[Mitzi]

I'm still smiling. Not often it feels that good and there's nothing to moan about! I said we need to score AND keep a clean sheet but I never thought it would happen yesterday. I'm as pleased by the clean sheet as I am by the 3 goals. For me, the key difference is that we are defending from the front, now. Our defence still looked a bit dodgy at times, they carved us open a few times but either luck or poor decision making on their part saved us (and some excellent work by Smithies). But for so much of the time, we restricted them to possession in their own half, and when one of our attacking players lost the ball, they were immediately working to retrieve it rather than the "well that's my job done, now it's up to the defensive players to sort out the mess" attitude there seemed to be under Robins.

Excellent team performance, can't pick anyone out as better or worse than the rest, thought they were all good. Not going to get carried away, I'm just enjoying this feeling right now and taking one game at a time. I hope nobody's expectations are getting raised to an unreasonable level. But I'm a lot more positive now.

Just the atmosphere as well (although it helps when the away end is full, even though they went rather quiet for long spells of the match.) Under Robins I kept saying, "The fans don't WANT to boo, but they need to see a committed performance by the players, and if it looks like the players can't be bothered then the crowd will voice their displeasure." Yesterday we saw football that is good to watch AND effective, the crowd were responding to everything happening on the pitch, and it was just brilliant.