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Basically all of 2016/17 - 2017/18. Appointing Moyes was on paper a good appointment among the fans, myself included but bloody hell what a slog. Beating Crystal Palace 4-0 at Selhurst Park and had a bit of hope that just maybe we had turned a corner, we then lost 4-0 at home to Southampton the...

Annoyingly all the numbers from this are of the total attendance, most concrete estimate I could find is: https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/17320306.live-blog-sunderland-1-bradford-city-0/ I'll buy a programme tomorrow and hope it's in there.

The home attendance is looking well below average for this game anyway, be around 25k there. We do have precedent of not turning up to big games, I remember only have around 30k in the ground for a League Cup semi-final, ~5k of which were Man Utd fans. I'm sure should we get to Wembley for the...

Season tickets have been selling well but that was possibly because when they came out when we were in control of our own destiny in the promotion race. Providing this season was just a season of rebuilding with new owners/manager/staff/ players, that would hopefully mean next season we are...

Not really other than like you say McGeady. I suppose that makes the performance on Saturday even worse. Cattermole might make a return for the 2 legs but his days of controlling the midfield in this division have been few and far between. Morgan should hopefully start both legs which offers us...

A Thursday trip to Portsmouth, be still my beating heart. Can we beat Portsmouth after 5 attempts? On current form no chance.

2,405 church mice from the north-east on the Essex coast.

No confirmation of the away turnout at Fleetwood but the initial allocation that sold out was exactly 1,000, they didn't go back on sale after the game was postponed and the away end looked full.

We could be in better shape going into the play-offs tbh. If Peterborough manage to knick 6th spot that would mean the only time we've beaten any of the play-off contenders was the opening day of the season against Charlton. We'll more than likely end up playing Charlton as it turns out...

For a brief moment yesterday we were looking at something to play for on Saturday, nevermind. We'll probably play the same sort of team as we did against Fleetwood so it's a good job I have a few hours before kick-off in Southend to prepare for that. We do sort of have play-off placing to play...

We can providing some sort of miracle still get automatic promotion but even so I'd rather rest McGeady and Grigg for the playoffs. They've been playing through injuries the last few games and there's no reason to risk any further complications with next to nothing to play for. This does mean...

We have to beat Portsmouth eventually, just hope I'm not thinking the same come a possible play-off final. Part of me expects us to win just to give us hope that this time it's different but instead we lose to Southend on the final day just for the sheer banter of it all. It'll probably be 1-1...

Southend away sold out for what could either be a damp squib or massive for both teams.

He is born in Santa Cruz, California and has 4 caps for the 'USMNT' but he's been in the area since he was 10 so we count him as a local. He also developed a scary hybrid of California surfer/Mackem accent which needs to be heard.

He has regressed slightly from his style at St. Mirren oddly, on only 8 occasions the season they were promoted they scored a single goal in a game, they would often score 1 or 2 more. Compared to the 20 for Sunderland this season where we've just managed a single goal, that run where we scored...

It's a bit sad that we came away on Friday thinking it was one of our better performances of the season, certainly since around November time. Perhaps it has gotten to the players but we are a new squad with a manager who is new to managing. Think we were also hindered by our bright start to...

Think this'll be provided we stay in the division as if we get promoted we'll probably need a new team entirely. Goalkeepers Jon McLaughlin - Keep, partial to the odd mistake but been solid and probably player of the season Robbin Ruiter - Get rid, I imagine his wages are above average for a...

Well that's the playoffs for us then, there could be one more twist in the promotion race but I doubt we'll be involved in it other than potentially Portsmouth getting a result/us handing it to Barnsley on Saturday. I'm no expert but I think our undoing was the 18 draws, 13 of which coming from...

Looks like we haven't fully sold out for Peterborough on Monday, should be around 3,200 there in the Southern sun. Probably the easiest trip of the season.

Been a massive rise for Lincoln in the last 2 years, same colour kits as us but different fortunes. Having a look through the last time we played Lincoln competitvely and it was 1999, last time in the league was 1961. So Sincil Bank will be one to tick off the list should we fail to go up, I...