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ALS Methven Interview

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reginald_molehusband said:
It was suggested on Newcastle Online that it would only be a matter of time til one of them posted something like this, and there it is.

PR man pandering to his audience and you lot are lapping it up.

f***ing hell man, have some dignity. :lol::lol::lol:
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A mag asking for dignity in others! The utter f***ing irony! :oops:

Laeotaekhun said:
Many thanks for posting that, it was a very interesting read.

I particularly liked this bit.

"So, we’re gonna be ferocious, brutal, and tough for Sunderland, because we believe that it’s worth fighting for. And you’ve got to fight! This isn’t going to be a soft touch. Sometimes people will find Stewart and me abrasive, I can’t say otherwise, that is gonna happen, but we’re gonna be abrasive on behalf of Sunderland Association Football Club. And the people who are gonna feel the force of that abrasion, 98% of the time it will be agents, other clubs, people taking the piss. Occasionally we’ll get it wrong and it’ll be someone inside the club, but we’ll find them afterwards and make up, it’ll be fine."
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I like how in that there's no rhetoric implying they're infallible. They're going to do their best but they know there'll be mistakes.
 
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I’ll get hammered for being negative, but “PR expert in saying the right things” shocker :eek::lol:

Positive signs so far but this is his area of expertise, PR.

Let’s not get carried away.
 
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Coeus said:
He's very good and the stuff about the Acadamy was music to my ears but I can't help but feel something is going to smack us in the face at some point.
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Not your fault mate, it's how we've come to expect things here for so f***ing long.

reginald_molehusband said:
Being referred to as 'arrogant' by a moneyed, Old Etonian PR man. :lol::lol::lol:

I suppose growing up as a footie fanatic on the mean streets of Oxfordshire, The Mags wouldn't have been far from anyones' thoughts to be fair.
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reginald_molehusband said:
Complete and utter cringe pandering to the masses that's why.

I can see through it though.



Go on, lap it all up.....there's a good lad. :lol:
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reginald_molehusband said:
Likewise you silly old ****. :lol:



Remember Ellis and his FTM badge?

Just saying.
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reginald_molehusband said:
Look, I get that his job is to make the right noises, get the fans behind the project and hopefully create better times for the club. He certainly is accomplishing the first two if the response on here is anything to go by.

That said, there's absolutely no need to make up some utter horseshit about Newcastle to pander to the masses. It's both cringeworthy and unprofessional.......and that goes for any of our players/owners saying disparaging things about Sunderland.
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reginald_molehusband said:
Ashley is well known for being a classless oaf, I dont think you'd find many Newcastle fans who would say otherwise. No need to stoop down to his level which is what Short did, and exactly what Tim Nice-But-Dim appears to be doing.
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The Situation said:
I’ll get hammered for being negative, but “PR expert in saying the right things” shocker :eek::lol:

Positive signs so far but this is his area of expertise, PR.

Let’s not get carried away.
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Very true, but positive spin is also something this club is in urgent need of. There is so much negativity running through the club and fans that it needs this type of feel good rhetoric to help to turn the corner.
PR it is, but PR it needs.
 
keybuk said:
Surely you must have realised how prickly these lot are. Say something nice and they are pleasant. Say something they don't like and the wagons form a circle.
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f***ing hell, another unwashed on a Sunderland fan forum on a Saturday night. Bless your cotton, obsessed socks.
 
North Ox Yellow said:
Third time I’ve checked in here since the takeover, and I'm not at all surprised this ‘tweet’ has happened. Without boring you for too long with OUFC politics, the guy quoted is called Jeremy Faulkner.


Methven was very anti Firoz Kassam, who went on to asset strip the club whereas Faulkner jas been very pro Kassam in the press despite most oxford fans seeing Kassam as the devil incarnate.

Basically, he and his group of mates are bitter that Charlie was proved right and they couldn't get a deal done with Kassam.

They also thought that they could get SD to buy our shocking stadium from Kassam for a fortune, so kissed his ass for a while but SD told them the price was ridiculous.

Its embarrassing that these people are now trying to pick holes in the Sunderland situation – and talking bollocks too. Whatever you think of Charlie was on the committee of the supporters trust, was the trustee of our youth foundation, started the yellow army and worked hard with the Lenagans to revive us and Donald funded and sponsored us back up the leagues.

They could hardly have been more involved in OUFC over the last 10 years without owning the club…. And they even tried to do that twice as well.

I’ve known all these people for donkeys years and whilst I have had some stand-up rows with CM and SD over the last 20 years I’ve got more time for them than Kassam’s anyone who's mates with Kassam or whoever owns Oxford! .

Faulkner by the way lives in your neck of the woods these days and has been to games at the Riverside and knows Steve Gibson. I wouldn’t bother you with all this, but they’ll find their way on here in the end so this is advance warning of the facts. Sadly it just is all rather petty and bitter. I'd hope people at oxford would be more focused on oxford rather than taking shots at people who put their own time and money into helping our club move back up the leagues.
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Appreciate that bud. Cheers.

Julio said:
I have just found out who you are by looking into your ip address

Dear f***ing me :lol::lol::lol::lol:
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Haway Jools... name and shame.
 
I'm reserving judgement until I see what's served up on the pitch.

If they have any sense at all, they'll go all out to sign a quality keeper who'll be the best in the league.
 
Michael said:
I'm reserving judgement until I see what's served up on the pitch.

If they have any sense at all, they'll go all out to sign a quality keeper who'll be the best in the league.
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I'm doing nowt and am missing half the ligaments in my left knee. Might not be the best in the league but I'd be the best in our f***ing squad.
 
reginald_molehusband said:
It was suggested on Newcastle Online that it would only be a matter of time til one of them posted something like this, and there it is.

PR man pandering to his audience and you lot are lapping it up.

f***ing hell man, have some dignity. :lol::lol::lol:
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Fair enough, some fans may be getting over excited at some PR talk. But at least it's not this cringeworthy, pandering *shite* that has been lapped up by your lot for the past 18 months.
 
Zidane said:
A half decently ran Sunderland, that uses it's size against the smaller clubs but ran as a profit and loss business is at the very least a championship/premier league yo yo club.
That was proved by Bob Murray both with the restriction of Roker and also at the SoL.

Throwing money at it got us 10 years in premier league.

These guys should at very least get us to yoyo level and from there on it'll be interesting what they can do.

It's going to be a fun journey finding out.
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I am 30, and before last season, the lowest I ever really remember Sunderland finishing was the season Peter Reid kept us up, and I barely remember that

So since the lowest we had ever finished was 3rd the season of the playoff final, that is pretty impressive IMO. And backs up your point. We are over complicating it, we just need a solid plan, yeah you might get the odd relegation from the top flight, but if you are organised the size of the club should get us back up

Problem we have now is our reputation is in tatters, why its so important to have owners who know the crack

reginald_molehusband said:
I'm not even aware of what was said but I'll take your word for it.

But you said every single player, who are the others?
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I couldn't give a fuck what you think, why are you posting on this message board, such a hypocrite

Laeotaekhun said:
Many thanks for posting that, it was a very interesting read.

I particularly liked this bit.

"So, we’re gonna be ferocious, brutal, and tough for Sunderland, because we believe that it’s worth fighting for. And you’ve got to fight! This isn’t going to be a soft touch. Sometimes people will find Stewart and me abrasive, I can’t say otherwise, that is gonna happen, but we’re gonna be abrasive on behalf of Sunderland Association Football Club. And the people who are gonna feel the force of that abrasion, 98% of the time it will be agents, other clubs, people taking the piss. Occasionally we’ll get it wrong and it’ll be someone inside the club, but we’ll find them afterwards and make up, it’ll be fine."
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This is exactly what I want to hear, something I have wanted done for years

Not having ago at the fans, but never understood why people demanded more big money signings etc, more extravagance, when we clearly already on a spiral.

Every single pound needs to be accosted for.

I heard people complaining that our record signign was only 13.5 million for NDong, who gives a shit how much someone costs, is he any good, is he value for money etc.

Good to hear that they are looking at every penny from the cleaner's wages to the captain's wages

Wardley Makem said:
I like the aggression being shown. Especially about poaching other teams young players. We have been far to soft for far to long.

Asoro for example (or his agent) - if you want to go, bugger off. But you won’t develop in a way you can develop at Sunderland!
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I don't know enough about the staff involved, but we had a little period a few years back where we did poach players, had a few from sweden, including asoro, Maja etc

its absolutely what we should be doing, as they said in another interview, its a number's game

Perryqhill said:
Good read that. Although you're always going to get spin and good PR and people have to say the right things and it gives no guarantees, quite clearly they've done their homework and they seem up for it.
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They know what they want to do, and what the club needs, whether they can do it, or even try to do it is the real question

Confucius said:
Why does Bruce mention Sunderland again, why does Micky Quinn still laugh at us on the radio, Joey Barton still refer to 5-1, Manquillo and Yedlin talk about their time here. Why are you so bothered. The fact remains they are rivals and a new owner wants to endear himself to us. I also fail to see why so many SAFC fans want to appear so balanced they turn into fannies and get offended over nothing
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class post
 
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