YOU’VE got to feel for the members of boyband Yes Lad in their quest for X Factor stardom.

The group, including local performers Luke Gregory and Cian Gleeson, got as far as judges’ houses before being knocked out by, in my humble unbiased opinion, inferior performers.

Their talents, however, have now come to national notice which could well lead to greater things.

Don’t forget, megastars One Direction only came third in The X Factor in 2010 when Matt Cardle was the winner. Guess whose name we know now like our own and whose has passed into the recesses of memory?