Take it on the chin, its essentially a brand new squad collectively, bound to be ups and downs.
I agree, I’ve just said in the match thread,
we all want success but it won’t happen overnight. We need to be patient.
We’ve gone from appalling managers and a mental owner to relatively level headed stability.
We need to build on that, and not throw our toys out of the pram after a cup exit.
From a sanity point of view it’s not healthy to swing to full-on negativity after a bad night.
I feel this is almost purposefully ignoring the main issues people have tonight, just to defend the manager
I personally have plenty of patience for us to get better, even under a manager I don’t like, but that has nothing to do with what looks like a decision to field a weakened team and gamble on going through in one of our two chances of a trophy.
You can have patience for our recovery from the recent disastrous seasons whilst still thinking
Moyes is a blert for doing what we have seen him do before, and being annoyed or angry at being out of a cup without giving it our best shot….again.
Patience when we do our best (manager and team) but lose, yep. Patience for a manager repeating the same mistakes he himself has made in an important game, no.
As an extra point, I think there’d be a much better chance of the patience many of us see as necessary if they hadn’t kept on a manager who a lot didn’t like or really want. Always going to be the case that he will get a quicker backlash than most managers. Add the circumstances tonight and it’s as clear as day, he will get it from all sides and will have started a snowball rolling now if it’s compounded with a run of poor results.
(Ideally we bounce back and go on a run, as I do think stability is better this season)
