Sean Dyche

You know, I think Johan Gudmundsson is fantastic.

You know, I think his improvement from last season, his awareness of the division.

Tarky's been well documented, Popey, Kevin Long.

These are all players that continue to progress.

You know, we're open-minded about the future, but we're equally realistic.

You know, there's a positive reality, as I call it, very positive about what we do, but there has to be a reality line.

We're not them, and we're not close to them yet, but we have moved forward.

Well, I think the mental toughness.

You know, it's tough when you're on a run like this and, you know, we've deserved probably better on certain games during this run and we haven't got it, including last week against Southampton when I thought we did enough.

And so going into this game, the idea was to, you know, bring or hopefully bring that freedom to the performance.

We went one down, but I didn't think it really knocked us too badly.

Maybe for the first two or three minutes after that.

And then we stayed on the front foot.

We made a change at halftime and it was only a tactical change because Geoff was doing a good job for us, as he has done.

And that worked as well.

But we were really on the front foot for most of the game, particularly from halftime onwards.

And I thought it was a very thorough performance.

Well, we're not shy on doing that anyway, by the way, you know, no matter who you're playing against.

You know, I'm a big advocate of mixed football.

How many different ways can you affect the opposition and how many different ways can you affect not only the team, but particularly the back four?