Search results

For god's sake, please nobody mention 'Black Cats' again or we'll have that Sunderland weirdo on here again...

Remains to be seen. Most people said similar about Sheffield United last season & Burnley the season before, both were long odds to win the league (and both netted me some nice money 😁) The point is, unless the points deduction is absolutely huge (which it won't be) what's to stop them just...

It's not an unreasonable point given the gulf between the parachute payment clubs & the rest. Sheffield United would have needed to have 25 points deducted to miss out on the top 6.

Very sad news. Genuine trailblazer. ☹️

Frozen out by Lampard at Everton who refused to even speak to him. He is married to Marcus Hall's daughter though...

Terrific player. The stick he used to get was embarrassing.

What are you basing that on? He is appalling in the air. He rarely even attempts to jump for headers, just backs into defenders & often fouls them instead. Simms won 41.8% of his aerial duels last season (82nd percentile) Riis won 30.3% (14th percentile)

Nobody said that. I said you adopted the nickname recently as you didn't have one, as you have just agreed with. The history of being associated with a black cat may well go back a hundred years but even your own fans, historians, journalists etc. can't agree as to why.

Agreed. He's one I've liked for a while. Too rough around the edges to go straight into a Championship promotion chaser & on a very long contract at Barnsley though so would be expensive.

Still bought their success with a €658m wage bill, by far the biggest in Europe. I think it's fair to give Luis Enrique tons of credit though, as you say he's turned them into a proper team & an exciting one at that.

He's a very good prospect.

Not convinced on Riis personally. I think he's a good Championship player & will be a decent pickup for someone but I don't think he's a good fit for what we need. He's at his best pulling wide & then driving in at goal, not dissimilar to Wright & BTA (or even Gyokeres). He cannot operate as...

Everyone knows where our nickname comes from & it's significance to us, that's the whole point of a nickname. There are dozens of conflicting stories about yours &, from the very article you have copied & pasted there: "In fact nobody knows for sure why the team are called the Black Cats"...

If you stick a release clause in somebody's contract I don't think you can really get too pissy if another club chooses to trigger it. It's not like a backwards move either, he's leaving a L1 side to be manager of Schalke!

I've got an appointment with Haji Wright's barber. I'm dreading it.

If we'd initially got him on a permanent it could have been very different I think. There was obvious talent there but some huge deficiencies that needed coaching. I feel like we would have been the type of club to get the best from him but as a loanee it's never the same dynamic.

On the flip side, we went to look at Anthony Gerrard & ended up with Scott Dann & Danny Fox.

It's a shocker for sure. Unfortunately, I'm not overly surprised about there being a really high profile error in the PL this weekend with 10 games played simultaneously. We simply don't have enough quality, experienced referees.

I'd be very disappointed if Lewis was a realistic option. Had 2 terrible loans at Watford & Sao Paolo who both declined options to sign him permanently.