O'Neill, 59, took charge of Sunderland on Monday which was just a day after his club slipped down to 17th in the Premier League after losing 2-1 to Wolves. Brown, 32, insists that he is playing with a solid team and he believes it will just be a matter of time until the Black Cats start picking up the points. "He (O'Neill) has inherited a great team with good quality, we just need to start gelling and winning games," said Brown to Sunderland's official website. "When we missed the penalty you could see heads going down and that's what we don't need, we needed to stay focused. We were winning the game 1-0 (though a goal from Kieran Richardson), very comfortably I thought. "But we missed the penalty and within a minute they scored. Suddenly they were attacking us and we got our heads down. We were may be feeling sorry for ourselves and the rest is history." The ex-Aston Villa manager met his players for the first time on Saturday but Brown admitted that caretaker manager Eric Black took control of the team this weekend. "He (O'Neill) didn't say much to us on Saturday, he just introduced himself, said hello to everyone," said Brown. "He was at the game but he left most of it to Blackie." Wolves boss Mick McCarthy believes that O'Neill took the right approach to the match but he also confesses that both clubs looked average in their Premier League encounter. "I do think if the new manager is sat in the dug-out it is different and if you are in the stands it is almost like you are not involved for that day," McCarthy said. "I can't say they didn't try their hardest because they did but it looked like two toiling, struggling and fairly ordinary teams."
