v Sunderland (a) - 21/4/2025

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[M_B]

... and then, all of a sudden, the corpse twitched.

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[Tyrone Shoelaces]

I didn’t even know we were playing. I thought it was a 7-45 KO. Nice to have a stress free afternoon in the boozer.

[rigger]

Last day of the season , and Preston fuck us again.

[Paul Mellelieu]

Have to laugh at the Nobbers.

[funny-old-game]

This month's pay + bonuses 😉 just landed in my account. Easy money

[Old Codger]

The gurning chump has been potted by WBA.

[LWX]

41 minutes ago, rigger said:

Last day of the season , and Preston fuck us again.

Spirit of '01 needed

[rigger]

4 minutes ago, LWX said:

Spirit of '01 needed

I was thinking more the Nobbers against Swansea. That fateful day in May.  

Edited Monday at 18:23 by rigger

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

7 minutes ago, Old Codger said:

The gurning chump has been potted by WBA.

They can’t say they weren’t told.

[dallydally]

23 minutes ago, funny-old-game said:

This month's pay + bonuses 😉 just landed in my account. Easy money

What a nasty piece of work! What goes around comes around 

[Michael123458]

2 hours ago, Hasta said:

Or we beat Sheff United and Burnley, already up, throw their game against Millwall to deny us.

There up now as we know them swines dingles them are Leeds are both going to want the title and can both get 100 points there be throwing nowt away just up to us now to do our bit 

[bigbrandjohn]

2 hours ago, JCRovers said:

Last two matches:

Bristol City: Leeds (A), Preston (H)

Coventry: Luton (A), Middlesbrough (H)

Middlesbrough: Norwich (H), Coventry (A)

Millwall: Swansea (H), Burnley (A)

Rovers: Watford (H), Sheffield Utd (A)

Frustrating that we always seem to pick up form at the very end of season when it's all but too late. We need six points, Millwall need to drop points in one of their remaining games and Coventry have to lose against Luton and draw against Boro on the final day. 

That horrendous five-game losing streak against the likes of Cardiff, Stoke, Derby and Portsmouth is really looking nasty right now, almost unforgivable given that a more pragmatic approach in those games would more than likely have secured valuable points. 

 

Same for Sheffield United and West Brom. Never good to rely on relegation  threatened teams. They tend to wake up at this time of rhe season. 

[bigbrandjohn]

Bottom line. We need a new CEO to court potential American owners. 

[alcd]

3 hours ago, Exiled_Rover said:

I feel like he's fallen out with Gueye though - Gueye isn't even trying to win headers today.

Gueye did no pressing whatsoever in the last few minutes when Sunderland had possession around the halfway line. Barely moved a muscle. Ismael's evident liking for Woodrow probably means he gets a contract😬

[aletheia]

Probably wrong place but...

...Monday Night club on Radio 5 usually dull as ditchwater but quite interesting at the moment. Talking about Leicester. Chat about younger players who are knowledgeable about tactics/systems etc not wanting to obey Steve Cooper who wanted a little more ‘steel.’ Has moved on to prima donnas or player expectation and control –eg. you have to look after my dog if I come to the club etc.

[alcd]

2 hours ago, West Yorks Rover said:

Boro home to Norwich   Norwich shocking away

Millwall home to Swansea

It's the hope that kills you....

[Exiled_Rover]

28 minutes ago, alcd said:

Gueye did no pressing whatsoever in the last few minutes when Sunderland had possession around the halfway line. Barely moved a muscle. Ismael's evident liking for Woodrow probably means he gets a contract😬

Which is worrying because he's utter dogshit.

[Blue Greyhound]

Conspiracy time, if it's true that there is some dark agenda that involves sabotaging our promotion efforts year in year out, will that mean the powers at be could be worried now and try to alter our form for the remaining games? 

Not particularly a beleiver in it all but the thought just crossed my mind.

 

[simongarnerisgod]

season destroyed in january,as per usual😢

[Exiled_Rover]

1 minute ago, Blue Greyhound said:

Conspiracy time, if it's true that there is some dark agenda that involves sabotaging our promotion efforts year in year out, will that mean the powers at be could be worried now and try to alter our form for the remaining games? 

Not particularly a beleiver in it all but the thought just crossed my mind.

 

We need an incredible run of results to make the Playoffs now. It's not going to happen. 

[Michael123458]

9 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

We need an incredible run of results to make the Playoffs now. It's not going to happen. 

Not over yet pal 

[rigger]

1 minute ago, Michael123458 said:

Not over yet pal 

Most importantly we have to do our bit, and win our next two games.

[philipl]

Absolutely no way we are getting 6th but 7th is quite realistic. Unfortunately we have to be in League 2 or the Naltional League for that to be meaningful.

Sunderland were on holiday today including a strange starting selection by their coach.

We have to beat what is in front of us and we did. Only Woodrow was below the standard of the other players but his control in the goal build up was top class. Nice to see some quality crossing in the first half but of course Gueye wasn't on the pitch to benefit.

Not wanting to jinx him, but I increasingly think we have a keeper in Toth - his distribution in the last two games has been excellent. Good to see Ribeiro keep his place and Brittain continuing his great form. Big plus to see Tyjon at the end.