Focus people, focus. You could swear we'd just won an F.A Cup Semi-Final or something.

Anyway, attention turns strongly back to the league campaign this week and we travel to the daunting Portman Road for match 41 of the grueling Championship season. It's not just us calling for focus we assure you, but a man who carries far more respect.

Dave Jones is uttering the same sentiments: "The FA Cup win is now behind us and our focus is back on the play-offs. We have a slim chance of making them and the match at Ipswich is an opportunity."

Last nights win for Crystal Palace leaves us six points adrift of the all important sixth spot with two games on had over the London team that occupies that place, this means even winning those extra games would only place us level on points with the Eagles making our encounter with a fellow promotion outfit an essentially must win game.

Dave's placed importance on the clash is obvious; "We're playing a team just ahead of us and we have games in hand - we need to keep our run going."

However, it's equally clear that he has full faith in the squad's ability to rise beyond the excitement that Sunday's monumental victory has brought: "My job is to keep the players' feet on the ground for the match at Ipswich. I hope that won't be too difficult. They haven't let me down so far."

Dave Jones' returning emphasis on the league campaign, with a final goal of play-off glory is undoubtingly in-fitting with the manager's long term plans for Cardiff City Football Club; while many promoted teams have complained in the past of doing so without being fully prepared for the experience, beggars cannot be choosers when it comes to the timing of the opportunity of play-off victory and it must be snatched with every grateful hand.

"I'm a builder," said Jones ahead of his first trip to Wembley as manager. "If you want someone who is looking to keep things ticking over, it's not me - I want to change things. I want to leave a legacy at Cardiff." And what better way to do so than pairing his F.A. Cup Final appearance with one a week later in the Play-Off final?

As far as the encounter at Portman Road, Jones' comment that; "There are plenty of knocks and bruises" tends to suggest at changes to the starting eleven that jogged out at Wembley. Darcy Blake (not Matt Green FA officials!) in particular looks set to start in place of Kevin McNaughton who trudged off shortly after half-time against Barnsley, while with Paul Parry's estimated time of return unclear, Steve Thompson who had a highly effective substitute performance on Sunday looks stitched on to deputize up-front alongside Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.

As for our hosts they enter the contest winless in their last two matches following disappointing results against away at lowly Colchester 2-0 and at home to QPR 0-0. Nevertheless this is a team that sits 8^th in the Championship table, four points ahead of ourselves having played a game more and just two points shy of the play-off places; this is also a team that went 15 matches unbeaten at home at the begging of the season, including 11 victories, one of which being a 6-0 defeat of high-flying Bristol City.

This is also an opposition side that has at least one familiar face in the shape of former forward Alan Lee, an ex-Bluebird who has nothing but praise for the cup achievements of his formers employers;

"My priority is obviously Ipswich, but I'm delighted for Cardiff that they have reached the F.A. Cup Final?they will be at Wembley one week and then hopefully we will follow seven days later in the play-off final."

While Cardiff players, staff and fans alike will be hoping that Ipswich aren't the only one of us on the guest list of participants for Wembley's end of year showpiece, Lee is likewise looking forward to making two visits to the spiritual home of English football.

"I'm hoping to make it to the final and go along and support them, if things work out?there are still many friendly faces around Ninian Park and friends as well."