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Mogga

Tyrion Lannister said:
After QPR he was the best manager we had ever had on here. Then he has a run if 4 (yes 4!) games where :

We draw with a strong Bristol C side to an unlucky pen

Lose slimly to Rotherham with dubious refereeing

Lose slimly to a strong Coventry side

Get battered by Stoke in typical Sunderland fashion, but with a team of kids who’ve been playing in a hard league back to back games since Christmas

As a result:

Mowbray on borrowed time
Gelhart is useless
We need to get Harry Gardiner playing
Mowbray is tactically inept
We’re a weak side

Oh, classic Sunderland bed wetting.

Have we not learned over the years that peddling manager after manager, going all Edvard Munch face every time we have a bad run, slagging off the players, attacking the recruitment team, moaning about the transfer window etc etc etc doesn’t work

What do folk want? I bet I’d be able to find posts from August that said ‘let’s just enjoy this season’, ‘21st place will do me’, ‘hope we don’t get battered every week’ , ‘at least we aren’t in League one’

It’s March, we’ve won more games than we’ve lost. We are playing the most entertaining football we’ve played for years, the manager is experienced and cares, most of the players are amazing prospects.

Give them a break, man

Top half of the Championship is brilliant. If we lose more than we win this season at least we did better than nearly everyone expected.

FTM
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I’d have taken where we are now gladly at the beginning of the season.

I didnt get into the lets get in the play
Offs fervour.

But.


I’d rather we upgraded in the summer. I think he was brought in to keep us up. He’s done tht.
 

Tyrion Lannister said:
After QPR he was the best manager we had ever had on here. Then he has a run if 4 (yes 4!) games where :

We draw with a strong Bristol C side to an unlucky pen

Lose slimly to Rotherham with dubious refereeing

Lose slimly to a strong Coventry side

Get battered by Stoke in typical Sunderland fashion, but with a team of kids who’ve been playing in a hard league back to back games since Christmas

As a result:

Mowbray on borrowed time
Gelhart is useless
We need to get Harry Gardiner playing
Mowbray is tactically inept
We’re a weak side

Oh, classic Sunderland bed wetting.

Have we not learned over the years that peddling manager after manager, going all Edvard Munch face every time we have a bad run, slagging off the players, attacking the recruitment team, moaning about the transfer window etc etc etc doesn’t work

What do folk want? I bet I’d be able to find posts from August that said ‘let’s just enjoy this season’, ‘21st place will do me’, ‘hope we don’t get battered every week’ , ‘at least we aren’t in League one’

It’s March, we’ve won more games than we’ve lost. We are playing the most entertaining football we’ve played for years, the manager is experienced and cares, most of the players are amazing prospects.

Give them a break, man

Top half of the Championship is brilliant. If we lose more than we win this season at least we did better than nearly everyone expected.

FTM
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Get real.
 
Of course he’ll still be here. It’s not a failed season so won’t be sacked and it’s the perfect job close to home from his perspective so he won’t leave.
 
I do think he’s done well, in circumstances when Neil left it was the right call
My concern long term is it all Seems a bit of a cushy gig for all parties, lives up here, won’t challenge heirachy’s model too much,
I’d hope this summer he’s pushing the recruitment side to really strengthen to give next year a right go where he’s desperate to get to the premier league rather than contentment with ‘building the model’
 
He's done a lot better than I thought he would, I thought the current run would be what most of the season would be like, but I've been pleasantly surprised.
I'm not sure he's the man to take us forward, hope I'm wrong mind.
 
gipetto said:
So were we unfit against QPR and Reading?

Coventry? We had the better of the second half and had circa 70% possession.

Can you tell me with certainty how Stewart and Evan's injuries are from fatigue? It's total guesswork, unless you're a doctor and have hands on experience of this sort of thing?
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Yes we love been struggling fitness wise for a long time. I think it’s painfully obvious and TM keeps saying exactly the same thing in his interviews too. Unless he also doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about? (Which would be another good reason to sack him)

Most muscular, tendon and ligament pulls, stretches and twists are from fatigue. Evans’ was clearly an impact injury as he collided with another player, but given no one was anywhere near Stewart it’s hard to attribute his to anything other than fatigue
 
TravellingMackem said:
Yes we love been struggling fitness wise for a long time. I think it’s painfully obvious and TM keeps saying exactly the same thing in his interviews too. Unless he also doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about? (Which would be another good reason to sack him)

Most muscular, tendon and ligament pulls, stretches and twists are from fatigue. Evans’ was clearly an impact injury as he collided with another player, but given no one was anywhere near Stewart it’s hard to attribute his to anything other than fatigue
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It's wear and tear, these things happen, players pick up injuries. The players' fitness levels are fine. I think we are one of the top 3 teams in the league for scoring goals in the second half, which doesn't support your argument.
 
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