Andi Weimann believes a number of home truths spoken between the players and manager during the week proved key in Saturday's all-important victory.
Nigel Pearson dragged his players in from their day off last Monday for a clear-the-air chat after the Robins had endured their third consecutive loss at home to Birmingham last weekend.
It then coincided with the Austrian scoring a dramatic late winner at Blackburn as City won away from home for the first time in 12 matches and kept their first clean sheet this year.