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    Taking the Knee

    Even if she still takes the knee twice a season, it’s better than nothing 🙂
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    CBS issues

    Will be absolutely gutted if this is off. First time back in the Uk since summer 2019 and first game since Sunderland 1-1 in 2018. Timed this trip especially for 1st home game of the season and it’s going to get scuppered by Wasps and the Rugby equivalent of 5 a side footy. Desperate to see us...
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    Jake Bidwell

    I’m not a fan of it. Seems counter intuitive to me to try and win a game in half the time available. Think he likes to try and take the sting out of games, especially away from home but it puts the team under a lot of pressure when games are always tight first half and we’ve needed a lot of...
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    Jake Bidwell

    The issue isn’t with Bidwell as a footballer. He’s a solid Championship level player. It’s his skill set as a LWB within the formation we play. You can’t have two defensive minded wingbacks in a 3-5-2 that also has two sitting midfielders and play expansive attacking football. It either needs...
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    Retrospective action

    Didn't think they could if it had been spotted by the ref and addressed at the time by the yellow, but not 100% on all the rule changes for this season.
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    Match Thread ⚽️ Sunderland vs Coventry City Match Thread - Sunday 31st Jul

    Robins having a Partridge moment trying to get Tavares to listen. Fabio. FABIO. FABIO!!!
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    Match Thread ⚽️ Sunderland vs Coventry City Match Thread - Sunday 31st Jul

    Some pretty woeful blind hopeful crossing into the box this last 20 minutes
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    Match Thread ⚽️ Sunderland vs Coventry City Match Thread - Sunday 31st Jul

    Eccles has got to get backpost for that Gyokeres cross. 1-0 down with 20 mins to go and 1 player in thebox. Not like it was a fast counter.
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    Match Thread ⚽️ Sunderland vs Coventry City Match Thread - Sunday 31st Jul

    Hyam in a headlock and a blatant shirt pull on Fadz from that corner. Dunno how the ref can keep ignoring this stuff.
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    Match Thread ⚽️ Sunderland vs Coventry City Match Thread - Sunday 31st Jul

    Managed to push the Sunderland defence back 15 metres this half and now we're playing balls over the top...
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    Match Thread ⚽️ Sunderland vs Coventry City Match Thread - Sunday 31st Jul

    Too many games under Robins we try to keep things tight first half and then go for it 2nd half. I'll never understand why you'd try to win a game in 45 minutes when you could win it 90.
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    Match Thread ⚽️ Sunderland vs Coventry City Match Thread - Sunday 31st Jul

    Feel really sorry for Eccles, he's a fantastic player but I'm struggling to remember anyone getting so many things wrong in 1 half.
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    Match Thread ⚽️ Sunderland vs Coventry City Match Thread - Sunday 31st Jul

    Viveash screaming his head of trying to get them to pass and move a bit. Sunderland were always going to come out flying so not too surprised by the start. Would bring on Dabo and Palmer at half time. Whole defence is too deep, including the wingbacks and then the DMs are too close to the CBs...
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    Match Thread ⚽️ Sunderland vs Coventry City Match Thread - Sunday 31st Jul

    Always been like that here. They have the crowd noise right down and the commentary loud as fuck. Annoying as hell.
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    Match Thread ⚽️ Sunderland vs Coventry City Match Thread - Sunday 31st Jul

    Dunno how the ref hasn't booked Ballard for persistent fouling yet. About what i'd expect for a 55 year old wearing an alice band.
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    Match Thread ⚽️ Sunderland vs Coventry City Match Thread - Sunday 31st Jul

    Might as well change Hamer and Allen's positions now Hamer is booked. Allen isn't creative enough alone there, his style is running off players. Let him do Hamer's donkey work in midfield.
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    Match Thread ⚽️ Sunderland vs Coventry City Match Thread - Sunday 31st Jul

    Slovakian commentary just called Hamer a porcupine.
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    Match Thread ⚽️ Sunderland vs Coventry City Match Thread - Sunday 31st Jul

    Looking forward to welcoming the Black Cats back to the Championship
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    You’ll Never Walk A-loan

    Richie Partridge
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    Rotherham attendance

    Am actually back in the UK for this one. Currently working out the logistics of getting from Worcester to Coventry on a Sunday afternoon in the hope it's feasible. Hope the trains are available, reliable and that my parents will take my daughter. What could possibly go wrong? 😂