Sunderland 'Til I Cry: EFL and beyond 19/20

He's the feller to please, never mind all the rest,

For he's with you clear up to the end,

And you've passed your most dangerous, difficult test

If the guy in the glass is your friend.

It looks like the truly massive Sheffield club are about to hire Monk. Odd choice considering his corrupt transfer dealings at previous clubs are following him like a bad smell.

ffs Neil Harris is current fav for Town. Can't be having another p/t London manager who is allergic to fresh air. and paying compensation for a pretty uninspiring looking manager would be terrible business.

next manager odds-watching is so futile but addictive. Those Cowley brothers from Lincoln City are favs again. Allegedly some pro-gambler whale has put a large sum on them and there have been other whispers. After that Neil Harris scare I have lost all the reservations I initially had about them.

it's definitely Cowley now!

our new management team the Cowley brothers are ex PE teacher siblings who seem quite earnest and naive, albeit with a very good management cv in the lower leagues and recently L2 as well.

Concord: 3 promotions in 6 years to Conference South. Reached the FA Cup first round

Braintree: Took them to their best ever position, a part time team, 3rd in conference. Took them to first round FA Cup first time

Lincoln: 2 promotions in 3 years. Won EFL trophy. First non league team to get to FA cup quarter finals

apparently they have cost us £1.5 m. Like the cut of their jib so far.

I feel like the footballing gods of fate are getting ready to take a big dump on us tbh. But see how it goes.

First non league team to get to FA cup quarter finals

Wait till the ILXSpurs contingent log on...

IME the Crowley’s are admired for their success but not really liked for footballing style (Lincoln played hard and agricultural but had the gamesmanship turned up to maximum, I like to see big strong effective teams but it irks me when those same players crumple as soon as they’re breathed on). The brothers themselves use pre-Zen Warnock approach to touchline behaviour, continually screaming at the officials for no obvious reason.

That said, they did brilliantly for Lincoln, most importantly by cultivating a real sense of togetherness between club, fans and the community more generally. Hope that works again at Huddersfield because when it works it’s the best thing.

Haha Cowleys, I might not love them but they’re not Great Beasts.

satanic lols! I think at the moment a lot of the fans would take some ugly wins. But after Wagner as a long term project I'd prefer to see more of the hard pressing, high tempo style he brought before he lost faith in his methods after a few prem maulings. Even if it meant there wasn't some instant turnaround in results from it. Hopefully having a budget beyond anything they've had before (bolstered by flogging some of our overpaid wasters and parachute payments) and a transfer window might lead towards a more positive approach.

Flores has spent most of the second half sitting in his dug-out. TV pictures have just shown him shaking his head repeatedly

heh heh! the nightmare is real alright

lol wrong thread

The joy of articles like this is only fleeting, I know, but I think it's important to savour it while it lasts

https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/plymouth-argyle-exeter-city-lowe-3349365

(If you're disinclined to click on that link to a boring link to an ad-splattered hellsite, it's an article in which Plymouth's new manager recognises that the snot army are especially sad about their team's mediocre start to the season because ECFC have had a very good start to the season, goes on about it a bit and then says its irrelevant and how he doesn't want to talk about it.)

(I am not being entirely fair.)

lol West Ham

me and my big mouth

god watching Stoke drown is enjoyable

Genuinely can’t remember the last time I saw Butland play and he didn’t give away at least one goal.

"£35m... is that for one glove?" Lambert said.

"The way the modern market is you might get one glove for that."

"I know the people at Wolves, but that will get Jack’s right-hand glove!"

Have. It.

:D :D :D

hah! eat it white shite!

let's see if this soft as shit group of serial losers can cut it on a cold wet Tuesday night in Stoke.

ah, the hell game

https://www.college.columbia.edu/core/sites/core/files/styles/large/public/images/gustave_dore_dante_cocytus_traitors.jpg?itok=R9yv2Xgf

In hell Kachunga will have to watch that miss of the season of his on a loop forever

every game has been a hell game for a long time now.

what a load of shite, but hey a win is a win! Nathan Jones will be gone by dinnertime.

only a few points behind Millwall, keep it going now

You won?!?!? Woohoo

What a shame for Stoke and their fans

it was a resolute but mostly awful performance for lovers of the game - we've played 10 times better and got absolutely nothing multiple times in the last 18 months. i'll take an ugly shithousing bastard of an away win at Stoke on a cold tuesday right now though!

FC United 5-0 up after just half an hour against Buxton.

Roll over Kasper Schmeichel, WILL. JAASKELAINEN. is in town, and Crewe are top of League Two

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50084290

ashamed to say I absolutely aced this white shite quiz

lol

i got 9. forgot about the existence of peter lorimer

hard to forget the answer to one of the questions after being escorted/separated from a bunch of them on a train by british transport police after we'd just won a first leg L2 playoff game against Lincoln City and they'd been relegated from the prem after 4-0 mauling at early KO at Stamford Bridge.

some Nostradamus shouted "Welcome to the football league lads, you'll get used to it!"

an absolute amazing reaction save by our rookie keeper followed by a total howler of a follow up miss of the season candidate, so I'll take a point against this shower of shite.

x_x

Ouch

After a couple of terrible results, we clock up our biggest derby victory against the snot since 1925, apparently.

6 games unbeaten inc 3 wins, we have our first guaranteed 25 a goals a season striker since .. erm Pawel Abbott. Yet we still are absolutely awful to watch at times... but staying up is on again. Need to ditch Elphick fast, he's an old laggard well past his best and with too many dumb mistakes in him.

Sunderlol

You may not love to see it but I sure as hell do.

https://www.pafc.co.uk/news/2019/october/argyle-apology/

national league north fixtures today wiped out by the rain, only 3 out of 11 matches were played

congrats Tim!

My only regret today is that there’s a roof on our away end nowadays.

^^lol

i note that exeter are in the promotion places, kiu