Swansea manager Garry Monk plans to use his watching brief at England's Six Nations triumph over Wales to good effect at West Brom.
Monk was in the Cardiff crowd last Friday and while he enjoyed the bragging rights sat next to his good friend Ryan Jones, the former Wales rugby captain, he also says he admired England's ability to front up in a hostile environment.
It is something Swansea did in their last Premier League fixture at Champions League-chasing Southampton -- Jonjo Shelvey providing a late smash-and-grab winner -- and Monk now wants more of the same against West Brom hosts still getting used to new manager Tony Pulis and battling the threat of relegation.
"The rugby was a great spectacle and when you talk about away from home you need a strong mentality," Monk said.
"It is difficult on the road at this level and sides play differently at home to away with different set-ups.
"I think all in all we have been good away from home, we have not had too many poor performances and hopefully we can push on and get a few more wins.
"We need to be leaders and have strong characters against a tough West Brom side."
Monk has just celebrated his first year at the Swansea helm and his record of 52 points from 38 games makes for pretty good reading.
Having taken 34 points from 24 games this season, Swansea are on course to beat their best Premier League haul of 47 points accumulated in the club's inaugural 2011-12 campaign.
But Monk insists he is looking no further ahead than a February sequence of fixtures which starts at West Brom and also takes in a home game with Manchester United and a trip to Burnley.
"It's important that we don't let the season fizzle out," Monk said.
"European football is not an aim for me, it's just trying to target those games.
"Let's go on a big push this month and see where we end up and then we have a realistic chance of re-assessing where we are going to be."
Monk and Pulis might follow different footballing philosophies with Swansea's passing game at odds with the more direct and physical approach being instilled at The Hawthorns under the latter's command.
West Brom showed their growing set-piece threat under Pulis by scoring from two corners in the 2-2 draw at Burnley on Sunday but Monk says the Welshman's brand of football should not be criticised.
"Tony may not be everybody's cup of tea, but there is no right or wrong way to play football and if we all played the same way it would be boring," Monk said.
"He plays a different philosophy to what I believe in, but when he explains how he goes about it you can see what a good manager he is and how much work he puts in.
"Everyone thinks you can just set up two banks of four and play long ball, but it takes a clever person to be able to make it effective.
"He did it for Palace and Stoke and he is turning West Brom around really quickly which shows what a good manager he is."