One thing you can say about this group is they have a bad performance but seem to have the ability and confidence to bounce straight back. That performance was chalk and cheese compared to Tuesday. Shota touched on it in his post match interview, but 3 at the back and playing wing-backs are tailor-made for this group of players. An old adage, don't put square pegs in round holes.
Alfie Jones is IMO a much better defensive centre back than Bernard, Bernard does have a reckless challenge in him, whereas Jones is solid as a rock and organises the back 3 well. All 3 center backs had good games and kept what threat they offered, which wasn't much, very quiet.
All 5 across midfield plus Walsh when he came on controlled everything, Fleming playing wing back and KLP being further up the pitch is a great partnership, born in the U23's. Special mention for Regan Slater, who slotted into the right wing back position very well.
KLP was unplayable, they couldn't handle him, he just tore them apart.
Finally, wonderful Tyler Smith gets his goal, he worked tirelessly and deserved it. What I particularly liked was he missed a chance more or less identical to the one he scored, but the second time he learned from that and executed his chance well.
Even though our performance against Barnsley was poor, it seems they have found form and after being 3-0 against M'Boro, still came out winners 3-2. So maybe losing to them wasn't quite as bad as we first thought.
Clearly, Grant was brought in to get them back into the Championship, because they looked doomed.