We had an excellent December last year from what I remember. Possibly 13 from 15 points, where we beat Chelsea Leicester and Arsenal in 7 days.
I don't actually want to compare with last season because it wasn't proper football, but we are behind where we should be currently. 15 points from 12 games is not good enough.
If we don't improve over the next 3 to 4 games then there is no argument he deserves more time. 1 win in 12 or 13 games gets any manager the sack in this league.
We are 5 points worse off than we were after 12 games last season. That isn't brilliant, but I'm prepared to cut him some slack based on the injuries - we were doing fine until they hit and we've struggled since. We had injuries last season too, of course, but not quite to the same extent. That said, the Watford result was still unacceptable and, as manager, he has to take responsibility for that (although I think most us will agree, whether or not we are willing to openly admit it or not that this gang of cowards we have that sort of collapse in their locker as we have seen on frequent occasions in the last few years)
He's made mistakes so far - the signing of Rondon and the set piece set up until recently, but equally I was quite impressed when he had a full squad to choose from about how he'd managed to find a way of getting the best out of some players. We'd have lost yesterday with more or less any manager in charge and with a full squad, so I won't get too hung on that. What I would say is that injuries or not, he needs to find a way of scraping some results over the next few weeks because although I have some sympathy for the situation, any hint of being in a scrap at the bottom (and no, we aren't *that* far away from it now) will see things spiral as they did under Koeman and SIlva.
The timing of the derby doesn't help one little bit - with a full strength team, I might give us a fighting chance of getting something, but that doesn't appear likely at all and if we lose at Brentford next weekend, the likely defeat at Goodison in the derby might see things start to unravel quickly.
I never wanted the fella at all, but I'm also quite sympathetic to the situation he finds himself in and, all things being equal, I'd like to see him given a fair crack of the whip because God knows we need some stability, but we aren't a million miles away from crisis.
