Malcolm Dawson writes…I was tied up until 5.00pm but considered making the trip to South Yorkshire until first hand reports …
Malcolm Dawson writes…what do we want from pre-season friendlies? Well I would like to see some indication that the team …
Pete Sixsmith had already seen the first team pre-season when they came from behind to beat Evostik Premier League side …
Pete Sixsmith isn’t envious of those who followed Sunderland’s pre-season tour, Ha’way Out West. After all, he’s had his share of exotic travel, too, rounding it all off with the Doncaster first-team friendly tonight …
The first team went to California and Ontario; the Development Squad had to make do with Consett and Boston – the one in Lincolnshire, not the one in Massachusetts. It was a evening out in a town that is going through many changes.
Last December, we reported the death of an electronic friend, a fellow-Sunderland supporter known from the Blackcats e-mail forum for both his allegiance to our club and his sharp wit. George Pitcher‘s widow, Kathy, now feels able to share a little more about the life of the Newcastle-born, Sunderland-mad man she loved – the ‘red sheep’ of the family as he put it himself – starting with an illustration of George’s passion for the game and mention of another tragedy that struck the family in the same year his own illness was diagnosed …
What a difference a day makes
On Saturday, with Monsieur Salut grappling with the aftermath of a house flooded – twice – by an overflowing water tank and the wait for Martin Bates’s post-Toronto report growing ever longer, nothing new was posted to Salut Sunderland.
Malcolm Dawson writes…..we were expecting a match report sometime on Thursday but time differences being what they are, not much …
What a pity that pigeon post from such remote parts of Canada as Toronto has become so unreliable. Bill Taylor, who lives in that city and attended Sunderland’s game the other night, reckons the poor things tend to get shot down over Newfoundland. If Martin Bates’s long-promised dispatch avoids those guns and reaches Salut! Sunderland before the new season starts, it’ll get an airing, the least Martin deserves after being the source of those excellent pre-match photos of players mixing with fans. For now, Bill continues his re-emergence from Salut! exile with some more thoughts on what we should read into Sunderland’s performance, not one that impressed him though some of us may prefer (cling to?) the fitness-before-quality mantra …
Malcolm Dawson writes…..Pete Sixsmith and I returned to the wind tunnel that is Tow Law on Friday night where Shildon …
Peter Sixsmith’s pre-season is well under way. He has already seen the Lads play at Darlington and the Development Squad …
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