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Episode 218: FIXTURES ARE IN!
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Southampton – The fixtures are in! We know when our south coast derby's are! And we kick off the season with Wrexham at home!
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Introduction and Local Updates
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome back to the Daily Southampton, part of the Global Sports Podcast Network. My name is Greg Elliott and as always joined by my good friend and wonderful co-host, Zach Ingo Finch.
00:00:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
How you doing mate?
00:00:22
Zak
Yeah, I'm too bad. I've had a ah really, really busy day today. It's another part of my extremely busy day. There's been some bis local drama, which I hope everybody ends up all right. I live in Chandler's Ford, just outside, yes so sort of like outside East Chandler's Ford area.
00:00:39
Zak
So anyone you anyone who reads the Echo will know what happened today. i just hope everyone who's involved is okay. Yeah. So yeah, just a bit of it but a bit dramatic of non-stop sirens and in between that I've had to try and sort i of take my headphones off and then it's sirens and I put them back on and and then there's people asking me for stuff from work. so
00:01:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just chaos,
Match Predictions and Emotions
00:01:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
mate. The standard chaos.
00:01:01
Zak
Mate, just a busy day interrupted by us being almost on the money about Wrexham at home for the first game, except we said it was going away.
00:01:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
We love it.
00:01:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
well
00:01:12
Zak
And I'm sure we're going get into it, but you know...
00:01:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes, that's it.
00:01:16
Zak
classic Classic me pre-rambling, that's all.
00:01:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, look, fixtures are here and you're right. We were pretty much bang on. Portsmouth slightly earlier than we predicted.
00:01:28
Zak
Right, so should we get to go how we get how do you want to do Do you want to go through from the top? Do we want to just get our emotions out of the way? How how how do you want to structure this, mate?
00:01:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
let's just Let's just get the emotions and the important stuff out of the way first.
00:01:40
Zak
Okay, okay.
00:01:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then we'll reconvene with some logic and reason once we get that sorted.
Early Season Challenges
00:01:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
So it's quite early in the season to to play Pompey.
00:01:54
Zak
I think the problem is if it not only being early in the season, it's the the run we've got before is obviously Wrexham at home, which I think you said would be quite difficult. and Maybe, but also remember they're a promoted side. like I know that we're jumping to this like sort of you know a powerhouse. I'm like, yeah, championships, different ballgame to League One.
00:02:12
Zak
Just like the Prems are different ballgame to the championship. so
00:02:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yes, but, right, first game of the season, the ed couple you know, bets are off the table, right?
00:02:17
Zak
Interesting. Let's see where we go with this.
00:02:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, it's the ultimate early kickoff, and if Mahatma Gandhi taught us anything, you never back the early kickoff. The first day of the season is the earliest kickoff it gets.
00:02:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know, it's, it's a Hollywood script written in the stars that, that they just beat us, right? Like,
00:02:43
Zak
end up on this goddamn documentary, aren't we? Oh, we're going to end up on this stupid documentary, aren't we? For...
00:02:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, like, whilst I agree we should be beating them, you know, that should, you know, a home fixture against a promoted side should be good start to the season.
00:03:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
But there's more context to it than that.
00:03:06
Zak
The problem is, Greg, is if you go through the entire season list with that logic, that's the logic that I went through most of Premier League with. And I was right.
00:03:16
Zak
So don't you start being the one that's going to go through this list and be like, well, you know, we should beat Stoke City, but let's face it, it's going to be ball draw. Well, we beat Ipswich last time, so we'll probably get beaten by Ipswich. I don't want to hear that. oh would where Where's my Greg who tells me we're going to win every game 7-0?
00:03:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
hello look but By the 9th of August, that'll be back. But we just probably the below what we've got I'm just saying, you've got downplay it so when we beat them 10-0 it's more exciting.
00:03:40
Zak
You're just being logical now. I get you. I get you.
00:03:49
Zak
This is also true.
Ownership and Documentary Discussions
00:03:50
Zak
It's going to be difficult because obviously i don't know how ah don't know how if the teams will bed in before the sort of start
00:03:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm. Exactly right. There's... There's so many unknowns, and despite everything else, with the additional context of who owned Wrexham, and it being the you know the opening fixture of the league, it's a big occasion, and it's a big occasion early on, and so it's it's a banana skin waiting to happen, that's all.
00:04:17
Zak
Yeah, you could you could just you can picture it in their documentary as well, right?
00:04:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:04:21
Zak
Like, in their their next season, they turn up to St.
00:04:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
And let's hope that it's part of the
00:04:24
Zak
Mary's they're like, do us over 5-0 or something stupid.
00:04:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, let's hope that it's the part of the script of the documentary where they realise that stepping up to the championship is much harder than they were going to think.
00:04:35
Zak
Yeah, yeah, yeah, true, true.
00:04:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right? let Let's hope that's the arc that we put them on and not the... Then we stepped up to the championship and smashed Southampton.
00:04:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
No one...
00:04:42
Zak
Yeah, you need you need to see it as a Premier League team, mate, against a League One team.
00:04:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:04:48
Zak
Sort of. That's how that works, right?
00:04:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, maybe. mean, we'll see. We'll see as we get closer.
Season Fixture Challenges
00:04:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
But it's it's a tough opening to the season, right? Because then we've got Ipswich...
00:04:56
Zak
It's a tough open.
00:04:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
we got Ipswich, who we came down with.
00:04:58
Zak
yeah
00:05:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
So they're going to be a tough game.
00:05:02
Zak
They are going to be a tough game, and you know but they don't have the firepower and power of Liam Dallapp anymore. they are go I think it really depends on who we keep, who we built bring in, where we go in.
00:05:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:12
Zak
I know that there's a lot of what-ifs there, but it's kind of... I think that we, out of the three relegated teams, should be in a better position when we actually start the championship, right?
00:05:22
Zak
just because of the way Just because of the way things have gone.
00:05:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
would hope so.
00:05:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:27
Zak
And then, yeah, obviously Stoke, which...
00:05:29
Zak
Fine. It's going to be an awful game to watch. It's going to be at home. i can see that beat. That's got nil-nil draw written all over it, right?
00:05:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it's, well, look, I'd like to think that at this point we'd comfortably beat them, but it's definitely not going to be an enjoyable game of football to watch. Like, if history teaches us anything, it's that that's the case.
00:05:48
Zak
And then you've got Watford that have tried to tried to sort of regain their title of the team who fire their manager every other couple of years, right? Because I don't think Kevley was doing that bad. I just don't think he was doing that great, right?
00:06:02
Zak
So that's why they got rid of him. It it's very much a... sort of like when Hull got rid of their manager for missing out the playoffs by like a little bit, which was insane.
00:06:13
Zak
So yeah, and then obviously then we've got the big one, which that's not that's not a lot of time to build momentum, bed people in, And my worry is that Pompey going to have had a year in the championship, have a year of expecting what their squad looks like.
00:06:29
Zak
They might have a change here or there. I doubt they're going to go through the same level of rebuild that we're about to. And there's the, they've they they they've done pretty well last season in ways that you wouldn't expect them to.
00:06:43
Zak
And they're going to come up against a very inexperienced Southampton squad.
00:06:48
Zak
It's going to be interesting to see how that goes. I'm sad that it's the first five games because that was like one of worst case scenarios, right?
00:06:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, look it's still... I think it's still deep enough that it might be okay, right? We should have some momentum, hopefully...
00:07:07
Zak
if we If we have a rocky start to the season, the first four games, some some bad results in there, it is something that could easily act as a springboard and something to instantly get new players and still on the side, you know, on the side and sort of make the fans believe in whatever the project is.
00:07:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:07:27
Zak
In a similar way to like...
00:07:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Alternatively, it could also be a cliff, right? Yeah.
00:07:30
Zak
Yeah, it's alternatively, we we have a rough start.
00:07:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:34
Zak
That happens, and then people are fuming. And then it's not really a huge amount of time before we play them again.
00:07:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:07:40
Zak
Like, it's a couple months, but, like, you kind of... don't know. They seem to have tried to get them out of the way in the financial year Amture Constabulary.
00:07:50
Zak
Like, that's that's the vibes that I'm picking up here.
00:07:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:07:55
Zak
Within budget for for help for the two games, so... How do you feel about it lately?
00:08:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. look is I don't mind the away fixture being in January. I think it makes sense. you know By then we should really know what's what.
00:08:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is rough to be that early, but let's face it, it's going to be 12 o'clock kickoff. It's going to be an atmosphere.
00:08:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
maybe Maybe that's the right point of the season stuff to, like you say, springboard the momentum in. really bid us in and then go for a really good run. Because our run of games after that is whole Middlesbrough, Sheffield United, Derby County, Swansea, Bristol.
00:08:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Now, Sheffield United are probably the trickiest in that bunch, but realistically, they're all games that we'd be hoping to win, right? So...
00:08:48
Zak
Yeah, and but also, this is this is this is the risk, because there's no easy game. But like i just i just I just want you to picture it, right? It's our first sort of South Coast RB in St Mary's in a long, long time, Greg. we We show up, we get the atmosphere going.
00:09:04
Zak
like These players are absolutely blown away. We win like 5-0, and then we absolutely steamroll the rest of the league. That's best case scenario. And that that is what it could bring, it being so early.
00:09:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:09:14
Zak
So as much as I'm worried about it, it's kind of like...
Winter Schedule and Key Matchups
00:09:23
Zak
There's the trick I know.
00:09:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah Right. On that point of optimism, I think we better call our jets and take a break and hear a message from our partners at Bionique.
00:10:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, and we are back. Okay, so then, Zach, after that that little run, i think we got as far as October, and we start heading into you know the pretty standard congested winter period, right?
00:10:32
Zak
Yeah, it looks to be quite busy.
00:10:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
like with with Even with what I presume is an international break in November, we've still got six games.
00:10:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:10:43
Zak
Yeah, and I'd say like the a away to Charlton, where it's probably going to be a bit of an aggressive atmosphere, Nathan Jones derby. And that you've got you've got a Tuesday at home to Leicester before another away day to Millwall.
00:10:56
Zak
So those are those are two top away days in a row.
00:10:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's a pretty intense... That's an intense week, right? Like, that's a really tough seven days.
00:11:00
Zak
Yeah, then obviously at home as well.
00:11:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's...
00:11:05
Zak
depending on how our season's going as well, we'll really determine on sort of...
00:11:10
Zak
how that ah ah home and game against Leicester could really be seen as sort of a... You know, if we say we struggle at Charlton and then we have a really bad game at home, but then we have a really bad game at Millwall and then we hit December and we're not in the place we want to be, that that's that that's where I see us potentially slipping up, right?
00:11:28
Zak
Especially as you're right, it just gets so busy.
00:11:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, and then December, which, you know, again, absolutely chaotic month with another six fixtures, the standard congested route
00:11:31
Zak
And then we've got December...
00:11:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
very with, you know, bank Birmingham and the Baggies both at home in the three-day window. Norwich away, Coventry at home.
00:11:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then my wife got her wish and gets an away day on Boxing Day. We're going to take a trip to Oxford.
00:11:57
Zak
To Oxford, all places.
00:11:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:59
Zak
Nice. I mean, you know, go see the museums. but so It's weird we're playing, it's weird we drew Birmingham twice in the same month, right?
00:12:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
That is a bit unusual, right?
00:12:08
Zak
not Like, Saturday 6th of December, Birmingham, and then Monday 29th of December, Birmingham. Playing them both, you know, in...
00:12:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Coventry, the mix and the baggies, that's a really like Midland-centric month, isn't it?
00:12:20
Zak
Yeah, very much so. And then then just the the weird like side bits of of Norwich and Oxford, which is fine, whatever.
00:12:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. And then, I mean, it's it's really hard looking at this list to not fiddle like I'm looking at every game and going, yeah, we should win that.
00:12:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, I'm really...
00:12:38
Zak
This is the problem, right? because they' And there were games in the last time of the championship where we had a lot of games like that, where we were beaten in the games where we were like, yeah, we should easily win that.
00:12:48
Zak
Games we would win that we probably didn't feel like we should win. Also, the sheer amount draws we had, i think people kind of forget. There was a lot of board draws, a lot of last minutes.
00:12:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
that was our biggest, that was our biggest downfall as well, right? Was how many draws I,
00:13:00
Zak
Yeah, but obviously the interesting thing is, will will will the big difference in style of football help? It's not having the Russell Martin accidentally concede 50 goals, but then hopefully try and score 51 out of our system and with a new completely new sort of approach.
00:13:19
Zak
systematically taking each team down one by one and hope hopefully we'll actually you know maybe we could beat our run from last time like ah we it would be it would be a very safe thing to do to have like the longest unbeaten run get relegated almost with the worst points record of all time beat the longest unbeaten run like that
00:13:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah Yeah, I can fully see it.
00:13:38
Zak
that would be very much like a thing that I could see us doing.
00:13:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
100%.
00:13:42
Zak
Probably with some draws scattered there, don't get me wrong, but it would be nice to see us do well.
00:13:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
hundred percent
00:13:46
Zak
And you're right, it's really, problem it's it's a massive, maybe it's like Premier League bias, maybe it's like but through the years we're the Premier League, but you sort of look at like, Birmingham should win that.
00:13:57
Zak
West Brom should win that. Norwich should win that. Coventry, well, they did give Sunderland a good go, but should probably still win it. Oxford, I keep thinking they're in the National League. Birmingham, yeah, we should probably beat that again.
00:14:08
Zak
And that's the problem, because you, you're you're you like me, are falling into this trap when we go through this list being, well, they're all winnable games. Sheffield United might be hard.
00:14:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:14:16
Zak
Leicester might be hard. The rest of them should should walk the park. and like we dont like The of games we got absolutely turned over last season.
00:14:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
just never how it's going to play out.
00:14:25
Zak
Quick, guys, shows you how short memories are, aren't they?
00:14:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, no, you're alright. Look, it's just it's difficult to it's difficult to temper the optimism that I'm feeling, that's all.
00:14:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
just excited that football's going to be back soon.
00:14:40
Zak
I get you, get you.
00:14:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's going to be good. We head into January and yeah, Millwall at home. Again, like Really close, you know, right at the end of November and right yeah at the end of January, playing Millwall twice.
00:14:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's really... no, like, mirror for these fixtures. They come thick and fast. It's really odd.
00:15:06
Zak
Yeah, 100%.
00:15:08
Zak
Like Thursday, Sunday, Saturday, Wednesday, that's a big sh chunk of fixtures right there.
00:15:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Middlesbrough away.
00:15:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, well, there is a gap between Middlesbrough and Hull, which I presume is another international break. all Oh, it'll be FA Cup, right? that's That'll be FA Cup weekend, so...
00:15:21
Zak
Yeah, so there might not be a gap depending on how far we actually decide to
00:15:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, and that'll be third round, so he should be in the hat. And then, yeah, that's a tough week, though. Hull at home, the Blades at home, and then Pompey away, all in a seven-day window.
00:15:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's... that's a That's a tough old week, isn't it?
00:15:43
Zak
Yeah.
00:15:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
Injuries and Transfer Strategies
00:15:45
Zak
It's the fact that it's off the back of a little run, right? is that how is that you know
00:15:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:15:49
Zak
And again, like it's ah ah my worry is when when will we start picking up injuries? This is usually the time. Are we going to start getting any new players to bolster? If we have new players in January, are they going to have enough time to bed before we chuck them out?
00:16:01
Zak
Yeah. all these kinds of things. It's just like, just, I would have, I would have liked maybe October and February. And what I've got is September and January, just almost where I'd like them just a little bit off.
00:16:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
So close, but enough to be slightly awkward.
00:16:12
Zak
So close, not quite as close as I'd like them to me.
00:16:16
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00:16:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, and we're back. So, yeah, after the the game against Portsmouth, right at the end of January, ah away to Stoke. Always a tough trip.
00:16:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then... and then You know, we start what can really be thought of as the run in the last third of the season, right? We've got Watford, Leicester, Charlton, QPR.
00:17:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Again, some lots of midweeks, lots of three-game weeks.
00:17:15
Zak
So many.
00:17:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Championship just comes thick and fast, right?
00:17:19
Zak
it's just It's just like the amount of like Monday and Wednesday and Tuesday just really throws me off a little bit more than it should.
00:17:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, look...
00:17:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:17:25
Zak
Because obviously Premier League getting a bit like it, but not to that level.
00:17:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think we've been quite lucky looking through that most of our sort of Saturday into Tuesday or Saturday into Wednesday fixtures are either at home or the first game is at home and the away game is not too far away.
00:17:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Which I guess kind of comes to an end in March as we hit Norwich at home on the Saturday into West Brom away on a Wednesday night and Coventry away on the Saturday, which is...
00:18:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's a lot of travelling in three days, isn't it?
00:18:05
Zak
west west West Brom as well. West Brom on like a Wednesday night is brutal for for you know home fans like oh sorry away fans having to try and get to Birmingham in the middle of the day.
00:18:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:18:15
Zak
And then also Monday, of April, Wrexham away. Monday afternoon, Monday evening.
00:18:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:18:21
Zak
so that's that's a write-off.
00:18:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
That'll be presumably Easter. Easter Monday, right?
00:18:25
Zak
and Or maybe...
00:18:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
so it'll be a Monday lunchtime he says guess
00:18:29
Zak
I don't know what Easter is this year. Next year.
00:18:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
but yeah yeah that'll be Easter Monday so that'll presumably be like a lunchtime kickoff it's not too bad nice little bank holiday trip to Wrexham maybe but yeah and then Derby at home Swansea away Bristol at home
00:18:42
Zak
Yeah?
00:18:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
See, that's Swansea away on a Saturday into Bristol at home on a Tuesday.
End of Season Hopes and Highlights
00:18:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
crazy. And then Blackburn also at home. So again, two home fixtures in a three-game week sort of might play to our to our advantage.
00:19:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think we've actually been quite lucky.
00:19:09
Zak
Yeah, but it's going to really depend on where points are looking like at the end of that season, right? Because it's going to be...
00:19:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:15
Zak
it's goingnna I'd like to say we're going to run away with it. I know that our target's probably top two, but we've got you know Ipswich, Leicester that have come down. You've got Sheffield United that failed to to get promotion.
00:19:28
Zak
Coventry that I think a lot of people had down as a better team than Sunderland that are still in the actual championship. We've obviously now got the the spending power of Wrexham
00:19:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Birmingham as well, spending lots of money coming back up.
00:19:41
Zak
Who knows? Yeah, and we we need to have at this point as well beaten Portsmouth twice.
00:19:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay.
00:19:47
Zak
Otherwise, I think you know even if we get to that run and it's quite towards the end, ah just don't know how it's going to be. It's just... yeah it's It's so... It's far more unpredictable Obviously, it is predictable in the sense of we know what the fixtures are.
00:20:00
Zak
But some of these games, ah ah you you can kind of have a guess, but we have no idea towards the end, especially. have no idea what the state of this world is going to be like. We no idea what the state of the table is going to like.
00:20:12
Zak
We just got to hope that we start strong. that's That's where I'm at.
00:20:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then last day of the season, away for our title presentation at Preston North End.
00:20:24
Zak
Which is, is this harsh to Preston if I say that's a bit like anticlimactic?
00:20:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
it Maybe.
00:20:32
Zak
Yeah.
00:20:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
we had to sub i understand what you mean. oh
00:20:35
Zak
but
00:20:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah ah up kind of like a ah home last day of the season. you know, especially knowing that we'd like to be there or thereabouts in the title charge.
00:20:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, yeah, it's, I don't know, but maybe that's nice.
00:20:46
Zak
yeah
00:20:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Maybe that's the sort of game you need on last day of the season because, you know, we might not, I hate to say it, but we might not win all 46 games and we might not be 100 points clear at this point in the season, it might come down to a decisive final day because this is it is the best this is the best league in the world.
00:21:08
Zak
Oh, that's awful. I hate a final day like that.
00:21:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's always close four, right? Nobody ever knows what's going to happen and so it would be incredibly on brand for it to come down to to that final day of the season to decide everything.
00:21:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, you know maybe that's the sort of game you want last day of the season rather than some big dramatic...
00:21:25
Zak
Yeah.
00:21:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
sort of finale.
00:21:34
Zak
I guess so. Have you got a favourite month sorted out? is there ah ah Is there a month that you look at and be like, I'm looking forward to every single one of those games?
00:21:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
All of it. I can't wait. I've got to bring on August already. there's I'm really disappointed that I've only got one home fixture in the whole of October.
00:21:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like,
00:21:55
Zak
Yeah, it's not ideal.
00:21:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's going to be like a real drought.
00:21:57
Zak
And it doesn't even really make up for it in November either because it's half home, half away. i like the i like the look of November's games though.
00:22:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:05
Zak
Sheffield Wednesday, Charlton will be fun. Leicester, Millwall. As I said, I think it's going to be difficult and it's going to be hard work, but I think that'll be that'd be a nice sort of run to watch, hopefully.
00:22:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Personally speaking, I'm a bit gutted that West Brom away is midweek because that's normally one of the ones we try to get to with the with family connections.
00:22:24
Zak
That's all right. You've got your trip to Oxford United this year as an actual away fan.
00:22:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
So,
00:22:29
Zak
Not that you'd ever go to the Bouguers as home fans, mate.
00:22:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, we'll see if the the boss actually authorises that.
00:22:38
Zak
Look, she said away day. said we hope that you're away at Boxing Day. If you're away at Boxing Day, that's fine.
00:22:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah I just don't see it playing out that way. We might end up with a trip to Eastleigh instead. But it is exciting. that There are some good ones. you? there Are there any particular months that look particularly tasty?
00:22:59
Zak
As I said, I like the look of the fixtures in November just because of how important it's going to be.
00:22:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
hmm
00:23:05
Zak
Obviously, I like August. It's my birth month. And also, it's just the fact that football is restarting and we can actually get back into the need. And we can see... want to see what's going happen. I want to see how our team looks.
00:23:16
Zak
And even if it ends up being something I'm not happy with, It's the fact that it's started again and we can, you know, if it started again, it means that we can salvage it again.
00:23:27
Zak
Not that I should be thinking that negatively this early on, but sort of, I just, I just want football to restart. And I think that home to Wrexham. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It could have the Hollywood ending for them or it could be a, hey, welcome to the championship, my guy, as we bat them 5-0 and we could be absolutely flying and and start off then we we beat Ipswich and then there we get something going, knowing when we come to Portsmouth that we're on a roll and everyone's hungry and we start to put points on the board and all that kind of, that's why, right?
00:23:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, let's hope.
00:23:57
Zak
it's the It's the restart of the season, I think, that I'm most looking forward to.
00:24:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Road to 138 points starts here, right? Yeah.
00:24:07
Zak
Oh, so I don't like, should I do it? Where was it that you, you said we would win our like next seven games in a row. And I built up a clip and then posted it literally on Christmas day. Cause you're like, well, at Christmas day, mate, we'll obviously be safe.
00:24:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:19
Zak
And we'd have won the one, at least seven out of nine. And we'd like, didn't win a single one of those games.
00:24:27
Zak
In fact, I'm pretty sure walls turned the same for pretty bad. Yeah.
00:24:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah but Don't worry about that. This is all coming up good. This is a better league. We're in a much better position. this is it hundred and but We'd settle We wins.
00:24:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
four hundred and twenty points right we're not greedy
00:24:43
Zak
Yeah, egg exactly. exactly as As I said, we break the most the consecutive wins, the you know consecutive games without a loss, like we did the previous time in the Championship.
00:24:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
don't need all the wind
00:24:52
Zak
and we We have a lovely time. but either way, what's exciting is the fact that football is returning, mate. And there's a bunch of...
00:24:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:24:59
Zak
it's It's been confirmed. We've seen the fixtures. They are going to happen. I'm sure some of them are going to get moved for absolutely ridiculous reasons. so Cannot wait for that to be annoying and completely upset your admin plans.
00:25:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. supposedly we're getting Supposedly, we're getting lots more notice when Sky moves the games this season. So, will he believe that?
00:25:15
Zak
believe it when I see it.
00:25:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, 100%.
00:25:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
They advertised it as up to five months notice. all right Well, that could still also be a week. Right? Like...
00:25:26
Zak
Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So, who knows?
00:25:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
But look, it's going to be
Portsmouth Match Excitement
00:25:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
exciting. I can't wait. And look, I can't wait to beat Portsmouth on the 13th and have that as the point where we already have more points in the league than we did last season.
00:25:43
Zak
Oh! Oh, it's poetry.
00:25:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
so
00:25:46
Zak
Poetry. Can mug us off all they want, but we'd still beat them, so it's fine.
00:25:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's it. Right. That is just about all we've got the time for today. we will be back on Monday with some more Saints goodness. Until then, I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Zach, thank you very much for joining me.
00:26:03
Zak
Thank you, mate.
00:26:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
What month or what fixture are you looking forward to most? Let us know on all the socials we're on. Facebook, TikTok, Twitter or X, Blue Sky, Instagram.
00:26:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I've probably missed something. But we are we are out there.
00:26:19
Zak
were We're kind of there.
00:26:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely come and let us know what your favourite month or your favourite fixture is going to be. We all know it's going to be the South Coast Derby. It's fine. let's Let's get there. Have a great weekend, everyone.
00:26:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Bye.