Luke O'Nien has been discussing the recent grumblings around Sunderland, most recently after the full time whistle blew against Hull City which saw us register our first home defeat of the season.
POST MATCH BOOS
“Yeah, there were a few grumblings from myself as well. I don't like losing football. Anyone not grumbling, I think that's human nature to not win and to grumble. I think my wife was like it as well. It's human nature. You always want to win. You want to demand from each other."
HAVE TO DO OUR JOB
“You want to be better. As long as you do it in a healthy and positive way where we're all put in the right direction, that's all you can do. The fans are massively important. I sometimes tend to zone out of the crowd because I'm focused on what I need to do. I just crack on with the job. When the crowd is right behind us, we can see what it does to our position. It's our job as players to do our job first. If we do that well enough, we'll have their support as well.”
TAKE THE EMOTION OUT OF IT
“It comes with the conversations you have, the energy you go in the next day, whether you're down or whether you have the conversations. I think it's getting in groups, defensive units, attacking units, just again. You want to review a game without the emotion. I think that's why it's important that you do that on Sundays and not straight after a game, where the emotion has died down a little bit and you can see it for what it actually is rather than the emotion taken away from the facts of the game."
LOOKING TO PUT IT RIGHT
“It's a bit of perspective. I go home, spend a bit of time with my kids, get kicked around by them and then come in tomorrow looking to be a better person, better player and better teammate. That's all you can do. There's loads of good work that's gone on. Obviously, the game takes the centre point and we're all guilty of just looking at a game in isolation. That's how the season's been when there's a lot of good work. But people only remember what you did today. Tomorrow's a new day and Friday you can go put in a good performance, win and people forget about this.”
