Durhamfootman wrote:although they probably have a better batting coach than their Durham counterparts
captaincolly wrote:Sunderland will never get out of the doldrums unless they appoint a lead high performance coach!
Aidan11 wrote:captaincolly wrote:Sunderland will never get out of the doldrums unless they appoint a lead high performance coach!
I must admit I was surprised by Ross' appointment considering his last trip to the North East.
He signed for us, played a few games, got injured, went back to his home in Scotland and refused to come back. Normally I could understand that but we were in the midst of our golden period culminating with the league 1 play off final which we were eight minutes away from winning had the bent ref not given Sheffield Wednesday a penalty for no reason at all.
He did better than expected to be fair but I think even the Sunderland supporters generally feel a change is needed to get back in the Championship.
Durhamfootman wrote:I have a feeling they had to get promoted this season, because the parachute money runs out, or something, and this will impact heavily on next season. Although I confess I don't really understand how the money works. As I understand it, they had far more money available than other teams in the division, so they should really have secured an automatic berth. They were well on course to do so until they got distracted by the Wembley cup final.
Durhamfootman wrote:Watched with interest at this Jonny Williams fella, that lower league club supporters rave about, when he came on as sub with 20 mins to go. Reminded me of a poor man's Neymar..... takes the ball on mazy runs down dead ends until he feels a touch of some sort and then rolls all the floor holding his knee a lot was my assessment.
captaincolly wrote:Durhamfootman wrote:I have a feeling they had to get promoted this season, because the parachute money runs out, or something, and this will impact heavily on next season. Although I confess I don't really understand how the money works..
Yes, think this ties in with what a ( Newcastle fan) who runs the pub quiz at my local told me a while back - I didn't quite understand what he was saying but the gist of it was that failure to gain promotion would have massive financial consequences.
sussexpob wrote:Durhamfootman wrote:Watched with interest at this Jonny Williams fella, that lower league club supporters rave about, when he came on as sub with 20 mins to go. Reminded me of a poor man's Neymar..... takes the ball on mazy runs down dead ends until he feels a touch of some sort and then rolls all the floor holding his knee a lot was my assessment.
In my mind the boy would be playing Premier League football if he'd stayed fit, and when he first broke in it looked like he could be a player with the potential to play towards the top end of that league. The first thing he did yesterday was take the ball into space beating a man, whipped in a lovely ball, striker should hit the target. Second time he gets fouled on the edge of the box. The winning goal came from the same thing. He was a hassle. If hes fit, he's way above this level of football, its not even close.
I dont think I noticed him dive, he's 5ft 5in and tbf to him, if you watch how teams at this level treat him, hes got every right to go down because he's physically obliterated regularly; that diminutive touch for a small guy with a low centre of gravity often ends with him being hacked. He's had his leg shattered, his collar bone broken, several other injuries. Sadly they have come to define him, and donkey lower league defenders often get frustrated and go in hard on him.
Watch the Sunderland doco from last year (mentioned on this thread last week).....to his credit, he comes across very well in it.
sussexpob wrote:
I dont think I noticed him dive
Durhamfootman wrote:That sounds right, SP. So basically they need to sell their players this year in order to cut their costs for the next year when the money runs out? Even promotion next year doesn't seem to help them because the money they lose will not be compensated for by promotion.... only promotion to the PL would do that. I guess this is how clubs slide down the leagues. Back to back relegations pretty much killed them and this was their biggest chance to turn things around
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