Sunderland 2013-14
OK lads and lasses, time for a new SAFC thread for a new season.
So what are everyone's hopes, dreams and realistic predictions? It's really hard to say as with so many new signings it is going to be like watching a brand new team but I have been encouraged by PDC transfer dealings so far.
So what are everyone's hopes, dreams and realistic predictions? It's really hard to say as with so many new signings it is going to be like watching a brand new team but I have been encouraged by PDC transfer dealings so far.
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The first three games are the key. All are winnable (Fulham,. Southampton and Palace) before we have a bad run of games. If we win none of them then it is going to look like a long slog of a season.
The good thing about so many new signings is that if we don't know how they will play then the opposition won't have a bloody clue either!
Based on the pre-season games I've seen the squad is certainly a lot fitter than under Bruce or MON and Alan Johnson seems to be responding especially well. If a few players don't like it then get bugger off to Hull but the question is whether he can keep the squad united.
Mind you, a West Ham supporting friend reckons that PDC will be their manager within a year. I'm not sure I'd bet much against it as anything could happen this season.
I think people are predicting a struggle for Sunderland because they generally do struggle, they've had a lot of change and a new manager with a reputation.
I honestly can't see relegation but I can see a top 9 or clinging on at the end. I don't see a middle ground!
Who would have thought 3 weeks into a new season we'd be playing Ji and Wickham up front and Vaughan and Larsson in CM.
Well done to Palace. Comfortably the best team in the first half, dangerous on the break after that.
He looked like he was in a bit of a huff, I assume PDC world famous man management came down with force?
At this rate PDC could be gone before Christmas but where so we go from there?
I caught the whole of the PDC interview on Radio Newcastle and it was nothing like the hatchet job that MOTD did on it.
I just have a feeling there's an agenda and knives are out for PDC and Sunderland and at the first slip things will go downhill fast.
But I do feel for LF, what do Sunderland do?
They've had the respected man mangers and experience in Bruce, McCarthy, Wilkinson and O'Neill - all of them basically failed.
They've had the passion of Keane - failed and now DiCanio - (too soon to judge?)
I guess it depends on what they judge success as. Should a team getting around 30-40k a week and one of the biggest net spenders in the past 5 years be happy there's been no European football since the 70s (and one season at that).
Aside the 7th place finishes under Reid they've really never done anything. It's almost like they are cursed
That has to be the reason. The club is cursed. Owners, players and managers change but the club remains the same. SAFC is in the top 10 clubs in the country in terms of attendances and fan base but has consistently failed to deliver. If the PDC "revolution" fails then I really don't know where we go next.