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RLB will be gone before next season

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jesus juice said:
Having the best season we’ve seen since Reidy and the moaning, pissing and shite “banter” is unbearable now.

I know Sunderland is in the blood, it pisses me off every loss and spoils my weekend thousands of miles away but this place used to be a bit of refuge for me, now it’s full of unfunny ***** and arseholes
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Posted on another thread earlier in the week, I stayed off PF for a day or 2 because I knew the lunatics would be out.

I was as pissed off as the next bloke on Sunday (and Monday tbh), but after over 50 years supporting the lads, you realise these things happen in football, and not just to SAFC.
brisbanemackem said:
It looks like the players are no longer playing for him and yes we all shoulf be grateful we have survived in the Premier League but its more by good fortune than good management.
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Utter bollocks yet again.

brisbanemackem said:
Thats exactly correct. If he is not on the pitch they have no tactics as a unit. The defense, midfield and strikers do not function as a unified team as a whole if Xhaka is not conducting the play.

If you look at our XG its nothing short of abysmal and we are where we are despite RLB not because of him.

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You win fuck all with XG, nothing, not a thing.

40 points was the target, and RLB, the coaching staff and the players have hit it with 9 games to spare.

I find it incredible that you'd look to sack him after he's achieved the target for the season. We'd be the laughing stock of football.
 
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RLB has done an unbelievable job. Dread to think where we’d be if we had gotten the likes of Will Still et al. Nearly every so called “pundit” had us down before a ball was kicked. Is he perfect? Of course not but for me he has massive credit in the bank. Imagine sacking him man after he’s hit 40 points.
 
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brisbanemackem said:
Cant disagree with that Australia can no longer be called the "lucky country" its heading down the same path of decline as the UK just not yet as advanced.
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Weirdly the gentleman I was with is not a recent immigrant like yourself . Ranching bare back riding fella , rough as a badger and really feels as though his like are getting pushed out , even though ironically it was his forefathers doing the pushing. Long time ago of course, but the changes are happening .

Anyway, looking down on UK from afar isnt a great look for you on here . Some do that from other countries, shit happens, and they're chartered back. Not that Oz will go through that I agree.
 
brisbanemackem said:
Thats exactly correct. If he is not on the pitch they have no tactics as a unit. The defense, midfield and strikers do not function as a unified team as a whole if Xhaka is not conducting the play.

If you look at our XG its nothing short of abysmal and we are where we are despite RLB not because of him.

It looks like the players are no longer playing for him and yes we all shoulf be grateful we have survived in the Premier League but its more by good fortune than good management.

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Well that’s funny because we’re not 3rd bottom for xga 👍
This thread needs putting in the bin.
 
brisbanemackem said:
Talks in riddles about connections
dynamics and experiences reminiscent of Cantona and the seagulls

Any manager worth his salt would have put a rocket up them at half time but we have been papering over the cracks for a long time.

Lets face it we got lucky in the play offs, lucky at Wembley and Xhaka has been acting as de,-facto manager on and off the pitch.

Without him we are rudderless and will probably splutter our way to safety.

Ghisolfi brought in a number of quality players who dont need a great deal of " management" and yet RLB still insists on Hume in the hybrid role.

KLD has to much invested to fail and Ghisolfi will be working on a manager to take us to the next level.

Nice guy but he has to go in the name of progress.
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brisbanemackem said:
Talks in riddles about connections
dynamics and experiences reminiscent of Cantona and the seagulls

Any manager worth his salt would have put a rocket up them at half time but we have been papering over the cracks for a long time.

Lets face it we got lucky in the play offs, lucky at Wembley and Xhaka has been acting as de,-facto manager on and off the pitch.

Without him we are rudderless and will probably splutter our way to safety.

Ghisolfi brought in a number of quality players who dont need a great deal of " management" and yet RLB still insists on Hume in the hybrid role.

KLD has to much invested to fail and Ghisolfi will be working on a manager to take us to the next level.

Nice guy but he has to go in the name of progress.
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No he wont
 
Tony Towers Fanclub said:
I’ve revisited this thread for the first time since a post early on (which has been proved even more true) as saw how many replies have stacked up since.

Yeah, this part of the latest comment stood out for me too. Talk about a dingo whistle…
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He's in Queensland, Australia's white paradise, where Abo bashing is still tolerated . It's not hard to work out what he really means by "cultural decline"
 
Mind, that Phil Smith article about how Reg wants to improve our attacking output isn’t brilliant imo. The answer apparently is just picking our best XI, flogging it to death and then doing better on set pieces. Wonder why he also talks about having a ‘small’ squad (of only 21 outfield players) if he doesn’t really want to use it - and when he’s going to master not pancaking form in the second half of seasons.

(For the absence of doubt, the OP is still a bit of a dafty)
 
What's the Australian version of the Tebbit test?

This lad is like the international equivalent of a Durham mag ... all because of a shite opinion.
 
Qoelet said:
My feel about RLB is that, like Speakman, he'll take us to a certain point and then move on. I think that RLB has the potential to be a great manager but he'll reach his ceiling with us.

When that is I have no idea, but I'd suggest he'll be here start of the next season
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This is also my thinking.

I like RLB, and I like the way he's a deep thinking philosopher of the game (in the Arsenal Wenger mould) and can certainly appreciate, he's done a fantastic job in getting us promoted and for setting us up in games, to reach out initial goal of getting 40 points in the Premier League, with plenty of games to spare, though, like EVERY manager/coach at every club, there'll be a time when he either moves in voluntarily, or he'll be moved on by those above him, though I hope he's given a chance to take us further still, and improve, next season

Imho, it would be beneficial to us, to find a different way to play games, to be more expansive in our play, and have a 'Plan B' so we have options to pick up points, without rigidly sticking to one system of playing, and being overly cautious in our approach to games, as I cannot see us being as successful next season, unless we find a way of changing it around when needed.
 
HertfordshireMackem said:
I am as disappointed as anyone about yesterday but talk of sacking RLB is madness

Achieved our main goal for the season with flying colours, yesterday is a massive opportunity that we passed up and is rightly going to be criticised but not sack worthy in my opinion

That being said a slow start to next season and I can see the axe falling
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Some common sense here.

He's learning his craft as much as the players are and is improving every season.

We'd be mad to let him go somewhere else.
Horley Chorley said:
This is also my thinking.

I like RLB, and I like the way he's a deep thinking philosopher of the game (in the Arsenal Wenger mould) and can certainly appreciate, he's done a fantastic job in getting us promoted and for setting us up in games, to reach out initial goal of getting 40 points in the Premier League, with plenty of games to spare, though, like EVERY manager/coach at every club, there'll be a time when he either moves in voluntarily, or he'll be moved on by those above him, though I hope he's given a chance to take us further still, and improve, next season

Imho, it would be beneficial to us, to find a different way to play games, to be more expansive in our play, and have a 'Plan B' so we have options to pick up points, without rigidly sticking to one system of playing, and being overly cautious in our approach to games, as I cannot see us being as successful next season, unless we find a way of changing it around when needed.
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I think he's been focused on plan A all season. Now we're safe he'll do the pragmatic thing and start to look at other options for next season.

The squad look happy with the current system, so he'll start to load them up with a good plan B I reckon.
 
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brisbanemackem said:
Thats exactly correct. If he is not on the pitch they have no tactics as a unit. The defense, midfield and strikers do not function as a unified team as a whole if Xhaka is not conducting the play.

If you look at our XG its nothing short of abysmal and we are where we are despite RLB not because of him.

It looks like the players are no longer playing for him and yes we all shoulf be grateful we have survived in the Premier League but its more by good fortune than good management.

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You used some clickbait site's AI algorithm to type this utter horseshite, right? It feels wrong to have to explain this to a presumably grown up man but after 29/30 games in a season you are where you are by the points you've earned, and we'll probably end up about 11th or 12th come the end of the 38 matches. That cannot be and is not luck. Or was it luck when Liverpool won at a canter last season, or when Man Utd / City used to walk the league?

I'm not sure if you're posting like this for attention or are actually just a bit, well, thick.
 
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