None of us know what conversations are going on behind the scenes about what the target is for the rest of the season.
We may be happy with 8th-10th and no Euro football next season to give us a chance to have a realistic shot at qualifying for the Champs League again.
Or we may be pushing for 7th to get us into the conference and give us further experience of playing European football and getting the club used to that idea.
With that in mind I think Howe is experimenting a little bit with tactics and personnel.
I think the obvious tactic last night was to sit deep and hit them on the break, but long term thats probably not a tactic that we want to be using regularly.
So we used a high press and told Gordon to stay further up the pitch.
It didnt work particularly well, but the more we get used to that style, the better in the long term.
Hopefully we're going to give him 2-3 years to get it right before we think about making a change, but these days you never know.