A silver trophy raised above his head at 4-44ish-pm next Saturday afternoon at our national stadium is what matters.

I was unable to make the game as I was on the way back from a holiday. From the texts and tweets I saw it sounded like another grim home performance which is a real cause for concern and has cost us a second place finish.

What a contrast to last year's pre Wembley fixture.

Were I was looking for a good team performance last night to solidify our assault on the gf and provide positive momentum leading into Wembley.

Correct.

League Weekly pundits called last night's crapness early and it was clear at half time it was a half arsed job. Need one of our rabbit out of a hat performances for the big one. Either way it's been a fabulous defence of the trophy so far. Remember 2006 - hideous.

This time next week we'll be heading to Wembley Way for the 3rd time in 5 years. Compared to most SL clubs that's a superb achievement. Let's hope we get a performance.

Wasn't 2006 the year our dear neighbours lost to Saints in the semi by their favourite big game scoreline, 50-0?

Six more sleeps before heading darn sarf.
Can't wait.

Just as I suspected, last night was all a bad dream. Viking radio reported us winning 14-10 this morning.

Bad night at the office, but we can just move on from it.

Most disapointing for me was that the fringe players (with the exception of Turgut who i felt got stuck in) didn't take the opportunity to stake a late claim for a Wembley spot.

I dont think the new look formation did any favours though, Fonua and Michaels in particular looked uneasy as a pairing and that has to be one of the shortest centre/wing pairings I can remember, yet we kept kicking high to their corner??

Its a worrying pattern we have this season.

Turgut? I think you and I watched a different game. If by "got stuck in" you mean, headless chicken tackling (aka missed a fair few), poor handling and poor passing (including 15 minutes from time an awful attempt at a straightforward pass for Connor to be under the posts, would have brought us to a 10 point deficit with plenty of time to rescue the game) .

Then, yes he did get stuck in.

Turgut is one of the players I assume Radford referred to as making selection for the final easier.

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