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Post by UlversToon » Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:29 pm

Just in case anybody needs cheering up at the moment this will keep you entertained on April fools day:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52012467

<laugh>

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Post by Toondes » Wed Mar 25, 2020 9:10 am

Comedy gerld marra
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Post by biggeordiedave » Wed Mar 25, 2020 9:13 am

I really enjoyed the first series, and it wasn't so much schadenfreude as it was just interest in seeing how a club is managed. It actually made me dislike them less.
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Post by Remember Colo » Fri Mar 27, 2020 7:21 pm

UlversToon wrote:
Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:29 pm
Just in case anybody needs cheering up at the moment this will keep you entertained on April fools day:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52012467

<laugh>
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Post by Chappy » Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:23 pm

biggeordiedave wrote:
Wed Mar 25, 2020 9:13 am
I really enjoyed the first series, and it wasn't so much schadenfreude as it was just interest in seeing how a club is managed. It actually made me dislike them less.
I felt the same, could definitely empathise with the frustration of their fans. Still enjoyed seeing them go down though <laugh>
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Post by lassassinblanc » Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:07 pm

Chappy wrote:
Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:23 pm
biggeordiedave wrote:
Wed Mar 25, 2020 9:13 am
I really enjoyed the first series, and it wasn't so much schadenfreude as it was just interest in seeing how a club is managed. It actually made me dislike them less.
I felt the same, could definitely empathise with the frustration of their fans. Still enjoyed seeing them go down though <laugh>
Rewatched 1st season of till I die, to refresh the memory.
Was just really an everything that could have gone wrong did.

Martin Bain bit of a prick
Jack Rodwell prick
Grabban prick
Grayson not so much out of his depth more having to put square pegs in round holes while blind folded.
Coleman came across as nice bloke but suffered the same pitfalls as Grayson

Ellis short biggest prick there is... Makes Mike Ashley look good

Johnny Williams you just want to give the lad a hug.

Season 2 the director lad comes across as a right arsehole.

Maja leaving was their down fall.
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Post by Colback's Orange Tufts » Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:14 pm

lassassinblanc wrote:
Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:07 pm
Chappy wrote:
Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:23 pm


I felt the same, could definitely empathise with the frustration of their fans. Still enjoyed seeing them go down though <laugh>
Rewatched 1st season of till I die, to refresh the memory.
Was just really an everything that could have gone wrong did.

Martin Bain bit of a prick
Jack Rodwell prick
Grabban prick
Grayson not so much out of his depth more having to put square pegs in round holes while blind folded.
Coleman came across as nice bloke but suffered the same pitfalls as Grayson

Ellis short biggest prick there is... Makes Mike Ashley look good

Johnny Williams you just want to give the lad a hug.

Season 2 the director lad comes across as a right arsehole.

Maja leaving was their down fall.
I didn't see grabban like that, he played well but could see the ship was sinking.

Maja was on 1k a week reportedly and moved to 57k.cant blame him, why didn't they secure him?

The pr guy in season 2 means we'll. Its just the way he puts things is cringeworthty
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Post by lassassinblanc » Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:33 pm

True of course in Grabban but didn't show múch loyalty.

If course with the Maja think you can't blame the player Donald even said it they should have secured his contract before it escalated.

I know a staff member from the show and they've told me before that they'd have Bain back in a heartbeat and he was hated by the staff.

He probably does mean we'll but comes across as an a prick.

Let's put it this way if the director of My club asked me to go get him a beer I'd tell him to get it himself... Actually he'd know not to ask me as it ain't my job to be his waiter
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Post by Chappy » Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:51 pm

lassassinblanc wrote:
Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:07 pm
Chappy wrote:
Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:23 pm


I felt the same, could definitely empathise with the frustration of their fans. Still enjoyed seeing them go down though <laugh>
Rewatched 1st season of till I die, to refresh the memory.
Was just really an everything that could have gone wrong did.

Martin Bain bit of a prick
Jack Rodwell prick
Grabban prick
Grayson not so much out of his depth more having to put square pegs in round holes while blind folded.
Coleman came across as nice bloke but suffered the same pitfalls as Grayson

Ellis short biggest prick there is... Makes Mike Ashley look good

Johnny Williams you just want to give the lad a hug.

Season 2 the director lad comes across as a right arsehole.

Maja leaving was their down fall.
Yeah Rodwell was a cronut.

I liked Coleman.

On episode 3 of new series so far - in the first episode you see someone has spray painted NUFC on the bricks of the SoS <laugh>

I don't like their director Charlie Methven, comes across as an absolute gimp.

I like Luke O'Nien, comes across as a nice, genuine lad.
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Post by biggeordiedave » Fri Apr 03, 2020 7:49 am

I really enjoyed the second series. I was hooked and watched it all in one night. Charlie Methven is an insufferable prick and a bully. Unfortunately there are a lot of blokes at his level who think that is how you lead people; aggressiveness and public humiliation. Luke O'Nien seems like a really good lad.

I'm so glad Newcastle have never done anything like this. I reckon we are probably exactly the same behind the scenes.
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Re: Mackems

Post by lassassinblanc » Fri Apr 03, 2020 8:16 am

Chappy wrote:
Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:51 pm
lassassinblanc wrote:
Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:07 pm


Rewatched 1st season of till I die, to refresh the memory.
Was just really an everything that could have gone wrong did.

Martin Bain bit of a prick
Jack Rodwell prick
Grabban prick
Grayson not so much out of his depth more having to put square pegs in round holes while blind folded.
Coleman came across as nice bloke but suffered the same pitfalls as Grayson

Ellis short biggest prick there is... Makes Mike Ashley look good

Johnny Williams you just want to give the lad a hug.

Season 2 the director lad comes across as a right arsehole.

Maja leaving was their down fall.
Yeah Rodwell was a cronut.

I liked Coleman.

On episode 3 of new series so far - in the first episode you see someone has spray painted NUFC on the bricks of the SoS <laugh>

I don't like their director Charlie Methven, comes across as an absolute gimp.

I like Luke O'Nien, comes across as a nice, genuine lad.
Yeah hilarious.

Agree Luke O'Nien just comes across as a lad who always expected to be playing in League 2 or the conference and is delighted to be playing for a big (I use the tentatively) club like Sunderland.

Watched up until Episode 4 last night, Will Grigg really was the definition of panic buy
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Post by ALF » Fri Apr 03, 2020 10:51 am

I've watched the first 5 episodes of the second season. Half of it is like watching an episode of The Office. Luke O'Nien comes across as a really sound lad, Maja came across as someone who was uncomfortable in front of cameras and just wanted to play football.

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Post by Colback's Orange Tufts » Fri Apr 03, 2020 11:07 am

ALF wrote:
Fri Apr 03, 2020 10:51 am
I've watched the first 5 episodes of the second season. Half of it is like watching an episode of The Office. Luke O'Nien comes across as a really sound lad, Maja came across as someone who was uncomfortable in front of cameras and just wanted to play football.
I've only seen three but I agree on Maja. Like he's not gonna discuss the contract because he will get stick and it may hinder it. Its his job and he was offered a huge payrise. I'm ok with people taking that as long as they continue to work professionally up to leaving
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Post by Chappy » Fri Apr 03, 2020 11:29 am

On ep. 5 - Checkatrade final is hilarious. That Charlie throwing his toys out the pram <laugh>
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Post by Remember Colo » Fri Apr 03, 2020 1:59 pm

lassassinblanc wrote:
Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:07 pm
Chappy wrote:
Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:23 pm


I felt the same, could definitely empathise with the frustration of their fans. Still enjoyed seeing them go down though <laugh>
Rewatched 1st season of till I die, to refresh the memory.
Was just really an everything that could have gone wrong did.

Martin Bain bit of a prick
Jack Rodwell prick
Grabban prick
Grayson not so much out of his depth more having to put square pegs in round holes while blind folded.
Coleman came across as nice bloke but suffered the same pitfalls as Grayson

Ellis short biggest prick there is... Makes Mike Ashley look good

Johnny Williams you just want to give the lad a hug.

Season 2 the director lad comes across as a right arsehole.

Maja leaving was their down fall.
I'll go in different directions.
- Martin Bain is doing an impossible job under pretty terrible conditions. I'm shocked he held it together during interviews throughout filming that show. Not saying he was ever going to be good at the job, but I would have expected him to be more of a prick given how it all went down.
- Jack Rodwell: s**** footballer, but I don't blame players for not giving up their own contracts. Sunderland were idiots for giving him the contract in the first place, but why should players walk away from their contracts if the team decides the don't want to play them. It's not as if a club is going to go on paying you out of the goodness of their hearts when your contract ends and nobody wants you - so why owe it in return. This only applies though if the player wants to play, if they're holding out - eff 'em.
- Grabban was on loan and didn't owe them anything. Clubs and supporters want undying loyalty from players, but don't give it in return. Had he been a permanent Sunderland player I'd have said he owed them to finish out the season, but a player in his circumstances needs to look out for his own short career and at least he played well while there.
- Agree regarding both managers. Can't expect managers to overachieve when they only have a couple months to work with deflated players who were never assembled with a system in mind. It's unreasonable how fast managers are expected to get the most out of a side but given no time or influence to do it.

As for Ellis, clearly a disaster for the last couple years. But by the same token, I understand why he stopped pumping money into the club. He trusted inept people to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on players, took a loss on almost all of them, and in the end lost his shirt on the club. He should have gotten out a lot sooner so they weren't in the s*** like they were, but I get why he put his pocket book away by the end.

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Post by biggeordiedave » Fri Apr 03, 2020 2:22 pm

Chappy wrote:
Fri Apr 03, 2020 11:29 am
On ep. 5 - Checkatrade final is hilarious. That Charlie throwing his toys out the pram <laugh>
"YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN!" <laugh>
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Post by biggeordiedave » Fri Apr 03, 2020 2:23 pm

ALF wrote:
Fri Apr 03, 2020 10:51 am
I've watched the first 5 episodes of the second season. Half of it is like watching an episode of The Office. Luke O'Nien comes across as a really sound lad, Maja came across as someone who was uncomfortable in front of cameras and just wanted to play football.
Maja also came across as someone who knew exactly what was going on and was uncomfortable lying about it.
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Post by PTAO? » Fri Apr 03, 2020 2:44 pm

lassassinblanc wrote:
Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:07 pm
Chappy wrote:
Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:23 pm


I felt the same, could definitely empathise with the frustration of their fans. Still enjoyed seeing them go down though <laugh>
Rewatched 1st season of till I die, to refresh the memory.
Was just really an everything that could have gone wrong did.

Martin Bain bit of a prick
Jack Rodwell prick
Grabban prick
Grayson not so much out of his depth more having to put square pegs in round holes while blind folded.
Coleman came across as nice bloke but suffered the same pitfalls as Grayson

Ellis short biggest prick there is... Makes Mike Ashley look good

Johnny Williams you just want to give the lad a hug.

Season 2 the director lad comes across as a right arsehole.

Maja leaving was their down fall.
You misspelled "grade A cronut" <ok>

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Post by Colback's Orange Tufts » Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:36 pm

OK just seen the boxing day episode. What a tool. Ranting and raving and swearing at the marketing lady over an attendance figure. Get some perspective man
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