*~*~* Sunderland v Stoke match thread *~*~*

[hypersonic]

Do we need some fresh legs here?

We're playing pretty well but we're going to have to press them harder as the game goes on. I can see stoke settling for the point soon.

 

[chuckyroll]

Drifting down into mid table this lot

 

[Madmartigan]

Wr need to work on corners.

 

[Kenna]

Treating these like they are Barcelona.

 

[Julio Mackemo]

Got to get Robert’s off

 

[Weardale warrior]

Gone flat as fuck now. No energy! Subs needed

 

[HettonSAFC]

HT. They come out to change it and we do zip all..

 

[Billy Batts]

4-4 f***ing 2 needed here.

 

[Randy Ostrich]

Strange how we seem to stop pressing with any urgency in the second half of games until about 10 mins before the end.

 

[Drexl]

Manager doing fuck all.

 

[Maravilla]

Gone flat as fuck last 5 minutes.

Starting to have the look and feel of far too many of our 2nd half performances in recent weeks.

 

[SunderLad92]

Make changes whilst we are on top and let the lads coming on be on the front foot when coming on. A good 30 min cameo to get into it.

No good letting Stoke make changes first and actually improve on how terrible they've been.

I'd get Cirkin on as he's brilliant getting forward and will help Watson out better than Alese.

 

[SuperKevsLeftBoot]

There’s only Watson who looks like he’s going to do anything. Jobe Rigg Dan Neil Roberts.. not good enough

 

[Shandy drinker]

How flat is this? No intensity at all. Feels like a cup game

Looking forward to the cup game

 

[nelford_safc]

Worrying this. We are in the form that TM got sacked for. We seem to give it everything we have for the first 65-70 minutes and then totally fall away because we haven't made any changes.

 

[Fetch Fletch]

I know there's a big fan club for Ballard, but he's careless quite often.

4th choice for me.

 

[Foxless]

If we can't score, we ain't going up.

I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first you have to score twice to win.

 

[hank williams]

Not killing games off

You didn’t say that initially

 

[Madmartigan]

Ffs shoot man

 

[BiffaBeercan]

The customary Ballard howler. Thankfully it didn't result in a Stoke goal.