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Astounded by this. An absolute howler of a mistake. The club will regret this decision for a very long time.

Agree Chris. But I think the 5 at the back with Rudoni is a bust now and for me was never really a good thing. So we should move back to the formation this years intake we envisaged to be in.

There isn’t a more futile task than trying to predict results in the championship. The last two games are an absolute case in point. We aren’t in a relegation battle and nor will we be.

The pressure is not massive for Sunderland. That’s something just made up on here. For some it’s as basic as lose one = Robins out. It’s ridiculous.

I’m only referring to the final 20 minutes. The ball was never in our half

It’s interesting. For me, once we changed the formation we didn’t look much different than the first half v Luton. And many salivated over that. Agree the first half and some of the second was dire. But last half hour we did batter them.

65 mins too late for me.

In the same way we weren’t picking up any points from Luton or Boro?

Why do so many mistake an argument that says we aren’t in the midst of unfettered footballing Armageddon as excusing Robins? He’s having a non coherent spell of thinking. We’re suffering for it. But he’ll get it right. You’ll not find many people in any walk of life who get it right all the time.

Agree the tactics tonight were all wrong. Agree it was hugely disappointing. Disagree we only perform against 10 men. That’s just bollocks.

Exactly that. Surely over the last two seasons it’s been firmly established Sakamoto can only play wing and Wright (by far our best attacker) does best on the left side. Sometimes it’s very simple. Just play them there.

Hopefully the silver lining is we drop the ridiculous Rudoni at left wing back idea.

Thought Mason-Clarke looked OK. Do you want him to perform shuttle runs why the play is on the other flank?

Ridiculous argument. Once we sorted the formation we battered Derby. Shame it took 70 minutes to figure it out

Really disappointed with the tactical set up tonight. Derby were woeful. No need to play 5 at the back. If you do it has to be Torp in behind. But as poor as the first half was the overall scenario is nowhere near as bleak as some here are portraying. Derby parked the bus and got two rank goals...

Nah, we’ll probably go and win. Wrong formation tonight. Simple as that

Agreed, no need to go five at the back against a woeful team at home. Sakamoto plays wing or not at all. I actually thought the one small positive was EMC played with a bit of intent

Come on. We had zero ideas or intensity first half. Asante wasn’t the issue. It was that our most creative ball player was playing left back and our trickiest winger was playing amongst the giants bang in the middle of the pitch.

It’s really clear. You play Torp if it’s five at the back. Saka if it’s 4. Why is that so difficult for them to see. Personally I hope that’s the end of the five at the back scenario.

Dull.