I donвЂ™t get to as many games as I would like, living in Kent, but it has been useful for me to be able to make my own assessments since Gillingham. But hopefully theyвЂ™ll learn from those experiences, and weвЂ™ll reap the rewards of that sooner rather than later! Dajaku is one of a number of players who are learning on the job Photo by Ian Horrocks/Sunderland AFC via Getty Images Taking this approach is going to bring with it some ups and downs вЂ“ the latter as we saw on Saturday. Ian MuddД®dвЂ™s Note : WeвЂ™ve got a very promising squad Ian, with a number of players who, in my view, will play the majority of their careers higher than League One level. IвЂ™ve watched Sunderland for 57 years now and never been more excited by the quality of home grown talent coming through. However, if lessons are learned and the management strong, talent will prevail. This would seem to be true for SAFC atrocious conditions and a physical opposition leading to heavy defeats. Inexperience would, over the course of a season, lose too many tight games or games where conditions were extreme.

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