Sunderland Match Thread sponsored by Danny Guthrie's tears

[windermere_royal]

Last resort on SKY1 is good tonight.

[ManchesterRoyals]

Someone remind me why Guthrie isn't on the bench?

He said im not playing the Reading way

[BraisingsteakRoyal]

me too. this season is depressing. still a loyal royal though!

Me too till i die, but thought this season we would give it a go how wrong was i

This. When i think back to that night on the pitch after Forest I cringe and wish i'd given myself a f*cking slap.

[Royalwaster]

me too. this season is depressing. still a loyal royal though!

Me too till i die, but thought this season we would give it a go how wrong was i

After watching the pre-match against Bournemouth and how cack we were in all areas against a struggling League 1 team I already had my doubts ...

[Joe 90]

Obita and Samuel on 2nd half please brian

This

I second that.

Yeah, me too ... curiosity if nothing else

[Zammo]

Jobi's looking our best attacking player

tbf, we can't lose anything by bringing samuel on at 60 minutes now. lets see what he's got.

Embarrassing that we are hoping a young reserve might come on and turn it on. We don't deserve to be Premiership.

[ZacNaloen]

Ugh, this is mentally tiring.

Just want something to believe in, a new manager, maybe. Something.

I doubt AZ is in Moscow discussing players, hardly worth flying over to talk about.

Parky is on sky sports doing one over arsenal atm which is pretty good.

[Stranded]

Oh great now highlights of the 7-4 Pompey defeat.

[royalrumble]

Typical Reading

Im sat here depressed once again it must be the Reading way

me too. this season is depressing. still a loyal royal though!

'Manager Mode on'

How can it be depressing this is Reading's 3rd best Season Ever

'Manager Mode off'

[Royal91]

Lets take the positive from the negativeS.

Knowing were already down is less painful than going down on the last day.

[PBR]

u really got to ask urself why bother celebrating promotion.. why celebrate for this shit week in and week out

[ZacNaloen]

Jobi's looking our best attacking player

tbf, we can't lose anything by bringing samuel on at 60 minutes now. lets see what he's got.

Embarrassing that we are hoping a young reserve might come on and turn it on. We don't deserve to be Premiership.

young players have to get a debut at some point.

[RobRoyal]

Oh great now highlights of the 7-4 Pompey defeat.

Side order of humiliation with your misery, sir?

[mad79]

u really got to ask urself why bother celebrating promotion.. why celebrate for this shit week in and week out

[RoyalBlue]

Where are all the RTGs who were castigating the realists and assuring us we would be just fine when we got to play the likes of Wigan, Southampton and Sunderland?

now now, you know the rules RoyalBlue, no wnking whilst posting

Nobody did say we'd be fine. We just accept the most likely outcome to the season with calmness and perspective.

It's only bleedin' football after all.

That is an outright f*cking lie and you know it. There were lots of people saying we would pick up wins against those teams and were only losing because we were having to play the better teams.

[Royalwaster]

Another positive - at least this way we'll stay in a real dogfight with QPR over who comes last!

[Libertine]

I mean seriously if we are going to lose go down fighting not looking like you can't be arsed. At least try to entertain us...

[mad79]

45 mins left maybe. I can't listen to this crap

[savage 4 england]

If we had tried to play decent football coming up then we my have had a chance. No chance with crap players and hoof ball.

Time to go Brian.

[USA_Loyal_Royal]

Jobi's looking our best attacking player

tbf, we can't lose anything by bringing samuel on at 60 minutes now. lets see what he's got.

Embarrassing that we are hoping a young reserve might come on and turn it on. We don't deserve to be Premiership.

young players have to get a debut at some point.

put them on and give them a chance to show their worth. might as well, there isnt much of a better time to do so.