It certainly seems to be the case; year in, year out.
I watch alot of Premier League football and over the last years I've seen no other team come up with nowhere near as many gutless lackluster 'performances' as our team has, 9 out of 10 coming away from home where the pressure isn't quite as big to perform well.
Poyet said a few days ago that there's a culture of mistakes at Sunderland. I'd instead say there's some sort of... let's use 'culture' again in lack of better words, of not wanting/caring to put in the necessary extra mileage and dedication to kick on when in a decent place in the table with a chance to getting places. Same goes after a good result or two. There seems to creep in a feeling with many of our players of not needing to work their socks of when the knife at a given moment isn't at their throats. Talk about a lack of ambition.
At most other club this doesn't seem to happen nearly as often, and it leaves you to wonder why. Frustrating is the world, at least for those of us who aren't completely content with just making up the numbers year after year like some supporters and apparently some players do. Don't get me wrong, I can live with ending up at 17th a season or two (otherwise I couldn't live with supporting SAFC) but then I would at least want to see the team compete every game. That hasn't been the case for a long, long time. You never know when the players are turning up for work, even though I think I've learned to do just that with a pretty decent accuracy.
It seems no matter who is the manager and what players we have; at Sunderland it happens year in, year out.
Thoughts?
I watch alot of Premier League football and over the last years I've seen no other team come up with nowhere near as many gutless lackluster 'performances' as our team has, 9 out of 10 coming away from home where the pressure isn't quite as big to perform well.
Poyet said a few days ago that there's a culture of mistakes at Sunderland. I'd instead say there's some sort of... let's use 'culture' again in lack of better words, of not wanting/caring to put in the necessary extra mileage and dedication to kick on when in a decent place in the table with a chance to getting places. Same goes after a good result or two. There seems to creep in a feeling with many of our players of not needing to work their socks of when the knife at a given moment isn't at their throats. Talk about a lack of ambition.
At most other club this doesn't seem to happen nearly as often, and it leaves you to wonder why. Frustrating is the world, at least for those of us who aren't completely content with just making up the numbers year after year like some supporters and apparently some players do. Don't get me wrong, I can live with ending up at 17th a season or two (otherwise I couldn't live with supporting SAFC) but then I would at least want to see the team compete every game. That hasn't been the case for a long, long time. You never know when the players are turning up for work, even though I think I've learned to do just that with a pretty decent accuracy.
It seems no matter who is the manager and what players we have; at Sunderland it happens year in, year out.
Thoughts?