*~*~* Rotherham v Sunderland match thread *~*~*

[ShieldsBlackCat2015]

Think how Preston fans are feeling right now!

 

[Football Dinosaur]

Everybody did surely ?

They didn't. Until they saw the transfer business. When the final whistle blew against Luton most supporters thought we'd make a go of it this year. We've never been close.

 

[Ark]

v Preston.
.
Patterson
Pembele O'Nien Ballard Alese
Neil
Pritchard Hume Clarke
Hemir Rusyn

 

[Millhouse]

No one is saying we played well but the overreaction is comical . People sitting with their cocks in their hand hoping Beale fails .

Fair enough. I’m not blaming Beale personally.

Some of the players like Auochiche, Jobe etc need to have a word with themselves

 

[billyboy]

There was fight like, hence us getting back into it. The problem was lack of quality

They wanted it more than us. We were being billy big bollox they were playing for their manager. It was like the Mags v forest you see it every week. The successful teams mix skill with a desire to win every 50;50 ball just like our squad that won the play offs from division one.

 

[Weardale warrior]

Sharp change your mind or sticking with that?

Couldn’t take it Fred lad!
Went for a bath didn’t even see the f***ing goal!

 

[Lonz]

They didn't. Until they saw the transfer business. When the final whistle blew against Luton most supporters thought we'd make a go of it this year. We've never been close.

We are 2 points off the play-offs in fairness. I’m not sure how but we are.

 

[Rokerparkpies]

Well that was pap

 

[Marko]

Should be???

You still think we have players like Ball, Schwartz, Phillips, McCann and Kilbane in the squad?

We aren’t that Sunderland anymore.

McCann and Kilbane wow !!!!! FTM

 

[Blame Me]

In touch of play offs. I’ll take that going in to January. Beale can’t be blamed for anything. If Mowbray was still here I think we would be a couple points or so worse off. Beale can’t take credit for that either, he has had no time to change anything yet. I will reserve judgement.

But he has to be fair, not even trying to start with a striker or two, one to just even pull defenders to open space would be a start, but no he's not done that. He's gone with the tried and tested same old same old of TM & Dodds (KLD really ).

 

[MoneyballII]

No but I suspect many will be considering if they should do so next year given the lack of ambition at the club.

Where were you expecting ambition? They’ve been very clear on the recruitment strategy.

The Head Coach appointment was hugely disappointing but the club said they wanted a coach coach.

I don’t like it but they’ve not veered off their plan.

 

[Carley Hill wanderer]

I’ll say something negative when we stop moving forward . I’m happy to take small steps and not overreact as soon as something goes wrong . We were told that this was a long term project but some are too thick or ignorant to understand how this works .
We are like night and day from where we were a couple of years ago .

Great, so Sunderland try to do things slowly for the "project", are the rest of teams going to stand still and allow us to progress as we want

 

[Football Dinosaur]

No but I suspect many will be considering if they should do so next year given the lack of ambition at the club.

Many will be on the brink now. Club taking people for granted. They may renew thinking, give it another year, but many will wait and see. I know of a few looking at game to game due to changes in ko times let along what's on the pitch.

 

[zebediah]

That first 45 was as bad as anything I've seen, their keeper was not worked all night.
Frankly we deserved to lose, and I don't think we deserved to beat Hull either.
If nothing else perhaps Beale brings luck with him?

 

[PaulG]

We’re 7th. Drama queen.

Last ten games, despite the coach/manager "crisis", we've beat West Brom, Leeds and Hull and have moved up one spot in the table. But, as usual, an away draw against a bottom team means that the season is now officially over.

 

[big les]

So dull that this evening.
Reminded me of crap Sunderland sides from the 80s + early 90s.
Clarke apart.

 

[Football Dinosaur]

We are 2 points off the play-offs in fairness. I’m not sure how but we are.

Play offs get you promotion like? They get you a chance in a 4 team lottery. Nothing more. The league was there for the taking but we made ourselves weaker.

 

[Blame Me]

v Preston.
.
Patterson
Pembele O'Nien Ballard Alese
Pritchard Neil Hume Clarke
Hemir Rusyn

Behave, that's way to ambitious and way to sensible for the likes of KLD..... I mean Beale

 

[Perryqhill]

He was covering his arse fir the fcuk up of that window. Teams need strikers and if he tries to say otherwise he's talking shit.

I thought that at the time too (as well as talking up Clarke and Dejaku as strikers previously), but now I think he actually thinks that way, as if we're Barcelona circa 2009 reinvented.

The way we play, another manager trying to shoe-horn Aouchiche and Ba in and barring a just gone 20 year old from Portugal with absolutely no senior record, Gelhardt, Burstow, Rusyn and Mayenda- all players who have played off the left, right or deeper we don't look to have signed an out and out striker.

 

[Rocky77]

They wanted it more than us. We were being billy big bollox they were playing for their manager. It was like the Mags v forest you see it every week. The successful teams mix skill with a desire to win every 50;50 ball just like our squad that won the play offs from division one.

We did dig in and got a point from a turgid performance. I don't think there is a lack of effort or fight from this team. Bit of quality? Definitely