Midfielder Jon Paul McGovern was quoted this week as saying Town might need to adapt their passing style in order to overcome the more direct approach sometimes exhibited by their opponents.

I don't want to appear disparaging towards my team, but many is the afternoon I've whiled away a match watching goalkeeper Peter Brezovan's long kick go directly to his opposite number as it sailed over the head of everyone else on the pitch.

Teams sometimes get a reputation for playing in a particular manner, as was the case with the long-ball' tactics of Wimbledon in the eighties, the push and run' style of Tottenham twenty years earlier, and the cultured, academy showings of West Ham United in the imagination of pundits everywhere for far too long.

Under Lou Macari, Town were fit and direct. Under Ossie Ardiles and Glenn Hoddle the team were lauded as a side that could pass the ball through the eye of a needle.

Under all three managers the club was successful, which justified the methodology employed by each of the respective bosses, but the circumstances that the club were in when each man took the reins, dictated what the new boss had to work with.

He inherited players of a certain standard and needed to fit the way the team played around their abilities. That, more than anything else, set the style that the team would play in until the new boss could shape it differently.

At present, and understandably having had three managers in less than 18 months, Swindon are working towards attaining a style which they can call their own, but I wouldn't say the current team has earned the right to call itself a fine exponent of the passing game just yet.

There's a lot of nonsense spoken about the expectations that Newcastle United fans heap on their club's boss, suggesting that Magpies' supporters have the monopoly on demanding entertainment on a Saturday afternoon, and I consider that an insult to the supporters of all other clubs.

Every supporter hopes that his side will win, but wishes that the style in which that victory is achieved has them eulogising to their workmates the following Monday.

Tuesday night's victory over Cheltenham was a case in point. The Robins from Gloucestershire could have been two goals to the good inside the first three minutes, and the alarm bells were ringing for any Swindon supporter who remembered previous encounters between the two sides, and that we'd never beaten Cheltenham.

By the end of the night, Billy Paynter and Simon Cox had gained their rewards for a hard night's graft, and Christian Roberts had done what we know he's capable of by grabbing a spectacular third. But perhaps the showing of Mo Malpas' signing Anthony McNamee gave the fans that wow factor we all want and indicated Town's future style.