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Sunderland faces Wolves this weekend after a disappointing loss, with players urged to improve performance. Key players need to step up to avoid repeating mistakes and finish the season strong.
Of all the birthday presents I asked for last Friday, a battering wasnât on the list. We always do this â enjoy nice things written being about us, hand the ball back and ask the pundits to think again. My advice is dead simple: âGet off the beach and back on the pitch.â People pay their hard-earned every week to follow this lot up and down the country, and what they got at the Stadium of Light on Friday was almost insulting. Habib Diarra needs to find whatever it was that made us splurge ÂŁ30 million-plus on him before kick off. Omar Alderete needs to not pass to the opposition repeatedly, and Robin Roefs needs to remember the standards heâs set himself. We need to stop aimlessly passing backwards and expecting everything from the defenders. Earn it back. Wolves might be already down but after the pummelling on Friday, no one in red and white should be daft enough to call anything a âbankerâ. Forest were in trouble when they walked out of the Stadium of Light with a gift-wrapped five goals. We have to treat Molineux like a cup final then go again at , and , with Europe fading away. Haway the Lads.
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Like many others, I was completely bewildered by what unfolded in front of my very eyes on Friday. Prior to the match, we were all thinking about how highly we could finish and a potential European campaign, but what followed was brutal. However, when weâve faced setbacks over the course of this season, the team has rallied well. In terms of advice, as difficult as itâll be, itâs simply a case of putting this horrendous result behind them and looking to finish the season as strongly as possible. One thing is simple: we need to show the resilience that weâve demonstrated over the course of the season. Weâve gone behind before and have rallied well. Alongside this, the simple mistakes that were visible for all to see need to be eliminated completely. Fans can tolerate players that make mistakes, but giving up and not tracking back is inexcusable. Iâm confident that with players like Granit Xhaka and Nordi Mukiele in the dressing room, weâll see improvements and a reinforcement of the standards weâve come to expect. There are still twelve points to play for and every performance going forward needs to reflect our strongest possible showing.
Iâd remind the lads that although that was our worst performance of the season, it stood out due to how well weâve done compared to the expectations of summer 2025.
Itâs OK for any Premier League side to have a poor game or two, and all squads from Arsenal
and Manchester City down have had them. Thatâs normal and itâs even more OK for a newly-promoted side, which we still are until the end of May, to stutter now and again.
What isnât OK is to make the same mistakes in one game or a series of them, and not to learn and recover. Weâve generally done really well after every defeat, and we need to see that again.
You arenât on the beach until you take off the boots and put on your flip flops. Thatâs for June, not May, and the last thing we want to see is this cracking squad abandoning a lot of the progress made with a smattering of poor showings late in the campaign.
No matter what happens during the final four games, this team has given us a season to cherish and has far exceeded expectations of the fans having won the playoffs a year ago. But we also have new-found pride to play for and with early success, wider expectations mature.
If we donât meet organically-growing expectations, we at least have to take a good pop at them and Friday was far from that.
We donât want to miss out on one of our best Premier League finishes and the outside chance of European football without giving our absolute all, so get out there at Molineux and show the travelling faithful what this club and the fans mean to you, as you failed to on Friday at home.
360 more minutes of 100% effort and you stand a very good chance of being part of this huge project for another twelve months-plus, but take your foot off the gas and you could be next seasonâs Dan Neil or Anthony Patterson, replaced with the 2.0 version in the blink of an eye.
There are plenty of points to play for. Now get back to work and letâs see some Mackem pride.
Itâs a matter of standards. Thatâs the bedrock on which this season of immense promise has been built, and they canât be allowed to slip with four games of the season remaining. Whether we qualify for European competition (something for which I donât think weâre anywhere near ready, truth be told) is almost academic at this stage. What matters more â at least to me â is breaching the fifty point mark and becoming the first Sunderland side since Peter Reidâs Lads of 2001 to reach that total. Prior to his spell in charge, youâre going back forty-plus years to witness the last Sunderland team to finish with that kind of total in the top flight, so that ought to be motivation enough for them. Friday evening saw an abomination of a performance that wasnât reflective of this teamâs ability and the competitiveness the players have demonstrated this season. I still have no idea what brought about such a display but it was simultaneously bizarre and gut-wrenching to watch, and it canât be allowed to happen again. Enzo Le FĂ©e summed it up nicely afterwards, observing that European football couldnât be spoken about seriously after a result like that, and although RĂ©gis Le Bris copped a lot of flak, for my money he was let down by his players and they owe him big-time this coming Saturday â as well as the fans thatâll travel to the Midlands with hopes of a victory against the already-relegated hosts. The old âtheyâre on the beachâ argument is always used as an excuse when teams donât perform at this stage of the season. I think itâs an absolute cop-out and if any of Sunderlandâs players *are* dreaming of mojitos, platinum blondes, foam parties and glorious Ibizan sunsets, the prospect of a gritty battle against Wolves ought to bring them back to reality. Sharpen up, lads. Donât allow the Forest debacle to define how you end the season, but instead treat it as a nasty if necessary reminder of what can happen if youâre not on your game and allow basic mistakes to be made. Put it right at Molineux and letâs get things rolling again.