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With Saturday's visit of fifth-placed Morecambe followed swiftly by that of runaway leaders Accrington Stanley next week, Brown needed something to happen now and at 3.10pm on Saturday, the gods finally decided to shine down on him.
With Jonny Dixon already having put the Shots 1-0 up with a third minute header, Morecambe keeper Ryan Robinson inexplicably handled outside the area to put the Shots in dreamland.
But although Robinson's dismissal came as a welcome boost to Brown and his men, there was certainly nothing lucky about this victory — indeed, quite the contrary.
The Shots, despite being threadbare, were effective and lively from the off, belying league position and the Conference form guide with a refreshing display of quality and, more importantly, desire.
In the end, goals in the opening exchanges of either half culminated in victory over Sammy McIlroy's high-fliers —one which stretches their home league unbeaten record to nine matches.
Brown said: “In a way, a win would have been enough and a performance academic.
“We needed that win today and it's nice to have had a bit of a rub of the green for a change.
“Obviously the sending off had a bearing on the game but I thought we came out of the blocks flying and restricted Morecambe to a negligible amount of shots.
“I just think we've had a really good day at the office compared with some pretty awful ones in the past. We won't be getting carried away.”
With John Brough and Tarkan Mustafa released this week and Lewis Hamilton suffering a training ground injury on Friday, the Shots were literally down to the bare bones with only four substitutes named.
Brough's departure handed a rare chance for transfer-listed Tobi Jinadu to shine alongside Greg Heald.
Unsurprisingly, McIlroy took full advantage of Aldershot's re-organisation at the back by unleashing his big-gun forward line in a bid to further expose the Conference's leakiest defence.
But within three minutes, however, he was forced to re-think as Aldershot took the lead.
A quick throw-in found the feet of Ryan Williams, who floated over a cross from the left and Dixon nipped in between Robinson and defender Jim Bentley at the near post to head past the flapping keeper for his third goal since returning to the Rec on loan.
But if that wasn't bad enough for McIlroy, his afternoon was about to get a whole lot worse.
Just seven minutes later, Steve Watson, who defied doctor's orders to play, threaded a ball to Leroy Griffiths, putting him clean through.
Robinson rushed out of his area, only to thwart Griffiths' attempts to round him by holding out a flaying hand.
Griffiths put the ball in the net for safe measures but referee Steve Creighton wrongly ruled out the goal, awarded the free-kick and sent Robinson off.
Front man Wayne Curtis was sacrificed for substitute keeper Steven Drench and from that moment on the Shrimps were on the back foot as the Shots laid assault on the visitors goal.
Drench was kept busy in keeping out a fine 30-yard effort from flu-victim Darren Barnard and a stinging Nick Crittenden drive, while Griffiths headed just wide before the end of the half, almost ending a fine move in style.
But two minutes into the second half, the Shots finally doubled their advantage.
Watson combined with Crittenden on the right flank and crossed for Griffiths (pictured), who beat Drench with a looping header into the corner.
Griffiths then headed onto the top of the crossbar from another Williams centre, while the latter also came within inches of making it three with a rasping effort from a full 25 yards which hit the side-netting to the disbelief of the Rec, who thought it was in.
The Shrimps quite simply showed precious little but did work their best chances in the latter stages — Garry Thompson being put through by Bentley only to shoot wide, while Danny Carlton headed just over the top from Thompson's fine run and cross down the right.
But the overwhelming statistics in Aldershot's favour told their own story, leaving Brown a mightily relived man.
Twelve corners to nil, 16 shots to three, this was as comfortable as it comes.
Brown now has ten days to prepare for the Accrington visit — Lady Luck would be a more than welcome visitor once again.
With thanks to the Aldershot News.