It wasn't "two years of tosh" though, Toff.
You know that as well as I do.
That is why your good self and me were still with Roberto up until March......we kept hoping that the balls would fall into place and we would start defending properly to complement the excellent attacking play Roberto sent his team out to play.
This time last year the football was free flowing, exciting and we were in a good little run up until Bournemouth.
Two years ago the team was in decent form and we were a week away from returning from Wolfsburg after a stunning victory which put the group to rest.
Don't let the revisionists cloud your thinking.
It was very bad in parts over the past two years.....but it was also very good in parts.
Forget about the past and judge on what you are seeing right now.
It is abysmal.
Forget about what United spent and get your head round the fact we have taken 6 points from the last 21 possible points.
That is relegation form.
Look at the next six games and realistically predict what you think we can get from them.
I am going for 6 at best
If it pans out that way we are going to be mired in the bottom half of the table.
This is not good, Toff.
This is very bad.
You say we are "realistically the seventh best team in the league".
Happen......but we have lost at Bournemouth and Burnley plus dropped home points against Palace and Swansea.
If we are better than those teams then the manager must be doing sommat wrong in setting our team up.
This is why the more realistic among us, the one's whose heads are not buried in the sand, are miserable and behaving like "turnips".
We have lots to me "miserable" about
Yeh I agree on your first point Khal.
That's why I think the worrying thing (or mainly for me) is the mental fragility of this squad (one bad result and they collapse).
Koeman showed us with a strong start he can be the manager to get us back to where we want to be, IMO, and while I'm not saying he's blameless for the slump (as he isn't) - my main worry is the squad, and its why I'm more than willing to give him and Walsh at least the next two windows before getting overly concerned.
Our form is awful - all of the players and the manager have said so (Baines did a very candid interview after the game as well).
But... we're still in a good position, regardless of where we were earlier in the season, is my major point. Even having not played well. That's a silver lining to take from it.
We need to kick on - and that's on both the players and the manager. We should have got that reaction on Saturday and didn't and these slow starts to games (which were prevalent under RM as well) need to be eradicated.
