Leon

I don't get why RTG want him back. Every transfer deal he's involved with for the foreseeable future is going to be scrutinised by the media, the FA and HRMC who'll be keen not to miss out on any potential taxes. This will keep agents away since then won't want those spotlights shining on them and extend the time needed for any deals while those involved go to lengths to show it's 100% above board.

Following all the corruption at Fifa, the FA have to be seen coming down hard on this if they want to maintain credibility. This won't just be BSA and they have to punish the clubs involved which will include us

You and me both!

The Norths leading Premiership team fan base are starting to get a little worried that if they beat QPR tonight then there's a 1 in 15 chance they'll get us in the next round and they'll lose. http://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/if-if-if-we-fet-through-tonight-at-qpr.1277916/page-2

The difference having a keeper who'll catch the ball rather than just punching it in a random direction!

Ah.. I have a theory that rather than changing any of the pink seats in the stadium, they're trying to make them relevant by matching them to a shit strip.

So they've protested / got themselves more worked up about a Sunderland Echo reporters football allegiance than when they discovered their CEO had lied about what the club knew regarding Johnson and his sex abuse case.

So many bad passes. No urge to push. Playing slow time as if it was training.

That sounds like a guy already looking at making sure his exit plan is in place. He can reuse the statements Advocaat used last October when he left and cited the lack of spending and player quality as the driving force behind. "I did not think I was the right person and manager to work like that any longer. So, I quit and I did not want a penny from the club. I have never taken money from a club after resigning or quitting. Sunderland as a club, with all the fans, was fantastic. What I have experienced with the fans is something I will never forget. But I saw other things at the club that were not right. That’s why I informed the owner in the midweek before my last match that there was no way I was going to stay as manager. When you are working seven days a week, putting so much energy into the team, you want something positive in return. That just didn’t happen.”

It's not that daft... Someone realised they can stick "6 in a row" on a book cover and the Makem faithful will spunk £10 a copy for everyone they know this Christmas like seals desperate for fish. None of them will actually read it; they'll just think they've pulled some great anti Mag stunt. The few that do read it won't say it's shit because " 6 in a row". I wish I'd thought of it

They're trying to forget the Johnson thing happened, not because of what he did but how their club handled it. The CEO and whoever else knew what he'd done encouraged them to continue hero worshipping, singing his name and letting their kids walk around with his name on their freshly bought shirts. They know they have a nonce to thank for much of last seasons 'success' and yet if they admit that then they feel they somehow validates his choices.

It's all they have to help them forgot a truly awful season. Their manager, the one they begged to stay and sent flowers to his wife walked away at the end of October because they were shit and he couldn't help them. Their next manager was kept in the dark that he would lose Johnson after the transfer window so he couldn't replace him and then when they did get 17th, all the money BSA boosted of getting to move forward failed to materialise. They hired a plane to humiliate us and nobody cared. Our last game was a huge party rather than a protest. We didn't need to have a player firesale as they predicted Our manager stayed. Our club made loads of changes in the off-season while they couldn't even get the seats changed. Thinking they relegated us is the only positive they have.

I was going for more of which bars everyone else is heading into so I didn't sit like billy no mates slipping away in the Dog and Duck while 2,999 other fans partied down the street in the Fox and Hound.

After seeing the atmosphere last night I fancy trying to get to a couple of the away games. Apart from the ticket, are they buses, trains, skateboards you can book to travel on with other supporters or is it case of just making your own way? How do you know which bars to be in before the game?

The RTG witch trials! It turns out that the new Sunderland Echo reporter maybe a Mag; some of them are already collecting wood for the pyre. "The Sunderland writer for the mag should be one of us or support somebody else other than the skunks. It's laughable." http://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/new-sunderland-echo-reporter-apparently-a-mag.1276057/page-4

I'm almost sure I've seen something which said as part of the loan he couldn't.

Radio coverage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/5livesportsextra

I'm still not convinced Essembee isn't a RTG troll...

All the excuses I've heard from SAFC fans defending what happened at their club.

Bah! - She knew what she was doing - She was asking for it - She's blackmailing him - Even though he pleaded guilty; he's done nothing wrong - Scumberland didn't do anything wrong because he's innocent until proven guilty - One of your fans punched a horse!

I don't think he'll leave but I'm sure he'll pick up an injury before Christmas and that will leave them right in the shit.

I still worry every time the ball goes into our box because Sels never seems to be able to catch it. Every save he makes seems to be punching the ball in some random direction, even those which are coming straight at his chest, and I would be thought he should be getting hold of it and killing the attack.

This. So much of this. Last season the teams at the top of the Championship lost around 5 games all season. We can't afford to be walking away from games with nothing.

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