Comparing him already when we have barely survived the PL and lost our best player in Richie. He started at the back (better) then the midfield (better) and now he has to improve the duds up front. The same duds that failed last season. Now for arguments sake he could have started at the front and worked backwards but we know what last seasons defence and midfield was like.
Those other managers apart from maybe Joe Royle, Walter Smith and Moyes didn't take over a team as bad as we had last season. Joe Royle hit the ground running, Walter Smith didn't do much but had cash taken away from him and Moyes was so so but given the time. If January sees no movement in the market providing he has money to spend then I will start to get a bit worried. We have just lost 3 on the trot to better teams than us so let us see how we fair against similar teams to us
Moyes was up and down every season for his first, what, 6? From 7th, to 17th, to CL, to 11th, etc.
We have to stabilise. Also agreed on your point that we had to start from the back - if anything, I'm glad we're starting with that instead of going for the Martinez approach of bringing more forwards and playing kamikazeball lol Saw the problem - worked on a fix. Likewise, came in with the 3-4-3 idea, quickly saw how badly we performed and switched it (or was forced to, but at least persisted with the 4-at-the-back formations). These are all positives, and hopefully we can build on this and be stronger this season and get even better next season. Hopefully we also get a few games in though, the quality of the lower league is currently in our favour (as we're also not exactly fantastic or in some great form), so this should work well short term...
Problem for me personally is still playing too cautiously at all times really. That and the fact that our wingers are absolute ass and provide nothing for the forward(s) doesn't really help either, but idk how much of a problem from Lampard is the fact that Gray has 2 braincells and Gordon is exactly as poor as I remember him to be before he was labelled a messiah because he runs at people and dives.