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Four years of going into League 1 games with no real confidence you'll win has been horrendous like.We’ve still suffered more than our fair share of disappointing results in league one anyway.
Why wait for the inevitable? Sack the useless bastard now I say.I think the manager needs to go if we're not promoted after 10 games
You'd definitely hope so. A lot of the teams in the Championship are pretty evenly matched, so recruiting even moderately well can put you just that little edge above everyone else.
Whether we have the money to do that at a Championship level though will be the big question, as even mediocre players go for fairly big amounts now. It's a world away from the signings we've made in League 1. I wonder how many will be happy to just survive compared to thinking we should immediately start being fairly safely mid table as we will still be one of the largest clubs in the Championship (on many random quantifiers).
You seem to be mistaking the SMB being your average Sunderland fan. I didn't ask can Sunderland fans cope, I said can the SMB cope.
You know, the message board that has people asking for the manager to be sacked because we're drawing 30 minutes into games. I take it you've followed a match thread on here before?
We don’t since 19 Feb.Yeah you’re right mate, Sunderland fans Have no experience of losing matches
There will always be those (especially on here) who react to a loss like the season is over.
However, as long as the manner of the coming defeats never reaches the levels of utter capitulation we experienced this past season,I’m sure I will cope.
You are right, but the first order of business for a newly promoted side is just to survive. We have seen Wycombe and Charlton go straight back down and there are some good teams in that division. But, I think our style of football is more suited to the Championship than Wycombe ever was and it should be a case of a few good additions to making the transition, rather than tear down and start again. Charlton was a bit mental off the field.I'm not sure why people seem to be looking towards next season as a relegation battle. We have an opportunity to recruit for so much more than that.
Where you been the last 60 years.Since we've been in league one we have lost on average about 9 games per season.
Season Games Lost 18/19 5 19/20 9 20/21 9 21/22 10
In that time we've played 174 league games, which means we've lost 35 times or 20% of all of our games over 4 seasons. To put it another way, we've gained points in 80% of our games.
To put this into perspecitive, the team that finished 10th in the Championship this season lost 15 times, once you get down to 17th in the Championship you start to hit around 20+ loses
In theory, we'll be losing in matches where it could be much more even between the two sides and could actually be 'good quality' games of football, but I do wonder if this place will cope in going from hearing the whistle at the end of the game and having an 80% chance of getting at least a point, compared to around maybe 20-30%.