North of the Smoke
Striker
We spent £5 million on someone who's 8 years older and no better than him
We paid more for an athlete, in top condition
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We spent £5 million on someone who's 8 years older and no better than him
Bent wanted to leave for more money, as did Gyan. They got it.
He never fell out with them.
Cana lost his place through injury and could not get back in and wouldnt go on the bench. Meyler was better than him. He was found out. He was a dud as his subsequent history has proved. Fair play we got our money back
He wanted out, and what he done since.
To suggest Bent was nothing to do with Bruce is total made up twaddle and you know it.
Henderson never played or started a full game until Bruce arrived.
What did Gordon contribute to the 10th place? He was forever sick man.
Ferdinand was a bit part player.
Steed, Rico and maybe Badsley were the only inherited players that got regular games.
Nice attempt at rewriting history mind. Pity it lacks a shred of truth.
That is a new low in the tactical game plan of the clueless twat
We spent £5 million on someone who's 8 years older and no better than him
to give wickham(or any striker for that matter) anything less than 20 minutes to get into the game is bewildering. 7 minutes seems ridiculous on the face of it.
if he was replacing an injured player or at the very extreme reacting to an opposition substitution/tactic fair enough but i'm 95% certain it wasn't. i'm giving MON the benefit of the doubt with the other 5%. thats all it is though, 5 per f**king cent.
I think Graham's scoring record suggests otherwise
Remind us of grahams scoring record for sunderland then?
It might be to you, but I can see what MoN was doing.
We only had 1 substitution left.
With Wickham on earlier, going 2-1 up would've meant we'd have a long time to have to sit and defend that lead with fewer defensive players on the pitch than necessary.
MoN's decision to wait gave us options. He's a clever man.
But therein lies the problem. If you're the only clever man at an idiot's convention, they'll all think the clever one is stupid for thinking differently to the crowd.
What would you have done like?
It might be to you, but I can see what MoN was doing.
We only had 1 substitution left. If we'd grabbed a goal while still playing 4-5-1, we could've brought on a defensive player to defend that lead until the end.
With Wickham on earlier, going 2-1 up would've meant we'd have a long time to have to sit and defend that lead with fewer defensive players on the pitch than necessary.
MoN's decision to wait gave us options. He's a clever man.
But therein lies the problem. If you're the only clever man at an idiot's convention, they'll all think the clever one is stupid for thinking differently to the crowd.
What's that well-known story story about the king, his people, and the well that makes you mad if you drink from it?
It might be to you, but I can see what MoN was doing.
We only had 1 substitution left. If we'd grabbed a goal while still playing 4-5-1, we could've brought on a defensive player to defend that lead until the end.
With Wickham on earlier, going 2-1 up would've meant we'd have a long time to have to sit and defend that lead with fewer defensive players on the pitch than necessary.
MoN's decision to wait gave us options. He's a clever man.
But therein lies the problem. If you're the only clever man at an idiot's convention, they'll all think the clever one is stupid for thinking differently to the crowd.
What's that well-known story story about the king, his people, and the well that makes you mad if you drink from it?
Fuck me, there's more idiots on this board than I ever imagined.
Let me get this straight, taking a striker off and replacing him with a midfielder and keeping our only other striking option on the bench was just in case we scored (with a lessened attacking team) so we could make a change and defend the lead, which we don't yet have, despite playing versus 10 men for the last 40+ minutes !!
Can I just make two important points,
1) We had a numerical advantage
2) We had a numerical advantage - copyright Red Dwarf
Now I realise I my have repeated myself but I thought the point was such an important one it was worth repeating -- If we had scored we still had a numerical advantage, we could've man-marked every Norwich player on the pitch and still had a spare man !!
This MON love-in is very dangerous.
We couldn't man mark Stephen Hawking but I get your point
Think people forget we were playing 10 man Norwich and a win was vital
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/mar/17/sunderland-norwich-match-report
man of the match - turner
Why bring him back if he thinks he's poor...sorry forget fan pressureWickhams poor that's probably why he didn't bring him on. When he came on it was a last resort and he didn't touch the ball until added time