I can think of a million worse things than Sunderland being in league one. And plenty of football related things that are worse than Sunderland being in league one.
and as Ipswich, Wigan and Sheffield Wednesday all found out yesterday - filling your teams with new players takes a while to gel. There’s an argument that says Winchester at RB, having played there in pre season and no doubt spending training in that position, would actually be better there at the moment than bringing in a specialist right back who needs to get up to speed.