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Daily Ipswich: Episode 105 - Coventry 1 - Ipswich 4 (FA Cup)
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The Daily Ipswich Podcast, part of the Global Sports Podcast Network, is your new home of all your ITFC. Join us every weekday for the latest news, build-up and reaction in the club's first season back in the Premier League.
Host: Richard Popple
Guest: Rob Binns
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Transcript
Welcome Back and Recent Episode Success
00:00:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello everyone and welcome back to the Daily Ipswich. It is Monday, hope you all had a very good weekend. We are part of the Global Sports Podcast Network and myself today, Richard Popple, is joined by Mr. Rob Binns. Hello, Rob.
00:00:24
Rob Binns
Hello mate, good to be back. We had the James Soto episode on Friday, everyone must have thought they got rid of us, but me and you are back again.
00:00:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, no, he did very well. And we will have the fourth ah corner to our square back very soon. Mr. Tom crack. He's been away. He says on a bit of business, but I've seen on Instagram that he's basically just up a mountain somewhere having a good time. So, uh, yeah, we'll welcome Tom back at some point. I think he's trying to connect his internet too. And after my internet troubles earlier in the year, we're we're really going through it with the old, um, connectivity here at the daily hip switch.
Ipswich's Weekend Triumph
00:00:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Um, but the blues themselves had a good weekend. We scored four goals, Rob.
00:01:02
Rob Binns
Yeah, I know. yeah So it was near enough, a perfect game for us really. It's just the only blemish was sort of conceding because it was, we got through, it was a good performance and importantly, you look at where the the source of the goals came from, it was a lot of players who needed them really. So, so you can, and Clark particularly needed a performance like that. So hopefully it sets us up very well for, so a bit of confidence for the squad players that we can take into the league season and obviously fingers crossed we can get a decent draw and tonight.
00:01:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
Memorable Victory Against Sheffield
00:01:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you know what? We haven't scored more than three goals in a game since March last year. Do you remember what the game was?
00:01:40
Rob Binns
Really? No, I don't at all.
00:01:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was a 6-0 thrashing of Sheffield Wednesday.
00:01:49
Rob Binns
Oh yeah, forgot about that game. Yeah, of course.
00:01:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, 16th of March. So it's been a long time since we've had a bit of a goal. I think we scored three at Brentford, didn't we, in that in that defeat.
00:01:58
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:02:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Um, but that's the only time we've got to three this season as well. We've oh well in the cup, obviously against Bristol Robles, we've scored three as well.
00:02:05
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:02:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
But anyway, nice to score a few goals. And as you say, yeah, a couple of players who really, really needed one, particularly Jack Clark, um, got a bit of a confidence boost. So yeah, nice result for us really.
00:02:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think also there's a sense of, you know, Coventry had had ah a decent run really hadn't they I think they'd won four out of the last five. Um, Frank Lampard had got them playing well again. I actually always thought they were a pretty decent team. Under Mark Robbins, they were always a good team. And obviously they were in the semifinal last year. Very unlucky not to beat Man United that day. I was willing them on. um But obviously a very happy hunting ground for us because we weren't there at the end of last year and that famous 2-1 victory, which all but sealed our promotion to the Premier League. And then we go back there and pick up another really, really good result.
Team Lineup Debates
00:02:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah The lineups, any any any sort of shocks for you, any headlines? Obviously we had a new goalkeeper.
00:03:00
Rob Binns
Yeah, so it was nice to give it be able to give him a chance before throwing him straight in in the Premier League, weren't it? It was a benefit that he it wasn't cup tied from West Brom this season that we got to see him.
00:03:11
Rob Binns
And so as far as I can tell, he assured himself pretty well.
00:03:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:03:14
Rob Binns
So I'm going to have to confess, I didn't watch the game. I was out traveling on the Saturday afternoon in the non-league. But so I've caught up with what I can. So he seems fairly accomplished.
00:03:25
Rob Binns
So certainly he looks like he's playing with more confidence than Muiric is at the moment. so so hopefully we all can put a bit of run for our form together and I've certainly not put off from game one which is the minimum you can ask for yeah
00:03:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you reckon he'll be in goal next week?
00:03:42
Rob Binns
I'd like to think so yeah I can't see any reason why he wouldn't be here but then if he had picked up a knob in the game we wouldn't find out that he wasn't in the matchday squad at the weekend would we so as far as I know he's fully still fully fit and say
00:03:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:03:58
Rob Binns
like we say Muric has got a lot of issues going on at the moment with in terms of confidence and morale with him it's affecting him on the pitch so you have to expect Palmer to be in there unless McKenna throws a curveball in there and Slicker goes in but I'd expect to see him in I'd expect to see him in the net until minimum when Walton comes back and he might even see it after the rest of the season though.
00:04:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I
Defensive Strategies and Player Performances
00:04:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
would, I would agree. I think so. I think Maric is going to struggle to get back into the team. And I think ultimately that's, that's potentially the right thing. I mean, I don't think even made the bench. Did he slicker was on the bench for it. A couple of other absentees on the bench as well. Dara O'Shea was given the whole game off, uh, Greaves Hutchinson. I don't know whether they were knocks there or whether they were just giving a rest to a few players.
00:04:41
Rob Binns
I'd imagine just the rest, there's certainly O'Shea's case, we we spoke about it the other day, didn't we? not but All these defensive changes to one sort of consistency is O'Shea plays 90 minutes pretty much every game. Whereas he's had a chance with a couple of cup games to get a bit of a break and so it just stops him getting overrun and and then it's nice to see. So the the back four we had out, it's nice that Wolfie and Burgess have both put in good shifts and majority games have played this year. so Nice to give them a chance. And so, you know, they're playing well enough that you can back them to do that. You can't just sometimes say you throw wholesale changes together. It doesn't work. So a lot of the time, I mean, look at the Liverpool result yesterday was at nine or 10 changes they made. They used still have backed them enough to get a result against Plymouth. So certainly you can't expect the same level of football when you make a lot of changes, but apparently we can. So that's what McKenna does by managing his squad.
00:05:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, we'll get to, we'll get to the Liverpool result and a few of the others a little bit later on in the second part of the show. But yeah, you're right. I mean, you look at the team in general, actually, it's got a, dare I say, championship feel to it. You know, Parma going in goal, Townsend's at left back, Burgess and Wolfenden, who, as you say, have not been particularly been first choice this season, but who were very much first choice last year. um Jack Taylor was back in the team, Schmodix came back into the team, Hurst, Jack Clark, as we mentioned as well. So lots of players who,
00:06:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
very much tore it up in the championship last year and had strong seasons. Even Philogene on loan at Hull um looked comfortable in that environment, which, you know, if worse comes to the worst at the end of the season and we do get relegated, then that at least stands as in good stead that we look, we look a decent championship team at the very least. So yeah, it's nice. And obviously it was a flying
Match Highlights: Ipswich vs. Coventry
00:06:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
start to the game. I don't think I've ever seen an earlier penalty than that.
00:06:28
Rob Binns
Yeah, it was about 20 seconds on the clock, wasn't it, something like that, that went underway.
00:06:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:32
Rob Binns
So something I've said that we don't, ah lot of like a lot in previews I say about, I always say, I want to see us come out the blocks and sort of play with a bit of intensity and and so do that.
00:06:45
Rob Binns
We quite often don't do it, especially at home, but say, away from home we're better at it. And so we clearly done the job here because we put in enough intensity and played from the front enough to force a penalty.
00:06:56
Rob Binns
in as as early as that. So sets the standard for the game, don't you say? Get yourself that early lead. Like I say, something we haven't done enough in Premier League games, obviously granted the opposition's different, but like we say, Coventry was no it was never expected to be a walkover, was it? They've been in very good forms since Lampard come over, especially at home. So we were expecting a tough game. So we come out of the blocks and got ourselves away. And a great pen from Hurst as well, for God's sake, because keeping it went the right way just instilled. Never looked like saving it, did he?
00:07:26
Rob Binns
He picked his spot, had enough power and placement to find it. Very good penalty. And I say that the bonus say, why it's almost frustrating in a, in a, in a weird way, as good as it was to get ahead and set the standard for the game.
00:07:39
Rob Binns
But you saw through the potential, why can't we start Premier League games like that? Because that's, I've asked for it a lot of times and say, this isn't, this is what can happen when you play like that, but a good start.
00:07:50
Rob Binns
Well, we're awarded.
00:07:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I suppose the defenses were up against her a little bit better in the Premier League, but you're right. It was nice to see us out of the blocks early. I couldn't believe it when the goal flashed up on, I think BBC sport or whatever it was like, bloody hell. Here we go. But it didn't last very long because six minutes later, seven minutes later, Coventry were level. We conceded from a corner. It wasn't great. I mean, you know you could argue that the execution from them was pretty good, but we we looked a bit statuesque at the back um and it seemed a fairly sort of routine kind of goal to concede. But we did respond really well and Jack Clarke got himself a nice little opening. actually yeah I thought he actually played really, really well. That's the Jack Clarke that you kind of like saw at Sunderland last year, really. and ah Sadly, we haven't really seen it at Ipswich yet at all, but it was a massive confidence booster for him, certainly and the second goal as well. But what did you make of the first goal? You took it really nicely.
00:08:43
Rob Binns
Yeah, he did i say that the Cup's been. Real good opportunity for him to shine really, isn't it? We said going into the Bristol Rovers game that we hope that. That could be sort of game getting his first goal off them. He was so desperate for giving a bit of confidence that he can take forward. He did it in that game. We haven't seen it reflect into the Premier League yet, but hopefully he kicked on another gear again in this game that. So he showed the quality he's got there. Like I said before, both his goals were it he done well.
00:09:14
Rob Binns
really so that's very well taken this one especially and so it's nice to see as again that you just got hope he can carry he can carry it over this time because he couldn't at Bristol Robles he then looked fairly sheepish again the cameos he's had off the bench in the game since that so I'm hoping that he kicks on because like I say it's just a reminder that not to give up on him there because he's had a tough season and we know but we know how good he has been at Sunderland and so he's given us a bit of enough of a flash in this game to sort of keep the hope and if he can turn it on, then there'll be a big asset into the rest of the season. But it's it's great for him as well. Cause like we said, we spoke about Muric obviously with confidence, but Clark was probably the, of the outfield players in the squad. He's probably the one you could say he's playing on the least confidence this season. So to him to have a game like this, say a couple of goals he set for the gene up as well, that it's really, he had an opportunity. Like I say, when you make as many changes as you do in these games, there's an opportunity to
00:10:13
Rob Binns
these swab players to show themselves and he absolutely took it and say some some finish as well for this first goal.
00:10:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah, and then he did it again about 10 minutes later. um I think they lost possession, didn't they, about their carpentry, playing around with it a little bit too much and Hearst picked it up. I actually thought he should have taken it first time. It didn't, because we're talking about a confidence thing, I think ah a really confident player there would have literally just taken it first time because the shot was on to do that. And it almost looked like the the the defender who came back kind of very much mistimed the challenge, didn't really kind of go the right way and made it fairly easy for Clarke in the end. but ah Yeah, ah that that could have been stopped and I would have expected him to go for it first time but still he put it away um and again and Really nice for him to get another confidence booster um And we go in at 3-1 at halftime, which wasn't too bad at all Do you think it's slightly flattered as maybe that score line?
00:11:07
Rob Binns
Um, maybe, and maybe a bit, but I think we deserve to be in front. Definitely. The only, the only argument would be, had Coventry deserved to be a couple of goals down, which, and on the balance of play, they they played well without really threatening as much as they could have done. I thought that obviously Frank Lampard's been, come out and said this, it was despite the scoreline, it was more of an even game than when they lost to Leeds in the championship the other day that,
00:11:35
Rob Binns
in terms of how the game played out. we He's seen that and he felt the scoreline flat at us a bit. but So I think in the first half, it was that it was ah it was a good little battle, but we deservedly in front, I would say definitely. and ah say And the goal we conceded really, like I say, I understand where Lampard's come from, because on the balance of the play, from what I've seen, it was relatively even. But it didn't offer too much in front of goal commentary, like I say.
00:12:01
Rob Binns
an uncharacculist uncharacteristically poor defender from a corner from us, so something we've been on the big strengths this year amongst many weaknesses defensively, as we've been good at set pieces, especially corners, but that slipped for the goal today, but and I think we were a good value for it at halftime.
00:12:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Nice. All right, well, let's take a quick break and then we'll come back and finish off how the game went in the second half.
Key Players Shine with Goals
00:12:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we are back here on the daily Ipswich. So we went in three, one and a half times. I mean, the game was pretty much one, us I suppose, at that point. It was important for us not to concede for the first 15, 20 minutes to the second half, which we managed to do. i don't Yeah. And then, obviously, Philogene got on the score sheet, I think, just after the hour mark, which basically killed the game off for the last half an hour. He took the goal quite well, actually, I thought, because Jack Clark kind of broke wasn't the best ball from him, to be perfectly honest, he was trying to bend it round a little bit more, but it went quite close to the keeper, but Philogene actually finished nicely at the near post.
00:13:26
Rob Binns
Yeah, he didn't do any favors with that ball, really, did he, Clark? But he asked a lot of him and Phil had the answer, fortunately for us.
00:13:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
no
00:13:33
Rob Binns
So again, someone who's was in need of a, an opportunity, or sort of the chance to show himself in a game like this, I thought, because obviously he was, he was too recently through the door to get an opportunity against Bristol Rovers.
00:13:46
Rob Binns
And then he's been restricted to cameos in the Liverpool and City games. So I think it said at the time he's come on, we've been, three or four goals down which doesn't give him up ah much opportunity as a winger and then say the less said about that Southampton game the better from players all over the pitch.
00:13:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah
00:14:05
Rob Binns
He's had tough chances really to show us what he can do so far but again another one who took his opportunity well I thought in the 80 minutes or so he did get. Like I said you thought the chance had gone when the passes kept rolling from Clarke He got on there, he took he controlled it well, he kept hold of it well, and then he finished it very well. so Certainly a lot of positive signs, like we say. we know We know the quality he's got from last season, and what we expect, and so why we wanted him in the summer, and why we've gone back in for him in January. And so, potentially must say, important i mean as we look ahead with team seductions, he, despite Clark sort of being the standout of the game, I think Phila Jean's the one who's probably going to have played his way into the 11 against Phila. Certainly will have a point to prove.
00:14:51
Rob Binns
ah there there as well haven't been signed back and kicked out again six months later. I can see him lining up from the start of Villa Park after his shift against Coventry.
00:15:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
where Whereabouts, wearing the same as you have him.
00:15:06
Rob Binns
Off the right I think we're lucky where he's playing today for me. I think mainly because I'd want Broadhead on the left.
00:15:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
So no Hutchinson. No Hutchinson.
00:15:13
Rob Binns
Yeah
00:15:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
and hutchinson
00:15:14
Rob Binns
Yeah Hutchinson or on CSO in the middle and I say purely on the last few weeks I would have to get, I'd have to put in CSO through the middle at the moment. I said that's what I wanted to see against Southampton. We saw two out of three and NMR was the one who didn't hit the same performance level. So it makes sense that he'd be the one to drop out the team if we were going to make changes. But certainly I think, so I don't, I think Clarke played very well. I don't think enough to force his way in from the start because Broadhead also ended up getting an hour plus, didn't he? Nick with the added time and everything. So, and he played very well as well. So I expect him to keep his place in the start, but certainly there's, I say, some confidence boosts going around and say Philogene, I thought look very impressive. and And obviously there's only so much you can take in, like we say, with it being a championship team we're playing against, not a Premier League one, but I'd like to see it. He's impressed me enough to want to see him from the start, Villa Pug.
00:16:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I agree. i think I think I would go with that three as well. I think Broadhead should be in the team at the moment. and He's consistently been the best player on the left for the last six weeks or whatever, even during the tougher times. um And CSO was lively against Southampton. And I think he adds that kind of shoot on-site ability, which is you know probably what we need. And I would play for the Jean Head Hutchinson at the moment. I think it was good that Hutchinson actually was given the whole weekend off. He wasn't on the bench or anything because I think he just needed you know he's clearly been running on maybe low confidence but he's also been looking a bit jaded towards the end of games as well and you pointed it out that he was really ineffective against Southampton towards the end but yet he was the one that was still on the pitch which
00:16:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
didn't really make a lot of sense to the eye and but you know understandable in the sense of what what we think he can do and what you know what he has done at times but I think it was good he got a rest so hopefully that will bring him back with a bit of rejuvenation but I would personally ah yeah agree with you I'd go with Phil Agin. Particularly against his old club he's going to want to prove something isn't he? um Yeah, and that was it. I mean, the rest of the game was kind of, it sort of filtered out really. I mean, you know, Coventry were never in the game at 4-1 down and we managed to game nicely for the last half an hour. Was there anyone else that kind of stood out to you? Any other decent performances?
FA Cup Progress and Upsets
00:17:29
Rob Binns
ah Yeah, George Hurst needs to mention, definitely, obviously tucked away a very good penalty. Like we say, he's got the assist for for em Clark's first goal as well. And ah someone, another one who has been restricted in how much he can play, obviously all these injury troubles, but has put very good shifts in when he has played, especially from the start. And so it's nice to see, again, someone else who probably needed a goal for of confidence, as have we say, that He was looking decent and then got injured again, which obviously is going to be a big hit to him mentally to have to come back from that battle through.
00:18:05
Rob Binns
So I think a goal from him will do him a world of good and it was another good shift. And he's going to have a role to play, isn't he? Because I mean, the fact that Dilap came on for 10 minutes here at four one aren shows how like we are in the Strivet department.
00:18:18
Rob Binns
Because obviously, as I say, hust obviously he'd run his race.
00:18:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I couldn't quite believe that, to be honest.
00:18:23
Rob Binns
But then we had to bring Galap on, because what else have we got? is something We spoke about it a lot over the January window, didn't we? But that's something that Hearns has got a big role to play. So obviously keeping fit is going to be the first problem with him, because he's got horrible luck with injuries in the last couple of years. But keeping him fit is problem one. But so keeping him firing as well is going to be is goingnna be a tough task if he's getting a little 10-minute cameo. So when he can get in from the start, he's got to take his chance. And he's certainly done that against country.
00:18:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. i'm like I've got to be honest. I'm always really reassured by George Hearst because like, I know his injury record is pretty awful, but whenever he comes back, he does hit the ground running quite quickly. He tends to sort of score fairly early back in, back into the team and stuff. And I think again, maybe with one eye on the championship, I don't want to be a pessimist considering I was very much the optimist of our of our little band. and But He will be there. You know, I mean, Dalat won't be, will he? Obviously if we're in the championship, but George Hearst will. And I think if you can keep him fit, you you probably do have ah maybe a 20 goal a season championship striker there. And obviously somebody who can mix it in the Premier League a little bit as well, if if he can stay fit. And obviously that is the big question mark when it comes to him. But I always liked the fact that he comes back and hits the ground running. Schmodix was in the team as well. well what did What did you make to him? Kind of making his way back to full fitness as well.
00:19:49
Rob Binns
Yeah, well, it was tough to say really, isn't it? Because he unfortunately had to limp off again in the first half. But it was nice to say, it was interesting that he's gone in the, he was in the 10 almost behind Hurst for me, because that's something we spent the first month or so of this season crying out for.
00:19:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah.
00:20:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:08
Rob Binns
And then he sort of made the spot on the left his own with a decent little runner form before getting injured. But it was interesting that almost now he's finally nailed down playing well on the left-hand side.
00:20:21
Rob Binns
We've now chucked him in there, but and naturally if Clark and Philogene are playing with him in those three, then he's the best candidate to go centrally. But certainly he didn't look as on it as he has been at other games this season, naturally, because it was his first game back.
00:20:35
Rob Binns
And he's clearly still nursing it. if he's He's ended up going off again after 35 minutes. But hopefully it's not too bad.
00:20:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think it was more, I think it might've been more precautionary though.
00:20:44
Rob Binns
Hmm.
00:20:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think it might've been more precautionary that, yeah, I don't know, we'll see. um Yeah, hopefully it's not not an extended period anyway, but yeah, the dilap thing I agree was kind of, it was funny, wasn't it?
00:20:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
And you just kind of think, well, back to January, there was the opportunity obviously to to restock the strikers there, but they didn't take it. Anyway, we saw the gorg so sorry saw the game out for one in the end, nice and comfortable. And we are through to the to the FA Cup fifth round for the first time, Robin, how many years do you know?
00:21:15
Rob Binns
A long time, I imagine, because we struggled to get out of the third round for about a 10-year period, didn't we? We barely got wind to our names. must be sort of It must be 10 plus years.
00:21:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
18 years, mate. 18.
00:21:26
Rob Binns
18! God, I didn't think it was that bad.
00:21:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
18.
00:21:31
Rob Binns
Well, ah how long has it been since the course?
00:21:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, pretty bad, eh?
00:21:34
Rob Binns
What's the next thing to start looking at, Soys?
00:21:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it is. and All right, let's take another quick break and then we'll talk about who we might be facing and what else was going on the FA Cup this weekend.
00:21:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm not sure what was going on there. ah Sorry.
00:22:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Sorry about that, everybody. Welcome back to the Daily Ipswich. My ah computer was going a little bit wild there. um Yeah, we had a few shocks in the FA Cup this weekend. Well, one very big shock. Plymouth Argyle knocking out Liverpool. um At the time of recording, we don't know about Aston Villa and Spurs, but another one of those is going to go. Chelsea lost. They're out to Brighton.
00:22:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Obviously Arsenal lost in the previous round. Man City snuck through against Leighton Orient. They were given a bit of a scare there. Man United got through against Leicester, so there could be a repeat of the Manchester Final at the moment, but let's hope not. and But yeah, we're into the fifth round of the Cup, Rob. it's If you get a favourable draw here, a quarterfinal is very much on the cards.
00:23:11
Rob Binns
Yeah, definitely. I mean, like you say as well, that who where you look at the teams that have gone out as well, that it's going to go one or two ways this year, really, I think it's going to be, it's going to be one of those rogue years. It gets thrown in every now and again where someone unexpected wins or city is just going to walk it. That's the two ways it's going to go. I think, and it depends heavily on how their other competitions play. If they get knocked out of the Champions League by Real Madrid then I think they're just going to start putting full-strength 11s out in the FA Cup and so they can get a trophy under the name because they they will certainly not like a trophy-less season and so they they're not going to win the league. There's probably a good chance they don't win the Champions League so the FA Cup stands their best chance and clearly from that late and orient game that they they' they're not in the position anymore where they can just put a b-side out and
00:24:00
Rob Binns
get over the line comfortably, they do. They're going to have to throw the big names in there like they needed with De Bruyne, the one being to who score the winner against Orient. The other way, but so you look at some of the teams in there though, like I say, but it does just stink that they're like shock year, like a Wigan year, or say or year before they had Swansea winning the league club.
00:24:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
okay
00:24:21
Rob Binns
It does just stink of one like that, because like, I've seen some good Premier League teams doing it again, but like,
00:24:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, yeah.
00:24:27
Rob Binns
You've got the season like Bournemouth, I haven't. Can you imagine they win the FA Cup on top of that? Or say Newcastle have got one Cup final, they'd be desperate to, they'd probably see this as an opportunity as well.
00:24:37
Rob Binns
I'd say you've got a lot of teams like Forest to still get to play as well, but again, what a season for us to have, and that they'd love they'd love to tie it together with a trophy issue.
00:24:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely.
00:24:46
Rob Binns
And obviously that could that could sound really badly if by Wednesday night they've lost to X, you don't know. But certainly there's not there's a bigger opportunity as it has been in recent history, really, I would say.
00:24:58
Rob Binns
But it all depends on that draw, because it all sounds really positive. But I'm saying all these big teams have gone out. There's still every chance that goes to the 80 had in the next round. So you do never know.
00:25:08
Rob Binns
And obviously, you have to get the job done on the day as well.
00:25:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, it.
00:25:11
Rob Binns
So you can't plan ahead too far.
00:25:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. No, you're right. I mean, what we need, obviously, is Man United and Man City to be drawn together and then maybe like, you know, Bournemouth and Newcastle and and then the winner of Villa and Spurs against Forrest, maybe if they get through and stuff.
00:25:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, you're right. There's plenty of plenty of Premier League sides still in there. Fulham have got through. Brighton have got through. Wolves have got through. So there's plenty of quality, but you've also got the likes of but Cardiff are in there, Preston, Millwall beat Leeds, which is a great result um away from home. so Yes, there is an opportunity. um and I guess, I would say, if we got a home draw against one of the Premier League sides, you'd you'd fancy it, but our home form has been so appalling that maybe we want to go away. I don't really know.
00:25:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
but Yeah, you're right. It does. It does have that feel about it. You know, the Leicester season a few years ago when they won it and that kind of thing, or you get the rogue run to the final, someone like Southampton got to the final years and years ago, stuff like that. But, um, a cup run would be nice. A cup run would be really nice, like a semi-final or something.
00:26:18
Rob Binns
Yeah, I mean, a chance to go to Wembley could say we are one of the ever a list that grows ever smaller every season of clubs have never played a competitive game at New Wembley. It seems like every year these random league one and league two teams do you think surely you'll beat them there they keep getting in the playoffs and getting a chance to play at Wembley that we can't we can't we can't end up as the last ones left on that list so we're overdue a visit to Wembley certainly.
00:26:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
We are. We are. I agree. All right. Any other thoughts on the weekend, Rob, or the FA Cup in general? It was great to see, obviously, Plymouth. that but That's obviously the result of the weekend, seeing Liverpool fall out of the competition, um considering Plymouth for having a terrible season, obviously, in the championship.
00:27:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's an amazing result for them. I look forward to seeing PyFace's reaction to it. I'm sure that will be entertaining.
00:27:06
Rob Binns
okay Yeah, I can imagine that will be a lively a lively one, probably, as it will be for anybody who, anyone in the Plymouth, in the Plymouth fan base, I reckon, will be a fairly lively Sunday after that result. But, hey, I hope there's going to be a few more upsets in the next round. we're um We're getting to the point now where we're the upset, really, because we've had the pressure of being Bristol Robles and Coventry, obviously, the expectation being there.
00:27:35
Rob Binns
The lower league sides are dropping out fairly rapidly. We're getting to the point where the likelihood is we get a draw where, technically, even if it is a, and I would say like a Fulham or some league, we'd be the underdog that you class it as a cup set if we got a result, but it's anything. So they're the games we tend to do a lot better. So maybe we do need to, if we can't have one of the championship teams at home that we can hope to see us through, then maybe, maybe we want one of those sort of underdog games that we can throw it together, up but so we with delline for a cup run wass with that I don't know, I'm so torn because you'd love it to go like it. yeah It sort of has to be, if you want a cup run, you want a proper one. There is, you don't want to prioritize the cup. If you're not at the expense of getting relegated, if you aren't going to get like, you take a Wembley trip, mate. And that would soften the blur of relegation, but would you take court finals and relegated? No, you wouldn't probably. So there's still that, there's that balance there.
00:28:32
Rob Binns
to be had, which is going to be difficult because i want you want the excitement, but also you can't help feel like that it does if it doesn't end up being a fairytale cut run, then has it been a waste of time?
00:28:43
Rob Binns
And and the I don't know how you throw the resources around. At the moment, we've been able to rotate, but so if you go, we'll see what we who we'll see we get in the draw.
00:28:53
Rob Binns
And then that might shape my opinion one way or the other as we go into the fifth round. But I don't know. um I'm so torn.
00:29:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, what do you think you, what do you think you would do? I mean, I think if you've got a Premier League club, you, you probably would go full strength, to be honest. If you got, if you got Man United, they'd play their first team.
00:29:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
If you got City or Villa or Spurs, they'd probably play a few sort of, you know, reserves potentially.
00:29:13
Rob Binns
yeah
00:29:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
But, and I think, you know, the likes of Fulham and Bournemouth and all that kind of, they're going to play their full team. Like, as you say, it's an opportunity. So. It's interesting, isn't it? you You use these players for the first couple of rounds, but then when you when you get a sniff of a quarterfinal or a semifinal, maybe you might you might put the big boys out.
00:29:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
But you know, Dalat played in this game, and it's not as if we have like the luxury of a really strong squad all the way through. So most of these players are going to be coming back for these games.
00:29:43
Rob Binns
next it It depends who we get for me as well because you look at the run of games obviously you we're in the middle of in the Premier League that this comes in the week between, let's say the weekend after going to Old Trafford and then the following week is we go to Selhurst Park which are two very big games that are the sort of games as as strange as it is to say obviously with the history of Man United but they're two games you need to be looking at going and get something from on paper anyway so two middle of the bottom half teams away from home. That's the sort of places you've got to try and nab a point at least. Ideally all three and at this stage of the season when you fight up for points that it depends who we get. If you then throw in a say like a run of the mill almost mid table like same sort of game in the cup like a Fulham or somebody then there may be question marks that should you probably haven't been to Old Trafford.
00:30:37
Rob Binns
um the Wednesday night or whenever it is and then setting up for Palace that maybe you sort of have to rotate more than you would if it is a but he's a championship team there but so so I need to see the draw before I can fully make my mind up on how hopeful to get and where what the potential effects could be on the Premier League survival race. cause i say That game in Selhurst Park is not as big as it would have been a couple of months ago with their recent runner forms pulling themselves out of it. But still, it's really a game. you They're the sort of games you've got to go and grind difficult results out in March and onwards.
00:31:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. And by that point, to be honest, they're going to be probably pretty much safe. So, um, you never know, they might take their ah eye off it. All right. Well, in terms of the draw, we will find out later today. Um, the draw is at seven o'clock ish time this evening. So we'll have a response to that for you guys afterwards, which you can hear on the podcast tomorrow. So from myself and Rob, thank you very much for listening to the daily Ipswich and we will see you guys later.