I was sold by Everton less than a year before David Moyes was first appointed manager, so a lot of my former Goodison Park team-mates played under him and I was given plenty of insight to what that was like.

When David first came in first time around, a lot of players weren’t happy because he was totally different. He did everything from the pre-match warm-ups to the coaching and many within the squad thought ‘oh my God, he’s too much.’

Maybe it was because he was a young manager at the time, and he was used to not having a big team of staff around him. I think as time went on, he started to let other people start doing certain jobs as he grew into his management role and delegated tasks.

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He brought in the likes of Tim Cahill, Mikel Arteta and Steven Pienaar showed he could mix it up and wasn’t just one style. As well as the old school approach of keeping it tight, he had players who wanted to play football and found the right mixture.

If you’re struggling as a football club, you can benefit from a dramatic change and Moyes probably did the right thing. He’s not there to be the players’ mate, he’s there to shake them up and came in because they were under-performing – a similar situation to what is happening now.

If you cheese off a few players, then so be it. It’s a difficult job as a manager to please every player.

He’s a safe pair of hands but it doesn’t mean that survival is guaranteed. We know about how David goes about his business and he’s a different style of manager than when he first came into the football club many years ago.

We know that the bedding in period will be a lot shorter for him. He’ll need to get to know the players but I’m sure he’s been watching a lot of our games and where we need to improve in our style and how we go about things.

Moyes knows he’s got to hit the ground running and he won’t have the luxury of having time to acclimatise. We’re fortunate that he was a free agent and available.

I heard someone say that even if he’d never previously managed Everton, and had that career he’s had elsewhere, he’d have been one of our top targets anyway and everyone would have been shouting from the rooftops to bring him into the football club, given what he achieved at West Ham. They say that you shouldn’t return in football and we all know that Howard Kendall came back to have three managerial spells at Everton.

However, David went back to West Ham and was successful. A lot of their fans didn’t want him to return but he came back and did well.

You can have success stories second time around. Just because others have failed, it doesn’t mean you will.

Neither David or ourselves can look too far ahead. He’s got to get us safe this season and enjoying our last games at Goodison, that’s got to be our number one goal and I’ve got confidence that he can do that and that he will get more out of the players that are currently available to him.