9000 odd and most of the noise from Hertha fans

Spot on, our squad looks as thin as an anorexic cigarette paper.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

On and off the pitch.

Maybe at last this is the wake up call that the Muppets who run us, .need to make a serious decision, invest and survive or do a Sunderland. Does anyone seriously think we will survive in the championship with our current squad less the 8/9 who will leave. Goodbye premiership dream

We are currently at @ 9/2 5/1 for relegation which would have us finish 12th to 14th.

Your post is bizarre, either you are a troll or an idiot. Or an idiot troll most likely

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Apparently our odds for relegation have just got BIG, a seaweed fan has just message to me say he got big odds...
FO

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

Gonna try some salient analysis amidst all this justified comment and concern.

My thoughts from the game.

First half, set up as a 442.
For the first few minutes we looked promising and put them under some pressure which lead to us scoring an offside goal and hitting the post.
Any creation came down the left, with PVA and Meyer trying their best but usually it came apart once Benteke got involved.
The latter and Ayew did lots of running but their ball retention was shocking.
We had nothing down the right at all.

Guaita had nothing to do all half until making a superb save off what looked a certain goal. That save lead to a corner from which they scored a very jammy deflected goal. Imho, we were unlucky to go in behind.

Second half was a major disaster however. While we had some semblance of shape in the first, Roy tore that apart, dropping the ineffectual Macca to a strange, deep inside left, putting Luka back to just in front of the back four and floating Townsend god knows where. Basically, we had no shape, no outlet and no creativity whatsoever. Meyer was absolutely w@n£, losing the ball every single time he got it.

When we did create something, headers from Benteke (2), Ayew and an open goal opp for Jimmy Mac, were all wasted.

Hertha swarmed all over us with fresher, fitter players in the second half and we failed to change anything. There was no leadership or reaction on or off the pitch which is a massive concern.

I've never not wanted a season to start as much as this one!

Spirit of 1974