I was horrified by the Arsenal game, and I thought after that pretty much what you've said - no-one will pay to wtach that.
We have scored 21 in 12 games including that though.
As you say re Allardyce, the crunch will be when/if we do get safe. I actually really enjoyed Allardyce at first as we could not have got results any other way - we got a draw at Anfield with a back 4 of Kenny, Holgate, Williams, Martina FFS _ but once we had done the first stage he was diabolical at times and almost revelled in making it grim for the sake of it.