I will tell you what.
You are pointing out in your post that people have short memories as they don´t remember the poor points tally last season, hence anything above the 52 points or so is progress.
But I think you are the one with short memory here. The poor tally from last season came on the rebound of the Suarez saga, and the fact that the team couldn´t really get it going in the second half. If you look back to 2011 it was a fairly good calender year, where we played some magnificent football, and we did
enough to make among others Sir Alex to reckon us a s a true enemy and a threath to his team. We were inefficient in front of goal during the autumn, but in all we created shitloads of chances and played well. We had a much more balanced team than now, and we had the experience in the team to get to two cup finals even thorugh that bad spell.
This constant bullshit about seeing 52+ point as a progress, make me wonder were it all come from. Progress
compared to last spring? Yes. Progress to what the club have achieved the last 5 years, the last decade the last two decades? Not in a fucking way. You make it sound like the club was saved from relegation last spring, which is obviously not the truth, and people here are creating a myth that we were so close to the cliffs that one more step would have sent us right down the drain.
52 points with a team full of internationals should not be hard at all. Progress should have been pushing for top four, not stagnate. The trend of stagnation is hard to get out of, and I think it is a shame that we are not
pushing for top four, especially given that people wondered if Arsenal should sack Arsene Wenger over
the poor season they have. We are establishing ourselves on par with WBA, Stoke and Swansea, and people dare to call it progress? it is no fucking progress, beyond shipping out experienced players, and replace them with
younger ones, who largely look like average Joes anyway.
I don´t want to sack managers constantly. I think Hodgson was a huge mistake, and I think Kenny should have done better over the spring. I am pretty sure he would have corrected it over the summer, but when he wasn´t
given the chance to do it it is ridicoulous to gamble with the club as it has been done with the Rodgers appointment. A man that has never been a top half manager, and insist on employing a backroom
staff with fuck all experience on what it takes to be a top four club. He has been involved with some academies, as well traded around the championship. Lets give him time to prove himself, as we allready see progress? The
demand on thsi level should be better than a good run of six games with the squad he has. WBA, Stoke and Swansea would love to have the money he has spent, and they would love to have the squad he has. He has been talking shite throughout the season and in reality he doesn´t suit a club with
ambitions at all. So the best thing to do then is to reduce the ambitions to suit him? Well that is the major achievement so far.