I imagine it was because he was on a hattrick and Eustace bottled taking him off. After CB, #10 is our strongest position - we have about 5 players lined up to play there, but Szmodics is never subbed off.

We beat Ipswich with a less biased ref. Sunderland had Jobe Bellingham (a midfielder) leading the line today - they were toothless.

Yeah if you won't play him now the he has to be sold in the summer.

In the sequence of play that inspired that comment, Brittain gave him the ball - Markanday played him right back into trouble - Brittain gave him the ball back then Markanday got bullied and lost it 30 yards out to spark a Sunderland attack.

Dolan is the MOTM btw - the one game in ten where he looks really useful.

LOL Markanday is just shite.

We don't need them sneaking into the playoffs. That's a shocking loss for them.

We'll start a Go Fund Me page for your bar tab.

In an ideal world he palms it wide, but it's not a bad save - he's just a weak goalkeeper. In a way I'm glad he doesn't have a clean sheet to hang his hat on today 'cos he's been poor again.

I feel like Eustace has bottled it here - scared to take Szmodics off on a hattrick.

Markanday must have an appearance clause in his contract. How he gets so much game time is beyond me.

Jobe isn't a shadow on his brother.

This 3 points is big, but it's turned out to be massive with the number of shock results this afternoon.

If Gallagher put himself about, despite his lack of football skill, he'd be a handful at this level. Just look at someone like Ashley Barnes. I WISH he was known for being a dirty hard bastard.

Just enjoy a win for an afternoon, they're few and far between.

Their CB is literally getting bullied by Gallagher (throwing himself to the ground trying to get Gallagher sent off). He needs to have a word with himself, Gallagher is soft as shit.

We were good on Saturday too - it's just all clicked today in front of goal.

Moran on for Szmodics, Ayari on for JRC and Telalovic on for Gallagher. Carter on for Wharton if we feel he needs minutes.

He's 28 - he's not going to get any better. He's a handy squad player at this level.

This is where I take Szmodics off on the hour if it's still 3-0.

Incisive counter-attack goal. Gallagher somehow bundled it through a tackle (after he miscontrolled the ball), but laid off a nice ball for Hedges to confidently slot home from about 8 yards out.

It tells you how bad two consecutive managers must think Telalovic is, cos Gallagher is pretty much the first name on the team sheet when he's fit.

I don't think it's any surprise that with the much more athletic Chrisene replacing Pickering, Sunderland are no longer trying long diagonal balls over our LB.

He's a fantastic player at this level.

He's literally nailed to his line. They had multiple crosses in the first 15 minutes that he didn't even try to come and claim, which piled on the pressure for us. He was just in no-man's land for a cross that Bellingham was inches away from putting into the back of the net.