It's all about relationship management to keep their seats in official club tours and granting access to exclusives like what Mark Travers thinks about the food selection in whichever armpit state of the US our preseason brings us to.
I mean, even Moyes loyalists would blanche at this being considered "success". To be fair to them, they'd argue it was some form of progress or improvement over recent seasons, but they wouldn't be so tin-eared as to describe it as success.
Roberto's last two seasons were a study in underachievement. We were disastrous those seasons. His first year, when Moyes's defence was still in its prime, was magnificent as he provided a massive breath of fresh air and had us have a proper go for the first time in a generation. But that only gets you so far for so long when there's not much more than positivity to fall back on. The signing of McGeady was the beginning of the end...
I'd say improvement on last year, that's all. Performances have dipped, unfortunately during a run of good fixtures too but overall I'm still enjoying the overall improvement
Agree. But his first spell was under Kenwright and strikers have never been cheap, so good strikers were never really a conversation we belonged in. Yakubu was a fantastic signing, such a better player than I’d imagined him to be at the time.
True. But after his first season, the decline to 11th was steep. It's all relative. Lots depends on where you start from. Moyes is very fortunate indeed that so much of our fanbase is still suffering PTSD after the near-death experience Moshiri took us through building that stadium.
How about a Davek Vader...
Moyes idea of going full throttle is ordering a can of Irn Bru with his fish supper .
When all is said and done I don't think I'll ever be able to truly take to Moyes after that. Proper cringe egotistical machismo
