Keegan: "We always said we could answer any critics and any people who were having a go at us on a football field, and that's what we did.
"That's pleasing. It is no good me standing here getting annoyed at people who have written stuff that isn't true or is wide of the mark.
"We just kept quiet and said: 'Let us do something about it, let us write the stories, let us make the headlines'.
"We have done that in the last couple of weeks in the only way you can at a football club, and that is on the field, by playing well and getting results.
"I am as optimistic as I have always been. I said I had a small squad, but it was quality - that is still the case - and that we had the players here to get us out of the position we had got ourselves into.
"That's why I didn't buy anybody in the transfer window. I didn't accumulate players like some clubs did, I just said: 'Hold on, if I can't get better, I won't get anybody'.
"These players have started to show me - and, more importantly, themselves - that there is a lot of ability at this football club. We have just got to get it out of ourselves.
"The one thing we will have when we run out is that the atmosphere in the stadium will be theirs (the players) for what they have done for the club in the last three games.
"Before that, because I had come back and because of what had happened here before, we got away with some mediocre performances and still kept the atmosphere, they still kept behind us.
"It will be behind us because they have earned it, and that will be a big difference and will help them a lot more than what was a manufactured situation with my coming back."