I agree with this totally.
My point is that there are so many willing to readily criticise one of the games most successful managers after he has been here less than 11 months? He has only started to build his regime here and Johnson and Fletcher have been excellent additions. If thats the calibre of player we are now after then bring it on imo.
Yes the football isn't Barcelona and yes we have ridden our luck on occasions but we have also been very unlucky too imo with postponed games due to extreme weather, late goals conceded in games at West Ham and at home to Liverpool, injuries to key players like Johnson, Brown and Bardsley and the loss of form of those players we hoped much better of.
The fact is we are still a work in progress and MoN will take 18 months to really put his stamp on the club. In the meantime, 2 quarter finals in 6 months would be a canny improvement over recent years and comfortable mid table mediocrity something of an unknown for the older followers. We have been poor but then that means we can only get better surely? Teams like the lot up the road have ridden their luck already this season with flukey deflections and offside goals, handballs etc and maybe when our luck turns theirs will too (and there are others in that league also).
If we are bottom 6 come May and played ****e all season then we can all have a moan but 8 games into the season (3 home games and 5 away) its ridiculous and bloody pathetic to start moaning already when we are within touching distance of top 8 and a game in hand- hence I agree with MR that it has always been that we are not happy as a set of fans sometimes unless we are moaning and twisting about **** all.
We are a far better prospect under MoN than we have been under any of the previous dozen managers over the past 30 years imo.