Although our football certainly hasn't been anything like enjoyable, at times, the few things I do see give me hope for better.

Under Rafa his general game plan was to counter whilst parking the bus.....but......the problem was he'd still employ this very same tactic when we went a goal or two down.
It was as if he was making sure he didn't lose by a few more goals, rather than try and get back into the game.

I've seen him do it time and time again.

At least with Bruce we do have a go to get back into games if we go behind.
I'm not interested in stats with possession and shots on target and what not. I'm interested in the effort to try by my very own eyes.
The stats can disappear for good for me but the issue is it gives the pundits their talking points, as if it was a chess game where someone moved a pawn in the wrong area....etc.

That's more mind numbing and certainly destroys football entertainment, because managers are under pressure to almost set up a team like predictable robots.