Well that's exactly why I asked it mate. Do you want us to do better in August or dip in the season? Should we have gotten more than 48 pts last season given our predicament? Should Dyche be pushing for Europe?
Mate, that's a glib answer, and you're talking about semantics: I would rather us try to accrue points throughout the season, and not have a dip.
There's no guarantee that we're going to pick up points in any part of the season, so logically we should be wanting to get them from the offset to build momentum.
To put it simply, Saturday was disappointing. We have chances early on, didn't take them, and then we capitulated - be it in August or February, it ain't good.
To be fair, I'm personally not in favour of the walk out, especially at the start of the season, and I can appreciate why Dyche may have been disappointed.
But equally, I'm not going to be overly critical of fellow fans who've paid money. It's like the good old chicken and egg scenario...
Should fans stay to the end, emotionless, even when the 2nd half was as dire as I've seen in a while? If that's what we're doing in August, well it is a worry.
Yes, we have a job to support the players and the club, perhaps through thick and thin, yet equally the manager and his players have a responsibility too.
It ain't all about entertainment - football is different from many sports in that way - so when the horrendous lack of effort emerged, the frustration is fair.
What has bothered me the most are Dyche's comments over it, because he has (deliberately or not) caused a division after one game; he's alienated fans.
His job is to be the middleman between the players and the fan base, and his post-match comments were not showing of that responsibility.
I can begrudgingly accept defeat - it is what it is - but I cannot accept that in our first home game of the season, we're still doing Plan A, and not very well.
