John McCormick writes: I had this one pencilled in but circumstances have conspired to keep me here. Did I miss much? Pete Sixsmith will let me know in due course with a full match report. In the meantime, just after the final whistle he sends his seven words, no more, no less, to give us a taste of what’s to come:
Feb 21 2015 SAFC (0) 0 West Bromwich Albion (0) 0 An awful game that just oozed mediocrity
Feb 15 2015 FA Cup 5th Round: Bradford City (1) 2 SAFC (0) 0 Miserable and abject, leaves us relegation certainties … OR … And we thought Tuesday was bad? Disgraceful … OR … Worse than Brentford 10 years ago. Disgraceful … OR … Now free to fully concentrate on relegation
Feb 10 2015 SAFC (0) 0 Queens Park Rangers (2) 2 Didn’t you just know this would happen?
Feb 7 2015 Swansea (0) 1 SAFC (1) 1 * Had to be bloody Ki, didn’t it?
Feb 3 2015 Fulham (1) 1 SAFC (0) 3 Our quality showed in the second half
Jan 31 2015 SAFC (2) 2 Burnley (0) 0 Comfortable. All of a sudden pressure removed
Jan 24 2015 SAFC (0) 0 Fulham (0) 0: Inept selection – awful from beginning to end
Jan 17 2015 Tottenham Hotspur (1) 2 SAFC (1)1 *Useful Defoe debut ruined by familiar failings or, from Sixer: Other results make this defeat less damaging
Jan 10 2015 Sunderland (0) 0 Liverpool (1) 1 Selection and tactics raise questions about Poyet
Jan 04 2015 FA Cup 3rd Round: SAFC (1) 1 Leeds United (0) 0 Scraped through after a shocking second half
Jan 1 2015 Manchester City (0) 3 SAFC (0) 2 Opened up too easily for the winner
Dec 28 Aston Villa (0) 0 SAFC (0) *Just couldn’t break down 10 man Villa
Dec 26 SAFC (1) 1 Hull City (1) 3 A good Christmas spoiled by awful performance.
Dec 21 NUFC (0) 0 SAFC (0) 1 Four in a row brings Christmas cheer
Dec 13 SAFC (1) 1 West Ham United (1) 1 One point better than none. Tight game
Dec 6 Liverpool (0) 0 SAFC (0) 0 Ho ho ho: a well deserved point
Dec 3 SAFC (1) 1 Manchester City (2) 4 City’s hoodoo ended, aided by poor defending
Nov 29 SAFC (0) 0 Chelsea (0) 0*A performance to make Sunderland supporters proud or Could and maybe should have won it
Nov 22 Leicester City (0) 0 SAFC (0) 0 Two points lost rather than one gained
Nov 9 SAFC (0) 1 Everton (0) 1 A good point against a good side
Nov 3 Crystal Palace (0) 1 SAFC (1) 3*Sometimes a win is all that matters
Oct 25 SAFC (0) 0 Arsenal (1) 2 *Farcical errors lead to further foot shooting
Oct 18 Southampton (3) 8 SAFC (0) 0Total humiliation today. Players should be ashamed
Oct 4 SAFC (2) 3 Stoke City (1) 1 Duck broken but still some hairy moments
Sept 27 SAFC (0) 0 Swansea City (0) 0 Better performance but cannot finish teams off
Sept 23 Capital One Cup 3rd Round: SAFC (1) 1 Stoke City (1) 2 No Wembley date this March. Wasted evening
Sept 20 Burnley 0 (0) SAFC 0 (0) A thoroughly disappointing performance. Early optimism evaporating
Sept 13 SAFC (1) 2 Tottenham Hotspur (1) 2 Not quite sure how we managed that>
Jake invites support
August 30th: QPR (1) 1 SAFC (0) 0Terrible result, performance was not much better
August 27: Capital One Cup 2nd Round: Birmingham City (0) 0 SAFC (0) 3Not quite as comfortable as it sounds
Sunday August 24 :SAFC (1) 1 Manchester United (1) 1 Happy with the performance – and Gus’s style
Saturday August 16: West Bromwich Albion (1) 2 SAFC (1) 2 Larsson digs us out of a hole
6 thoughts on “Sixer’s Sevens: Sunderland 0 West Brom 0. The word mediocre just fits so nicely”
“Perhaps we have finally identified GP’s ” philosophy ” – reduce the opposition to such a state of boredom and catatonic apathy that they lose the will to win?”
Quite.
Much more of that William and some of us may lose the will to live.
Mediocrity is an improvement on recent displays
As boring and as sterile as it is, these draws will probably JUST keep us up. GD is starting to look sensible compared to the teams around us…so it’s going to be nerve wracking but hopefully OK. (A win would be nice though).
Expected to get beat, so kinda ok. That is my seven words for today. I do not think the current coach/manager can arrange a goal scoring formation.
Remember Gus’s rant after QPR when he said the team played as the supporters want them to in the second half. Well, they did a darn site better in the second half than they did in the first when they were playing the in the style our manager wants them to play.
All in all, as I expected to lose against a re-generated West Brom under Pulis, I am still kind of pleased we did not lose.
Events were in your favour John. Bore draw.
Jeremy
Perhaps we have finally identified GP’s ” philosophy ” – reduce the opposition to such a state of boredom and catatonic apathy that they lose the will to win?
“Perhaps we have finally identified GP’s ” philosophy ” – reduce the opposition to such a state of boredom and catatonic apathy that they lose the will to win?”
Quite.
Much more of that William and some of us may lose the will to live.
Mediocrity is an improvement on recent displays
As boring and as sterile as it is, these draws will probably JUST keep us up. GD is starting to look sensible compared to the teams around us…so it’s going to be nerve wracking but hopefully OK. (A win would be nice though).
Expected to get beat, so kinda ok. That is my seven words for today. I do not think the current coach/manager can arrange a goal scoring formation.
Remember Gus’s rant after QPR when he said the team played as the supporters want them to in the second half. Well, they did a darn site better in the second half than they did in the first when they were playing the in the style our manager wants them to play.
All in all, as I expected to lose against a re-generated West Brom under Pulis, I am still kind of pleased we did not lose.
Events were in your favour John. Bore draw.
Jeremy
Perhaps we have finally identified GP’s ” philosophy ” – reduce the opposition to such a state of boredom and catatonic apathy that they lose the will to win?