Well exactly and early days has to be accounted for, I can't be harsh as we comfortably outplayed a shit team for 60 minutes which is a lot more than we've done before this season generally.
Jose is never gonna pick Skipp at this stage, he knows very little about him - your desires need to be tempered accordingly along with your criticisms, this also applies to what's gone before this season. Comparatively today was a good performance.
What's gone wrong won't just disappear overnight (same as it didn't appear overnight) but today was a good day and after our terrible form and an international break it was refreshing to see us take a team apart at times.
Come on Steve, I'm no apologist for Poch, I wanted him gone, but we've been here before this season, where we've played pretty well for a half, an hour or even 70 minutes (Palace, Leicester, Southampton, even Bayern was good for 40 minutes eg) and then capitulated. We coughed up two goals today to a team in even worse form and confidence than us.
As I said, I think Mourinho simplified things a tad, the format, the approach and the personnel - that's good - and everyone upped the effort a few percent as you'd expect for the new gaffer, that's good - but other than that it wasn't vastly different to some other games we've seen, it still had tropes we've seen for while - a midfield that went a bit awol (offensively and defensively) at the first sign of pressure increased, an attack that stopped pressing, and a frailty all over.
And that's normal, I don't expect all those things to disappear over night, or even in a month or two, but we'll get some idea in a couple of months whether these issues are really being solved, whether that extra effort becomes standard, and if we do see that over a period of time, I'l happily jump aboard the suck each other off fest.
I'm not going to temper my desire to see what I think is a better equipped young player who's spent 10 years learning a specific position to given some time to develop. I think if Pochettino had not lost his bollocks where this is concerned, there's a good chance he'd still be in the job.
I'm not daft enough to think that Mourinho was going to pick Skipp today or even in the next few weeks, but that doesn't stop me thinking he'd be a better 6 than the likes of Dier and Sissoko with a couple of games under his belt. And if I'm still watching Sissoko and Dier there in 3 months time, chances are I'll feel the same about Mourinho doing it as I did Poch.