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 d 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.

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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Is that what you were chanting? Bit embarrassing if so


Should stick to fartown

We've been doing it for about 3 years now since Paul Anderson christened us that - it's called having a bit of fun, judging by your fans the last few years you wouldn't understand about that, there's plenty misery in the world at the moment so 30 rugby fans with bells is not exactly harming anyone.....like i said it's a bit of fun for us in what has been a pretty poor couple of years for our club.

If that's your idea of fun then I pity you, it's annoying and pointless.

Hardly pointless they got 2 last night for a start

Some fans like to sit in silence and watch the game some like to have a bit of a crack with their mates and not take everything so seriously.

We don't have a lot of fans at away games and the ones we do respond to it and join in and enjoy themselves.
Would you prefer we got drunk and wanted to fight and swear at women and kids etc instead like some away fans seem to these days?