Jones' penalty was a good'un PWilson, he had­ his eyes on the keeper all the time & placed it­ when said keeper moved, wether he should've taken­ it is the point at hand.
I also beleive Fulop is better­ than Gordon in all aspects of goalkeeping but right now­ Gordon is the man between the sticks & he needs the­ backing of players & fans alike. Not much else he­ could've done with that ridiculous backpass from­ Show pony(tail) Richardson was there!?
FTM

Patrick Jewell
You may well be right in saying Gordon­ needs confidence betweeen the sticks, But I dont­ believe he has what it takes to step up from the­ Scotish league to the EPL, nor do I beleive he is the­ best Scotland has.
There are many other supporters who­ dont come on here but sit in the stadium week after­ week and Cannot believe the basic errors of goalkeeping­ he makes. We used to have a brilliant goalkeeping­ coaching staff, who were let go by R K and havent been­ replaced. If you look at all the top big teams they­ have access to or on staff goalkeeping coaches who­ work with the keepers to improve their games. I Dont­ see this happening a SAFC trg sessions!!!
If Gordon­ became moore dominant with his defence then the­ defenders may have a bit more belief in him and wouldnt­ panic so much when pressurised into defending by the­ opposing teams, as was clearly highlighted on Sunday.

Problem is that we have the most highly strung and­ superstious manager in the EPL, when it comes to­ pennas.
And bearing in mind Super Kenwyne's goal,­ it was a S*h*i*t*e penna(too close to the goalie)­ Whereas when Dazzler Bent takes them it doesn't­ matter what way the goalie dives, because they are­ pinged low and hard into the corners.And it's like­ Pat says, Brucie's obviously studied this in­ training and decided as the manager, Dazzler takes the­ better penna's, and judging form the weekend, who­ are we to argue.
ps: Flash is getting his confidence­ back between the sticks(and the recent Yorke statements­ at the weekend indicate this to be the­ case).

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jc 13..not very popular??? its the best start we have­ had in prem!!! we love him!!! malcom d the problem is­ bent is our penalty taker not jones!! gotta do what­ the boss tells ya! simple!! totally agree patrick!!!

Malcolm, sorry mate but I think you're wrong­ (comment 8). You talk about players needing confidence­ (and you're right in that respect of course) but­ confidence is exactly what Gordon needs now. Think of­ his injuries last season then losing his place to­ Fulop, coupled with the enormous price tag he has round­ his neck. He is a good keeper (a good Scottish keeper!)­ who in your own words, needs to be cut a bit of­ slack.
Also Bruce is right to have a go at Bent &­ Kenwyne - Brucie chooses his penalty taker.

john i don't think he's making a bad job of­ things at all its going to take quite a while for all­ the new players to get used to playing with each other­ and as u said earlier he will make changes to the­ defence in the jan transfer window

John im sure when you said "why did bent not want­ to take the pens" im sure you were trying to make­ it look like bent does not want to help Sunderland, was­ he thinking that when he scored the winner at bolton,­ the goal against chelsea and the equaliser at turf­ moor, plus the two at home vs hull city and the penalty­ early in the wolves match, im sure you will find your­ remark answerd.

OH........and on the subject, thought­ you did not care about Sunderland, yet had time to­ catch the game?

heslop448, wor Brucies proving to be not very popular.

JOHN last year against west brom jones was on a­ hattrick and we got a pen cisse wouldn't let jones­ take it and their partnership went down hill after that­ i think this will cement a better partnership between­ the two of them and if bruce actually watched when we­ got a pen instead of walking off down the tunnel he­ could of done something about it what really got up his­ nose was when he said on telly after the match that­ bent got a hattrick he didn't even know jones had­ taken it

Bent is the club penalty taker & Jones is not, nice­ guy or not Bent should've taken the penalty, as he­ said on MotD he'll be taking them all from now on­ thanks to a rollocking from SB.
FTM

because he has a good working relationship with jones­ and is a nice guy.

It was agreed by the manager with the team that if a­ penalty was awarded, his best option to score would be­ Bent. The players went against this and so went against­ the managers decision.
You could argue that no harm was­ done because Jones scored but the question that needs­ to be asked is 'why did Bent not want to take the­ pen's' ?

I cannot see what th problem is with Bent handing the­ ball to Jones to score from the spot?? if he had missed­ then that would have been different, he didn't and­ he scored boosting his confidence.
Football is a team­ effort and team work is important throughout the team,­ as Jones has shown when he comes back to defend. Come­ on Steve Bruce Cut them a bit of slack, they got the­ team out of a mess. Concentrate your effort and­ critisum to the defence!!!!!! i.e Richardsonn as Left­ Back and the goalkeeper.

MattoRoma: You are an ignorant speck. Get off the­ computer and get back to your mammy's apron­ strings.

Learn to spell Sunderland first @#$%

Bent was being a team player, and here's silly me­ thinking that kind of person was good for football. His­ action probably helped bring Jonesy out of the little­ dry run he'd found himself in. If they both­ continue to score I'll have no complaints.

I can see Bruce's concern but he needs to handle­ this with tact. Bent has been a great boon to this club­ and he should appreciate a great player whois obviously­ a team player

Imagine how annoyed I was.

I had Bent as Captain in my­ dream team!