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Episode 426: Matchday Preview: FA CUP SEMI-FINAL! Man City at Wembley!
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Southampton –The big one. In any season where the prospect wasn't 2 more visits to Wembley, this would be the biggest game of the season. Out of that context, it could in some sense be seen as the biggest match we've played this decade.... Dare we say only 90 minutes away from proper history... What a game it's going to be. YELLOWS! YELLOWS!
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00:00:01
DailySaintsPod
Amen.
Biggest Game of the Season: Southampton vs. Manchester City
00:00:13
Greg
Hello and welcome back to the Daily Saints pod. My name is Greg and as always today joined by my good friend and wonderful co-host Zach and mate heading into any other season what would undeniably be the biggest game of the season.
00:00:29
Greg
How you feeling mate?
00:00:31
DailySaintsPod
And our fourth time of recording, mate. Hopefully. yeah We will be good. Yeah, tech issues have plagued us today. so we are re-recording this. But honestly, mate, I am...
00:00:52
Greg
Yeah.
00:00:57
DailySaintsPod
But it's an exciting time to be a Saints fan and it's an exciting game to be a part of. And yeah, it'll be really good. I unfortunately will not be able to go. i am in Kent for a trip long planned before we ever expected to get this far into the FA Cup.
00:01:12
DailySaintsPod
And to be quite frank, it's going to be quite expensive for a lot of people considering we may end up with three Rambly trips, right, for for a fair few.
00:01:19
Greg
yeah
00:01:19
DailySaintsPod
I say potentially, don't know, you know, like we've got to keep the faith as far as it is at
Fan Excitement and Merchandise Story
00:01:26
DailySaintsPod
the moment, right? But could change, could change.
00:01:27
Greg
Right. As we got to stick with catchphrase MMA, it's belief and not expectation. No, you're you're right.
00:01:32
DailySaintsPod
Nice.
00:01:35
Greg
Look, I won't be going to Wembley either. Unfortunately, it fell on a weekend. that I also had stuff planned. Who'd have thought that, the you know, semi-finals wouldn't have played this far into thoughts.
00:01:46
Greg
But... other family commitments, rehearsals for shows and the such, but we have booked ourselves a table at level one.
00:01:57
Greg
So we'll be going to watch it with some, some other Saints fans should be good day out, but be a alert ma the The excitement's palpable.
00:01:57
DailySaintsPod
nice
00:02:04
Greg
You can see it and you can feel it out in town. I'll share a story that my sister-in-law sent me at lunchtime. She went for a walk into Eastleigh and went to Tesco.
00:02:14
Greg
And just a nice woman stood outside Tesco selling some nice yellow scarves and yellow flags, mate, with saints on. And...
00:02:24
DailySaintsPod
Damn.
00:02:25
Greg
The fact of the matter is that her being there selling them is is mark enough of the excitement throughout all of, you know, Saints and its surround southampton and its surrounding areas. But actually the most interesting part of that, mate, is she only had three scars left at
Past Upsets Against Man City
00:02:40
Greg
lunchtime. So the excitement's real.
00:02:43
Greg
Like, it's it's building.
00:02:44
DailySaintsPod
That's nuts.
00:02:44
Greg
It's good stuff.
00:02:46
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, some it's it's kind of crazy. it's yeah You sort of captured captured us right? by my Unfortunately, my yellow shirt's in the washer. otherwise on I had it on for tonight's recording. You are better than me at that, Craig, at keeping everything to hand.
00:03:01
DailySaintsPod
But yeah, it's it's really it's going to be really exciting occasion, I think, for everybody involved, players and the club. And you know i know we had our conversation about whether it should be played or not Wembley yesterday. we had a conversation about sort of you know Man City struggling sell out, us not having an issue with selling out at all. But ultimately, however you're enjoying it, whether it's on television, whether you live abroad and you're watching it,
00:03:27
DailySaintsPod
whether you're going to Wembley, you know, it's a fantastic occasion for everybody involved and we'll be really excited to watch it and see how it turns out because as you have pointed out, Greg, we may not, you know, think we could win necessarily, but we could believe, we
Guardiola's Struggles and Haaland's Performance
00:03:45
DailySaintsPod
believe we could win.
00:03:45
Greg
Yeah.
00:03:46
DailySaintsPod
Like we're not going there's no expectation for us to win the FA Cup or the FA semi-cup final against Man City, but can see us doing it.
00:03:46
Greg
I'll tell you, I'll tell you, mate. No. Look, mate.
00:03:53
DailySaintsPod
Like,
00:03:54
Greg
I'll tell you one person who who believes for sure that Saints have the ability to win, and that's Pep Guardiola.
00:04:01
DailySaintsPod
yeah
00:04:02
Greg
He... He does not like playing Southampton. he has been on record several times stating as much.
00:04:23
DailySaintsPod
That was truly some sort of horror nightmare, wasn't it?
00:04:23
Greg
Then
00:04:26
Greg
yeah then later on in the season went on to, he got the draw right. it was
00:04:30
DailySaintsPod
Yep, that was a Simon Rusk game where we managed to get a nil-nil against them somehow.
00:04:35
Greg
Yeah, craziness. And of course, famously, has to be said in an episode where we're playing a Man City, you can't go without mentioning it, stopped them the only team to stop them doing the quadruple in that season was a Nathan Jones Saints side mate.
00:04:49
DailySaintsPod
There it is, you know, Mr Alex himself. I saw him put out some some social media to try and drum up Charlton to try and stay in the Championship, which you kind of forget they still they're still at risk of going down.
00:05:01
DailySaintsPod
But yes, in his small tenure with us, he was able to stop Man City doing the quadruple.
00:05:01
Greg
Yeah.
00:05:07
DailySaintsPod
And like during a time where i'm pretty sure the goalkeepers we had have barely changed, Greg.
00:05:07
Greg
Yeah.
00:05:13
Greg
Yeah.
00:05:19
DailySaintsPod
But yeah, obviously, famously, the Ginepu goal. Then you also had Sekumara score that game as well. You had a funny story from when you went through the you went to go see them train, right Because that was when you met Nathan Teller, just before he transferred
Staplewood Visit and Sekumara's Goal
00:05:33
DailySaintsPod
away.
00:05:34
Greg
Yeah, that's it.
00:05:34
DailySaintsPod
yeah
00:05:35
Greg
Yeah, i was lucky enough to go and do a tour of Staplewood and we won it in a competition at the end towards the end of the Premier League season. and Unfortunately, the date just kind of got pushed back and pushed back and pushed back and what that meant was we actually got to go right at the start of the championship of season, which is still great. Amazing day out Staplewood, had a lovely tour, met some of the first team players with the kids. My kids were just blown away by you know the facilities and and all the cool stuff we got to do and got to see and see the like the names on the wall that they put of all of the you know historic Saints legends and and all the good stuff.
00:06:01
DailySaintsPod
It's decent.
00:06:12
Greg
But but yeah, it was you know lucky enough to meet with some of the players and one of the other people on the tour asked Sekumara, who was one of the players out out with us, well, whose goal was better in the Man City game, yours or Gineppo's? And he, without a skipping a beat, went, well, mine, because I meant to score it.
00:06:35
DailySaintsPod
I just thought it was a a weird stat that he scored in both those games that season against City. Because we also got batted when we were under Ruben Sellis.
00:06:40
Greg
Yeah.
00:06:44
DailySaintsPod
But he he, at that point, also managed to like score a goal against them and pay one back, which is just mad.
00:06:49
Greg
Yeah.
00:06:49
DailySaintsPod
But like little little tidbits like that. But as you're but you're right. like We are... don't know. We are a side that Pep doesn't like playing. We are a side that, whether or not it's a myth or not, I can't remember.
00:06:58
Greg
Yeah.
00:07:02
DailySaintsPod
I think we covered in our Mythbusters. And that's the... we do better against better row of sides, right? So if if there's a side that's, let's you know, high up top table, we seem to
00:07:09
Greg
Yeah.
00:07:12
Greg
Yeah.
Tactical Approaches and Game Strategy
00:07:13
DailySaintsPod
put in a better performance regardless of whether win or not.
00:07:14
Greg
We just step up in those games.
00:07:16
DailySaintsPod
So, yeah.
00:07:17
Greg
it's It's a big occasion. It's a big day out. We're going to want it. You know, maybe more than them, hopefully. Yeah.
00:07:24
DailySaintsPod
Well, with what's going on in their title fight at the moment, right? Like, you know, they played Burnley yesterday and then now...
00:07:27
Greg
Yeah.
00:07:30
Greg
Wasn't convincing.
00:07:31
DailySaintsPod
No, but they are now also on top of the table for the first time since August last year.
00:07:31
Greg
I watched some of it.
00:07:35
Greg
Joint top. Yeah.
00:07:37
DailySaintsPod
No, you
00:07:38
Greg
But look, I mean, it's an interesting one. And look, I mean, our feelings on the show about Pep in particular, pretty widely spread, mate. Have we had two or three episodes now about how we ruined football?
00:07:50
Greg
I mean, I say, oh, that's very specifically me.
00:07:51
DailySaintsPod
though you you have you have your...
00:07:53
Greg
Yeah.
00:07:54
DailySaintsPod
You have your one episode about Pep Guardiola ruining football that you've reposted twice because you wanted to make sure that people knew that admittedly, before it became the popular thing to hate on his football, you hated him first.
00:07:59
Greg
Yeah.
00:08:08
Greg
Yeah.
00:08:08
DailySaintsPod
And I don't really blame you because you did go on a 30-minute run and explained very, very well why.
00:08:10
Greg
Yeah.
00:08:13
Greg
yeah look yeah
00:08:15
DailySaintsPod
Look back. It's literally the title of the episode if you want to look back and listen.
00:08:18
Greg
yeah
00:08:20
DailySaintsPod
It is called Pep Guardiola ruined football. Okay.
00:08:23
Greg
And look, it's an episode that means to this day, every time my brother-in-law sees another pundit jump on my bandwagon, he sends it to me and goes, you said it first.
00:08:33
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, exactly that. Exactly that.
00:08:35
Greg
But look, it's...
00:08:35
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:08:36
Greg
it's Yeah, we're going to be up for it. We're going to put it in. We, you know, are much, well i would say, a considerably weakened side than what we are going to put out on Saturday got at least a draw against them last year.
00:08:51
Greg
It's just, you know, there are there are stuff...
00:08:51
DailySaintsPod
yeah
00:08:54
Greg
bits and stuff that you can kind of leverage to believe that it's
Statistics, Predictions, and Team Form
00:08:59
Greg
going to go our way. Do you want to hear some fun stats about it, mate? yeah yeah We talked about some of the historic stats, but let's let's start off with one more in the present, which I know you'll love, because there's the reason that this is such a big game, and that is because, mate, across all of the European leagues on the form table, it is actually third versus fourth.
00:09:22
Greg
which unbelievably is City sitting two points behind us in that form table.
00:09:28
DailySaintsPod
Good grief.
00:09:28
Greg
A city behind, of course, only Bayern Munich and Barcelona. So holding our own with some pretty big names.
00:09:37
DailySaintsPod
I'm sure it's not going to result in anybody wanting Tundra to manage their football club, you know, considering we ourselves still haven't decided if he wants to stay next year, right?
00:09:38
Greg
Yeah.
00:09:43
Greg
and
00:09:48
Greg
He's contract till the end of the season, till the end of next season, at least.
00:09:48
DailySaintsPod
Ha ha ha ha. Uh-huh.
00:09:52
Greg
Contracts, as you know, in football management terms, mean everything.
00:09:54
DailySaintsPod
ahha
00:09:56
DailySaintsPod
yeah What do you mean, Leo Roussini, who made it to, I think I saw the funniest joke about his firing yesterday, which is when they said 20.30, I didn't think they meant 8.30pm.
00:10:07
DailySaintsPod
I'd be roaring. But yeah, that that shows you that shows you you the quality, though. that That's where I'm at, like we where we're at at the moment.
00:10:09
Greg
Yeah, you're right.
00:10:12
Greg
But look, those noises are always going to come when you go 20 games undefeated after taking on a team who were closer to relegation than to playoffs, right?
00:10:24
Greg
Like, it is what's going to happen.
00:10:25
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:10:26
Greg
and Yeah, but look, it's going to be a massive game. But look, I've got some...
00:10:31
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, it's not a think going to be a thing to worry about on Saturday. So Greg, please show me some things I have to worry about.
00:10:36
Greg
Look.
00:10:37
DailySaintsPod
Okay.
00:10:37
Greg
Okay, yeah i look that i've got a lot look, we go for, a a I can't think of the appropriate terminology for this, but two good, one bad is what we're going to stick with, right?
00:10:51
Greg
We've got two slightly scary stats, and then one stat that the content of it is a bit scary, but might also come as a relief, so let's let's roll with it. Man City have won 21 consecutive matches against non-Premier League teams, scoring a total of 84 goals.
00:11:12
Greg
Now, I know that your maths is not as quick as my mate, but that's that's four goals game on average.
00:11:19
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, some big numbers, right?
00:11:19
Greg
So, yeah.
00:11:20
DailySaintsPod
that's But i will I will also point out, Nate, that we've broken lots of those sort of those things this year.
00:11:28
Greg
Yeah.
00:11:30
DailySaintsPod
Usually it's it's us you know breaking records for a striker that's not played 70 goals against us.
00:11:30
Greg
Yeah.
00:11:35
DailySaintsPod
But why can't it be that we ruined that for Man City, right?
00:11:39
Greg
Yeah. Well, look, mate, talking about strikers not scoring and breaking streaks, Erling Haaland of Man City fame is 14 games that are semifinals or finals without an assist or goal.
00:11:57
Greg
So, yeah, he just doesn't show up in the big games. That's a crazy stat because 14, to have played in 14 semifinals or finals in what, three, four years he's been in City is in itself like diabolical almost, right?
00:12:11
Greg
Like...
00:12:12
DailySaintsPod
I can swear he only joined last
Player Suspensions and Injuries Discussion
00:12:13
DailySaintsPod
year. That's how quickly it's all getting away from me nowadays.
00:12:16
Greg
Yeah.
00:12:17
DailySaintsPod
But that is, yeah, that's, that's why the upsetting.
00:12:18
Greg
But there's hope, right? That's... He doesn't like it. Yeah.
00:12:22
DailySaintsPod
It just, it just means it's not as important to them, question mark, up dot, dot, dot.
00:12:26
DailySaintsPod
Who knows? Like...
00:12:27
Greg
And look, the other scary stat, mate, maybe it's not even that scary because it is about games not played at Wembley, but Pep has only lost one f FA Cup match not at Wembley, which was against Wigan in 2018.
00:12:34
DailySaintsPod
it's...
00:12:42
Greg
So,
00:12:43
DailySaintsPod
Fair play to Wigan, but also, if Wigan's done it, we can it.
00:12:45
Greg
yeah
00:12:48
DailySaintsPod
Right.
00:12:49
Greg
But yeah, by contrast to Erling Haaland's 14 semifinals and and finals in, in what, a few years, Saints have only reached the semifinals 13 times total.
00:13:02
Greg
in their entire club history. for Four of those times we've gone on to the finals were 1900, 1902, of course famously 1976 and who could possibly forget 2003.
00:13:04
DailySaintsPod
right
00:13:15
Greg
Yeah,
00:13:19
Greg
yeah it's, I don't know, the numbers don't paint the prettiest picture, do they?
00:13:24
DailySaintsPod
yeah but that's that That's just our entries into the FA Cup and that's Haaland across all cup competitions. And on top of that, it's you know its what you'd expect from a top six side that are facing a bunch of charges that have a significantly large pool of money that they've been able to use to purchase whichever as they want.
00:13:45
DailySaintsPod
The reason that Man City did not struggle the end of last year was that when they struggled after playing Russell Martin's Mighty Saints only winning 1-0, you need to remember that they went on in January to essentially buy two or three players that would be the cost of a vast majority of the entire playing squad and reserves for most of the team in the bottom at bottom ten.
00:14:06
Greg
yeah
00:14:08
DailySaintsPod
right so you know It's not to disrespect that there's definitely something else going on there.
00:14:09
Greg
yeah
00:14:14
DailySaintsPod
But, you know, we've seen what happens when other teams try to play the Pep Guardiola style of football without Pep Guardiola. Famously, Russell Martin and his, you know, incredible stint at Rangers where he thought he'd have the team to do that.
00:14:28
DailySaintsPod
Depends if they listen to him or not. But what you need to remember on is that, you know, of course, it is Pep Guardiola and it is Man City. But we are not expecting to go to Wembley and necessarily beat them.
00:14:41
DailySaintsPod
But as has become the new catchphrase, Greg, we believe we can. And that's all that's important.
00:14:45
Greg
Yeah, mate. Well, look, here's the thing, right? My biggest problem with Pep is his formulaic system and how he's brought that on as a popular metric to play in football.
00:14:57
Greg
But what that means, mate, is that we're not going to have any surprises with what happens on Saturday. We're going to know what Pep's going to come to do. We're probably going to know a reasonably good idea of who he will rotate in and rotate out.
00:15:11
Greg
And, uh, and if anyone's going love digging into those details and finding the weak spots, Tonda is the man to do that.
00:15:11
DailySaintsPod
right
00:15:20
DailySaintsPod
Well, Tom Duranko, mate, remember the way that we...
00:15:20
Greg
Uh, yeah, Tonda and his team, uh, will be, you know, they've they, they've got plenty of footage to dissect to, to get those details and work it out.
00:15:33
Greg
And that, that in itself is exciting. Like it's,
00:15:36
DailySaintsPod
Yeah?
00:15:38
Greg
it's the It's what I personally have been asking for for so long.
00:15:43
DailySaintsPod
what What do you what you mean that we go to a game with a game plan?
00:15:46
Greg
tactically adept manager, right, who can adjust.
00:15:48
DailySaintsPod
for each individual game as opposed to just chuck it out as much as we've been able to predict like team tuesday and team saturday and stuff sometimes even that has taken curveballs took a curveball on tuesday we didn't expect the lineup that we got you know he's keeping us all guessing with the fact that he was talking about whether or not we potentially have two strikers he's like oh yeah laren and shoot played really well why that why don't we have two two strikers and it's just you just got a hope that
00:15:50
Greg
Yeah.
00:15:56
Greg
Yeah.
00:15:59
Greg
Yeah.
00:16:12
Greg
Yeah. I'll tell you for free now, mate, the fact that he acknowledged it and called it out that way in a press conference means we will not be playing two strikers.
00:16:20
DailySaintsPod
yeah no you're not you're not wrong but that's what you do.
00:16:23
Greg
But look, at that... the Look, that segues us nicely into team news, team lineups and predictive team sheets, mate.
00:16:30
DailySaintsPod
four
00:16:31
Greg
So, look, let's let's start with the news that we've had out today and and the unavailability.
00:16:35
DailySaintsPod
hu
00:16:38
Greg
So, of course, Ryan Manning suspended from this game because he picked up a yellow... In the quarterfinal, which was his second yellow across the whole competition, which is, as previously mentioned in other episodes, a really stupid way of doing suspensions.
00:16:44
DailySaintsPod
any
00:16:53
Greg
But okay, it's the rules.
00:16:55
DailySaintsPod
Yep.
00:16:55
Greg
We move on. That kind of suspension system not carrying over between competitions, not in effect for this suspension, apparently, because different rules.
00:17:06
Greg
Flint Downs handed a three-match ban for violent conduct in the game against Swansea.
00:17:10
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, i think it's because of it being the violent conduct, right? And there are some people that I've seen that take a lot of issue with the fact that it's taken so late for it to come out. It wouldn't have made a blind bit difference.
00:17:19
Greg
Yeah.
00:17:21
DailySaintsPod
This would have just been matched two out of three. There is a lot of sort of
00:17:25
Greg
I don't know, mate.
00:17:26
DailySaintsPod
in
00:17:26
Greg
You've watched it back. What do you think? Because I haven't, but I don't know.
00:17:31
Greg
Yeah.
00:17:35
DailySaintsPod
The yellow card wasn't really for the challenge initially, right? It was for the the afters that basically took place where, you know, you ended up accidentally wrestling someone to the ground.
00:17:41
Greg
yeah
00:17:43
DailySaintsPod
So i don't know. i can see it from both sides. I think that what's weird is the fact that they've assessed it via cameras, you know, gone back. Like, I don't know if Swansea have put in a complaint.
00:17:54
DailySaintsPod
Is that why? Have they been really petty enough to do that? If it's just randomly come up out of nowhere, it's slightly bizarre. I'm seeing a lot of other conspiracy theories that are attaching it to Ipswich for some reason.
00:18:06
DailySaintsPod
And the fact that, you know, if he's going to be available for the...
00:18:07
Greg
Yeah. Well, I mean, these so you see some of the penalties they've been being given, mate. You can see where these conspiracy theories come from.
00:18:12
DailySaintsPod
I get that, but also...
00:18:14
Greg
It doesn't take Matt Letizia to put two and two together, does it?
00:18:14
DailySaintsPod
also
00:18:17
Greg
Let's be honest. Like...
00:18:19
DailySaintsPod
out I get that, but he's going to be available for the playoffs, right? And I think that's probably one of the reasons we haven't appealed it, is if we appeal it and fail and they come back and give a longer ban, he's potentially out for the playoffs.
00:18:24
Greg
Yeah.
00:18:30
DailySaintsPod
So we're just going to to grin and bear and accept it.
00:18:31
Greg
Yeah.
00:18:33
DailySaintsPod
And I'm sure that he'll be devastated
Speculating on Player Availability and Lineup
00:18:35
DailySaintsPod
to miss out. But also, that was the reason he was brought up at halftime after that, because of how it was a very messy affair. He blew his top a little bit.
00:18:45
DailySaintsPod
They didn't want to, you know, didn't want to carry anything else and they knew it was a bit of a risk. And and that is the problem you have when you, if you are going to be goaded, which is what Swansea's game plan was, and you are going to bite eventually, which is what happened. You can't do things like that. I do think it's a bit ridiculous because there are also people putting things out like, why didn't we go back and retrospectively put all these people for diving in this and the other? And I, I kind of feel that way because it's, you know, like,
00:19:13
DailySaintsPod
It's the whole point of VAR, right? is that
00:19:15
Greg
Yeah, you've got draw the line somewhere, I think, but
00:19:15
DailySaintsPod
But I think it's specifically... but The line is being drawn because it's violent conduct, I think, is where it's at. I don't know how much intent is there, but arguably, you know, if I jump in the air and two foot someone in the neck, but my intent wasn't to actually hurt them, it was to try and get the ball out the sky...
00:19:32
DailySaintsPod
the outcome is still that I too sort of put somebody in the neck, right? Like that's, that's the problem. I don't know. I think it's really disappointing. I think that it's a bit of a silly decision, but I can also see it from both sides. And,
00:19:46
DailySaintsPod
It's more devastating for for Flynn. I think that it's going to be for us, it's going to be next man up.
00:19:48
Greg
Yeah.
00:19:51
DailySaintsPod
There will be players that are hungry for it. You know, i could see Cam Bragg stepping in. I could see, you know, Shea and Yander playing with one another.
00:20:01
DailySaintsPod
It could be, you know, this luckily that is one of the spaces that we really do have for depth. And so, yeah, it it really sucks, but more for Flynn than anybody else. But that just means that, you know, he'll be laser focused in to do the best he possibly can for us when he gets to play in those playoffs, because they will be massively important. And it's not like he's not going to part of it. It's not like he's not going to be there. Manning's still happy because he played a role in getting us to the position we were in. So I'm sure that Flynn will take it on the chin. It's just just a bit rubbish for it, isn't it? It's just not not anything we really expected.
00:20:34
DailySaintsPod
sort of almost a week after the fact just two days before is kind of yeah just a bit that that's my opinion on it it's just a bit you know was it like really that's what we're doing okay but as you said the line's got to be drawn so
00:20:47
Greg
Yeah, but look, it is what it is. But he yeah he will, unfortunately, be missing. Obviously, also doubtful, Jack Stephens, after going out injured in the warm-up, to be assessed in the coming days before the game.
00:21:07
Greg
I mean, to me, that's probably not fit enough to face Man City in the semi-final, regardless of the outcome of that scam, right?
00:21:16
DailySaintsPod
especially if he said that he felt something before the Swansea game and during the Swansea game as well. And obviously, so for me, you know, i very much don't see him taking him part, if I'm totally honest.
00:21:29
DailySaintsPod
Obviously, he'll be there in his, I'm sure, but from reading of minds...
00:21:33
Greg
Which will be a shame, but... Look, I'm happy to write off Nathan Wood's mistakes at the start of the game to just the fact that he he didn't have he didn't have a proper warm-up.
00:21:50
DailySaintsPod
Didn't expect to be starting at the beginning of the 90 minutes.
00:21:53
Greg
He didn't have the the mental time to prepare. like There's so many like things you have to do to get your head into a space to play at that level.
00:22:03
Greg
that he did not get the opportunity to do. so
00:22:06
DailySaintsPod
It's well and good, us us from the sidelines being like, oh, you should just be ready to come on at any point and just play. And it's like, okay, well, like you know,
00:22:13
Greg
That's just not how life works, though, is it? no
00:22:15
DailySaintsPod
It is a struggle. you know We do what sort of software engineering for a living. like you know Sometimes we have to do like on-call and things like that. It's still jarring. I'm not going to be performing the best of my ability if I'm you know if i'm waiting to do something and all of a sudden I'm told, right now, go start, especially with something...
00:22:34
DailySaintsPod
yeah I can just see the criticisms now of being like, well, he's he's a football player. He should be prepared for that all times. And it's exactly like when, you know, i think he was actually Bragg himself, right?
00:22:44
DailySaintsPod
When he was originally brought on under Will Steele, when there was like that injury crisis and he got brought with the wrong shirt and got taken from the under-21s when we actually had an injury crisis in that midfield.
00:22:46
Greg
Yeah. Yeah.
00:22:54
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, so...
00:22:54
Greg
yeah but we've We've talked about it before though, right, mate? like He was as ready to play as he could have been with that notice.
00:23:01
DailySaintsPod
Mm-hmm.
00:23:01
Greg
But when you play at this level where it's this competitive, things that you don't think you know in your sunday normal Sunday park kick around are as important matter more because that's the difference maker.
00:23:02
DailySaintsPod
Mm-hmm.
00:23:14
Greg
So being mentally ready is important. And 15 minutes is not it's not the right amount of time to do that physically or mentally.
00:23:21
DailySaintsPod
Also, not really even like 15 minutes, is it, to be honest, especially by the time you've sort of shoved an energy bar down you whatever.
00:23:22
Greg
Yeah.
00:23:25
Greg
Yeah.
00:23:28
DailySaintsPod
But yeah, it might be him. More alternatively, we'll see like of the long mythic return of Kwasi, which I'm sure will raise eyebrows if that's the case. But i personally, considering Kwasi seems to be like our third choice centre-back as a substitute behind, you know, wood, I feel like it will probably be wood
00:23:47
Greg
That's not what i'd expect.
Attacking Lineup Strategy and Player Roles
00:23:48
Greg
So yeah, right, let's, let's, look, we've got that news out of the way.
00:23:48
DailySaintsPod
stepping in.
00:23:48
DailySaintsPod
So.
00:24:06
Greg
Breezy at right back because because because it's Breezy, important part the team.
00:24:08
DailySaintsPod
Yep.
00:24:12
Greg
Harald Bennis and Wood at the back. And then Wellington because Manning's suspended.
00:24:18
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, I don't really, I know that he's talked about, you know, the fact that people have asked about that question, but I'm like who has she played there? What, like, alert he's not played in forever.
00:24:26
Greg
No.
00:24:28
DailySaintsPod
Don't even know if he really, I don't even know if he's making the bench recently. I've not seen him on the bench recently, so I don't know what's going on there.
00:24:32
Greg
no we've We've kind of seen toward the end of some of the games in the championship, although more for right back, to be fair. We've seen like Wood come on and Howard Bellis go out to like that fullback position. But like say, more right back than left back.
00:24:52
Greg
And it's not something that you're going to experiment with in this game, is it?
00:24:53
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, I don't know, but if if it does, it'll be like, you know, Tonda has earned the trust from, I guess, his last couple of games and and that, well, say last couple of games, like lot this 20-game unbeaten streak to...
00:24:56
Greg
Hmm.
00:25:10
DailySaintsPod
for us to hopefully, you know, if he believes in the player, the player then should believe in the himself and thus should get the belief from us.
00:25:15
Greg
Yeah.
00:25:16
DailySaintsPod
But again, i i would not understand why you'd do that if you have a natural right like natural left back in in Wellington, right?
00:25:19
Greg
Yeah. you just You just bring way on. Yeah, absolutely. Right, defensive midfielders. i think you're right. I think we'll see Shea Charles. I think we'll see Can Bragg.
00:25:29
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, that's who think.
00:25:30
Greg
Yeah.
00:25:30
DailySaintsPod
So Bragg, straight stop for the Browns. And then you've got Ceva, engine on him, ex-City player.
00:25:38
Greg
Yeah.
00:25:39
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, makes sense to me.
00:25:40
Greg
Yander to potentially come on off the bench for Bragg later in the game because because that midfield work rate is going to be intense.
00:25:42
DailySaintsPod
Wouldn't be surprised.
00:25:47
Greg
It's going to be a lot. It's going to be where a bulk of the game is played, I would suspect.
00:25:51
DailySaintsPod
Mm-hmm.
00:25:52
Greg
So, yeah, that's that's what I think anyway. but But again, as we say every week, blessed in that position where anyone they pick, happy with to see on the team sheet.
00:26:01
DailySaintsPod
Anyone they pick, happy to see on the team sheet. Always going to be surprised if it's ever removed.
00:26:06
Greg
Yeah, I think yes.
00:26:06
DailySaintsPod
yeah yeah Just need to remind you, he does technically still play for us.
00:26:11
DailySaintsPod
Just because we've only seen him like twice. but
00:26:11
Greg
yeah
00:26:13
Greg
surprised but not like in a disappointed way necessarily just like yeah okay yeah step in yeah hmm yeah i yeah
00:26:17
DailySaintsPod
No, it would that that would be like, okay, he is like leading as a sort of father figure out to, you know, but I don't know if it would be, but you know, maybe he comes at the end, who knows, it would be interesting game to see it happen, but I would be very surprised to see him start, put it that way.
00:26:35
Greg
yeah And then assuming that we kind of stick with the shape we tend to stick with without too much rotation and have like a number 10 and then a front three, Azaz in the middle, not very effective Tuesday night.
00:26:44
DailySaintsPod
don't know.
00:26:49
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, but again, part of that, I try to give the benefit doubt of the fact that fatigue was setting in. He came back from injury to be able to make the weekend. Is he going to be able to, you know, a couple of days afterwards, it was definitely struggling a little bit.
00:27:06
DailySaintsPod
Everyone was off pace. It wasn't just him. And that meant that if everybody's off pace, you know, the positions that he would usually get into couldn't really get into.
00:27:14
Greg
Yeah, he kind of forced himself to sort of drift out wide to try, presumably to try and pick up possession in a way that he just was not able to do in the centre at any point.
00:27:14
DailySaintsPod
and this...
00:27:23
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, it just didn't work. And then, obviously, he got swapped out.
00:27:24
Greg
And yeah, just...
00:27:26
DailySaintsPod
And then, obviously, Yonder was a bit more like Spritley. So, it doesn't...
00:27:29
Greg
Hmm.
00:27:30
DailySaintsPod
But I wouldn't see why they would suddenly change it,
Striker Choice: Laren vs. Stewart
00:27:33
DailySaintsPod
right? unless Unless he's decided to do this sort of two up front, which, you know, just because it worked well one game against Bristol City towards the end doesn't mean that it's something you start against Manchester City, a team that you have specifically been...
00:27:34
Greg
Right.
00:27:47
DailySaintsPod
searching for but also if that is the case and that's what they decide to do because that is what they think the the best plan of action against guadalho football is then power to them but i don't see it and being you know zaz in the middle cns are on the left may maybe fellows on the right just for the pace what do you think it would be matski
00:27:57
Greg
Yeah.
00:28:04
Greg
Yeah, agree with that wholeheartedly. He'll start.
00:28:08
Greg
i think fellows is the I think Fellows is the right choice for this game specifically because of what he brings, because he is, especially with Bree behind him, he is going to be pushing their fullback back, basically.
00:28:14
DailySaintsPod
yes
00:28:25
Greg
that is going to be his entire job for the entire game. he is He's going to receive the ball and he's going run at the fullback and he's the fullback. Their left back, I believe, is is their youngster whose name I cannot for love nor money remember because I don't have time to watch Premier League football.
00:28:41
DailySaintsPod
You talking about Nico Lewis?
00:28:41
Greg
it's
00:28:42
DailySaintsPod
Is that who you're talking about?
00:28:43
Greg
I think so, yeah.
00:28:43
DailySaintsPod
Okay.
00:28:44
Greg
And so... you know Just run at him. He's young and he's not going to like that very much. He's not gonna he's certainly not going to be used to playing in the you know in the games that he will have played for Man City against someone as willing to run at him as Tom Fellows will be.
00:29:02
Greg
We saw that against Arsenal, right? Their defence was just not ready for that style of play because no one in the Premier League does it. But Fellows is going to take the ball and dribble it at him and hopefully leave him having a real bad day and and cause all sorts of troubles.
00:29:16
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:29:17
Greg
And and and you know that in turn will push him back defensively, which will in turn create other space on the pitch. And and that's...
00:29:24
DailySaintsPod
It's good that both me and you came to that conclusion, though, that that we both kind of, you know, said it was his fellows game.
00:29:26
Greg
Yeah.
00:29:30
DailySaintsPod
and
00:29:30
Greg
Yeah.
00:29:31
DailySaintsPod
We're not going to predict the score, though, because that's just
00:29:31
Greg
adam And Matske will probably come on and do a job coming on, you know, do a different job, I think. But...
00:29:41
DailySaintsPod
could i could see I could see this being the type of game that Matsuki comes on and and takes a ridiculous shot on scoring just because that's the type of game.
00:29:41
Greg
100%.
00:29:46
Greg
hundred percent And we know that, to be to be fair, out we know that Tonda likes playing Matske in these big games because of his other experience in other leagues playing in big games. So...
00:29:55
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, he doesn't he doesn't have the sort of fear that some of the other players might do.
00:29:58
Greg
So yeah, it it it's definitely like not off the cards. And then like an interesting decision up front. Both of our strikers scored on Tuesday, mate. Which one is more informed?
00:30:08
DailySaintsPod
hang
Belief in Beating Man City Against the Odds
00:30:08
Greg
Which one do you play?
00:30:08
DailySaintsPod
on, we didn't decide whether it was going to be Sienzo or a dozy.
00:30:11
Greg
we said I thought we just decided it was Siena.
00:30:15
DailySaintsPod
No, you're right. The reason we didn't bother to say it is it because it's just it's probably the first name on the team to work with me.
00:30:16
Greg
Yeah. We haven't seen a Dozie for a while, which is interesting.
00:30:23
DailySaintsPod
I found that quite shocking. I found it slightly shocking that, you know, that he's favoured sort of Archer over him, to be perfectly honest.
00:30:29
Greg
Yeah.
00:30:30
DailySaintsPod
Especially the other day. i thought that was a very interesting decision. I don't know if it's just tiredness, fatigue, potentially offers going on elsewhere. don't really know. i don't really, you know, as I said, i'm I'm still impressed by how well he's played when he's come on.
00:30:43
DailySaintsPod
And he, you know, he is an ex-City player as well.
00:30:43
Greg
Yeah.
00:30:46
DailySaintsPod
He's one of the ones from the Academy raid that we did. So, yeah, but obviously coming to upfront as you were trying to get to, for me, it's Laren.
00:30:50
Greg
Mm.
00:30:56
DailySaintsPod
I don't know how you feel about that.
00:31:00
Greg
Do you know what, mate? I don't know how I feel about that. but I'm um'm kind of inclined to agree with you that I think Laren, but actually i part of me feels like Stuart is better for this game.
00:31:04
DailySaintsPod
Interesting. Yeah. Yeah.
00:31:17
Greg
Laren is a more physical presence, which matters a lot in the championship. Yeah. i don't know I don't know if it matters against City.
00:31:27
DailySaintsPod
Interesting.
00:31:28
Greg
That's not the you know it's not the type of game they're going to play. I think that what Stewart offers over Lahren is a kind of boost running in behind.
00:31:39
Greg
I would say that Lahren's hold-up play is better, where Stewart's ability to run in behind is better.
00:31:42
DailySaintsPod
Mm-hmm.
00:31:46
Greg
of their of their very similar profiles, to be clear, right? There's not a lot in it, but I just think that can come good. And I think we probably see Stuart start if for no other reason than Laron started Tuesday and we just rotate him.
00:32:02
Greg
Yeah.
00:32:02
DailySaintsPod
Because, of course, that's how the the big games for will work.
00:32:05
Greg
Yeah.
00:32:08
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, I don't think I'd be i'd be happy of either, to be perfectly honest. are The only reason that I would say Laren is because he could.
00:32:11
Greg
Yeah. yeah ma they They both scored on Tuesday, Yeah.
00:32:15
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, that's the thing. both Both good goals as well. And, like, again, the only reason I could see it is that because of the fact that he has the phillis of physicality, as you said, is more important involved port in the championship, means that theoretically, can shrug him off a little bit easier.
00:32:18
Greg
Yeah.
00:32:23
Greg
a yeah
00:32:28
DailySaintsPod
as any need But I would be happy with either, to be honest.
00:32:30
Greg
Save Larian to go and beat up Ipswich. Probably.
00:32:35
DailySaintsPod
I just, it's interesting because other than for the sake of what, like third or fourth, I don't really, I don't know if Ipswich has the gravitas that it had before we drew you on Tuesday.
00:32:45
Greg
It definitely doesn't. It definitely doesn't.
00:32:47
DailySaintsPod
So because of that, I would rather us just throw the kitchen sinker tonight or, you know.
00:32:50
Greg
Yeah. but unless Unless all of a sudden Mill will lose at the weekend. that's the That changes the game, right?
00:32:57
DailySaintsPod
Oh,
00:32:58
Greg
so
00:32:59
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, but I can't can't see Leicester completely bottle-jobbing the most important game of the season and winning the next game. Although if they did, that would be hilarious because it's not his life.
00:33:07
Greg
Yeah. but Football often finds the funniest way. But yeah, look... Tom has earned our trust in that whatever 11 he names, we will be happy with team sheet. But that is how we see it lining up at this
AI Predictions vs. Hosts' Optimism
00:33:21
Greg
point. So we'll be interested come Saturday afternoon, what we actually get.
00:33:27
Greg
Right, mate, your favourite part of the show.
00:33:30
DailySaintsPod
oh
00:33:31
Greg
What do we think the AI is going to pick?
00:33:33
DailySaintsPod
They are going to say that both teams probably have good form. It's going to go City are the better team and then it's going to go predict a City win and then I'm assuming it's going to be more than two and a half goals, which means they it will probably land on 2-1 or it's going to land on like some ridiculously high scoring affair for City.
00:33:47
Greg
Yeah.
00:33:54
Greg
Well, look, mate, let's talk through and get there.
00:33:54
DailySaintsPod
don't think it's going predict them, I'll put it that way.
00:33:58
Greg
So historically speaking, 27 matches on file for Manchester City versus Southampton. 18 wins for City, five draws and four wins for the Saints.
00:34:10
Greg
As we alluded to earlier, most recent results are 0-0 draw in the Premier League. and a 1-0 defeat to City that then triggered their damage spiral.
00:34:17
DailySaintsPod
going say, though, but like some of some of those include times that City weren't like the oil powerhouse they are now.
00:34:24
Greg
Yeah.
00:34:24
DailySaintsPod
So, you know, who's to say?
00:34:26
Greg
that I don't know. Yeah, it goes back a bit, I suppose. But yeah, is it's an interesting one. you're right. It says, City arrive as overwhelming favourites with on-signalling a routine win and a goal-rich evening, likely given the numbers.
00:34:44
Greg
The market leans towards in this one as over three and a half goals.
00:34:50
DailySaintsPod
Man, not over two and a half. Interesting.
00:34:52
Greg
Yeah. Yeah.
00:34:53
DailySaintsPod
They think that City are going to score three goals against us and we're going to score one.
00:34:57
Greg
Yeah. However, what it suggests as a solid bet is both teams to score. While City are likely and usual contributors, Southampton will likely nick one on the break. Don't be surprised if both nets row.
00:35:16
DailySaintsPod
Don't be so worried. Oh, what poetry by this horrible computer.
00:35:19
Greg
That's it. Look, the overall prediction being Man City to win either two one or 3-0. You
00:35:26
Greg
it still have to chuck that 2-1 in there, didn't you, mate?
00:35:29
DailySaintsPod
had to shove it in there, yeah, because it's it's terrible. fact that what What makes me laugh about that is the fact that it said three and a half goals, and in both of its predictions, it's only three goals.
00:35:36
Greg
Yeah. It's not as much as that, yeah.
00:35:39
DailySaintsPod
So, right, okay, sure, fine.
00:35:42
Greg
Right. look, it's based off of statistics like XG, mate. It's always absolute tosh. We know that from the start. But look, form coming into the game, Man City have won their last five games, and we have drawn one. But our points per game over the last 10 is 0.6 higher. So...
00:36:03
Greg
higher say
00:36:05
DailySaintsPod
Do you reckon if we played Burnley, we would have only beaten 1-0 the other night?
00:36:10
DailySaintsPod
Do you have predicted a 1-0 win against Burnley?
00:36:12
Greg
No.
00:36:13
DailySaintsPod
I know that Burnley had a much better time in the championship, right, with one of the best defences. But Bristol City were like the second best defence, right? So do you reckon, you know, you reckon we only beat them 1-0?
00:36:27
Greg
I think we've done them 3-0 based on the way they played.
00:36:27
DailySaintsPod
There you go. So that says everything you need to know.
00:36:33
Greg
right but But what do I know? No.
00:36:36
DailySaintsPod
don't know. You don't predict very well usually.
00:36:38
Greg
I always come in with a heavy Saints bias. You know that. It's just, can't be helped. What about you, mate? What are you thinking?
00:36:47
DailySaintsPod
Do you know what would be really exciting and be great for the neutral and not really, really boring?
00:36:52
Greg
Penalties.
00:36:52
DailySaintsPod
So I'm not... No, absolutely not. Oh, God, no. Don't even... that's not even a prospect that i want to think about. I'm going to say... 3-2, win three two That's what my prediction is, which is insane for me, considering considering our season and where we're at now.
00:37:11
DailySaintsPod
I could see easily both sides scoring and I could see us getting a goal over the line at the end because we've won it more. And we will absolutely erupt and we will have a FA Cup final to look forward to and see it will go as annoying.
00:37:25
DailySaintsPod
Oh, well, on to next week because we need to win the league. And that's just how I could see it taking place. And, you know,
00:37:30
Greg
Yeah.
00:37:31
DailySaintsPod
obviously the winner is going to be scored by Sienza.
00:37:32
Greg
Three, two...
00:37:34
DailySaintsPod
I think Brie will score a goal because he loves a cup final. And I think Mastri. And I don't know when those goals are going come. I don't know the script. That's just the feeling that I have. And you need to understand that when it inevitably ends up completely different to this script, Greg, it's entirely your fault for consistently like injecting me with this hope that every single time it runs out you yeah you pull it back in my arm and now we're at a stage where like I have genuine human belief in this team and uh for the first time you know especially considering how last season emptied out of my body to the point I never thought I would see Saints win again and now we're at where we're at so yeah 3-2
00:38:15
Greg
Mate, 3-2.
Strategies to Frustrate Man City
00:38:18
Greg
we use up that much energy as a fan base winning 3-2, there's no way Tuesday night we're going to be alive in the crowd. That's going to be...
00:38:26
DailySaintsPod
you What do you mean? Then we just beat it and switch 5-0 or something ridiculous like that. That's a Tuesday night, right? That's what we do.
00:38:32
Greg
Wait, I love that prediction and I wish that I was feeling that same vibe as you.
00:38:40
DailySaintsPod
around to me and say 1-0 or something like that. i'm gonna
00:38:43
Greg
Oh, mate, be prepared.
00:38:44
DailySaintsPod
Come on, it's not a Russell Martin playoff final, is it?
00:38:47
Greg
No, it's not a Russell Martin playoff final. Here's what I see happening. but that I've watched Saints Man City at St Mary's loads times, right? It's common and there's a common theme and it is we frustrate Man City and they don't like it when they shoot and don't score.
00:39:06
Greg
And they get more and more annoyed and we laugh in the face of it. It just seemed to a certain buzz that we as a team seem to pick up from their misery.
00:39:17
Greg
And... And that's exactly how I see it playing out. We're just going to make them feel miserable. Look, look, you remember last year after the game, Ruben Diaz came out with his like famous rant.
00:39:34
Greg
Like, how can you even how could you even come here?
00:39:34
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, we don't we don't. We're not even playing football. Yes, I i do remember.
00:39:39
Greg
It's frustrating to...
00:39:39
DailySaintsPod
it's a it This isn't football, basically, right?
00:39:41
Greg
Yeah. Yeah. And so what we're going to do, Zach, is we are going to come out and we are going to play football and we are going to score two goals. And then we are going to shut up shop with the darkest of dark arts.
00:39:57
Greg
And I'm fully there for every single bit of it. And i like, it's it's it's just storied in the past.
00:40:01
DailySaintsPod
Wow.
00:40:04
Greg
I see it, like, I think back to days of Jack Grealish waiting in the tunnel because Oriol Romero spent all game pinching him. Like, it's just, it's just what I see coming, mate.
00:40:17
Greg
Like, just years and years of frustrating City and yeah I'm fully here for it I want to see
00:40:27
DailySaintsPod
Even better is that Romelu can still play a part in this game.
00:40:31
Greg
yeah look if you watched any of the Man City Burnley game you saw Pep Guardiola fly off the handle at only beating Burnley 1-0 so i want to see I want to see it even worse I want to see a full on like rage tantrum
00:40:31
DailySaintsPod
It's cool, those years later.
00:40:49
DailySaintsPod
Oh, no, but does that mean that we like completely ruin City's momentum and then Arsenal end up winning the league?
00:40:55
Greg
Oh, just, just, it's really hard to tell you, Zach, that I just couldn't care less.
00:40:59
DailySaintsPod
yeah You know, you just don't care. No, that's what I wanted to hear. Right, we're Saints fans.
00:41:04
Greg
welcome
00:41:05
DailySaintsPod
That's what we care about.
00:41:05
Greg
Nobody, nobody cares about a stupid Premier League title race, mate. Saints are going to Wembley three times in a season, and that's the news we all worry about. So, so I'm going to go with 2-0, and I'm going to go with Ross Stewart to score...
00:41:23
DailySaintsPod
Okay.
00:41:23
Greg
and Finnazaz.
00:41:28
DailySaintsPod
Both deserving of a goal.
00:41:29
Greg
Both early. First in the first 12 minutes. And that's it.
00:41:32
DailySaintsPod
Both in the first 12 minutes and that's going to it.
00:41:34
Greg
12 minutes. We're going to be 2-0 up and you will see a grand total of 12 minutes of football played for the rest of the 90 minutes. that that's that's That's the game plan.
00:41:41
DailySaintsPod
Right, okay.
00:41:44
Greg
That's the strategy.
00:41:44
DailySaintsPod
Extremely opposing opposing predictions there.
00:41:46
Greg
if Yeah.
00:41:49
DailySaintsPod
Neither of us predict the City win.
00:41:51
Greg
No, look...
Community Interaction and Predictions
00:41:51
DailySaintsPod
Oh, you how far we've come.
00:41:53
Greg
Look, wait, like, I can't do it. I don't predict these losses.
00:41:58
DailySaintsPod
why You say you can't. I used to be grounded.
00:42:02
Greg
Yeah.
00:42:03
DailySaintsPod
There was a time that I wasn't so so high on the Kool-Aid that I used to genuinely predict our losses and draws be grounded.
00:42:09
Greg
man
00:42:11
DailySaintsPod
And now, you' it's ruined me. The season has ruined to me.
00:42:16
Greg
It's... Look...
00:42:17
DailySaintsPod
The turning point since that Middlesbrough game, to be honest, is, yeah.
00:42:20
Greg
And what what time to be a Saints fan.
00:42:21
DailySaintsPod
for Yeah, man.
00:42:23
Greg
What a wonderful Saturday evening we're going to have. Whatever happens. As the famous song goes, make case or us or our whatever will be will be. We are going to Wembley.
00:42:34
Greg
And if we get beat, so be it. But what a time to be a Saints fan either way.
00:42:40
DailySaintsPod
that.
00:42:40
Greg
Listen, let us know your thoughts, your comments, your score predictions. Are you as wildly optimistic as us? Are you slightly more based in reality? How are we feeling? How are the belief levels? Let us know. i want to hear the full range because it takes all of the emotional states to be a Saints fan because we go through them all every single game. I can't
Closing Remarks and Encouragement
00:43:07
Greg
wait to hear from you. We're Daily Saints Pod everywhere.
00:43:10
Greg
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00:43:24
Greg
Whatever happens, we will be here to talk about it after the game. And...
00:43:33
Greg
it it promises to be a fantastic episode, regardless of the result. But until then, every everyone, i hope you have a wonderful weekend, the safest of trips to wherever you are viewing the game. Enjoy all of your festivities responsibly, but have a sensational time. And most importantly, come on, you saints!
00:44:00
DailySaintsPod
Hey, sirrah, sirrah.