settling down ready for the game at Tottenham. Me vs Smog Dane supporter wise. tbh both teams are doing better than expected thus far. Wasnt too confident without Cam this season but Allen has filled in well and MacCaffrey has been immense lately. I Predict a high scoring close game. Panthers to nick it .
I'm not sure it's that level but then I'm also not sure how comparable the situations are. The problems at Sunderland almost entirely derived from their owner's disappearing act. It had built up from years of just financially approving anything and then walking away and wanting out when it went tits up. A lack of stable management but consistent investment in rubbish.
Gibson has made similarly poor financial decisions in recent years but not at the point of wanting to walk away from them. Of course you can argue nobody is really taking responsibility as much as they could as very little s
That might well be the most gutted I've ever been after a game. Should have realised it wasn't going to be our night with all of the traffic problems getting to Sheffield. Even though the kick off was delayed there were still loads of us who missed the first half. I think there were Boro fans stopping off in pubs after parking up miles away from the ground so they could just watch it there. Very quiet drive back, I can remember it as if it was yesterday 😞
This is how I see us shaping up next season and approaching the window:
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Dieng / Glover / Brynn
Smith /Â AylingÂ
Van Den Berg / Fry /Â ?????
Clarke / Lenihan
Engel / BanguraÂ
????? / O’Brien / Howson
Hackney / BarlaserÂ
Forss / Jones
Azaz /Â ????? /Â GilbertÂ
????? /Â Silvera
Latte Lath /Â /Â ????? / Coburn / ?????
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Out/end of loan: Dijksteel, McNair, McGree, J Jones, Thomas, Greenwood, Hoppe
Ideally one or two of the strikers we bring in will be able to operate on the left wing too to give us more depth.
That would be 8 in including O’Brien and Ayling, although the 4th choice striker and additional centre back could be more developmental players, so there’s potentially only a first choice centre midfielder, striker (same level as or close to Latte Lath), left winger and a rotation attacking midfielder to identify.
Looking at that, Barlaser looks like he might not be needed if we brought in O’Brien and another. Same with Gilbert unless he can push on next season.
He’s a made to be a wing back sound defensively, quick but like you say he’s not a starter in top 6 team in my eyes his end product just isn’t thereÂ
Decent news on Jones. I like him. However, if we are going to seriously challenge next year for autos/top 6 then not sure he’s consistent enough or prolific enough to be our main starter on the right for the full season. He needs to add more goals and assists to his game. He’s good enough for a mid table side like for the most part we were this season, but top 6? Not sure. For comparison, Forss has the same amount of G/A in less than half the minutes Jones has played this year.Â
Another player I enjoyed watching last season & was looking forward to him stamping his mark on games but its been a poor stop/start season for him, along with his injuries with our present unbeaten run which he's played no part in it shows hes not as valuable as I actually thought, if he stays good, if he goes not an issue
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