“Sunderland are a lower league club”

Hawyatt Earp

Hawyatt Earp

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Article in the Athletic from Caulkin:


Finished the article with this:

"At one point in the game, Aiden McGeady, the Ireland international, shot too high and the ball hit a moving car beyond the open end of Oxford’s ground. It felt like nothing in particular and it also felt like something. There will come a moment when Sunderland stop being the biggest club in League One and simply become a League One club, no different from the rest. Perhaps it is already too late. Perhaps that was it."

How depressing
 
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Hawyatt Earp said:
Article in the Athletic from Caulkin:


Finished the article with this:

At one point in the game, Aiden McGeady, the Ireland international, shot too high and the ball hit a moving car beyond the open end of Oxford’s ground. It felt like nothing in particular and it also felt like something. There will come a moment when Sunderland stop being the biggest club in League One and simply become a League One club, no different from the rest. Perhaps it is already too late. Perhaps that was it.

How depressing
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Surely the bigger picture is that it was a little ground with only 3 stands and a car park. Good skills to hit a moving car...
 
Hawyatt Earp said:
Article in the Athletic from Caulkin:


Finished the article with this:

"At one point in the game, Aiden McGeady, the Ireland international, shot too high and the ball hit a moving car beyond the open end of Oxford’s ground. It felt like nothing in particular and it also felt like something. There will come a moment when Sunderland stop being the biggest club in League One and simply become a League One club, no different from the rest. Perhaps it is already too late. Perhaps that was it."

How depressing
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He’s absolutely right. But whilst he and other local journalists will write article after article after article about the other club in Tyne and Wear, shining a light on the issues at that particular club, they will pay nothing more than lip service to the decline of our club and will stand by idly whilst it sinks. They do their utmost to protect the interests of one club and not the other. They’re complicit. But just you watch if we were to hit rock bottom and we were on the brink of administration or liquidation, these local journalists would turn up with righteous indignation at the club’s situation and take on the role of moral crusaders. Quite frankly, some of these local national journos can do one as far as I’m concerned.
 
Keawyeds said:
The sooner people accept the fact that we are a not a premier league club that has fallen from grace, but a club that wants to get out of League One - like every other club in League One - the better.
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Agree. I think thats a major part of our current problems. Oxford last night played with no fear as if they were playing Man City. We played as if we were playing Hartlepool.
 
Keawyeds said:
The sooner people accept the fact that we are a not a premier league club that has fallen from grace, but a club that wants to get out of League One - like every other club in League One - the better.
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But we have considerable advantages over other league one clubs - advantages that Donald has squandered. There is no way that Safc, funded as they have been, should fail to get out of league one twice.
 
The Cabbage said:
But we have considerable advantages over other league one clubs - advantages that Donald has squandered. There is no way that Safc, funded as they have been, should fail to get out of league one twice.
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Assuming and hoping we're still pushing for or in the play offs by Christmas, the January transfer window will be the making or breaking of this season.
 
Before this thread gets deleted, this is what Methven said to Caulkin:


“Your manager being sacked isn’t positive, losing away at Lincoln and Wycombe and Shrewsbury isn’t positive and when you’re in the position we’re in of really, really needing to get out of this league, those things happening in the space of a few weeks, it’s not unnatural that people will be thinking, ‘shit, things don’t seem to be going very well there, do they?’” Methven said.

“After the Wycombe game, I saw tweets saying ‘that’s it, we’ll probably not win another game this season, we’ll probably get relegated, only three or four of our squad would get into most other League One squads’. There were some reactions that were really, really extreme. Has the club got to the point where people think positive things will happen? No. That’s fine. We’ve got to be up there in the top two or three before our fanbase really get on board with this season going OK.”
 
Hawyatt Earp said:
Article in the Athletic from Caulkin:


Finished the article with this:

"At one point in the game, Aiden McGeady, the Ireland international, shot too high and the ball hit a moving car beyond the open end of Oxford’s ground. It felt like nothing in particular and it also felt like something. There will come a moment when Sunderland stop being the biggest club in League One and simply become a League One club, no different from the rest. Perhaps it is already too late. Perhaps that was it."

How depressing
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He must have been watching sky at the time... it showed that one clearly..
 
The Sheepfolds End said:
He’s absolutely right. But whilst he and other local journalists will write article after article after article about the other club in Tyne and Wear, shining a light on the issues at that particular club, they will pay nothing more than lip service to the decline of our club and will stand by idly whilst it sinks. They do their utmost to protect the interests of one club and not the other. They’re complicit. But just you watch if we were to hit rock bottom and we were on the brink of administration or liquidation, these local journalists would turn up with righteous indignation at the club’s situation and take on the role of moral crusaders. Quite frankly, some of these local national journos can do one as far as I’m concerned.
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reet on the button with that
 
Hawyatt Earp said:
Before this thread gets deleted, this is what Methven said to Caulkin:


“Your manager being sacked isn’t positive, losing away at Lincoln and Wycombe and Shrewsbury isn’t positive and when you’re in the position we’re in of really, really needing to get out of this league, those things happening in the space of a few weeks, it’s not unnatural that people will be thinking, ‘shit, things don’t seem to be going very well there, do they?’” Methven said.

“After the Wycombe game, I saw tweets saying ‘that’s it, we’ll probably not win another game this season, we’ll probably get relegated, only three or four of our squad would get into most other League One squads’. There were some reactions that were really, really extreme. Has the club got to the point where people think positive things will happen? No. That’s fine. We’ve got to be up there in the top two or three before our fanbase really get on board with this season going OK.”
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Appointing Parkinson had the opposite effect of getting the fans on side.
 
Hawyatt Earp said:
Article in the Athletic from Caulkin:


Finished the article with this:

"At one point in the game, Aiden McGeady, the Ireland international, shot too high and the ball hit a moving car beyond the open end of Oxford’s ground. It felt like nothing in particular and it also felt like something. There will come a moment when Sunderland stop being the biggest club in League One and simply become a League One club, no different from the rest. Perhaps it is already too late. Perhaps that was it."

How depressing
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I think @janey will finish with him after that...
 

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