We are 20 games in to the 2013 - 14 season and it seems that many fans are getting a little carried away with their assessments of our new manager and our manager before him.
Everybody loves to hate the champions, and to see them struggling is a joy to behold, but it's important not to get carried away with all the nonsense being published on the Internet that will have anybody who has not seen Everton play for a while think we have transformed overnight into a great footballing team, where once we were awful.
Be quick, or you might miss the opportunity to kick David Moyes while he is down, while at the same time overcompensate by crediting Roberto Martinez for all that is good about our season.
The truth is Moyes proved to be a very good manager at Everton, and Martinez has gotten off to a good start, but let's not go overboard with our urge to compare, unless you are prepared to look at facts, rather than the daily deliverance of media clap trap.
Moyes is not struggling at United because he is a poor manager any more than Martinez is having a bit of success at Everton because he is a great one. Alex Ferguson couldn't get out of the managerial chair quick enough after winning the league as it was very evident that other teams were about to overtake United, especially City, which when you compare squads leave United looking like yesterday's team.
Everton on the other hand are in great shape, and Moyes has left the club with his head high knowing that anybody taking over has a very good foundation on which to build. Moyes is no longer our concern though, other than recognising that we can't truly judge Martinez until Moyes' legacy has become Martinez' legacy, just as United fans can't judge Moyes until he has had chance to build his own squad.
Everybody loves a happy go lucky manager with a positive energy, and Martinez certainly has that.
Why wouldn't he be positive? He's just landed one of the top jobs in the English game and been rescued from a possible slippy slide to his career in the slumps of the Championship after taking Wigan down.
His smile couldn't be bigger and it's very refreshing for our fans to see, but how big would his smile be had he been at Everton for 11 years having been given a relegation fodder of a side to work with and not a pot to piss in, so in that respect, it's fair to say Moyes had good reason not to be dazzling the pearly whites at every press conference, and who can blame him for accepting the challenge at United.
I personally like Martinez, and I also liked Moyes. I like to judge situations as I find them, and I'm not one to jump on a band wagon, be it anti Moyes or pro Martinez, but instead try to look at things in perspective.
What I see so far this season is a continuation of progress, and not a start of progress.
We were playing damn good football under Moyes, and we are playing damn good football now, and the fact that we are 5 points better off after 20 games than we were last year is neither here nor there.
I desperately want Martinez to be hugely successful like every other fan, but at this moment he is still on trial, and until he has been here for a good few years then I'll reserve criticism or praise.
What I definitely won't do is forget the work of our previous manager and pretend that all was bad under Moyes. Moyes may have been a little less pretty on the pitch, but we were pretty enough, and were being compared to Barcelona at times under the Scotsman, so for all those remembering us as drab you might want to check out the highlights and refresh your memories.
We still can't beat the mediocre sides, and until we can raise our game for these matches we will never win the league. We're not the only team having a much better season this year, with Arsenal, City, and Liverpool all up on points, and right behind us we have a United and a Spurs, so one slip, and it's a huge reality check.
COYB and COYRM while good luck to DM (not United) isn't going to leave me feeling too undignified.
