But to go up, you need to beat the 4th placed team. Next year is a different issue - I expect this current team to get roundly stuffed by most Premier league teams, because they have just demonstrated they won't be good enough.
We have a surprisingly good (bad?) track record of blowing up in important games in recent years, so it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to see it happen again.
We can't afford to drop points and rely on others to do the same because it won't happen every time - four losses in seven is...