Agree. People moaned he was on the bench, yet when he started it was clear he was better off the bench, those same people (And they were the same people) then moaned when he started that we had nothing off the bench.
It's been said RVN hasn't had the luxury of Ricardo, he hardly played under Cooper. Out of choice but the point remains.
Despite perma-predications of hammerings under Cooper, every week, we had none. Luck or not.
Post Cooper? We've had 4 hammerings. 3 under RVN. Further to that they like to claim we've been without Hermansen, 2.5 of those hammerings came with him in goal (Call it 2 as in fairness we were only 1-0 down when he came off against Newcastle, it still highlights problem).
We are playing better though, that I cannot deny. Unfortunately we're worse for it though, that equally cannot be denied.
There is some middle ground. We need to accept and find it.