Happy to call it a "Venkys have thrown another season" death spiral.

Who cares, he took a shot and it somehow went in. The point is that we have the likes of Dolan have had chances and either taken too many touches, too long to get a shot off or their shot has been way off target.

I'll agree with you that we haven't played poorly today (Bristol have been far worse but taken their chances) but that doesn't make it any less a death spiral.

We didn't replace Kaminski, we didn't replace Armstrong, Brereton, Wharton or Szmodics. And now we're getting beaten by aged Dingle rejects/a team who can barely string two passes together.

Dolan had a chance to put us ahead then. Why can't he just bury it?

Probably, and with a sending off for one of our better players.

Dolan should have done better with his first chance, he should have passed it to one of the two players with a better angle to score. Pears should have done much better for their goal. Weimann or Dolan should have scored a tap in a few minutes before we got the equaliser. We could be 3-0 up.

Phew, going in at half time 1-0 would have been an injustice.

As I said Bristol are all over the place. They keep giving the ball away. We just don't have the players to take advantage.

Contrary to the scoreline, Bristol are absolutely awful. We've just no attacking threat, slow in midfield and gave away a cheap goal. We're still playing better than Bristol and losing. Another game thrown by Venkys/Pasha/Waggott.

He's not wearing blue and white.

Certain players should have been out of the door long before the taps were turned off.

Buckley gives away another free kick pissing about with the ball near our box, loses it then gives away a free kick. Buckley, Dolan, etc. Why are we still persevering with these players?

Against the run of play again. We're looking the better team, they get one chance and score. Dolan skies our chance. Just sign some fucking players that can put it in the net.

Poor keeping that. It was almost slow motion.

Some good play by Dolan then to make himself a chance then he skied it. We're playing well so far but the same frustrating problems persist.

Shameful. Pasha the coward out!

If we're getting into the play offs this one quality player needs to be omnipresent. There's no way we're finishing 4-6th place with Buckley and Forshaw in midfield and Batth and Brittain out, as well as the rest.

As I said "... we haven't signed any more crap players".

Would be brilliant but the owners have zero interest or ambition. He'll end up at another team currently in the top 12.

The good news is that we haven't signed any more crap players. The bad news is that we can't even sign crap players.

Seems to be a pattern emerging with all of our transfer activity this Jan.

https://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/football/sunderland-afc/sunderland-striker-target-montpelliers-akor-adams-closes-in-on-ps7m-spain-move-4957849

I thought Sunderland wanted him for £7m.