I tell you what lads, an own goal and the worst penalty decision I've ever seen would often be enough to see us drop to a 5 or 6 goal degeneration. From what I saw yesterday, people were finally back to producing what they could. Don't get me wrong, we still have some distance to go, as the football we played as a team was still not what it used to be, but individually we had players back to their former standards, and that was enough to sweep MDM aside.

Special mentions...

Genghis: What most impressed me yesterday was the way Genghis changed his game to cope with who he was up against - that's the mark of a good defender. Genghis got tight earlier on but found himself skinned a couple of times cos the guy had good early pace, so he tweaked his game and defended by standing a yard further off him, making the distance past him that little bit too far for the guy to make. Genghis couldn't then stop him passing the ball, but with everyone else doing their jobs he often found he had no one to pass to and the danger down our right hand side stopped. If I didn't think that was just Genghis being back to his own standards, I'd have voted for him in man of the match.

Crabbeman: Again I didn't vote for him in man of the match cos he's his own worst enemy and did what I've come to rely on from him. He was everywhere, screaming at and for everything, breaking everything up (in partnership with Sillsy) in the key area of the pitch where they were trying to play football and forcing the game out wide where Paul, Genghis, Beeny, Jamie and Browny soaked it up and pushed forward. To be fair to Crabbeman he's never given any less, just yesterday it seemed to click in and be more effective.

Paul: Have to take my hat off to him - I was doing better than I expected to do, but still needed to sit the odd move out to recover before joining in the next play. Paul seemed to grow as the game went on (partly from being able to foray forward cos of Genghis working well behind him) but as the game swung our way Paul was a key factor in making that swing count, joining every attack and finally notching one for himself and rarely, if ever, being caught out to leave Genghis exposed.

Lewis: One early shot way off target, then sparked into life again, setting me up with a peach of a ball, scoring a goal that crushed a whole team and then setting up Crabbeman and Dan for their goals. You can't ask for much more than that, other than that early shot. He's shit.

As a team, great character shown by everyone, some nice attacking football in the final third and some quality defending, glimpses of the iron curtain again in the second half when we never really looked in danger of conceding.