Proof that two heads are better than one.
On Saturday the Crows hit all the right notes and played the correct chords to come away from Woodstock Park with all three points thanks to goals from captain Jason Barton and Chris Ransome.
On a day that was nowhere near as warm as the Atlanta International Raceway back in July 1969, in fact it was cold enough for any hippie to have the hippie shakes and turn your lips the colour of a pair of swinging blue jeans in the wind but when you get the win, you'll put up with anything.
The pitch was rather soft on top, heavy and bumpy in places, at least there was no wind, therefore, it was never going to be a festival of football but it was a game of attacking intent from both teams for the whole 90 minutes.
With the home side knowing the pitch better than our players, who seemed to slip over quite a few times, the ball was always going to be passed through the air more than on the ground and it did take the Crows a little while to get their passing game together initially, once Woodstock had got the game under way.
Ademiluyi threatened for the Crows within the first minute when he went on a mazy run into the penalty area unfortunately he was just unable to keep the ball from going over the goal line when well placed.
The home side responded by hitting their passes in to the corners of the pitch, using the pace of Ince and Shea to good effect, exploiting the space available as the Crows were playing three at the back with a holding midfield player sitting in front of them.
Even though it was nye on impossible to play the ball on the ground with any accuracy both teams managed to go the aerial route to good effect, with most finding their target, either the space or the man and it meant for an end to end game with chances at both ends, even if most were from distance.
On 6 minutes Ridley put in a dangerous free kick which the home side struggled to clear and at the other end the Crows defence had to work hard to protect their goal from a corner following some neat build up play.
With the teams seemingly taking it in turns to attack Ridley put in another free kick which Barton just failed to get his head to and Ransome did put the ball in the net after 13 minutes but was adjudged to be offside, much to the relief of the home side.
With Woodstock utilising the space in the corners behind the defensive three of the Crows, they went ahead after 24 minutes following good play involving Hollick, Shea and Welling, the latter firing in a powerful shot from just inside the box, on the angle, which hit the underside of the bar and went in by the far post.
The Crows may have felt hard done by but if they did, they didn't let it show and got back on the attack as quick as possible, with Ademiluyi, Carrington and Clarke a constant threat to the back four of the Sports.
Barton suffered a blow to the face and was down for quite some time which was a concern for the Crows on 30 minutes but he was able to carry on after treatment and Ademiluyi and Ransome combine to earn a couple of corners in quick succession which Woodstock just about clear.
On 34 minutes the Crows equalised when Ransome was brought down some 30 yards out and Ridley floated in a free kick which Barton was able to get his head to and plant it in the back of the net, much to the jubilation of the visiting faithful and players alike.
At 1-1 the game was still end to end however, unusually for such an attacking game, neither 'keeper really had a save to make and neither could be blamed for either goal so far as defences generally dealt with most things thrown at them.
On 43 minutes Clarke's run was rather abruptly ended by a Woodstock defender who injured himself in the process and was down for some time, 3 minutes at least, but he eventually recovered but had to leave the field of play after receiving treatment, as the laws of the game state.
This may have affected the home side's ability to defend the resulting free kick taken by Death but Ransome was in the correct spot to nod the ball home and put the Crows 2-1 up on the stroke of half time. Not a bad result, two free kicks, two headers, two goals and it made for an enjoyable half time break.
Following the break the home side had renewed vigour at the start of the second half and the Crows did themselves no favours with some poor passing, poor possession and poor clearances in the first five minutes which gave Shea, twice and Ince the opportunity to shoot at the Crows goal but they all went wide, much to the relief of Nick Collick and his defence.
The home management and players started to become frustrated by some of the decisions made by referee Saunders, I personally felt she had a good game throughout, and may be this led to them, perhaps, to lose their focus and tempers started to warm up, more than the weather anyway.
Shea was cautioned for upending the marauding Ademiluyi on 58 minutes and his team mate, Matthews, followed him into the referee's book some three minutes later as he rather upended Carrington for the second time in as many minutes.
The next ten minutes were quite eventful as Carrington put Ransome clean through inside the box but he failed to increase the Crow's lead by shooting wide when it should have been 3-1 and game over.
On 65 minutes it became hand bags at close quarters following a tackle which neither side liked and both Welling and Ransome were cautioned for their individual confrontation, both could have seen red on another day so perhaps they can consider themselves lucky now.
Just a minute later Woodstock had the ball in the net from a free kick which was headed in after the Crows failed to clear but referee Saunders further angered the now furious management of the home side by awarding the away side a free kick and Hollick became the fourth Woodstock player to see yellow, therefore, it was still 2-1 to the Crows.
There were also a flurry of substitutions around this time, Ransome going off to be replaced by Funnell in the 68th minute, Taylor going off for the home side in the 69th minute, replaced by Blake, Welling going off, replaced by Conlon in the 70th minute.
These breaks in play seemed to cool the tempers down a bit and the game resumed back to concentrating on football, although Clarke did see yellow in the 86th minute for persistent infringement in the eyes of the referee.
The last four minutes of time and the four minutes of stoppage time seemed to take an eternity, especially as the home side were pushing the Crows back in search of the equaliser but the defence held out for the win and everyone could travel back to Crowborough in a happy festive mood.
If anything, this match showed the players have now adapted to this division and can now play either attractive attacking play or compete and battle away when they have to, which augers well for next season, if not moved again anyway.