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Post by wuzza on Feb 25, 2024 11:32:59 GMT
It will be not untypical of this club to lose the only thing it has going for it - massive financial resources. Things are grim now but nowhere near as grim as they have the potential to become. Not a popular view with some but I’ve seen enough over the years to know that a sound financial footing is the absolute primary requirement for any sort of long term future. The wheel will turn even if it takes far longer than anyone expected.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 24, 2024 20:09:57 GMT
Like the "Lack of quality up front and at the Back" part throwing them all under the bus albeit he's obviously correct in his comment. We’ve just come out of a transfer window where he/they didn’t bother to bring in a defender. He then bemoans a “lack of quality” at the back. One of the many reasons we can have absolutely no complaints as and when we get relegated. The January window was mind boggling.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 24, 2024 17:44:25 GMT
Listening to him on the radio he always reminds of one of the thousands of scouse wannabe football managers who stand on the touch lines of park games up here shouting out technical gobbledygook. Totally unfair of course but I can’t get the image out of my mind
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Post by wuzza on Feb 22, 2024 12:52:06 GMT
Forgive my ignorance but what real influence will a ‘Technical Director’ have over what remains of this season ?
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Post by wuzza on Feb 19, 2024 19:00:52 GMT
Blimey the feeding frenzy has really got going here hasn’t it? Hope the club are approaching things with a bit more composure or we really are sunk. But the "feeding frenzy" is based on the suspicion that the club aren't approaching things with a bit more composure and we really are sunk, that's the whole point. This isn't people calling for the manager's head It sure as heck ain’t helping. And let’s be honest it based on a bit of speculation by some and wishful thinking for others.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 19, 2024 18:49:05 GMT
Blimey the feeding frenzy has really got going here hasn’t it? Hope the club are approaching things with a bit more composure or we really are sunk.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 18, 2024 16:56:51 GMT
I was quite suprised it was that recent.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 17, 2024 19:27:05 GMT
As the various managers pass through the revolving door I really try to spot any improvements - it’s bloody difficult to pinpoint them.
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Burger
Feb 16, 2024 7:52:22 GMT
Post by wuzza on Feb 16, 2024 7:52:22 GMT
Hadn’t realised how young he is. Mature and intelligent player. We really shouldn’t be losing anyone we don’t want to to another Championship club. A PL club would probably only be buying him with an eye to the future so it would be up to him if he wanted to take a bit part role at this stage of his career. If we get relegated then all bets are off.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 14, 2024 19:21:17 GMT
I’ve developed a niggling suspicion that SS might not know what his best / least bad team is.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 14, 2024 19:13:50 GMT
Can’t see that team scoring, can’t see us keeping a clean sheet ......I’m off down the pub.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 13, 2024 14:25:34 GMT
It defies belief. We are up to our collective necks in crap and all some people want to do is have a pop at someone who did nothing but good for this club. No one is really having a pop are they, just calling out the silliness of wanting him to come back every time our backs are up against the wall. It's dull and boring, it pollutes the message board and it probably won't stop until a certain age group who witnessed his era die out.[/quote Why John Coates wouldn’t have picked the phone up and asked for his advice numerous times in the past decade is unfathomable.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 13, 2024 14:11:54 GMT
It defies belief. We are up to our collective necks in crap and all some people want to do is have a pop at someone who did nothing but good for this club.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 10, 2024 21:36:53 GMT
Folk talking about the team selection being wrong, but when it was announced nearly everybody on this forum agreed with it!!!!! Weird bunch. There’s only ever one outcome when the line up is met with general approval !
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Post by wuzza on Feb 10, 2024 19:02:11 GMT
Thought that was a good effort tonight by Radio Stoke. Always better when Ange is involved and to be fair the commentator bloke (give me about 10 more seasons and I’ll get his name sorted) made some valid points too.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 10, 2024 18:31:55 GMT
More than understandable but very depressing scenes those videos. What price on a Waddington redecoration before the end of the season? What's more depressing is some of the charlatans in yellow shirts clapping the fans singing it. Read the room lads. Just fuck off the pitch. You are right but let’s be honest they would have been slaughtered if they done that too. Lose lose.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 10, 2024 18:28:33 GMT
This club desperately needed the summer window to provide a solid base to build from - more than likely UK based. Unfortunately we went for a scattergun approach for bits and pieces players from here there and everywhere. With the honourable exception of Burger it’s been a bit of a disaster.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 10, 2024 18:01:51 GMT
It’s been the root of our problems for years. Can you imagine TP putting up with some of jokers we have had filling this position ?
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Post by wuzza on Feb 10, 2024 17:45:39 GMT
On many levels it’s not his fault but it’s doubtful he has the skill set to deal with the current scenario. I’d stick with him though - sooner or later we will be in a position to use the ability he has clearly shown at his previous club.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 10, 2024 17:31:17 GMT
Everything is abysmal. Have we reached the crest of the slump?
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Post by wuzza on Feb 10, 2024 17:18:26 GMT
Definitely will be moving on ... and rightly so.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 10, 2024 17:03:27 GMT
I think we are reaching the point where you just have to accept the inevitability of relegation and try to make little bits of progress through getting whichever players that may have a long term future at the club out on the park and giving them all the backing we can. Give SS support and hope for the best whilst being prepared for the worst. The time for getting angry has sadly passed.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 7, 2024 16:49:05 GMT
The amount of clubs interested in taking him on suggests there is a growing belief in football that everyone fails at SCFC and it’s no black mark on your career.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 3, 2024 19:09:25 GMT
All the above having been said I think we all suspect he’ll probably do quite well as soon as he goes elsewhere.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 3, 2024 17:09:45 GMT
The tactics, personnel and shape today were bordering on a sackable offence today. Seriously what the fuck was Schumacher thinking? He’s trying to get players who struggle to walk and chew gum at the same time to do things they are not intelligent or capable enough of doing…….. Anyone would think they were professional footballers getting paid many thousands of pounds a week !! .......but I know what you mean.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 3, 2024 16:48:30 GMT
Fundamentally it’s Stoke doing what Stoke does. History tells us we are, more often than not, bleedin’ useless.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 2, 2024 15:31:38 GMT
Been reading this sort of stuff constantly for the past few days - why are we desperate to sell players ? ...... and how the hell are you supposed to motivate a group that is seemingly being made aware their employers would rather they weren’t here ? All very odd.
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Post by wuzza on Jan 30, 2024 18:53:03 GMT
I think it would be advisable for anyone of a nervous disposition to avoid any contact with the league table after about 5pm next Saturday.
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Post by wuzza on Jan 30, 2024 10:06:58 GMT
In this day and age I think his responses at the game and afterwards to the social media comments (stupid as they may be) were a bit naive at best. Frankly if he was going to comment I wish he sounded a bit more embarrassed that a bang average Sunderland side were the ‘better team’. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.. Tell it how it is: Get stick for not saying the right things.. Tip Toe around questions: Get stick for not saying the right things.. Blatantly lie: Get stick for not saying the right things.. By the way, this average Sunderland team finished in the playoffs last season and probably will finish in the playoffs this season, where have we finished in the last 6? You are probably right with your first point but it really didn’t sit well milking applause when you have just contributed to a dire result for the side you are paid to play for and as for your second issue the fact another team has finished above us in the league does not make them any good and our new players should be aspiring to be miles better (or not be employed by the club).
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Post by wuzza on Jan 30, 2024 8:08:40 GMT
In this day and age I think his responses at the game and afterwards to the social media comments (stupid as they may be) were a bit naive at best. Frankly if he was going to comment I wish he sounded a bit more embarrassed that a bang average Sunderland side were the ‘better team’.
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