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Yep. His autobiography does him few favours. The kind of guy who can see an insult in anything.

But you're not looking for negatives at all are you? You're doing your level best to downplay the improvement in results and performances over the last six weeks or so. Why not just say that we're doing well and you hope it continues?

Indeed. It's been apparent in other games too. Wrexham for example is certainly a match we'd have gone on to lose under previous incumbents.

Yes, and as I've previously mentioned, I also included the games against WBA and Derby, marches where Matos cannot reasonably have been expected to have any kind of impact at all. But I get it. Some people like looking for negatives.

I've included the Derby and WBA games in my figures. If you consider how little chance he'd have had to influence those results in the time he had what he's done so far looks even better.

Yep. Part of what worked for us the first time around was the continuity. From Flynn right through to Rodgers there was a certain idea of how we wanted to go about things and whilst players came and went, three of our starting lineup at Wembley in the Playoff final had been here since League...

Over the festive period we've picked up nine points from five games. Extrapolated over the season that would give us a final points total somewhere in the low 80's. Over Matos' reign entirely it's fifteen points from nine games, which puts us in the mid 70's. Both would see us squarely in the...

Five games played between 19th Dec and 4th Jan. Three wins. Nine points from Fifteen. Only defeats coming against the team top of the table and the one currently in fifth. Overall I'll take that.

Every player has bad games. Problems arise when people start pretending that some players have more than others, or doing their best to deny when a player has played well. Fulton has been subject to far more than his fair share of both IMO. None of this is to say that he's a brilliant player...

Make your mind up.

He was good at coming on with about 10-15 minutes to go and running his guts out chasing defenders down. He wasn't particularly good at anything else.

It made no difference. Do you seriously think that, knowing he had bad ankles, he'd have kept doing it if it was making the situation worse? Do you think that the club medical staff might not have had a word if that was the case considering that maintaining his ankles were already a chunk of...

All it took was ten games without his bullshit process and the squad showed what it was actually capable of. The two years he was here were a massive waste of time and resources.

There are probably only ever a handful of teams in the division each season who are entirely happy with their squad, and in most seasons they tend to be the relegated Prem sides. Most others will have one or two standout players, with the remainder being decent pros. Maybe now and again a team...

How often is he asked to produce it? His role has largely been defensive. The last time he thumped in a long range late winner the manager admitted not wanting him to shoot. In any case, it's not about the goals. He does what he's asked to do, for the most part does it well and has done for a...

I just want him to get the respect he deserves as a capable player and a fine servant to the club.

An odd game tactically. Playing without a striker cost us in terms of creativity, but it didn't half make the press effective. WBA simply couldn't keep the ball long enough. Second half we subbed our way to a more conventional setup and it was like our half time drinks had been spiked...

It made no difference whatsoever. His ankles were fucked when he got here.

Every word of this. Especially the highlighted part.

I have a habit which annoys me (and maybe others) of repeating words in posts, so if I notice myself doing it I will substitute them for words with similar or identical meanings. "Occasionally" and "Sometimes" are perfect examples. The point stands. If his good games were as infrequent as you...