I'm as disappointed as the next bloke about tonight, but I would refer you to the fact that last season, we lost away to Newcastle and then at home to Boro, both teams we 'should' have beaten, while playing some pretty below-par football, and then we won 2-0 at the Emirates and didn't lose again until Chelsea beat us the following February.
I'm not suggesting that we'll do that again, but I'm just pointing out that no matter how bad you think we might be playing, it might just take one result to lift the whole season and really put some distance between us and the new pretenders. If we, the team and the management learn from tonight then we might have nothing to complain about in a couple of months time.