Howay

Mackems cheering Johnson on if he gets convicted man..

Aye, seems like he's playing the game as protectively as possible for them but when it comes to us he's playing it like a 'let the game flow it's a derby'

How is that a yellow but the foul on Perez didn't even get a free kick? This league has some tragically bad officials.

Honestly man this referee is a fucking disgrace

Half expecting him to shrug turn to Stone and say "Weyy this is shite lads, I'll gan get wu the pints in eh". It's incredible that this is the state of this football club. Riviere can fuck right off too.

Looking at that coaching staff it's unbelievable to think they're in charge of a Premier League club.

Aye, they match our run of most wins in a row over the other as well.

This referee is shocking mind.

See more records will be broken and matched if Sunderland win this, it's took us falling to their level rather than them raising up to our past level but big Mike, Carvs, Pards and co have made it happen, fanks lads.

Aye they just don't give a fuck. I didn't expect any better from Carver as he's been here for all the recent games anyway, he has still managed to give me a surprise as this is possibly the worst we have looked in a game against them recently. Totally fucking inept, can't even touch the ball, when any of the players do get the ball all they do it panic and hump it up front I think the only ones that have looked to pass are Sissoko and Cabella but they barely touch it as they keep getting bypassed.

I just don't understand how we have consistently played this ridiculously poor against these the last few year. I know we're shite but we don't look this fucking bad until the two games a season we play them, do the players get fucking paid off Ashley to not bother? It is proper fucking ridiculous. 1 goal in 6 games and they completely control a game against us and score a raker, it's been like this for 3 fucking years now.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand there's their fucking now regular raker goal.

If we can come out and play at a League two level we'll comfortably win.

Or for the last 4 years.

This team is total fucking shit. They have possession comfortably and then inexplicably start to pass it back, before it falls to Krul who just smacks it forward and then we again look short at the back despite not even pressing high up the field. Bunch of fucking losers.

Aye they struggle to pass, it's incredible how shit they look at playing football. Look like a bunch of raffle winners today.

Mackem players living up to the hard man descriptions their fans give them, by diving all over the place yet again.

:lol: Gouffran. As if he's a Premier League footballer being paid millions.

Rather than Eden Hazard and Oscar it's Billy Jones and Connor Wickham. Fucking hell.

Just the usual isn't it, hoofing it up to Perez and hoping he can pull off a bit of skill and score.

Giving stupid fucking fouls away every time. What a total shit show these two sides are man.

Looks similar to recent derbies so far, how do we look so utterly confused and wide open at the back every time they counter attack? They're fucking crap against everyone else in the league then they play us and our defence make them look like a counter attacking force . Gouffran letting Billy fucking Jones outmaneuver him on the back post before as well ffs.

I don't have much hope for this one tbh, with the amount of injuries we have and the fact that Carver is in charge. It's the one game where you'd think it would be canny having him in charge to get them up for it but the fact is the useless prick has been there for all the recent shit shows against them so I don't imagine he'd suddenly be much use. The worst bit is they are absolute fucking shit and have been the previous 2 seasons when they have beaten us. I hope for an Adam Johnson own goal in a 0-2 win for us.

Aye, a fair shout tbh.

Aye, the bloke doesn't have the best touch or link up play but he's a good finisher and has won us a lot of points after Perez's goal run dried up. I don't understand why anyone would want to see the back of him tbh, unless we brought in an improvement but even then I'd still prefer he stayed as like TRS pointed out we're hardly brimming with talent up front. Fully agree with the points that Krul and Cisse are some of our best players, Krul hasn't looked as quality as he has in the past but look at the clip of the defence in front of him ffs and he has had a few bad injuries. He's still a massive step up from Rob Eliot. The only benefit for selling these players is for Ashley to cash in while they would still have a decent price tag, no upside for the fans. We made a good profit this year so there should be no reason for us to have to see Cisse and Krul to buy players, it just leads to further stagnation anyway, selling them and trying to bring in slight improvements still means we have to hope they perform and leaves them playing alongside nob-cheese like Williamson.