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Except west brom who showed plenty of ambution and just killed us with their normal game.

I didn't say teams that show ambition don't also cause us problems. Having said that WBA bypassed midfiled to powerfull strikers. Stoke do the same. Under Adkins we surpisingly hit it down the channels against Stoke and they didn't know how to deal with it. Wonder if we will do the same again.

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OTOH a draw doesn't really make much difference to us to be honest. a draw would still be good enough most likely as it is hard to see this Sunderland side beating Spurs at WHL.

 

The slight difference is that a draw tonight stops us to finish before Sunderland IF they win against us, lose at Spurs and if we then draw against Stoke.

If they lose tonight a draw against Stoke can be vital for us.

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Everyone, everyone, IF we go down, it is because we did not get more points or a better goal difference than 3 other teams! Not because other teams are doing what they need to do, trying to win football matches.

 

We will beat stoke and get a point next Sunday.... All will be fine! :)

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Acording to a few Sunderland fans there be without that Cellular and Larsson as well as Gardner Fletcher and Sess, if thats the case i fully expect at least a draw, if we lose to a team in the bottom 5/6 missing 5 regular starters its a disgrace specially if they have Bramble starting.

 

However Sunderland do look like they want this and i believe they will stay up, il take a draw there if Celluar and Larsson are available if not i expect 3.

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It's all well and good so many people coming on here saying how dire Stoke and Sunderland are, but the table suggests we are no better than them. Both will be very tough games

 

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I agree, but also worth remembering that these are two established premier league sides, while we've just come up.

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This game is woeful, absolutely the other side of the 'THE-PL-IS-THE-BEST-LEAGUE-IN-THE-WORLD' coin, if this had been a Championship game I'd have turned it off by now.

 

Sunderland were one of the most limited sides we have seen at SMS all season, parked the bus, their best players were Cuellar and O'Shea (both v good on the day) who did a job on RL all day long.

 

Stoke are typically niggly/physical with no shape or pattern, this game really is from the dark ages.

 

We have a two leg play-off against these two inadequates and need to win just one of those games to stay up.

 

Unfortunately we have hit our worst form of the season right at the wrong time.

 

I'm going on Sunday, can't wait, I've no doubt our players are up for it (see Spuds on Saturday when they made 90% of this forum's predictions look stupid) - I really hope Poch has a Plan B tho, we're not scoring goals and not really looking much like scoring.

 

I called it 0-0 or 1-1 last week and seen nothing since then to make me change my mind.

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