Rewind back to the start of the 2014/15 season. A certain Norwegian manager was given the boot after a curious start to life back in the Championship. Gabbidon and Young did little to steady the ship and the option of continuing with their services was turned down. Enter Russell Slade - vastly experienced at a lower level. He was never the choice of the fans to begin with, he was less so by the end of his reign. However, it is acknowledged that he did a job of sorts for us, even if the general consensus was at the cost of watching entertaining football.

In his first season, Slade was in charge for 35 matches, winning 49 points at an average of 1.4 per game. The impact of Paul Trollope to the management team is remarkable for that season, taking a side that was 6 points above the drop zone when he came in to one that finished 11th.

We finished 8th the following season, winning an average of 1.48 points per game.

Slade goes, Trollope is given the main job. Whoops. He's sacked with us in 23rd place, winning 7 points from 11 games. The standard of football has got worse. No doubts Trollope is a very good coach, but as management material he was out of his depth. It wasn't his skill. Enter Warnock.

Last season, Warnock was in charge for 35 matches, strangely the same number of fixtures that Slade was manager in his first season. From those games we won 54 points, at an average of 1.54.

Both Slade and Warnock took over sides on the slide at the same point in the season. Both initially struggled to get results - Slade won 23 points from his first 19 games until he was joined by Trollope, while Warnock won 16 points from his first 13 games until Kenneth Zohore found form. I think it would be fair to suggest that, in those seasons, those were the main things that turned around the fortunes of the new gaffer.

I think Warnock deserves huge credit for the way the club has turned things around since his appointment. We were in a far worse position when he took over than the one Slade inherited, not just in terms of league position, but players at his disposal, too. If he can keep up the momentum from this season and improve it, who knows?