The moment we were promoted I accepted things would change forever and things would get serious quickly.
Players we'd admired and who we believed were here for years are suddenly 'drifting away'.
Others who we'd thought would be 'good solid options', like Mepham look Championship standard.
Dan Neil was a shoo in but isn't even guaranteed a start against West Ham.
New coaches and serious scouting is going on round the clock, it seems, and you start to wonder how long Dodds and Proctor would've lasted.
Whatever the case there's nothing to do, it's all out of our hands and we can only sit back and see what happens.
I'm sure KLD is charming but he's not at Sunderland to trust the players, who've helped us to promotion, and keep his fingers crossed ...
... the club has just hit a significant new notch with a big clang and we'll all just have to get used to it.