"We are about developing players at reserve team level but It's nice to be at the top of the league," Ablett told the club's official website.
"After a few games this season I got the boys together and said 'listen we are doing really well here'. We as staff know how difficult it is at this moment in time for the young boys to make the first team squad, so we said let's do something together and see where we are at Christmas.
"We are still top of the league and the foreign lads have settled in well. The local lads have shown a great spirit and they have a great bond with our foreign boys. We have a good close knit group and you could see that against Sunderland.
"I thought we showed tremendous discipline and on the balance of play we deserved our win.
"We could have wrapped the game up in the second half and it was disappointing to see Ronald Huth's goal disallowed. It was a good goal in my opinion from a free-kick we had been working on all week.
"The boys worked their socks off and showed great character against a more experienced team. I'm really pleased because this is a difficult place to come and play.
"Krisztian [Nemeth] took his goal well but if I was Sunderland I would have been disappointed because I thought he just nudged their defender before he went through to score. You can't take away the quality of his finish though, with the way he lobbed the ball over their keeper.
"He went through again in the first half and was brought down. It was really a red card but their defender only got a yellow so I suppose you get one decision in your favour and you don't get another one sometimes.
"I thought Daniel Ayala was outstanding on his debut alongside big Ronald who was excellent again. Ronald is like a boy in a man's body and we tend to forget he is only 18. He is one that we have seen an improvement in since he first came here.
"It was also good for me to bring young Gerardo Bruna on again. He is a player for the future and we want give him minutes on the field. It was tough for him against two very experienced centre halves but he always does his best and the more minutes we can give him the better he will be next season."
