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Will & Chris try and cover all the craziness of the week before looking ahead to yet another must win game. But do we have any hope left?
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Pre-Match Analysis: Ipswich Game Challenges
00:00:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hey, everyone. Welcome in to Daily Wolves. I am your host today, Chris. And with me is Mr. Will Heywell.
00:00:17
Will
Hello, hello, happy Friday.
00:00:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
happy Fridays you hear this yes indeed and let's hope let's hope that it will be a happy weekend some description and we are of course going into a huge but I mean every game is huge right now every game is huge but a huge huge game against Ipswich this weekend
00:00:20
Will
yeah
00:00:28
Will
Yeah, yeah.
00:00:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we've got so much to talk about today.
Management and Player Performance Issues
00:00:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've got to talk about the week's events in terms of management. We've got to talk about Mr. She himself. We've got to talk about preview like previewing the game coming up.
00:00:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
But also, before we get into all of that, before we get into all of that,
00:00:52
Will
ah
00:00:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Firstly, I hope everyone out there is just about holding on to them their own sanity. Let's just put that out there. And secondly, Mr. Will, because i I said to you off air that I was, um I'm sorry for anyone out there that felt depressed by my my torrid woes on Monday night when I gave some reactions.
00:01:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm sorry, but it was brutal and from the heart.
00:01:18
Will
Okay.
00:01:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah We've all been there. But I didn't get a chance to get your thoughts, Will, in terms of the most recent game against West Ham.
00:01:20
Will
Okay.
00:01:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I'm going to start off with you there. Take it away.
00:01:29
Will
yeah um i think better performances that we've had in recent times you know obviously minus results still wasn't good enough that simple um off the top of my head the the main points to stick out to me it feels like a long time ago now which is good i'm but yet another set piece goal um
00:02:00
Will
I don't know I've not seen anything Chris I don't know if you can and like or if any of our listeners can get in search and and tell me I actually I The situation was with Saar not being in the squad at all
00:02:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, so the supposed news that came out from, you know, Mr. O'Neill himself was that he has some kind of shoulder injury which ruled him out the squad. However, I think obviously, A, regardless of any, whether that's true or not,
00:02:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think he would have been dropped for Johnston anyway based on...
00:02:33
Will
Really?
00:02:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, I'm just putting it out there. you you I mean, that that last game that he had where, I mean, recently you got the interactions with the crowd and then the result against Everton with the the the wall for the free kick and all that other stuff, I feel like the writing was on the wall.
00:02:36
Will
Hmm.
00:02:47
Will
Hmm.
00:02:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
that's ah to double whammy that. but so yeah but the But the official line was that regardless of position, he's got a shoulder injury. But I think ah ah he may have said that Johnston was going to get this to start anyway.
00:03:03
Will
yeah it's just a weird situation and covered it enough already but i mean you know it was weird at the start of the season when now no longer at the start it's just weird still um but yeah and another sort of negative to pick up on
00:03:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
Player Antics and Leadership Concerns
00:03:20
Will
to discuss with you really Chris was that the sort of antics uh kerfuffle that we saw with lamina at the game i just wanted to get your thoughts on that because i i have my own ones i have not yet uh voiced this week at daily walls so yeah i was just wondering you know what do you make of of all of that
00:03:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah I said on um Monday night in my ramble but I've got to think about it a little bit more coherently since is that I just thought the reaction after the game was pretty atrocious to be honest with you.
00:03:52
Will
Mm.
00:03:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean Bowen goes to shake his hand he doesn't want to shake his hand like he bats it away and it's all for me it's all spawned from the meaner it's just not you know I get that he's emotional, I get that he is depressed, that they've lost again, but captain to captain, the guys come up to shake his hand, and and then it's all just spiralled, and then the behaviour with the rest of the team, whatever's going on between him and Bowen, and he does drag Bowen down to the ground like ridiculously.
00:04:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's then facing up to coaches, facing up to players and like of his own team and staff.
00:04:31
Will
Yeah.
00:04:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
And for me, no, just no. I just, I don't want to see. It's bad enough. We've had him crying on the pitch. We've had him like throwing his toys at the pram. We've seen more Instagram apologies from him this season than we have ever before.
00:04:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've said to you, I'm fed up with the social media. I want him to do it on the pitch. I don't care what he says to me on Instagram.
00:04:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm fed up with that and I feel like this is just yet more of him failing as a captain quite frankly and he's needed to be benched for weeks because for me he's not doing it. I know he put a beautiful pass out for that one goal against Southampton I think it was but um overall his performances have been not where they should be and for me his emotional control right now is off the scale so for his own sanity I think he needs to come off.
00:04:53
Will
Yeah.
00:05:07
Will
Hmm.
00:05:17
Will
Yeah. yeah no I can understand that I agree with you to an extent the one thing I will say is in all fairness to him um against West Ham I thought he was our best player to be honest with you I i thought he put in at least he he put in a ah real good shift you couldn't knock um the effort which is I suppose as a fan is the most important thing you look for when you're in these sort of situations um the
00:05:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, he's ah he always puts in a shift, but it's they ah yeah arguably he did it the best of this game.
00:05:51
Will
Yeah, no, I get you.
00:05:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
But even when he's been misplacing passes and whatever, you know, yes, he runs his socks off.
00:05:55
Will
Hmm, yeah.
00:05:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
But even either way, outside of performances, you think back to people like Cody Neves as captains, people like that.
00:06:06
Will
Hmm.
00:06:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't want my captain of this great club behaving like that. you know no matter this I know it's a pressure cooker situation, but there's just no call for it.
Club Management Critiques: Gary O'Neill's Role
00:06:19
Will
yeah um the the thing the the actual bohen thing confuses me because lamina came out as you as you mentioned with the instagram apology saying that he had shaken his hand or something i imagine there was something said i i don't get why they'd react like that unnecessarily because it wasn't just lamina it was a bohenu um sort of instigated the uh argy bargy if you like
00:06:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:06:45
Will
um obviously those the men are not shaking his hand that we saw that's all we know so that is that is definitely weird um the the other thing that i i will actually i don't want to say stick up for him for because i'm the same as you that you just don't want to see that happening full stop um is we've seen him roll his eyes at o'neill before you know, um I dare say that he's simply truth be told, reading between the lines and you know, there's so much stuff that goes on that we don't know of.
00:07:18
Will
I would hazard a guess at saying he's not particularly a fan of O'Neill anymore or his staff. um I know, I know, but what I will say is that Sean Debbie was the coach um and he leans in towards Lamina.
00:07:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
I couldn't care less to be honest.
00:07:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah.
00:07:36
Will
He instigates that, which is strange.
00:07:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, not um yeah, he leans in a bit, but he's probably saying like, what the hell are you doing? Just get off the pitch.
00:07:42
Will
but he puts he puts his head down and that's what you do when when you're instigating a sort of um i suppose squaring up situation he puts he leans his head in and that if he hadn't have done that i'd completely completely agree with you trying to calm him down yeah yeah
00:07:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know
00:07:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay. But by that point, Lamina's, I mean, we got like, by that point, Lamina's already pushed a couple of people, you know, I think he's already pushed Totti by that point, who's actually one actually one of his best mates. And, and so, yeah, I just, yeah whichever way you look at it, whichever you way you look at the, the instigation, it's just not acceptable.
00:08:17
Will
yeah i i think my only thing and why i'm sort of um i suppose leaning towards trying to defend the man of a bit um is because he has done a lot more for my club than o'neill's coaching staff have um even in the short time he's been here i think this is this is my worry with this season you mentioned in our discussion about saar It's the same with Lamina. These are players who have been quality for us at at times and to see them You know when Lamina came in in that window with Kunia and Dawson that was what kept us up in that Lopategi season and to see the change It's just I don't know. It's just strange. I just don't like it. I just I perhaps I don't want to Accept it if that makes sense
00:09:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
I get where you're coming from, but he just, ah yeah, I feel like ever since he got the captaincy, he's not been the same.
00:09:14
Will
Yeah.
00:09:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
And for, you know, I don't know, so no one's going to take it off in midway season, but for me, it practically should be by now because outside of the performances,
00:09:17
Will
Which is a shame.
00:09:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
he's just been an emotional wreck it seems ever since that's happened he's not he's always you know he's an emotional character but he's just not been the same and i i think monday the thing the the thing about monday though is on top of another loss when we're already under scrutiny in the press and all this kind of thing
00:09:36
Will
Yeah.
00:09:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's just while all eyes were on us on Monday night football, it's just another thing that makes the club look that stupid with all this infighting at a time when we really don't want it.
00:09:54
Will
that's yeah yeah no that that's and that's Sunday League stuff you know out here um you know players arguing amongst themselves at that level you say like guys do you know speak after the game yeah when you know when you're in the change room don't do it out in the open because it it just yeah I just sort of completely does what you've said and that's that's my only issue with it I dare say that there's been even more locations gone on with behind closed doors that we wouldn't know about that we'd have varying
00:10:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, yeah.
Relegation Fears and Club Decisions
00:10:31
Will
opinions on.
00:10:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, they can do what they want in the changing rooms, you know.
00:10:33
Will
Yeah.
00:10:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
who But, you know, like, you know, they can they can batter each other or whatever.
00:10:35
Will
and Can, can they?
00:10:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know. I've taken it too far. But the point is, you know, if they're going to have a feud. you know, do it, do off out of cameras, off the pitch, have your shouting match, push and shove each other, whatever it takes to sort things out, because they they will do it.
00:10:49
Will
Yeah, yeah.
00:10:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
But, you know, just not, not like everyone's watching.
00:10:58
Will
yeah yeah yeah again just sorry i don't mean to keep banging on about it i just think it's just another yet another issue isn't it um
00:10:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Everyone is watching. You paid all this money to be a professional. And I know that it's, as I said, it's a precious situation, but I just don't, I think it's unacceptable from My, I don't want to say my captain because I, you know, but our captain to do that.
00:11:28
Will
But as I stated before, I just think that we've got bigger fish to fight than, you know, him having a hasty fit.
00:11:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
we have but you started this you started this you asked me about it and you did but over before we move on to the midweek stuff I think once again you know other things and again that that almost detracts from some of the other things that have happened again and again conceding a goal right after
00:11:38
Will
No, I know, I know, I know. Look, I opened a can of worms.
00:11:55
Will
Yeah.
00:11:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know, right after we've scored. Again, we can't hold, you know, we can't hold on after we've scored. We keep conceding so quickly after we've just got back into a game or just taken the lead in a game.
00:12:05
Will
Yeah. Yeah.
00:12:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
And the same thing has happened again. And again, set pieces, set pieces for our post.
00:12:09
Will
Just not good enough. Yeah.
00:12:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Again, like the same things again and again.
00:12:13
Will
Yeah. Yeah.
00:12:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
and people are going on about the vr call but as i said on my depressive moon on monday yes at least one of them should have been but i couldn't care less almost because that is just an excuse and glossing over the fact that again we've made the same mistakes and it's not and nothing has changed.
00:12:19
Will
Yeah, no.
00:12:29
Will
Mm hmm. yeah and um to bring us down to potentially the lowest the lowest low that we've been on on uh daily walls so far with all my sort of pessimistic outlooks chris i think that point that you just made is exactly why we're going down yeah yeah yeah yeah
00:12:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, this is the closest, I mean, this is this is the most I have felt like we are on our way down since we've come back into the premiership, however long it's been now, however many years it's been.
00:13:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
this is This is the most realistic it has ever felt, like like truly.
00:13:05
Will
yeah it's starting to hit home a bit isn't it it's starting to yeah yes yes if we don't get a win
00:13:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I mean, we're gonna get onto the pre-match stuff, but heaven forbid, if we if we don't do what we need to do on Saturday, Yeah, but before we move on to the weekend and before we move on to anything from the midweek, the fuck the aftermath of that game, ah let's just take a moment to relax, take a breath, you know recover, and remind everyone that here at the Global Sports Podcast Network, we did spend a lot of time, me and Will personally,
00:13:36
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00:13:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
so well. Before we get onto Ipswich, and I'm aware we're potentially going to run for quite a while at this point, but um after all of that, I said on Monday night, and I'm like a gazillion people out there, that's it, that's got to be the end, that's got to be the
Gary O'Neill's Future and Tactical Critique
00:14:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
end for Gary O'Neill.
00:14:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
This is like El Sacico is got to be two, you know, two defeats, again, just atrocious.
00:14:10
Will
Yeah, yeah.
00:14:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, we've conceded four goals to Everton who couldn't score at all before that. and then we're gonna lose again to West Ham, and I was like, he's gone.
00:14:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
And guess what? Guess what? As we record this, it's Thursday, the 12th of December, and he's still here, and apparently he's staying.
00:14:28
Will
yeah now that sort of pause there for me was simply because i do not want to project foul language unto the gspn daily wolves podcast
00:14:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:14:48
Will
um i'm just and I know this defeats the whole point of recording a podcast but Chris at this point I just can't be harsh to talk about it and I will do anyway but it's just ludicrous it's absolutely ludicrous I've been um very very harsh and only all very early on this season and and i've called for him to be out you know a lot earlier than other people have at this point if it wasn't something that mattered so much to us as fans i would find it funny because it's just ridiculous um
00:15:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm hmm.
00:15:27
Will
Long story short, nobody wants to work for Geoff Shee because he's a proven liar. And that's, it's as simple as that. And that's going to drag us down into the championship full stop.
00:15:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because the post-match um press conference on Monday night that Gary Neil gave, that sounded like a man on the way out.
00:15:43
Will
Yes. Yeah.
00:15:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
That sounded like a man who thought he was done.
00:15:47
Will
Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
00:15:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because obviously at that point he's probably he's got to, and like everyone else have heard the stuff at that point, they were already talking before that game, trying to like feel out potential replacements. And then he goes and loses. and it And then he starts throwing almost everyone on the bus because he goes on about all of the money spent, and i mean all the money gained from sales and not put back in.
00:16:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
And he reels off a bunch of stuff and it literally sounded like I'm going, so I'm just going to say my thing without naming the names.
00:16:16
Will
Yeah.
00:16:18
Will
Yeah.
00:16:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
We all knew what he's talking about.
00:16:20
Will
Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
00:16:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
And so it it was like a farewell speech.
00:16:25
Will
yeah and you know something after being so heavily critical of him that's something that i strangely won me over in a to a certain extent i know a lot of people saying oh here he goes with the excuses again kind of thing but it wasn't excuses in terms of you know oh we'll do better next week because excuses in terms of this is why i'm going to be gone in the morning it's because of you know the fact that we've um Was it 170 million pound profit we've been in?
00:16:56
Will
Um, he sold 200 million pounds worth of players and what I liked was he wasn't critical of the players currently here, you know, he mentioned the likes of um Pedro Lima of rodrigo gomez, uh bastion muepiu as well even got a mention of players who who are going to be really helpful for us going forwards but aren't necessarily
00:17:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:22
Will
the finished article and ready to help us right now um and yeah i sort of i liked it it's just yet another manager calling out jeff she for his lies it's that simple yeah
00:17:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
i I respect the facts like factually all correct and I agree that yeah we all know that above coach slash manager level there is huge issues and he's right with all of that stuff.
00:17:51
Will
Mm hmm.
00:17:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
It doesn't change from the fact, and this is me saying this as Mr Optimism normally, yeah and I've come full circle, that it doesn't change the fact that he doesn't, you know, things, terrible choices sometimes to start in starting lineups, the indecision and the constant shifting of tactics, which is clearly not creating any kind of continuity or settlement.
00:17:54
Will
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know where you go.
00:18:13
Will
Yeah, set peace goals.
00:18:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
failing to respond mid games like 20 minutes in you can tell the tactic is not working and then just sitting on it and not doing anything for the rest of the game when things are going absolutely pear-shaped I mean changes should have happened in that Everton game well before they did
00:18:18
Will
Yeah.
00:18:21
Will
yeah
00:18:23
Will
yeah
00:18:31
Will
Yeah I 100% agree with you here in terms of um it doesn't justify any of his shortcomings actually with the current squad because there's been ah a hell of a lot of those as you've just mentioned But I don't think that was why he was coming out with it as such. I don't think it was to excuse himself. ah I think it was just fully, like you said, he he thought he was out the door and he wanted to, you know, take the chance to so so sort of give his true thoughts on Phocen, as we've seen the likes of Bruno Large and Lopate do beforehand. so i But I do agree. I do agree. It wasn't
00:19:11
Will
It was an understandable timing for him to say it all, but doesn't look the best for the points that you've just made.
00:19:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I agree with your point. I think I meant it more from the fact that, like you say, people were almost feeling sympathetic for him at that point. and and and like But don't forget, people, that there's still still massive issues with
00:19:29
Will
Yeah, yeah.
00:19:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
you're telling me, you're telling me that someone with more experience and, you know, more nouse could not have that group of players. And I know that there's problems at centre back, but even then that someone with more, ah like a more sturdy approach could not get at least the defence sorted a bit and at least a few more points on the board than we have now, because some of the indecision
00:19:45
Will
Mhm. Mhm.
00:19:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
the constant changing of tactics. I was so confused the other week when he said about, and he reeled off a bunch of names, like I've played Forbes, I've tried Guedes, I've tried all these people, and he lists off all the people he's tried in all these different positions.
00:20:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Most of them haven't played more than 15 minutes when he's brought them on. So how can you say you've actually played and tried all these people?
00:20:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because he reed it reeled off like the whole squad saying that I've tried this, and I've tried that, and I've tried this, I've tried about four, I've tried about five, but there's never a kind there's never a consistency to actually say I've tried it for long enough to make it work.
00:20:13
Will
Yeah.
00:20:25
Will
Yeah, well, he tried the back four long enough before realizing it wasn't working. But Chris, I think um I think it's time that I give you some words of reassurance from.
00:20:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay. But before you do, before you do, can I just say in the midst of all i mean that, I want to point something out that has been, that has been like on my brain all week.
00:20:40
Will
Go on, go on, sorry.
Performance Highlights and Tactical Suggestions
00:20:49
Will
Mm hmm.
00:20:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we didn't mention it in the, when you were talking about, um, the West Ham game, I think Doc was one of our best players on Monday night.
00:20:55
Will
Yes, yes, yes.
00:20:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fabulous.
00:20:58
Will
When he scored, I thought you'd be buzzed with that because it was a good lovely finish.
00:20:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I was so happy.
00:21:02
Will
He's a good finisher.
00:21:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
I want to see him stay against Ipswich. So whether that's, I would like to see about, I would actually like, we are that bad at the moment. I don't care for him against Ipswich. I almost think we should play the back five so that he can stay in the squad because, because he needs at the moment.
00:21:14
Will
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:21:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
And this is ah something I was talking about someone the other day. ah and Anyway, and so about the fact that obviously for one thing, he and Smedo can almost interchange. They were interchanging really well because they, he can cover Smedo and he goes forward and vice versa.
00:21:32
Will
Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
and And then the fact that he is such a great finisher, he's always great at getting space.
00:21:36
Will
Mm hmm.
00:21:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know his legs aren't what they were, but like he thinks tactic, like he, he's really got great positional awareness offensively. He's going to look for Strandalarsson because he's always willing to put, I mean, he's similar.
00:21:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Strandalarsson has that element a bit like him and as the header, great header in the box, who is not getting enough service, but
00:21:54
Will
Yeah.
00:21:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Doc is the kind of person that will look for that.
00:21:57
Will
Mm hmm.
00:21:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
But most importantly for me, and I want to point this out because people do get on his back. This is a time, this is a time when the pressure is on and we've got people losing their heads like Mr. Lamina.
00:22:08
Will
Mm hmm.
00:22:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
You want experience and you want people that can handle the situation.
00:22:12
Will
Yeah.
00:22:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Doc has been through every division with us.
00:22:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Relegations, promotions, he's seen it all. So you I think this is the time you need some experience in that lineup.
00:22:14
Will
Yeah.
00:22:17
Will
Yeah.
00:22:21
Will
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no, I completely agree with you. And, you know, he also plays a game of golf with Gabby O'Neill. So yeah.
00:22:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
He does. But when we are struggling for set pieces and things, he's a great header of the ball and every time Johnston played out those long kicks, he's always getting on the end of them.
00:22:32
Will
um But yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:22:39
Will
Mm-hmm. No, it definitely, definitely makes sense. And I dare say that that's exactly what we'll see happen. um It's just a case of who we're providing or assuming that Sameda will be that third center half in that shape.
00:22:55
Will
It's just a matter of is it going to be a Brenna and Totty or will Dawson return, you know? um But we'll see.
00:23:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
The other option is, the other option is, sorry, lastly, if you, or you have the meat, uh, sorry, somato at wingback and you play dockers like the winger.
00:23:04
Will
We'll see.
00:23:12
Will
yeah okay i'll be honest i can't see that happening just purely because of um the fact that it's
00:23:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because he's so offensive and he's in a very different way to ignore. He actually delivers a ball into the box and has a better finish on him, arguably. So.
00:23:31
Will
you've you've got your last known kuno who are guaranteed in spaces whether that's a two or a three across the front line um i just think gary's more likely to go with one of one of the ones that you've tried you know that one of the one yeah yeah yeah
00:23:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:23:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I tried for like 10 minutes. Still, I'm just putting it out there. There is ways. There is ways. But I've detracted you for too long. What was this breaking thing, this amazing thing you want to tell me?
00:23:58
Will
Well, it's a word straight from the horse's mouth.
Criticism of Jeff Shee's Statements
00:24:03
Will
Jeff, she is back with another ah one of his columns in the Express and Star.
00:24:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
All hail.
00:24:11
Will
um And Chris, um there's there's so many things that I could pick up on here. In fact, an analysis of this could be a an episode in itself. um But just to, you know, get us thinking about Ipswich at the weekend and get us, you know, a bit more um optimistic.
00:24:33
Will
hu This is from Jeff himself, okay? I believe in the power of positivity because negativity achieves nothing. Just as atoms remain atoms, how we perceive, combine and connect them defines their collective value and positive energy grants the group of atoms life and vitality.
00:24:58
Will
Yep.
00:24:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is that, so, cause I knew, to put clarity onto this people, i I knew that he had had an article come out today.
00:25:00
Will
Yep.
00:25:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
I hadn't had a chance to read it yet.
00:25:06
Will
ah hu
00:25:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
And Will said he was going to tell it to me live on air.
00:25:09
Will
Ah, look, I wouldn't bother.
00:25:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is that gen, is that, you're not pulling my leg. That's genuine.
00:25:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's a genuine o article.
00:25:14
Will
no yeah but this it this is it so for a bit of context um my nine to five i work in communication the amount of um articles and things like that that i put out that have so many pairs of eyes checking them proving them rereading them to to give them that final thumbs up to go out i cannot believe that this is this is genuine that that's in this time of um
00:25:44
Will
sort of trouble that we find ourselves in as a club.
00:25:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's yeah it's It's not gonna help anyone and it is just gonna gaslight everyone.
00:25:48
Will
but That is what he's come out with.
00:25:52
Will
Yeah.
00:25:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've spoken before, I mean I said the other week about how at points the social media team just needed to shush and like not put tweets out about things that really weren't helping.
00:26:03
Will
Yeah.
00:26:06
Will
Yeah.
00:26:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like things about the past when you're like, yeah, but it doesn't help or amazing goals when we're not winning anything.
00:26:10
Will
Mm hmm.
00:26:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Um, so this, this is one of those situations where sometimes as much as we want answers, sometimes if that's going to be your statement silence, silence is better.
00:26:14
Will
yeah i yeah i just can't believe that this is real i can't believe that the amount of people calling for fossil now and the amount of um sort of criticism aimed at jeff and rightly so and then some you know i i just can't believe that this has come out
00:26:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's the atoms. Yeah. It's the atom comparison.
00:26:43
Will
But Chris, Chris, um negativity achieves nothing. So these positive atoms, where were they?
00:26:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's true.
00:26:50
Will
Where were they when we would concede them for a way to Everton? Where were the positive atoms? You know, it's what a load of nonsense.
00:26:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Honestly.
00:26:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. You've just, you've broken my heart. Well, I was not ready for that. I was not ready for that.
00:26:58
Will
It's just utter drivel.
00:27:04
Will
Well, look, look, that negativity isn't achieving anything, Chris.
00:27:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, it's not, it's not.
00:27:08
Will
Jeff, Jeff's told you this.
00:27:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
should we should we let me um Let me try and enhance my positivity by focusing on ah on a positive to remind everyone that this podcast is part of the Global Sports Podcast Network, the only network bringing you exclusive daily news and views on your Premier League team, the Premier League, women's football and fantasy football.
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00:27:42
Will
every day i've got so many positive atoms from that chris thank you thank you yeah yes yes
00:27:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
You're welcome. You're welcome, everyone. Um, so that I, I feel like, again, you said that that almost could be an up topic. We have to come back to for just a whole episode of running. So given the, the, the, all of the focus though, needs to, we need to need to shift our focus onto the weekend, I think, because we do need to come almost. We could run about that for ages, but we need to think about Ipswich game. We've got the Ipswich game coming up.
00:28:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, you recently mess up with the, with some of the guys from the Ipswich GSPN fan team and they, you can go back if you haven't listened to it and listen to the crossover episode that's out.
00:28:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Um, did you want to, did you want to share anything for anyone that missed it? I mean, other than tell them to go back, obviously, but.
00:28:30
Will
Well, um mainly just the fact that I think in our heart of hearts, neither team is confident, um which both other teams are seeing as a positive.
Upcoming Ipswich Match Preview
00:28:44
Will
there's there's no um There's a recognition that we're dangerous going forwards from them, and they give away goals for free, ah which
00:28:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm hmm.
00:28:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
That sounds like us.
00:28:55
Will
would be exactly it'd be a lot more reassuring if that wasn't the exact same through the other way around. So I think it it really is a sort of flipper coin situation where we've been so level with them so far this season and we're in such a bad place as a club currently. um Yeah.
00:29:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
So let's just let's just remind everyone. So we sit in 19th on nine points.
00:29:19
Will
Mm hmm.
00:29:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
They currently sit in 18th on nine points.
00:29:22
Will
Mm hmm.
00:29:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
So we have the same tally. They've won one game all season. I remember rightly.
00:29:27
Will
Yeah.
00:29:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Obviously, we've won a a whopping two.
00:29:31
Will
wo
00:29:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
um So you know it's going to be very it's going to be a very close game. and We are all adrift of Crystal Palace on 13 points. So even if we win, whoever wins this will still be in the relegation zone.
00:29:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
but uh yeah my my it's just i've got to say will i am terrified and i'm saying this to everyone out there i'm terrified and i've fallen so far from the optimism tree
00:30:00
Will
Yeah.
00:30:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
with everything that's gone on this week, with the turmoil around management, with the turmoil around, um, ah the aftermath of Monday night's game and Lamina's actions and the squad falling out and all that kind of stuff.
O'Neill's Uncertain Future
00:30:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
With the fact that it feels like, and we didn't, I didn't get a chance to say this. I think when we spoke briefly about the management situation this week, I feel, because obviously it's been kind of declared now that, uh, O'Neill is going to stay in charge for the foreseeable future.
00:30:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's potentially going to be given.
00:30:28
Will
Because we can't get anyone else, that's all.
00:30:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes, but I'm just verbalizing it in more deep like specifics that apparently there's going to be, you know, he's going to be given the transfer window to get people in to, to get things the way he wants and fix them.
00:30:30
Will
Yeah.
00:30:33
Will
Yeah.
00:30:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
I presume just a center back because that's probably very much what it's going to be. And so, but it does feel like you said, because of the fact that they spoke to some people who turned them down, the likes of Moyes, who ah presumably weren't being offered the resources or the money to do what they wanted them to do.
00:30:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
It feels like he's almost the caretaker manager until he either until it either gets even worse or he just like manages to pull a miracle out of the pan.
00:31:04
Will
yeah yeah yeah that's yeah and that is it
00:31:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
It feels like they just don't want another was it Steve Davis um situation. And to me, it feels like he's caretaker right now. So I am petrified of this game. And I have to say, I haven't said all season that we're going to lose a game, but I have a horrible feeling, everyone. I don't like saying this out loud. i've I've not said it out loud all week, but I have a horrible feeling we're going to lose this game.
00:31:37
Will
I find it hard to disagree in my crossover with Ipswich. I predicted a draw, um, purely because I couldn't bring myself to predict that we'll lose. Um, but yeah, there's just such a crap feeling around wolves right now that yeah, I can't really disagree with you.
00:31:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
And there is a part of me that's saying it in the hope that I'm proven wrong. You know, obviously I want that nothing more.
00:32:02
Will
Yeah.
00:32:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Please understand I want nothing more than the team that I've followed all of my life to get out of this situation. But this week,
00:32:12
Will
Mm.
00:32:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just this whole week, the news, the the confusion, the craziness of the fact that noah no other club would have someone in charge at this point with this record. And it's being so poorly handled. And then like that statement that you've just read me today is just blowing my mind even more.
00:32:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
and and then like we say the actions are going on after the pitch and the emotion that's clearly running around the squad and none of that is going to help anything that's happened this week off the pitch i'm sure i can't imagine it's a ah joyous place to be so i'm i'm i'm i'm saying i've said it i feel i fear that it could be a defeat
00:32:53
Will
yeah Yeah, I have nothing more to add to that. and All I will say is there weren't enough positive atoms radiating from me. So that's that's why that's why we'll lose.
00:33:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, no, sorry. That's why I've jinxed it.
00:33:04
Will
Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've jinxed it.
00:33:05
Will
Yeah.
00:33:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's my negative atoms.
00:33:06
Will
Yeah. Too much negativity.
00:33:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm sorry.
00:33:09
Will
Yeah.
00:33:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm sorry.
00:33:09
Will
Yeah. I think, Chris, in all fairness just thinking about jeff's comments i'm gonna just and zip my mouth shut for the rest of this episode as we conclude now and all i'm gonna say is it's for the best yeah
00:33:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
for the greater good.
00:33:28
Will
who
00:33:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Well, given that I have declared, um did you given that I've declared we're potentially going to lose this, I'm probably not the best person to say my usual catchphrase at the end. So did you want to see us out and try and remind me of something to get my positive atoms going?
00:33:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well,
00:33:43
Will
No.
Motivational Conclusion
00:33:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
no.
00:33:44
Will
No, I'm joking.
00:33:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay.
00:33:45
Will
I'm joking. Guys, out of darkness, cometh a light.
00:33:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Take care, everyone.