Welwyn Garden City are through to a first cup final in eight seasons after cruising past a young St Albans City side.
Not since they beat Berkhamsted in a seven goal thriller to win the Spartan South Midlands League Trophy in 2014-15 have the Herns Way club lifted silverware.
But now they will contest the Herts Charity Cup final against Hadley having come through their semi-final 5-0.
National League South Saints, the holders of the competition, had clearly placed a low priority on this semi, fielding their U23 side, having played first team league games on Saturday and Monday at Chelmsford City.
And they were no match for a rampant WGC whose team selection were hindered by other factors.
New signing Coree Wilson as well as Panny Boxer were cup-tied while keeper Donny Green was suspended, having been sent-off in their quarter-final tie against Royston Town, way back in August.
Charlie McDonald, on loan from St Albans, was not allowed to play against his parent club.
In addition, midfielder Carlos Velasco was unavailable and their injury list contained Jack Green, Jack Vasey, Ryan Kirwan and Ryan Sellers.
However, fellow injury victims Joe Bennett and Lewis Taaffe were able to be included on the bench.
WGC got the start they wanted, ahead in nine minutes.
Matty Whichelow, a former City trialist, threaded through an excellent ball through, splitting the young St Albans defence.
It found Lewis Jones, who still had a lot to do, but he hit a fine cross-shot that flew across home keeper Josh Dunton, bouncing in off the far post.
The Citizens were fielding two debutants, giant goalkeeper Simon Jorgenson and central defender Bradley Gothard.
Jorgenson was first called into action to reach and save James Bone’s close-range effort on 20 minutes.
WGC came within an ace of a second when a Jed Ejjayha overlap down the right, saw Jones cleverly dummy the pass to allow Whichelow to strike it from close in, but against keeper Dunton’s legs.
When WGC’s second came just past the half-hour it was an excellent solo goal from 19-year-old striker Dennis Halliday.
He collected the ball, ran between two home defenders and shot past Dunton in fine style for 2-0.
Five minutes later, Halliday had his second and third in two games, when great work by Eddie Corbit along the by-line found him on the near post to neatly turn it in for 3-0 at the interval.
To their great credit, the youthful St Albans side made a spirited start to the second-half, but that was ended when Corbit was brought down inside the box just past the hour.
Corbit was entrusted with the penalty, but young keeper Dunton pulled off a fine stop to keep it at three.
WGC thought they had a fourth when Ejjayha collected 20 yards out and drove home into the far corner, but the offside flag denied the former Colney Heath man.
The Citizens did add a fourth with a second penalty award when Whichelow was knocked over after his first effort had been well saved by Dunton.
Again Corbit was given the penalty kick and made a much better job of it, driving it low into the corner.
And it became 5-0 four minutes from time, substitute Taaffe looping a header over keeper Dunton to complete a fine evening’s work from the Citizens and give them a chance of perhaps some silverware to look forward to from their season’s work.
WGC: Jorgenson, Ejjayha, Crilley, Read (McLeod 65), Gothard, Otseh-Taiwo (Bennett 68), Corbit, Eadie (Taaffe 75), Whichelow, Jones (Wadkins 77), Halliday.
