Hasta

Put the ratings thing up. I want to allocate my first ever 1.

I mean, for that second goal it’s a carbon copy of the Millwall situation. The defender clearly has it covered but Pears comes out, only this time we see that he actually can’t deal with a standard long ball properly. Even then, his balance is shite as when the guy shoots he just falls over. For the third it’s a through ball from 10 yards inside their own half. This time it should be a simple claim for him to pick it up at the edge of his box, but he’s nowhere to be seen and Hirst doesn’t reach it till it’s about 14 yards from goal.

Piss weak defensively, especially in the defensive midfield positions. And a keeper who is totally unreliable and has been at fault for 2 and maybe could have done better with the other.

Pears hell-bent on proving all those people who said he wasn't at fault for that goal at Millwall complete and utter fools.

And does he accept this is a possibility? Does he even acknowledge all it will do is annoy existing customers?

Not one Rovers player complains. He just boots him.

JDT's actions speak louder than words. We desperately needed a goal and another striker last night and he didn't fancy him.

Last night clearly tells me JDT has looked at Telalovic over the 2 weeks he's been here and has him 5th on the striking pecking order. When people say "No signing is made without JDT's approval" I'm starting to doubt if that is fully the case. I suspect it was a case of "you either take this guy or nothing" approaching deadline week.

Dodgy as in it’s a stupid one to give away. It’s one of the clearest penalties we will see this season. When the ref gave it, the reaction of the Rovers players said it all.

That’s a common comment from fans of teams we play at Ewood. Everyone can’t underperform, it has to be something we are doing right. We tend to carve out a load of good possession and get in good positions and dominate long spells of games but can’t score. Rarely do teams look better than us at Ewood. We just struggle to turn it into results. Away from home we can be absolutely terrible though.

Who are you telling to wake up and smell the coffee? Is there any poster who sounds like they are disagreeing with you?

We missed a bucket load of chances and they scored from a daft penalty, a keeping error and giving the ball away at the back. It shows why we won’t be challenging this year, but watching it I don’t think you’d expect Sunderland to be top 6 either.

Exactly. We lost our shape and our way when we made the 3 substitutions and went without a recognised striker on the pitch. This despite Greg’s outcome to our summer striker search being sat on the bench. We were clearly the better side with our first 11 but as ever couldn’t take out chances. People are saying Wharton was bad because he wasn’t very good, but Garrett looked leagues below when he came on.

Greg Fraudton

Swansea -January 2021

I watched a lot of the game last night and thought Birmingham were unlucky. They seemed to have more chances and dangerous possession. It was a comedy Scott-Dann-like own goal which got Preston back into it. Preston may well be grinding out points as we did early last season which their performances don't really deserve.

Vince Grella looked like the Australian Roy Keane when we got him on the pitch.

Szmodics has to stay where he is. He scores goals by timing his runs well from deep. Having him up top with a defender permanently tight on him won’t suit. A lot of Dacks goals were more classic strikers goals than Sammy gets, and yet up top he was ineffective. You’ve got to rely on either Leonard or Telalavic tomorrow surely.

Didn’t he get dropped for precisely not doing that at Stoke away last season.

Sunderland fans reading this probably think you are joking.

Definite handball. He took the laces out of it.

Be aware it’s about 3 seconds delayed so you’ll know what happens from the crowd before you see it.

To be fair that was mentioned at the last fans forum meeting with the club, to which the representatives of the club replied that *checks notes* "they would take back the comments to the club" As far as those minutes read, the club didn't even say it was for cost saving measures. It was just because they could fit everyone in one stand.

About 6:32 on this video a great angle of the Pears save from O’Brien. On the tv highlights it looks like the hardly touches it, but here it is certainly going in.

1-2 now. This is a case of whose defence is shittest.