Sunderland Post Match Thoughts

[DerekProsser(East Anglia)]

Sunderland were the form team going into this one. Stadium of Light a hostile place for away teams especially in the midweek evenings. Before kick off I was thinking if we can get a draw here then that'd be excellent and really put it in our hands to push on for Saturday.

That's exactly what we got on the back of a solid team performance. But I feel more downbeat today than I have all season. Maybe I'm getting superstitious in my old age but I'm starting to think fate deals us a hand where we get within two minutes of fantastic triumph only to have a cruel hammer blow knock us back down again.

We absolutely have to beat Gillingham now. MK Dons have a horrific away game against Plymouth where both teams need the win to secure their objective but we just cannot rely on Plymouth to do our work for us. In a final season game with so much at stake anything can happen, and that applies to us too. We have to roll our sleeves up one more time and make the hard work and rollercoaster of this season mean something.

Tough one for Icky, I feel what he did was not necessary but as alluded to earlier in the thread, maybe he was trying just a little too hard? Keep your head up lad (but not enough to nod the ball in the wrong net again!)

We can do this. Lets just get the defibs on standby for the 88th minute on sat!

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