The overall tone of the piece is certainly grudging but there's obviously praise there. Everyone would rather win playing like Barcelona, but there's a reason virtually no one does.

That said, it would have been fairer had he acknowledged:

1) playing with the discipline and organisation we seem to bring to big games is incredibly difficult. If you just had to kick people and boot the ball aimlessly to succeed everyone would manage it...it may seem simple, it clearly isn't.

2) we have some folk who can genuinely play football. In particular Moult, who would strengthen any starting XI in Scotland outside Celtic, but he's not the only one who can look forward to bigger/better things.