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Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Gus hasn't exactly enjoyed the best of luck since joining Sunderland has he?
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
Ha, not a cat in hells chance... I have every confidence that even if Sunderland came in for our Ozzie, he would turn them down.
Barrel of Fun
Abort, retry, fail
In his 8 games in charge, they've scored 5 own goals and had three players sent off. #ShootingThemselvesInTheFeet
British Bulldog
The great escape
- Feb 6, 2006
- 10,896
I still think he'll turn it around and keep them up, Come January he'll have the chance to start bringing in his own players and as long as he keeps his hands off our players I wish him well.
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HellBilly
joeinbrighton
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Sunderland have now played all of Man City, Man United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Tottenham and Newcastle at home this season. That means their home games from here on in will mainly be against teams in the bottom half. Given that their performances at home have improved since Poyet took over, that gives them a decent platform to get themselves out of trouble, knowing all of their home games are eminently winnable.
7:18
Brighton & Hove Albion
you speak too much sense for NSC...
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
Because the teams in mid table or at the bottom have nothing to play for.
Brighton Mackem
Active member
This
Always love it why the Gus haters get all cheered up given they keep saying we should get over him. Who is it that hasn't got over him ?
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,186
It's starting to look a bit like Micky Adams when he first made it to the the promised land of managing in whatever the Premier League was called then - anything that could go wrong, did go wrong. GP will be fully aware of the writing on the wall if Sunderland get too far adrift from safety, and will take all necessary steps to distance himself from any responsibility for that position in order to safeguard what he sees as his reputation.
joeinbrighton
New member
No of course not. But surely Sunderland stand a better chance of picking up points more regularly playing at home to teams in the bottom half than against teams competing at the top that have better players. I can see Sunderland making the Stadium of Light a bit of fortress under Poyet, kind of in the way QPR kept getting wins at Loftus Road the second half of that season where they sacked Warnock and appointed Mark Hughes and stayed up on the last day of the season. They have played quite decently in games recently, but have tended to pay for a mistake or a bad break. Those sorts of things tend to happen more when you are playing stronger opposition.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
That's what we thought when we played Barnsley.
joeinbrighton
New member
Brighton seem to have a problem this season seeing off the teams at the wrong end of the table. Yeovil, Millwall, Barnsley and Sheffield Wednesday - 3 points from 4 games and 3 goals scored. By contrast, Burnley, Leicester, QPR and Reading - 8 points. Sometimes the problem against bottom end of table teams is if you don't score early against them, players and fans can get a bit anxious, the opposition put 2 banks of 4 behind the ball and are hard to break down and they then seem to nick a goal on the counter. I think the capacity for bottom to beat top on any given day is far greater, however, in the Championship than in the Premier League. There seem to have been more home wins in the Premier League this season than in recent years.
Paris
Well-known member
The worst thing that could have happened to Sunderland and Poyet was Pulis taking over at Palace....and it happened.
The Merry Prankster
Pactum serva
Very much so.
Brighton Mod
Its All Too Beautiful
Noticeably the pundits observed that the defence sat too deep and ' its no use having possession so much in your own half', hmmmm. I also noticed a lot of long balls being thrown forward by Sunderland. They should have lost by five or six goals tonight. Gus s football is not complicated.