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Heard he got side tracked

Definitely, I met the Mrs in 1979 and until I showed her how to adjust the height of the Ironing board, it's all she ever did.

When you live in Sunderland I guess all you can do is either get out and disown your past (if you're sensible) or develop a fervent imagination. I mean our equivalent would be something like: Imagine Sunderland get relegated from the preimiership. Then imagine they are so shit in the second tier they end up bottom of the league with various comical club carry on. Then imagine they have to beat Burton to avoid relegation to League 1, the very team they used to take the piss out of us. THEN imagine that Darren Bent of all people scores the deciding goal which relagates them. THEN imagine a film crew actually filmed this for posterity and it viewed on the most popular streaming serivce. I mean, even in my most fervent imagination I doubt I could conjure such a scenario. Oh.

Remember when the mags knew they couldn’t make as a big a tip of Covent Garden as we did, marra? So instead of drinking cans and pissing in the street there, they went in the pubs there instead? Then the the whole of America walked past on holidayah, and asked them if they’d heard of Sunderland because it’s the most famous club in the world because of Netflix

no, you're wrong. he's shite and a complete and utter waste of money. what's more, he wouldn't get anywhere near the starting line-up of the mackem's current team of multi ballon d'or winning superstars. read it here.... https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/anthony-gordon-going-to-scum.1598785/

SHUT UP FISH

Yeah, you lot suck

It's very odd. I've said this before but honestly, hand on heart, I am perfectly happy to objectively consider them on their merits. They've done better than I thought they would. They are very unlikely to get relegated and have an outside chance of reaching the play offs (although to me it looks like more established teams will pip them to it). They played well against Boro, although I would note that imo they were lucky for the penalty which Stewart dived for, and their second goal was well taken by a ManU player (I think?). But that team did not play more attractive football than us, and they would be embarassed by us if we played them. That's clearly the state of play at this moment in time, forgetting about ownership. But do they give us any credit at all? No, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, we're just a team of flukey hoofers. Despite out goal diffeerence (showing we also score goals), despite returning frequently to goal of the month, despite now having one of the best defences in premiership history, they are so bitter they can't give credit where its due. And then that fucking moron of an admin on their Keith states some bollocks how Newcastle fans no nowt about football, despite him having said (lied) he's only watched us in one match this season. We "play awful" football is their latest crutch and its demonstrably bollocks. The thing is, as you say, this just makes it funnier. We're not haqving a purple patch which is going to end like with Pardew, our trajectory is in one direction only, its just happening much faster than I ever dared believe possible. I'm pretty confident we will reach the LC final and I will be more confident of winning it when we are than I was in 97 or 98. They still bang on about Felling criciket club (!) having a blue manchester day when they got to the final. I would put my mortgage on the house the whole of Weirdside will be like a mental asylum on final day if we get there, I mean even more than normal. Suck it up, marras.

I’m going to start referring to it as a “compressed retreat” and call anyone who doesn’t join in an idiot. “Low block eh? I guess this chump doesn’t subscribe to mundial!”

I dunno but Adam Johnson is on one

Just stop talking about it. We look like we might be decent at football again. We don’t have to suffer anymore.

Even though I’m not a betting man, I’d put money on us; 1- Not having some daft lad splitting his head open by diving in to the 1ft deep fountain. 2- Not having a naked granny taking a shit in said fountain.

Just one trequarista Give it to me He's from Italy etc etc 🎼crescendo ......

Scoring goals is the hardest thing to do in football. Look at our midfield and attack tonight and Bruno is the only player added since the takeover and he’s playing fairly deep. Eddie Howe has completely remodelled the defence and turned it into the best in the Premier League. He has done wonders with our midfield and the best he can with our attack where we’re dominating and creating chances but they aren’t good enough or we aren’t finishing them. He has reached the limit of what he can do at this level. When you see Willlock, Longstaff and Joelinton all blazing chances over and compare it with the professionalism of the rest of the team then you realise that some turds can’t be turned into diamonds. They're getting into the right positions but they aren’t instinctive finishers. So the personnel has to change. We need more goals regularly from the forwards and midfielders and we’re going to have to spend money to do so. You can train most players to graft and to run and to get into the right positions but if they don’t have natural finishing then they don’t have it. Willock and Longstaff need to be off the team sheet next year and we need competition for Almiron and someone for LW to allow Joelinton back into midfield. There are huge changes needed to get our squad into shape and Howe has worked miracles to get us where we are but to even maintain this position will need big investment in the summer.

And if we don’t it’ll will look like Buenos Aires did after the World Cup. There’ll be old men bubbling and hugging each other on the streets. Cos theyah not bothad. Marra FTM

Look at you, coming in here and being all reasonable about it

Fuck me You wouldn't have believe we'd just won the away leg of our first semi final in years on the reading of this thread... I've never heard of a low block but if it helps Fish sleep at night, more power to him. Defining abstract concepts does tend to help people who are less informed though, so maybe for the veteran, seasoned fans of the game it's needless - but for the younger generation or more casual observers I can see it having some merit.

Bring back Capital punishment! #COYI 🔨 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Terrace chant for him and his mates: Tory incels, ello, ello

This rent boy is having dogs abuse at him

If we were to win this cup Sunderland is going to look like Jonestown 1978.

Deep heat > low heat

Drivel. When has any area of the game been described as "Low"? Never is the answer, there's "high" up the pitch and "deep" which were perfectly adequate descriptors. Someone thought "ooh need to invent something to re-brand "deep" so that the hipsters will think it's "new" and trendy baby !!!! We'll be having tertiary block and altitude block next.

First rule of RTG now is they're not allowed to talk about us because they're apparently not bothered, so all posts have to removed to mega-compendium thread on a members only forum. So instead they have to start threads which are nothing about us, oh no, where they can talk about us. What a job afmin have in that madhouse.

Also here is a lovely bit of mackem logic. "If you ignore our multiple games where we have been shit marra, we've been brilliant " Absolutely tapped.

It’s almost worth keeping Murphy now to bring on in moments when we need some world class shitehousery. He has improved this side of his game more the an any other. Well done Jacob.

“ Kleenex to the fish please, kleenex to the the fish”

The entertainers who were everyone's second team who sadly won nowt versus hated (potential) winners. I know which I prefer.

up pops a manc on an.nufc thread, on a sunderland messageboard, hidden away in parsnip. think really that somebody needs to remind him that the club he supported before fcum, employed alex ferguson for a quarter of a century, a man who was without peers at shithousing. be it officials, managers or players. employed a captain who was a spineless cunt who openly admitted to trying to break a players legs. revered a player who was shagging his brothers wife. filled a stadium with cunts who sing songs supporting argentina or mocking 96 dead football supporters. but aye, jacob murphy's a cunt.

quite moved by that mate. thank you. you try your level best with these things and then have to ask yourself was it all worthwhile when it plummets in to fish generated chaos.

So his best case scenario is we win the league cup and they win the FA cup? He wouldn’t prefer to win the FA Cup and us to go out to Southampton? Do they fucking engage their brains while making up these weird imaginary scenarios, or is it just drivel on autopilot? Why is he even acting like them winning the FA Cup is some plausible scenario, they’re only in the 4th fucking round they need to win 5 more rounds to win the thing. It’s absolutely barmy, it’s like us saying “I seyz to me mam imagine if they got promoted in the play offs next seyyyson and we won the Champions leyyyug? Tha would be the best fing eva”, it’s so fucking weird they got promoted and are a middling championship side which is good for them given where they are but they’re acting like they’d pump a side 3rd in the premier league that are currently the best defensive unit in the top 5 European leagues and among the highest scorers in the Premier League. It’s just ridiculous, they even have the brass neck to call us deluded in the same posts

Never realised Pope Benedict was a MLF.

Better.

So that blokes evidence that they are better than most the PL is that they beat a side who weren’t good enough to be in the PL? I’m happy for them to keep thinking this is all some huge fluke, as it’ll just make it even harder for them to deal with as we stay at this level and even kick on. It looks like we could be in the first final we’ve been in for fucking donkeys years and all they’re bothered about is Trafalgar Square and outrage at Murphy for waving at a player who committed an outrageous foul and proceeded to shove, grab and scream at our players aye Jacob Murphy was definitely the problem in that scenario. It’s interesting that the whole of the Premier League has suddenly become absolutely shit at football the exact time we got new owners, a new manager, and claim to have turned things around. It’s also weird that in the cups it’s all PL sides at the end of the tournament, given they are all shite and lower league sides are definitely better. I look forward to possibly being in Europe next season as I’m going to make a wild prediction that this bizarre coincidence will also be inflicted upon the top sides across Europe “Real Madrid are shite now marra, Stewie would put five past them looking at them tonight FTM marra we’d be the best team in yooorup”. They’ve lost it.

What a bunch of absolute fuckin weapons man

Aye. And if we don't have many fans in Trafalgar Square (because it's not actually a thing), you can be sure they'll be crowing about having "won". Absolutely bizarre.

They were/are upset about Look North and poor Dawnie in particular last night 20 hours before its broadcast. As for Trafalgar square, wtf? Is this a thing with our fans or just theirs? It would never cross my mind to go to any of these places before the match. In 2000 I got to London quite early by train and went for a nice walk in Hyde park, never heard anything about gatherings at any tourist spots. It the oddest thing ever to get upset over. "They'll nevva tayyke Trafalgaaa Square from us marra!"

i still happily live in an era where we looked like we could score every time we attacked or fucking hell we defended well today. no graphs, no heat charts, no algebra. i'm content here.

And finally for today, here's a lovely example of a mackem imagining stuff again and getting angry about it. I mean I've heard about getting your excuses in early but getting upset in advance like this about what we might say (*we definitely won't) about an imaginary event.

He's not running the channels, he's rarely coming deep to collect. He seems to be playing more and more like a targetman, when he just isn't that kind of player. Isak had more touches in 25 minutes than Wilson did in 67. ASM did too.

"Needlessly sesquipedalian to the point of obscurantis- ohbollocksranoutofspace"

That's exactly what Shearer said about him being sick of us turning up at Arsenal and being rolled over and thanked for the 3 points. What annoyed people the most about the 0-0 is it showed those days are over.

I wasn’t glued to every single second of the match cheering on Southampton but if I had been…..

The other thing is sides have cottoned on a bit that lots of stuff was coming down the right with Almiron and Trippier. And having Burn and Joelinton - like it’s been - on the left will never create as much. So starting ASM could open up more room on the right by drawing players to him. But it also gives us a threat down the left. It leaves us a bit more open in theory but you’ve still got the same rock solid back line / gk. And a midfield 3 of Joelinton/Bruno/Longstaff is not going to shirk any defensive responsibilities