Sunderland board reflecting NSC?

Icy Gull · Jul 29, 2014

I was just having a nose on their board and was struck by two things

1) They too are bed wetters

2) Gus seems to have swapped one ceiling for another

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/concerns-for-the-season-ahead.947372/

Badger · Jul 29, 2014

Have they also got loads of threads about their ex-managers?

MattBackHome · Jul 29, 2014

I saw Gus' comments earlier today and my first feeling was absolute relief that he's not here anymore.

Transfer windows are tricky things and you don't need him saying stuff like: "I'm waiting and waiting which is not nice".

spring hall convert · Jul 29, 2014

Icy Gull said:
2) Gus seems to have swapped one ceiling for another

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/concerns-for-the-season-ahead.947372/

Unless you are Real Madrid or Barcelona, that's all you ever do isn't it?

MattBackHome · Jul 29, 2014

Badger said:
Have they also got loads of threads about their ex-managers?

Yep.

Gazwag · Jul 29, 2014

I think Pure Football should be split into two forums for the bed wetters and the happy clappers and each of us should decide which one we want to join.

They are really just copying NSC thread by thread

dingodan · Jul 29, 2014

They haven't said there loose yet

Icy Gull · Jul 29, 2014

I like this one too, some very familiar gifs I it.

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/post-a-gif-that-sums-up-our-transfer-window-thus-far.947388/

keaton · Jul 29, 2014

MattBackHome said:
I saw Gus' comments earlier today and my first feeling was absolute relief that he's not here anymore.

Transfer windows are tricky things and you don't need him saying stuff like: "I'm waiting and waiting which is not nice".

Like Sami's saying you mean?

portslade seagull · Jul 29, 2014

keaton said:
Like Sami's saying you mean?

Something like that but we have now had a letter from PB so it is all ok again

MattBackHome · Jul 29, 2014

keaton said:
Like Sami's saying you mean?

Precisely the opposite.

I also like the fact that a few on there reckon that Ronaldinho could do a job.

London Irish · Jul 29, 2014

Gus built the strongest squad we've seen at the Amex. A push-over manager like Oscar began the process of weakening it. Hopefully Sami will be more of a Gus than an Oscar

perseus · Jul 29, 2014

Icy Gull said:
I was just having a nose on their board and was struck by two things

1) They too are bed wetters

2) Gus seems to have swapped one ceiling for another

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/concerns-for-the-season-ahead.947372/

I just had a look at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/14539094

What a good team they had and what a naff team we had on the night.

Icy Gull · Jul 29, 2014

London Irish said:
Gus built the strongest squad we've seen at the Amex. A push-over manager like Oscar began the process of weakening it. Hopefully Sami will be more of a Gus than an Oscar

Harsh, of course Gus built the strongest team, he was given loads of money to do so and wanted out as soon as he was told the gravy train had stopped. Oscar had his best player and Barnes sold from under his nose, the worst injury crisis I have seen in 25 years plus of watching the Albion and was not backed in the transfer market. Don't let that get in the way of your bias though :smile:

I too hope we are in a position to give Sami a decent budget and only a blinkered fool would think Oscar had a competitive budget. Whatever Sami gets is still likely to be way way less than Gus was given.

Buzzer · Jul 29, 2014

London Irish said:
Gus built the strongest squad we've seen at the Amex. A push-over manager like Oscar began the process of weakening it. Hopefully Sami will be more of a Gus than an Oscar

We've only been at the Amex 3 years though and Gus had two of those and Oscar just one. Gus took us to 10th in the first season, 4th in the next with 75 points. Oscar, in his only season in the English game took us to 6th with 72 points. Gus's first season at the Amex we scored 52 and conceded 52. Under Oscar we scored 55 and conceded 40.

And according to Poyet he had hit the ceiling here so 4th was the best he could have got us. Oscar's first stab was 3 points less and two slots in the ladder worse than Gus's own self-professed best possible. And given this ceiling that Gus said exists, we would therefore still have lost the players that we did lose (Ulloa, Bridcutt). Would Poyet have strengthened the side with new signings? Possibly, but for every Ulloa there's a Sandaza, for every Bridcutt there's a Harley. And Poyet let Wood and Murray go, don't forget.

In short, I've no idea how you can say Oscar was a push-over manager who weakened the side.

Thunder Bolt · Jul 29, 2014

How do you let Wood go when he was a West Brom player on loan to us?

Buzzer · Jul 29, 2014

Thunder Bolt said:
How do you let Wood go when he was a West Brom player on loan to us?

The fact that this now premier league striker left us to go on another loan to another Championship side suggests that we could have kept him on loan at the very least. Poyet chose not to and broke the bank with CMS. A goal every 3 games wasn't too shabby a record compared with our record signing CMS who averages a goal every four games.

Thunder Bolt · Jul 29, 2014

Buzzer said:
The fact that this now premier league striker left us to go on another loan to another Championship side suggests that we could have kept him on loan at the very least. Poyet chose not to and broke the bank with CMS. A goal every 3 games wasn't too shabby a record compared with our record signing CMS who averages a goal every four games.

Poyet was asked about Wood in an interview, the following season, and said he wasn't given the opportunity to take him on loan again. It was up to West Brom who had the loan.

Wood had a good spell with Millwall but hardly set the world alight at Birmingham or Leicester.

Buzzer · Jul 29, 2014

Thunder Bolt said:
Poyet was asked about Wood in an interview, the following season, and said he wasn't given the opportunity to take him on loan again. It was up to West Brom who had the loan..

You got a link for that anywhere?

Thunder Bolt said:
Wood had a good spell with Millwall but hardly set the world alight at Birmingham or Leicester.

Ulloa 23 goals in 50 games (2.2 games a goal)
Wood at Birmingham 11 goals in 29 games (2.6 games a goal)
Wood at Leicester 19 goals in 53 games (2.8 goals a game)

That's just 4 goals less in 3 more games than Ulloa who, by all accounts, had a superb time at the Albion. Wood played 26 games last season for champions Leicester. It seems that the Leicester manager thinks that he's doing okay. The cold hard stats back this up too.

Thunder Bolt · Jul 29, 2014

Buzzer said:
You got a link for that anywhere?

Ulloa 23 goals in 50 games (2.2 games a goal)
Wood at Birmingham 11 goals in 29 games (2.6 games a goal)
Wood at Leicester 19 goals in 53 games (2.8 goals a game)

That's just 4 goals less in 3 more games than Ulloa who, by all accounts, had a superb time at the Albion. Wood played 26 games last season for champions Leicester. It seems that the Leicester manager thinks that he's doing okay. The cold hard stats back this up too.

This was at a Fans Forum. I would imagine you could find it on Nsc by doing a search. Try searching for West Brom to narrow it down.

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