Points taken. His character has helped galvanise the team spirit. Now we have that spirit, his football needs to do more of the talking. For me he spends too much time too high up the pitch, and it is no coincidence we played some much better stuff overall after the Palace away game, when he dropped deeper and gave more options to Noble etc.

Frank Lampard gets roundly slaughtered by many for scoring goals and not much else. For me, Nolan is sometimes a similar player.

At the end of the day I'm happy with how things are going, indeed the Southampton game was the first I can remember watching in a long,long time where I had little to criticise any player other than Taylor.