When have you felt lower than this....


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After two games when Moyes threw the towel in. I guess I've had 10 months to prepare for this to the point where I'm past caring. I've renewed simply as all my mates have and we have a canny day out football aside. There's more to life than this bollocks!
 
... regarding SAFC? Not just after a game but the whole vibe around the club, Wilko appointment? Featherstone in charge? Being in the third division? After being so upbeat with McInnes seemingly in the bag to what I feel now, I thought the worst this season had to offer was that dreadful strip! What a f***ing mess, and we'll still have that strip...... I'm going to kip, night all :cry:

I think I can trace this back to the FA Cup game we lost at Bury with Quinn as manager. The moment when the TV in Starkeys ( the bar and 'restaurant' at Gigg Lane) reported that Kevin Phillips had turned us down.

That moment and that feeling (pathetic as it sounds and was) began the long process of starting to care less and less.

I didn't enjoy the subsequent Keane promotion as much as I would have done years earlier - certainly not as much as the Reid promotion. I was never as optimistic again. The slide started.

Then I just got bored during Steve Bruce's reign and stopped going - kick-off time changes, boredom, travel, lack of entertainment, boredom had a lot to do with it... and then The Aged Parent shuffled off and I couldn't bring myself to get in any way excited, bothered or (take a deep breath) to even watch the League Cup final. In preceding years I would have been at every game and would never have missed a final.

Now: I am pleased when the team win (on those rare occasions) but nowhere near as despondent when it all goes to shit (which it inevitably does in the very next game/s). Which, I suppose, is healthy.

If I wasn't addicted to posting shite on the SMB board I wouldn't even know what was happening to be honest. During the season just completed I very often didn't know the score until the day after the game, who were the opponents or, sometimes, even that there was a game on.

Which is probably why, now I think of it, the prospect of Kevin Phillips as manager fails to thrill me as much as apparently does some others. Not bitter or owt, just relatively disinterested.

A rampaging Championship winning season followed by an unexpectedly good showing after promotion to the Premier league will probably change all that.
 
I've never felt this bad, I'm fairly young but can't remember feeling this pessimistic. I'd be surprised if everything turns out ok. When was the last nice surprise we got? It always feels like we are expecting the worst, and then something even worse than that happens.
 
15 pt, 19 pt seasons.
From october on till moyes toddled off.
When we got relegated to the 3rd woth macmenemy, the last 5 or 6 games with keane when most discerning people realised he didnt have a clue.
When me mam died, when me nana died, when me dad died...
 
After two games when Moyes threw the towel in. I guess I've had 10 months to prepare for this to the point where I'm past caring. I've renewed simply as all my mates have and we have a canny day out football aside. There's more to life than this bollocks!

This. Sunderland is now a social event for me. Pints and catch the lads. I do still care but we are that inept its hard to really put everything back into supporting us.
 
Straight after the Gillingham defeat , like many.
Mind this season could run it close the way it seems to be heading at the minute
 
It's not just McInnes not coming though marra. It's the fact that we've been turned down,most likely either because he couldn't get the assurances he needed from Short about the funds available for transfers,or the length of his contract if Short really is in talks to sell. This situation will be the same for anyone else we approach.....and that's the problem for me. Short just doesn't seem to realise what has to be done. To be fair to Bain,it probably isn't his fault.....he's discussing a deal,indicating things will be acceptable,but then having to go back to McInnes later to say Short won't agree. Short has to rubber stamp everything and it looks to me as though he just isn't prepared to do it. Why that is,I don't know. But we are running out of time.
This
 
Gillingham and Division 3
The WTF moment when they appointed Wilko and Cotterill
When Coventry and Bristol City sent us down
After the 19 point relegation
Immediately before Drumaville
Selling Todd
 
In recent times probably after the 19 pointers. The debt felt oppressive and we had no escape. I don't believe that is the issue this time. Our debt isn't too scary when you look at the number (most of it is to short) and there won't be a fire sale - in fact we have players who we will sell this summer for significant fees. It seems that our problem is one of perception and reputation. The only way to turn that round is with results. If we can get a manager in place quickly (even someone like paul Lambert) then we can start to organise. We have a chance to move forward positively even now.
 
Bumbling around the lower regions of the 2nd tier with Mick Buxton and Terry Butcher was far more depressing than this.
 
... regarding SAFC? Not just after a game but the whole vibe around the club, Wilko appointment? Featherstone in charge? Being in the third division? After being so upbeat with McInnes seemingly in the bag to what I feel now, I thought the worst this season had to offer was that dreadful strip! What a f***ing mess, and we'll still have that strip...... I'm going to kip, night all :cry:

The fag end of the Mc Menemy days were awful, like wise Reid losing the plot after the first two seasons 7th places but worst of all was the 1970 relegation - the first in my lifetime, I was 11 and felt it badly.

Compared to those times the present mess is a walk in the park.

Bumbling around the lower regions of the 2nd tier with Mick Buxton and Terry Butcher was far more depressing than this.


Aye, that was a shocking time as well.
 
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