[Slick_Footwork]

Everything from TP's selections to substitutions to interview comments scream of a man who has lost the plot.

Don't get me wrong, he did a good job when he came in with Irvine's side. He managed to get a dross bunch of players playing above themselves. Kudos for that. It's obviously what he's good at.

But since then, he's spent an arm and a leg and we're much worse. On paper, we have accumulated a decent squad, yet we can't string a pass together on the pitch. Worst of all, we can't keep a clean sheet anymore. In the past, his 'success' was based on solid defending, but this season we're equally impotent up front yet come baring gifts at the back.

I'm not sure if he's deluded or trying to pull the wool over everyone's eyes with the 'victim of his own success' comment. By the same notion that getting a bunch of very average squad to mid table is 'success', not being able to buy a win with a good squad of players is 'failure'. Doing a good job in any industry years ago doesn't excuse doing a poor job now.

I just wish he'd be honest and talk some sense. His deluded, dull, patronising comments are just making me want rid of him more. Up until this season, I always had him down as a decent bloke, but even his interviews are starting to annoy me now.