What an unbelievable performance from the lads, the shift they put in. We played that game at Carlton on Saturday on the heaviest pitch I've ever seen. It was more like playing a game and a half.

That was only two or three days ago. We patched up tonight. We've got, obviously, Rhodesy out, a fairly long-ish term.

Grats missing tonight. We could have given the boys every excuse not to really perform tonight, but we've stood up there and an unbelievable performance. Ran all over them in that first half.

The difference tonight was, we've been playing that well in other games, but we took our chances. It sounded like a bit of a broken record the last few weeks, and goals changed games and all the rest of it. Tonight, we were really, really specific in the team talk that if we score a goal, we don't drop off, that we're relentless and we go again.

We go and get two and we get three, because we keep scoring first in games. We're setting the team up right and we're getting in front. Then it's about, OK, we don't want to sit in now.

We're not great at that. Get after it. Press them out of the pitch.

Stop them going quality, putting quality balls forward from the back. Mop up all the bits. I just thought, first half, it felt like we were too good for them.

Second half, they had a go and fair play. They scored really early. You think, we've got to ride the next 10, 15 minutes.

The crowd gets up. They've got runners everywhere because they get that little extra 10 per cent. We managed that 10 minutes afterwards really well.

Game calmed down a bit and, obviously, the fourth goal kills it.

CN: After a difficult game away on Saturday, another difficult one to come this weekend, Gratton to come back, Bastos looking in outstanding form tonight. You must be going into the Anstey game with a lot of confidence now.

LA: Yes, we needed to win that, because that makes the Anstey game one where we go in with confidence. If you don't win tonight, you go in there thinking you absolutely have to win it. It just changes your mindset a little bit.

I think I'm level-headed enough to know where we are. We're a good team. Eight weeks ago, we've lost Fenton.

We've lost Tague. We've lost Tsolakis. We've lost Diego Edwards, although he helped us out tonight.

We've lost Henry Frost. We've now lost Rhodesy. We've lost Gratton.

We've tried to recruit and get a few bodies in, but no doubt that hurts you. The next couple of weeks, we'll see what we can do. To get that performance out of them lads tonight, running on empty, I'm really proud of them.

I don't say that very often, because that's sort of what you say behind closed doors, but I'm proud of that performance. That was a real, we care performance. Hopefully, the away fans enjoyed that because they deserved that as well.

Can we go on again now? As I say, don't get too carried away. It's one really good result. We have played really well.

We've took our chances. We looked a real slick side at times. It's funny how sometimes you get forced into decisions and then something drops for you, and it works.

Today we went 4-4-2, put loads of pressure on the ball out of the pitch and we stopped them playing. They couldn't play their game. Game plan worked.

Been able to get a few bodies back, won't lie. It's a good result and we needed that.
CN: Just finishing on a special word for Kev, something he seems to have clicked, he's gone back tonight to being outright top goalscorer, a fully deserved goal in the second half.

You've known him for a long time now. It's a pretty special performance from Kev tonight.
LA: Yes, managed Kev for a long time, sort of on and off, and he frustrates me as much as he frustrates everyone else because he can be absolutely brilliant.

Listen, if he plays week in, week out like he did in that first half, he's at step two. But then if he plays like he did second half on Saturday, he stays at this level. And I said to Kev at half-time, he's run their left-back ragged, they took him off the same way that you ran their left-back ragged on Saturday and they swapped them round as well.

So, he's affecting teams and he's at his absolute best. So, I came in at half-time and said to Kev, you've run riot, don't let anyone down now, just keep doing it, put your hammer down, go again and again and again. And listen, when he's in that mood, and when he fancies it, there ain't many better at this level.

But the challenge to Kev is consistency, week in, week out, and just not to drop his level.

When we're 3-0 up, don't start overplaying and losing it in bad areas because he did a few times. So, he's still got to tighten bits up, but if he does, Kev, listen, he can be one of the best players at this level and above.

But yes, that consistency is what he has to work on.

Lee Attenborough was talking to Chris Nelson.