Sunderland afc

toffeejack · August 3, 2017

good luck for the season ahead sland.

TraffordBlue · August 3, 2017

Good club with good fans so hope to see you come back up. Your fans must have been worn down over the years and it feels a bit like our situation with your rivals where you never seem to get the last laugh. Obviously you lot managed to do something that we could never do to our neighbours (beat them 6x in a row and relegate them), but one season on and you're rotting down there, whilst they're back up.

Hope Vaughan does well for you and I rate Browning, especially for that standard but the rest of the signings from Everton (other than Galloway), seem to have been poor. Gibson is a joke, and has been for years and Oviedo has had his injury problems.

Seems that like with Sissoko, we dodged a massive bullet by not bringing in Kone. It's a real concern that Koeman and Walsh can identify players like Gueye on the one hand, and then mercenaries like Sissoko and Kone on the other.

Alanbileysfeathercut · August 3, 2017

Something not right at your club
Not sure what
Great stadium
Potentially massive support
Spend cash
Hate Newcastle!
Always look out for you
1973 and all that

GwladysBlue · August 3, 2017

Good luck for the new season

Hoping Sunderland, Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United all come up.

gonetomorrow · August 3, 2017

GwladysBlue said:
Good luck for the new season

Hoping Sunderland, Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United all come up.

Up the old school!

GwladysBlue · August 3, 2017

gonetomorrow said:
Up the old school!

Get the Northern clubs in the league, hoping they replace the jarg Southern ones!

Would be especially good if Sheffield United replace West Ham. One of football's biggest injustices was them going down and West Ham staying up with illegal players.

gonetomorrow · August 3, 2017

GwladysBlue said:
Get the Northern clubs in the league, hoping they replace the jarg Southern ones!

Would be especially good if Sheffield United replace West Ham. One of football's biggest injustices was them going down and West Ham staying up with illegal players.

Ipswich are OK. The Tractor Boys.
But not Norwich.

formerly manx toffee · August 3, 2017

Good luck.

I liked your goal for Arsenal in the FA CuP Final. 1979

ilikecheese · August 3, 2017

Can we change the title to Everton B?

anton66 · August 3, 2017

Ellis Short is holding you back. Time for him to sell, before you get dragged down further.

LEONARD · August 3, 2017

Hopefully you can come straight back up, whilst NUFC and the FSW go back down.

Encoder · August 3, 2017

Hope Vaughany bangs a load in for yous and stays fit. And that Newcastle hurtles back down (one can dream)

NCLBlue · August 3, 2017

Sunderland afc said:
Since our message board has become almost unbearable with the amount of moaning about everything and anything, and while I expect a tough season some of the stuff on there is getting beyond a joke . I thought I'd start our own thread here. Hope this is okay and we have 2 young Everton lads on the books.

After all it's like a little piece of Wearside has moved here over the last few months.

Anyway our relegation campaign, sorry promotion campaign starts tomorrow night live on sky v derby. Not expecting much and will be happy with a point. In truth I'm in the pub from 4.30 so will be happy to make the match.

It seems the momentum was somewhat building until that PR disaster against Celtic. What a car crash, killed off the positivity that had been Building from Maja showing some decent performances.

I'm not sure what is wrong at your place but Short has no idea what he's doing and I'm sure all of the debt is owed to him isn't it? He's the one that has allowed the situation to get so out of hand. Really thought the German takeover would happen.

Don't think you'll do too badly once the season starts. Perhaps keep Vaughny off the penalties is a start! And Gibson off the sauce/teamsheet.

Hawayyyawayawayaaa

atrottel · August 3, 2017

Guardian pre-season look at Sunderland:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/aug/03/football-sunderland-championship-simon-grayson

In an English league with no shortage of dysfunctional football clubs, few match Sunderland in terms of consistency when it comes to blasting themselves repeatedly in the foot. After a decade in the Premier League during which they survived assorted unsavoury scandals and brushes with the drop, they finally sleepwalked out of the top flight last season under the disastrous stewardship of David Moyes.

A club that invariably attracts home crowds of more than 40,000 find themselves back in the Championship and saddled with debts of £110m; an extraordinary achievement at a time when local devotion and the TV riches that came with such a long tenure in the Premier League should have made them one of the most profitable clubs in the land. The owner, Ellis Short, would love to find a buyer but is understood to have eased off his search after deals from rival bidders this summer both fell through. Few agree with the American’s £100m (and rising, depending on the speed of any Premier League return) valuation of the club.

Recent events suggest promotion may not happen any time soon and if Sunderland are to exit the Championship this season their trajectory is more likely to be downwards.