RFUS
Anustart
Judge at the end of the season. We're right smack dab in the middle of the hardest two months of the season. Have a look at the fixtures we have in the last 2 and a half months of the year, then look at how we've done against that type of team in those two months in the last 5/6 years. You will see that there is no point judging this season at all yet. We could even win silverware yet. We're 13th now, yes. Will we even be bottom half at the end of the season? Will we be below Norwich? The past suggests almost certainly not. So there's plenty still to change. No point getting down about being below Norwich when we will probably be out of sight of them come the end of the season.
I agree and I also don't.
Yes we should judge when 38 league games have passed, but on the other hand this is the third (or fourth -- I've lost count) season in a row in which we've started terribly and then climbed back up the table when any chance of a good season is all but over.
Moyes deserves as much criticism for the bad start as he does praise for the good ends. I suspect if it was the other way around and we ended seasons how we start them Moyes would get more stick. It's only because we go into the summer on the back of good form that we: a.) Forget the bad form at the start and b.) Have a sense of hope for the next season, rather than dread. And then when the season starts... Deja vu!