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@TheAndyGrahamFanClub agreed we look so much better when our midfield asserts itself & we pass the ball around the press.

We do not seem to use our wide players wide enough to stretch the opposition to create central spaces for the likes of Humphreys & Scowen or even Kone to exploit, perhaps Barry will give us that immediately, with MD working to get more of that into Freds game especially.

There is nothing wrong with long balls if we are good enough to get them to one of our players 90%+ of the time, sadly too often what we actually resort to is hit & hope...which just means the ball comes straight back at us.

Trevor there is as much out there praising his abilities as there is saying he is a wrongun . Your type of chosen source of information is notiorious sort of venue for presenting a nagative picture in these situations . There is a generally a strong belief on the Sunderland forums and amonst pundits that his last stint as caretaker was decimated with injuries , that he inherited a down beaten squad , and that it was the youngest squad in the championship. There were several games where he had to rely on 18 and 19 year olds on the bench such was the injury crisis .

I might suggest you do some further research before suggesting he is less useful to us than the late Kenneth . You may then come to the fore with a more balanced opinion .

Lol made me chuckle.

@trevor well that's ok then as we have employed him as Head Coach not as a manager.

Seriously, how do you think anyone makes the grade without someone showing some faith? Many of us will have applied for and got jobs/promotions to positions we haven't really done before but someone showed faith & I hope most of us did ok as we grew into the job. If they didn't within 20 odd years there would be no-one in senior/management positions and we would all be screwed.

Are you alright Dev, those last 2 sentences are a difficult read.

Agreed with almost all of that although I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say Bracknell deserved to win. Chesham were dominant first half and only a succession of top class saves from the Bracknell keeper stopped them going it at half time 3 or 4 down.

To be fair Bracknell shaded the second half but I'd say a draw would have been a fair result

@floyd said:
Is your favourite Matt Bloomfield moment the look on his face after we won at Wembley, or when the Bristol Rovers result came thru at Torquay he just forgot about the game and ran toward the away end to celebrate?

Probably the Torquay one, that was mad, but also after the promotion game at Chesterfield, on the pitch afterwards I told him what a great game he'd had, and he seemed almost surprised.

Love the way that evolved.

It was :

"When the ball hits the goal

It's not Shearer or Cole

It's Zamora"

And above is just perfection, either as a reply or from his own fans when it wasn't happening for him.

Ipswich employed an U21 manager from Man United and he didn’t turn out to bad.

good point but arent we in a promotion push?

its risky hiring a coach that record as a manager isnt good when you need somoene who is more experienced.