Kind of us to gift Sunderland three points on the day we wear our charity kit.
Ultimately the game was over after 30 minutes after a series of woeful defending. At that point my feelings were what a wasted day. To be honest, I was furious. Thankfully we improved significantly in the second half, but it's difficult to know how much that was down to Sunderland taking thier foot off the gas. Sunderland were the better team,not by much, but deserved the win. You can't play like we did in the first 30 minutes and expect anything from the game. I appreciate that Appleton wants to play out from the back, however we don't have the personnel. How many more games are we going to throw away a goal? I'm not saying this style won't work, but we need to get the right players in (which won't be easy!)
Pretty pleased with the second half performance. Had Akinde scored his good chance early on, it could have been very different. Unfortunately the players were running on empty when we did score. From about 75 minutes onwards Sunderland were comfortable. They created little, but didn't need to. What I would say is, there were a lot of simple mistakes today like miss placed passes and a lot of poorly hit shots. Also, very disappointed with the atmosphere. Expected a lot from the home fans, but they were very quite, half of them left before the final Whistle!
So continues our shambolic away form, but as long as we get points at home we'll be fine.