If there is a lesson from this hard-earned victory, however, it is not about formation, but about our selection policy which for over half a season has so badly handicapped us. Did you realise, for example, that of yesterday's starting line-up, only one player (Saejis) was not here and available from the very first kick of this campaign?
The various reasons provided for the early season exclusion of players like Skacel and Euell now seem somewhat short-sighted, but the loaning of Marek Saganowski appears a mistake of bewildering proportions. The financial imperative to reduce the wage bill is understood, but the cost of Championship survival must have entered equations, as surely must potential lost gate revenue?
What yesterday's result shows is not the cost of experience, but its fundamental value when combined with the best of our academy output.
Imagine, for a moment, that our campaign had begun yesterday with that comprehensive demolition of Preston North End. We might confidently expect next Saturday's gate to grow by ten or even twenty percent as a result. Let's say, for argument's sake, our current position in the league has wiped 10,000 off the average gate (not unfair based on two season's ago when we were chasing a play-off spot).
The real cost to the club is, therefore, around £200,000 for every home game. Did we really save £400,000 a month loaning out our Champion's League quality front-man and refusing to play an international left back or ageing former Charlton striker?
Whichever way you cut it, the decision to exclude experience for youth, has undoubtedly cost us far more than it has saved, including quite possibly our status in the division, however less likely that looks this morning.
For too long now, Rupert Lowe has been allowed to run this football club against the tide of knowledge that proves conclusively that higher paid footballers perform better. Not, because of their salaries, but because they command higher salaries by virtue of their experience and abilities.
This fact seems totally lost on our board. How?
For over a decade we have had prudence preached as the justification for under-investment in playing talent at our club. When butter was available it was spread too thinly. But more often it was substituted by margarine in the pursuit of economic safety.
Well, like Gordon Brown's promise of an end to 'boom and bust', the cost-cutting strategy implemented at our club has been shown to be a busted flush. We cut too deep into the playing staff in the mistaken belief that quantity would compensate for quality.
Did we genuinely believe that Millwall and Sheffield United reserves as well as unproven academy product could deliver us more goals than our Polish front-man, his countryman or indeed Stern John, the most successful international striker alive? It sounds incredible but it was apparently true of your board.
There were many of us who, while hopeful and full of support for the youngsters, questioned the wisdom and longer term implications of this strategy. In short, we could not understand where our goals were going to come from and feared for our safety, let alone the prospect of looking up the table.
So, now that the myth has finally been buried, can we expect our board to review their strategy of loaning out our best players to save us money?
Let's hope so, because had we started the season with our existing players being allowed to don their boots who knows where we might be now and how much better off as a result. Preston, in case you hadn't noticed, are currently fifth. Ho hum.