Sunderland need to Man Up

It has been a week to forget for The Lads. Bournemouth was a disaster and as Dick Advocaat admitted we were beaten by a team that simply wanted it more than we did and quite frankly that is unacceptable.

Article by Jon Guy

It has been compounded by the defeat on Tuesday against Manchester City. Bad luck can only be used so many times and the fact is that mistakes in the Premier League or against teams of the quality of Manchester City will be punished and we are making too many mistakes.

When the media describes your team as second rate of the worst in the Premier league it hurts. On paper we are not the worst but currently on the pitch we would struggle to argue with that point of view.

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It had looked so promising just over a week again when the performance against Tottenham had given us a tantalising glimmer of hope that the corner was about to be turned.

We now head off to Old Trafford where we have only won once in almost 50 years to play a team bow second in the league and with teenage striker who’s acquisition in the transfer window was deride by the media only for him to be on a record of four goals in as many games.

The way our season has gone so far we could simply end up winning the game but my head says that the only consistency we have delivered this season is our inability to win a game of note.

John O’Shea says we need to cut out the errors but the biggest issue remains one of confidence, morale will always be low if you lose game after game.

Advocaat needs to come up with something and while he has stated he does not think that we will see the real Sunderland until December by then it may well be simply too late.

The problem is that if we go back to basics and take the field with the mind set that if we don’t concede we will at least come away with a draw I don’t see the cutting edge at present to nick a goal here or there to turn one point into three.

Also other teams will see a fixture against us as a soft touch and take the field in a far more confident mood and as we saw on the South Coast last week simple be up for it while we take the pitch low on confidence and therefore on the back foot before the whistle is blown.

Steve McLaren has all but admitted the barcodes are in crisis. Advocaat has told the fans not to panic that has to be the message to Ellis Short the boom and bust cycle of managers we have endured needs to stop and Advocaat has to be given time to work his magic. However, we have to hope the current curse is lifted long before December.

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