Nottingham Forest enjoyed two 4-1 wins this week - one in front of a packed house and a national television audience, the other behind closed doors with only coaching staff watching on.
The latter, for the Under-23s against Aston Villa, may be forgotten about in a day or two by those not involved, but that does not mean it is without importance.
Meanwhile, Sunday's demolition of Leicester City showed Forest's first team is going places. Hopefully the Premier League.
In August and September, chins were on the floor and arses were in hands as the club languished at the bottom of the Championship.
People will have been looking where 49 more points were coming from when Chris Hughton left.
Now, under Steve Cooper, Forest are eighth, two points off the play-offs and they have knocked the last two winners of the FA Cup out in consecutive rounds.
A young, vibrant team is evolving in front of us. Such is the mood, this week's Garibaldi Red podcast ended with an entirely frivolous debate about whether it is better to win the FA Cup or promotion this season.
There was one serious point coming out of the answers though - if Forest go up it could change everything.
At the (absolutely horrific) end of the 2019/20 season, Matty Cash was sold to Aston Villa for an initial £14m to meet FFP demands and his own aspirations, not that he lobbied for a move.
It is not the first time it has happened. You can go all the way back to Michael Dawson, Andy Reid and Jermain Jenas moving on.
Now Forest have the kind of young team which could win promotion again, but if it doesn't then it would be naïve to think Brennan Johnson, Djed Spence and perhaps Joe Worrall will be at Forest next season.
But if they go up, Johnson does not need to make the equivalent of the Cash move to realise his ambitions. He could stay at Forest and hopefully help establish them in the Premier League.
Then, in a few years his progression is such that he could join a club like Atletico Madrid, as Cash is touted to do, but not for £18m - the figure offered by Brentford last month. Instead, he could be a £50m, or more, player.
"Getting promoted is so important. Forest have been really good at staying within Financial Fair Play," broadcaster and Reds fan Darren Fletcher said on this week's podcast.
"It's not always been the popular thing to sell a Matty Cash but that's how the rules work. A team down the A52 decided not to do that and look at the mess they're in, more fool them.
"Forest have sacrificed good young players and it's been to the detriment of the promotion hopes. The biggest carrot to go up is that you don't have sell Brennan Johnson.
"You might be able to buy Djed Spence and get Garner back. Joe Worrall is your centre back next season."
This is not to say we should descend into a state of despair if Forest don't go up, even though it is conceivable only four of the players who started against Leicester will be here next season - Brice Samba, Steve Cook, Scott McKenna and Ryan Yates - with the rest on loan or in line to be snapped up.
On top of that a number of senior players are out of contract, not least Lewis Grabban. In years gone by the disbandment of a promising team would have caused panic, but with a much improved structure behind the scenes there is reason to believe Forest would use any money for signings wisely and sustainably.
They would start next season as a favourite for promotion, quite rightly.
Then we go back to the Under-23s and their 4-1 win against Villa. Watch the highlights and you will see Swedish striker Julian Larsson score two wonderful goals as his stock rises.
Winger Ateef Konate is on the fringes of the first team, as is full-back Fin Back. Striker Dale Taylor is waiting in the wingers as a full Northern Ireland international.
There can be another Brennan Johnson given the work of Gary Brazil and his staff, which includes Reds favourite Reid, the Under-23s coach..
"They're tremendously joined up through the age groups," Fletcher said. "My boy is in the academy at the moment.
"Andy Reid coaches the Under-23s and he's very much joined up with Steve Cooper and the first team. The coach of the Under-16s is joined up with Andy Reid.
"This goes all the way down to the younger age group. The 13s will train with the 16s to get to know that coach.
"The 16s might have a 23s player train with them who has been on the bench for the first team in a League Cup game. The manager develops players well but everything is joined up now.
"There's a genuine move in there to get the production line working properly. It's probably the first time since Paul Hart that the first team and academy has been this joined up."
Cooper himself is regularly on the record as saying he wants to promote youth - and he has the track record to back it up.
"I like seeing young players do well and we'll never shy away from giving an opportunity. Teams that do well in the Championship have a core of young players who are hungry, want to get to the next level and are fearless," Cooper told BBC Radio Five Live last week.
"We have that here, we want that here. We could have signed other players in the transfer window but I didn't think that was right.
"It might have stifled an opportunity for a young player. As long as the academy is producing good enough players, while I'm here, if the opportunity is there we'll always give it to them."
Forest's next generation is looking promising not matter division the current first team ends up in next season.
