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... seems to be completely and utterly lost. What are we? A club for the working classes of Sunderland to go and let loose on a weekend, being connected to an entity that they could all relate too as a child, kicking a ball around a derelict field with their friends?

Or are we a high-end upper class model of a club now, which has only the commercially rich at heart and everything else that happens in a bonus?

What has happened here? I recall the walk down to Roker Park from The Cambridge, thinking “this is the best thing to do on a Saturday” whereas now, I feel completely disconnected from the club to the point where I’m absolutely indifferent about their results, as if they’re some forgotten limb.

I hate what’s happening to our club. Is this the way Football is, or is it just Sunderland?
 

sksk3021 said:
It’s football but we are doing especially shit so it feels worse. It’s probably also an age thing.
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I certainly hope so. My entire youth was based upon Football, culminating in my academic studies, studying Sports Journalism so I could write about it. Seems like I’ve wasted my days doing it.
 
ShaabanShaaban said:
... seems to be completely and utterly lost. What are we? A club for the working classes of Sunderland to go and let loose on a weekend, being connected to an entity that they could all relate too as a child, kicking a ball around a derelict field with their friends?

Or are we a high-end upper class model of a club now, which has only the commercially rich at heart and everything else that happens in a bonus?

What has happened here? I recall the walk down to Roker Park from The Cambridge, thinking “this is the best thing to do on a Saturday” whereas now, I feel completely disconnected from the club to the point where I’m absolutely indifferent about their results, as if they’re some forgotten limb.

I hate what’s happening to our club. Is this the way Football is, or is it just Sunderland?
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A bit of both. Either way it's shite.
 
Coming out the ground this afternoon I heard some poor sod trying to explain to his young son (about 6 or 7) that 'this walk [being the walk across the bridge] is great when we've won'.

We now have fans desperately trying to explain to their sons what it is like to see us win a single game of football, so rarely does it happen, because they are so determined to pass on the torch through their family.

I then sat in a car park queue watching a devoted dad and one son lift his severely disabled son, in his wheelchair, via a hoist, having sat through that gutless shite, in the freezing cold.

Identity? To the outside world we have none other than the identity of failure and mismanagement. Mark Chapman was talking about Swansea today and talking about the risk that they had faced of 'becoming another Sunderland'. Jack Rodwell surpasses any example of waste that Seth Johnson could provide.

We are the new Coventry City, the new Portsmouth. Just without the FA Cup wins.
 
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We’re a club that barely celebrates our illustrious past and doesn’t look after the precarious present.

Our stadium and it’s surroundings are the perfect representation of that. A couple of nods to 1973 but nothing of our other Fa Cup triumph or six league titles. Nothing to connect the past of Roker to the present.
Then there’s the stadium itself. It has been allowed to deteriorate inside and out. There’s no pride in it whatsoever.
 
The thing is, these ‘footballers’ were obviously of a decent standard at one point to get to where they are now (or where they were before they came to us).

How have we become so bad at the only thing these people have been asked to do since before they left school?

They have to take a look at themselves and wonder why they even bother anymore.
 
ShaabanShaaban said:
An acceptable identity at the moment.
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That's our national identity and the players fully buy into it. When we go into games at home we don't even try and put pressure on the other side/play on the front foot.

Started today, passed around the back, browning kicked it out of play and then we conceded 3 corners in 5 minutes. Unbelievable.
 
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Johnsafc said:
That's our national identity. When we go into games at home we don't even try and put pressure on the other side and play on the front foot.

Started today, passed around the back, browning kicked it out of play and then we conceded 3 corners in 5 minutes. Unbelievable
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My point is, we’ve been shit before. When I went to my first match, I think Buxton was in charge, and we got pasted 3-0 or near enough by someone equally as shit (Portsmouth or Tranmere perhaps), but that was more acceptable than this is now.
 
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