I cannot see them getting anyone decent. It will be someone who has been associated with the club in the past who feels sorry for them and needs some beer money.

OR DAVE JONES AT 28-1 WITH SKY BET

Favourite with the bookies is John OShea at 4/5 with his brother Rick at 9/2.

Kevin Philips for me.

Poor Sunderland its sad whats happened there.

Why are you shouting

Lee Clark please to send them down another league.

That's no way to say thank you for Michael Ledger.

The Mackems have suffered enough - with the club in the state that it's in it will take them years to get out of the Championship, assuming they're not relegated again - and I hope they're not.

i hope that all the north east teams do well and its a sad situation there. hopefully when the current owners disappear someone may step in who can see the potential of the club and how much they can make out of the business if correctly managed.£££

Overpaying mediochre players at the back end of careers is never a good strategy, eh Nobby!

Jack Rodwell is on 60k a week, he didnt have a wage reduction or release clause in his contract when he signed that 5 year deal. Realistically he could be earning that in league one next year.

Last year they had a wage bill that was one of the top 10 in the prem, it's mental what they pay n what they get for it.

Should do another premier passions series on them.

Peter Reid is c0ck

Phil Brown is the bookies favourite apparently, lifelong supporter they could do worse. The state of the club they not gonna go for a big name, they are going down no matter who they get.

John O'Shea 6/5 Phil Brown 2/1 Ally McCoist 5/1 Aitor Karanka 10/1 Chris Coleman 10/1 Stefan Schwarz 10/1 Phil Parkinson 12/1 Roy Keane 14/1 Kevin Phillips 16/1 Peter Reid 16/1 Paul Lambert 20/1 Nigel Walter Mitty Shithead 20/1 Alan Pardew 25/1 Sam Allardyce 25/1 Ryan Giggs 25/1 Mick McCarthy 25/1 Craig Shakespeare 25/1 Kevin Ball 25/1 Gordon Strachan 33/1 Alex McLeish 33/1
This is per Coral.
Cant believe the John OShea odds?

Karanka would be the obvious choice but O'Shea will probably get it

I may be wrong but I believe the last decent manager they had was Bob Stokoe (achievements wise), and before him Alan Brown (playing wise, who with players like Charlie Hurley and Brian Clough to name but two had every right to be good).

This is of course pre-history for the majority of Bunkerites so let's just say they've never had a decent manager in most people's lifetime.
They have always been the club with HUGE potential. They still are and always will in fact be the world champions of potential. In such cases it's probably not the manager who's the problem.

Not to mention another Brown signing, Jim Baxter - fantastic footballer.

Reid did OK for a while, though there is no doubt that he is a cock, and a little shrivelled old one these days.

Will make the likes of Woy and Wenger look positively boyish if he comes back into management.

WAIT!

Grayson's been sacked??

Whoever gets the job, wants to make it a top priority to get rid of O'Shea and Cattermole. Same old names cropping up in the betting. Whoever gets it has their work cut out, as the club is in a mess behind the scenes, cant think of any manager who has achieved success against this backdrop. I would offer the job to someone like Uwe Rosler, rather than a big name/has been or someone inexperienced.

Orange cock, shrivelled cock, Irish cock or Jock cock? Hard to choose.

Todays Coral odds......Aitor Karanka 4/5 Paul Heckingbottom 2/1 Ally McCoist 7/1 Phil Brown 10/1 Nathan Jones 10/1 Roy Keane 14/1 Kevin Phillips 16/1 Chris Coleman 16/1 John O'Shea 16/1 Phil Neville 16/1 Paul Hurst 16/1 Paul Lambert 20/1 Phil Parkinson 20/1 Nigel Walter Mitty Shithead 20/1

Just cant believe Karanka would go there with the mess its in. He was lucky at Boro with the best chairman in all leagues......poisoned chalice is Sunderland at the moment!!

They might get Michael O'Neill after NI's second leg in Switzerland, which looks like a lost cause.

Allegedly he was in the frame for the Pools job back when we were in League One - turned us down to manage the Ulster Unionists 11.

Didn't we turn him down in favour for Hughes?

I did say 'Allegedly.'

It was all just paper talk.

Michael O'Neill for Sunderland. You can read about it in the Fail and S'land Echo tomorrow. All the best rumours start on the Bunker.

Is it true Sunderland have approached Pools to speak to Mellish as player manager? I know this won't go down well on here!

david blunkett has the right credentials for watching sunderland.

Chris Coleman by all accounts he’s resigned as Wales manager.

Could have got 16/1 last week ..........shit missed that!

That's what I thought too

Craig Harrison is a local lad who is doing a great job at non-League Hartlepool United working with a shoestring budget. A little raw perhaps but well worth a shot - so what’s not to like? Can someone provide Aunty Pams contact details and help set up a compensation deal?