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

Just heard that Peter Whittingham has died. Fuck

oh god :(

Nothing confirmed yet so hopefully just a horrible rumour

Spread like wildfire if it is

Still shit news but not dead:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51928263

Glad the story was wrong, hope he makes a full recovery.

Gone now :(

No love for Cardiff but he was a baller. RIP

This season expunged completely for all leagues below NLS Step 2.

Seems like the Prem, EFL and National League 1 & 2 want to complete the season and have asked permission to extend the season indefinitely. Goodness knows what happens to players' contracts, transfer windows etc.

Not terribly stoked for the madness.

The season that never ended

As far as I know nobody in NLN is in a position to finish it and presumably there's no relegation if the leagues below have already been told their league is void so no promotion.

because i need cheering up

Hooray! It's another goalmouth scram...

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Having spent most of the season in the top 3 in L2, we had a dip in form at the worst possible time and now the season's over we're in the weird playoffs rather than the auto slots (the only reason I care about this is because dirty Argyle managed to worm their way into the autos, the snotrags). All behind closed doors obv, but if we want we can pay £25 to upload a photo of ourselves to some website and they will manufacture a polypropylene cut-out to be placed in the stands to give an impression of a crowd. We get to keep our cut-outs, but the club can't help it if they're damaged. I'm half tempted as a way of bunging the club some case but I'm probably better just making an extra donation to the Trust.

The thought of picking up a cardboard cut-out of myself with half my head hanging off because it had been clattered by a Jake Taylor moonshot from the edge fo the box, such a feeling.

lol beautiful

if i'd got the money i thought of putting my dad in the fake crowd at Molineux, think he'd have enjoyed it

i don't suppose there was any good way of sorting out the broken leagues but i'm not happy with the ways they've chosen

I am not too bothered really - genuinely the only reason I'm bothered about going up is that being in League 1 would provide a one-division safety net for the next time we go tits up. Because of the way we're structured we just have to get used to watching teams piss past us while racking up millions in debt, which we can't do. Most of them will fail eventually but there seems to be an endless queue of rich tossers (at our level, mostly local rich tossers as opposed to the criminal classes higher up) who are happy to waste a ton of their cash on some small scale grubby financial doping. Even the dream of keeping ourselves going on good transfer windfalls (which is what's been fuelling or fairly decent run the last 3 or four years) has been taken away. So L2 or L1 is not that important, mostly it's about having a beer and a jump up and down.

(That last bit's not wholly true. The club's doing a lot of good in the community these days, which I'm pleased about obviously, but L2 or L1 doesn't make a whole heap of difference to that either.)

unlucky tim
good luck in the playoffs!

tim is yr cardboard cut-out watching this

Not in the ground. I have a cardboard cutout here at home to watch the game for me.

magnificent! if you reach the final you should design & print a collectible exeter squad imo

No point. If they were worth anything the premier league would steal them.

we paid u good money to train up your manager as a born winner iirc

oh wait it was a free transfer lol

Fully formed when he left, took us a while to fix him after he arrived back from Charlton IIRC.

i hadn't been aware he was involved in a successful playoff campaign for u as a player

and it wasn't us what spoilt him, it was the motley crew of cheltenhams he struggled thru before retiring obv

sorry i mean 'the likes of cheltenham' pax no returns

great keeping lol

He was in the team that thrashed Charlton 3-0 at yours (the Valley was pretty full that day because you made it v cheap to try to attract some fans for an unattractive game, heh).

football for a fiver! we usually screw those up

(The best team in our recent history met the worst team in yours that season, I suspect.)

(i think you are correct)

in the spirit of the zing, just noticed you are sponsored by a company that literally went bust!

Oh mate. A sponsor zing.

at least it isn't yet another betting firm lol

dodgy keeping at both ends, your lot kept in it by some serious atonement from the gentleman with a religious beard

good tie rly

other one seems a bit tasty too, will tune in now

Talking of men with religious beards:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53171423

So... this was a "crowdie"? Did someone pay £25 to install OBL on a seat at Elland Rd?

now that's value for money

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covid has completely saved us, got to say

when you hate Boro and their cunt manager but you hate Stoke even more

if last week was the death-blow to Hull then this week is the stake through the heart

Luton look like the ones to watch out for now, glad our GD is so much better than theirs

Saddled with a terrible owner, don't own their own ground, real trouble ahead

so are we going to see the red-and-white wembley playoff hoodoo defeated tonight

I don’t imagine so. Never know though, eh?

based on having seen the semis, exeter are a better and more controlled and classy side, but northampton have strong chaos energy which could prevail

I think that’s about right.

Possession
Home55%Away45%
Shots
Home6Away10
Shots on Target
Home0Away6

Cardboard cut outs sneaking out at half time etc

turn on the stream, northampton long throw causing chaos, exeter flowing passing move leading to nothing

football's a bastard

exeter player going through on goal slows, checks, bundles it out for a goal kick

northampton almost score immediately

exeter's keeper is having an absolute stormer

northampton get the first shot on target at the other end too, just for shits