Yeah the points total from those two matches were pretty poor, but considering we went into those matches from a very, very dark place I thought the performances were encouraging (not the defense like)
That whole first half of the season was god awful, just hope it's behind us now and we haven't sabotaged ourselves too heavily.
I would agree with you, we were a lot better than we had been up to that point.
Also we have left ourselves a mountain to climb and we are probably going to need others to do us a favour. That 's assuming we maintain good form and that is far from guarateed.