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It's Been The Most Exhausting Season

DonaldDownTheWing said:
Agreed. I think the lower number of games compared to the last 8 seasons, compared with us actually doing well, and it’s just gone over in a flash.

Would f***ing love for us to go on a run to the end of the season and sneak a conference league spot.
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Kazakhstan away would be class :cool:
 

From the moment we knew we were playing Coventry in the Play Offs it has been one huge game after the other. The Play Offs were amazing but stressful, then I thought we would really struggle and we wouldn't spend much money. There were threads about buying Sakamoto from Coventry and Chakvetadze from Watford.

Then there were reports we had bid £30m for Diarra and I dismissed it because there was no way that could be true, but it was. So many players came in that were highly rated and it was exciting but until you play that first match you never know.

The West Ham match was stressful and exciting in equal measures, then the Burnley match makes you doubt things. Brentford was huge and then we were on our way after that. Two very comfortable derby wins and some huge performances (Arsenal, Man City, Liverpool and Chelsea), it's been a remarkable season and one of the best, if not the best in my lifetime. Maybe even Europe at the end of it, superb!
 
rubberface said:
It's absolutely flown by imo.
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Unbelievable isn't it? The season opener feels like a month ago.

We've set up for a really exciting few years, but I'm not sure we'll ever have another season that's as filled with positives as this one. I love pretty much everything about the club at the moment. Even the few bad results were followed by a positive - like Enzo's panenka being followed by a standout performance against Everton in the cup. O9's brainfarts v Port Vale and the mags being followed by heroic performances since.

Thought the subs yesterday summed it up. Big standing ovations for the goalscorer Mukieke, local lad Rigg and man-mountain Brobbey, replaced by really exciting young talent in Talbi, a cult hero in Hume and a fan favourite in Isidor. Every one of this squad would get a warm welcome at the SoL if they left the summer.
 
DonaldDownTheWing said:
Agreed. I think the lower number of games compared to the last 8 seasons, compared with us actually doing well, and it’s just gone over in a flash.

Would f***ing love for us to go on a run to the end of the season and sneak a conference league spot.
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It has mate, no reason we can't get European football imo. We are just as good as the Everton's, Fulham's etc.
 
rubberface said:
It has mate, no reason we can't get European football imo. We are just as good as the Everton's, Fulham's etc.
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The spot will go to whoever can put a good run together basically. We’ve a couple of tough games but we’ve risen to the occasion many times this season.

It’s effectively an 8 team, 6 game mini league for European spots.

That Burnley away game still annoys me, win that and we’re 6th, above Chelsea!
 
DonaldDownTheWing said:
The spot will go to whoever can put a good run together basically. We’ve a couple of tough games but we’ve risen to the occasion many times this season.

It’s effectively an 8 team, 6 game mini league for European spots.

That Burnley away game still annoys me, win that and we’re 6th, above Chelsea!
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I honestly think we'll go undefeated till end of the season now :lol: :cool: having Xhaka back is a total game changer.
 
I would say the opposite of exhausting. We started the season as one of the heavy favourites to go down, but with the fans all buzzing with the transfers and it just gave us an almost free hit in terms of we aren't expected to do anything, let's prove everybody wrong.

Then every time we went to the SoL we came out buzzing, beat West Ham by 3, last minute winner against Brentford, grabbing a well deserved point with 10 men against Villa, beating the Saudis, turning around a 2 goal deficit to beat Bournemouth. Arsenal. Man City. Now Spurs.

It's been an incredible season, I hope it never ends.
 
rubberface said:
I honestly think we'll go undefeated till end of the season now :lol: :cool: having Xhaka back is a total game changer.
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I’m off to Villa on Sunday and I can’t wait like. It’ll be a really tough game, and I do think we’ll get beat, but I think we’ve got a chance at getting something out of the game.

The longer we’re still in the hunt and the closer we get, the more the players will be believe.

Bournemouth got the mags, Brentford got Fulham & Everton got Liverpool, so some teams in that mini league will be losing points.
 
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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The wheels came off a few months back according to some on here. We must've put the season into the garage at some point.
 
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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As good as the Reidy days were, it just had the air of inevitability that I wasn’t going to be sustained. Even the 2nd 7th you could see things starting to to fall away. Him falling out with better players, Quinn injuries, playing workers and people out of position. This one feels different. We may fall short but there seems to be some solid foundations laid. Class season
 
Agree with OP.
Because the team was expected to struggle by us. I don't think the players expected any relegation issues fwiw.
They've had to fight tooth and nail for every point. Huge credit to all concerned including ownership.
 
Mowbray/Beale/Dodds was my season of exhaustion. This one has been wonderful.

I know what you mean though. Exhausting in a good way.
 
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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I hink it's best to judge it when it's over- We have a few games without pressure now- other than us throwing the run in to the playoffs last year when we were guaranteed fourth (but with the play offs still to come), this hasn't happened since about 2010.

Basically we have the possibility of a nice-to-have European conference cup to play for, where it will be bedla if we get it, and no worries if we don't. From now on, thi is the most relaxing season we've had in decades
 
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