Aaron Paul

There was a lot of emotional on it for the reasons, obviously losing my daughter from Mansfield, it was my hometown team.

Mansfield relegated me when I was Bristol Rovers manager.

It was an amazing day, very emotional.

The Mansfield fans were absolutely outstanding, were the Vale fans, you know, give a...

massive round of applause eight minutes but but for me i zoned in just making sure that we we did the business business on the day the preparation the work what the lads were just talking about there you know i think we went we went to wembley four or five days before the actual final went down had some lunch so the lads could get used to it but the preparation not just

sorting out the lads' tickets, sorting out the best hotels and all of those things.

It's actually the tactical work you do because what you want to do, like these boys there, you want to make sure that your players can go out and perform.

So with that, no stone unturned.

So you can feel confident that the game plan and all the preparation, tactical work can come to fruition on the day.

Daryl, it was the League 2, 2022 League 2 playoffs you won.

Lyle, you won it with Patrick Bauer in League 1, scoring late doors against Sunderland.

This is a question to all you.

There are three games involved in the playoffs.

Obviously, you have to get there first and it is one hell of a marathon.

What does it take to win those three games, to get through those two ties and then get to Wembley and make sure you're celebrating come the final whistle?

Detail for me, Aaron.

Detail, work on the training pitch, working on the boys tactically, preparation-wise, mentally, all of those things.

We beat Swindon in the two legs.

We were chasing the first leg because we got beat 2-1.

But the work we did on the training pitch, the practice in the penalties, winning the shootout in the semi-final, it wasn't taken to chance.