fast enough if its low and in the corner, against palace the penalty went underneath him, very poor for a premier keeper.

Find it hard to believe someone is blaming westwood the guy had no chance with the goals and his lack of confidence is surely down to the s**** in front of him

29 Sep 2013 18:54:58
love to see ball and pearce in our dugout

29 Sep 2013 17:55:03
Another game where we played much better than the other team for most of the game. Yet again no result. Altidore looks alright holding up the ball but is just a bit lazy in the middle. Give Wickham a bloody chance already! Very unlucky with the ref today Sturridge's goal was handball and we should have had a penalty somewhere. Then ripped open by Gerrard's brilliant pass and then a good counter attack against a tired team. Man Utd next. Yikes. I see us being stuck to the foot of the table for a while. yet, Ball has already shown he's got the players in the other team's face. I don't see why we should look past him? Unlucky Sunderland, unlucky.

Thought we played really well today, unlucky against a strong side, only downside what's happening with our defence?o'shea always backing off cuellar is very slow and colback who's normally reliable was out of position so many times, glad cattermole's back, maybe there's hope after all.

Disagree, Kevin Ball has gone back to picking woeful players like Cuellar and Larsson who tried there upmost to take us down last season, took a right back out the side and put a midfielder back in at right back and didn't change it soon enough when Liverpool took game back over after we scored. He's a credit to our football club but as our manager, absolutely not. We played with some passion but that will definitely not be enough to give us even a chance of staying up. Sorry to be blunt and downbeat but that's the reality. Di canio lost the battle but was absolutely right to question virtually everything going on in our football including rubbish like pop robson so I hope we understand he was the right appointment at the time and shouldn't go back to safe predictable naff appointments.

Alti a bit lazy?? played his heart out

Let's get things straight. We are like a blocked drain at present. The blockage is proving difficult to budge but eventually it will be free and the drain flowing.
I am not happy at all at this moment as I thought at times our defending was shockingly bad but neither are we carrying any luck. I did however see some decent play and I believe we will eventually turn that luck around and woe betide the side that is on the receiving end of that. My own view it will happen in four weeks as the longer this run goes on then the more arrogant the opposition booked for that day will think that turning up will be enough. It will get better, but hopefully sooner rather than later.

You're not good enough for the Premier League.

You can argue and say you do not expect to beat the clubs higher up the table, but none of the other clubs in the bottom half would be happy to get beat at home by Liverpool.

Palace could have done better than that. There is no point trying to take positives because you play a bit of good football for a few minutes here and there. You have to go out and put the ball in the back of the net, and you do not have the players to get goals. The only way to get of the foot of the table is to start scoring goals, but where are they going to come from? You don't have a front line that can do anything.

Nobody likes to get beaten by any team, home or away.
We are having problems up front, sound familiar?

I agree with the lad on about the blocked drain, we will improve, Bally must get the job, only time I seen that effort and commitment was when we beat city 1-0, the mugs 0-3 and everton 1-0, it's been a while and I'm backing Bally to get us out of this mess and up that table! the thing is if we play like that against man Utd we may just get a result, they on the slide and their confidence is faltering! HA'WAY THE LADS! also last point how long has it been since the lads got clapped off even losing at home! just shows what Bally has done to them

29 Sep 2013 16:44:38
Is there a record set for the least amount of shots on target ever?

I thinks it's 22 shots 6 on target, how did you guys do?

Yes Newcastle set that at home to west ham the other week 0

29 Sep 2013 15:33:05
I think you should be good for at least a draw against Liverpool. If Ball knows what he is doing he will have targeted Sakho for special attention. Sakho is a complete donkey, no excuses for you lot. Get the job done or I will be back to laugh at you.

What team do u support

2-0 agreed Marra!

And to prove my point!! We can't rely on passion alone! Ok we tried today unlucky in some decisions but also some pathetic defending again?

29 Sep 2013 15:10:33
Read Harry reek apps column today in the papers! I agree with every word! Could you imagine in any other working environment the employees getting the management team the sack unbelievable! Hope these so called players play there arses off cause for me to pay to go and watch that dross! They will have to turn there form upside down! As for the Peterborough game let's get real!! Disillusioned fan??

29 Sep 2013 14:48:14
No disrespect to the legend Kevin ball? Has no experience of managing a premier league team or any team for that matter! Managing people with big egos especially pampered overpaid ones? Sorry kev maybe as a number two! We have got to get this right and asking these bunch of players who they would like ain't going to cut it! Let's hope the club do the research required to get there man! And to those players who had differences with di canio! You better step up to the plate! I read today Bardsley is being considered! Is this not the very same footballer who mocked his fellow teammates! Not happy at all with that like! Trials and tribulation of a sunderland supporter!!

29 Sep 2013 14:07:28
why go for maclaren he's crap guy shoot not even be given an interview if he gets the job I can't see me going back to watch them while he's in charge I've been watching sunderland for 52yrs if he does get it season ticket goes on ebay may get 20quid for it if i'm lucky

I do not believe this person has been a supporter for 52 years. He knows very little about managing a football team. Its not easy getting good players to come, so we need to produce more through the Academy and then keep them. Henderson and Colback were the two best players in the youth team that nearly reached the FA youth final. McClaren showed at the Boro he would give kids a chance. We need to use the experienced Premier players (as Kevin Ball) is doing to stay up, but then need to develop our own in the future.

I have been a supporter for over fifty years as well. If we get Mclaren bang goes my season ticket for next year. No way I would flog this seasons for £20. It's not fully paid for yet.

29 Sep 2013 01:47:11
Wow
Sess did Man Utd
You have to feel that PDC destroyed his confidence as he did with everyone else