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Moderate Power said:
It has been a super human effort from Lee to turn the team around this second half of the season. I just sense a bit of mental fatigue in the players after digging so deep for so long.
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Hmm. My fuming Black Cat buddy has text me that Sunderlands points return per match under Johnson is precisely the same as it was under your previous manager. Doesn't sound particularly superhuman.

Granted, its better than getting obliterated 4-0 at Morecambe.
 
Moderate Power said:
It has been a super human effort from Lee to turn the team around this second half of the season. I just sense a bit of mental fatigue in the players after digging so deep for so long.
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Mate, we were 8th with a squad that was much better on paper than that - to call it super human is way over the top - he did well but we expect that from a new manager bounce. In his last job he had excellent runs that led to long slumps - that is what we are going through now and to ignore that is just wrong and somewhat blind. Tonight his 4 subs smacked of panic and desperation and made us look like the relegation threatened team not Wigan.

When he was at Bristol City, so their fans said, he would go through slumps which he was clueless to turn round. Why is now any different to that? I am not for one minute saying he is the wrong choice or that he hasn't done some good things but, for me, he has to take 100% responsibility for tonight and much responsibility for our recent slump. If you are not worried that this is a historical feature of Lee Johnson's management then your head is well and truly in the sand.
 
Moderate Power said:
People don’t realise the absolute effort to maintain excellence for long periods in sport. Great runs come to an end it is not the failure that counts but how you react to it.
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Exactly - we lost to Charlton. That is why the reaction was so important tonight - we reacted with one of our worst performances of the season and Lee Johnson got it so wrong - bring on 4 subs is an admission that 'I have got it wrong'. As for maintaining excellence, that is how you get promoted - it happened under Reid, McCarthy and Keane. That is what we need and when you have a striker who can score 25 goals a season, my word you are at an advantage. You are digging a hole for yourself here.
 
10 Gary Rowells said:
Mate, we were 8th with a squad that was much better on paper than that - to call it super human is way over the top - he did well but we expect that from a new manager bounce. In his last job he had excellent runs that led to long slumps - that is what we are going through now and to ignore that is just wrong and somewhat blind. Tonight his 4 subs smacked of panic and desperation and made us look like the relegation threatened team not Wigan.

When he was at Bristol City, so their fans said, he would go through slumps which he was clueless to turn round. Why is now any different to that? I am not for one minute saying he is the wrong choice or that he hasn't done some good things but, for me, he has to take 100% responsibility for tonight and much responsibility for our recent slump. If you are not worried that this is a historical feature of Lee Johnson's management then your head is well and truly in the sand.
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I think in football there is a tendency to cite meaningless statistics. His performance at Bristol City in a higher league competing against clubs of higher standing is in no way correlated to his performance at Sunderland.

Two games does not constitute a slump or a trend.
 
Moderate Power said:
It has been a super human effort from Lee to turn the team around this second half of the season. I just sense a bit of mental fatigue in the players after digging so deep for so long.
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Eh?
Theyre being extraordinarily well paid for the work they do.
"Digging deep " is expected and is fundamental.
 
Father Jack Hackett said:
He simply can't be changing things as much every game and during games. You've got players starting games one week then not seen again for a few.


A man who he deemed good enough to start in a must win on Saturday and now there's 15 players getting a game ahead of him 3 days later.
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He only got on the bench because C Mc was injured in the warm up. Still can't believe we signed this lad from FGR, what's wrong with Neil or Embleton?
 
Moderate Power said:
It has been a super human effort from Lee to turn the team around this second half of the season. I just sense a bit of mental fatigue in the players after digging so deep for so long.
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This is utter shit mate. These players are ( highly tuned :lol: ) professional footballers.

Super human to drag us back into it, Ha'way man FFS. We started getting results that's what the games about.

Mental fatigue :eek:. It was never there, this collapse proves it.
 
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