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Can't stop watching Tommy Watson (ROCKETMAN)

Honess10 said:
Aye it’s bizarre that he’s fucked off really. As a local lad of 19 that is going to get games… he ain’t getting ahead of Brightons wingers is he? So he’s gone to sit on the bench at best
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He did the business on the field, think it was just natural instinct but think with the dust now settled he’s going to have some regrets about moving. At the time he agreed to go to Brighton we were far from favourites to go up. I think he took the safe option of PL football but if we had been top and a shoe in for promotion at that time I don’t think he would have gone anywhere.
 

On Sky there was a lady who had amazing boobs that were bouncing arl owa the shop. 10 points if anybody can find it.

I think it was the second goal but I was in such a state by the end of the day it may have been the first.
 
Joe Baker said:
The more I watch it, the more I think Brighton got a great deal at £10 mil
The calmness, presence of mind and execution are those of a top quality player.
Tommy will go far imo. Good luck lad.....and thanks a (£200) million.
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He is an excellent finisher
 
Guinness Guzzler said:
The thing I remember most about the celebration is just thinking "what the fuck has just happened?". Didn't want the bairn to be upset if we lost, so I think I'd spent so long telling him it's just about the day out, we'll have a great time regardless of the result, just try to enjoy it because the lads have done mint to get here etc that I think I'd started writing it off myself. That was heightened by the way we started, the despair when I thought it was 2-0 and realised that the day would, after all, be complete shit if we lost. To suddenly, almost out of nowhere, turning it around and scoring with only a few minutes left. Alternated between jumping around, hugging everyone near me, and just putting my head in my hands shouting "what the fuck have we just done" :lol:
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The whole 3 games sitting in Weatherspoons before the first leg thinking if we could keep it to 2 or 1. and the chaos with Mayendas late goal and the noise underneath after the game finished, being in the town pre second leg but seeing smoke across the wear and seeing the videos of the bus arriving and the shear mentalness behind Ballard as he comes back from the corner flag with his shirt above his head. Trafalgar Square being so full it was closed, Mayenda equalising and then Watsons goal resulting scenes the like I’ve never seen in 45 years of watching this lot. There’s been plenty of lows especially the last few years but this short spell has given us one helluva lift . Right off to watch it again. 😎😂
 
It was a very calmly taken and an exceptionally well placed goal by the Lad. He was absolutely excellent. But didn't anyone tell the "better team" that you can't make back passes like that with players like Watson on the pitch?

Its funny how in the first leg the "better team" Coventry also made an equally horrendous back pass that cost them the game that was also in the final few minutes.

How can you even consider yourself to have been the "better team" when you make crucial unforced schoolboy errors like that? Both Coventry and Sheffield obviously found it difficult to maintain full concentration until the game ended.

Coventry even did so twice. You could see from Ballard's goal in the second leg that their defenders had decided that the corner had come too late for Sunderland to do anything with it and that they were already thinking about which side of Patto they were going to put their penalty in what they believed was to be the forthcoming shoot out.
 
Lord Potts said:
It was a very calmly taken and an exceptionally well placed goal by the Lad. He was absolutely excellent. But didn't anyone tell the "better team" that you can't make back passes like that with players like Watson on the pitch?

Its funny how in the first leg the "better team" Coventry also made an equally horrendous back pass that cost them the game that was also in the final few minutes.

How can you even consider yourself to have been the "better team" when you make crucial unforced schoolboy errors like that? Both Coventry and Sheffield obviously found it difficult to maintain full concentration until the game ended.

Coventry even did so twice. You could see from Ballard's goal in the second leg that their defenders had decided that the corner had come too late for Sunderland to do anything with it and that they were already thinking about which side of Patto they were going to put their penalty in what they believed was to be the forthcoming shoot out.
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Some of the media narrative around the 2 games is hilarious, not that it makes any difference in reality.

Apparently it was a 'smash and grab' against Coventry (ignoring the fact it was actually a RLB tactical masterclass) because of how little of the ball we had, yet in the final we had the lions share of the ball but also 'weren't in the game until 75 mins'.

Both legs were close with ebb and flow either way. But after the first 25 mins of the final we were the better side and this is ignored by most of the media, both at the time and afterwards.
 
The thing I love is no matter where you look in the crowd there is not a single,person just politely clapping. It’s either sheer disbelief with arms in the air or total loss of control. Everyone for a few seconds forgetting their troubles and worries and in sheer elation with people who share their love for the club
 
Noiser said:
Some of the media narrative around the 2 games is hilarious, not that it makes any difference in reality.

Apparently it was a 'smash and grab' against Coventry (ignoring the fact it was actually a RLB tactical masterclass) because of how little of the ball we had, yet in the final we had the lions share of the ball but also 'weren't in the game until 75 mins'.

Both legs were close with ebb and flow either way. But after the first 25 mins of the final we were the better side and this is ignored by most of the media, both at the time and afterwards.
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I am absolutely convinced that the "Till the End" theme wasn't introduced for the benefit of the fans - it's a bit off the wall in the respect. I am sure it's what was drummed in the Lads for the five weeks before the play offs i.e. that they should maintain their concentration not relax and play with absolute commitment for 91 minutes of each 90 minute game..

No surprise then that in our three games the crucial goals that got us promoted came in the 88th , 120th and 90th+7 minutes. A fact that has seemingly been dismissed by the media as simply Sunderland's bit of luck or even a simple coincidence.
 
Lord Potts said:
It was a very calmly taken and an exceptionally well placed goal by the Lad. He was absolutely excellent. But didn't anyone tell the "better team" that you can't make back passes like that with players like Watson on the pitch?

Its funny how in the first leg the "better team" Coventry also made an equally horrendous back pass that cost them the game that was also in the final few minutes.

How can you even consider yourself to have been the "better team" when you make crucial unforced schoolboy errors like that? Both Coventry and Sheffield obviously found it difficult to maintain full concentration until the game ended.

Coventry even did so twice. You could see from Ballard's goal in the second leg that their defenders had decided that the corner had come too late for Sunderland to do anything with it and that they were already thinking about which side of Patto they were going to put their penalty in what they believed was to be the forthcoming shoot out.
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Mebees an insight into how swiftly you can be punished at the top level. Stray pass n game over.
 
Lord Potts said:
I am absolutely convinced that the "Till the End" theme wasn't introduced for the benefit of the fans - it's a bit off the wall in the respect. I am sure it's what was drummed in the Lads for the five weeks before the play offs i.e. that they should maintain their concentration not relax and play with absolute commitment for 91 minutes of each 90 minute game..

No surprise then that in our three games the crucial goals that got us promoted came in the 88th , 120th and 90th+7 minutes. A fact that has seemingly been dismissed by the media as simply Sunderland's bit of luck or even a simple coincidence.
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Totally agree mate I had a similar thought.

One last minute winner - yeah potentially a bit of luck.

Two - there maybe more to it.

Three in three games? That isn't coincidence. Imagine the odds you'd have got of betting on us winning all 3 games with goals after 85 mins.

I've heard stuff like 'it was written in the stars ' because that's how it happened. Like it was some miracle. Again ignoring the fact that we finished both games fitter, stronger and on the front foot when our opponents were physically and mentally done.
 
Noiser said:
Some of the media narrative around the 2 games is hilarious, not that it makes any difference in reality.

Apparently it was a 'smash and grab' against Coventry (ignoring the fact it was actually a RLB tactical masterclass) because of how little of the ball we had, yet in the final we had the lions share of the ball but also 'weren't in the game until 75 mins'.

Both legs were close with ebb and flow either way. But after the first 25 mins of the final we were the better side and this is ignored by most of the media, both at the time and afterwards.
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Sheff Utd were definitely, clearly better than us until the disallowed goal on about 35 minutes. Rest of the first half was fairly even, 2nd half they sat back and invited us on, but we didn't really create anything of note until Mayenda's chance. Once we equalised, it really seemed to knock the wind out of them and I thought there was only 1 team going to win it thereafter. I didn't think we were going to do it within the 90 mind!
 
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