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Luke O'Nien

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The Muffin Man said:
Here's the thing, football is like watching a soap opera, you get sucked in by watching the ups and downs of different characters week in and week out....I watched a bunch of lads play football up the fields in Redhouse a few years back, watched em every Sunday morning when walking the dog, didnt know em from Adam....Before long ended up asking if they were at home the following week as would walk dog at that time to give them a look...The football was shit but it sucked you in, just like a soap opera does.......

Football fans do not go to football to watch a successful team or great football, if they did then 95% of clubs would have no fans as the reality is that just like us, the mags and half the rest of "big" clubs we have won fuck all in decades. We go for the drama, to dream, to socialise with our mates and lets be honest to put ourselves through the emotional wringer and remind ourselves we are actually alive. Is there really that much difference between going away to Norwich in the Championship, Burnley in the Prem or Bolton in league 1? Be honest, is there shite?

This season for me is so much more exciting because we havent been out and spent £14 million on some unproven shit house from France, we havent bought another ageing centre half looking for one last payday at the end of his career cause his legs have gone.

This season we are going to have 3 to 5 academy players in our team every game........Gooch has looked superb so far, will Maja become fulfill his promise, is Honeyman really a Sunderland Captain? Most of all I cant wait to see how young Bali Mumba turns out; will we seriously have a 16 year old playing a central role in our first team, he apparently dominated again tonight? Imagine how class that would be for a local lad to become a massive part of a promotion push for the lads at 16 years old?

Watching the lads has been f***ing painful over many years now, the club has lost its soul and last year the one thing that virtually all fans on this board agreed on was that we hated the vast majority of toss pots stealing a living out of our club.......Whatever happens this season and wherever we finish it has to be better than the perpetual shit fest of the last 5 or 6 years......At last supporting the lads seems real again with normal lads turning out to bust a gut to get win for the red and white army. Somet magical is happening and I have to say I would not swap this season for another borefest relegation battle in the Prem with players like Rodwell, Kone, Ndong etc taking the piss out of us all...I genuinely believe this season will help this club reclaim its soul from mercenary players, parasite agents and the destructive influence of the Premier league.
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A good read. Not sure how relevant it is to what I was alluding to, but still.
 
Howard the Duck said:
What a classy club Wycombe Wanderers are coming across as.
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Toughest part of being a "small" club is knowing you will always have the family silver taken away, even worse that you know it has to happen for you to continue in business........The plus point of being a Sunderland fan is that if these players develop and fulfill their obvious potential they dont need to go anywhere else to realise their dreams of playing in the top flight, we are big enough to get them there.
 
Doberman said:
tremendous that. Class act is Ainsworth.
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Sure is. Remember seeing him play at Pools a few years back now. Oldest player on the pitch but led by example and was clapped off by Pools fans when he was subbed near the end. Always comes across well and great to hear him speak so highly of the young un. Looking forward now to seeing O'Nien line up for the lads.
 
AC Mack said:
A good read. Not sure how relevant it is to what I was alluding to, but still.
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I guess my point was/is that really it doesnt matter where you are in the pyramid, supporting your club is or should be absolutely magical. For years it hasnt been.....Look at Wycombe today, we have robbed one of their stars and they have nothing but good wishes for the kid and nothing but praise for us, imagine that playing out in the Premiershit.
 
The Muffin Man said:
NEVER, he is like Samson, cut that hair and the world of Wycombe will gan to shite....They deserve a cracking season next year, clearly a well run and decent club.
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They were well ran before they reached the league.

My bro played for bromsgrove rovers in the conference. They finished runners up to Wycombe when Martin O’neill was manager. After one game I think bromsgrove had beaten them but after the match MON went into their dressing room to congratulate them.
 
The Muffin Man said:
I guess my point was/is that really it doesnt matter where you are in the pyramid, supporting your club is or should be absolutely magical. For years it hasnt been.....Look at Wycombe today, we have robbed one of their stars and they have nothing but good wishes for the kid and nothing but praise for us, imagine that playing out in the Premiershit.
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It is and I'd support us just as much if we were in the Premier League or the Northern Prem. As would most of us.

But that doesn't mean people don't have a right to be unhappy. These are two completely different things.
 
Stevie Freestein II said:
They were well ran before they reached the league.

My bro played for bromsgrove rovers in the conference. They finished runners up to Wycombe when Martin O’neill was manager. After one game I think bromsgrove had beaten them but after the match MON went into their dressing room to congratulate them.
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Always been a cracking club, salt of the earth like so many lower division teams......I genuinely think that our fans will have one of the best seasons in our history this year as we will be reminded what football is all about outside this commercial bull shit bubble that the Premier League has become.
 
Stevie Freestein II said:
They were well ran before they reached the league.

My bro played for bromsgrove rovers in the conference. They finished runners up to Wycombe when Martin O’neill was manager. After one game I think bromsgrove had beaten them but after the match MON went into their dressing room to congratulate them.
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Pretty sure I watched Bromsgrove once in an FA Vase match. Maybe against Tow Law Town?

Actually thinking on, I think that game might have been abandoned too :eek:
 
The Muffin Man said:
Toughest part of being a "small" club is knowing you will always have the family silver taken away, even worse that you know it has to happen for you to continue in business........The plus point of being a Sunderland fan is that if these players develop and fulfill their obvious potential they dont need to go anywhere else to realise their dreams of playing in the top flight, we are big enough to get them there.
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Every player should want to play at the highest possible level ,
If this kid comes and does the business and another club at a higher level comes in for him then fair enough,
 
AC Mack said:
It is and I'd support us just as much if we were in the Premier League or the Northern Prem. As would most of us.

But that doesn't mean people don't have a right to be unhappy. These are two completely different things.
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I was unhappy with the previous regime and had Short still been in charge this summer would have been raging.....I genuinely feel we have taken back our club this summer and are being run by real football people, people who have followed football in the lower leagues for decades and get what football fans and community clubs are all about. Its not all about being able to say "I own a Premier league club" like it was for Short. For these guys they just bloody love football. We are imho in for one hell of a ride and I honestly cant wait to see how things play out.
 
The Muffin Man said:
I was unhappy with the previous regime and had Short still been in charge this summer would have been raging.....I genuinely feel we have taken back our club this summer and are being run by real football people, people who have followed football in the lower leagues for decades and get what football fans and community clubs are all about. Its not all about being able to say "I own a Premier league club" like it was for Short. For these guys they just bloody love football. We are imho in for one hell of a ride and I honestly cant wait to see how things play out.
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I hope you're right mate.
 
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