It seems that former Huddersfield Town striker Theo Robinson is returning to Huddersfield Town. Never, in all my time watching football, have I seen a man as unusually polarising of opinion of Theo Robinson.

I think its time we took some of the things people say about Theo and put them under the microscope. Some may be true, some may be not true. Seeing as he's back, we should know which.

Firstly, it was nice to see one of my fellow bloggers here contribute - always nice to get other informed opinion, which it is, and his piece is well worth a read, though in the two games since then things have snowballed a little.

The reasoned point I wanted to make was about the time Mark Robins has had to change anything at the club thus far.

After being installed as manager, he had very little time before Town played Wigan. Following that, he had very little time before they travelled to Forest. To suggest his team were worse than they would have been under Mark Lillis is, I would say, a little unjust. Mark Lillis' team were no match for Derby, crumbling at Pride Park in a way Mark Robins' team did not-so-far-away last night (much the same fate as Simon Grayson's team also suffered not-so-very-far away on New Year's Day, too). So I don't put too much weight in that result. It was the latest in a series of embarrassments and will have been an education to the management team about the myriad failings of the team. Hopefully Saturday, after a touch more time, we will see an improvement.

Right, then. Rant time. Tin hats at the ready.

I'm reading a lot about Mark Robins' appointment and a lot of people use the phrase 'backing'.

I don't comprehend how a supporter can give their 'backing' to a manager. They don't give him funding (directly, or to any great level), they don't see him one-to-one on a regular basis, and they don't have any direct contact with the team. So what are they giving?

Is it just a way of saying 'I won't turn up at games and actively boo the team while trying to sabotage their efforts'? No supporter would do that, surely, which makes 'giving a manager your backing' from the stands something of an empty promise. You can do nothing else. In attending the game (or not) and hoping your team win, which is a fairly generic state of affairs, albeit enacted differently in different people.

I give my backing to Mark Robins because I want him to succeed. It doesn't matter whether I think he was a good or a bad appointment, he seems to be a reasonable chap and he is the manager of the football club I support. I want them to do well, ergo I want him to do well.

Does that make sense?

It has nearly been exactly a year since I last wrote anything and what a turbulent year it's been. I won't go over it into too much detail basically promotion at Wembley, purple patch at the start of the season, massive slump, Simon Grayson sacked and Mark Robins appointed. Quite a lot in a space of a year I'd say but that's football.

Now, as Huddersfield Town are looking to invest in his abilities, he would take over a Terriers team who started well but have seen their form dip, worryingly, after that. He'll get a reputation if he keeps fighting fires. Still, that's how he made his name, saving Alex Ferguson's job, so there's a certain poetry to it if it is to be so. He will, of course, be the fourth ex-Manchester Utd player out of nine Huddersfield Town managers (Macari, Bruce and Ritchie the others)

12 games.

That's over a quarter of a season.

We're getting to the point where the last victory is known by date rather than opposition.

Having failed to win in ten league games for Huddersfield, Simon Grayson is under a little pressure from the fans. The FA Cup victory was nice, and papered over the emotional wounds of the 6-1 drubbing at Leicester (though the reward - another game against the Foxes - wasn't ideal) and bringing in Neil Danns is a step in the right direction, too. At the risk of having to pick egg out of my beard, I don't see Dean Hoyle as a man to make snap decisions - if Simon Grayson was the right man in September, he is still the right man in January (though the current barren spell won't go un-noticed, of course).

Football, of course, is not as flexible.