We've not been very good recently but I think it's a little early to pull the trigger just yet.

We've had 10 games so far in the league, 6 away and 4 at home. Two of the away games have been the two Manchester clubs, the one we lost at home was Chelsea. We've only got one point from those 3 games but I think most on here accept they're all better sides than us. A point away at City was a good result, it's more than most teams will get this year. I didn't see the Chelsea game for various reasons but understand we were pretty unlucky to lose. Yesterday we were poor though and we've not looked good recently. The gap yesterday was depressing but early season we looked pretty decent. I'm not sure where it's gone wrong but we didn't look like such a bad side.

If we can recapture that form then we'll finish 4th comfortably, if not then it'll be a struggle but the other candidates for 4th are all looking pretty poor too so it's there for the taking for whoever gets their act together.

We've got 2 home games next, Fulham and Spurs. Both sides who are close to us in the table.
Win those and we'll be fairly comfortably 4th and things will feel better.

The lack of creativity is worrying me at the moment. The defensive problems are being over-stated (although Santos is bloody awful, the rest are OK IMO). The bigger problem right now is creating chances and scoring them.