It was pretty bad.
It's a little soon to start giving up though. Some of the comments i'm seeing online, on Villatalk and other sites, are laughable... Di Matteo out? Relegation battle? Awful signings? Need a whole new defence? (the same defence that before yesterday had only conceded 2 goals)
We had 2 players making their debuts, alongside a bunch of other players who've barely played together, under a manager 5 games into the job. This is not the time to start turning on everybody involved with the club.
If we'd had the start that Newcastle had, everybody would've been similarly freaking out a couple of weeks ago, but suddenly 3 games later they're in 4th place and everything's great. At this point in the season it doesn't take much to jump up table, so let's give it some time before declaring that nothing's changed from last season.