You're not taking on board the obvious. You can't judge Thorn on three games this season. It's frankly silly.
Still, you should be happy. Allowing for another caretaker and a permanent appointment, we'll only have had five managers this season. The farce you often crave is there for your entertainment
You can judge him on the whole of last season, when he didn't even manage to average 1 point a game.
Talking of mathematical gymnastics, Saunders and Thorn had a identical record in The Championship last season, however you say that mathematically makes Thorn better than Saunders? (Though of course Saunders pts per game is very slightly better than Thorns, but not really enough to warrant mention).
Thorn of course should have done much better than Saunders as he had a settled side and didn't have to gel a team as Saunders did as he had so many loan players in.
Oh, sorry I forgot, last season Thorn was disadvantaged because he didn't have recourse to loads of loan players, this season of course he was disadvantaged because(like every other club in the division) he had loads of new players who had to gel.
Like trying to nail a jelly to a mast tying down which justification you will use.