If Steve Evans was the Jedi master then Alex Revell is strong with the force.
And it wasn't just the yellow card at the end of Stevenage's 1-0 win at home to Shrewsbury Town on the first day of the League One season that drew comparisons with the former man in the Lamex hot-seat.
There were the emotions on the sideline, the way the team performed, the fist bumps at the end and the fact that Boro remain one of the toughest nuts to crack in the division.
But there is more to Revell than just being a clone of his mentor, and one of the biggest things that pleased him was the way Boro went forward and went at Shrewsbury after a slow start.
He said: "That has been a big part of what we're trying to. We know we have this solid base of brilliant defenders and we just wanted to build.
"And we’re not taking anything away from anything that we've done before because we've had real success, but we wanted to work on when we win it.
"What can we do with it? How can we go forward?
"And I thought we started to show what we've been working on.
"But I also think there is more to come and so that’s what we’ll keep doing. We’ll keep practising it, keep working on it and keep demanding certain things.
"And then hopefully it just becomes a regular thing."
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The standards that were shown, certainly after the opening 25 minutes, are now the benchmark for matches says the boss, although he was quick to point out that those standards run through everything they do and have done for years.
"Those standards were set long before me," he said. "It's our job to make sure that the standards stay, and if you drop below them, you don’t play.
"That's a fact and the players know that, they've been told that.
"Ultimately this was about setting a tone. We've said all along that the first game sets the tone and shows what we are, shows that we have a certain identity.
"We need to stick to that.
"That doesn't mean always playing a certain shape but it just means how we play. How we press and how we work.
"The standards are set and if we continue those then we'll have a really successful season."
An example of the traits shared by mentor and apprentice is the clean sheet.
There were 19 in total in the league last year and there rarely looked a moment when this one didn't look on the cards.
Revell said: "That's one on the board and if we get 19 again this year, we'll be in a good place.
"But it'll take everyone. It takes Dan Kemp working as hard as he was, that takes Tyreece Simpson who was working extremely hard up there on his own and sometimes that's tough.
"It's hard work but that's what gets you wins.
"If I was to grade the performance, it would probably be a B-minus because we haven't scored the goals we wanted to, to make it really convincing.
"But it was all about winning and that's it."
And going back to the yellow card, which should have been given for "a stonewall penalty", even here, Revell's path diverges slightly from that of Evans.
"I thought the one we were given was harsh if I’m honest," said the new boss.
"We’re trying to win games and it's hard to keep your emotions. I had a good chat with the referee before the game [but it was just] emotion.
"The miss could have cost us but [it should have been] another one. It doesn't matter that he's already given one. It's another penalty because it deserves to be a penalty.
"I think I was more frustrated for Louis Appere because he did so well and everybody was willing him to shoot and score.
"Then he allowed the defender back in and that gave the referee the option to give it or not whereas we should just be ruthless and go and score.
"But yeah, typical yellow card. I’ll text Steve in a minute and tell him I've kept up his record."
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