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  • #202
    Pepe LeFrits
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    I think it'll turn out to be a good move for Stokesy. He'll get regular football at a decent level, okay it's not the premiership but he's still only 18 and will still find it a challenge. I'm sure Roy Keane will look after him and I wouldn't be surprised to see Sunderland promoted in the next few seasons.


  • #203
    smemon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,467 ✭✭✭smemon


    Chucky the tree wrote:
    Where the hell is all the sunderland for the premiership love coming from?

    :D Roy Keane of course. People want him to succeed.


  • #204
    MrJoeSoap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    smemon wrote:
    :D Roy Keane of course. People want him to succeed.

    Some people want him to fail.


  • #205
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    MrJoeSoap wrote:
    Some people want him to fail.

    Oh get over it will ya. Its all old news now.


  • #206
    Chucky the tree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,341 ✭✭✭✭Chucky the tree


    No, i mean why do people suddenly think Sunderland are promotion material? They really havent been very good this season. Does everyone expect Stokes to be that good?


  • #207
    thebaz
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    Good luck to Stokes and Roy , I for one want Sunderland promoted -- there my second favorite team in England now !


  • #208
    MrJoeSoap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Okay I'm over it, I really hope my hero Roy Keane gets the mighy Sunderland promoted to the Premiership.

    I'm not at all bitter that 98fm give the scores of all the Premiership matches every Saturday afternoon, as well as "Roy Keane's Sunderland" and "Mick McCarthys Wolves", as well as throwing in the Crystal Palace score if Clinton Morrison scored, but never mention Southampton (unless we are playing one of the above of course). Oh, and Celtic/Rangers of course...

    :D:p


  • #209
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Chucky the tree wrote:
    No, i mean why do people suddenly think Sunderland are promotion material? They really havent been very good this season. Does everyone expect Stokes to be that good?

    Sunderland are 3 points off the playoff places and 13 points off the top. Thats a fairly good reason to consider them for promotion for several reasons:

    1: The Championship is a very competitive league - by and large teams will take points off each other regardless of league position - to be within 20 points of the leaders at the halfway point, historically, gives you a good chance at the promotion/play-off run-in.

    2: Keane joined a team that had lost their first 4 league games. - thats a 12 point deficit to start your promotion push with. He has then gone on to record 37 points out of 66 - which, considering he has rebuilt the team, is a very good return.

    3: Keane has been strengthening his squad very astutely. Most neutral observers will admit that he has made some very good buys.

    4: They are still within touching distance of the play-offs despite and injury-strewn season.

    While Sunderland's promotion is by no means a certainty, they have as good a chance as any team from 3rd-12th of making the play-offs. They have certainy improved as a footballing team and as a squad since Keane came in.

    I don't think anyone looking at Sunderland this season, from an unbiased view (and remember I've been accused of being an anti-keabe ABU) can suggest that they don't have a good chance of challenging for promotion this season.

    Next season is an undiscovered country.


  • #210
    eirebhoy
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    Yeah, I think Sunderland are doing well considering their start under Quinn. Stokes could be just what they need as apparantly they waste plenty of chances.


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  • #211
    PHB
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    I think Keane has a good chance of a playoff place, but what I think is most impressive is the players he has brought in. He has used his reputation incredibly well, and if they don't get promoted this year, I think they'll defo be up there again next year.


  • #212
    scojones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    MrJoeSoap wrote:
    Okay I'm over it, I really hope my hero Roy Keane gets the mighy Sunderland promoted to the Premiership.

    I'm not at all bitter that 98fm give the scores of all the Premiership matches every Saturday afternoon, as well as "Roy Keane's Sunderland" and "Mick McCarthys Wolves", as well as throwing in the Crystal Palace score if Clinton Morrison scored, but never mention Southampton (unless we are playing one of the above of course). Oh, and Celtic/Rangers of course...

    :D:p

    You're not forced to listen to 98fm are you? I just use livescore.com, and bbc sport for results.


  • #213
    eirebhoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    PHB wrote:
    I think Keane has a good chance of a playoff place,
    I'd actually say playoff's are a cert, he has a decent chance of automatic promotion. Derby have to travel to Sunderland so that's a 6 pointer. They should win that so that's 7 more points they have to make up. Definitely achievable.


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