Apparently the most democratic way of deciding whether a club should keep 'goal music' (and Chelsea sodding Dagger at that) is to put a poll on Facebook for 48 hours, where anyone can vote, including fans of other clubs and mainly kids. Unsurprisingly morons have voted for Forest to keep the music, disgusted at both the decision and the way it was carried out, a complete disgrace. Hearing it played when we pulled it back to '1-4' last year was one of the most cringeworthy things I've ever witnessed.

Just whacked £20 on Forest to go down. :(

Just whacked £20 on Forest to go down. :(

 

Should have done a double and added Peterborough onto that :lol:. Signing a load of lower league players, yet loads of fans seem strangely optimistic about the coming season :blink:

At least you have players, and a manager, and a pre-season. We're 6th favourites to win the league, 16/1 to be relegated. Granted we've been taken over but those odds are utterly ridiculous. With Gunter about to join Reading it means we have one defender over the age of 19, Brendan Maloney, who has never looked like he could be better than an average Championship full back. Mick McCarthy has rejected the chance to become our manager because he wouldn't have full control. The new owners have said they wouldn't appoint a director of football, and also said that Fawaz was involved in team matters at his team in Kuwait. With the rumours of Paladini not going away and the majority of players we're linked with being current or ex-QPR (Gabbidon, Barton, Buzacky) he may well be involved, none of the likely managerial options even begin to inspire and we also have what seems to be an ever increasing number of Arabic players on trial at the club. The manager will decide which ones sign but I'd be very surprised if they were allowed to reject all of them.

 

It all started so well, their communication was great and they said some great things, Mick McCarthy would be a great replacement for Steve Cotterill but the longer it goes on the more the alarm bells ring, at the moment it screams Venkys part 2. I'd probably less sceptical if it wasn't that more foreign owners are totally awful than not.

Sounds like it's going well then. My mum's partner supports Forest but I've not really spoken to him about the new season, will have to see what he thinks of it all!

At least you have players, and a manager, and a pre-season. We're 6th favourites to win the league, 16/1 to be relegated. Granted we've been taken over but those odds are utterly ridiculous. With Gunter about to join Reading it means we have one defender over the age of 19, Brendan Maloney, who has never looked like he could be better than an average Championship full back. Mick McCarthy has rejected the chance to become our manager because he wouldn't have full control. The new owners have said they wouldn't appoint a director of football, and also said that Fawaz was involved in team matters at his team in Kuwait. With the rumours of Paladini not going away and the majority of players we're linked with being current or ex-QPR (Gabbidon, Barton, Buzacky) he may well be involved, none of the likely managerial options even begin to inspire and we also have what seems to be an ever increasing number of Arabic players on trial at the club. The manager will decide which ones sign but I'd be very surprised if they were allowed to reject all of them.

 

It all started so well, their communication was great and they said some great things, Mick McCarthy would be a great replacement for Steve Cotterill but the longer it goes on the more the alarm bells ring, at the moment it screams Venkys part 2. I'd probably less sceptical if it wasn't that more foreign owners are totally awful than not.

There have been some awful British owners too. Bill Archer springs to mind :angry:

I've been missing this topic for a week or so now (U).

Tbh, I think Man United will struggle this year and finish 3rd or 4th tbh...

Well United did get Kagawa, one of the most productive players in the Bundesliga, and while players such as Ferdinand and Giggs (and Scholes?) may not be able to help you as much as previously, they do instead have Vidic and Hernandez return from long term injuries, and the two new keepers should be more or less settled in by now. The money may not be there to compete with City and Chelsea when it comes to profile signings, but experience, continuity and the Fergie factor will go a long way.

Man Utd will do well, they always do. But if they are as terrible as last season then they may struggle for times during the season. Their central midfield is still their major problem and Fergie looks like doing nothing to solve it. I know for the way they play they don't necessarily need a strong central midfield in the Premier League, but when it comes to the Champions League they will just be embarrassed again unless they solve their problem.

Tottenham Hotspur's Ledley King has retired from professional football at the age of 31 because of his knee problems. He won 21 England caps and he still has the record for the quickest goal in Premiership history which stands at 10 seconds against Bradford in December 2000.

 

 

Fabrice Muamba has quite football.

What a dire start to the season, you shouldn't get much more easy openers than West Brom (sure, it was an away match, but still), and 3-0 is just the complete opposite start to what we needed.

 

I'll reserve full judgement for seeing the match on Match Of The Day before I fire too much vitriol at that result, but it still is just... poor.

Decent draw at the Emirates, always a difficult place for us to go to and it's one more point than me and a lot of other Sunderland fans were expecting, so i'll gladly take that.

 

Arsenal of course were dominant, but for all of their domination and how much they had the ball, Mignolet didn't have an awful lot of saves to make. Really we were causing all our own problems by being sloppy in possession and wasting the few opportunities we did have when we got forward, but defensively we were impeccable. Cuellar had a very good debut, O'Shea looked solid, Richardson arguably MOTM at LB, Gardner didn't put a foot wrong. Very pleasing.

 

We have to take this result and performance into the game against Reading which won't at all be easy. Hopefully we'll have one or two more new faces through the door by next weekend and we can kick on.

Pleased with the three points, I have a feeling Big Sam really doesn't know his best team yet since we have about twenty players of similar calibre fighting for positions now - at least that allows for dips in form, I guess.

1-0, 0-0, 0-0, 0-0, 0-1, 0-0, 1-0.

 

We're never very exciting on the opening day but delighted with a win to open the season, O'Driscoll is very good for us, put together a decent team who'll play football the right way. Some of the movement and passing in midfield was phenomenal.

 

Danny Collins is a tremendous captain and Simon Cox looks like a real handful updront. It's very odd for a team to appoint a manager and sign 8 players but I'm entirely satisfied with every one of them.

Danny Collins is a tremendous captain

 

Loved Collins, never an outstanding player, technically a bit shit but always gave 110% in a Sunderland shirt, and he even got his own chant :D

 

For Brazil he should play, Danny Collins,

For Brazil he should play up front,

For Brazil he should play, Danny Collins,

For Danny Collins is a skilful..

 

Good times.

The premier league title will be heading back to old trafford with Van The Man inspiring us to glory.

What a dire start to the season, you shouldn't get much more easy openers than West Brom (sure, it was an away match, but still), and 3-0 is just the complete opposite start to what we needed.

 

I'll reserve full judgement for seeing the match on Match Of The Day before I fire too much vitriol at that result, but it still is just... poor.

 

I've not seen anything, but my friend who absolutely despises Liverpool said Phil Dowd should be sacked for todays performance..! Only first game of the season. Just w*** we've got three very hard games next. We're a work in progress anyway. I'm expecting our results to be extremely erratic this year.

A draw to begin with, think the new players need a bit more time to gel.

I've not seen anything, but my friend who absolutely despises Liverpool said Phil Dowd should be sacked for todays performance..! Only first game of the season. Just w*** we've got three very hard games next. We're a work in progress anyway. I'm expecting our results to be extremely erratic this year.

Liverpool were the latest in a long line of victims of Shane Long. Not sure there are many better players in the game at winning fouls in key areas of the pitch. Both harsh but letter of the law meant Dowd got decisions correct.