And you're right, but I'm sure if I thought long and hard enough, I could even think of games from last season in which we didn't bring it back but tried.
The fact that the only thing that people can cite as being 'better' is that, in their opinion, we have more fight, and put in more effort, shows how much the barrel is being scraped.
Effort and fight should be amongst the absolute bare minimum to expect.
Ron Saunders recently said:
I'd love to see what he would say about people applauding the fact that we carry on for ninety minutes. And, if a goal down, we don't give up!! Sink any lower and we'll be thanking the players for bothering to get themselves down the ground on a Saturday afternoon.
Taking everything as a whole, considering all factors, and balancing everything out against each other, still leads me to think that, on the pitch, it's about the same.
And before anyone starts, I have yet to blame the manager.