Match Day Thread Sunderland v Doncaster Rovers - Friday 24th January - KO 19:45

Keeping the same team is a novelty and quite welcome ...

... personally I would've changed it tonight and had Watmore on from the start.

Maguire and Power looked flat from the start.

According to RTG every player is shyte.

 

Good defence from Doncaster and came at us first half.

They could do us a favour against Rotherham Wycombe and Ipswich before the end of season.


Still unbeaten.
Some nice play in final third second half, not our day.
Watmore could of got that golden goal.

 

Unchanged side was OK for me but the first half was poor and gave them confidence, my thought would be try Wyke and Lafferty up front together against this tactic and get the breakthrough early on. Duncan is great as a late sub and could have won it for us to-night so all in all we have to be pleased with a point and move on, we are looking a solid team and will be fine I am sure..

 

I said to my lad watmore would cause them problems after 10/15 minutes and would of brought him on second half at least, also lafferty .
Fair do's to Donny, did well but think they caught us on a lesser day.
Maybe they stifled us a bit but i still think we are a lot better.
Some great link up play but poor end results on the day.

 

I feel like it's been about 17 times tonight that I've heard what a massive bloke Darren Moore is. Hot topic among the pundits.

 

Referee awful tonight. Hume second half was good but I thought Dobson was man of the match. He was everywhere. If he can improve his passing he will be class.

 

you can't keep on going with the same 11 for so many games on the bounce. Parky has to rest the players and mix it up a bit to keep em on it. I just hope he is given the budget/players to be able to mix it up

 

I was disappointed, we couldn't hold the ball and misplaced so many passes. We need more creativity in midfield.

 

Tranmere 5-0 next game poor struggled to beat Southend 1-0 Wycombe top the league 4-0 now this very dissapointing and blew promotion without signing a striker now, what is it with this club ? they do not want 2nd place for some reason.

 

Eh . . . . they did hold on

 

Passing was poor all night from back to front, main culprits were Power and Maguire from me, although Maguire did thread a beauty through that deserved a goal, maybe subbing one of our midfield players for McNulty might have got the breakthrough but all in all a draw is not the end of the world by any means,

 

I think that's a bit harsh on our defence, they did keep a clean sheet and had to deal with a full half of pressure. Doncaster didn't have the same threat that we did but we were solid enough at the back.

Probably didn't look as good because they weren't given the time on the ball that they've enjoyed recently and couldn't play it out from the back but they defended well enough.

 

Very poor 1st half, much better 2nd

We need a striker...Lafferty only marginally better than Wyke

When Maguire is off form (he was tonight) we need another creative CM

Hume probably MoM

 

That was ****e. I think Chris Maguire has just had the worst individual performance I've ever seen, and I saw Jeff Whitley. Let that sink in

 

Not even going to look!

 

Watmore was a bit unlucky not to score, he was a threat. If he's not going to start, and as much as I rate him he probably shouldn't with Gooch and Maguire ahead of him, he should be a regular sub.

 

agreed he never stopped and put some good tackles in motm for me all day.

 

When the time comes that he doesn't play for whatever reason and we have to draft in Leadbitter it'll be clear how much he brings to the table.

I said before the season started I'd play him and O'Nien in CM together and I still would if we can get a right WB. Power is doing well but I'd like to see that combo.

 

Legs for days.

 

Exactly legs, aggression and a bit of quality. I think Luke is doing a good job at WB but it doesn't mean it's secretly his real position, he should be in the middle of the park and we should get a Hume type for right WB.