When have you felt lower than this....


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The unveiling of Phil Babb
This sticks out in my mind for some reason. That was the day that I realised, despite my rose tinted classes, we'd always be crap.

Bumbling around the lower regions of the 2nd tier with Mick Buxton and Terry Butcher was far more depressing than this.
When the Nissan stadium fell through, look north did a piece about how roker only had 9000 seats, and how we may be forced to close the terraces etc.
We were losing at home to the likes of Southend, and the mags were everyone's "second team" and going for the title. Horrible times.
 
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Right now is the most despondent I've ever been as a Sunderland supporter, in over 30 years. We've got an owner with no connection to the club who hasn't wanted to be here for some time; the hangover of the shambolic Byrne and the horrendous handling of the Johnson affair and years of paying bang average players to dollar, only for them to take the piss.

Then you've got the distain Moyes treated the club with, the ill advised trip to New York, and a f***ing piss take of a strip.

Add to that the only player with any real connection to the club being sold - he should have been a fantastic player for us for the next 4-5 years until he got a very big move, and the whole thing is just a footballing disaster.

McInnes turning us down it's neither here nor there really, but tops it off spectacularly embarrassingly from pr perspective anyway.
 
Let's face it we've been here before. So why is this different ? Primarily because we ain't in the PL and some 'fans' can't handle that. We've never had a good pre season, always uncertainty, primarily over the squad and our ability to start a season well and organised. We will have to put up or shut up.
We know it will be Kevin Ball in temporary charge with no signings until probably August with new manager late July. Don't think the club will be sold. I hate this situation but this team whatever shape it's in come August probably will need our great support more than ever
 
... 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 thought that relegation to Div 3 after the Gillingham debacle was bad but this latest show surpasses even that.
 
Sunderland v Sheffield United, 11 April 1987
Score 2-1 to Sheffield United
Competition League Division Two
Venue Roker Park
Attendance 8,544

Bastard freezing it was. McMenemy go the sack shortly afterwards
 
... 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:

Same SAFC, same shit!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Let's face it we've been here before. So why is this different ? Primarily because we ain't in the PL and some 'fans' can't handle that. We've never had a good pre season, always uncertainty, primarily over the squad and our ability to start a season well and organised. We will have to put up or shut up.
We know it will be Kevin Ball in temporary charge with no signings until probably August with new manager late July. Don't think the club will be sold. I hate this situation but this team whatever shape it's in come August probably will need our great support more than ever

Pass me a length of rope please :cry:
 
... 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:
Relegation to the third wasn't as grim as this; there was a speedy renaissance under Smithy aided and abetted by the G Force. This is a 60 year low for me with not a green shoot to be seen.
 
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You're right there, you'd think after 40 odd years of supporting them I'd be used to it tbh, it just seems every time there's a bit of hope fate comes along and kicks us in the clems !
Not sure what a few ppl are cracking up about, great opportunity for the club at present....
 
I'm 29 and this is the worst state I've known us be in. First game I remember is the Millwall 6-0.

That said, I try not to get too down about it. Short is a joke, the club is run appallingly from important things like recruitment right down to the catering and kit launches, and the squad is awful considering our net outlay since 2007.

Football is a never ending ride though. You take the rough with the (very occasional) smooth. Look where Leicester, Southampton and (in a different way) Wimbledon ended up and where they are now. If you tie your own happiness to SAFC's fortunes then you'll never be happy. Not for very long continuously, anyway.

I love Sunderland, and walking into the ground feels like coming home. We'll all be there long after Short, Bain, Kone, Rodwell and countless others have fucked off, and when some relative success returns it'll feel all the sweeter, like the Chopra goal against Spurs did.
 
Skimming through this thread, I must be one of the few with no particular change in feelings in the last 24 hours. We missed out on getting a manager who had failed badly in his on English football job, but did well in Scotland. There has not been a host of other clubs fighting to sign him. He might have been good, he might have been bad.

He did not come for unknown reasons. He might have just not wanted the difficult battle any manager coming to a financially restricted, recently relegated club. It may have been the take over on the horizon. It might have been lack of funds available for spending - though that just got a £25m boost.

Basically an known quantity of a manager decided not to join us for unknown reasons. Oh well, move on.
 
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