are we letting in same amount of goals, but scoring more? Or are we defensively better?

For me, most gamed have been very entertaining.. that's all I care about.

This was once a quality forum....

Absolutely this. Let's simply enjoy what we currently have while it lasts.

We need to remember that this is not the finished article. We are at the start of a long period of transformation for the club. Whatever we are seeing now are just the ‘first shoots’ of the new growth that has been planned for sometime.

Huge steps were taken in the summer to overhaul the squad and to dramatically change the way we play. This could easily have meant we struggled to hold our mid-table position while the team adjusted to a new, inexperienced manager and learned a new style of play. That was in fact what most fans and pundits expected for the first half of this season. Most expected us to be around the bottom of the Premier Leguae by Christmas. We were expecting to have to sacrifice short term success to achieve the longer term objectives - a club successfully playing attractive football, with strong financials and an accredited academy with top class facilities producing valuable players who will contribute to our future success. The fact that this transformation has started without sacrificing any short term results is absolutely amazing.

Lots of people deserve the credit for this including Vieira, Freedman, Parish and Textor but also Hodgson for keeping us in the Premier League while Freedman and Parish prepared the moves we saw in the summer - new players, new investor and new direction. The full results of this are still to come though!

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Edited by maddog (31 Dec 2021 12.37pm)