Little anxious about this one. Wednesday will be all cocky after the draw with Leicester. Big ground and huge support.
We are flying high. Hope I am just being a negative nancy. Need to shut Bannon down. 
🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌

A familiar refrain. This time from Birmingham fans. 

“Conceding too many goals..can’t play out from the back..98% of goals conceded under Rooney tenure have come from blue’s trying to play out from the back..,can’t play that way..we are incompetent and cannot adhere to the you score 3 we’ll score 4 mentality..if that’s how blues owners want us to be then fgs get rid of WR and get keegan in”

2 hours ago, booth said:

And lost to Brum at the weekend. It's a funny old game.

🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌. I read the report. They will be all confident now. Barry Bannon is a handful. 

1 minute ago, Polky said:

Wasn’t great for my ticker tonight, but a win is a win! Some lovely play at the start of the first half, we blew them away.

Hopefully we can demolish Wednesday at the weekend.

They drew with Leicester tonight. Hope they haven’t found their sea legs just yet. 

48 minutes ago, B16Rover said:

No fancy bollocks? Hes had highlighter hair for half the season! 

 

Agreed though great sign of intent resigning Super Sammie!

You are talking about his brand not his product 😂

Sammie signed a new contract. Cheeky, committed, hard working, no fancy bolloxs just gets stuck in. And dedicated to the club. 

Love the guy. 

Wonderful result. Congrats to the team, the manager,  and our support. 
 

Whatever the merits of loans, the model of mixing our brightest with some wonderful young talent from the premier league is pretty smart.
Hill and Moran are growing every day in stature and value to us, and their clubs.
 

No wonder Premier League teams are happy to loan us their most promising. . 

4 minutes ago, Devon Rover said:

Whatever Ennis is being paid, he doesn't deserve it. 

Funny to see Mowbray justifying Dack  signing at length. We dodged a bullet there,  and he is more expensive. 
 

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/23945814.sunderland-tony-mowbrays-promising-bradley-dack-update/

7 hours ago, Waggy76 said:

You never know in football but I think you will be right ...

I think another dig at our crack recruitment team. 

13 hours ago, ben_the_beast said:

The lad is made of glass. Given he showed up unfit and also looks slightly on the heavier side I'm beginning to question how much commitment he has to maximising his potential. Putting in the extra yards, diet, playing through the pain on occasions.

Of course it could be that he's just been horrendously unlucky with injuries thus far, but for a player I had high hopes for he's been very underwhelming. 

I've a feeling this might be an 'Ayala two weeks' and we'll be lucky to see him this side of Christmas. 

My Plymouth mate warned me he was in the treatment room more than on the pitch. Surely to God we checked this stuff out. Not very well methinks. 

8 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

Fantastic result. Thought on the whole we played brilliantly across the pitch. Hill, Tronstad, Szmodics all outstanding. Thought Pickering, JRC, Britain, Dolan, Moran all had very good games.  

The two Whartons both really struggled imo. Scott just seems to keep doing daft things, including the madness of the challenge for the red when we were 3-0 up. Adam doesn't do daft things but his passing was really off it today. And thats been a theme for months. I suspect Adam will lose his place again to Travis who was superb when he came on.

On Leo... i hate judging early. But some of the basics really seem to be missing in terms of handling crosses, and while obviously decent with his feet he is repeatedly playing short passes into marked players which is suicidal. He needs to start catching crosses with authority and picking better passes out of the back asap.

 

Passing out of the back quicker. Meds to read the game as he catches the ball  

Should be alright now 

 Boot it up to Siggy

1 minute ago, Mercer said:

and, IMO, therein lies a huge problem.

Metaphorically, a little boy in a man's world

4 minutes ago, ItsRoverZ said:

Scott Wharton sent off!!! All stemmed from fucking his lacklustre fucking brother yet again!!!

Adam is a beautiful passer of the ball but ne is not the complete player. He lollops around and is not defence minded 

Red card. About to say I am still skittish. 

Woooooooo. Class passing. 

Tronstad and Moran quiet. It is still a lottery at  2-0

We will get screwed passing  out from the back. 

Oh I say. 

1 minute ago, bigbrandjohn said:

Surely to God ESPN plus knows the clocks went back over here. Push your Betamax button buddies. 

Panic over. Different panic. Nobody  to pass to upfront 

Surely to God ESPN plus knows the clocks went back over here. Push your Betamax button buddies. 

I was really hoping that Markanday would kick on after his injury but he looked lost.
Nothing worked for him and what good  positions he did get into the end result was poor. 

2 one on one opportunities taken and a penalty given and it is a different game. 

Good to play against top class competition to see who rises to the top and who doesn’t. 

Hill is class, Wharton had some nice touches but we simply can’t play the ball out from the back against premier league sides. Ironically Chelsea had the same problems. 

They should watch Arsenal in their training sessions. 

Truth is our squad has no depth and I am not sure that will improve in January. 

JDT will be off at the end of the season having completed two solid seasons building a young side to play attractive football. 
 

Passing out will have me passing out. We are not Arsenal.