And you watch a lot of Crawley too?

All fans moan, "home" fans are always more critical. Christ, we had our second loss of the league season the other night and for some the sky had fallen in.

Again, Slade isn't a great manager. He's not the worst manager we had either. His style of play is to grind results. We know that, it's not unexpected. Those same fans would also be complaining if he set out to be as attacking as Jones with Bothroyd and Chopra in their prime and lost games. It's what fans do.

He joined Coventry with them 23rd in the division, fans protesting about the board. Charlton was a massive cluster**** behind the scenes at the time. For a poor manager he seems to get plenty of jobs - chairmen know he's someone who works with little budget, seemingly wanting someone to firefight.

Does that make him a poor manager, an Alan Durban or someone getting those difficult roles at troubled clubs which would thus lead to poor results? We know he's no Warnock... but he's no Durban either.