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But have a better slightly bigger stadium & improved training facilities also remain debt free 

That’s progress right - can we complain too much?

It's all relative, isn't it. If all the other clubs go tips up and we are the big swinging schlongs of L1, then yes, it will be progress.

But if teams like scummers, Brighton, Bournemouth, Plymouth, continue to outpace us, and widen the gap, then no. It won't be progress.

It is, in the grand scheme of things.

We just need to always have something to play for, be it promotion or survival.

We can't accept being mid table, it is boring

mentioning Plymouth seems pertinent to me. They were as bust as we were a couple of year before we went down that route. They redeveloped their main stand a couple of years before we finally got started on the ground.
So lets hope our team picks up in a similar time frame.

Chuckle. I don't mind a relegation scrap, as long as we stay up. A last ditch survival has made for some great memories.

Do we wish the owners to push harder & accumulate some debt - how much debt is acceptable?

Are the owners too safe?

If they didn’t do the stadium fans would moan. Imagine being in the champ with parts of the ground closed.

DC will have told them he loves the loan market, bringing youngsters through, he made Smith-Rowe the player he is don’t ya know.

I don’t believe our league position is because of the wage budget.

Can we build a team capable of securing automatic promotion in 2 years ?

I guess it depends on the size of investment available for the playing squad during that time

(09-02-2022, 02:52 PM)MiltonPFC Wrote: [ -> ]Can we build a team capable of securing automatic promotion in 2 years ?

I guess it depends on the size of investment available for the playing squad during that time

perhaps
although splashing cash has not served Sunderland well more than once whereas Wycombe ......

Totally agree that splashing the cash is no guarantee of success … but clearly we need a more competitive budget to have a chance of securing a top 6 (or even top 2!) finish … especially given we are currently unable to afford an emergency midfielder

(09-02-2022, 05:35 PM)MiltonPFC Wrote: [ -> ]Totally agree that splashing the cash is no guarantee of success … but clearly we need a more competitive budget to have a chance of securing a top 6 (or even top 2!) finish … especially given we are currently unable to afford an emergency midfielder

Funny thing is DC said he wouldn’t use free agents. We didn’t need O’Brien and could have used that money to get someone else in.

(09-02-2022, 06:46 PM)Pompeyg100 Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-02-2022, 05:35 PM)MiltonPFC Wrote: [ -> ]Totally agree that splashing the cash is no guarantee of success … but clearly we need a more competitive budget to have a chance of securing a top 6 (or even top 2!) finish … especially given we are currently unable to afford an emergency midfielder

Funny thing is DC said he wouldn’t use free agents. We didn’t need O’Brien and could have used that money to get someone else in.

Didn't need O'Brien ?  We only had two strikers and everyone was crying out for him to sign another, and poo-pooed his attempts to sign another midfielder because we had lots of them. Persuading O,Brien to leave Sunderland on a short-term contract only on less money was quite a an achievement.

(09-02-2022, 08:18 AM)Hammie Wrote: [ -> ]mentioning Plymouth seems pertinent to me. They were as bust as we were a couple of year before we went down that route. They redeveloped their main stand a couple of years before we finally got started on the ground.
So lets hope our team picks up in a similar time frame.

Tornante have put 2 new roofs on & other bits’n’pieces before startin the present works that are ongoing 

Once ME is refurbed virtually every seat in the house would’ve been renewed I believe

(09-02-2022, 06:57 PM)DeepBlue Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-02-2022, 06:46 PM)Pompeyg100 Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-02-2022, 05:35 PM)MiltonPFC Wrote: [ -> ]Totally agree that splashing the cash is no guarantee of success … but clearly we need a more competitive budget to have a chance of securing a top 6 (or even top 2!) finish … especially given we are currently unable to afford an emergency midfielder

Funny thing is DC said he wouldn’t use free agents. We didn’t need O’Brien and could have used that money to get someone else in.

Didn't need O'Brien ?  We only had two strikers and everyone was crying out for him to sign another, and poo-pooed his attempts to sign another midfielder because we had lots of them. Persuading O,Brien to leave Sunderland on a short-term contract only on less money was quite a an achievement.

The striker who isn’t a striker though according to DC? He’s an 8.34 who can play 7.39 role if required I believe. Personally I see him more in the 8.97 role myself.

And it was a goal scorer that people were crying out for, he signed O’Brien instead