David Kelly

Of course they do, it's in their DNA as much as humping sisters in the mackems.

Aye his ball for Gordon and I think he set up that useless cunt Murphy when he hit the post. With a proper player on the right we would possibly get more from him dropping a little deeper and playing those balls through.

Having Tonali as the deepest of the three midfielders and Bruno further forward worked well. Tonali had probably his best game imo and Bruno had a hand in all three goals. He's our player who is most likely to find little passes in and around the box to release Isak or Gordon. The slight problem with playing like that is Bruno's lack of pace. When we lose possession and he has to get back he looks like he's running in cement. This should hopefully be less of an issue against weaker teams who don't have Salah to punish our poor passes. But ultimately if we want to create more we probably need to accept that trade off, at least until we have someone who's not dog shit on the right.

In terms of quality on the pitch he still owes a fortune though.

Not to mention the fact that Tino's delivery has been shocking this season.

Bang on. Despite the area's of the squad in which we are still limited, we have enough quality in players like Bruno, Tonali, Joelinton, Gordon, Willock, Barnes and Isak to do better than no shots on target against a team in the bottom 3 who are missing a few of their own better players. Howe has to take some criticism for this but it's not like we've not been able to create anything all season. We should have beat Brighton and had Iask's goal against West Ham been allowed, we could have easily had the success that Arsenal had on Saturday. I do have reservations about whether Howe is the right man to take us to the next level as it's obviously something he's never done before. Do we need a different type of manager? One who's got the ability and experience of managing teams to play to a consistent high level at the top of the league rather than just bringing out massive performances against the top teams. Maybe, but without a full squad of players at that level rather than Burn, Longstaff, Murphy etc. I don't think they'd do any better. The likes of Frank or Bournemouth's manager haven't done anything more than what Howe has here (remember where we were when he arrived FFS) so I can't see any reason to suggest we should be replacing him with one of them. Howe has to show he can get us back playing better and I'm sure he will. Longer term we might need to move on from him but he more than deserves the chance to improve on a bad week.

The difference being we don't have Shearer banging on about Mbeumo to us like they do with Merson with Isak.

He seems to be a strangely poor penalty taker when there is no pressure on but superb when it counts. From memory he has missed two for us, one was in a friendly and the other we were something like 3-0 up at the time.

Obviously we seen Burn do something similar last season. I know it's easy to get carried away when it's players for your team do anything positive and I'm sure the mackems will have their own take on it, but there definitely seems to be some really good personalities in our club now. Not forgetting the genocide of course.

Getting wound up by perceived wrongs is one of the things that makes you a mackem. It's like fucking seagulls, defending nonces, casual racism, shitting in your seat at the ground and marrying your sister/mother. It's in their DNA.

To be fair most of Sunderland is like it's still 1992. Well the better parts at least!

Davis can certainly finish going by last weekends game.

I'm all for picking players on form, especially going into tournaments. But I just think that form needs to be longer than a month. As I said though, it shows how limited our options are in that position. If we had fit and quality leftbacks I'm sure he'd have been held back longer.

It says a lot about both the lack of genuine options at leftback and culture of over hyping players when they have a few good games. For the first month or more of the season he couldn't nail down the spot ahead of Kelly as he was anything but consistent. He's been one of our best players over the last month or so, including MOM performances against sky six teams, but should that really be enough for a call up to the national team? Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy with the way he's progressing now, I just feel that more than a handful of good games should be required to play for your country.

Hard to believe I know.