So the apologies have come thick and fast after the 5-0 defeat at Anfield yesterday afternoon but the reality is there really is no need for apologies - just make sure you lift the cup next Sunday at Wembley lads.

Of course it hurts, nobody likes to see their team beaten so comprehensively and sure it made for a long trip back from Anfield yesterday afternoon but that is in the past now and focus should be on next Sunday's Cup final - the first one in the club's history.

The best way the players can say their apologies for the result and the performance is to go to Wembley and give us a performance like the ones that have seen us beat Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea during the course of the season. A performance that shows they have character and a belief that they can bounce back in style against our opponents.

As I wrote yesterday it is a refreshing change to listen to a group of players who simply say that a performance was unacceptable and we all know that it to be true but they are words until the wrongs of yesterday are put right on the pitch.

Michael Vorm summed it up nicely with his comment "We owe the fans an apology because they travel all the way and we play like this - it's a disgrace" was what he told the Evening Post and he is right but next Monday let us read the words that say "That was to make up for the performance last week at Liverpool, we had a point to prove and we did it in the only way we know how" would be a wonderful opening to an Evening Post piece reporting on how Vorm's clean sheet capped a perfect Swans afternoon. I know I'm getting ahead of myself but bouncing back with a win is the perfecy comeback from anything that is a disgrace.

I guess if we were to take a positive from yesterday it would - maybe strangely - be in the nature of the capitulation and the pride of our manager in wanting to make sure it doesn't happen again. We know that Michael would have hurt as much as us after yesterday and he will too want to wrong the rights in the next game.

The key for us as players and fans is now not to dwell on the game and the nature of the defeat but look forward to a massive day for the club and the 33,000 fans that we will take to Wembley.

And this time next week the need for apologies will have passed.

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