The thing that pleased me the most is the fact that we got back to playing football on the ground, and I’d be very keen to find out how many times we managed to just pass amongst ourselves. In recent weeks we’ve been tending to play the long ball, and that slight change of tactics has seen us throw away several games. This return to the on-the-ground style of passing might be down to the return of Nicky Eaden. I heavily criticised Eaden in his first month here, but since then he has been one of our better players, and he could turn out to be the difference between us gaining automatic promotion, or entering the pl****fs.

I’m not sure if anyone else has noticed but I think Mark Stallard has become a better player without Jamie Forrester. Again Stallard is a player who I’ve been quite harsh to at times this season, but since Forrester got sent off against County, Stallard has seemingly come into his own. He’s now more than just “the guy who flicks balls on to Forrester” and some of the passes he’s produced during the last 135 minutes of football have been very pleasing.

I reckon that scoring against Torquay earlier in the season gave Paul Morgan a thirst for goals. There is no stranger sight at Sincil Bank these days than seeing Paul Morgan not only come out of his own half of the pitch, but find himself on the edge of the Torquay penalty area, he’ll be getting a nose-bleed if he’s not careful. In all seriousness though, Morgan showed shades today of the defender he used to be and after 18 months of not particularly playing well, this will hopefully we the return of the Morgan who used to be viewed as irreplaceable.

The only thing was disappointing this afternoon was a small group of fans, having a go at the side for not getting the ball forward quickly enough and just playing it along the back four. What more do these fans want than their team to keep the ball whilst the Torquay players run around like a bunch of headless chickens trying in vain to win the ball. You can’t win with these people, you keep the ball and they complain, you lose the ball and they complain, it makes you wonder if there is any real point in these people turning up?

As for Torquay, they’re not the worst team I’ve seen this season but they certainly pushed that unfortunate distinction to the maximum. They seemed to have absolutely no passion, no real quality in the squad, and probably worst of all (in their point of view), no creativity. The only real chance they had came from Marriott making a slight mistake, and the Lee Thorpe that we had 5 years would have easily put that away, but in the 5 years since Thorpe left he’s turned into nothing more than a non-league striker punching above his weight.

I always enjoy a trip to Torquay but even if Lincoln do end up still being in League 2 next season, I’d be highly surprised if we make the trip to Plainmoor next season as they seem to have brought a 1-way ticket to the Conference. If they do somehow avoid the drop, then it could be considered a better escape than last year, because at least their side last season appeared to care.