The Ginger Pele is a happy man and reckons the point against Bournemouth was a decent return for the team’s performance.

David Moyes had warned of the Cherries threat before the game saying how they had things that could hurt a team and so it proved during a testing encounter.

But the Irons are a different team now to the one which Moyes took over and showed skill, character and determination as they worked their way to the 26th point of the season.

Afterwards Ginge observed: “We started the game pretty well. We were disappointed not be up in the first half, and then they put us under a bit of pressure in the second. Looking at the game, a point is a decent return.

“I think there was a stop in play and I think we lost our concentration, and they got through us too easily. It was great character from the lads to come back and score a goal as soon as we did. A point is a fair result.”

The Welshman added: “I’m delighted for Chicharito. He probably hasn’t played as much as he would like to, but he’s come on and scored an important goal for us.”

“The game on Tuesday and then today, we probably didn’t do as much training this week as we usually do. There were a few tired legs out there. We recover and we go again for the weekend.”