After a slow start to his Southampton career Claude Puel is starting to show his early critics that he has something about him.
It wasn't the fact that some Saints fans were condemning Claude Puel that stuck in the throat, it was the fact that they were doing so without giving him a fair crack of the whip.
Now after four games that have seen four straight win and four clean sheets Puel has silenced those early doubters and showed that he is a very capable and very experienced manager.
Whilst as much as four games at the start of the season was no basis to gauge a true opinion of the Frenchman, it also has to be said that the last four should not start off a wave of optimism that can only lead to disappointment if unrealistic targets are not met.
But Puel has displayed characteristics that he is a cool head in a storm, he did not panic during his slow start, nor did he make excuses and more importantly he did not make rash changes, yes he was coming to terms with English football and also a squad where a large part of it didn't come under his command till a long way into pre season, but he remained focused on the task and learn't from his mistakes.
Likewise his tactics, he seems to be very tactically aware and in each of the wins made the right substitutions at the right time, he also seems to have reunited a squad that with hindsight had become fractured at the end of last season with several wanting away.
Now he has found a good formula and it is hoped that it will only keep getting better, especially when he has the likes of Sofiane Boufal at his disposal.
Once again there is lesson to be learned by some and that is to keep calm and patient till the manager has had a fair chance to impose himself on the squad and get them playing to his way.