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Episode 66 - Palace 1 - Ipswich 0
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More doom and gloom I'm afraid as Ipswich fall at home to Crystal Palace. Rob and Richard give their immediate thoughts to the damaging defeat.
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Host: Richard Popple
Guest: Rob Binns
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Post-Match Reaction at Portman Road
00:00:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello everyone and welcome back to a very immediate reaction to what was a pretty dreadful game of football at Portman Road on this Tuesday evening just passed. It was just lost 1-0 to Crystal Palace and it was a pretty drab affair. Here to pick through the bones of that disaster with me is Rob Bins. How are you doing Rob?
00:00:33
Rob Binns
um Not great after that performance to be honest with you. I feel stupid now because I put the the match reaction with them the forest game on Monday, putting a description that is very uncharacteristic.
00:00:47
Rob Binns
We have such a a dull game involving Ipswich and we've had two in three days now. So maybe that's
Frustrations with Team Performance
00:00:52
Rob Binns
just the way things are in this league.
00:00:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it was flat, wasn't it? Yeah, I mean, we obviously didn't see the Forest Games at the three o'clock kickoff on on Saturday, so we saw the highlights and everything, and it was a flat game that was maybe a little bit more even than this. I mean, I suppose the game tonight was fairly even, or game last night, sorry, it was fairly even, but and it I mean, it was just, it that was a really, really flat performance, I thought. I mean, how did you kind of like see it early doors? Like the start of the game is fairly even, I suppose, but we weren't really, weren't really creating much. I mean, throughout the whole 90 minutes, but certainly not to to begin the game. I think it took us 40 minutes to get a shot on target. And that was a Harry Clarke header from the corner. um So yeah, what what was going
Defensive Challenges and Creating Opportunities
00:01:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
on? There was just no flow to it.
00:01:38
Rob Binns
Yeah, it's just... The same thing against Forrest really, teams have seemed to have discovered now they keep it tight at the back. We don't really know how to make chances. We're so, he we're so reliant on sort of quick football transition. If teams have realized if they, they rock up and be effectively, if you play for a clean sheet against us, you probably get one because we we haven't got the quality to, to break it down as a, as this chat to my mates about one in the game. And he, I think he's worded it perfectly. And he said that.
00:02:07
Rob Binns
teams who try and beat us, we look really good again. So teams who look happy with a point, we lose to every time the way, the way they go about it.
00:02:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:02:15
Rob Binns
And it's games like that. If we get relegated, it's because of games like tonight, because it's like I just say, it's those, we look like one of the few teams in the league who can't grind out results.
00:02:28
Rob Binns
Obviously Palace has just got one against us. Leicester got a really good point against Spurs where they're under the cuff. They grinded out enough tight, narrow game.
Relegation Concerns and Local Rivalries
00:02:37
Rob Binns
We don't look like we've had 23 or 4 of these games now that have been really tight and narrow and we've never looked like the team is going to go and win it.
00:02:46
Rob Binns
And that is going to be part of the reason.
00:02:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
no
00:02:48
Rob Binns
Also, it's the games against the teams around you that have the biggest impact on the table. We've got two from 15 so far, one from nine at home. That is simply nowhere near good enough.
00:03:02
Rob Binns
And that is where we look good in a lot of these other games.
00:03:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:03:06
Rob Binns
So we look good against United. maybe could have won that. Obviously great result, I suppose.
00:03:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:03:10
Rob Binns
We've got these good performances in there. But all that means nothing. If you go and hand them three points when teams come to Portland Road and you're giving them three points in the game as big as that, then those points you go and get again against good teams like Villa, Man United, games like that, they mean nothing now because you've handed three you've handed three over on the plate to, and in this case, the team was at two positions above us, literally goal difference apart.
00:03:33
Rob Binns
And now there's a gap there again, and this is a game as a home team in this sort of game, we have to be winning and we've not even got a point from it. And this, this, this, these performances, it's up there like Everton as well.
00:03:47
Rob Binns
It's not just that we're not winning these games against the teams around us is that some of our worst performances of the season have been in these games. You think West Ham, they've been dragged right back into it over the last few weeks.
00:03:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm.
00:03:59
Rob Binns
We went there and looked terrible. Everton came to Portland road and we played terrible and lost. Palace have come tonight and we've offered no threat and lost. And were we're doing the these are the games you've got to be fully stepping up in. And we're doing the complete opposite. We're shying away and handing points over, which this absolutely it could absolutely come back to bite us. Like I said, if we look at the table come May and we're in that bottom three, it's because of nights like tonight and games like this where we just don't turn up and give away from very massive points to teams. And that's a level that was in the table going into it.
00:04:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, I think you and I discuss this, I think, um on so on the on Sunday, you know, we''re we're raising our game against the bigger sides and we're having that kind of like, you know, free hit almost. And that's and that's kind of allowing us to play, I think, with a bit more freedom and stuff in those games. And I think what you mentioned earlier, we're playing at such a pace that we're not really I think the the stark thing for me tonight was a real lack of composure all over the pitch.
Lack of Composure and Game Adaptation
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Global Sports Podcast Network
The only person who I say would have had any of it on the ball was Kyuste in the first half when he turned a couple of times. He got caught in possession a couple of times, but generally speaking, he turned with the ball, he looked up and he passed in. He made a simple simple pass forward.
00:05:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Dalat was playing hero ball all night, ah Jack Clark was running with the ball every time he got it when there was a simple pass on and Murray Hutchinson was doing exactly the same and we're and we're trying to play this sort of like super direct super quick football that you're right if you you know that can work against the bigger teams I think because theyre they're playing so much further up the pitch and they're dominating the ball um and I think what we've found really is that the quality of the Premier League is is a lot stronger obviously all the way down and I think allied to the fact that as you say teams have kind of like worked us out a little bit in that sense.
00:05:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
But it was really frustrating to see as being unable to adapt to that when it was clear that, you know, the the early release ball was the way to hurt Crystal Palace. It was clear, like in the first 15 minutes, that that would be the way into the game. And we didn't do it because the ball was getting stuck under their feet. And you've got a few, but you know, I'm not having to go at any of these players at all, but Dilap literally was playing by himself tonight because I think that's how he's kind of had to play the whole season.
00:06:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
And, you know, he did some things brilliantly, but at times he was just literally just hogging the ball, you know what I mean? And just not bringing other players into the game and not moving the team up the pitch. Same with Jack Clark. I thought it was a really disappointing performance from Jack Clark. I think Nathan Broadhead showed more in his half an hour on the pitch than Clark did.
00:06:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
um And yeah, they they were slightly worrying performances for me. um You know, Hutchinson didn't have his best game either. But I think overall, it was just a a real lack of composure, just not willing to just get the ball down and kind of have a bit of patience, pray through the lines for a little bit and kind of like just get a foothold into the game, you know, and and see if you could work it out. But you're right. Maybe that comes down to the fact that we're not very confident that we can break teams down because we don't seem to be able to do that, unfortunately.
00:07:09
Rob Binns
Yeah, it's like you said, we're not, the ball's not doing the work for us. It's this dilap trying to beat. He's got it right so many times where he has picked up the ball and sort of halfway line, sprung an attack forward like that.
00:07:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:22
Rob Binns
But if you're playing on a team who are setting themselves up, but particularly where the way Palace did was throw it in the back. It's very narrow. The space is out wide. You're not going to break through down the middle. You're going to have to, you've got two defensive midfielders in the way.
00:07:34
Rob Binns
And then if you get past them, you've got three center backs that you've got to be whole. He's he's got a, It's not his game, but he has to adapt and do what Mateta was doing for Palace and holding the ball up, letting the other letting others get involved.
00:07:46
Rob Binns
And then then once you've brought them into the game, then you spin off and go and get yourself in a better position that he was sort of picking it up and trying to take the world on, which a lot of the time does work.
00:07:56
Rob Binns
But I don't think it's coincidence you say Hutchinson didn't have his best game, but he said he looked 10 times better when Al Hamadi was on instead of to that, that Hutchinson didn't really get in the game because he wasn't getting the ball.
00:08:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he did, yeah.
00:08:10
Rob Binns
And then say, Clark is really frustrating and watching Clark tonight for me because he was doing brilliantly. He was getting the ball. He was driving forward. He was buying fouls, getting, but every time he'd done the hard work and then just carried on, ah he picked, he picked them.
00:08:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, there was there was a ball on every single time.
00:08:27
Rob Binns
Yeah. So he picks, he picks the ball up.
00:08:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah Yep, yep.
00:08:29
Rob Binns
He turns his man really drives forward, opens up the pocket of space. Brilliant. Right now find your pass. Okay. No, four more touches, turn backwards and and get all, give the ball away.
00:08:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah and and also you know because people would be like well he won the foul he you know got his up at the pitch but that doesn't matter you miss the opportunity to be a bit it's like watching you know it's a lazy comparison because of the hair or whatever but jack realish sometimes jack realish doesn't release the ball quick enough he doesn't keep the play moving and so he gets caught in fouls all the time but yeah that's fine if you you know you're wanting to get the team up the pitch but if you want to actually progress the ball it's no good at all and i think clark was you saw could you stay look frustrated with that at one point when there was a breakaway on just after we cleared from a corner and he again you said you're right he did that first bit right he turned brilliantly got away from his first man and then just kept dribbling and it's like what are you doing there's a ball right in front you know 20 yards away the players released released the ball and run up a pitch it was
00:09:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes, he's not hit the ground running yet, um and well, he was running a lot tonight, but I agree. It was a very frustrating performance, particularly in the first half. He was a little bit better in the second half, to be fair, but um yeah, it was pretty
Reflecting on the First Half and Need for Change
00:09:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
frustrating. Anyway, let let's take a quick break. We'll be back to Moan a bit more in a second.
00:10:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right, so we are back. Rob, talk to me about the second half. It's a bit of a flat first half, really. No one created too much. We had the Eze chance for Palace and then obviously Harry Clarke's header, which was saved by Dean Henderson's nether regions very well.
00:10:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
um We come out in the second half. Again, it's a bit more of the same. We kind of started a little bit better in the second half. I think you could tell McKenna was frustrated during the first half. You kind of see it and hear it a little bit.
Failed Attempts at Increasing Intensity
00:10:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
and So what what what what did you notice anything different as we as we went into second half?
00:10:40
Rob Binns
The intensity was, well, it was attempted to be stepped up a bit. It didn't really work as Palace just quashed it within 10 minutes and we went back to sort of knocking about, not knowing what to do. We came out of the blocks considerably quicker, those first five, 10 minutes of the second half, you could see what the team talk was about. And then we sort of just, the combination of sort of that not really coming to anything. And then obviously you can see it in sort of 13, 14 minutes into the half from that point, we then just drop back into just not not really knowing what to do.
00:11:12
Rob Binns
And it is just a lack of confidence for me, I think really, because you compare it, obviously look look at the situation at Man City at the moment.
00:11:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:11:21
Rob Binns
when You think of that, what they had against Liverpool. They had a free kick, 25, 30 yards out from goal out wide. They took a short three passes and it was back to Ortega when they had all the big men in the box.
00:11:32
Rob Binns
And I used to from the, when we were breaking sometimes where We have been so good in transition most of the season that a few times we did look like we could hit Palace with pace. We weren't playing that ball in behind, even though that was the option.
00:11:44
Rob Binns
We were taking four touches, Palace were getting men back, and the ball was back at the center-halves.
00:11:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm.
00:11:50
Rob Binns
It's just no one had that confidence to say that space was there, that could be running, or Amari could have been running. No one has the confidence to even attempt that ball before we even get to the conversation.
00:12:01
Rob Binns
It's the quality there to get it right and work the chance. We're not even trying, because ah the confidence in front of goal just isn't there, especially when teams, like we haven't seen with Forrest and now Palace, when teams set up with a lot of men behind the ball, try and nullify those runs, we like the few times they do open up, wind we haven't got the confidence to try it because we're expecting them to just, in our heads, we're thinking, oh, they're just gonna they gotta to get back and cut cover all the space again, or we'll rework, we'll rebuild and go that way, but then it never actually results to anything. It's just rebuild, rebuild, rebuild, until you eventually give it away at midfield.
00:12:35
Rob Binns
and you' just that's how you end up with a big game like this with two shots on target. I think it's five shots on target a hundred and 180 minutes in a week. this Even for a team down the bottom, they're really poor numbers.
00:12:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, you know, we've spoken
Midfield Struggles and Confidence Issues
00:12:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
about the midfield quite a lot, haven't we, in terms of, you know, getting through the pitch and stuff like that. And it it really, really didn't happen tonight. I was quite surprised to be honest. He took because you stay off because I thought he was he was the better midfielder. I don't think more as he played very well at all tonight. I think he was really slow on the ball um and he was obviously getting he was fouling quite a lot early in the game and and didn't get the yellow card that he probably deserved. But Yeah, it we we do, we get caught in that kind of like triangle. We were picking it around quite nicely for a little bit with Clark actually played some nice passes and he did play a ball over the top to Burns in the first half.
00:13:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
that was really, really nicely done. But Burns couldn't miss his guy every time he tried to put a cross in tonight. He was hitting his marker every single time. But you're right, there is a lack of confidence. You can kind of see it throughout the whole team, which is a little bit strange given that our two best results of the season probably were just before this Forest game. So it's a bit strange that that's fallen off a cliff quite so much. But I think you know go it does go back to what we said earlier.
00:13:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
you you play these games where the expectations you are going to get. so You should be getting something from it. You have to get something from it. And we're not living up to those expectations. And it feels like McKenna said about you know fans coming on Tuesday don't bring tension, bring you know bring passion. It didn't really sound like a very passionate crowd tonight. It sounded quite a tense sort of atmosphere and the Palace fans were much louder for, well, pretty much all the second half, obviously.
00:14:22
Rob Binns
Yeah, I think, well, go back to what McKenna said after the Forest Games, one of the things we've done wrong is, obviously, it's the away side, the things you've got to try and do is kill the crowd off early, don't let them build the atmosphere up.
00:14:35
Rob Binns
We didn't do that on Sunday. And I wouldn't even say Palestine, mean we killed our own crowd off, or just the lack of ambition trying to go forward. that After that, as I say, 45 minutes of sort of turning back and not really making chances, just
00:14:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:14:51
Rob Binns
ah all just very frustrating half of football. We just we quiet and down our wrote we done Palace's job for and we quiet and down our own our own atmosphere and then by the time Palace scored it was just that was it.
00:15:02
Rob Binns
That was that was ah that was the last blow in the coffin. We we slowly worn them down for 60 minutes and then we can see and I was like that's it now that's like that's the one you needed.
00:15:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:12
Rob Binns
There was no I swear you could argue that Well, could more have been done on the fans side of things, but I'd say that there's got to be something on the pitch for them to... ah Even if it's just a crunch in tackle or something within two minutes.
00:15:26
Rob Binns
You can see someone goes in from kickoff. nick Oh, is it straight away?
00:15:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I agree.
00:15:31
Rob Binns
There you go. Crowds up again. Right, come on, let's get back into it. But it wasn't. It was just so flat and poor all round. that There was nothing to get excited about. So naturally naturally, the atmosphere died off fairly quickly in the game and never came back.
00:15:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah what about some of the some of the subs then some of the you know we've we've been kind of bemoaning a lack of you know game changes i suppose off the bench um kind of all season really has obviously getting injured to not help with that alhamani actually did all right when he came on he looked scared of going towards the goal because i think he's got a ah real lack of confidence but in terms of like his build up plan stuff he was
00:16:02
Rob Binns
yeah
00:16:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
bustling around. As I said, Broadhead I thought played much better than Clarke did. He was retaining the ball pretty well and was trying to be quite progressive with it all the time. And we looked more connected when him and Chaplin were on the pitch. We looked a bit more connected in that final third I thought. and yeah any other Any other observations of of the changes towards the end or not really?
00:16:31
Rob Binns
I think My issue I have with Al Hamady is that he works his socks off. He runs around so much when he comes on for these cameos. But you said it perfectly, when he looks scared to go in front of a goal. And he's our backup striker, while Hearst is injured, until we get to January and we can look at signing someone. We have a backup striker who you can't fault. He's worth ethic. But he doesn't even get close to looking like he's going to have a chance.
00:17:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
no
00:17:00
Rob Binns
it almost be better coming on as the number 10 and trying to do the Chaplin role.
00:17:04
Rob Binns
Whether that means you but we you try Chaplin in the middle, you try Brawhead in the middle, Schmodix even. He looks like he should be the one sitting and just up.
00:17:14
Rob Binns
Even if if it's not in the 10, change it up and go to two up front and have an have someone playing up front and him just behind.
00:17:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:17:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:23
Rob Binns
that He doesn't look like he can, especially in the system we play with the strikers up on their own, he doesn't look like He has the confidence to do that role at the moment, but I don't know. But I don't think he plays badly when he comes on. I just think he doesn't do the job of a striker when he comes on. Because there's two games, the same with Man United, really. He's come on and worked really hard, fought for every ball, put a solid shift in, but not come close to the goal as a striker in the 10, 15 minutes he's been given in each game, which
00:17:55
Rob Binns
I'm not expecting him to come on and have three chances every game, but ah to at least sort of go and stand in the right positions that something might break for you that, I don't know, but we had Smodix on the bench there, who um they are our second top small scorer who didn't get a minute, which I don't know if that's a, did he pick up a knock on against Forrest that we haven't been told about?
00:18:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah maybe.
00:18:13
Rob Binns
I don't know, but when you one nil down, even if it is 10 minutes or so to go, and you've got you've still got one substitute left because you've only made four in the game. Surely you look at your second top scorer on the bench and think, you've got to throw him on. Because he's just no instinctive finisher like he is. he Surely you feel like he needs to come on, and he's that sort of person who could a half chance could break for. And he'll put it away, and that gets us a point. But I can't really. I haven't had much reason to fault McKenna's substitutions in the last two and a half years, or however long it's been. So um think oh I'll let him off on this one. But du that baffled me a bit when I was seeing
00:18:52
Rob Binns
So how how how many works really hard when I'm thinking that apps going off and off second top score is not even warming up on the bench to come on the replace him. Who can play through the middle of that one surprised me a bit.
Inflexibility in Strategy and Formation
00:19:03
Rob Binns
Really, I think I'd quite like to see them, too, to be fair, Schmodix and now how many together at some point and see how that works, maybe in the cup game in January.
00:19:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. i
00:19:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, I agree with you. I think I think at times, um you know, we always we always just replace like for like, I mean, obviously, the players, and you know, different quality of the actual players themselves, but we never really change formation, particularly. And obviously, that serves us very well um for a long time. but It feels as if when you are chasing the game,
00:19:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah I'm not really sure what Harry Clarke's going to do for you, you know, switching to a back three for a for a or even, you know, pushing Leif Davis further on and then bringing another striker on the pitch or whatever it might be or another forward on the pitch and asking Chaplin's dropped it a tip bit deeper or something like that. You know, it feels like we needed a bit more urgency. And I think that was the one thing from the whole evening. I don't think McKenna's sides are ever going to play with like, you know, desperation, because I think I think they're molded in his kind of like image and stuff, which is very kind of you know controlled for the most part, but this controlled kind of like aggression, but it feels as if...
00:20:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
We did need to grab this and we didn't do that in the first half, you know, the first 10, 15 minutes of the game when a home team really needs to come out of the blocks and have a right go. and And we didn't do that. We didn't put Palace under that pressure. So at the end of the game, even though we were on the front foot a bit, we just didn't, we just, yeah. I mean, if you've got Schmodix on the bench, it seems very strange. It didn't come off it, but maybe there was an injury and we didn't know about it. But I'd be surprised if he was on the bench, if there was an injury in the first place.
00:20:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Alright, another quick break and then we'll come back and give our final thoughts on the game.
00:21:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
We're back for the final part of the show. OK, Rob, what does this mean then? We've got another home game at the weekends. Bournemouth, you know, statistically, table-wise, they're a better team than Crystal Palace. I don't think Crystal Palace had to play particularly well tonight, really, to win the game, to be honest. and What does this mean?
Crucial Upcoming Matches
00:21:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, you know, we've kind of said that tonight was a must-win game. The pressure on the Bournemouth game is pretty huge at this point, is it not?
00:21:40
Rob Binns
Yeah, I think because of the games you've got. I mean, part of me is almost already looking past Bournemouth, to be honest. it's um Obviously, it's undoubtedly a massive game, but I'm already looking at that Wolves game of thing and thinking, if we don't win that, we've played every other team in the bottom seven, and we wouldn't have won if we don't go to Molyneux and get a result. And like I said right at the start, they're they're the massive sort of games. and So if we don't if we don't, even if we get a draw there, three points from 18 in those games,
00:22:09
Rob Binns
in in that first round of games against teams around you is nowhere near good enough and they're the sort that's the sort of return that you look at Luton last year, they overall they weren't too bad, they were a bit like us really, they pulled off a lot of big shock results against teams who went there thinking they'd turn them over and then and they didn't but their record against the teams around them was shocking and they got relegated by a very small margin of points because those games, they didn't say like, was it Sheffield United?
00:22:36
Rob Binns
it They finished on 16 points or something, didn't they? But they went to Luton's place and spanked them. And it's results like that, that that's what kept that's what got Luton down.
00:22:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:46
Rob Binns
They went and got all these big wins. They pointed against, I think they got a point against Liverpool at home, they were so close to beating Arsenal at home, they put in shifts like that, but they lost these sort of games. And we're putting in these sort of shifts against, you know, good points against Villa, good points against United, played well against Liverpool, and especially in the first half,
00:23:03
Rob Binns
But we've looked terrible away at West Ham. We've looked terrible at home to Everton. And we've looked terrible at home to Palace. And they're the games that kill you, is my worry. And say so it's sort of the gap now. So obviously, Palace got three points on us now. Wolves Everton, tomorrow or tonight, is a very, very big game that we're not involved in. There's not really any result that and benefits us, to be honest. You have to sort of, the worst, at that the best of the worst is a draw probably because neither team gains three points which is hardest to claw back but ah especially if Everton go and win that game then gaps or you you've got ah a fairly decent sized gap opened up again that we've just donet we just put in a couple of good performances over the last few weeks to claw that gap right back down to get it really close and then it could open up again especially you today depending on what is what happens with some of the other, I don't know who's playing who in other weeks but
00:24:03
Rob Binns
yeah like I say, all that combined makes the next two, not not that they were, they were obviously, it was a massive 10 days already, the three games we've had, but the fact we've lost the first of the three makes the next two even more big, and if we're not, and to so you look at the fixes that are coming up afterwards as well, if we, I'm trying, I'm hoping that by doing this I talk into existence like I did,
00:24:25
Rob Binns
when I was moaning about it and then we beat Spurs that if we don't get at least one win from Bournemouth and Wolves you look at the games we've got coming up next and again we're at that point where we have to go and shock somebody or we could hit the new year and still be on nine points when everyone else is probably going to be comfortably in double figures by then.
00:24:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah,
Bournemouth's Schedule and Urgency Needed
00:24:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah. I mean, all I would say is the Bournemouth game is it is quite a big opportunity because they play on Thursday night against Spurs and we've got them on Sunday. So they've got a three three day turnaround and we've got five days. So I think that is quite a significant difference. If it is if it's 24 hours, I don't think it's much, but two days is quite a big difference. So, look, we've got to take advantage of it. I think it's as simple as that. We were really, really poor tonight. I hope McKenna, I'm sure he will because he normally does. But I hope he's honest about that and I don't think the crowd but were very good you know again it was a freezing cold night wasn't it so people were probably just trying to keep warm or whatever but um I think everyone's just got a got a bit more galvanized for the weekend and really got to go for it because it you know last chance to live in all that kind of stuff
00:25:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
We probably are there, to be perfectly honest, because you can't be winning one game out of 14. Let's be brutally honest about that. um But yeah, we'll see. But I think you know if we if we can manage to pick up a win at the weekend, we can sort of turn the week around a little bit. But it does feel a bit flat, unfortunately, at the moment.
00:25:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
But that's going to do it for tonight. We will leave. We know we're actually just ah just a quick shout out to our colleagues because um ah James and Tom were actually watching the game together tonight in ah up north in Manchester having a few beers. So maybe they're still out having drinks. We don't really know commiserating after after what we just watched. and Anyway, so we'll leave it there. Thank you very much, Rob, for your for your thoughts. And we will see you all tomorrow for another edition of The Daily Ipswich.