Firstly, as a pre-curser, I don't want to sound as if I'm getting carried away as I'm not - there's a long long way to go and IMO this season holds nothing whatsoever for us now.
I was just looking through the match photos on the OS. And to be honest it dawned on me, that this is more like it now. This is where we should have been after our big fresh start last summer.
We've kept the decent players we already had in the matchday squad - Kisnorbo, Stearman, McAuley, Wesolowski, Hume, Fryatt - and brought in some real decent players to bring the team up to scratch - Clemence, Alnwick (Fulop before), Oakley, Howard, Hayles, the Hungarians - and also brought in some promising youth players to have in and around the first team - Mattock, Sheehan, King, Chambers.
We are still right down in the table but we CAN press on now. Well done to Ollie for bringing the team up to scratch, let's keep this up and push on from here. We need to cut out as much of the deadwood in the squad as possible and move on, and give things a real platform to push on from next season, by building some confidence and teamwork.
Well played today boys, first step of many towards better things.