Preston North End's players have been spared the video nasty of Saturday's first half at Sheffield Wednesday, with boss Alan Irvine opting instead to focus his projector on tonight's opponents Derby County.
The North End squad were invited to their regular Monday film show yesterday expecting a grim reminder of their worst 45 minutes of the season so far.
Instead, the main feature was Paul Jewell's side in action, as Irvine decided to look forward rather than back.
He said: "We have got to be careful not to over-react.
"We have only had half a bad game and that includes all of pre-season as well. So I am not going to get carried away.
"There are times to bring players in and show them everything. But I don't feel that this is the time.
"You have got to be careful you don't use video as a tool to criticise all the time. It is there as a tool to improve your group.
"Sometimes that is by criticising and other times it is by praising and showing the good things.
"So if I was to show them all the first half on Saturday, then it would only be fair I show them the whole of the second half.
"And we don't have time for all that with another game coming up so quickly."
Preston were strangely lacklustre in the first period against Sheffield Wednesday and trailed 1-0 at the break.
But they turned the game around in the second half and earned themselves some
deserved praise for the transformation.
Irvine is expected to make changes for tonight's Carling Cup second round tie.
But he insists any reshuffle will be purely with an eye on the bigger picture.
He told the Evening Post: "I am not a lover of squad rotation, but that doesn't mean I won't make changes.
"I believe players should feel that if they play well, they will play again the next week.
"I can understand some of the big clubs trying to compete in four competitions doing it. But we are not in that position.
"I am more likely to make changes to keep people in good form and keep people fit and ready. You have got a whole squad to manage and a whole squad to keep fit.
"And if you are not careful the lads who aren't playing in all the games at the moment will lose fitness and not be ready.
"All that hard work done in pre-season will start to lose its effect."
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