Match Day Thread Sunderland v Lincoln City – Saturday 20th March - KO 15:00

We were not good enough today...Lincoln were up for it and most certainly did not roll over.

 

Agree about Jones if he stays fit it is automatic place, without him the play off lottery

 

Aye we never quite looked like we fancied it.

Would ha e been lovely and symbolic to go second but we haven’t lost ground and that’s important.

 

The reality is we got the best result of the top three

 

Roker report makes Burge MoM I probably agree with that.

 

I feel the same. Blackpool dark horses for the play-offs , coming up fast on the outside and with games in hand.

They play Posh Tuesday and could easily beat them. We play them almost back-to-back at end April/early May so hoping they're knackered by then.

 

Me too. He earned us that point today with three very good saves.

Like others, he has definitely improved since LJ arrived.

 

Excellent post

 

I disagree - i think the top teams have been slipping up all season - all it needs is a team to put a sustained run together like we have and continue to do so and we will get into the top 2.

 

Just looked at remaining fixtures for Hull, Safc and Posh...Posh have got by far the hardest run-in imo.

 

I worry about having to play Blackpool twice. We have some really hard games before a very decent last four

 

Both Lincoln's full backs were excellent. We won't come up against that every week.

 

If i was Johnson id be saying a big well done to the lads for the way theyve played the last month, and tell them to go and chill out with their families and not bother coming into training till Wednesday.
We were literally running off fumes today, they looked burned out

 

7 points out the last 9 with the teams we have faced and the injuries we have is brilliant

 

Don't think we were too far away.
They are a good mobile team and we had a Lot of tired legs and one or two below form

Leadbitter is a calming influence but sometimes too much He slowed it down today and went backwards a lot
That seemed to set the tempo for the rest of the team.
If the teams lacking anything its drive and mobility in midfield.
Look forward to LJ finding a role for O'Nein further forward

Also something not quite clicking for Gooch at the moment would have had him off earlier.
Never though I'd say it but in the last couple of games I think we've missed O'Brien

 

Hull to play..
Gills H
Crewe A
Northampt. H
Plymouth A
Fleetwood H
Safc H
Lincoln A
Wigan H
Charlton A

 

We absolutely miss O’Brien when he isn’t there.

He runs his bollocks off and makes the other forwards life that but easier by stretching the game.

We’ve so many players coming back now which is massive. We looked understandably a bit leggy but we’ve players to cover that, whereas Hull don’t and Posh have less.

Lincoln did surprise me given what we did at their place and their current form, credit to them they looked useful and light come through the wobble and be in around the playoffs.