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Episode 150 - Town fail to spoil Vardy's party
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Rob flies solo to reflect on Sunday's disappointing defeat at Leicester. He shares his thought on the game including the frustration shared by Kieran McKenna, talks through the key chances of the game and dives into the key problems that have summarised our season.
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150th Episode Celebration and Its 'Curse'
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Hello and welcome back to the Daily Ipswich, brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. The only place to find daily content on every single Premier League club, women's football and Premier League wrap ups in multiple different languages.
00:00:24
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Is our 150th episode today. We should be a and good little milestone for us. Look back on how far we've come over the course of the season. But unfortunately, this podcast is cursed on our milestone episodes.
00:00:38
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We celebrated our 50th after consuming in the last minute against Leicester to draw the game and we really should have won. Our 100th episode was the 2-1 home defeat to Southampton, which really dampened the celebratory mood we were all in.
00:00:53
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And now we we've we saw the pressure on Friday. We realised what was going to happen. And we've stung the milestone curse. struck again for this podcast. Our 150th episode is going to be spent going through a two i defeat at the King Power Stadium as we let Jamie Vardy have his farewell party, getting his 200th goal and the scriptwriters getting their moment on that one. But just to make it even worse, I'm here on my own today. I haven't even got anyone to go through the game with so far, but let's let's just go straight into it then because just to get it over with more than anything, it's another one of them.
00:01:31
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Just a, I don't know, it's another frustrating watch. was going to say really poor, but That's why it is frustrating because I don't think we were massively poor.
Game Control but Missed Opportunities
00:01:40
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I think we controlled the majority of the game. We had plenty of chances. We just could not hit a barn door as usual.
00:01:47
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That was next to no real threat on goal despite being the better team, I would say, for the majority the game. I don't think Leicester really showed too much, in all honesty. That's the problem. that When they had a glimpse, they they were clinical. They took the chances. They ah ah say that had one clear-cut chance and one half chance all game and beat us 2-0 because they scored them both. That's something we just haven't been able to do all year, make chances count. If it's not ever if if we're not creating them some games, in another game we will create and we won't score them. It's been a whole long-term thing. I mean think the gaffer put up best was his post-match press conference at the end of the game when he said we had enough chances to win two Premier League games and we haven't and we've walked away without scoring.
00:02:34
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which sums up the game very well and to be honest sums up the season pretty well as well. and Just not enough up front to have a result that matches our control over a game. and so i think we had 20 shots in total, which is probably the only time all season we've done that. We never normally when hit that any sort of number, but twenty for 20 shots on target...
00:02:58
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to try and think back on the chances. i think we had two shots on target out of 20, which for a conversion rate is really poor. To create as many chances as we did and give the goalkeeper two saves to make is really poor. And then, even then, just trying to think of chances. Davis at the post, that's probably about as close as we got in terms of best chances. And that was first 10 minutes or something.
00:03:21
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There was a fair few players who had half opportunities that they should have done better with that we probably made half opportunities because of how poorly they dealt with them in the end but so yeah literally yeah we hit the post even that was a bit of luck with the way it fell back for him on his strong foot after his initial shot on his weak foot got blocked to create our best chance at nil-nil with the first 10 minutes or so and to control so much of the rest of the game and not make a guilt-edged chance from 20 odd shots and would say two on target because Leicester
00:03:56
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Leicester nine shots total, something like nine or ten.
Leicester's Rise and Ipswich's Struggles
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Three on target, two goals. but That's the one thing we'd lack the whole year. And so even now Leicester, who one of the teams that we'd always sort of looked better than on paper for throughout the whole season, have now found that at the end of the season, have picked up seven points in three games, have leapfrogged us and we're 19th in the table now.
00:04:18
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It's just, oh I don't know. End the season already. that the that's the That's the concern for this one really for me is that we saw so We did have most of the control game. I think, again, McKenna said this himself, that we haven't got we've almost forgotten how to how to play when we're the team controlling the game because we've been on the back foot and near enough every game this season. But always said in the week, this is a game to sort of set yourself up for next season. and And he's got a point, I think, Kieran McKenna said it, that we're going lot more of these games next year where we control the majority of the game and are able to make a
00:04:57
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a lot of chances so we need to get a lot better at dealing them because you can't do this you can't do what we've done here you can't take to be the better side I don't know it feels odd to always say the better side when you lose when you lose without scoring but to have control of the pace of the game like we did for most of it create opportunities and sights at goal which we haven't had that many in a long time in the Premier League to walk away again with no goal to your name And like I say, no real, no
Improving Attacking Capabilities
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guilt. and There's no big miss in there either. There was no absolute howler of a shot that for from a clear-cut opportunity.
00:05:37
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Really, a apart from say Davis hitting the post, which he got unlucky that he just caught it. He just kind of kind of curled back towards an ear post rather than come around and as he lashed towards goal. But it's just the same old, same old, isn't it? I mean, say Leicester, by comparison,
00:05:55
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haven't score didn't They went, what, nine games in a row at home without scoring? To then now being at the point where they can have pretty much two chances all game and win 2-0. It's one hell of a jump they've had over the last couple of weeks. that Leicester have had that run that I thought we might go on. when After the Newcastle game and relegation was mathematically confirmed, I said then, oh this is how it goes.
00:06:20
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You get relegated and you pick up a run of form when it's too late and then maybe we'll get a few results for you end the year. That's exactly Leicester had done. Got relegated the same weekend as us, I think, maybe the weekend before.
00:06:32
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And I said, no, that's now seven points in their last three games in what from what they've clawed together after one, was it one win in 16 games or something before that?
00:06:43
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And then now they've and put a little run together once they've all even relegated. to It's too little too late from their point of view, obviously, but at least they've had that little run so the fans got something to celebrate and say, in this case, for Vardy's final game, they've got to celebrate him scoring a goal and a win at home. But we haven't even had that really. that I'll get into that towards the latter end of the show.
00:07:04
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Some of the horror to stick statistics that have followed us around this season, that it's just another one of those games. just We move on, we forget about it and we get ready for next season and the Championship. But this was this was a concerning one for me because this could feasibly be what the way a lot of games go.
00:07:24
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next year if we don't improve our touch in front of goal because this is what I expect games to be like in the championship where we majority of the time we're able to control the play and the pace of the game and like we did in a lot of games in the season we come up that creating opportunities because obviously when we got promoted it was all we'll we'll outscore you we might well let three goals in we'll go and win four three which we knew we wouldn't be able to do in the Premier League but Now I feel like, can we regain that touch? Because the confidence going to be so low amongst all the attacking players. It really does make me worry that unless because we don't look like we're going to tighten up at the back either. so this um this approach last time I served as well is, we'll go and outscore you. But now suddenly we look like we're not going to be have the capabilities to do that, which has given me a lot. I've had a lot of optimism and optimism going into the next season. But this is the first time that a result has really sort of taken that hit to me because...
Reflecting on a Poor Season
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don't know say ah don't know, just from watching the game, from the balance of the play, wonder how we've walked away 2-0, but you also can't say we don't we didn't deserve to lose the performance. It's a strange one, but I don't know. I'll say I'm happy to know. We one more game left this season. We get a couple of months to recuperate, recover, and we hopefully will have a really good go at the Championship next year. we'll have quick break.
00:08:47
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00:09:31
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And welcome back to the second part of the 150th episode of the Daily Ipswich podcast. Let's go into the key moments and goals from the game. Then 2-0 it finished, obviously, but there's a few chances either side that maybe could have resulted in something better. But obviously the first of which, Davis striking the post so early on in inside the first 10 minutes.
00:09:53
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Sort of hoped that was going to set the standard for the game of us being on the front foot and creating chances and hopefully he thought at that point, well, he thought we might be able to kick on and get a good result after a bright start.
00:10:06
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Getting so close to scoring, didn't work out that way in the end, unfortunately, but really nice drive from in CISO in the build-up. He picked up sort inside the centre circle, drove forward, got in a bit of space. Davis cut in.
00:10:20
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You have to say, as good as he is, you don't really back him on his right foot from that sort of position when he cut in and was comfortably blocked in the end, but He made bloody good guard here when I came back to when he left. was lashed at it.
00:10:31
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It looked like he was going to catch the keeper out in the near post, but just come back off the upright in the end. Obviously, he scored against him at Portman Road. so you know and that That was a good strike as well on his left peg, that one. The cross goal that time went for the near post this time on this one. that Unlucky, really.
00:10:52
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ah ah caught He caught it well. and so I'm not sure. I wasn't feeling that... about anybody else, but I certainly wasn't confident when he cut in and tried to find the curler on his weak foot. But it was a decent enough strike on the left peg that like got unlucky with where it went, really.
00:11:08
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Maybe as an element of would have striked or buried it, maybe. But he's good he's a good attacking player and he he caught the ball well. Unlucky there. And I hope that was going to go set the standard. And that was near enough it for big opportunities at goal we have. We didn't really come any closer than that.
00:11:26
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They remain in 10 minutes. Leicester had a few, a couple of chances, half chances really before they score. think Vardy had one from a free kick, got chipped into him and then what is probably a foul on Morsi. Might well have not stood had he buried it anyway, but sort of throws an arm into Morsi's face and as he's going down, he just sort of forced, he does well to force him out wide, make him drag in the side net and good defending from the skipper. So especially that he was probably fouled in the build up there. It might have been one you could get away with, but Would have had a Vardy on it, definitely. Had Vardy put it in the back of the net because his forearm does come right across the face of Morsi and sort knock him down. But good defending from him.
00:12:05
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Sort lessened the chance to make sure Vardy wasn't able to tuck it away. But then he did get his goal not too long afterwards. And that's a mistake from Jack Clark in the middle of the park. Just slips over. But again, the defending, it's just so poor.
Defensive Lapses and Key Moments
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Something I've said many weeks ago. and Some of the goals we can see, they're not closing down. I don't get it. I think it was the Everton game where both teams were doing it.
00:12:33
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It's something I will never understand. Players just sort of swarming around, nobody putting pressure on the ball. Obviously, though it's a mistake from Clark, he's s slipped over, he's given the ball away. But he's done that right on the halfway line. the fact Justin's then been allowed to run 30, 35 yards, nobody putting a tackle in.
00:12:52
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At one point, he had sort of four players boxed around him and nobody actually went to put a tackle in. So he was still able to find a pass. he just It's just basic stuff for me. are for me that and Not just us. A lot of teams don't do it for whatever reason. But to let him pick the ball up on the halfway line, get to the edge of the box and p play a pass without really even having to dodge a tackle at any point is so poor.
00:13:16
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And it's a good finish from Vardy. So you don't want to give him that sort sight of goal, do you? Because he's been doing it for years. or He's going to punish you. He scored 200 goals for the club. And so he's got 100 plus in the Premier League. But you know what he's going to do. He's going to find the back of the net.
00:13:31
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And it's good finish. three Puts it through O'Shea's legs. Palmer can't see it until it's too late. And like I say say, that's good. for O'Shea didn't defend it too bad here. I don't think actually. tried to force him wide. Vardy just thought finished it well.
00:13:45
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I say used O'Shea as a marker, put it through his legs, unsighted Palmer. But it's the build-up to that that, how James Justin's been allowed to get from the halfway line back in towards the centre of the box, edge of the box, and find a pass. And so not so much as even have the herd of a challenge, just sort everyone's backed away, backed away, backed away. If you're going to do that, at least Mark will run that we keep backing away, backing away. And yet Vardy still managed to find a bit of space to go and get himself, receive the ball and get a shot away. It just lacks a concentration. So obviously it's mistake from Clark as well. If he doesn't slip over, the whole thing's avoided. It's too many errors in there, as usual for us at the back. And it's part of the reason why we're down where we are and why we're not staying in the division, because we do things like that. And there's the same things to moan about, is isn't it? That said about the attacking side of things.
00:14:39
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in the first part of the show. Now this similar mistake at the back. It's the same old, same old. We haven't found a fix all year and that's what's doomed us to be where we are. And so that was about it for the first half, really, in terms of good opportunity. A couple of half chances either way. Thought we were going to have a goal back and see. So when he blocked the keeper's clearance and that just sort of set up, before I thought that just going to drop for and put it in the net.
00:15:04
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gift apiece, 1-1, back in, game on, just but the ball just skewed too far towards that touchline. It's going to be hard for him to score from there. Yes, the net was open at the time, but from where he tries to kick the ball, he'd do really well to turn it into the net from that angle. What he actually really needed was somebody in the box for him to try and pick out on that, but he had to try and go for goal and keep his goal.
00:15:27
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was not able to say cause it comfortably, and he didn't. He should caused it comfortably in the end. It was a weak effort, but he ended up spilling that again. He Clearly wasn't confident, the keeper, which is why it's so frustrating. We didn't test him enough for just a couple of shots on target. that Just from that little incident there, Evan Cissor, he took it on the ball, lost it, and then fumbled an easy catch five seconds later. He clearly isn't high on confidence, this lad. He knows he's not the number one.
00:15:51
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Hermansen's going to come back fit for the new season take his spot back. that He could sense the nerves there, and we didn't make the most of it. We didn't go and try and pile the pressure on him, but disappointed on that one.
00:16:04
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And obviously McAteer had a couple couple of opportunities, didn't he, that he thought he was going to get get the goal not long before he actually did in the end. Again, the same old mistakes. He picked the ball up on the right-hand side, barely had to hurdle a challenge, had come all the way in, got close got to the edge of the box, had a shot. We got lucky, it hit the post.
00:16:27
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Very easily could have just found the corner there, tucked it away 2-0. And it's because, again, nobody's closed him down. He's been allowed to run 15, 20 yards, completely unchallenged, and then almost backing away like gear goal and then have a shot and with a couple of inches the right side of the post to get away with it.
00:16:46
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It's just so poor, that sort of stuff. I won't go into it again because I've done it for for the um the first goal. The Saints clearly not learnt our lesson from that goal to let him go and do that, and then we don't learn it again because not too long afterwards El Canoose picks the ball up in a good position, just allowed to run up to the edge of the box under no challenge and find his pass. And indeed, he does really well to poke the ball through for McIntyre and he finishes it well. that ah ah Again, it's all come, we get bent out of shape because someone picks the ball up and just runs us and know and we don't seem to know what to do.
00:17:20
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We have direct player who likes to move forward the ball. It's happened two or three times in this game. It's not the first time it's happened in recent weeks as well, that we just don't seem to know what to do.
00:17:32
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And we just fall apart from it and say it's a clever ball from El Canoos. And Deedee then just pokes it through. Not sure why McAteer's got so much space as well, whether that stay is or wherever that's whether that's his miscommunication with the winger or centre midfield in front of him, who's meant to be doing that. Because he's hung wide, McAteer. Davis had been drawn in trying to maintain the shape and he just hung out wide, got himself the space. And but there's always going to be questions of a goalkeeper to get beat in their post. I think it's the power that beats Palmer.
00:18:01
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Is his positioning going to be a problem with it? You never like to see a goalkeeper get beat at near post, sighter so you're always going to question it because you shouldn't you shouldn't really ever be beaten at your near post unless it's one hell of a finish. but It's a great finish from McAteer, but should you be beaten near post there as a Premier League level goalkeeper?
00:18:22
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I'm not sure. ah feel It feels harsh on Palmer because, like I say, it's the power. He doesn't get much time to react, but at the same time, I think, had I think the reaction to that goal would very different had it been Murek's in goal doing the exact same thing than Palmer. I think a lot of the reaction online especially would have been piling on saying, keep, he's got to save it, get you near post. to do He probably should do better there for me. but i just it's It's a good finish. so so Take nothing away from McAteer. He gets it right in at the near post. He finds the gap really well, hits it hard enough to cause a problem, but
00:18:59
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I never feel like a keeper at the top level you should be beating at your near post like that for me. Question marks on it. say Maybe a lapse in concentration even in defending the build-up or Palmer himself. I don't know. but It's another poor goal to concede really for me. Just how easy it was after Leicester not really offering much towards an an attacking sentence. It was sort of where you were They hardly had a sniff second half and then suddenly twice in 10 minutes they've nearly scored. They're nearly scoring and they do score.
00:19:31
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Just sort of seemingly out of nothing. But it's just the easiness of it. El Canoose drives forward, finds one pass and Deedee just flicks it out wide. Suddenly free shot a goal and he makes the most of it.
00:19:43
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Really concerning how a team who have been so poor in an attacking sense this year, in Leicester especially at home, can just score a goal that easy and kill the game off because you know we ain't scoring three. We don't do it at all. We hardly ever score three in a game this season. that that what That killed the game off. You knew we weren't coming back at that point. and yes it's a number It's two poor goals to concede again. It feels like I pick it a apart every week and say they're poor, but it's just the same old mistakes repeating themselves, which is the frustrating point which and something that hopefully we can we can start to sort these things out over pre-season and
00:20:18
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we can't keep making the mistakes in the Championship because there's people who can strike a ball just as well in the Championship compared to the Premier League when we're backing away and letting people have a go.
Preparing for the Championship
00:20:28
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that That's going to be the same problems we have this year if we do it again next year. So hopefully we can sort that out. But just even then, after today you knew we weren't coming back at two now especially the way we were playing.
00:20:42
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Maybe for the the way we were playing, creating chances, but we weren't creating anything. never really looked like scoring too massively really it's just 2-0 felt like game over and so to concede it like that really disappointing but same old same old we'll probably sit here next week after West Ham talk about the same things again but at least we're done after that we get a couple of months to get ready for the new season where hopefully things will be a bit more positive but So another a quick break. We'll hear from another one of our sponsors. And then when we come back in the final part of the show, we'll go through some of the damage statistics that summarise the season.
Squad Readiness for Premier League
00:21:42
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and Welcome back to the final part of today's show. And look, I've said it was same old, same old, the game. And it was really because it's the same old problems, isn't it? We just, oh me, it all boils down to the players we've got, whether they're with the squad already or they've been signed in somewhere, the vast majority of this squad is not ready for the Premier League level.
00:22:05
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And that's been found out and over the course of the season. How many games are just a lack of quality? Well, this one was today. So 20 shots to just have two on target, it's a lack of Premier League level quality in the squad.
00:22:18
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That's the problem. We've been promoted too early. As I say, this squad, a lot of this squad was playing League One football two years ago. The setup happened too quick, but this year is sort of the hit we've had to take with it, really. We can go back down next year. Hopefully that will, we can then come straight back up. We'll hope say we'll come next time, which is hopefully obviously sooner rather than later. Next time we come up, we'll see if we're in we should be in a better position.
00:22:44
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and set ourselves up to a bit more of a go. So this time we just weren't ready. I mean, it's lack of experience. There was a big factor in that. I mean, they were down to 19th now, Leicester.
00:22:55
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Leicester getting the win over us. Well, the worst for and worst recent form in the league, joint with Spurs and Man United, have given up and focused on Europe. They've won one point from five games, which is the draw at Goodison, obviously, that...
00:23:11
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today Again, two as well, two points from the four games we've had against the other promoted sides. To draw at home to Leicester draw away at Southampton loss in the other two, it's just that these sort of games, we haven't had that quality to get over the line, get the result. I mean, Leicester's case, like this game, they were clinical.
00:23:33
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That was the difference that someone like, they have somebody like Vardy, who's vastly experienced at this level, sort of took his chance when he got up. And then you've got a lead to protect at that point. The pressure's off you a bit.
00:23:46
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you know you don't have to be You're actively trying out to go and score a goal. can hang on to it. You know we're poor going forward. They can change the game plan. At both ends of the pitch in our case as well, because when we do go up and that should have that almost little bit of pressure off and you've got something to protect now, we very rarely hold on to it. We throw it away very often because, again, there's the lack of experience defensively. We make these We make basic mistakes. We don't score enough goals. And ultimately, so the lack of experience we just and the lack of quality that just look at the second half of the season.
00:24:22
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when you hit The point where you really need people to start kicking in, the best players make names for themselves and they really go and start hitting the form levels that maybe they weren't hitting in the for early months and help power their team to whatever their goal is. So staying up in our case that So since the turn of the year, hey January, so in twenty since the calendar year 2025, we've got seven points in 18 games, which, so that but so exactly what I just said, it's that point in the year you really got to and kick on.
00:24:55
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You can always say you can get away with having a i mean, look at Crystal Palace, for example, you can get away with having a fairly poor first half of the season. They were down by us at Christmas time. They've just won the FA Cup and they're fighting for a top half finish.
00:25:08
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it's when you It's when you really need to kick on. You can almost forgive a first first poor couple of months. Keep going. its when The best players, like as I say, turn it on. The best teams turn it on.
00:25:21
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Hit that consistent level. like Man City every year that They normally have their little stumble in the first few months and then from January onwards, obviously this year aside, but title winning City, just lock in from January, do the best. as We've done the complete opposite of that. We've been the worst team in the league, arguably the worst team in the in the top four divisions in the country since the turn of the year.
00:25:46
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We've done the complete opposite of knuckle down and put the best results in. We've dropped off massively. So seven points from 54 available. look You're never going to hit the heights of 40, 50 odd points, even high 30s when you're down the bottom. You'd take anywhere near 20, wouldn't you? But seven.
00:26:04
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One win in 18 games. three Four draws. One of which was literally, same from the turn in the year, one of those draws was on the 5th of January or something like that.
00:26:17
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So from the season then, so it's so poor when you say out loud. Obviously, we've had the one one win at home all year. It's just these basic things where you have to lock in.
00:26:28
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And the real testing period of season where it makes or breaks you, we've completely broken. and Even Leicester they were in the same boat as us that at that point, really poor. Like say, it was one win in 16 or something for them. And then They've just decided to hit form after all he'd been relegated and getting some results. But the fact we've not even done that is concerning as well. But even though we should be playing with no pressure and seeing setting ourselves up for next year, we look just as poor.
00:26:58
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and Especially in front of goal in the last last couple of games. <unk>s nice It's really damning for me. that We were never were always underdogs to survive this year. Like I say, the squad was playing League One two years ago. You can't blame them. This probably happened too early, but...
00:27:15
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That is so poor at any level. Obviously, Premier League is really tough, but to get seven points from a 54 available since January is so poor. It's almost like they haven't put much of a fight up. Performances will say otherwise. A of games have been really close, and like I say, it's where that lack of quality comes in, but that's a disgraceful points total.
00:27:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
And that's set us up where we are. don't know. so so that the big I keep saying ah in the build-up of the season, I keep saying at some point these yeah these teams down the bottom get really horrible to play because they get more and more and more desperate for points and then they start grinding out results.
00:27:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
We just haven't done that, have we? We've we've never been that team that's horrible to play. Everyone's just turned up, picked up the three points and moved on again. And I say, at least it's a lack of experience in the league. It's a lack of quality that hopefully there are two problems we can sort out.
00:28:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
And the next time we come up to the Premier League, which hopefully... will be sooner rather than the later. I do think we're... I'm hoping we can bounce back Championship next year, but the confidence is going to be something, a big thing to work on in the pre-season because it must be an all-time low now because it's... Every week we're walking away disappointed that, say, McKenna said this this sort of game was the most frustrating loss you can take where you've sort controlled of controlled the game, made loads of chances and lost without scoring. It's so frustrating to be...
00:28:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
say results not matching performances and that sort of thing but it's just I say just end the season we've not we've all we've all lost interest a little while ago now that we're just waiting for it to end and hoping and we get some more positive stuff to talk about next year but say hopefully the one the one home win all season so Really damaged statistic. But hopefully we can double that. At least and try and end on a high.
00:29:09
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Pick up a result on the last day of the season. Get some confidence back maybe. Just before we head into new campaign. That's the best we can hope for at that point. But it's not quite the energy. The excitement we wanted for another milestone episode. feels like.
00:29:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like I said at the start. We are cursed to spend these milestone episodes. Just drowning our sorrows. After a poor performance or a poor result in there. That hopefully. Hopefully. episode 200, whenever that is, we'll break that train and we'll actually you'd be able to celebrate the occasion and not have to focus on on the negatives that come from these sort of results. But hopefully, like say, that's far down the line. We'll be back later in the week, obviously looking ahead towards that final day of the season and then we've got a lot of fun little things planned for you.
00:29:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Once the season gets out of the way, and we do some little special episodes, hopefully get a few four-man episodes out. It's been a while since we've done one as well. For the time being, thank you for listening. and I'll see you next time.