Bigwilltef
Reserve Squad
a little bit what was asked.
Q: How close did Phillips get to the job?
A: Nowhere near really. He needs to be in charge of coaching somewhere 1st.
Q: is Phil Parkinson the next Chris Wilder?
A: Yes, otherwise I wouldn’t have appointed him.
Q: Do you accept the difference between an honest crowd reaction after an abysmal performance like Bolton and the vile personal insults/threats SD gets.
A: Yes of course. What I notice about away games though is that home fans get at our players all the time. We don’t do that at the SOL.
Q: What is the status of the American investment?
A: They have invested in Madrox and as such they have no ownership of SAFC currently. It also means there is no liability at al on SAFC.
Q: Why do you keep letting talent leave the academy?
A: We don’t. We have the most successful academy in the country but because we are a Cat1 academy in League 1 we are hugely vulnerable. The Prem clubs get to the parents of young players who make a decision to send their son to a Prem club academy and there is NOTHING we can do to stop it. Bali was an exception to this who’s parents turned down offers from all of the top clubs because they felt they owed loyalty to Sunderland.
Q: why are the ball boys shit?
A: (From Bally) Fuck off, stop him drinking. (From CM) we ask them to get the ball back AQAP.
Q: Will there be more investment from the Americans?
A: I will not speak for them but we are looking for more investment all the time from multiple sources. Me and SD are not wealthy enough to fund this club beyond L1.
Q: Why would the Americans want to buy SAFC?
A: We are probably the best deal in British football right now. There are 12 big clubs (fan base of 40k+ with a history of multiple major honours) and only 4 are for sale. SAFC, NUFC, LUFC, CFC. The rest are owned by very wealthy families and like US sports teams will be for the long term. Of these, SAFC is by far the besy value for money.
Q: Why did we sack Ross?
A: Because over a long arc stretching back to the last1/3 of last season the underlying analytics were in a very slow decline. We as a board looked at injuries, quality of opposition and fan reaction and while it was not enough to pull the trigger in the summer, it reached the point where we saw no evidence of those underlying analytics changing.
My comment about what it was like is, the branch got a lot of great shout outs and CM thanked us a lot. Said we were the life blood of the club and SAFC felt lucky to have us. I think (despite what others think) these are great engagement sessions and hearing it from the horses mouth is always preferable to basing your opinion on internet gossip from people who don’t know. Good on CM for continuing to do it.
My criticism would be that the host lost control a bit towards the end with people shouting over each other. Having said that some of the branch lads self policed it,and was quickly sorted.
There was stories from Bally too, but the one thing we have to take from this we are in league one we have league one players and every team it’s there cup final, stick with the lads ,stick with the club ,stick with the owners, support our team one club our club
❤
Q: How close did Phillips get to the job?
A: Nowhere near really. He needs to be in charge of coaching somewhere 1st.
Q: is Phil Parkinson the next Chris Wilder?
A: Yes, otherwise I wouldn’t have appointed him.
Q: Do you accept the difference between an honest crowd reaction after an abysmal performance like Bolton and the vile personal insults/threats SD gets.
A: Yes of course. What I notice about away games though is that home fans get at our players all the time. We don’t do that at the SOL.
Q: What is the status of the American investment?
A: They have invested in Madrox and as such they have no ownership of SAFC currently. It also means there is no liability at al on SAFC.
Q: Why do you keep letting talent leave the academy?
A: We don’t. We have the most successful academy in the country but because we are a Cat1 academy in League 1 we are hugely vulnerable. The Prem clubs get to the parents of young players who make a decision to send their son to a Prem club academy and there is NOTHING we can do to stop it. Bali was an exception to this who’s parents turned down offers from all of the top clubs because they felt they owed loyalty to Sunderland.
Q: why are the ball boys shit?
A: (From Bally) Fuck off, stop him drinking. (From CM) we ask them to get the ball back AQAP.
Q: Will there be more investment from the Americans?
A: I will not speak for them but we are looking for more investment all the time from multiple sources. Me and SD are not wealthy enough to fund this club beyond L1.
Q: Why would the Americans want to buy SAFC?
A: We are probably the best deal in British football right now. There are 12 big clubs (fan base of 40k+ with a history of multiple major honours) and only 4 are for sale. SAFC, NUFC, LUFC, CFC. The rest are owned by very wealthy families and like US sports teams will be for the long term. Of these, SAFC is by far the besy value for money.
Q: Why did we sack Ross?
A: Because over a long arc stretching back to the last1/3 of last season the underlying analytics were in a very slow decline. We as a board looked at injuries, quality of opposition and fan reaction and while it was not enough to pull the trigger in the summer, it reached the point where we saw no evidence of those underlying analytics changing.
My comment about what it was like is, the branch got a lot of great shout outs and CM thanked us a lot. Said we were the life blood of the club and SAFC felt lucky to have us. I think (despite what others think) these are great engagement sessions and hearing it from the horses mouth is always preferable to basing your opinion on internet gossip from people who don’t know. Good on CM for continuing to do it.
My criticism would be that the host lost control a bit towards the end with people shouting over each other. Having said that some of the branch lads self policed it,and was quickly sorted.
There was stories from Bally too, but the one thing we have to take from this we are in league one we have league one players and every team it’s there cup final, stick with the lads ,stick with the club ,stick with the owners, support our team one club our club
❤
