The latest North East sport headlines, from Daniel Wales.
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00:00Sunderland head coach Regis Labrice has said that the playoffs will be different to any other away game that they have experienced in the championship so far this season.
00:09They play their first leg away at Coventry City on Friday evening, hoping to take a good result back to the Stadium of Light on Tuesday in the second leg, which will decide who goes to Wembley.
00:21It will be different, it will be different because of the atmosphere and the expectations, the high stakes and so on, so this game will be different and it will be unique, I think, and they are ready for that and probably the crowd will be really noisy in the first 20-25 minutes, so it will be important to manage that part and after that, even through that, because it's still possible to damage a team,
00:51during this strong momentum, we'll have to size our opportunities. We are lucky to be together again, to talk about opportunities, problems, bad situations, bad emotions, positive, negative and ambition, so it's a really good situation.
01:11And Middlesbrough head coach Michael Carrick has said that the younger members of his squad will learn from Middlesbrough missing out on the championship playoffs this season following their defeat against Coventry City.
01:23Without doubt they'll learn from it, the boys, and yeah, there's different age groups in there, obviously, some are coming towards the end a little bit, some are starting out, and you learn a lot about yourself, you learn a lot about each other, and especially the younger boys that have got a good few years left in them, I think they'll learn a lot, they'll take a lot from this, it'll make them stronger, it'll make them better for it, doesn't sound nice now, and you don't want to be saying that now, but it's the truth, and we're there to help them and guide them and pick them up, and
01:52As I said, I couldn't ask for the way they went about it and approached it, I couldn't ask for any more from them.
01:57I think we've got something really big to build on, good young team, good squad, good spirit, a lot of good quality, got to be fine around the edges, a little bit more ruthless when we need to be, but I think as a group, there's something building that we need to carry on.