Well, yes, I agree with Shrader that it's better to have a bad spell in the middle of the season than at the end. IMO, that was the difference between 2002 and 2003. Hopefully this is only a bad spell rather than a bad season. I think we were an average team, not a bad team, the first half of the season. Despite playing more away games than home games, our goal difference is zero---better than a couple teams ahead of us in the standings.