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Charlie Methven on metro radio

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Twisted said:
it's a hard one like, because i'd say most of our signings were good signings. we over paid on grigg yes but what a signing for this level. mclaughlin was brilliant, maguire a good signing. leadbitter was a coup. baldwin highly rated at this level for a long time. and i think you could say the same about most, loovens is finished mind. dunne looked our best centre back when we signed him.

however, they have all turned out to be massively disappointing, bar mclaughin and o'nien.

i'd say that is down to the manager more than the recruitment team
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Yet we categorically failed to address the gaping holes in our squad.

Recruitment is more than just ‘good players’ it’s good players who address issues.
 
That atmosphere was poor but the football was worse.
Strangely when they scored that own goal for us I didn't even celebrate. Not sure why, maybe shock at the manor of goal but to be honest, said to my dad next to me "I'll celebrate IF we score again!" Guess I had a feeling what was to come.
 
Host, "A club of our size we cant be in League 1."

Salmon, overtaking host

Salmon, "Sunderland fans need to get realistic about that"
 
Mainze said:
Charlton fell apart after the goal for a good 15 mins, their heads went completely. Any team worth their salt would have gone for the kill. Us....nope, one grass cutter from 30 yards was all we could muster. It was pathetic to watch.
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Said exactly the same to my mate at the match. If we don’t kill these off we’ll regret it. It was so frustrating as anyone could see how it would play out.
 
offmenut said:
He's done a lot of good man.
Folk twist at anything.
Folk on here were gannin radge at him for setting the 40k boxing day target, that no one thought we'd reach and it would be embarrassing.
He helped us get over 46k there, which were all proud of.
Some haters just want to hate.
He's been very good for us
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What good has he done apart from rallying calls and drinking pints with the fans?
 
I agree with most of his points he speaks about. Yes our fans were quiet, but how about the reasoning being the performance on the pitch not giving the fans a great deal to sing about? The comment regarding numbers is bang out of order. Round trip of 1120 miles for our 2 trips to Wembley, compared to what, 20 mile for them? I reckon it cost our fans a helluva lot more than it did theirs. Yet if hes going off numbers, we should have gone up as champions then based on attendances across the season. Tosser
 
Roker Mackem said:
He was
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He was spot on in calling how the game unfolded and if he’d left it there then this wouldn’t be an issue.

How anyone can say he was ‘spot on’ for completely needlessly saying Sunderland supporters need to ‘get real’ after being asked an innocuous question about a club of our size needing to be out of this division I do not know. From the very outset he has made a song and dance about the size of the club: ‘the biggest to ever have played in this division’ were his words. He also said were the biggest club in the north east. Now if you say that, and you’re two divisions below your nearest rivals and a division below your next nearest, the best way to deal with questions about playing below our level isn’t to start talking about attendances and fan volume. That’s cowardly IMO.

As an aside, he also wasn’t spot on about Charlton spending a major part of the last 20 or 30 in the top flight either.
 
Guinness Guzzler said:
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Apologies if SEB, haven't seen anything about it. Bit of an odd interview like, suggesting Charlton are as big a club as us (seemingly specifically because they had more fans at Wembley and entirely ignoring the fact they had low attendances at the start of the season so effectively just had a lot of day trippers). Also mentioning the fans being quiet (can't really argue, although I'd argue that the football served up didn't exactly help). He divides opinion a bit so will be interesting to see how this one goes down
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He owes @si73 a pint the cheap bastard.
 
Black Cat Gypsy said:
What good has he done apart from rallying calls and drinking pints with the fans?
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Didnt you read the rest?
By getting more fans to attend

He's also done loafs of interviews and come over cracking.
Spent lots of time with fanzines and support groups.
 
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Grumpy Old Man said:
No-one draws a salary from Madrox - it's purely an investment vehicle. Long-term is will probably be a dormant company (that is, owning the shares but conducting no active business. If he got anything from Sunderland or SAFC, it would be buried in the note on director's pay and there's no requirement in private companies to disclose individual director's pay. If Dragon PR were reimbursed for his time, that would need to be shown as a related party transaction; there's no such disclosure in any of the accounts.
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Excellent.
So sweat equity, expenses and directors remuneration?
In real world could that mean that the average fan plus 2 trips to Wembley has actually put more real cash money into the club this season than Mr Salmon?
@Grumpy Old Man
 
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