Town boss Paul Jewell was delighted with his side’s 3-0 victory against Coventry but felt they ought to have been out of sight at the break.

Jewell said: “It’s nice to win and the way we created opportunities in the first half the game could have been over at half-time. It was lovely to get three points and put on a decent attacking performance for our supporters.

“Goals change games. If they’d have scored first the boot could have been on the other foot. In the Blackpool game there was nothing in it in the first half and if we’d have scored first, that might have been different.

“That’s what football does to you. Goals change games and people’s perceptions. Players all of a sudden get an extra stride and a spring in their step.

“It’s all about building confidence. We’re not getting carried away but I thought it was a good performance.”

The Blues boss believes the display was a sign of things to come: “We’ve got a lot of new players, it’s not going to happen overnight but I think tonight showed what we are capable of.

“I thought the players showed a lot of character and from the first whistle we closed them down, passed the ball well and created opportunities. We haven’t done that in any of the games we’ve played really.

“Even when we beat Bristol City, I don’t think we created more than four opportunities, so it was nice to see us pass the ball and move it and have the third man running. It was nice but we should have been out of sight at half-time.”

Jewell, who said centre-half Ibrahima Sonko went off with tweaked knee ligaments and is a doubt for Saturday's game at Middlesbrough, felt Coventry were given a few too many opportunities but was more than happy with his side's attacking play: “It was an open game. It could have been 7-3 or something like that.

“From my point of view, we were great going forward but defensively I thought there were too many crosses going into our box and too many headers being allowed.

“But you’re always looking to strive to get better. We don’t get too carried away with results when we win and it’s not the end of the world when we lose, although it does feel like it for a bit.”

Full-back Aaron Cresswell was praised for his exploits at both ends of the pitch: “I’m glad the tribunal was last week and not this! He’s done well. He’s got huge potential. He put some lovely balls in and got some headers off the line.”

Jewell revealed that Czech U21 international keeper Marek Stech, who was on trial last week, has returned to his club: “He’s gone back to West Ham and we’re going to monitor the situation.”

Coventry boss Andy Thorn gave an honest assessment of the game and was clearly impressed by the Blues: “We never got going. For 20 minutes we were still in the dressing room and against good, experienced players you can’t do that.

“Fair play to them, I thought they played really well during that period and we gave ourselves a mountain to climb after that.

“They’re probably the best team we’ve played this season on that performance, but having said that that was our worst performance, but take nothing away from them.

“It was a poor evening for us, we never got going and there’s no point in trying to say any different because you boys watched it as well. It’s frustrating for us because we know we’re a lot better than that.”

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ITFC_Singapore added 23:45 - Sep 20 Anyone else think that Leadbitter was fantastic last night ? I thought he was superb and probably man of the match (Closely followed by Cresswell and Scotland).
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pmason added 07:43 - Sep 21 When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea
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