KEITH McKay, co-editor of the Millwall fanzine No One Likes Us, gives the fans' views:
THAT'S more like it. Two months without a league win had us all contemplating the worst and while there are still some obvious improvements required, the win against Bradford on Saturday at least gave us all a much-needed confidence boost.
After some drab, monotonous games of late - including Huddersfield last week which must rank as one of the all-time dullest - this one was a refreshing change.
It's probably the first game this season where Millwall dominated throughout and it was thanks mainly to Willie Donachie switching to a more conventional 4-4-2 formation.
The resulting performance was vastly improved on recent games.
The match was full of the necessary drive, purpose and conviction we'll need in abundance to get ourselves away from the wrong end of the table.
It was also a thoroughly entertaining game too with goal-line clearances galore, end-to-end counter attacking play from both sides, crunching tackles and even a near-freak own goal to boot.
Confidence breeds confidence of course and the early goal was just the kind of lift we've been praying for of late.
It was promising to see the likes of Filipe Morais put in such a match-winning performance - having been on the sidelines for so long, most assumed the Portuguese winger had little to offer the club but on this day he began to prove otherwise.
It's hard to pick fault with any of the players on this performance alone, even the much-maligned midfield were putting themselves about with Alan Dunne in particular policing every blade of grass alongside a vastly improved Marvin Elliott.
Ben May and Darren Byfield look like they could form a decent striker partnership together on the evidence of this game while Chris Hackett on the right was simply outstanding.
We must hold onto him at all costs during the upcoming transfer window as he offers us so much going forward with his pace.
One word of caution however was the back line.
Despite a dominant aerial performance by Paul Robinson and the evergreen Richard Shaw, we still look extremely vulnerable at times on the floor.
It's just one game of course and we should not allow ourselves to get carried away.
Doubtless there will be tougher tests to come but at least the new straightforward formation employed by Donachie has at least allowed him to get much more out of his players.
It just needs to continue through this most crucial of months.
Keith
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