While Cardiff City's team performances and results have been much improved in the last week, one man in particular has shown real class over the two games.
Perry Ng was shifted from his customary wing-back position to play at right centre-back against Nottingham Forest and most people believe it was his best performance in a Bluebirds shirt.
Indeed, in our very own player ratings, Ng was the star man in the crucial win over Forest, despite a debut goal for Jordan Hugill and first league goal for Isaak Davies.
Given Ng was playing out of position, he took to it like he had been playing there all season.
Then, up at Barnsley, he continued to impress. His assuredness on the ball, inside the lightning-quick Cody Drameh at right wing-back with Tommy Doyle often offering himself in front, gave City out balls again and again on that right-hand side.
But Ng's shift to centre-back was not simply a horses-for-courses selection. Far from it, in fact. Ng moving into centre-half is symbolic of the shift Cardiff want to see as they move forward and evolve their football.
The three-centre-back system is a necessity at the minute, Cardiff feel, because of the make-up of their defensive roster.
Mick McCarthy championed it when he came in, with Sean Morrison, Aden Flint and Curtis Nelson seemingly immovable objects in the backline.
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While that kept their defence shrewd at the time, the football soon became poor and predictable, especially at the start of this season, and teams worked out how to play against it.
Cardiff were gifting possession away far too easily. The three centre backs have made names for themselves for being uncompromising defenders, but they are often left wanting when the ball is at their feet.
Mark McGuinness, having been schooled at Arsenal, possesses something about him with the ball - although he is prone to the odd error every now and then. He's young, though, and that can be expected.
Ng is the best footballer of the lot and that is why for so long it seemed so logical he played at wing-back, as he had the best chance of impacting the game higher up the pitch.
Now that Drameh has been brought into the building, it has afforded Steve Morison the chance to try Ng at centre-half and the rewards have been clear and immediate.
And Morison said that is a glimpse of where he wants this football club to move in the future. He has tinkered the style of play, brought players in to carry that out and now has players in situ to show fans that this is what he wants to see from Cardiff City from now on.
"We've spoken about it," Morison said of Ng's positional change.
"We feel like, as we talk about progression and evolving, I think his quality on the ball is there to see.
"It's just where we are. How often is that going to be the right scenario?
"He is someone who can play there. He is so confident and comfortable on the ball and he is such a good defender, I think that if we are going to evolve and be better on the ball, keep the ball better, he is someone who could fill that role."
Just how the injuries to Alfie Doughty and Sean Morrison affect this plan in the short term remains to be seen.
It might mean that Ng is shifted back out to left wing-back, or Joel Bagan might slot in there while Ng continues to fill the void left by Morrison's absence.
That might be the case in the immediate future, but fans are now seeing a glimpse of what Morison wants for the club and it is undoubtedly an encouraging step in the right direction.
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