OFFICIAL SUNDERLAND v DERBY COUNTY MATCH THREAD

The English footballing season officially starts tonight with the first meeting of two-time-worst-PL-team Sunderland and still-the-worst-PL-team Derby County for 9 years. The Mackems' appalling season last time saw David Moyes quit and the now bald Simon Grayson take over a club that are still in shambles. Gary Rowett on the other hand has stabilised the Rams following the second exit of Hair Island's Steve McClaren, and has made commendable signings such as Curtis Davies and Tom Huddlestone.

Kick-off at 7:45pm UK time with coverage on Sky Sports Football from 7:00pm.

Blunderland: Steele; Jones, Galloway, Browning, Kone; Cattermole (c), Ndong, Honeyman, McGeady; Vaughan, Grabban.
>Subs: Ruiter, O'Shea, Asoro, Gibson, Matthews, Khazri, Gooch.

11 Points: Carson, Wisdom, Davies, Keogh, Forsyth, Russell, Huddlestone, Johnson, Butterfield, Weimann, Martin.
>Subs: Mitchell, Bryson, Baird, Pearce, Bennett, Vydra, Nugent.

What is the Championship like this season? Who are early favourites to go up?

>james vaughan
>david nugent

middlesbrough are favs

the big boys this year are villa, fulham, reading, wednesday, wolves and leeds

the championship is quite unpredictable, it's not uncommon for a team to come out of nowhere and get promoted, plus 'favoured' teams can just have shit seasons
that said the bookies favourites are boro, villa, fulham, wolves, norwich and sheff wed

Sunderland will finish in the bottom 8.

Relegation is a very realistic prospect in my opinion.

I fancy Sunderland to go down, got them at 20/1

>the three worst PL records ever combined gets you one point fewer than mememouth managed last season

>moyes

nah grayson is good at being decent with shit players

they wont be finishing in the top half but they wont go down either

>Sunderland v Derby live coverage
>talk about John Terry within 3 minutes

Sky can fuck right off if they're going to give that wanker any more coverage than other player.

They got fucked 5-0 by Celtics reserves and youths

And for some reason, Derby's eternal rivals Nottingham Forest and NORTY BOYS Millwall are playing tonight as well.

Forest line-up in pic related, Millwall's in next post

Sunderland are the biggest basket case in british football and they're at an all time low right now. Grayson has the challenge of his life here. This has Portsmouth written all over it.

Ooooooh Barrie McKay

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>barrie mckay
>jason cummings

warburton is a fucking mong lmao. both will flop badly.

what did he mean by this?

>not having your own TV deal
>not moving around more matches for TV
>not campaigning to remove the blackout

cant wait for that fucktard to get EXPOSED
it was only a friendly though, I wish they kept moyes and went down again desu
>armand traore aka the biggest cunt in football history ahead of lichaj or cohen at left back
forest are losing tonite

Cummings is a fucking mong, went to school with him, nice enough, but thick as shit.

>doubting the Destroyers of Dumbarton, the Annihilators of Ayr, the Quashers of Queen of the South

Dunderland 0 - 2 Derby County FC

>Who are early favourites to go up?
Everyone

>and leeds

Look what I found brehs

Are these even valuable?

Forest butthurt Derby were kicking off the season so tried to do the same

NEVER EVER

Villa reportin in

This could be our best season in years

#blessed

this is on tonight?
get the fuck in lads! footy is back!

i hope derby destroy sunderland.

It's because there's another big event on in notts tomorrow

No one gives a shit about Derby

Darren didn't do anything wrong

Don't Sunderland know Vaughan is made of glass?

>Grayson
>Promotions 4 - all from league 1

Sunderland are going to have a great 2018/19 season.

He was obviously correct in what he said but publicly getting pished with fans and talking shite right before the season starts says a lot about the guy. Waster.

>Sunderland selling of all their high wage 'talent'
>replace them with shit for £peanuts to reduce overall debt

Bludnerland are utterly utterly fucked. Fighting relegation from League 1 in 18 months time.

wes brown seems thick as shit

Sunderland, Sheffield utd and Birmingham city to go down for me

no way the blunts are going down

>replace with shit
they're solid signings for the championship. Sunderland won't go down with Grayson in charge either.

Milwall, Forest and QPR

I don't even want to watch this fucking game

Fuck

Leeds, Burton and Birmingham to go down
Villa, boro and reading to go up

>brought season ticket
>It arrived today
>First match is tomorrow

Cutting it a bit close desu

Should I watch this

Where are we getting streams from these days lads?

Haven't watched any preseason shite.

they were the first club who had a better record than those three combined

Steele is the worst keeper in the championship. Two young inexperienced defenders at a club where young inexperienced defenders get exposed every week by a shit midfield, get progressively worse over a season. Mcgeady is the ultimate meme player who will get tired of his teammates being shit and relying on his creativity to make literally anything happen. Vaughan is made of glass and sub-par for the championship.

Grabban is half decent though, and Sunderland will need everything from him if they are to get any kind of scoring going this season.

soccerstreams.net

Are you down the local?
Does it have a flat roof?
Are you chatting to big Dave the bald bloke?

If you answered yes to all three then watching this match is your birthright

why the fuck not

>Davies, Huddlestone
>£2.5m for both, not that we're going to spend it on players anyway

;_;

Going to be a long season I think lads

Do you like football?
If so then why the fuck would you not?

>Believing in villa

I made this mistake before. I have now endured 20+ years of suffering

Grayson's captain at Preston was tom fucking clarke.
says it all, they will stay up.

Bruce is best manager to get them back into prem. just sack him when he gets you there.

>Steele is the worst keeper in the championship
You're forgetting David "We won't bottle it" Stockdale.

>whoops

Your 2017/2018 Championship winners

Tom Clarke is good, what are you on about kid?

Every time I remember Birmingham city's transfer window I have to chuckle

'arry must be having a mare

Sunderland are a bigger mess than most folk realise mate. Grayson won't be able to stop the juggernaut of shit.

Ha'way the lads

Might be the ugliest kit I've ever seen

This

We're a whole other level of shit. Expect us to perform about as well now as we did in the PL.

Just seen their squad.

This is horrendous.

you have 30 secs to name a better manlet cb than tom clarke in the championship

I fucking hate it too. I hope it grows on me

he's alright. watched him for a number of years and i didn't personally think he would make the step up to championship

honestly lads you'll be fine.

what a shithole

Derby's away kit? yeah it isn't great

It looks even worse at distance from the TV camera's POV.

*clap clap clap*

can't tbf

new haircut

>stadium of shit half empty even for the first game of the season

>Still with the fucking kid

I DON'T CARE

I DIDN'T CARE BEFORE AND NOW I REALLY DON'T CARE

MUH BRADLEY

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some of us have hearts

>engclaps

not even trying to be edgy when i say i hate the bradley meme
why is he so important?

>NDER D A

It's just people trying to show off about how caring they are. As if anyone gives a fuck.

its back lads

I unironically like that kit
but it's somewhat iconic because it was what we were wearing when we knocked liverpool out of the FA cup at anfield in the 90s

Just fucking ignore it, people bitching about him is getting worse than the crying and clapping.

It's like the kit designers were told to make sure everyone would know we're not in the PL any more

>tfw League One

Wonder how many other kids died from something similar at the same time

>puntderland

>Sunderland fans are the best, they would fill the ground at any level

blackburn?

who /gibbo/ here

The pink seats are even more visible now.

Dunno why the fans should give a fuck when the club clearly doesn't

Still can't believe Birmingham got away with it again

>Rowett
>no Ince
>no Hughes

Gonna be a long, boring season for Derby fans.

the new sky score graphic is rubbish

I'm so desperate for competitive football I actually ended up starting to watch this shit

I mean yeah Sunderland are in a bit of a state at the moment but I don't think they could EVEN IMAGINE what aresenal are going through right now

Can only hope Huddlestone brings some fun

>not watching based Europa league qualifying rounds