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I can vividly remember the Cov Tel headline “Gayle blows in”. Hmmmm, more of a gentle breeze.

A few through the years and also, not always the best players. Hormantschuk Regis Furlong Rosario Tabb Grimmer McDonald Clarke Eccles

We seem to have a lot of academy products who go out on loan and then just move on. You have to assume they aren’t good enough. Our youth set up hasn’t produced anything in years now.

I wonder if that’s actually the closest any team has come to relegation. Everyone thought it was in.

We made the play offs having been 17th in November. We didn’t struggle that much

Woodman as a back up to Dovin would be fine. I’d be disappointed if we lose Thomas-Asante. I think he could be a big contributor in the Championship.

I’m going with Marosi Christie McFadzean Hyam McCallum Hamer Kelly Maddison O’Hare Wilson Gyokeres

I must have been watching two different games. Don’t care about xg. But I can recall really good chances across the two legs for Wright, Sheaf, Rudoni, Kitching, Mason-Clark and Saka. Some multiple.

To be honest this not able to play against the low block thing is a fallacy for me. I think it’s more that we just weren’t quite clinical enough in lots of those games. Take both Sunderland games. We created lots of chances (beating the low block) but just didn’t take them.

The original great escape. Won the last three and survived a Stoke penalty that cannoned off the crossbar down onto the line. The margins don’t get finer. I’d not heard the Regis to Bordeaux thing before!

If we flip BTA for 3m odd and offload Simms we’ll need two good centre forwards for £6m. That’s a difficult ask. I’d keep BTA and have a 2-3m punt at a back up.

Not sure athletic box to box midfielders exist any more. The role has been carved up into several niche parts. I agree the key movement is Sheaf. Stick or twist. I think we may be forced to stick after this season but he’s a quality championship midfielder so it’s no bad thing., I’d be happy...

Wright 15 Simms 5 BTA 3. We should look to keep Wright and BTA

We’re so eager to do ourselves down. “When we won we still didn’t play well”, “other teams played better”. It’s total nonsense. Apart from a stand out like Leeds you’ll rarely see a walk over in the championship. You’ve got to get wins. But you can certainly do it without being Sunderland esque...

OK. We drew up there in the league. We beat them easily at home. For me we battered them in the second leg and made a huge mistake in the first. They will 100% be relegated and they will do it playing a style of football as entertaining as piles.

Poor for me. I include style of play in the assessment.

The low block is a tactic that wins the odd game but kills football. It’s a tactic employed in general by very poor teams such as Sunderland. I’d hate to have to watch it every week. It’s boredom personified.

Hope we don’t go anywhere near Championship targets, they tend to be poor value. Sheaf is the obvious move on. Short amount of contract left, role now covered by Grimes, still a semblance of reputation.

Sunderland probably the weakest team I’ve ever seen promoted.