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Sunderland have won 6 games. 4 of which have been in their last 6 games. MON has managed to win 4 games in 6. McLeish has managed to win 5 in 20. Spot the difference?

Agreed. 5 wins in 20 league games is terrible. I agree . Its the kind of failure we are used to though as Houlliers first 20 league games in charge also yield just 5 wins but even less points in 21. You have to hope that things will improve though. Big three league games coming up now in Everton, Wolves and QPR which we need to be picking up at least 6 points from. Houllier had a lot of injuries last season , didn't have a pre-season etc. Admitedly tho at same time Houllier had better squad to work with with Ashley Young , Downing etc . Agree those next 3 are important - 6 points form those games is certainly possible and should be expected but would be incredibly reluctant to put any money on us beating anyone under this manager. Todays game was job done but pretty irrelevant as Mantis said. Either way 5 wins in 20 league games is incredibly poor and mirrors McLeishs time at Birmingham.

Agreed. 5 wins in 20 league games is terrible.

Birmingham did not have a threadbare squad compared to other sides last season. Mick McCarthy had much worse squad as did others. McLeish had likes of Larrson , Hleb , Bentley and squandered them mostly on bench. He is a crap manager and record in the Prem is poor and certainly one most negative ever to manage in Prem. But agree theres no need for much criticism for todays specific game. It was a terrible pitch and we won . Job done really. Winning a game under McLeish itself a rarity .

Did not know it ended this year. To be honest have thought our Nike shirts have all been relatively good. Its not something im not that bothered about tho. Tho Macron would be very crap.

Thought we had few more years with Nike still?

Given is the no.1 keeper . Guzan is good but think you are forgetting how many vital saves Given made before his injury this season. He will walk back into the team and rightly so.

Scoreline is irrelevant at this point we still won. I said job done. Nothing irrelevant at all in what i said.

Nothing wrong with Bents workrate we just never gave him the ball . Our wing play is very poor / non exsistant compared to last season.

Job done on awful pitch. 3-1 could have been 3-2 ..against 19th in 4th division club who have no manager and 5 main players missing....

Bent is completely isolated under incompetent McLeish

finally. Good goal by Gabby

I have not seen one single person labeling this performance good. me neither

The pitch is awful tho. No one is going to be playing free flowing short passing one touch football on a pitch like this.

Woeful pitch , woeful first 10 minutes by us but since then getting job done look comfortable-ish , shit game.

Good pass from Petrov , good finish from Albrighton. Lets have few more now.

The pitch is really awful can hardly expect short passing game on this pitch in fairness. We look comfortable and should easily win this game the way its going

Ireland is playing well

It wasn't

Pitch is proper awful but what was that pass by Clark?

Why is Bent so deep Are we playing Heskey upfront by himself? FFS

what a pass by Dunne... deary me

the pitch does look awful

An ex-owner who died.

Substitutes * 33 Marshall, * 10 N'Zogbia, * 16 Delph, * 25 Bannan, * 38 Gardner, * 11 Agbonlahor, * 26 Weimann