His defending is usually excellent and I agree with you regarding his recovery from the illness 100%
Moyes has to take some of the responsibility for failing to:
a. sufficiently challenge him at RB with a REGULAR replacement
b. succeed in coaching him to pass and cross better (or failing that just tell him to give the easy short pass a la Darracott ("just stand in the centre circle, Terry." Billy Bingham, circa 1975) or Pat Psycho "just chop him off at the ankles." Howard Kendall, circa 1986))
I suspect however that Moyesie has looked at the sum of the parts and is generally happy. However he has seen that we have been more successful with Phil Neville at right-back which, incidentally, has allowed Phil Neville to claim a regular POSITION in the side (as opposed to sometimes midfield sometimes right-back) so that's a good thing.
Moving on to dealing with the boo-boys: It's inherent in all clubs. Alcohol must play a large part. Can't say I would ever do it myself, I'm the first to get up and encourage the lads and let people around me know when someone's done something really good. There was however an audible sigh when Tone beat a man
and then proceeded to mess up a straightforward pass. I think Manny also had a few of those groans when a few of his soft passes went astray in recent games. I'm sure Phil Neville is not averse to them either. Plenty of other players too, but they sometimes are forgiven for a bad miss or pass - I'm thinking especially of AJ for his 100% effort throughout.
Anyway I do agree - get behind the lads not on their backs. We aren't The [Poor language removed] ya know!!
TD