He didn't prove me wrong, I'd seen Niall Quinn play on many occasions and I knew he was a class act. I always wanted Sunderland to sign him, I couldn't believe it when we did. I was gutted when he got the season ending injury. If Quinn had stayed mostly fit, we would of 100% stayed up that year, he was that good, and influential.
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Think you’re getting a bit carried away there. We’ve signed Browne, who already looks our best midfielder along with Neil, and Poveda, who looks like he has a lot of quality.
Some may say he got shot on purpose so he didn't have to sign for usIt's as daft as that time Cabanas got shot in the head the night before he was flying over for a medical.
Last summer we signed 4 forwards, how was that possibly the same? I also don't think we intend to play with a defensive midfielder.Am I pissed then you come out with that
Did you even read what I said? Last summer was EXACTLY the same. People were concerned we didn’t get was required, and the exact same abuse was thrown out.
Exactly the same rationale was used, “if people can’t see we’ve improved there are Fannie’s”. I’ll repeat look how that turned out.
I’ll spell it out for you seen as you find it so hard to understand. People’s concerns were rubbished and abused exactly the same 12 months ago, they were told they were wrong and they were bang on. You’re doing exactly the same thing now, you’re assuming your correct and people showing concern are wrong.
We haven’t addressed the imbalance in the squad weve spent £0 and we still don’t have a capable striker or dcm, yet your right and those with concerns who were bang on 12 months ago and told they were wrong, are obviously wrong again.
Are you pissed?
Even the 11 we go into Saturday with, will be competitive. Yes I know there's an obvious hole in the team, but does anyone on here think we can't win?We'll probably never ever see that though. Ballard and Huggins are likely starters when fit. Seelt would normally replace Ballard but is out. Our new backup winger isn't fit. We also have Triantis and Ekwah missing
Remains to be seen which Ekwah we get back - I really hope it’s the one who looked great when he firsyt got into the team.
We were 1 point off the playoffs after 32 games, we were amongst it until Clarke got injured and Dodds was appointed, I'm not convinced they were correct about the squad. I'm not arguing about strikers, those concerns are obviously correct, everyone agrees.
If we could get the one from the home Luton playoff game more often we'd be much better for it.
Yeah that all ok
Poveda signed 13 days ago, obviously having been a free agent all of pre season. Probably 3-4 weeks behind the rest of the squad, hopefully he will get some time in the PNE game in the cup.
My definition of "plenty of time" in this context is a few months, ie; start planning toward the end of what was an obviously disappointing season, identify your target(s), get him signed. 18 months to two years, depending on your viewpoint, stretches the definition like a bucket load of silly putty.
