Basically, I have always been interested in recording my thoughts on Sunderland football club, and allowing other fans to view and comment on them. Therefore I decided to do this and I hope that it takes off. I will keep it updated with writings everyday if I can.
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The management situation
Posted 15-04-2009 at 06:44 PM by safcrhys
Well, it has been a very strange season this one hasn't it? At the start of the season my biggest fear was losing Roy Keane to a club such as Manchester United, oh how times change eh?
Fast forward almost 9 months and we have a former Ressi coach incharge with no previous managerial experience. So just how has it come to this?
Well lets take a trip down memory lane shall we?
Go back to October the 25th at about 2:55pm and you will see the Stadium of Light faithful in massive celebration with the name of Roy Keane ringing around the stadium, Newcastle's miserable fans were segregated at one corner of the SoL and it looked as if the tide had finally turned in the north-east, there was only one way Sunderland were going and that was up while our bitter rivals looked set for a trip down to the Championship.
Ironically could this be the moment when Roy Keane was doomed? Sunderland lost the next game against Stoke City and then were thrashed the next Saturday 5-0 down at Chelsea, there were rumours that the team were dwelling too much on the victory over Newcastle, and had taken their eye off the ball.
Go forward just a month and the papers were announcing that Roy Keane had "taken Sunderland as far as he could" so he tendered his resignation to Chairman Niall Quinn, Sunderland had just been beaten 4-1 at home to Bolton and faced a trip to Manchester United next, Ricky Sbragia was ghosted in by Quinn while the board searched for a "world class manager".
Sbragia proceeded to almost nick a point from Old Trafford, then won his next to games against West Brom and Hull 4-0 and 4-1, could we have a gem of a manager of our hands?
After the 0-0 draw with Blackburn on Boxing Day it was announced that Ricky was permanent manager, too a mixed reaction of Sunderland fans. For some there was angiush that Quinn had a shortlist of world class managers yet he had chosen someone with no experience whatsoever, even I was somewhat sceptical, I usually try to remain positive.
Since then we have heard rumours that Ricky will be replaced in the Summer, however I seriously doubt that will happen, we look set to stay in the league but can Ricky attract players such as Cissé to the club? It may have been hard to turn Roy Keane down, but will it prove so difficult when potential transfer targets meet our current boss?
I think Quinn has dropped a blooper here and I think we should have tried to nick someone like Sven Goran Erikksson when we had the chance, anyway, while Ricky is incharge I will continue to lend my full support to the team and the club, especially for the huge game against Hull this Saturday.
Ha'way the lads!
Fast forward almost 9 months and we have a former Ressi coach incharge with no previous managerial experience. So just how has it come to this?
Well lets take a trip down memory lane shall we?
Go back to October the 25th at about 2:55pm and you will see the Stadium of Light faithful in massive celebration with the name of Roy Keane ringing around the stadium, Newcastle's miserable fans were segregated at one corner of the SoL and it looked as if the tide had finally turned in the north-east, there was only one way Sunderland were going and that was up while our bitter rivals looked set for a trip down to the Championship.
Ironically could this be the moment when Roy Keane was doomed? Sunderland lost the next game against Stoke City and then were thrashed the next Saturday 5-0 down at Chelsea, there were rumours that the team were dwelling too much on the victory over Newcastle, and had taken their eye off the ball.
Go forward just a month and the papers were announcing that Roy Keane had "taken Sunderland as far as he could" so he tendered his resignation to Chairman Niall Quinn, Sunderland had just been beaten 4-1 at home to Bolton and faced a trip to Manchester United next, Ricky Sbragia was ghosted in by Quinn while the board searched for a "world class manager".
Sbragia proceeded to almost nick a point from Old Trafford, then won his next to games against West Brom and Hull 4-0 and 4-1, could we have a gem of a manager of our hands?
After the 0-0 draw with Blackburn on Boxing Day it was announced that Ricky was permanent manager, too a mixed reaction of Sunderland fans. For some there was angiush that Quinn had a shortlist of world class managers yet he had chosen someone with no experience whatsoever, even I was somewhat sceptical, I usually try to remain positive.
Since then we have heard rumours that Ricky will be replaced in the Summer, however I seriously doubt that will happen, we look set to stay in the league but can Ricky attract players such as Cissé to the club? It may have been hard to turn Roy Keane down, but will it prove so difficult when potential transfer targets meet our current boss?
I think Quinn has dropped a blooper here and I think we should have tried to nick someone like Sven Goran Erikksson when we had the chance, anyway, while Ricky is incharge I will continue to lend my full support to the team and the club, especially for the huge game against Hull this Saturday.
Ha'way the lads!
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I agree with the gem thing after they 2 matches i thought things were looking up how he proved us all wrong
nice blogPosted 15-04-2009 at 06:47 PM by RAB SAFC 1879
