To be fair, due to the manner of the managerial change it has to get assessed in the short term, which will end up being on a result-to-result basis. We won't be able to judge his results after ten season. MP is going to have under half a season, if we go down it will prove to have been a bad decision.
For me, and I've always said this even after the Man City game, sacking Adkins when we did was high risk. We had half a season of Nige' learning the Prem, now we're likely to get half a season of MP learning the Prem (and the squad).
In terms of the game, I was feeling very dejected after the result. The thing that annoyed me the most is how only JRod tested Julio Cesar when he was struggling with injury. He could barely move, we should have been pinging them in from range and following them up, but we were knocking it around on the edge of the area.
I thought Fonte, Schneiderlin, Rodriguez and Boruc were the only players to come out of the game with any credit (but not much). Onwards and upwards.