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Is Richard O'Kelly the key to this seasons run of good form at Bournemouth.
Bournemouth Football Club are currently fourth in Division One with some of the best statistics for scoring goals in that league.
And last night their Carling Cup game against Cardiff City started late because of crowd congestion caused by a sell-out gate. The Cherries had defeated Blackburn in the previous round.
Whether either of these facts can be put down to their assistant manager/coach Richard O'Kelly, who recently joined them after two years at Hereford United, is open to debate.
Viewers of Sky Sports last evening saw O'Kelly commiserating with his squad after they were defeated in a penalty shoot out by Cardiff after both sides scored three goals.
By all accounts it was a superbly entertaining match to watch which was described as a thilling and topsy-torvy game by one Bournemouth Site. A second site said it was another drama packed evening.
"The Cherries started the game with an unchanged side and the benefits of consistency showed. This fired up the visitors a little but a neutral observer would have been hard pushed to tell which team played in a higher league than the other," said one report.
Bournemouth have the best goal difference in the League One, plus 11, and have scored 29 goals in 15 league games.
Hereford United were in much the same sort of position (as Bournemouth find themselves at present) twelve months ago, scoring goals and playing entertaining football.
Maybe O'Kelly and Paul Parry who came on as a sub for Cardiff had a few words afterwards. They both must wonder why Hereford are, as yet, not performing quite as well as last season.