Five wins in five, four goals past their arch-rivals and up to eighth in the A-League.
After four months at the foot of the table, the numbers are coming up very sweetly for the Melbourne Heart.
If the twelfth Melbourne derby was to be the last featuring Melbourne Heart as we know them, they've certainly gone out in style.
A four-nil thrashing of arch-rivals Melbourne Victory continued Heart's hot streak and keeps them on track for the most unlikely of A-League finals berths, now just four points shy of sixth place and six away from reaching their more fancied Melbourne rivals.
After spending the first half of the season running out of ways to lose games, Heart now know only winning.
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Where luck previously escaped them, John van 't Schip's men play with the luck of the Irish.
A perfect illustration came through the past two derbies - a pre-Christmas showing featured a debatable send-off to Heart defender Patrick Kisnorbo with Heart in the ascendancy of a match they'd lose 3-1.
On Saturday night, Heart had the rub of the green with referee Strebre Delovski dismissing Victory's Nick Ansell for a shirt-tug softer than silk.
But Heart have more than luck in their locker-room, with a midfield engine to rival the rest of the league.
Dutch giant Orlando Engelaar and his diminutive midfield duo of Jonatan Germano and Massimo Murdocca have found a way to bust open the guts of any other, with forwards Iain Ramsay, Mate Dugandzic and David Williams profiting from their dominance.
Williams, who along with Engelaar, Dugandzic and fit-again Harry Kewell, now leads the league in goals and is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the van 't Schip revival.
Former coach John Aloisi was fond of saying the team's losses would make them a better side and the Dutch coach agreed.
"Of course it helps the character of the team," he said.
"If you look at the first few results we were coming back from behind.
"I think the team were sticking together in the period they were not having results, you can see now they're sticking together now when the results are there.
"That's a big compliment to the team."
With finals football within reach, van 't Schip urged his side to stay level-headed.
"It's close and I know everybody's talking about finals, and in our heads, it's there," he said.
"There's a lot still to be played before we can say we're going to be in the finals."
"We just have to keep doing the things we're doing."
