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Episode 171: BONUS! Crossover with Spurs!!
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Southampton – Today in our BONUS Saturday content we are joined by Chris from the Daily Tottenham to try and work out who will come out on top this Sunday!
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Welcoming Chris and Game Excitement
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome back to the Daily Southampton and today the Daily Tottenham. My name is Greg Elliott and today I'm joined from Chris from from our Spurs counterparts. How doing Chris?
00:00:20
Chris Mervyn
Hello, mate. Not bad, not bad. Really, really good good mood watching Spurs the the other day and looking forward to the weekend. Really am.
00:00:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:00:29
Chris Mervyn
Can you hear it in my voice, mate?
00:00:31
Chris Mervyn
I sound like a Southampton fan.
Current Team Form and Challenges
00:00:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
we We were discussing on our match preview and a bit before the the show came on air that it's it's kind of an unpredictable day coming in and on Sunday, but also predictable in the fact that whatever the outcome, we're probably both going to be pretty disappointed. Yeah.
00:00:51
Chris Mervyn
100%, mate. That is true. you you know if you if you pull something out, if if you get a good result, as in you you play well. you To be honest, I've watched you quite a bit this season because I've always watched teams who come up.
00:01:03
Chris Mervyn
And I think some of the play has been good. It's just the standard of players you're playing against, isn't it? I think it's its a jump level, unfortunately. but
00:01:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it's been patches and it's been sort of trying to put those patches together to manage a full 90 minutes that's been most of the problem. But but seem to have but yeah you seem to be on a, let's say, a downturn of form at the moment.
00:01:19
Chris Mervyn
Yeah, like us.
00:01:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is...
00:01:25
Chris Mervyn
We're on a trajectory, mate.
00:01:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
a
00:01:26
Chris Mervyn
It's a trajectory, but if you look at it upside down, it's fantastic.
00:01:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
is some ah ah today is it Is this the case of it like being like rock bottom to be beat by... to to to give the team who are currently in position to be the worst team in Premier League history like the points to not be that? but that Would that be it?
00:01:47
Chris Mervyn
Mate, you'll get more points. You'll get more points than that, i think. I think you're going be, I think you'll get over, is it 10, is it? I don't remember.
00:01:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, 11 was Derby's record and we're up we're up to 10.
00:01:54
Chris Mervyn
Yeah, 11. 11, that's right.
00:01:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
So there is at least a glimmer of hope now.
00:01:56
Chris Mervyn
Yeah.
00:01:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
We're into double digits.
00:01:58
Chris Mervyn
No, think, mate, at the end of the day, on any given day, most teams can beat other teams.
00:01:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
Fan Disappointment and Past Performances
00:02:05
Chris Mervyn
It's just whether or not the levels drop. And it's that's the difference between elites elite elite and good professional players, isn't it, really? Especially when you jump from a championship. And I'm based in Plymouth, so I watch La Gala quite a bit.
00:02:16
Chris Mervyn
And obviously, they've got the ever they have a they're in the same position as you, they just can't compete in in the league because the money, the quality of players, yes, management and tactics and all these other things have been changed and sometimes you can't be really loose when you haven't got the quality to do anything against those teams.
00:02:33
Chris Mervyn
So, even when we watched Spurs-Chelsea, it was, you know, Chelsea are a good team, they are.
00:02:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:02:40
Chris Mervyn
can bemoan what we did in the match, but I mean, at the end of the day, they're a good team and every team you play against is good in this league, to be honest. But I think that, yeah, we're both going to be relatively disappointed. i've just That's just our season. Like my youngest said to me when we were watching the Spurs-Chelsea match, I just want it to be over. i want the season to be over. And I was like, I hear you. And that's so sad, isn't it?
00:03:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it is.
00:03:05
Chris Mervyn
Sad as a fan.
00:03:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
And a feeling shared, I think, between our teams, that's for sure.
Match Reflections and Europa League Expectations
00:03:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
The last time Saints fans we saw Spurs, you absolutely smashed us at St Mary's in Russell Martin's last fixture as a manager, sort of putting the nail in his coffin.
00:03:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you think that that fast start is what we're likely to see on Sunday? Or do you think it's going to be a case of like looking past us to the Europa League, which I guess is the the more important part of the season at this point?
00:03:37
Chris Mervyn
Mate, I can't read it. I mean, most Spurs fans just don't know what the hell's you know going to turn up day-to-day, match-to-match. All they know is that they won't agree with some of it and it'd be disappointing, unfortunately.
00:03:50
Chris Mervyn
But, I mean, regards to how we start off, I mean... You would hope they would start off relatively too fast. Again, it depends who who's playing, but the substitutions recently and all these other things going on, and Andrew's lost us the the the away fans now, and and the home fans be different.
Team Tactics and Management Frustrations
00:04:07
Chris Mervyn
But that feeling is really there. at the back of your throat where you when you when you've had something spicy and you're like, oh, that was all right. And then if the fire heats behind you and the back of the throat stays in there. that's That's the feeling you get at the moment, unfortunately. It's it's there.
00:04:21
Chris Mervyn
So fast start? Yeah, probably. I like to think so. And that's that's the only reason why we can do it because we kind of, after that, regardless of who's playing, we kind of drop our performance levels.
00:04:33
Chris Mervyn
We really do.
00:04:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:04:33
Chris Mervyn
And that's the problem. We should be different. We should be another level than some teams, including Southampton, to be honest. Look on the paper. The team's excellent, Spurs team. Just can't put it together on the pitch.
00:04:45
Chris Mervyn
Tactics-wise, yeah, that that goes into it. You play a high line and he's not going to change. But just one or two steps back, and but you know that would put the less pressure on it. There's all these little changes which every Spurs fan will bemoan to you.
00:04:59
Chris Mervyn
It's frustrating.
00:05:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:00
Chris Mervyn
Have I ranted there? No, not yet.
00:05:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's all right. We we love a rant. It's all good. Do you see Ange making it to the end of the season as Spurs manager?
Ange's Future and Team Atmosphere
00:05:10
Chris Mervyn
it's it's all or nothing and to be honest I think 20% of it is because we've got that final a few matches in the Europa obviously on Thursday we've got the next match
00:05:23
Chris Mervyn
And obviously, Levy's kind of happened when he but got rid of Mourinho before that cup final and then we lost it. He doesn't want to make that kind of mess mistake.
00:05:32
Chris Mervyn
But I think the majority of it is that there isn't anybody else better out there now. I think that and he's he's nailed his sail to the mast, if that's the right phrase, and he's stuck with it.
00:05:43
Chris Mervyn
But it's... The word toxic is massively overused in football, but it really does feel like that now. And you've even got the most positive people, and I like to view myself as quite positive, and I always give people the benefit of the doubt, but feeling really negative towards even watching and supporting your team is not great, is it?
00:06:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, so it's it's not great.
Southampton's Managerial Changes
00:06:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you think, with that in mind, if he does make it to the end of the season and wins the Europa League, is that enough to get him another season? Or do you think that sort of the nails in the coffin, the tide has turned and it'll be change in the summer either way?
00:06:19
Chris Mervyn
see you later. I think, I think the the damage is done and we're all holding out. We're holding out for for the injuries coming back. that was the excuse. Now we're holding out because we're, we're doing well in Europa.
00:06:32
Chris Mervyn
but I mean, the league form is is shocking, you know, regardless if we're only looking on paper, nil at Chelsea. that seems like a good result because we never win at Chelsea. But this it was the performance and just the manner and just the feeling that he doesn't want to, you know, the cup and i don't know if you saw the the the after aftermath of the Chelsea match and obviously the referee and i thought was quite poor throughout it for both sides, to be honest.
00:06:59
Chris Mervyn
There's quite a lot missed. but And VAR, I'm going to take that out equation. i'm not going to talk about that. But... But just Ange's interaction with the away fans.
00:07:09
Chris Mervyn
At the cup end of the year when scored the goal, which was ultimately ruled out, that did look like a, sorry, can't hear you. It 100% looked like not a, I'm listening to you cheering.
00:07:20
Chris Mervyn
That was just a cop out. you know, so you know don't do things, but you know, it's like celebrating for a winner when and the linesman saying, it could be offside and VAR is out. So it's not great.
00:07:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it sir is an interesting i position. yeah
00:07:40
Chris Mervyn
how How are you guys anyway, with regards to your manager and stuff like that?
00:07:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think that it's another case of it'll be changing in the summer. I mean, he's not had a win since coming in. So it's been pretty brutal.
00:07:56
Chris Mervyn
But you've you've done the stuff, though. you've You obviously came up, which is kudos in the bank, isn't it, surely? And if if you're going back down, obviously don' going back to the other next league down, championship, and that's a difficult league.
00:08:08
Chris Mervyn
And he's already got you out of that. So would you not...
00:08:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
but Well, we've changed Russell Martin.
00:08:12
Chris Mervyn
Oh, of course.
00:08:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Russell Martin brought us up and obviously you guys beating us was the the nail in his coffin for sure.
00:08:14
Chris Mervyn
Yeah, of course.
00:08:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, we've replaced him with Ivan Juric. But I think that there's been a lot of acknowledgement from the club that the football direction has really, and the recruitment in particular, has really let us down this season.
00:08:34
Chris Mervyn
right
00:08:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
we brought in a new technical director of football to the group, but based at Southampton. And I think that with that, he's going to want to bring in a manager that's his choice and isn't Juric, to be honest.
Squad Changes and Next Season Expectations
00:08:48
Chris Mervyn
It makes sense, doesn't it?
00:08:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't think Juric has done enough to stake his claim, if honest. The same as you've been saying with the sort of bonkers decision making and crazy substitutions.
00:09:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, for six games, Joe Uribo, who at the point in the season was our top scorer, was being played at centre-back. It just, it it boggled the mind. And, you know, we we found a bit of form,
00:09:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
against Palace and played quite well, but it's the first time we've really played our players in their correct positions, which really goes this really sort of drills home the point of, yeah, that's that's obvious. Why haven't we just done that before? So it'll be interesting.
00:09:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
One of the sort of interesting points coming into the game was that... One of the more successful parts against Crystal Palace was the double pivot that we sort of managed to set up between Flynn Downs and Agachugwu.
00:09:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
But Flynn Downs picked up a yellow and now is suspended for for the next couple of games. So...
00:09:53
Chris Mervyn
Isn't that always the way it goes when you get, when you have a bad patch and you have a little bit of, well, that's a glimmer of hope. These two are playing well together. And then there's a suspension or, or something crazy.
00:10:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. It's always the way.
00:10:05
Chris Mervyn
Hmm.
00:10:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
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00:10:52
Chris Mervyn
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00:10:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's it. Okay. and we are back. Okay. yeah, I guess we've, we've talked a bit. Have you got anything, any sort of questions about us, about what you're expecting?
00:11:05
Chris Mervyn
Yeah. but Who's going to... i mean but you you You guys are going down and to be honest, it's so feasible that we could get caught in the league, but we won't talk about that.
00:11:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ha ha ha ha ha.
00:11:16
Chris Mervyn
But you guys going down, how many players are you going to lose of your squad? Because i know there's been talk about a quite a few players going anyway and there was previously, but I mean, Kyle Walker-Peters has been linked now as well, hasn't he?
00:11:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, so yeah, Kyle Walker-Pieters is out of contract in the summer, so it's it's pretty much nailed on that he'll be gone now.
00:11:30
Chris Mervyn
Yeah. Yeah.
00:11:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
think that the contract's been there for him to sign, but I don't see why he would, and I don't blame him. And he'll go with no sort of ill feeling, certainly from me,
00:11:44
Chris Mervyn
Well, it's better for the club as well, isn't Because if they can't get the money they want for him, because they've paid the new contract, then he's stuck there on a big wage, isn't he?
00:11:51
Chris Mervyn
so
00:11:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's it, yeah. And, you know, he stuck around for our last relegation and is still consistently one of the best performers for us and always puts a shift in on the pitch. So there'll be no sort ill feeling if he goes and chooses not to stay, which is completely fair enough.
00:12:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if it's a big amount of change in the summer.
00:12:14
Chris Mervyn
Fox. Oh yeah.
00:12:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I expect... quite a lot of players to go. There are quite a few players in our squad who have already been sort of trying to go for the last couple of windows and just haven't had the right offer come in.
00:12:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
It'll be interesting. Obviously, there's there's been a couple of falling outs with the current manager, and it'll be interesting to see what will happen if we check if we expect, as we expect to him to change, what will happen.
00:12:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Flynn Downs, who we only sort of signed permanently this year, was looking for a move in January because of that. But...
00:12:51
Chris Mervyn
Pretty.
00:12:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
sort of is sort of optimistic that we've seen the betterest of him come back and hopefully he'll stay. sort We know that he can do it at that level down there. So he's going to be key.
00:13:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
think from... The perspective of who's going to go it's a hard one to gauge, but from what I would call a success of who is going to stay, if we can keep either one of Tyler Diblin or Matty Fernandes or both, I think it's been a successful window for us.
00:13:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
As far as the rest, if it all completely changes, I don't think anyone's going to be too upset, to be honest, based off how this season's gone.
Talent Retention Amidst Relegation
00:13:34
Chris Mervyn
I think Tyler Diblin is one of the players who yeah is definitely I've heard the noise from, but you never know if that's actually legitimate noise. especially Obviously Spurs are linked with everybody anyway, and they've been linked with him as well, as has many clubs.
00:13:47
Chris Mervyn
But you don't know if it's actually just put out there because they know that actually this season is not going great and he will be up for a move later on.
00:13:54
Chris Mervyn
see See what the feel you know the feel is out there, really. so
00:13:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it's a fascinating one, and we've stuck quite publicly a £100 million pound price tag on him. And... I think it's fair to say that that's optimistic, but I think it sets the benchmark that we're not just going to let him go because we're getting relegated and that we want to keep hold of him.
00:14:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think from his perspective, a year in the Championship with us would probably do his career the world of good. But we'll see how it goes. It's an interesting interesting one where at the academy level, he left us before and went to Chelsea, but only made it for a day there before before coming back and signing with us again. yeah.
00:14:36
Chris Mervyn
It's the different type of water and they just can't, you know, the hard and soft water.
00:14:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:14:39
Chris Mervyn
That's what is.
00:14:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's it. But yeah, there's a bit of hope. But yeah, there are there are a few other like key areas of the team that you I'd like to think will stay consistent. like Taylor Harwood-Bellis, I'd love to stay with us and sort of forge a career ahead with us. But there's a lot of...
00:14:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
untapped potential in our squad at the moment, I think. And it's it trying to turn that round and make it... keep those players sweet for a year in the Championship when, you know, their their aim is always going to be to play at the top level.
00:15:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
So...
00:15:15
Chris Mervyn
So something came up on my social media, because I was looking at, I think, just in general, Southampton, and it was a squad. And I was like, Christ, was that the squad of Southampton? What a team that was. You know, you only look back at old years and you're like, God, I didn't appreciate it back then. And and so we're exactly the same as Spurs, to be honest. Although you have to question if we've ever had that sort complete squad.
00:15:37
Chris Mervyn
But this squad here, Forster, Klein, Fonte, Adebayreld, Bertrand, Schneidlin, Wanyama, Tadic, Mane, Pelé and Rodriguez.
00:15:47
Chris Mervyn
That's a pretty good team, isn't it? Jeez.
00:15:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it's definitely a case of a real golden era on Firesail. Back with a a little unheard of manager back then known as Pochettino as well. it was definitely some good days.
00:16:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
That was the season where there was a period of about six games where we kept back-to-back clean sheets and it really felt like we were never going to concede another goal again. These days, if we can go six minutes without conceding, it's considered a win. So...
00:16:16
Chris Mervyn
I don't know what you're talking about, mate. I'm a Spurs fan.
00:16:21
Chris Mervyn
the and The only given is that they're going to score is whether or not we can score first and then score another, usually. But yeah, what a team that was, God.
00:16:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, definitely.
00:16:29
Chris Mervyn
But we've had a few you know players come from obviously Southampton. They're not a feeder club because you're right, they do stand out for their own players and put transfer fees to stop them going away, if that makes sense.
00:16:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:42
Chris Mervyn
100 million, yeah, that's not going to happen. But if it gets them 65, then great.
00:16:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, absolutely.
00:16:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
i mean, i think I said before they put that price tag on it that whilst obviously the ideal outcome is seeing Tyler stay with us and go on to great things that way, if anyone comes in and offers in the range of 50 plus, you'd be stupid to turn it down for for an 18-year-old who, you know, anything can happen.
00:16:49
Chris Mervyn
Dust moving.
00:17:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:10
Chris Mervyn
Yeah, like likewise for us. i mean, if we don't win Europa, then we're not in Europe next year. And the the young players, which we've got, you know, a few of them now, and we want to attract more,
00:17:22
Chris Mervyn
like Tyler Dibling, perhaps, then, you know, i would look at other teams who are in Europe because you've got more chance of playing at a higher level. So, difficult, difficult was for us to to recruit, I think.
00:17:33
Chris Mervyn
Especially with, we've got a kind of bad rep, I think, and even with with managers as well, you know, it's It's like a poison chalice, it really, isn't it? all comes down to Levy. But, you know, that's another and another totally different conversation. But, you know, the end of the day, it does come, the buck does stop. on It starts at the top and and sort fills all the way down. And that's what's happened with Spurs.
Tactics and Season Outlook
00:17:55
Chris Mervyn
Sad times.
00:17:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
how do you so How do you see it playing out for the rest of the season with you guys? Like... Obviously, the Europa League is now, like, the main key, but is does that mean that you're not going to see a lot in the Premier League? Is there still going to be, is it, like, on the beach time?
00:18:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like,
00:18:11
Chris Mervyn
No, well, there were elements last... I mean, the the problem we've got is that we're massively overplaying everywhere. And when we get it into forward positions, which, you know,
00:18:23
Chris Mervyn
the The defence overplays because it always starts really deep. The midfield is kind of okay because it's it's driving forward and it's sometimes missed. When it gets onto the wings and and everywhere else, again, it's overplayed.
00:18:36
Chris Mervyn
never comes to a striker. And deb and then there's lots of chat about having a go at Solanke. And I feel really sorry for the lad because ultimately, you know, he's not Kane.
00:18:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:18:45
Chris Mervyn
Number one. Number two, he's not given the service at all. He does he does a number free he does hell of a lot of work for for the team and and really tries to put himself around. But if you're not getting the ball past you and it's overplayed everywhere else, how the hell are supposed to get these opportunities to score?
00:19:00
Chris Mervyn
So that's not happening for him. So, yeah, you know, if you stop doing that and actually have more... if but It comes down to the manager and his tactics. course it does. And it's made very good players look very average.
00:19:14
Chris Mervyn
now, which is not great. So we're going for the rest of the league, back to your original question before I rant about something else, I think that we have to get some more results on it because that you know you win, that's great for just morale anyway, going to another match in Europe. We can't just...
00:19:30
Chris Mervyn
things are connected still, not totally separate. And, you know, a good feeling around the around the dressing room. When the chips are down, you know, you've got to go there and do it. So, hopefully, we're going to get a few more good results in the Premier League. It's not all beach time because...
00:19:46
Chris Mervyn
Like I said, I'm pretty sure if Ipswich win every match and we lose every match, then we're in trouble. That's not going to happen.
00:19:58
Chris Mervyn
Why bother just putting your feet up? but you got should They should be playing for the places for Europe.
00:20:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that's it, I suppose. And it's it's hard to see getting to those lofty heights of winning every game and sort of putting yourself back in that mix. But I guess technically speaking, it's not mathematically impossible to to get back to a half of the table.
00:20:18
Chris Mervyn
No, mate, we're not going to get that at all. I mean, 12th, 13th, yeah, we're ah you know that's where we're going to be, I think, because there's better teams above us and there are more consistent teams above us with clearer game plans and better managers, to be fair.
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00:20:33
Chris Mervyn
yeah So i've i've that I'm now resigned to, most as most of us fans are, it's when, not if.
00:20:40
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Okay, so back to some score predictions.
Game Predictions and Expectations
00:21:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
I rather boldly on our crossover, it on our preview episode yesterday, which admittedly was filmed before the the Chelsea game last night, predicted that with some perhaps some vengeance for our absolute battering at home, that we would win 3-0 away from home on Sunday.
00:21:37
Chris Mervyn
wow
00:21:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
which which is definitely bold, but I stand by it in at least the optimistic sense. How will how do you see the game going?
00:21:47
Chris Mervyn
No, mate, not like that. I think that I've done it many times and you always back your team. I like that, which is which is you know the key thing. But I think that it will be it be either...
00:22:00
Chris Mervyn
relatively close, but you'll have chances, but not take them. So it might be 2-0, something like that for us. I don't think it would be a runaway because I don't think we're in that kind of mindset.
00:22:12
Chris Mervyn
And I'd be a little bit annoyed if we do run away with it because it makes, it just again, papers over cracks. And it would be more because it's going to be open it's open because that's the way we both sort of play, especially us at the moment.
00:22:25
Chris Mervyn
But, you know, having the players back, arguably one of our strongest lineups when we played against Chelsea. Did it look... Was I confident in in in beating Chelsea? Not not really, but but that was more to do with the fact that it's the tactics. So, again, Chelsea are a good team. You know, you put Chelsea versus Southampton, what have you done against them?
00:22:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Not well, but that goes for just about everybody else who played this season too.
00:22:53
Chris Mervyn
Yeah.
00:22:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
So...
00:22:55
Chris Mervyn
Yeah, their transition in particular is is was a level up from ours and we were just, you know, they were just making themselves accessible for and and simple balls, doing two or three passes rather than six or seven.
00:23:07
Chris Mervyn
So that's the difference. They're a lot more clinical, especially when they get forward and don't and aren't scared of putting the the sliding balls through you as well and Copalma. on on occasions was looking pretty tasty again last night to be fair yes yeah so yeah so we'll see I reckon it might be yeah 2-0 something like that
00:23:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay. I think, I don't think it's unreasonable to think that that's the way it's going to go. But I've got
00:23:32
Chris Mervyn
you're know you're not a bad team and as we're not a bad team it's just that we haven't been able to put it together together at all so yeah
00:23:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's it. As mentioned, definitely a game of trying to predict the unpredictable.
Team Strategies and Lineup Changes
00:23:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Very much depends on which version of which team shows up because, to be honest, even after on the back of a solid performance against Palace, every time we've got excited on the back of a solid performance, we've absolutely capitulated in the next game. So it really could go either way.
00:24:01
Chris Mervyn
Yeah, like I said, I don't want you to capitulate because I want you to, you know, you just the way you've played and and and fronted up, you haven't capitulated. I know your the your view points taught is not great, but it's not as if you come in and and and not been in some as occasions. You've had opportunities in matches, the ones I've seen anyway.
00:24:18
Chris Mervyn
So I'd like to think that, you know, you won't capitulate.
00:24:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah That sounds right up Tallpool Street, to be fair.
00:24:21
Chris Mervyn
it or just you know But i do see us running probably two goals. I'll set a clean sheet there by the way, but that's not necessarily always going to be case as well because we we have a tendency to be able to score own goals or some stupid deflection or miss, you know, it's crazy.
00:24:36
Chris Mervyn
So, but I mean, wow.
00:24:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's he's got two in two now, so he's on goal-scoring fire, taking himself to the top of our goal-scoring list for the season.
00:24:47
Chris Mervyn
wow
00:24:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
with a grand total of four. Yeah,
00:24:51
Chris Mervyn
Well, we're not much better, mate, to be fair. and But team-wise, I think he'll play the same team as he started against Chelsea. so
00:24:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah don't see much rest in lining up for the midweek game against Frankfurt.
00:25:05
Chris Mervyn
Well, I think he might make a decision earlier than usual. he he's He's a 60-minute man, so he'll maybe make a decision at half-time, maybe. I'd like to see Archer Gray play later.
00:25:17
Chris Mervyn
I'd like to see Bergvau... In fact, I'd like to see Bergvau not taken off against Chelsea, and that was a really stupid decision, if you ask me. But yeah, I think personally, I'd like to see us Son rested.
00:25:31
Chris Mervyn
If he's going to play, we we will play his captain in the Europa on Thursday. So maybe maybe change that and put Odepa on the left. Sorry, Odepa on the right, as he was, and Tell on the left.
00:25:45
Chris Mervyn
and then, yeah, we can mix up a little bit in midfield. But, striker-wise, that's pretty much it. Solanke's going have to
00:25:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:54
Chris Mervyn
That's it, that's it.
00:25:57
Chris Mervyn
Although we could do we could do what some of the other teams have done in the Premier League and put a, you know, a centre-back up front. That might work.
00:26:11
Chris Mervyn
Jack Stephens, tall point boy. Yeah, he's ah he's a South East Cornwall boy. Yeah, he is.
00:26:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
so...
00:26:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's it.
00:26:16
Chris Mervyn
He's been from Tall Point. Yeah, well, I used to grow up. So, yeah, he's he's done well, hasn't really? but Just lacks a bit of pace, doesn't he?
00:26:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, or a bit of composure. He's had a
Future Prospects and Farewell
00:26:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
couple of questionable moments this season with a couple of red cards and then some unfortunate injuries to follow up, so...
00:26:26
Chris Mervyn
Brilliant.
00:26:34
Chris Mervyn
Hmm.
00:26:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
But hopefully for the running, back to his best. He certainly seemed it on Tuesday. So hopefully we'll come in sort slightly unchanged as well. Like I say, we've got Flynn Dans out, but hopefully we'll see someone almost like for like slot into that.
00:26:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Maybe a rebuild or someone sort slotting in and the rest of the team hopefully firing on all cylinders. That's what we can hope. Yeah.
00:26:57
Chris Mervyn
Fantastic. And just regards to next season, if if you do go down, obviously, do you see yourself bouncing back straight?
00:27:06
Chris Mervyn
Difficult, but I think you should have enough
00:27:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I'm hoping that we've got enough to do it. Whether I want to yo-yo and then have another season of misery straight after, I don't know. but Yeah, I think we should have enough to to be right up amongst it.
00:27:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's a dangerous precedent set for my yeah youngsters who have season tickets with me, though, that we can expect to doubt at Wembley every other year. So, I don't know. We'll...
00:27:33
Chris Mervyn
so
00:27:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll see how it goes. But yeah, I think we should be all right. But it'll be an interesting one. Some interesting away days next season, though. Potentially Wrexham and Portsmouth to deal with. That's it.
00:27:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:27:46
Chris Mervyn
That will be interesting, especially Wrexham. It'd be interesting their journey.
00:27:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
that's it
00:27:50
Chris Mervyn
I think, you know, we love to see a success story, but you when's it going to, when's it going to end?
00:27:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:27:56
Chris Mervyn
Who knows?
00:27:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, we also like to be the teams that see the end of that success story. So it's a fun balance to strike in it. you could That's it.
00:28:03
Chris Mervyn
yeah Nice.
00:28:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, that is just about all we've got time for today. Chris, thank you very much for joining me. And I do hope for a brighter outlook for the rest of your season. Just I hope it comes after Sunday.
00:28:16
Chris Mervyn
Thank you, mate.
00:28:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's got to be said. until next time you've been listening to the Daily Southampton and the Daily Tottenham on the Global Sports Podcast Network and we'll be back after the game regardless of how it goes see you then cheers guys
00:28:27
Chris Mervyn
Come on, you Spurs. Come on, you Spurs.