Sunderland have lost their fifth game in spin, with Luke O'Nien now suspended.
Our writers discuss the situation in The Roar on Shots!TV - Freeview channel 276.
Our writers discuss the situation in The Roar on Shots!TV - Freeview channel 276.
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00:00 Well, Ballard was one of the players that came back into the side yesterday. He'd just served
00:03 his two-match suspension for picking up 10 yellow cards. Now, Luke09 has picked up his
00:09 10th yellow card and he's going to be suspended against Southampton and QPR. So you'd imagine
00:15 that Sunderland would then possibly go back to a back four with Seal keeping his place alongside
00:21 Ballard. We've said before, it's a good thing that Ballard and 09 weren't suspended at the same time,
00:26 otherwise there would have been a big dilemma for Mike Dodds. But 09, no doubt, was going to be a
00:32 big loss. Mike Dodds was asked about it yesterday in his post-match press conference and said,
00:37 "Well, I can't really catch a break at the minute. He's lost Patrick Roberts, he's lost Jack Clark,
00:41 he's lost Dan Ballard for two games. Now he's going to lose his captain, Luke09."
00:44 That's going to be big in terms of the leadership, as we've mentioned. In a young group,
00:50 09 is the main leader there. We've mentioned that people like Dan Ballard, like Dan Neal,
00:55 have stepped up but still going to be a huge loss isn't it.