Renton

Mrs Rents ruining this for me. She's listening to the radio and it's 2 minutes ahead of Sky.

Interesting.

Yep. Ffs, time to get stressed again.

I thought he was gonna miss the open goal!

Was gonna post this but too slow!

GOALLLLLL!

Was that fuck off side.

I thought you were getting the hang of this football malarkey?

And the fact the Venison played for us anyway too of course, arguably at a higher level. FUck it, that's not even arguable tbh. ALways remember Gloom had him as his avatar back in the day...... My God how time has flied.

I'd put Wilson on a par with Bent, Ferdinand way above him. Ba, dunno, not here long enough and always worried his knee would explode. But that still leaves Cole and Shearer as CFs who wipe the floor with theirs in the premiership era. And Beardsley as a stiker/attacking midfielder come to think of it. The more I think about it, if you restrict it to the premiership era, I'm struggling to think of one of their players making our bench.

Now? Definitely? All time? Probably also definitely.

Anyway, I'm not so concerned about the AI Skynet thing happening, it's the self replicating nanobots turning the world into a grey sludge I'm most worried about.

Hold on, this shouldn't be allowed to pass. The rest of this board are young? Listen Bilbo, this board is getting on for 20 years old now and most the posters on here were in their late 20s or early 30s when they starterd posting. We've had no new blood because we're too perpetual or something. Even the kids on here are approacing middle age now. It's true some of us are a bit further along the bell curve than others, but if a meteor strikes today nobody on here is dying young.

They all look the same to me.

The SNP is finished like. Meanwhilse Sunak is found to be a lying, gaslighting cunt. Just for a change.

Predictably a figure of hate now for the mackems.

Loved him in his Burton days. And assuming this was a serious reply, which I doubt, and ignoring the inevtiable ignominy of his departure and him subsequently relegating them to the third tier, he probably was their best player over the last two decades, alongside Henderson (who I don't even think played for them much). Totally forgettable.

ANybody want to start the World's shortest thread and do a mackem version of this? In all seriousness, I don't think I can think of a single one. Not because I dislike any of them in particular, maybe Johnson and Cattermole aside (and the former of those being non-football reasons), it's just I can't recall a single exciting player they've ever had. I'm completely ambivalent to nearly all of them, but there are obviously dozens of players we have had who were notable at a national or international level. Jordan Henderson maybe, but even then he's a utilitarian player who rarely excites. Thinking of those who have played for both clubs, even going back to the old days, the flow always seemed to be from us to them - players like Shackleton, Pop Robson, Bob Moncur and Stokoe (as manager for them). Honestly, this is said sincerely, I would fucking struggle to watch football if I was from Sunderland. The absolute dearth in any quality they've had over the years must be soul destroying. Add to that the fact the city is a fucking shithole, then I think it explains a lot about their psychological make up. Please, feel empathy for them. Hug a mackem today.

Spat me coffee out over my keyboard. Wait, so this dickhead is STILL a Trump supporter?

Has this ever happened?

Yep, and there's that word again!

Meanwhile the mackems are upset. Again! Not sure why?

Cue some bizarre Weekend at Berties with reanimated Pele and Maradonna in the mackem midfield.

When you said you were dying Because of your respiratory health You didn’t mention you were lying, yeah Why don't you just go fuck yourself 🎵

Yeah, that's probably what I'm doing. Means they're going to miss a day at school but saves about 2k so fuck it.