Chris Coleman to take over at Sunderland | TheReligion: "Think he'll do well. Quote me." | Sacked

[FootballHQ]

Sunderland will struggle to get another 5 points this season. You'll need at least 45 points to survive in championship.

That club is broken. Maybe they'll bottom out in league one like so many but really Ellis Short needs to give them away.

Coleman going there is one of the most baffling managerial decisions in last few years. If he'd waited even another week he could've been in contention for the West Brom and Swansea jobs.

 

[TheReligion]

very good

 

[FujiVice]

You need to watch Sunderland's keeper and defenders. It's unreal. Nobody knows how to jump. They're a frighteningly shit side.

Look at these goals, man.

 

[Paxi]

My word thats non league level defending right there.

 

[77]

They were dad's team, I've been to Roker Park several times and always almost had a good time there. But I wouldn't be arsed a bit if they dropped down again. Stuff em

 

[Paxi]

@TheReligion have you seen the thread tittle?

 

[haram]

What a miserable way for O'Shea to end his career .

 

[FujiVice]

O'Shea's been at Sunderland for 7 years. That's crazy to me. Considering he made his first team debut for us in 2002 and left in 2011. He's been there so long.

 

[TheReligion]

@TheReligion have you seen the thread tittle?

I've seen what you've been upto. I won't forgot this.

 

[12OunceEpilogue]

You need to watch Sunderland's keeper and defenders. It's unreal. Nobody knows how to jump. They're a frighteningly shit side.

Look at these goals, man.

Garbage. I'm sure they're not the very best players in the world but that goes beyond indifferent levels of footballing skill to a lack of basic effort and desire. Coleman must be devastated that he couldn't stop the rot and that he's blotted his CV with this after the high of his Wales experience.

 

[Acole9]

He wouldn't have got a Premier League job, his club record is unremarkable, apart from possibly Fulham. My mate is a Sunderland fan and has nothing but good things to say about the guy.

 

[Robbie Boy]

Thought he would be shite and yeah he has been.

 

[Ramshock]

Surely somebody can buy them and try to rescue them? Id never forgive them for the poznan but still i hate to see a club like that suffer.

 

[Ducklegs]

Surely somebody can buy them and try to rescue them? Id never forgive them for the poznan but still i hate to see a club like that suffer.

Theres nothing in it for them is there?

Unless you are inordinately wealthy to the point of not caring if you flush the best part of half a billion quid down the shitter to get a promotion to the prem and stay there playing fancy football then the fans are not going to turn up and would rather spend their time calling you a cnut and demanding you sell the club to an even bigger idiot with an even bigger indifference to loosing hundreds of millions of pounds.

I mean, just look at sunderlands attendances as well, if i turned out and saw 3/4 of the stadium empty because a bunch of fat smoggies thought i wasnt good enouh not only would I not try, i would bang a couple of oggies in as a feck you to them just for good measure.

Bunch of moaning delusional twats the lot of them.

 

[Massive Spanner]

it wouldn't be like TheReligion to prematurely claim something and be completely wrong.

 

[Ramshock]

Theres nothing in it for them is there?

Unless you are inordinately wealthy to the point of not caring if you flush the best part of half a billion quid down the shitter to get a promotion to the prem and stay there playing fancy football then the fans are not going to turn up and would rather spend their time calling you a cnut and demanding you sell the club to an even bigger idiot with an even bigger indifference to loosing hundreds of millions of pounds.

I mean, just look at sunderlands attendances as well, if i turned out and saw 3/4 of the stadium empty because a bunch of fat smoggies thought i wasnt good enouh not only would I not try, i would bang a couple of oggies in as a feck you to them just for good measure.

Bunch of moaning delusional twats the lot of them.

The fans might be twats but its a pretty sizable club with surely some wealthy followers.

 

[Ducklegs]

The fans might be twats but its a pretty sizable club with surely some wealthy followers.

There probably are, but like i said unless they can fund a ludicrous spending binge then there is absolutely nothing in it for them.

 

[Ramshock]

There probably are, but like i said unless they can fund a ludicrous spending binge then there is absolutely nothing in it for them.

then why does anyone buy a football club?

 

[Vault Dweller]

I went to University at Sunderland and I also had my graduation ceremony at the Stadium of Light. It's a brilliant stadium in my opinion, and despite how they behaved to us when City won the league, I'm disappointed for them and I don't like seeing them being so poor and fading away. Not many will share my sentiments, but I would like to see them back in a good position and on good footing soon.

 

[unchanged_lineup]

I went to University at Sunderland and I also had my graduation ceremony at the Stadium of Light. It's a brilliant stadium in my opinion, and despite how they behaved to us when City won the league, I'm disappointed for them and I don't like seeing them being so poor and fading away. Not many will share my sentiments, but I would like to see them back in a good position and on good footing soon.

I share that too. I enjoyed going to matches there when I lived over there and have friends from there.

 

[FootballHQ]

O'Shea's been at Sunderland for 7 years. That's crazy to me. Considering he made his first team debut for us in 2002 and left in 2011. He's been there so long.

Even more crazy, he was out of contract last summer and they gave him a new deal.

Guy was finished years ago, at least Wes Brown knew when to bow out.

 

[Cristiano Lell]

it wouldn't be like TheReligion to prematurely claim something and be completely wrong.

Are you saying Jesus didn't die for my sins and I won't live forever in heaven after my death?!

 

[Vault Dweller]

I share that too. I enjoyed going to matches there when I lived over there and have friends from there.

Yea same, my friends who still go to the games do so out of love for the club but they are so depressed about the whole situation, and it's a shame to see. I really hope they can sort themselves out.

 

[Crashoutcassius]

They'll bounce back but hope it doesn't take too long. I think years of negative stuff at these clubs eventually takes its toll on the mood around the whole club. Think like Swansea who usually try to play football and the mood is just so much better

 

[FujiVice]

Even more crazy, he was out of contract last summer and they gave him a new deal.

Guy was finished years ago, at least Wes Brown knew when to bow out.

He's got no mobility. He's only 36 as well. Dont think he's had any long term injuries and he was used sparingly throughout his 20s. You'd expect him to have held up a lot better than he has. He cant jump, cant run, cant do anything. It's a shame.

 

[Lay]

I hope they go down. I enjoy reading their forum although of late its just them accepting they're laughable

 

[Vialli_92]

Strange to see Coleman go there

I'm sure he had to have had better options than Sunderland that wouldn't have knocked his career like the Sunderland job

 

[Nick7]

I hope they go down. I enjoy reading their forum although of late its just them accepting they're laughable

Pretty sure they've been like that since Moyes took over and bought Donald Love to throw straight into the first team.

 

[FujiVice]

My question is, out of all those fans who celebrated when we lost the league, are any of them even going to the games anymore? It looks like a Church jumble sale at the minute. And they've announced that as of next year, they're closing their Premier Concourse Stand, to save money on staff and because they expect even worse gates next year.

I can see this club heading to League 2 eventually. They'll probably have worse players next year.

 

[MAME DIOUF 32]

O'Shea's been at Sunderland for 7 years. That's crazy to me. Considering he made his first team debut for us in 2002 and left in 2011. He's been there so long.

He found his level and has stayed there.

 

[Josep Dowling]

Sad state of affairs at that club. Been on the decline ever since they got rid of Martin O’Neill.

They’re in serious trouble as the North East clubs generally struggle to find new owners. It’s probably the last place in the country that foreign footballers would choose to play their football as well.

They need to copy Fulham, start using their youth more, get rid of the absolute dross in their team. The recruitment has been absolutely shocking.

 

[Stobzilla]

Sunderland will struggle to get another 5 points this season. You'll need at least 45 points to survive in championship.

That club is broken. Maybe they'll bottom out in league one like so many but really Ellis Short needs to give them away.

Coleman going there is one of the most baffling managerial decisions in last few years. If he'd waited even another week he could've been in contention for the West Brom and Swansea jobs.

Coleman will land well out of this I think, he is comparatively young enough and seems to have some well placed friends, pieces will be written about how it was a thankless task to "try and take on a poison chalice, the club is a mess, the manager can't be blamed" etc. etc.

 

[FujiVice]

Coleman will land well out of this I think, he is comparatively young enough and seems to have some well placed friends, pieces will be written about how it was a thankless task to "try and take on a poison chalice, the club is a mess, the manager can't be blamed" etc. etc.

I dunno.. His reputation was never better coming out of that Wales job. Taking the Sunderland job was either madness or he had no other offers on the table.

Think we might be seeing Peter Reid back at Sunderland next season.

 

[Mettaur]

Not his fault though when you look at the players he had and the lack of money they gave him.

Not sacking Jack Rodwell (remember when he was The Next Big Thing?) while selling their 2 decent keepers and buying 3 shit ones are suicidal moves for any club.

 

[Lay]

Not his fault though when you look at the players he had and the lack of money they gave him.

Not sacking Jack Rodwell (remember when he was The Next Big Thing?) while selling their 2 decent keepers and buying 3 shit ones are suicidal moves for any club.

Sacking Rodwell would cost them a fair bit and they can’t afford to do that.

 

[FujiVice]

Packed house today.

 

[spwd]

Bloody hell

 

[Minimalist]

Poor feckers.

 

[Hammerfell]

He’s absolutely rubbish, as anyone who looked at his club record could tell you.

 

[ti vu]

Harsh. He is stupid though to come to Sunderland in that state. When they were still in PL, it's already of those Russian roulette decision. In Championship, his reputation would be finished. All the hard work, achievement with Wales down the drain.

On Sunderland, wouldn't have happened to a nicer bunch.