In an ideal world, I'd like us to play out from the back, with more possession and attacking football. However we haven't got the players for that, and it's showed, so last night is how we have to set up for the rest of this season. If Big Dave wants to revisit passing football next season, then he'll have chance with the player turnover to come next summer.
Robson-Kanu was decent yesterday, but our strongest starting eleven will still include Gayle, maybe even Sako at his expense. You could see from the start the team was more comfortable doing what was being asked of it, and they worked really hard. All season we haven't had the energy or fire, but you could see it last night. But then we've had managers try to change our style in the past (Mel) and the players wouldn't do it for him, so as positive as that performance was, I can't help but wonder if it's coming from the right place, or if the tails wagging the dog.
We have to continue this though, no going backwards.