That lad is constantly injured.

He's a far more talented player than Dolan. Similar pace though.

Their manager was sacked before Christmas for a reason. Eustace is working miracles with out squad.

New manager bounce and they have a better squad than we do.

Baker got stuck in that Chelsea loan vortex for too long, but he's a quality player. Stoke had a change of manager and wanted rid of him, it happens. We're undoubtedly paying all of his wages so that's as good as a transfer for them.

To be fair there's nothing to do over in Sunderland.

2 points from the next 2 would be outstanding. Our season is about to hit the buffers I fear - injuries and fixtures piling up.

Based purely on the warm-up drills he's the best finisher at the club. He just has absolutely zero physicality.

It's disappointing that the least interesting prospect is doing the best on loan. I was hoping for big jumps by Garrett, Batty, O'Riordan et al. Markanday has already proven he's not good enough for the Championship.

Fantastic management to injure two of our players, leaving us down to ten men for twenty minutes. They should pull that one out more often.

It was a soft tissue injury (thigh? hamstring?) that they had no interest in risking despite the fact it'd send us down to ten men. He'll be out for most of (if not all) of this festive period. We have five games in a fortnight.

We started the game with Ohashi, Gueye, ACD and Cantwell on the pitch. Short of throwing Hedges / Dolan / Leonard on for one of the two CMs we literally can't get more attacking than that with this squad.

Pace out wide please. The other option is a Premier League quality #9 with pace to do it all on their own, but I doubt anyone is going to sell / loan us one of those. Gueye and Ohashi get no service at all.

I'm flattered you pay so much attention to my posts. If you could explain where the ref got 8 minutes from today I'd be much obliged. Or why he refused to book any of their players that'd be lovely.

What did Gueye do wrong?!

They didn't deserve anything - a draw was a fair result. Under absolutely no pressure until we went down to 10 men. ACD and Weimann should have taken their chances - you always leave yourself open to a soft goal if you don't.

Not with this run of fixtures we won't.

Yeah that was coming - 20 minutes with 10 men was too much. No idea where the ref got 8 minutes from, he's the main character today.

8 minutes of injury time is absurd.

Weimann next to Tronstad.

A horrible start to the festive season for us if we've lost Pickering and Travis for an extended period of time.

Well that's us needing a LB in the January transfer window.

They're scrapping for their lives - they haven't let us play. As I said pre-match I also wasn't confident that we had the attacking quality to put them to the sword. ACD missing that chance was criminal.

He gets kicked off the park every week.

LOL this ref doesn't actually have a clue.