Message from Roy as we try for that top 2 position

Dear Coxhoe Branch,
I think 1-0 was always going to be enough. Fortunately for us, Ross [Wallace] produced a bit of quality and we're delighted. If we had gone 1-0 down, I think it would have been difficult to get back into it.
We're taking nothing for granted. The players seem to be enjoying it, it's not as if we have been scraping results, we've been playing well.
There will be ups and downs in the next few weeks. There is six games to go, we'll win as many as we can and see where it takes us.
We just want to try to get back in the Premiership. If it's in the top two, fantastic; if it's via the play-offs, we'll be ready and focused.
You have to have hope in football and I hoped we could get in the promotion picture when I took over, but I think we are ahead of where I hoped we'd be.
What the players have got now, that togetherness, pleases me. It thrills me to have these players, they keep going and doing the business.
Ross [Wallace] has got quality. I did feel that he would come on and score, I had a gut feeling.
The conditions were difficult for both teams. Credit to Cardiff, it was a hard afternoon, there are plenty of ice packs on the legs of our players.
It was a tough, physical game; maybe not a great game to watch but you have got to admire both teams giving 100 per cent for their clubs. There was no give, lads were flying into tackles.
You just don't know in the Championship. If you were a betting man, you wouldn't touch it.

Roy Keane
Cardiff City 0 Sunderland 1Click here to visit the safc.com Match Centre.
Next game: Sunderland v Wolves, Saturday April 7, (3pm).
Click here to buy tickets online (home games only)