The defence does still have issues (not as major as last season obviously, but they are still failing when needed most) and fitness seems to be getting there.
I think we are ignoring the major issue here (in my opinion) and it was the same last season. Killing teams off.
Our attack is quite frankly rubbish. We constantly attack teams yet do bugger all with it in the final third, we bomb forward and then stop allowing opponents to get bodies in the way, then we ping it around a bit before putting it out for a goal kick or whatever. We lack some major guile an inventiveness in the final third and it has cost us for a while now.