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Good luck to Parky at Sunderland. Great appointment for him. Cannot imagine the Mackems being overly happy with the appointment though

 

Echo a lot of the thoughts above (except Ricc), I wish him good luck. Gave us some memories that will be talked about long after I'm gone.
Sure the mackems will be happy with him if he gets them up to Championship whatever his chosen playing style. But as JButterfield said elsewhere, maybe Championship struggles will see him fired sharpish.
Anyway, I hope they don't go up this time, then we'll have a couple of cracking fixtures next season.

 

Good luck Parky, sure you will do a great job, true City legend.

 

If Parky gets the Mackems out of league 1 they won't care how he gets them promoted, they are still a big club compared with us, all the best Parky.

 

Always love it when people declare that such and such fans demand/expect attacking, entertaining football (e.g. West Ham or Newcastle or Sunderland). Surely all fans want attacking and entertaining football, it’s such a ridiculous comment.

The fact is though that a lot of teams don’t have the quality to do it so sometimes you have to compromise. I’m sure most fans would take success under Parky rather than mediocrity playing lovely attacking football without the results to match. Ross was unpopular because he didn’t get results, his style of football is secondary to that (as with all managers).

 

Look who is missing though McNulty, Wyke, Grigg, McGeouch, Baldwin and Duncan Watmore who was on bench isn't match fit yet. That's a massive firing line missing from the team there.

I'm sure he will be allowed time, else why would they get his staff from Bolton and give him 18 months?

Time will tell though eh

 

Parky in big trouble at Sunderland. Lost 7/11 and home fans singing "sacked in the morning" at the end of tonight's game.

 

I never thought he was a good fit for that job. Parky's best work is done at crisis clubs I think now.

 

Parky is the wrong kind of manager for them.

 

I'd suggest Sunderland are in crisis.

 

Some strong stuff on that forum
Fair to say he is as popular up there as Mr Rahic was here
Feel sorry for the Sunderland fans they are a good bunch and deserve some success

 

They have no divine right to be successful mate, all fans want a team of free flowing footballers but by the sounds of above Parky's first job would to be to get the players on side and playing for the shirt, it cant help having several starting 11 players out injured.

 

The lower league Tony Pulis. Pragmatic.

 

Damned with faint praise

 

I listen to the Undr The Cosh podcast with Jon Parkin who has played under him along with ex team mates who have done the same. Seems Parky is a really strange bloke and no one seems to like playing under him. Seems he managed to find a select few when he managed us. Seems his methods are strange and does some really strange things behaviour wise. Quite a big section on PP in the Aaron Wilbraham episode the other week at his time with Bolton. Well worth a listen.

 

Agree, for me he only works at clubs where the expectation isn’t as high. At Sunderland he’s expected to win every game and play well doing it. My boss is a Sunderland season ticket holder, he gives managers a fair chance tbf and didn’t want Ross sacking. But he’s already gone with Parkinson first time I’ve seen him be like this about a manager, they really don’t like him.

 

Looking at that list of managers though most of them shouldn't of been managing Sunderland.

The problem with Sunderland is it has no footballing identity! None of them managers really play exciting football and they've gone backwards with the dull football management tactics. It looks like Parky is getting it because they're done with the boredom but will attend because a bit like at Newcastle they live for football.

When Parky put McGeady, Watmore and Wyke on the bench and lose then he's asking for trouble from the Sunderland fans.