Rotherham United would have 'snapped your hand off' if offered a five-game unbeaten start to the season, admits assistant manager Richie Barker. The Millers travel to Wearside tonight to take on Sunderland at the Stadium of Light, with the Black Cats expected to have new head coach Tony Mowbray in the dugout.
Paul Warne's Rotherham finished runners-up in League One last season and won promotion along with play-off winners Sunderland, and both have made good starts in the Championship. Sunderland have picked up eight points from their first six games back in the second tier, but Rotherham have done even better with nine points from five games and the South Yorkshire outfit have yet to taste defeat.
"If you'd given us this start to the season four weeks or so ago, we'd have snapped your hand off," said Warne's assistant Barker. "We're not getting carried away, there's a really busy time coming up and some really tough games and a few ex-Premier League clubs in there.
