Some that rattled Martin O’Neill's cage, but the Man City boss hit the nail on the head.
Did the Mackems put up a fight? I don't know, I wasn't there, but the result was never going to be in doubt.
The fact is, after the celebrations when Geordie-boy Steve Bruce was sacked, the dust has settled ... and the Mackem Leprechaun is not the Messiah they thought he was.
Winning honours in the "Two-Team Chilly Jocko League" with Celtic is not REALLY an achievement.
Plastic medals from the 'Worst League' in world football.
The Premiership is where 'men are men' and you sink or you swim. And at the moment, the HMS Mackem is leaking water.
Sunderland’s defeat against Manchester United on the final day of the season consigned the Black Cats to 13th spot in the table after ending the campaign on the back of an eight-game winless streak.
The conclusion to the season has proved an anti-climax compared with O’Neill’s first few months in charge, and O’Neill's team finished two points adrift of last year’s tally under Bruce.
O’Neill: “Despite us wanting to finish in the top 10, had we done so it might have glossed over a few things that we needed to address in terms of strengthening.
“Over 38 games, you finish where you deserve to finish.
“Certainly, there were one or two games on this winless run that we could and should have won, yet there were probably also a couple of games we won early on which we shouldn’t have done.
“It doesn’t matter – it levels itself out.
“Where we finished is probably where we deserved to finish, and now it’s up to us to take it on from there next season."