Tony Mowbray is taking Sunderland's back-to-back defeats at Rotherham and Coventry in his stride, insisting such results are part and parcel of life in the Championship. The Black Cats suffered two successive defeats for only the second time this season, losing 2-1 at relegation strugglers Rotherham a week ago and then at the weekend by the same scoreline against the Sky Blues.
Those results saw Sunderland drop out of the play-off spots to ninth in the table at the weekend, slowing the momentum they had built up in the preceding weeks. But, while Mowbray was left frustrated by those results and wants his side to get back on course when Stoke City visit Wearside this weekend, he is looking at the big picture which still sees Sunderland enjoying an excellent season on their return to the Championship.
"We will probably go up and down over the next 12 games," said Mowbray. "We can potentially lose two or three games, and we can potentially win two or three games.
