Ayatollah Hermione

Everyone else notice our players spreading about 30 yards apart when Shelvey gets it so he can spray passes about? What the recipients are meant to do if he finds them is another question

goal of the season

How much of this “takeover bid” do we reckon is fuelled by Gandaft finding out that Sunderland has the most B&M Bargains per square mile in the country?

Could do with Areola making a tit of himself!!!!

Dummett is back. Absolutely can’t wait for him to smash Billy Fulham into the stands in the first 2 minutes

Another firm step in the current shambles, I see. A nice way to make sure absolutely nobody pays it any attention by waiting until everyone has their plans sorted

Tier 4 for London incoming

These look like they’re finding their feet so we’re the perfect team for them to play. Our manager continuing his Christmas generosity by gifting them all of the possession and letting them make chances for 90 minutes.

Not even sure why this is funny

If that’s his policy, Sunderland will need a whole new squad! #Bantergeddon

Aye, I’m sure, if not for being an international energy drink magnate, he’d be challenging for Hamilton’s record.

I genuinely worry what Brentford + Ivan Toney will do to us. They knock it about really well and they’re slowly coming into form again.

In lighter news, I saw their crap corner defending and Clark starting and won 60 quid on him scoring anytime so...cheers, Ciaran. Thanks for continuing to be an oddly effective scoring centre half

5 on 2 from our own corner. Calling it schoolboy stuff is an insult.

Well, with one clean sheet in 11 matches, it makes sense to rely on the defenders

Wow, I’m amazed that letting a team have free reign to blast crosses and shots at the goal may result in us losing a lead. Again

Nice of us to let them settle into a rhythm early on

Rotation is essential at this time but leaving both goal scorers on the bench and persisting with Joelinton

I believe so. 90% of their meeting was almost certainly spent on coming up with that.

I’ll be amazed if Allardyce can do anything with that lot. Even with his special contact book of mercenaries coming through the door next month.

Says a lot when the league is so poor/competitive this year that he technically is getting us challenging for the top 8

I probably would as well since I can look past graphical hitches and performance issues easily enough, it's the stories of constant crashing and quest-killing bugs that's putting me off. That and the fact I have Miles Morales and Valhalla sitting here and I worry about open world fatigue.

The fact there's two huge patches coming in January and February suggests that it needed to be delayed even further. Good for me who has the game sitting on top of my PS5 and feels terrified to play it for another two month.

Did it shite. Got the refund through Amazon themselves so sadly didn't have to deal with Rich Energy's return department which I'm assuming would be a direct communication with Chewspacca here.

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