I'd settle for better than we are showing but not by too much, and the safe mid-table position that would bring. Trouble is NP is a stubborn mule, won't accept when he is wrong - playing King CB (although King did ok today, it cost us 3 pts v Stoke), wasting Weimann at RWB - are two obvious examples.
In the earlier part of the season, once we had finally ditched Martin from the starting line-up, we played some of the best football seen in years. We have the players to get back to that, but NP is not utilising them properly. My Dad used to say "there is none so blind as them that don't want to see", certainly applies to NP if he thinks watching yesterday the players "gave everything", some tried, others just went through the motions, fed-up I suspect with NP lack's of tactical nous, players being frozen out and others being played out of position.