Saint_clark

It doesn't matter why it happened, it was still the lowest point in my time supporting the club. This season, however bad it's been, doesn't come close because we have a decent chance of bouncing back next season. That season we went down from the championship there was a very real possibility the club would cease to exist.

Are you AI now or something? That is completely irrelevant to the point I was making.

Martins obsession with bearded, well groomed British "great lads" was fucking infuriating. It felt like he was trying to put a squad together that would be up for a lads Ibiza trip at the end of the season.

Relative though, isn't it. The season we got relegated from the Championship was worse, despite the fact we finished with 45 points. The day we lost at home to Forest 2-0 with multiple fights breaking out between Saints fans in the stands was the absolute low point of supporting the club for me.

Hell, you could add THB, THB and THB and get to 18.

True, but if we appointed Juric in the summer we'd be happy with that so we should be sticking with him now regardless. There's already been some positive adjustments to the team/style of play and we'll probably see a few more before the end of the season.

We had no such problem under Adkins last time. He even tried being a bit TOO ruthless and dropped Lambert for Rodriguez first game of the season.

Our crossing is improving. Brees ball in for Bednarek was brilliant, it's the main reason i'd stick with him next season in the Championship.

The key is being more ruthless when we DO go up. The likes of Armstrong and BBD we KNOW can't do it in the Prem, so when they bang in 20 each next season, sell them on for £15million each to a promotion chasing championship side and put that £30million towards a proper striker in the Prem for £40million.

Would make sense. We've accepted relegation now, get some money in for him, possibly consider selling Dibling if he's not going to extend his contract and we can get a bit more now than in the summer, hold all the money back for summer transfer budget.

Just watching the 3rd season of Sunderland till I die, Stewart features heavily. Any updates on him? Is he 2 weeks away? Do we reckon he might actually be useful for us next season?

Yeah he was out the team a long time but I think he came back in later and actually made himself quite vital to an upturn in form.

Yeah fair enough, I did type out a different response but changed it so maybe I should have removed the quote.

Exactly. It's why I'd keep Bree as well, a right back solid defensively in the championship and with a good cross on him. Very much in the Danny Butterfield mould.

Don't know why you expected that of Armstrong, he's never scored more than 2 Prem goals in a season. Archer probably would have 5 if he'd started every game. Inexplicably dropped after he scored earlier in the season.

We won't be overhauling the entire squad and it would be silly to try and do so.

Fucking hell...

I noticed that. Thought I was going to get lynched when I brought it up.

Armstrong and Fraser? 😂

Would start Onuachu here as even though I don't think he'll have much success against Burns and Botman, I'd rather a quicker forward like Sully or Archer coming off the bench fresh when those two are tiring/complacent. Onuachu also does deserve the benefit of a start after getting his first goal.

We lose the midfield a lot because our only proper centre midfielder is Flynn Downes who is an above average championship player at best.

Send him back to Pompey to properly condemn them.

Is there even such a thing as an illegal approach for a manager? I know you technically need the clubs permission to speak to players (where did that rule go the last 10 years?) but I don't think such a rule exists for managers.

Looks decent. Hopefully we give him a decent chance and don't just give him 15 minutes here and there, then write him off when he isn't instantly a world beater in a much harder league.

What? Shaw didn't play a single game for us in the Championship.