Excellent as ever, you have put together a video explaining what I have been telling everyone for ages, but clear and concisely. You forgot to mention Substitution roulette

I agree with what you say. I was initially surprised to hear news of the sacking, but in the same breath, suddenly, a lot more hopeful. By the very nature of the sudden loss of Ellis Simms and Ross Stewart early last season, we evolved and developed a unique style of playing, using incredible 'wing force'. This system was so different, it caught many teams unawares and contributed hugely to our final table position. Now, many teams have studied us, and know our system and the element of surprise, has gone. When we did buy strikers, we didn't know how to utilise them but carried on using wing force with teams putting every man behind the ball. We certainly have the talent, and hope aside, feel that whoever we bring in will be well aware of our current limitations. Regarding Tony Mowbray, I grew to really like and respect his values, integrity and attitude and wish him all the best for the future.

Interesting insightful video, I’m Birmingham fan just having a look at mowbrays past doing my due diligence mowbray seems to be my favourite for our vacant position after Rooney has now bit the bullet. I’ve dropped a like and good luck to your promotion push. KRO💙

Great review as always! Really enjoying this channel so far keep it up mate

Excellent analysis again. I don't watch football analytically, so I appreciate this immensely. Hopefully we can get a better coach in the door soon.

This Is an EXCEPTIONAL video..... Your work and input are second to none and is much appreciated.... Ha'way the Lads

As ever your analysis has clarified what we have all seen from the Black Cats this season. Really hope the next manager can bring about the changes we would all love to see. We have the players ( with perhaps a strong mid field general missing still ) to have more than Plan A to respond to teams with.

This is an excellent analysis. Fully agree

Thanks Alt for stating what people have been doubting, that the board lack ambition. It’s patently obvious in Mowbray’s sacking that success for the club through an attacking style from the team is their goal.

Great analysis this is something we fell into when Ross Stewart was injured the sad fact there was never an alternative way we seamed to want to play no plan B

That’s an excellent video, great analysis. Haway The Lads!

Tony Mowbray was a proper defender saw him play for Celtic

Birmingham fan here, great video if he comes to us. I hope he can at least get us the top half of the championship

Been saying this for weeks. As much as I like Mowbray we have clearly not being playing to incorporate a striker. So many occasions I've witnessed strikers, Rusyn, Hemir, Mayenda and not forgetting Jobe who seems to make some of the best runs off the shoulder and into channels, all runs you expect strikers to make but frustratingly the ball never arrives. Whether it's our central midfield or balls out from our defenders bringing the ball out. They never see the pass or are just too used to playing sideways into feet to the likes of Clarke or Roberts. Literally every other team we play against turns the ball around quicker by doing what you highlight in one of your examples. Ball popped over the top or in behind, down the channel and we're suddenly defending a potential goal threat. So frustrating and pretty damn easy to resolve. Even with "raw" strikers. Good piece though 👍

A well thought out and intricate dissection of SAFC, however I must admit to preferring it when the analysis is of our latest victory, sadly something we have enjoyed too seldom in the last few months. In brief, the magic had gone from our game. I watched this on the day of upload, but it is now Sunday, after the West Brom game. The first half looked like nothing had changed, but the second half felt as if Doddy's half time talk had simply been making the Lads watch this video 😀 Hopefully the latest result is them back to winning ways and you can look forward to editing videos with a smile on your face again 🙂 Great upload, Liked and Subscribed.

Great work! Mixed feelings for me. While I don't think it was that close, I really wish we got Farioli in the summer. It's never easy to get good managers mid-season. That's probably why they're looking at a manager in Sweden where I'm from, where football is dead for half a year or so. Happy to see you're getting some views. Keep it up!

Total agree with your video. Really liked mowbray but he needed a plan b.

I've just come across this video and very insightful! 👏 As a Birmingham City fan, we're chuffed we have TM and his home debut yesterday was positive. You've got a strong, young squad. What are Sunderland fans thoughts on TM's replacement? From a distance, Beale doesn't seem to be the one who could improve this style of play ? Good luck for the rest of the season and I hope you make the playoffs ⚽👍

Agreed - Mowbray was always a safe pair of hands for short-term stabilisation. He was the only member of staff, on the playing side, who didn't fit the new model of young, progressive and high potential. Expect to see a manager who resembles the players we've purchased. Largely unknown, highly technical and ready to grow alongside the club.

Brilliant analysis Trenchy 👍 spot on with everything you said there. I loved Moggas time here, played some of the best football I've seen since Reidys day, but this is a results driven business, and results have not been good enough. Next appointment will be a risk, a young coach from the continent for sure. I'm hoping for Will Still myself, and hopefully we'll find out soon enough who it is... I have no faith in Dodds

TM is a great Manager, he'll do well at Brum and he would of done well at Sunderland if given real backing and a decent chance. I think both teams league position at the end of the season will show this was a massive error of judgment by Sunderland. I'm not a Sunderland fan but if I were I'd want John Eustace in replacement. You can't change your Manager every season and expect success. Look at Alex Ferguson at Man Unt or Jimmy Hill at Coventry City, they started off slow but went on to make them massively successful clubs for years and years. I'm guessing being one of the smallest clubs in the north of England Sunderland are under huge pressure to look good next to the Giants of Newcastle Unt, but they should just be themselves and not worry about how much better and classier the likes of Newcastle Unt or Coventry City FC for example are. I think they will live to regret this sacking. Go Jossy's Giants!!!

Great video, I have been talking about how much more effective we are against high pressing vs low block teams for weeks. Ultimatley we have just become far too one dimensional, easy to predict and easy to nullify. Shame to see him go but I think it was clear he had taken us as far as he could, was inevitable he'd be in trouble when we hit a rough spell.

Your forgetting to add that the strikers we have aren't good enough to press or trouble a defence, perhaps mowbray realised that !, whomever gets the job will not find it easy with what we have, , this squad is not ready to challenge for promotion, mowbray will sadly be missed

Great work as usual. I really like TM, but this isn't a popularity contest. He'll definitely be remembered in a positive light, and that's right for me. Onward and upward.

What a video you are spot on ,

Great as ever Ten Trenches

Very good analysis 💯

Brilliant video as per - the best football we have played this season was with jobe as the false 9 - the new boss must impose a style that gets the 9 involved in whatever capacity (target man or getting in behind).

Great video but I never thought I would hear someone complain about too many crosses from the goal line

Thank you Tony and thank you AltEnding for the Video :)

Superb video providing easy to digest reasons for his dismissal & re-assurance that the board and KLD are focussed on delivering promotion ASAP. Any thoughts on who would make the best appointment from the names in the frame currently?

Clarke said it was Dodds tactical masterclass against Southampton (Jobe may gave said that too)! Loved every minute of Mowbray's tenure... Can't help but think a number of issues you raise are due to the "model" and not Mowbay at all, we will find out. I had such high hopes this season for Clarke(he's not disappointed)... He-Man and Ekwah.

Good analysis.

Its been really obvious that we have "learned" to play a style that doesn't rely on strikers, and so our goals are often/always cracking bits of play or good hits. Adding a striker back in to the mix without any changes to the style has been quite clear. I even suggested we went back to no strikers for a while to boss games, as its when we play best - and then maybe bring strikers on for 20 mins at the end when we're well on top, to nick goals. Its an awful solution, but in the absence of other ideas..... I feel really bad for Mowbray, it was a good spell overall and by no means was I calling for his sacking. As you say though, what are the club's true ambitions - sounds like they wanted to replace him earlier but couldn't due to decent results.

TM arrived to steady the ship, but over-achieved immediately. Great to watch! First season back in the Championship & I was happy to just survive from the AN debacle!

I agree with a huge ammount of your analysis (have you ever considered applying for a managers job?) but we are currently 6th and the next manager has the job of finishing where we are now in the table as I reckon the board had 6th or higher as the target for the season. That's an unusual position to come into as most new managers face avoiding relegation or moving up 8 or 9 places up the table. This is a great job for someone with some tactical nous. Like I said (do you fancy it)? Taking over a team already in the play off places is a special opportunity for someone as most will forget this fact if we start the first game of next season in the premier league and will hail the new manager as a miracle woker. As it stands and if the season ends tonight we would have a 1 in 4 chance in the lottery of the play offs which would be no miracle if we won. Managers/coaches who have ambitions to be PL managers should be queuing up to be the next Sunderland coach.

I totally understand why we did it. Even if I disagree, but the fact they done it without having a replacement in straight away is worrying. It's like Sunderland of old. 🤦‍♂️

He used the same style of play at Blackburn it’s depressing to watch.

Hopefully we make that a priority to get the ball off our feet quicker than what we’ve done in the past. Robert’s I think is a big one that has to be willing to adopt that mentality. I know he’s talented but there’s no reason he should be on the ball as much as he usually is. Get it and move it.

Excellent piece.

Another great video .have you not thought about putting you're name in the hat for manager . Everything you say makes sense.

Yes, on point again Alt.

Mad decision. Especially when they had nobody lined up to replace him and ended up with a complete knacker.

The guy did a brilliant job but the fact that we were looking at other options in the summer tells us the powers that be didn't see him as a long term appointment. His sacking didn't come as a total shock. His post match interview on Saturday in which he stated he was a development manager and cited Burnley as a cautionary tale about going up too early the inference was promotion wasn't to high on his agenda sealed his departure. and i think he knew it. His sacking was harsh in light of his whole tenure at the club but there was a certain amount of justification for it. .

Good analysis

Great insight. Intrepid blues fan. 🤨

Excellent, once again but I do think that this season will be something of an anomaly insomuch as, because the top four are beginning to look like they're going to completely run away with things and could open a massive gap, I think that five and six might get into the playoffs with ridiculously low points totals. Anybody else of ten or so below them seem capable of beating each other. Could be wrong, like. 😂

Many of these problems seem to me to be down to players not doing the job properly rather than managerial incompetence.

Given the players he had at his disposal, Mowbray exceeded what could have been expected. He has a track record of achievement with players that are below par. The board thought sacking him and bringing in the ex-Rangers man would result in much better performances. That went well didn't it?

mowbray did well and he deserved another chance this season. but like you said we are too predictable and no plan b at times. But i enjoyed his time.

This is off the scale good.

Great video!

Brilliant as ever. Show this to Moggas mouthy e teammates.

Spot on

Changing the formation and playing 4-4-2 would have worked for him 😮

More than happy to take him at Birmingham. KRO

"Mobray was hired in a time of need..." and guess what circumstances the next manger will be hired under? No matter the sport, the coaching carousel is a cruel mistress. I hope we can step off that terrible ride with the next manager.

How many home games did we lose under him? Cheers for the memories, Tone. But onwards and upwards (hopefully).

I agree with every point

Give Jobe back to us.

good video

Brilliant👏

Sacked him for one reason...he asked for more experienced players...the owner dosnt want to spend ...beale got the job because he knows he can't ask for experienced players ...beale at rangers...now look how they are doing ...hes a yes man clown

Have you sent your cv in for the vacant manager's job?

V Huddersfield - 18 goal attempts; 9 on target V Plymouth 18 goal attempts; 5 on target V Swansea 24 goal attempts; 3 on target. Stop making Speakman’s case for him. We made plenty of scoring chances. But the inexperienced, inept strike force he bought in the summer aren’t up to the job. We over rely on Clarke and Roberts because the forwards aren’t cutting it.

He will do an excellent job @ Birmingham City . And Sunderland will be made to look very stupid , for sacking him . The only problem with them is , they rely too much on Jack Clarke . Very much a one many team . No creativity in midfield . Poor strikers & an inability to finish games off

I like Sunderland we can't score either

Mowbray is a thinker. Yeah it’s too complicated. Ease up.

You take the biscuit!!!!! Hopefully aldi rich tea replaced with one of those posh foreign ones, with the large slab of chocolate in the middle. The sort you get if the neighbours are coming round

I hope Sunderland have enough points to avoid relegation.

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Why, because he gets the sack wherever he goes.

i lilked this video to continue supporting the channel but i dont like this video also haha. all the teams will have less points and more losses who reach the playoffs this year. its a much more even and stacked championship than there has ever been. also tony mobrays teams that hes coached have all had a different style and look. he knows how to play different football. i get very frustrated with the fact theres no through balls etc i stand there and complain to whoevers will listen every match about the lack of it. but hes coaching the players to their strengths. if you try impliment an entire new system and unsettle the team at this point in the season there is 0 chance of us making the playoffs. our lads dont have the brains for it yet. they arnt used to the style. they will lose confidence in themselves to execute. and when things go tits up they will revert back to what they know. the sacking of mobray is the wrong choice at this point in the season. its suicide.