Sincilbanks
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Well he only played one game....
TJ on the other hand also had to play with two keepers!
Actually I meant over the course of the season...
Well he only played one game....
TJ on the other hand also had to play with two keepers!
Bit late to the party but what a season, bloody hell.
I didn't think we'd get 90 minutes out of Walsh but it was a surprise McGrandles wasn't in for Scully. Going there with four up top and Grant in CM was a little risky but no surprise we settled better when we made the HT double change. Walsh improves us no end at the back.
Poole reminds be a bit of Tom Miller in the sense that he's not the tallest but had a good spring on him.
I think it was picked up in the first leg but Hopper works a back four, brings others into play and is willing to work for a chance yet Wyke relies on McGeady or someone putting it on his head. Hopper a far better all round player at this level despite the latter scoring more goals. So selfless.
What a shock to see a January signing perform much better in a new season.
You have to feel for Bramall a bit, not getting a single minute in either play-off semi, when he was getting a regular run of games before that.
No he's not, he's shit.Poole's possibly the best header of a ball in the entire squad. I think he's going to be a cracking player for us and I have been very impressed with him of late. You have to feel for Bramall a bit, not getting a single minute in either play-off semi, when he was getting a regular run of games before that. Not that we needed him in the end, though.
I see it's Clive baiting time!Clive will be here any moment...
I see it's Clive baiting time!
Black dog!You're just a small fish in a big Poole, Clive.
I see that LJ is complaining about the penalty call in the first half. He suggests that the play offs should employ VAR.
Perhaps they should - we would probably have been awarded a penalty in the first leg and maybe gone into the second leg three up...
Wyke's chance was a bigger miss than the penalty shout, as was his missed follow up when McGeady hit the post
I noticed in the build up to both games that their local press don't half but lots of repeat articles out under different headlines. Once you've read one, you've read twenty.A lot of this is driven by the Sunderland Chronicle looking for click bait. There is also another article on there from not long after the game quoting two people saying that "you've seen 'em given, but it wud 'ave bin a soft one for me" and "he's not touched him enough for Stewart to go down".
At the end of the day, Wyke's chance was a bigger miss than the penalty shout, as was his missed follow up when McGeady hit the post, so perhaps the real complaint should be them being so hard up they had to employ a builder's labourer instead of a footballer as a striker.
Johnson just wants to deflect the loss away from himself. He can't blame the players because he told the chairman he could get them up this year, so he has to identify a villain to mask his own culpability.