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The Clubs Identity...

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ShaabanShaaban said:
My point is, we’ve been shit before. When I went to my first match, I think Buxton was in charge, and we got pasted 3-0 or near enough by someone equally as shit (Portsmouth or Tranmere perhaps), but that was more acceptable than this is now.
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Yeah i get your initial point and agree with you. Fact is that people see more money coming into the game and more players who are just here for the money. They don't want to graft for the club and it creates a disconnect.

We are shit and the players don't give a shit. How can a fan accept that and still think it's the best thing on a Saturday?
 

We have an identity, sadly it isnt a good one. We are seen as a traditional club whos culture is stuck in the 70's, the Johnson situation tarnished us greatly too. We are a wasteland to many and Club 28-40's for pissheads. People are sympathetic to us because we are a salt of the earth fan base. you just have to read the press to see what our 'identity' is, the fact that we moan on here about the sheer quantity of 'anti' safc media shows just how the world perceive us we are quicksand.
 
ShaabanShaaban said:
It’s impossible to get a job in it. Every vacancy goes to some forgotten ex-footballer, or an Irishman/Scotsman.
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I read somewhere that a decent percentage of sports articles in the US are now done by “writing bots” and with the further advances in AI set to roll out its one of those jobs that look likely to be replaced by automation. First of many though, and I see the Jocks are already toying with the idea of a Universal basic income.

Daddyo said:
Its going to take at least 10 years to get out of this predicament
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Nah, it just takes a change in the state of mind and that can happen in an instant as proved by Roy Keane.
 
The club is at a low ebb, supporters arent being really vocal anymore, players seem not to be trying and club is in big debt, no easy answer and will take time to sort the situation out.
 
ShaabanShaaban said:
... seems to be completely and utterly lost. What are we? A club for the working classes of Sunderland to go and let loose on a weekend, being connected to an entity that they could all relate too as a child, kicking a ball around a derelict field with their friends?

Or are we a high-end upper class model of a club now, which has only the commercially rich at heart and everything else that happens in a bonus?

What has happened here? I recall the walk down to Roker Park from The Cambridge, thinking “this is the best thing to do on a Saturday” whereas now, I feel completely disconnected from the club to the point where I’m absolutely indifferent about their results, as if they’re some forgotten limb.

I hate what’s happening to our club. Is this the way Football is, or is it just Sunderland?
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We have suffered the footballing equivalent of death by a thousand cuts. We bumped along at the bottom of the Prem with an appalling home record season after season which has somehow got worse in the last 18 months and it’s sucked the life out of our home support.

We go through a sense of duty and wait for the inevitable to unfold and when it does we sit there and rarely even bother to get angry anymore.

The singing is virtually non existent, the team is shit and the ground feels like it’s dropping to bits around us.

If it was virtually anything else in life we’d have the power as individuals to change things; move house, move jobs, get divorced even. We can’t do that with a football club. Even if we stop going it’s still in our hearts and souls and we can’t get away from that.

Until Short sells up things won’t improve.
 
Lord Alfred said:
I read somewhere that a decent percentage of sports articles in the US are now done by “writing bots” and with the further advances in AI set to roll out its one of those jobs that look likely to be replaced by automation. First of many though, and I see the Jocks are already toying with the idea of a Universal basic income.



Nah, it just takes a change in the state of mind and that can happen in an instant as proved by Roy Keane.
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That was a long time ago
 
Lord Alfred said:
I read somewhere that a decent percentage of sports articles in the US are now done by “writing bots” and with the further advances in AI set to roll out its one of those jobs that look likely to be replaced by automation. First of many though, and I see the Jocks are already toying with the idea of a Universal basic income.



Nah, it just takes a change in the state of mind and that can happen in an instant as proved by Roy Keane.
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It also needs money and investment, something that won't happen anytime soon imo
 
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