There's always far too much read simply into results rather than performances.
Today Sunderland got lucky, their overall performance warranted defeat but as we hadn't killed it off they were always in the game despite creating no decent chances.
Over the course of a season you can balance out those undeserved wins or defeats because overall your good performances with good players will get you the results.. In a one-off game you can't.
But... we invite our own problems when we willingly stop doing what's causing the opposition problems and decide just to "sit-in". We've seen that all season long. I feared the worst, regardless of whether there would be extra time, when Hamer was forced off. We have been reliant on our best players to produce something dramatic all season long too. Surely everyone knows that? We have not been a team that has an identifiable, nor exciting style. The first half today was a digression, it hasn't been the norm.
I'd much sooner see a Football Director who will appoint a coach who can try and get us playing in an effective, and hopefully interesting way. And with players who, if we were to go up, would have half a chance of competing at the next level, in the main.
Had we won today we would have needed at least 8 new starters, and as many more again, just to give us a faint hope of stopping up. We have a very good squad for the Championship; we have a terrible one for the PL.
As for renewing the contracts of a couple of our out of contract players - I'm speechless. And that says it all.