Durham-Mackem41
Midfield
If you not trying to win and go forward what’s the point promotion should always be the aim when we are in this league.
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Imagine Leicester had said in 2014 let's just get relegated and enjoy winning some games in the championship?
You cant consistently win games or you would run the risk of being promoted which you seem to agree would be an awful outcome.Spot on. I wouldn’t even mind being in league 1 tbh at least we would have a team that consistently wins games
It is more competitive than ever that is why Brighton, Villa and NUFC all got into Europe and partly why Spurs and Chelsea didnt (although in the case of the later they were just totally shite as well)Got to aim for promotion and then try to get into Europe. (snigger)
I do hate the Premier League, though. Money has ruined it, it's just not competitive anymore. Half a dozen or so sides in a different metaphorical league to the rest.
The remainder knowing they've pretty much no chance of anything except a faint glimmer of grabbing a cup, or slogging through the season picking up the odd point here and there to scrape survival. The very weakest clubs basically preparing for relegation before the season even kicks off.
It's grim, but we have to go there and hope we can push on.
But they don't say they don't want to do the best they can.I'd argue there is every point. Most clubs are not successful. Most clubs have folk in love with those clubs. it's just how it is.
Ah BistoLots of fans here care about promotion and rightly so but am I the only one who doesn’t want to be promoted? Even if we could we’d get robbed by bloody VAR and the cheating blood money clubs wouldn’t make it a fair fight. Down here we play entertaining football and that’s what matters at the end of the day.
We didn’t last time.Spot on. I wouldn’t even mind being in league 1 tbh at least we would have a team that consistently wins games
Lots of fans here care about promotion and rightly so but am I the only one who doesn’t want to be promoted? Even if we could we’d get robbed by bloody VAR and the cheating blood money clubs wouldn’t make it a fair fight. Down here we play entertaining football and that’s what matters at the end of the day.
Have you asked them like? I'm going to guess they'd rather be where they are rather than the championship.Ask Sheffield United fans where they’d rather be this season. Or even Burnley for that matter.
I would argue Stoke have done as much as Sunderland recently.The good thing about SAFC is we are always interesting, we are always playing for something at the end of the season. I think it must be crap to be Preston or Stoke, who haven't done anything in years.
I think he means that we’ve been in the play offs for 3 of the last 4 seasons (iirc) and the other was covid year. Before then we were getting relegated and prior to that fighting relegation. There tends to be jeopardy to Sunderland’s seasonsHave you asked them like? I'm going to guess they'd rather be where they are rather than the championship.
I would argue Stoke have done as much as Sunderland recently.
Reserve squad and new members not wanting us to get promotionWe are playing absolute dog shit man .. if this is a fishing trip .. you’ve got ya nibbles.
Everyone who have said they don’t want to get promoted are new members - wonder what they have in commonWow. If you surveyed 99% of fans, I’d stake my house on them wanting promotion.weird thread
Worse than circling the toilet bowl for 6 years or so in the PL like last time?I want the club to win games as high up the divisions we can.
Imagine being stuck in this league for years and years. It’d be soul destroying
Some of Sunderland's best games in recent years happened in our last premier league spell. Why do people rewrite history?Worse than circling the toilet bowl for 6 years or so in the PL like last time?
Last time our owners lost the plot, throwing decent money down the toilet. The new owner seems much more switched on and has a plan, no matter the pro’s and cons. However, it’s just weird for anyone not wanting their club competing at the highest level.Worse than circling the toilet bowl for 6 years or so in the PL like last time?
Last time our owners lost the plot, throwing decent money down the toilet. The new owner seems much more switched on and has a plan, no matter the pro’s and cons. However, it’s just weird for anyone not wanting their club competing at the highest level.
I remember last season a poster on here suggesting that if we got promoted we should be able to say to the fa that we don’t want to go up because it’s more fun winning games in this league. What player worth his salt would play for a club like this, fans would disappear and we would drop down the leagues, some people haven’t thought this throughWhilst I suspect the OP and his mate who's liking his posts are mags on a wind up, there does seem to be some amongst our fans who think the be all and end all is "winning games" no matter what the opposition. If that is all people are bothered about, why don't they petition the club to apply for the Northern League or even the Wearside league, but also turn down any promotions we might win, then we could win games every week?
Mind, after a few years in the Northern League we might find that all our best players leave and we end up with a team of part timers, and those wins people so desperately wanted start to become a bit less routine.
Some of Sunderland's best games in recent years happened in our last premier league spell. Why do people rewrite history?