Sunderland-focused Twitter account @BlackCatsHQ recently posted a tweet asking the club’s supporters whether or not they want to see Phil Parkinson remain in charge at The Stadium of Light if the 2019/20 League One season is cancelled.
This post has caught the attention of some Black Cats fans and many of the Sunderland supporters who have been responding to this post have called for Parkinson to leave the club, with some declaring that the 52-year-old coach should never have been appointed Sunderland boss in the first place.
Read the responses of some Black Cats fans to this post about Parkinson in the tweets below.
Do you want Phil Parkinson to be Sunderland's manager next season?YES
NO
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https://twitter.com/BlackCatsHQ/status/1260129433911988224
Get rid
— Matt ??? (@Rollie3333) May 12, 2020
No brainer get him out now.
— Mark Bolton (@markbol1972) May 12, 2020
Delusional ????
— EthanOsafc (@FtmEthan) May 12, 2020
Get rid of him
— ryan smith (@RyanRyansmith31) May 12, 2020
I like him but I feel we need a complete overhaul at the club.
— Harry Andrew (@HarryAndrew94) May 12, 2020
Get rid
— Oluwaseun Bamgboye (@bamgboyeolu) May 12, 2020
Never was the man, actually had a good blip ?which says it all, get rid but start with SD #DonaldOut
— Lee Gamble (@LeeGamble1973) May 12, 2020
He should never have been hired in the first place. If new owners come in, they should peddle him. Pointless if these stay, they’ll give him 3 quid to rebuild the squad.
— Ian Allanson ?? (@AALPHATAXIS) May 12, 2020
What do we think?
Parkinson joined Sunderland on 17th October, at which point the Black Cats were sitting in ninth place on the League One table. At present, Sunderland sit in seventh place on the league table, which is one place outside of the playoffs, meaning that as things stand, the Black Cats are not in a position to compete for promotion to the Championship for next season, should the current league standings be made final.
Additionally, Sunderland have played at least one more game than all teams sitting above them on the table, meaning that a ‘points-per-game’ model of determining League One’s final standings would also not work to their benefit.
Parkinson has lost 11 of his 30 games as Sunderland boss thus far, which is the same number of games that previous Black Cats boss Jack Ross had lost in the entirety of his spell at the club, despite taking charge of more than twice as many games as Parkinson has so far.
With that in mind, it may be understandable why these Sunderland fans don’t appear to be particularly fond of the club’s current manager.