I've found it useful leaving it a couple of days before writing my pieces, I often flit between utter despair and faint hope in the hours after the game and it's only once I've been through that process that I can start to see things slightly less blurred than before.

It might not have been pretty for the most part but it was a disciplined and well deserved 2-0 win for the Potters as they left it late to beat the Cottagers.

In a game where we finished with a right back at left back, a centre half at right back, a striker on the left wing and a right back on the right wing, questions must be asked of our tactics away from home and the failings of the club in the transfer market.