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.
Pete Sixmsith was at the bus stop in time but the United to Sacramento – see Advochaat at https://safc.blog/2015/07/dicks-post-sacramento-advochaat-its-just-pre-season/ – must already have gone. So he pitched up at Consett instead …
The Development Squad continued its tour of the west of Durham by moving up the A68 from Tow Law to Consett, a distance of eight miles but worlds apart football wise.
Malcolm Dawson writes….it’s not often you can see two full internationals for three quid but Pete Sixsmith, myself and a …
When there’s proper football to be had in the flesh, Pete Sixsmith isn’t likely to stay in to watch Man Utd vs Arsenal on the box, with United fans incensed at Michael Oliver’s application of relatively simple laws of the game. He took himself off to Hetton to see Sunderland’s Under 21s in winning action. The opposition, West Ham, are also the first team’s opponents for the next away game. Could it be an occasion for trying out one or two of the brighter sparks among the young ‘uns, if only because the seniors have repeatedly let us down? Maybe not, but who knows what a hungry Mandron or Watmore might do …
Malcolm Dawson writes……a few problems with the website server has delayed us passing on the contents of Senor Poyet’s post …
From our Own Correspondent, as the BBC might say. Richy Duggan, Salut! Sunderland’s man on the Algarve continues his diary of an enviable little break following the Lads – and the Boys, it seems – on pre-season duty. Mika’s tweet (see below) summed up his own feelings; the picture accompanying this introduction shows him in fan-friendly mode …
Delighted to add another goal to my name! Hopefully many more to come.. So blessed ??????
— Mikael Mandron (@MikaelMandron) July 29, 2014
That was the tweet from Boulogne’s finest, Mikael Mandron. Great to see such desire from the 19-year-old forward whose penalty decided the first of an unfamiliar-looking Sunderland’s friendlies in Portugal. Here’s what the boss made of it in his customary post-match e-mail to Monsieur Salut and one or two others. Malcolm Dawson asks the delicate but pertinent question in Comments: what is the explanation for the boss’s repeated use of players most of us would have considered at best on the the fringe of his first-team squad? ….