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It's Been The Most Exhausting Season

jcrossan

jcrossan

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Seems that way for me, anyhow.

Could be just age, of course. But I think it is because, despite what my own eyes told me watching this team. I always expected the wheels to fall off at some point and the stress was exhausting.

The fact that we had brought in a remarkable number of very good players almost overnight and they were working together was easy enough to see. but that has never been the Sunderland way. We always found a way to mess un in the end.

Anyhow I kicked every ball made every save and lived through every moment.

In my 70th year that's pretty bloody exhausting.

Marvelous, nevertheless.
 

jcrossan said:
Seems that way for me, anyhow.

Could be just age, of course. But I think it is because, despite what my own eyes told me watching this team. I always expected the wheels to fall off at some point and the stress was exhausting.

The fact that we had brought in a remarkable number of very good players almost overnight and they were working together was easy enough to see. but that has never been the Sunderland way. We always found a way to mess un in the end.

Anyhow I kicked every ball made every save and lived through every moment.

In my 70th year that's pretty bloody exhausting.

Marvelous, nevertheless.
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from the minute we scored that winner at Coventry last season its been one massive exhausting upward roller coater ride that we have been waiting to come down from...thing is we are still climbing - unbelievable
 
jcrossan said:
Seems that way for me, anyhow.

Could be just age, of course. But I think it is because, despite what my own eyes told me watching this team. I always expected the wheels to fall off at some point and the stress was exhausting.

The fact that we had brought in a remarkable number of very good players almost overnight and they were working together was easy enough to see. but that has never been the Sunderland way. We always found a way to mess un in the end.

Anyhow I kicked every ball made every save and lived through every moment.

In my 70th year that's pretty bloody exhausting.

Marvelous, nevertheless.
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What we have to understand is right now, this is a new Sunderland.

The exciting, energetic young players coupled with colossal leaders like Xhaka, Mukiele & Alderete - it’s all seamlessly come together and it’s class.

Now that we’re basically mathematically safe, it’s time to start looking up the table instead of over our shoulder.

I doubt Xhaka and Mukiele etc will be happy with bottom half, they’ll want Europe and so do we. :cool:
mackembhoy said:
Exhausting?

It's been the best season in memory. I was 6-8 under Reidy and so it's something of a blur.

We've been safe for months and we've now got our first chance of European football since them Reidy days.

Absolutely buzzing for the final 6 games.
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Easily the best for me. I only regularly started going during Mick McCarthy era so the bar is pretty low overall. :lol:
 
jcrossan said:
Seems that way for me, anyhow.

Could be just age, of course. But I think it is because, despite what my own eyes told me watching this team. I always expected the wheels to fall off at some point and the stress was exhausting.

The fact that we had brought in a remarkable number of very good players almost overnight and they were working together was easy enough to see. but that has never been the Sunderland way. We always found a way to mess un in the end.

Anyhow I kicked every ball made every save and lived through every moment.

In my 70th year that's pretty bloody exhausting.

Marvelous, nevertheless.
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My brother reminded me the other day, 'age is just a number'
79 and love it at the back of the South Stand, even though it takes me 5 minutes to get up the stairs.
Honest to god mate I live every emotion you talk about, the biggest being expecting the wheels to fall off.
What a roller coaster these last couple of years this has been and the season has not finished yet.
Anymore surprises I am wondering
 
dred73 said:
My brother reminded me the other day, 'age is just a number'
79 and love it at the back of the South Stand, even though it takes me 5 minutes to get up the stairs.
Honest to god mate I live every emotion you talk about, the biggest being expecting the wheels to fall off.
What a roller coaster these last couple of years this has been and the season has not finished yet.
Anymore surprises I am wondering
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Keep putting one foot in front of the other mate, long may it continue 👌
 
johnnyat87 said:
The most relaxing ever, can't remember a season with less pressure, exceeding expectations so clearly and just generally never having to worry about the table.

Summat wrang if you haven't mostly just sat back and enjoyed it like.
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I'd say there were plenty of nerves at the start, despite the fantastic start, but for me the moment I relaxed and was able to fully enjoy the season was after we played Bournemouth at home in November. 0-2 after 15 minutes but the quality and sheer will to win we showed in turning the game around and pulling off a 3-2 victory, proved to me that this was a team that was never going down. The derbies are always nerve-wracking affairs but survival, and the incredible success of the season overall, was never in doubt from that moment onwards, IMO.
 
I know what you mean every little blip we’ve had in the back of my head I’ve been ahhh shit here we go. They keep proving me wrong though. Think the mags game away really hammered it home, half a team missing going there and showing heart and balls. For now that ptsd Sunderland stuff is gone, we may lose some we may struggle next season but first time in my lifetime it won’t be because we’ve lacked money or direction.
 
There’s a natural pessimism which comes from being kicked in the balls over and over again. We’ve never looked like being in any danger of relegation yet up until the win over Leeds which got us to 40 points I was still willing the teams at the bottom to lose every week. :lol:

Overall it’s been the best 12 months I’ve had supporting the club. I was 9 when we last finished 7th under Reid so it’s been pretty much dross for most of my time supporting Sunderland.
 
Because in true Sunderland style a negative always comes after a positive and its ingrained. Ballard bullet has finally lifted the curse.
 
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