This will be unpopular, but...

...Sunderland are the best team I've seen this season. They are a proper team from back to front who have the right mix of everything. They are light years ahead of us. I have no doubt they will be promoted this season.
we looked like that team for the first 15 minutes

but when they clicked they looked terrifying.

I hope they get to the automatics so we dont have to face them in the playoffs
 
...Sunderland are the best team I've seen this season. They are a proper team from back to front who have the right mix of everything. They are light years ahead of us. I have no doubt they will be promoted this season.
I agree. Not sure about light years but certainly ahead at the moment. Would be a lot closer if we could get a settled first eleven out against them.
 
I wouldn’t say they looked ‘terrifying’ but they were worthy winners, no complaints there.
Got to take your hat off to them for what they’ve done this season. I was convinced they would fade away and we’d finish above them but we have woefully underachieved, so often being the architects of our own downfall, where they have achieved more than the sum of their parts and exceeded all expectations. Fair play to them.
 
...Sunderland are the best team I've seen this season. They are a proper team from back to front who have the right mix of everything. They are light years ahead of us. I have no doubt they will be promoted this season.
I probably agree with them being the best team I've seen at the Riverside all season but I disagree with the light years ahead of us statement. We very nearly drew them if not for a freak own goal, and had our moments of dominance. At times we played some of the best football I've seen us playing this season.
 
...Sunderland are the best team I've seen this season. They are a proper team from back to front who have the right mix of everything. They are light years ahead of us. I have no doubt they will be promoted this season.
Not even close to that Leeds team.

Sunderland aren't that great otherwise they wouldn't have allowed us some nice chances in the first 20 mins or so. We could've easily been 2-0 up.

Sunderland are better than most that's come to the Riverside.

But the best team we've faced this season has been Leeds at Elland Road....and it's not even a close debate.

Against Leeds, we didn't get close to them. We equalised via a lucky corner as an OG and then after we scored, they upped the tempo and we couldn't live with them.
 
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Well coached, well drilled, they always looked to have an outlet. Attacked with purpose and every player knew their role and what was expected of them. A mobile and combative team, it was the best performance I think I have seen from a Sunderland team.

But as mentioned we weren't far off and a better balanced team minus Edmundson and Ayling, some coaching of the defence and it might have been different.

Can't believe we signed Ayling and am totally flummoxed with the Edmundson signing, he simply doesn't have the skill set for the way Carrick wants to play.
 
I think they would face a big decision if promoted, because that team would be pumped most weeks in the Premier League. So they'd have to trouser the cash and fund a rebuild back in this league, or go for it Forest style and risk getting the bailiffs in.
 
Can’t agree they were far better. Even their Manager said they were lucky not to be 2-0 down.

Their first goal was lucky. Their third had a great bit of skill but also a massive bit of fortune. They had moments in the ascendancy, but so did Boro.

Just like the same at Sunderland. A draw and none would have complained.
 
Are you people for real????? Forss on his own could have put the game to bed and we created the best chances.

We took the old shotgun and blew our legs to smithereens yet again which is why we lost but there is some outrageous revisionism of how the game actually was went on this board. Watch it back.
put the game to bed - like v Sheff Wed you mean?
 
I wasn’t impressed by Sunderland and thought we were the better team. I was impressed with Le Fee and to a lesser degree Isidor otherwise they were bang average.
 
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