I think we are still better than under Moyes. The team has a fighting spirit and character about it still. Under Moyes we lost at home to Man City after 1 minute, because we just gave up the second they decided to try and beat us. You'd never see that with this team. They've at least had it drummed into them that you can try not to lose a game BEFORE sulking about it.
Although, other than that I don't think there's much left to defend. None of our players play with any confidence or hunger, despite clearly having character, which is pretty damming. When you see a performance like the one against Arsenal, where players prides are clearly hurt and they come out fighting, yet still struggle to play with any real belief, then it's hard to put all the blame on them. Particularly when a number of them struggle to get games despite lazy, crap performances from people who play in their place.
There are some rotten apples but Mourinho seems to have no plan or idea how to either integrate them into the team and turn their form around, or do without them, and as the manager you have to do one or the other. Moyes did neither which was his downfall, and now Jose has been doing neither for some time and it's started to create the same problems. At least LVG would make a decision one way or the other.
I think we're at a similar stage it got to with LVG overall though, where I'm more worried about what more damage keeping Mourinho will cause, than i am hopeful of any improvements. Like with LVG, he'll get something right, but you just know he'll follow it up with something completely counter productive.
With LVG it was down to insane random mismanagement or tactics, such as chqnging everyone's positions around for no reason, or bringing on Fellaini too often. With Mourinho it's his ability to pick apart his own team or just manufacture negativity where there's no need for it. For example by constantly inferring his own players are shite, or by bringing on Fellaini too often.
I really don't want us to waste yet another second half of a season almost challenging ourselves to see how bad it can get. When the manager has a plan fair enough...when he's just waffling random nonsense and not showing any consistency with any kind of decisions or direction, what exactly is anyone at the club expecting to happen?