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"In your wildest dreams you don't expect to score five goals as we've done today but we've been positive all week and I haven't felt any pressure. We have a 25% chance now and let's see what happens. It can come down to a lucky break or an individual piece of skill.
"It's been a great challenge. We haven't spent much money and we've brought the kids through as no one wanted to play for us, so it is remarkable. The last day of last season was a trying time for me when I went down with Sheffield United and I wouldn't put anyone through the 12 months I've had.
"I have just had a chat with the lads in the dressing room and said that we will have a normal week this week and they are two league games as far as I am concerned. These play offs become a recurring dream or nightmare I suppose depending on which way you want to look at it.
"I've won six promotions in my career, but my lucky number is seven. I've never lost at Wembley so it would be great to get the chance again. I've taken teams there who have finished 18 points clear and won and taken teams there that got in on the last day and won so there is no formula. You don't have to win the first game, over the two games the best team normally wins."
So Warnock is looking forward to the play offs whilst Owen Coyle must now prepare for a busy summer as he looks to start reshaping his squad in readiness for a push for the play offs or better next season for the Clarets.
He was far from happy with the performance at Palace and again offered an apology to the almost 900 Burnley fans who made the journey to Selhurst Park. "It has certainly left a bad taste in the mouth," he said after Burnley conceded five goals in a game for the first time in over four years.
"We had good support there paying good money and they were still vocal to the very end. I want to thank them for coming and for the support they gave and I can only apologise to them for what they got offered up.
"We were totally decimated in terms of strikers, so we were always going to be up against it. But I still expect a better showing whether we have eight, nine or ten men."
Coyle was far from happy with the first goal and the part played by the officials in awarding it, a decision that saw us also go down to ten men with the sending off of Clarke Carlisle. "I thought the major talking point was the first goal. When the ball was played through between Clarke and Steven Caldwell they could have dealt with it, but the lad was at least four or five yards offside and because of that our lads allowed the ball to bounce.
"He was coming out, but then ran back and whichever way you look at it, he's in an offside position. It was just an incredible decision. I'm not even sure it was a penalty, but we're one down and down to ten men and then within a few minutes it is another cheap goal given away.
"It was a long afternoon from there, but it only reinforces what I already knew and what we need to improve in the close season. Defensively we've not been good enough. Albeit with ten men against Palace but there's no getting away from the fact that we've given away real soft goals from our point of view.
"It is hurtful and I've told them to make sure nothing like that ever happens again, whether it is the last game of the season or not. I'll now speak to the players out of contract on Tuesday and we'll take it from there. There will be some we make offers to and some we won't."