Those who are sniping about Moyes need to look at where we were when he first came to the club. The 90s (barring the FA Cup win and the Kanchelskis season) was the decade where we got left behind. Going into the 90s we were arguably part of a big 4 - with Liverpool, Utd and Arsenal. During it we were regularly surpassed by teams like Blackburn, Leeds, Newcastle, Villa, Coventry, Derby and Leicester. We ended that decade not even in the big 10!
We have only had any sort of investment since Martinez - post Moyes. What Moyes did was take us past the clubs listed above with little or no investment. Only 3 times did he not finish top 7 at a time when Chelsea, Man City and Spurs (Villa were also still up there too) had added to the big 4 of the 80s all with more resource than Moyes.
The man worked wonders with some average players and turned around the careers of talented players who had lost their way.
He was a proper Manager. What I wouldn't give to have a proper manager now instead of the utter shambolic fraud we now have running things.
If Cardiff can somehow win 4 of their last 8 games; as it stands at the moment, we are getting relegated.
We never once had to worry about that under Moyes - even when we finished 17th we were always safe and that season the players downed tools for the last few games.
Would love to give Moyes a crack till the end of the season with the big teams we have left to play. I'm sure he'd engineer the one win we would need to be safe...