Totally agree that we are playing much than last year, putting four passed mid table teams like Leicester and Watford show we have something special and extra this year.
To me, our overall target for the season, apart from playing well and enjoying the team performances and overall experience of all the noise around being a premiership club, it is firstly about achieving those 40 points to maintain that position and then can we build on that.
In our previous 3 seasons we have achieved just over 40 points, so I find it useful as a measure of how we are doing in retaining our premiership status to compare where we got points in the previous seasons(replacing the relagated teams with the promoted teams) with the current season. After 8 games it is very similiar to previous seasons.
In each season we have put a run together where we get about 14/15/16 points from 8/9 games and it moves us away from the relegation area/battle.
We have put that run together at the start of the season this year and are playing with great confidence as a team working together for each other. Our next four games include 3 teams who are struggling and Man Utd (who knows what's going on there), so if we are moving on this season to an upper mid table team with our better performances/results we must be looking to have 3 wins and unbeaten in those games.
Good times!