How best can you judge a new manager, a new way of playing, a new identity after half a dozen matches? If you listen to Craig Bellamy he has broken it down to a very simple answer. He and his coaches can do all the work they like away from any match, but the cold hard fact is that football is about results. Bellamy wants to win.
He says that a lot, he has been consistent about it though. He has plans, a vision of how that might happen, but winning is everything. Just win.
He had the luxury perhaps of a wider perspective during the Nations League, but with what comes next it is ultimately all about winning. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Bellamy and his backroom team have had three camps, six matches so far in which to work with the players he has selected for Wales. In doing so he has set about achieving targets, some he made public and others I'm sure are private and will stay within the group.
Trending As far as the short-term goal of creating 'an identity' for Wales under Bellamy, he has clearly done that - job done. The players are on board and judging by what they say they're happy and so are the majority of the public, the supporters. They can see a side that plays for the shirt and badge - although that's kind of a given for any Welsh sportsman or women! But also a freedom to take a risk or two and in the main play attacking football.
So far it has paid off. Also See: UEFA Nations League results UEFA Nations League tables Download the Sky .