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Episode 97: Matchday Review - West Ham, Dropped points?
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Southampton - Another loss, this time West Ham getting the better of us, but we're feeling positive about the result? We discuss why!
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Transcript
00:00:09
Zak
Hello
Introductions and Post-Game Reflections
00:00:09
Zak
and welcome to the Daily Southampton. I am your host, Sakin Gofinch, joined as ever by my good friend and excellent co-host, Gregory Elliott. How are you doing, mate? You've been to the game today? You're doing well?
00:00:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I'm doing all right, mate. I ah got home from the game. Had a solid nap in the armchair. I'm feeling him ready. I'm feeling it ready for this.
New Gifts and Holiday Anecdotes
00:00:30
Zak
Very very so Christmas has come and and come and gone in a blink of an eye, as it does while as you get older. I have a fancy new bit of kit that I will eventually get set up, which is a brand new microphone. My wife has brought me a nice microphone, bless her.
00:00:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ooh, very nice.
00:00:43
Zak
So, you know, but with much help from one of my friends who knows far more about audio equipment than me and her. So hopefully I'll get it set up and get it all working.
00:00:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Very nice. I got some slippers and a book called 101 things to cheer up a football fan who supports a terrible football team.
00:01:01
Zak
Hey, that's a bit harsh.
00:01:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
So.
00:01:03
Zak
I'm sure there's nothing in there about Saints, right?
00:01:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, there is definitely mention of Ali Diya.
00:01:08
Zak
Of course there is, there always is.
00:01:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fantastic.
00:01:11
Zak
Perfect. Well, you can tell by a sort of jovial mood that, like, I think that's the most exciting one there were lost I've ever watched. From Saints, if I'm totally honest. it's never Like, watching a game that I didn't really...
00:01:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it was alright wasn't it?
00:01:27
Zak
I went into with a bit of hope, but I know you you were like, I believe, and like, My mum, bless her, I love my mum very much, but sometimes she can be... she She was like, oh, I'm like Mystic Meg. I was like, no, that's the joke is Mystic Greg, mum. And she's like, what? And then obviously that's how I could tell my mum doesn't listen to my podcast. Don't expect her to. She has no interest in sport. She's like, I have a good feeling about today.
00:01:50
Zak
And obviously about halfway through and after we conceded, she was like, I don't know where my good feeling went. I was like, it's almost as if vibes aren't the way that you win the football games, Mum. Because if that was the case, we would have won every week, surely off of the delusion that Greg gets the day out of being a fan.
00:02:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Alright, let's be honest, if Vibes won football games, Pua Hanachi would be the Golden Boot winner
Game Strategy and Player Performances
00:02:10
Zak
Oh, my good Lord. So, all right, let's roll it back to someone earlier in this weird ether of Boxing Day. to talk about the team sheet.
00:02:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
this season.
00:02:22
Zak
Because it wasn't too surprising, I guess. There weren't a few things, but sort of, I'll actually get a start over Archer. I think Archer's slightly hard done by.
00:02:32
Zak
He was very hard done by not to get on.
00:02:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Very hard done by.
00:02:35
Zak
I think the only surprising thing for me, I guess, was Armstrong. Diblin being dropped wasn't a huge deal, because I think he's knackered. I wouldn't be surprised. It's like three games in, like, what, 10 days.
00:02:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
no
00:02:47
Zak
so That kind of makes sense. Yeah, I wasn't other than that. I wasn't really hugely surprised by it.
00:02:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, we sort of, after Big Led's making a good show in against Fulham, we sort of half expected him to
00:02:55
Zak
It was a pretty solid lineup.
00:03:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
sort of make his way into the starting lineup. so
00:03:04
Zak
Well, the the whole like downs big less not working together under the Russell Martin system seems to have gotten completely out of the window today because he was on fire.
00:03:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's almost like if you let footballers play football, fool not in a structured system, the that they know how to play together. It's weird, isn't it?
00:03:21
Zak
i It's been, I feel kind of upset because it's one of those things where, man, if we'd done this, what, three months ago, where would we be now?
00:03:32
Zak
And then you start to think, oh, no.
00:03:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know there's lots of points to talk about from the game but actually the thing i think that cheered me up most because we still lost was in the post-match interview with with jurich he came out and he was like yeah some games we're gonna need a big outlet like go ahead at you who can hold the ball up and ping it off and sometimes you
00:03:43
Zak
Yes, of course.
00:03:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
that's not going to work and you need Archer to bring the pace and run at them. And it's like, oh, there's more than one plan. It's not just we'll do the same thing over and over again.
00:04:11
Zak
It's it's not it's not the do or die, do or die football. and I had some fun conversations at Christmas asking, you know, talking about the old manager and sort of people asking me my opinions because apparently they seem to think I'm some sort of expert, which I have, to be clear, never claimed to be like we are two mates that chat a lot and watch a lot of football and talk about a lot of football. The good thing, though, is like to I got to watch today completely and un and and uninterrupted Boxing Day. It was glorious. Never have I had where Well, Zach's got to watch the football for the podcast. That is honestly, that alone has made the last few months of being a co-host to you, Greg. Absolutely worth it. And on top of that, my parents had like never really watched American football before.
Holiday Experiences and Football Integration
00:04:54
Zak
And I came over to my mom's house late yesterday evening. I was yesterday afternoon was like, Oh, do you mind if I ah put the NFL on? Cause it's on Netflix and they sat and watched the whole thing. I've had a glorious Christmas mate.
00:05:05
Zak
and being able to watch today and one of the things where like being able to laugh and get kind of wound up at how many chances we had as opposed to just not producing anything like towards the end we seem to play a little bit of Russell ball again but I think genuinely like your your key point about fitness life pretty sure you brought up two or three months ago has hit the nail bang on the head it's just that like
00:05:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
crazy he's not here to make friends he's here to win football games perfect
00:05:31
Zak
these players need to get fit and having Durek marching in on Christmas day, which was supposedly an original like day off, kind of shows where he wants to get them at. And if, yeah. And that's, it's having them sort of, you know, you have that kind of, sort of, oh, but we need to like be really, really fixed. Cause it's funny cause like talking to people that don't know about football, they're like, aren't they meant to be athletes? Like,
00:05:58
Zak
Yeah, kind of.
00:05:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah I mean but even that said one of our concerns ticked off straight off the bat because we saw Adam Lola on the pitch today and and if his legs didn't fail him he might have scored because he would have run on to that ball and
00:05:59
Zak
Like they all have their own positions, so that's disrespectful to say they don't train every day.
00:06:08
Zak
We did. That was wild. He managed to get on, and he did some things.
00:06:20
Zak
Yeah, it's...
00:06:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:06:21
Zak
what could have what could have been but instead of it being what could have been where like a goal where like a goal was ruled out or or like we had a dodgy vah decision it's what could have been if uh Onuachi's head connected with the ball in any different direction like the 17 times he did it like we had so many shots today it's it was so nice to watch us play i actually enjoyed watching
00:06:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was, I really did it.
Game Analysis and Team Dynamics
00:06:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
I had a great day, even though we lost. And, you know, is we talked under Russell Martin about how we were good for spells and still lost.
00:06:44
Zak
the game
00:06:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I actually think we were good pretty much consistently across the 90 minutes today. I think the goal was a bit unlucky. It was from a dodgy corner, but dodgy in the way that we gave away the corner.
00:07:06
Zak
Yep.
00:07:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then, you know, set piece goal, classic. But other than that, it's
00:07:12
Zak
Even that was scrappy.
00:07:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
We do.
00:07:14
Zak
They scrapped harder to get rid of it than what we would have conceded at the beginning of the season. And quite frankly, like you know it was the only sort of big mistakes I saw. At one point, I remember armour passing back
00:07:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:27
Zak
completely miss hitting it. Like what do you do? Why are you passing back to Ramsdale from the halfway line? You are a forward player. And then also obviously Sugawara for some reason managed to miss his pass back to Ramsdale conceding the corner that then resulted in the goal and probably should have done better with that as well.
00:07:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:07:43
Zak
And obviously then he paid for that because rather than sort of he he just got hooked off straight away. And I kind of feel it was bad because we didn't get but there was a lot of just As opposed to us playing badly for 90 minutes, what happened is after 60 minutes we ran out of steam and some of the subs didn't make probably the difference that they were given or had the opportunity so to do.
00:07:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:08:05
Zak
But we'll talk about, sort of we'll go into the first half, talk about the second half, game overall, where we think we're going to go going forward, after a word from our partners at Zencaster.
00:08:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:08:16
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00:08:39
Zak
So obviously, the game kicks off, Greg. And it was it was fun.
Team Energy and Potential Improvements
00:08:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:08:44
Zak
It was crazy.
00:08:45
Zak
like We get off kind of on the front foot. There's a lot of energy going. in There's a lot of the balls going forward significantly. And I think that threw me off more than anything else, if I'm totally honest. I was like, we are we are you know everyone kind of had exactly the same feeling, which is we are so back.
00:09:01
Zak
It's going to be great. And after 25 minutes, you text me, mate.
00:09:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
We look like a team reinvigorated.
00:09:07
Zak
Yeah. but yeah that That's the thing, it looked like something, you know, I don't, whether it's the new manager bounce or the fact that they have a, not only creative freedom, but a desire for them to get forward and do a lot.
00:09:19
Zak
And 25 minutes in, I don't know if you remember, but you text me like, wow, what a game. I replied to you so effing good, which it was night and day from Fulham.
00:09:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:09:29
Zak
It's bizarre to think it's the same team, pretty much the same team.
00:09:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's crazy.
00:09:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
We looked good going forward. It helped, the so we talked in the Fulham game about how all the long kicks went out for a throw-in, but realistically the main problem was that there was no outlet, but Tallpool provided that outlet beautifully.
00:09:36
Zak
Yeah.
00:09:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
His hold-up play and almost there is distribution out of it is his biggest strength.
00:09:51
Zak
not
00:09:54
Zak
nuts.
00:09:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is the only part of his game that even remotely lives up to any of the hype that I've seen everybody else being, because he should have put away one of those chances today at least i don't think he was as far away as that but it it was a mix just screaming for him to shoot properly uh and he just yeah kind
00:10:09
Zak
oh this should this shit but the bed To be fair, you know the one time I think he probably could have got the service that he should have put away was Dibbling got a little bit too hungry and skied it completely and that's a bit harsh on the lad. He wasn't on the pitch for bat long. It seems if he had crossed it across like mate, come on. that wasn't That wasn't going in and like you just miss it completely.
00:10:34
Zak
Well, he almost did the opposite of what you complained about previously, which is he takes too long. So he's obviously decided to try and not take as long, but hit so so much earlier and so Just this is what it is. like there
00:10:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Obviously an avid listener of the podcast.
00:10:47
Zak
but the problem
00:10:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Tyler, if you're listening, just shoot on target, please.
00:10:54
Zak
Mate, that is, that is a thing we have said multiple times, but not just him. We had a lot of shots today and like you can tell, I feel like you could tell what this work with, with some work that like it will come.
00:11:07
Zak
And that's the weird thing because that hasn't felt like that all season.
00:11:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah It didn't feel as crushing.
00:11:11
Zak
It has not felt like that at all.
00:11:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
like it didn't really andru It didn't really feel like a loss, which is bizarre. And
Managerial Insights and Future Prospects
00:11:17
Zak
Yeah, it's so weird.
00:11:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's, I know that we're running out of time to start building the crewing points, but it really feels like a foundation we can build upon.
00:11:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Uh, Harwood Bellis played out of his skin today. just had their attacking players just on toast all game.
00:11:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was ridiculous. He was just here, there and everywhere. And he clearly suits this style that's clearly been instructed to press high and win the ball because he is all over the pitch and the rotation it's crazy to me how well organized we looked with that press considering we've had maybe two days training like it's it's mad but the the way they rotated and the way they pressed was really impressive and yeah it's just like completely watching a completely different team
00:11:52
Zak
Right.
00:12:07
Zak
Yeah, absolutely nuts, like obviously the first half we did have a pretty serious injury, which hopefully ah by the sounds of it, I don't know how much that's gone on, but I think was conscious by the time the game was over and didn't have to get a hospital so that's that's good because that was that wasn't a nice period of time obviously you didn't really know too much what was happening to kind of tell you that like wood got booked for it because that was that that card was out so quick and I think you know yeah exactly so yeah it was
00:12:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:12:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it was bright at the other end of the pitch to me. but it initially got booed because as a keeper going down from a corner tends to, and then very quickly established that something was really wrong because the stretch was on in seconds.
00:12:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
So yeah.
00:12:44
Zak
10 10 minutes added time on it at the end of that so that shows you kind of how much how serious it was but you know fair play to to West Ham they played well they've always got the cutting edge of players like Bowen and stuff like that so you know I'm not I'm not devastated it's not like we've it's not like you know we have scored we have again conceded a as ah dumb silly goal but not But everything around it was so good.
00:13:09
Zak
And it looks like you know we will eventually get goals that mean that if we concede one city goal, we're not going to to concede. Well, hopefully we could actually outscore an opponent.
00:13:20
Zak
But that seems to just be the biggest problem.
00:13:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
What impressed me as well is that our heads didn't drop when we conceded. We got straight back in and kept with the game plan, and which was a mixed game plan, right? We weren't just goofing it long every single time to tool pool. We were having some build up play from the back as well when we were peaking it out wide and yeah it was it was a good solid performance and it feels like if we can play like that the rest of the season we're gonna get some points which is really what we're hoping for right so
00:13:52
Zak
buts That's all we can really ask for at this point, right? Like, I think that, you know, I know that when he was like, he was asked about sort of what he thinks about whether or not you can keep the club up. And he kind of said, I wouldn't bother being here if if I couldn't, if I didn't believe it.
00:14:05
Zak
And I genuinely believe he thinks that if I'm totally honest, but you will have to see what happens in January. Like, as I said, Kyle,
00:14:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think he's a mental Croatian to even think it's a possibility but I'm here for it. I back it fully.
00:14:18
Zak
It's the prospect of luvit losing Kyle in the the January window is slightly terrifying to me because he's played, he's been, he was at the focal point of a lot of our attacks and, um um you know, Sugawara was okay.
00:14:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
He had some good moments actually.
00:14:32
Zak
I've seen a lot of criticism of him today. He had some, yeah, like he had some good crosses in and stuff. And, and to be fair, like there are a couple of times where, you know, again, like I think a hangover from Martin Bull, there were too many players back in our half when the ball was crossed it.
00:14:47
Zak
Specifically, as I said, you saw that with Armstrong and he kind of got swapped out. I barely blinked to see the some of the substitutions, and I swear we had more than we should have at one point, but...
00:14:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, there were a lot from West Ham because once they got an extra concussion.
00:15:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
So they ended up with six. I think we hit all five.
00:15:01
Zak
Yeah.
00:15:07
Zak
Oh yeah, relatively... No, we we also had six, so this is what threw me off, because Manning came on for Walker Peters,
00:15:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
So we bought beyond.
00:15:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:14
Zak
Lelana came on for Big Lez, a Reebok on so for Flindowns, Breon for Siguara, to Dibbling on for Fernandez, and Suleimada on for Armstrong.
00:15:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Briefy Yuki. Yeah.
00:15:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
So
Post-Game Reactions and Fan Interactions
00:15:26
Zak
So six.
00:15:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm guessing that if they get a concussion sub we also get an extra sub for it.
00:15:30
Zak
I'm guessing that must be the case, because if not, ah like like I don't understand how that could happen in a professional football game.
00:15:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
okay Some of them really did pay dividends when they came on and had good games and some of them were Sudamana.
00:15:37
Zak
Stranger things have happened, but yeah. So obviously, we
00:15:45
Zak
I think I could understand why everyone, especially you being at the stadium, would be mad after the game. And I think that he doesn't maybe understand that like he has a lot to do to repair his relationship with the fans because that's what they've seen of him.
00:16:01
Zak
I also understand walking up to your international teammate and having a chat who you've probably not seen for a while.
00:16:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
just To be fair, i completely to be fair, I completely understand that.
00:16:06
Zak
but
00:16:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
I have no problem with that whatsoever. I take no issue with him catching up with his international teammate, maybe not sitting in the centre circle after 1-0 loss, but hey, I still get it.
00:16:17
Zak
No.
00:16:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
But actually what upset me was his performance on the pitch. He just
00:16:23
Zak
Which is also free, Dyer.
00:16:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
He just didn't look like he could be bothered. I don't think he got up to full speed at any point in the game. There was one moment where I'd already started moaning that he'd lost the ball and not done anything with it when he just about recovered it, made a tackle, and then still did nothing with it. I think he actually got a cross in, but the cross came to nothing. But yeah, I don't don't get how he's getting in the team over some of the other players we've got.
00:16:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
He doesn't seem hungry.
00:16:58
Zak
Indeed.
00:16:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't get it.
00:16:58
Zak
Well, we'll talk about a bit more about individual performances and what the result means going forward after a message from our partners at the Global Sports Podcast Network.
00:17:11
Zak
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00:17:23
Zak
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00:17:30
Zak
And we are back. So yeah, the result wasn't exactly what we wanted. But I think there are so many positives to draw from it. I'm not as bothered. And I understand that that might upset some people. But I think it's the first time I've sat and watched Saints in a long time and genuinely enjoyed what we've watched.
VAR Decisions and Game Impact
00:17:51
Zak
Ironically, probably the last time I could think about it,
00:17:53
Zak
was Wembley and even that game was more nerves than than anything else to be perfectly honest. But so far this season, the only tie, as you said, it's been spells of 20, 30 minutes where I've been fully engaged because and then all of a sudden we we ship a goal and then
00:18:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's been pretty grim.
00:18:10
Zak
it's It's instead more like you're only engaged because you're about to watch a car crash as opposed to where you know we we had sort six, seven minutes at a time and everyone was happy because we thought we might actually get an equalizer and we kept driving right up to the end.
00:18:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
felt very positive.
00:18:23
Zak
you know
00:18:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've been in high spirits all day and it might just be because it's Christmas and my daughter's birthday and we had the whole family there but it was yeah I felt I left the ground feeling hard done by by not getting more from the game but that's great because I don't think I felt like that at all for for any other game this season even the game we won against Everton that was probably our worst performance over all of the season so
00:18:50
Zak
yeah
00:18:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
I feel like it was good. I guess that we should take a minute to talk about VAR and the potential red card.
00:18:59
Zak
Yeah.
00:19:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Now from where I was sat in the northern, it happened pretty close in front of me. And I turned around to my brother-in-law who I sat with today and went, I don't think that's a red.
00:19:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then VAR overturned it. I went, yeah, that sounds about right. And then they showed it on the big screen and I went, yeah, it looks about right. Obviously, I don't think that that was a popular opinion around me, but it seemed to be fair to me.
00:19:24
Zak
Yeah, you heard that it wasn't a popular opinion. I'm kind of the opinion that you did. Like, it was just that he was unable to slow down. There was not malice or intent. He wasn't too footy to try and break his legs.
00:19:36
Zak
It was what it was, like...
00:19:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Upsettingly, it was probably the best demonstration of a perfect use of VAR because I can see from where, no, but because I can see from that where the referee stood and his view of it.
00:19:45
Zak
It's a reverse card, you're right.
00:19:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
how it looks like a red card because he's seen a player diving with two feet and walker peters go down and it looks like a red and then to watch the video and you see the video and i mean if that's a red card the game's gone like i can't i can't get behind it even against saints like it's not i'm not about that
00:20:11
Zak
Yeah, no, I agree. it It would have been, it wasn't okay. And and like, um know, I said, I said, I agree with you. Like I was quite happy it was overturned.
00:20:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:20:22
Zak
There wasn't, you know, there wasn't really grounds for appeal on it. No one was too upset apart from the fans for a couple of minutes, but it wasn't the worst thing.
00:20:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:20:29
Zak
I think the only the only time that annoyed me from the ref's perspective was I can't remember who had a cut on their knee and decided to go off for treatment and spend extremely far too long
00:20:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah but I think he added enough time on at the end to actually account for that
00:20:40
Zak
fanning around you know on and off the pitch and you're just kind of like going with it yeah so it wasn't it wasn't the end of the world so like yeah nope i don't you know i don't think he had the most insane decisions i i feel you know but
00:20:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
actually that we I guess we have to say it because we call them out when it's not the case but actually I think the ref had a really good game really don't think he got a lot wrong at all so good job pass one and I looked at the referee on flash scores before the game and I went oh I don't recognize that name it
00:21:11
Zak
Which is just basically how it's upsetting, but you're right. As I said, I think some people maybe thought Wood's card should have been a red, but I don't think that was an intention.
00:21:23
Zak
I don't think that there was...
00:21:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
too far away from me to see and I've not managed to watch it back yet to be honest.
00:21:25
Zak
Yeah, it was one of those things... You could probably go back and watch the highlights, but it's one of those things where I think if it was a severe severe injury, no one would think it would have been a red, but...
00:21:36
Zak
You know, and I can understand that, you know, it's horrible. And I think, you know, you got clapped out of St Mary's and hopefully you'll be right. But it was, ah ah it was, yeah, it was officiated. Well, it's just, it's, it's so weird. It feels like I watched the premier league game of football for the first season, regardless of the fact we lost like it's nuts.
00:21:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
If the day was the opening day of the season and we'd lost 1-0 to, let's face it, a pretty strong West Ham side, not having the best times at the moment, although they've sort of come together since Antonio's car crash.
00:21:59
Zak
Hmm.
00:22:05
Zak
Two drills, two wins, mate. That's better than better than ours.
00:22:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
So yeah, but like, if you look at their squad man for man, they're a good team.
00:22:08
Zak
like They've had some rough stuff going on behind the scenes, so fair play to them.
00:22:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
If this was opening day of the season and we performed like we performed but lost 1-0 to West Ham, I'd be preaching that my prediction of 12th wasn't high enough in the table for us.
00:22:30
Zak
If only that was the case, but shout out to all of our players today, they all put a shift in. you know i know that we I know that we still haven't seen what we want from Portland, actually, which is a goal, but also I genuinely think it might be coming.
00:22:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
I wanted it so much today. because the roof would have come off.
00:22:46
Zak
You could tell he wanted it though, man. He even said, post-match, I really you know will will'll get that goal. And you know if he decides that he wants to go on in January, I really hope he at least gets a goal before he goes on you know because yeah specifically.
00:22:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Go at St Mary's because the roof's gonna pop, like it's just gonna be, but he already gets cheered like a competition winner on the pitch. And sometimes he looks like an 11 year old on the ball.
00:23:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
so
00:23:15
Zak
There are other times where like honestly with him I guess the the word consistency comes to mind but then at the same time like he seems to be consistently good with the ball right up until he needs to get it in the net where all of a sudden like like the only thing i can imagine is being six foot seven the net is smaller to you than if you would be six foot so that's the only thing i can think of but either way like it's beautiful to watch it's been a it's been a good game despite the fact we've lost and you know i think as a lot of people have pointed out
00:23:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
It takes longer vision to get to his feet, doesn't it? That's all it is.
00:23:52
Zak
you know, they kind of already feel like we're down. But if we're going down, I'm quite happy to watch Zurich Bull for the rest of the season over Russell Bull, you know.
00:23:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely. He's already expressed more plans than Martin had, which is really upsetting.
00:24:06
Zak
And it's the thing like, you know, Mark gave us some of the best days being a Saints fan in recent memory. But, you know, it's also inflicted some of the worst. And I'm sure that, you know, a bunch of compensation and sipping Pina coladas on a beach with Lucy Pinder isn't going to he's not going to feel too hard done by.
00:24:22
Zak
and you know If we end up going down, I can't wait for the for the Martin, russ like Russell Martin Derby next year with Iron Zurich in the stands. you know It's going to be a wild one. But we go into we go into Crystal Palace on the weekend, full of optimism and hope from both of us, which is bizarre.
00:24:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:40
Zak
Maybe we'll do a bonus episode and preview it. Who knows? Stay tuned to find out. Thank you, as for all of our wonderful listeners. I hope you have had A wonderful holiday season, wonderful Christmas, whatever have you've been up to. We certainly have done. You can thank my wife for the improving mic quality in the future. Probably not for our next episode, but once again, it will set up afterwards. Thank you once again, Greg, as always, for joining me and everyone else. You know, the season of giving and gifts, it's been an absolute pleasure to do this for everyone. And, you know, for ourselves, and it's been it's been so good. It's been... oh
00:25:14
Zak
getting a little bit of emotional Greg it's been it's been good fun even though it's Southampton Football Club is yeah both both the pain and uh you know watching i think this the bit that sums it up i know i was trying to go to an outro but i need to i need to quickly tell us that i think the bit that summed it up for me was like my mum watching me watch football and not really understanding that i spent the entirety of my week talking about that that 90 minutes
00:25:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
It has. And we still lost.
00:25:43
Zak
planning my week around it thinking about it and she's looking at me like this is what this is what you spend like this and then occasionally we just be likes like oh come on and her jumping out of her skin she's not so you know it's it's it's wonderful we have good fun doing it we will join you in the next one before hopefully a a three nil win over crystal palace or something excited and with that i will bid you farewell