Ian Holloway said that Swindon Town were unrecognisable from the team they were earlier in the season as they defeated Walsall 1-0.
Swindon put in a performance full of guts as they took the game to the league leaders and matched them blow for blow.
It was not a game full of chances but Joel Cotterill took his when it arrived to give Swindon just their second win of the season against the current top ten.
Holloway was full of praise for every member of his team and the effort that they put in to make sure Town took all three points back to Wiltshire.
He said: "Teamwork, organisation, and a little bit of zest that we probably needed against a really good side.
"It was not a day for fancy passing on that pitch, it was a day for working hard and doing your jobs and we did that.
"Kabongo Tshimanga summed it up, on another day he would still have been up front and he wouldn't have come back to help but he has made two challenges in our box that would have been goals.
"The team are working so hard for each other and I left him [Tshimanga] out a couple of weeks ago and he still hasn't moaned and I put him back in and look at how he is playing.
"They are all doing it, look at [Paul] Glatzel, he just leapt like a salmon at the end and headed one out, Miguel [Freckleton] I am delighted for him, and Joel McGregor has come back.
"They all had to play well today and they did; and then we matched their organisation, work rate, experience, and everything about them and then some.
"As I said to them just now 'Where were you in the first 19 games of the season? What are we doing? How can we be like this? Whatever we do we cannot stop this because the information we are getting, I think, is exactly the same.
"But now they are taking it out there, they are working, they are not blaming someone else.
"I have never seen a group turn into such a together one in my life."
Holloway was especially pleased by the way that Swindon took their game to Walsall and managed to come out on top.
He said: "With how well everyone is playing, the exertion is not really an issue and I just have to try and get right what we can do.
"We didn't match them until later on, we played our way, which we wouldn't have been able to do before.
"We had a back four with a central midfielder playing in there as he did so well last week and even when I had to change it everybody fitted in and it looked good.
"We have come a long way in a short time but we have got to go further; I am never going to be happy until we are where I think we can be and we have more than enough games left to do it."
