Luke O’Nien has admitted while improvements have been made lately, the hard work has only just started if promotion is to be achieved this season.
The Black Cats return to home soil on Friday to face Doncaster Rovers, in search of their fourth straight win in League One.
Unbeaten in seven now following last weekend’s 1-0 win at MK Dons, O’Nien has admitted while the Lads are up to sixth in the standings, the team can’t afford to take their foot off the gas with plenty of work still to do.
“It’s our goal to be right up there come the end of the season,” he admitted.
“We are looking up and we are chasing, we are going to keep chasing until we are on top and then we are going to look to pull away.
“We can only focus on our performances and if we can manage to execute the game plan week in week out then the points will come.
“The rest will take care of itself,” he continued.
“Doncaster will be an exciting game, but we have a lot of work to do before then.
“At the moment we are building week in week out. When the gaffer came in it took a while for us to adjust and do what he asked of us.
“Each week we showed a bit of improvement and we knew results would come if we kept focusing on the things that we needed too.
“We’re not surprised things have picked up for us because we have worked hard, and we all know what we are doing.
“We are in a good spot, but we need to keep working and focusing so we can continue this good run of form.”
