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James hunter apparently reckons the fans have unrealistic expectations

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Johnsafc said:
Sick of being shit on by a bunch of gimps telling me what my expectations should be.

We are in league 1 and getting outplayed by a bunch of piss poor sides. The football is abysmal and we are paying to watch it. If you can’t enjoy football in league 1 then fuck me sideways, might as well wrap it in. Bolton put their team together in literally a day of the transfer window and looked to have more quality than us. Embarrassing.

Sick of being told where we have came from 17 month ago too, they literally blew promotion with 8 games to go last season and also blew it in the play off final even though the other team kicked the ball in their own net.

Embarrassing someone is talking about expectations in league 1. Donald even said we were in a really good position to give it a really good go & we had to go up this year. His actions in the summer and by not sacking JR just say to me that’s a bunch of waffle. I’m supposed to lie here and take it because we are Sunderland and should be grateful to be afloat in league 1. This lad must be so up Ross’ hoop he can taste what he had for breakfast.
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Bolton didn't have more quality we were awful but we had more chances than they did
 
TopCat said:
Wow. He really said that? So, he's shifting the blame to the owner for not providing the manager with a squad good enough? Fuck me
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That was my first thought. He took a very similar stance in the last few weeks of Moyes.
 
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If our expectations are too high, then we must settle for another year in this shit hole of a league.
If JR does remain until Xmas, we will be in a slippery slope, again.
 
jsdftm04 said:
Said on the latest RR podcast I'm reading on Twitter....

Who mentioned 100 points? Who mentioned 20 clean sheets? Who came out and said there was no excuses this time? It wasnt the fans james...

Also the same journalist who questioned why the fans thought we had money to spend. Maybe because the week before the owner said on a podcast we did and had bids out.

Fans fault again though? Pisses me right off honestly.
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Think we can all guess who has been briefing him.
 
jsdftm04 said:
Funny how teams with far less ability can keep clean sheets and be above us then.
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Have you ever thought that the reason some of these teams are better, that maybe it’s because they have not changed managers every 12 months and had our upheaval and high turnover of players?
 
badlands said:
Have you ever thought that the reason some of these teams are better, that maybe it’s because they have not changed managers every 12 months and had our upheaval and high turnover of players?
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Blah blah blah. Barnsley had a new boss and signed more players than we did and went up 2nd.
nowtgoodeverhappens said:
It’s because they have more ability. What on earth makes you think our players are technically superior to the opposition? That may be a matter of opinion, but what isn’t is our lack of pace and physical presence.
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Wait till ross goes and see how much we improve.

Then let's reassess who has a better squad. Absolute nonsense to suggest wycombes etc have a better squad than us.
 
joemcdokes said:
I think quite a number expect us to win football matches like Saturday, sadly we are quite an average League 1 side, as soon as they realise that the better.
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Sorry like but we aren’t an average league one side. We have a joke of a manager and no confidence but we’ve got the best squad in this division by some distance. There’s a reason we were clear bookies favourites preseason this and last as well. There’s a reason every team wants to beat us and why there are so many fans of other teams on here. Every team in the league would swap squads with us. Unfortunately we aren’t using the players we have very well at all.
 
joemcdokes said:
I wish people would stop going on about f***ing clean sheets, they don't win you football matches if you can't score goals.
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Well you have a 50% chance of winning a game if you keep a clean sheet. No one mentioned a thing about clean sheets. That was Jack Ross.

People have a go at fans who bring up the Dortmund model. But it was Methven who brought that up.

No one expected or targeted 100pts. It was Donald. Donald also claimed we had a budget that a lot clubs in the Championship.

But we are the ones who have unrealistic expectations!
 
badlands said:
Have you ever thought that the reason some of these teams are better, that maybe it’s because they have not changed managers every 12 months and had our upheaval and high turnover of players?
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Like who? Barnsley and Charlton both had new bosses start of last season and Luton changed in january. Ipswich have a new boss this summer. You are talking shite mate
 
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