THAT was more like it. Saturday wasn’t just a win, it was an M&S win.

The ‘Marvin & Sam’ dual strike threat certainly made an impact but it’s the defence that needs the discipline.

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Perhaps more by luck than judgement Owen Coyle stumbled across what looks like perhaps the best actual strike ‘partnership’ since Jason Roberts and Benni McCarthy, perhaps even Andy Cole and Matt Jansen. 

For all Jordan Rhodes and Rudy Gestede’s goals they were never a true partnership, more an arranged marriage.

What Coyle must be praised for is finally realising that Rovers cannot set up to win games 1-0 or draw 0-0.

By allowing all four creative players to attack with freedom Rovers may have conceded two sloppy goals - and but for Jason Steele maybe would have shipped another - yet they could, and perhaps should, have scored seven or eight at least themselves.

The change in game-plan ensured that when Rotherham scored their second and the board went up for six minutes it was not only me who rubbed their hands and said, ‘great, we’ve time to get another’.

The crowd responded to the attacking display by remaining firmly behind the team - usual career-moaners aside - where in the past the jitters may have set in.

I complained last week that players had let standards drop and were not hungry enough but Starving Marvin Emnes came in and made a difference immediately. 

Craig Conway’s deliveries and Sam Gallagher’s flick-ons were hunted down rather than, as has been the case so often this season, bouncing past static Rovers players.

Of course Rotherham were woefully lacking under the cosh and Rovers are still deep in trouble but there is at least hope that, in some home games at least, they will entertain us and trust in the attacking players to keep the opponents on the back foot.

Derby certainly look primed for the taking and are struggling for goals. 

They may find some joy in that respect but Rovers can take all three points with some more M&S quality.