So you’re aiming for survival and Sunderland for Europe, then?

Ug ug!

Patronising git.

Look we have no creativity- midfield of Smith, Butt and Geremi, striking options in Owen, Martins and Viduka. Except from Martins we are very slow as well. Sunderland have Edwards, Richardson, Etuhu, Hysen, Wallace and Chopra and Halford all have pace. Owen has lost his pace- no one can argue with that

I think we are really over hyping ourselves and Sunderland could well become the best team in the North East.

P.S- Another £9.99 a month wasted just for tomorrow

I doubt Sunderland will go down. I think they’ll finish alot higher then people think. Keane’s brought his determination and such with him to Sunderland and you can see it in nearly every match they’ve played, this fightning spirit they have, they never give up, like how many time have they scored winners or equalisers in the last mins of the game. It’s not just a coincidence that it keeps happening and if you’re not willing to fight for that extra inch every time to the last whistle, he wont play you, he has no time for half hearted players or premadonnas, just players that always give 110%. Ye mightn’t think that there’s many great players in Sunderland but Keane just doing buy anyone. He buys them because he see’s something in them, because he think they’re good and he’s hard to impress. Now he’s said there’s something special about McShane, he said that McShane is the type of players he wanted on Wearside..An ideal professional.

Paul McShane is a player for the future, he’s going to have a massive career in front of him if he keeps going the way he is. He’s been amazing for both Sunderland and Ireland. They say he’s too small to make an impact, funny how they said that about Keane. McShane is a leader and is doing outstanding especially considering he’s so young. He’s deffinatley a player to watch.

I know one and he’s quite a bright guy, and a good fella to boot!

Ourselves and Sunderland are both aiming for different things this season. Survival and Europe, respectively.
Royston appears to have built a squad that can battle its way to survival, and I think they will stay up.

Basically, Sunderland’s squad is built for a different purpose to ours therefore won’t improve what we have and any acquisitions from them will only serve to add numbers.

Therefore my opinion matches the articles conclusion and is a bit pointless.

Sunderland will actually prove a challenge in the derby match’s this year and sadly won’t be the hilarious push overs of years gone by. At least Boro will fill that role this season, which is a mild consolation.

I look forward to the few Sunderland fans that can use a computer coming on this site and ignoring sensible debate for their usual expression of small minded jealousy and hatred - “Me Sunderland. Me see Geordie. Me hate Geordie. Ug! Ug! Not listen Geordie! Make threaten Geordie! Me big man! Ug!”. I believe that’s their usual standard of intellectual capacity?

I was doing so well until the last paragraph! Damn! Touch paper lit!

For the first time in years Sunderland now have an uncompromising manager and other teams need to be wary of this, Liverpool may well feel the backlash.

Mcshane looks the type player newcastle have needed for years, at a snip of the price.
Dont underestimate Carlos Edwards, he can be such a match changing player, dark horse.
Dickson Etuhu is a real enigma, along the lines of Patrick Viera, a real unknown quantity but the signs are he could be pivotol in Sunderlands campaign, Michael Chopra never got the chance he deserved, whether it was under Robson, Souness or Roeder, there’s more to the lad than he’s given credit for.
Those four are as good as or better than some at Newcastle at present, Im not being biased just cos’ Im a mackem, I think your team is as strong as it has been for many a year and I think you’ll do well(sadly).

April 19th could be very interesting!!!!

FTM