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Episode 290: Matchday Preview: Day out at Derby!
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Southampton – Big game this weekend, can we maintain this momentum and get a win away at Derby?
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Casual Kickoff and Personal Updates
00:00:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome back to the Daily Southampton, part of the Global Sports Podcast Network. My name is Greg Elliott and as always today, joined by my good friend, wonderful co-host, Zach Ingo Finch.
00:00:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
How you doing, mate? You alright?
00:00:28
Zak
Hello, the great plague has struck my household and apparently everybody that I know. so that's been fun. But other than that, like the football side of things is looking to be pretty good at
Champions League Highlights
00:00:38
Zak
it.
00:00:38
Zak
There's so much. going they so I said there's so much going on. There's so much going on for us who spend all of our times attached to details around football.
00:00:46
Zak
Right. So, you know, that's that's been part of the
00:00:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
m
00:00:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
so It's good. That's it. there's It's been a busy week. There's been some really good football and Champions League and stuff as well. I'm sure people are interested in that.
00:01:01
Zak
Look, Nate, what's the point watching it? It means it's it's irrelevant to us. And the fact that, I don't one of the only results I did see is, you know, i was talking to you about that little Armenian team, like the other week, that managed to win.
00:01:12
Zak
and They won again, and I'm pretty sure it was against Copenhagen, which is where Elianusi is at. So there are still some, like, nice little pockets of the Champions League, which are what can you describe as crazy. i don't know.
00:01:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:01:24
Zak
Champions or you, I'm guessing, I think it was Champions, not Europa, but either way, like credit where credit's due.
Southampton's Performance and Rivals
00:01:29
Zak
However, yeah, there's been, there's been other championship football. Our bitter, bitter rivals didn't win.
00:01:35
Zak
So that was nice and lost the other day. So hopefully, you know, that will be an upward trend towards the next time we meet for the next South Coast derby and actually like, you know, do them in proper rather than, you know, what we've been doing so far.
00:01:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:01:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, well, there was lots of talk on social media over the weekend about Mind the Gap, and now we're back above them already. So enjoy that brief period of the season where that happened, and...
00:01:57
Zak
Look, i guess I guess people need to enjoy the the small things in life, right? Like like with us, enjoying like five minutes of the 90 minutes of football that took place most games last season, mate.
00:02:12
Zak
And like the odd goal, or you know even that one away win in Ivan Juric's reign, right? Where Torpall scored some goals at Ipswich. like You have to take those small moments.
00:02:22
Zak
but However, I'd much prefer to be a club that is on the other end, right?
00:02:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's
00:02:26
Zak
where we we get back to regularly.
Team Optimism and Bonding
00:02:29
Zak
greg Is it too much to say we will we we're going to be we're close to regularly winning? Do you reckon we can manage two back-to-backs? like It's asking a lot.
00:02:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
it. You ask me that same question again this time next week and we'll see. don't
00:02:42
Zak
good
00:02:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
know. I'm feeling positive heading into the weekend. I feel like it's...
00:02:46
Zak
Shocker.
00:02:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
it so I feel like it's a good time it's a good team to come up against the right time, right? like It's team that we probably should comfortably win, which off of the back of a not-so-comfortable win, it should be good. We should be putting these pieces together.
00:03:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Nice little bit of team bonding for the team in the week as well to help them gel. It's
Underestimating Opponents and Team Potential
00:03:13
Zak
I think for someone that constantly talks about the championship being the best league in the in the world, and it's tough, you really need to get out the habit of saying that we should comfortably beat any team. Because, mate, that just isn't how it works. We should have comfortably beaten the whole city by your metrics. We were bad, everyone.
00:03:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
to be good.
00:03:31
Zak
So, like, where I'm at is that whenever we go into a game like this, as much as I know that you want to be positive, and as much as there is positivity to be had,
00:03:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. i would
00:03:38
Zak
I really think you should step away from being like, wow, it's Derby, isn't it? And even even Nick, our wonderful, illustrious co-founder of the GSPN Global Sports Podcast Network, said in our crossover yesterday, right?
00:03:52
Zak
like he He was just like, yeah, you know, but then we are also really good at scoring that one goal that ruins your day.
00:03:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank
00:03:58
Zak
And I'm like, I could see that also being a thing unless we we kill games off.
James Ward-Prowse's Future
00:04:03
Zak
So, so I'm fine and agree with you and all of the points you've madeit made, mate, but I am going to start putting a hard line whenever you say that we have really beatable opposition, because that's, you know, that's what, that's what Darby probably, who whoever it was that like got beaten by Oxford, Oxford County the other week, probably also thought, right?
00:04:20
Zak
Just if it's the best league in a world, mate, it's because every game is like a final. That's not true. I feel like Preston's vote is never a final, but like, there we are.
00:04:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Wow, just catching strays. You love to see it.
00:04:33
Zak
I'm coming.
00:04:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Before we get into it and get to our predicted eleven
00:04:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
11s, there's been a lot of talk that we need to address back.
00:04:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know that you hate it and I'm not really a fan of it, but look it's been it is basically consumed my news feed. So we would be remiss not to talk about it. And that's James Will Prowse getting dropped at West Ham.
00:05:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
So what do you think, mate? should Should we bring him home?
00:05:05
Zak
So he's been a player from another club has been dropped. Yeah.
00:05:09
Zak
Okay. It's this people might think that's disrespectful to a player that played for us for a long time. Yeah, that's fine. But he left our club. And like, it's not like I really think we need to get out of this habit of if any of the players that used to play for us struggle somewhere else, we should immediately throw a lifeline to them.
00:05:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:05:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:27
Zak
Right? Because, like, the reason he left is he wanted to get back into the England squad. So he went to West Ham. He hasn't scored a free kick yet to beat his record that he's, like, one off of in the Premier League.
00:05:38
Zak
Right? which Which shows you that one of the few things that we really liked him for has completely dropped out of his game. Right? One way or another.
Player Loyalty and Transfers
00:05:47
Zak
He then fell out of favour and went on loan to Nottingham Forest, where he spent six months i mean struggling to break into their team.
00:05:54
Zak
Like, I remember, think...
00:05:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, noon Nuno there didn't rate him and now Nuno taking over is the reason he's been dropped.
00:05:57
Zak
No. he he also He also, remember at one point, got like quite early on into that season, got a red card, they then got him a band for a little bit, and I think you know after that, other people took his place.
00:06:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
aye
00:06:09
Zak
He came back to West Ham, and yeah, he was integral into Potter's potters tactics that didn't work.
00:06:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's their voice captain.
00:06:18
Zak
Yeah, exactly. Did not work. And Nuno's come back in been like, yeah, you're good for the dressing room, which I'm pretty sure is what you said about Forrest, right? Which is why potentially Forrest wanted to keep him for the rest of that season.
00:06:30
Zak
But ultimately, he's been dropped. like What I cannot understand is that where we think he's fitting in, who he's supposedly better than, And is it just this past obsession with players? Because we've already discussed, I would have Romero back.
00:06:43
Zak
Probably would, to be fair. Because I don't really think we should have ever let him go. i don't think we should let Prowsey go.
00:06:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:49
Zak
But I also don't think that we're going to get the same player we had two years ago. That's the other problem, is that like people forget that like time elapses. When time elapses, things change.
00:06:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:06:59
Zak
like I would have loved to have had Brent Brereton-Diaz in prime Blackburn days. The problem is, is we got Ben Bereta-Diaz after getting relegated with first Sheffield United whilst on loan from Villarreal, right?
00:07:12
Zak
And that's the problem, is that you will currently be pick picking up a player that's pretty bereft of confidence after being dropped. And also a player that, judging by the fact that the last time we thought we were going to bring him home, he went on loan to another Premier League team because that's where he wants to be.
00:07:28
Zak
Because remember, if he wants any hope of getting back into the England set-up or beating that record, he's going to need to stay in the Premier League. I wouldn't be surprised if you see him end up going on loan to like Sunderland. That is far more likely to me than him coming back here.
00:07:41
Zak
And if he comes back, I wouldn't be like, oh no, this is an awful decision. But i do struggle to understand where he's going to go in. And I know a lot of people are probably going to say off the back of this, well, you know he could comfortably go into our first game.
00:07:53
Zak
Okay, make that argument for me.
00:07:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:56
Zak
like Because the West Ham team is doing well.
00:07:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think... No, look, I think I'm in agreement with you. like even when he was with us and he was good for us, he still had a lot of sideways and backwards in his game that used to really wind me up. And I don't think it necessarily suits the system we play at the moment. Him as a player definitely doesn't.
00:08:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
and And, like, if... short right if it does happen and, you know, his astronomical wages, like he decides, I don't want to make any money. I'll do i'll just come back for 50p a week because I want to, you know, finish off my time at Southampton and, and, you know, play for the badge. And he wants to come in and be a rotation player for no money.
00:08:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Sure. Great. And if that led to him and that, that led him, you know, breaking the free kick record in a Saints shirt.
00:08:40
Zak
But that's just not the reality of it.
00:08:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fantastic. But it's just, I don't ever see that happening. It's not the way it's playing out. There's no scenario where that's what he wants. So it's not going to work out. Like like you say, he doesn't...
00:08:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't think he makes it into our first XI against, you know, with the players we've got.
00:09:05
Zak
okay Again, it might just it might be disrespectful and people might think, okay, well, yeah, no, actually, I think he goes in straight away.
Team Strategies and Training Camps
00:09:12
Zak
And like everyone's entitled to their opinion. It's just that, for for me, you're looking at like where he's at, where our current players are at, what they're trying to build.
00:09:21
Zak
I just don't... you know other than it being a fan signing for someone that, you pointed out, you could get for cheap. Like, okay, I think maybe it would improve the morale of the fan base.
00:09:32
Zak
Other than that, it's like there's not... It's bizarre. It's like when we were like, oh, maybe we bring Oxlade-Chamberlain in because he's a free agent. Why? Because he played for us years ago. Like, it's it's such a strange thing.
00:09:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:09:43
Zak
It's the same with thing with Ings again. Like, you had Sheffield United, but people, when he was a free agent, were like, wow, we should be picking up Danny Ings straight away. And I'm like, we're trying to cling on to what the past was. That just isn't how it is anymore.
00:09:57
Zak
Like, we need to start thinking of what Salampton are for the future. And again, like, we we're just as bad. Like, I know we're nostalgia bait half the time.
00:10:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:10:05
Zak
Like, God, most of our... We've got so many episodes about the last decade of being at Saints and the best players we've ever had and talking about Tadic and talking about James Will Prowse and his amazing free kicks and this and the other. But at the same time, like, the reality of the situation on the ground is that, well, we can't just...
00:10:19
Zak
We can't just... pick up players that used to play for us every time they go through a struggle in their career because yeah, I, I know that's probably going to wind some people up.
00:10:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:10:30
Zak
Like I get that, but
00:10:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, look look, I understand that. And obviously, it's slightly different because it's Warped Prowse, right? And he has is not just like some player that used to play for us, right?
00:10:40
Zak
yeah, it's it's not like,
00:10:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
For a number of years, he was Mr. Southampton. so I get it. But also, I just, I don't see it. You're right. He'll end up somewhere else on loan. More power to him. I hope he does well.
00:10:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't want to see him struggle about.
00:10:53
Zak
No, it's it's not that I don't want to see him struggle either.
00:10:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:10:56
Zak
It's not like I'm like, I'm not one of those people where like people already get on the back of Diblin for going and this, that, the other. And I'm like, it's it's all right to recognise that a lot of the players that have left us, bar maybe Matty Fernandes, are currently sat at the bench a lot.
00:11:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
you
00:11:09
Zak
Right. That's completely acceptable to to recognize and be like, oh, they made their bed and lie in it. as' no loyalty in football. And i'm like, well, no, there's not because it's about ultimately getting the best wage and playing the best competitions, this thing and other. but That's just how it is.
00:11:22
Zak
And he was loyal to us for a long, long time. And he went with a specific purpose and specific reasons. I don't think that he's just gone, well, that didn't work out, but as sling the hook back to Southampton. And also, I don't think you take a massive wage cut for that
Lineup Decisions and Player Performance
00:11:36
Zak
reason.
00:11:37
Zak
this isn't It's not like he's at the end of his career.
00:11:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
100%, yeah.
00:11:38
Zak
It's not like a when we took Theo Walcott, when we took Adam Lallana. like The Lallana thing clearly looks like the coaching was built into it from the start. right There was never really a plan for him to be there forever as a player.
00:11:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm. yeah
00:11:50
Zak
Right? Unless you've got something like that built in, I just don't see it being the case. And also, yeah i just don't think he's going to want to leave the Premier League because that is literally why he left us last time.
00:12:02
Zak
So there's just a lot of my opinions. so yeah It's done.
00:12:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah I don't think we'll see it.
00:12:07
Zak
It's done, right. There's actually a game Saturday.
00:12:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, right.
00:12:09
Zak
we should talk about that.
00:12:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Let's move on to players that will be in our starting XI. But first, mate, let's have a break and hear a message from our partners at Bionique.
00:12:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, wait. And we are back. You're right. It's a game. Let's get to it. Who's to be in the starting 11? Short segment from me.
00:13:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
I want to see no changes.
00:13:11
Zak
So, you're you're still you're happy now to stick with the the McCarthy is now our main keeper for the time being.
00:13:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, oh
00:13:18
Zak
you You say that, but then also, if I told you Basil McCarthy, you'd probably go, well, Brazil do.
00:13:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, look, whatever.
00:13:27
Zak
If we now just accepted, would be what would be. Is that it's not where you're at, goalkeeper?
00:13:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, look, I'm just tired of the conversation. i don't i think that that they are both as good of goalkeepers as we are going to get for the rest of the season.
00:13:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
And one way or another, they will or won't save the shots.
00:13:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right? Like...
00:13:55
Zak
i I agree with you. I'd like to put to put it to bed. I actually think that you had the most common sense and logical approach when we talked about it over transfer the transfer window, where if we had sold Ramsdale, it'd be a bit different, but we didn't.
00:14:09
Zak
So because he's on loan, we're stuck between, do we want at one point, maybe next season, four to five keepers? No. So is what it is.
00:14:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, and look I mean... don't I can't decisively say that the goal that Sheffield United scored was Alex McCarthy's fault. It might have just been a coincidence that it also went in at his near post, like all of the goals he concedes.
00:14:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
But it definitely wasn't strong enough to say baz would have saved that. And so, you you know, the same logic as Tuesday is you stick by that decision that he, you know, you think he's your number one keeper and roll with it. So it's...
00:14:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
you can't just keep chopping and changing. if if If he's our number one keeper and that's the decision, fine. I've made peace with it for now.
00:15:01
Zak
peace with it until he makes an absolute howl and we lose a game probably right okay
00:15:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, almost definitely. And and that that will happen. and But to be fair, that would also happen if we had Bazin goal at some point. It's just the unfortunate tale of the season, I think.
00:15:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
The unfortunate position we're in.
00:15:17
Zak
one you're right
00:15:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:20
Zak
So, the un-changes. Let's talk about the the places we could potentially change. i've seen a lot of talk about Quoshi and people not have a lot trust in him and him being sort of the weaker of the three and people wanting to so you see him switched out. You not feeling the same?
00:15:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I think he was fine. they There you go.
00:15:38
Zak
Good.
00:15:38
Zak
Good.
00:15:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
that that There were some moments of doubt, right? But also, he is a young player and you youre only get more used to it by playing more in that partnership. If we that's the defensive partnership we want to go by, then you need the minutes of them gelling together.
00:15:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
And again, you don't you know when it comes to that back, definitely the back three and the goalkeeper... You don't want to be having to chop and change that every week. You want a real solid base who understand each other.
00:16:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
And, you know, when it comes to the wingbacks who are going to be doing a lot more running and stuff, I think rotation is fine. But really, that base, you want to be completely the same.
00:16:21
Zak
Okay. Manning was looking leggy, mate.
00:16:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:24
Zak
So you don't think maybe Shalot gets a go? Or do you think that if he's if he's fit, Manning will start?
00:16:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:16:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think Manning will
Team Bonding at St. George's Park
00:16:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
start. I think we might see an earlier change because he was notably tied towards the end of the game. But but I think Manning will probably start.
00:16:40
Zak
Okay. And you'd keep Finna Saz on the pitch as well?
00:16:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
That is, you know, that's probably the only position.
00:16:46
Zak
That's the only thing I knew that you would probably be like, eh.
00:16:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. I wouldn't be upset with starting Ryan Fraser in that position.
00:16:57
Zak
I mean...
00:16:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I don't know if that would be the name on everybody else's lips either to fill in that number 10 role.
00:17:03
Zak
don't think so, but also just been putting in performances wherever they've stuck it, really. So I've kind of not...
00:17:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
lips and Literally that. like just The energy that he brings onto the pitch is unbelievable. and yeah If you're going slot him in anywhere, I think that there's the place for it because I'd like to see him as number 10 with fellows out on the right.
00:17:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
i think that that should work nicely.
00:17:31
Zak
And obviously, we're still in his conversation about, because he didn't give a proper crep press conference, but did talk about this like weird training camp they've gone on, right? Where basically it's like, for me, it's a recognition of we need to be better than where we are.
00:17:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:17:44
Zak
Do you guys need to spend a week just actually doing your job nonstop so we can get to that place? And it kind of feels like that's the case because it's like him saying, quote him literally saying, I don't mean to be a ball lake, but this needs to be done.
00:17:56
Zak
For me, it's very telling. It's like recognizing that, hey, I know that none of you really want to be here, but also you're paid a lot of money. And where we're at is where any of you said you wanted to be in your ambition meetings when you had media.
00:18:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:18:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
mean think that's a I think that's a slightly cynical approach and viewpoint on it. Maybe a more fair analysis would be that we didn't really have a proper pre-season camp this year. We did have the small week away in Spain, but also like half of the players who went on that pre-season camp have left.
00:18:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
And, you knows half of the players here in our squad have been brought in since that. So this is an opportunity to sort of fill that gap and have that togetherness and, and you know, do the training and go to St. George's Park and use the England facilities, which is great.
00:18:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
but That's always like a bit of a morale boost as well.
Match Strategy and Player Updates
00:18:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just, yeah, I think it it's nice. It's good to see the team doing that. And, yeah,
00:19:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, it's all right.
00:19:05
Zak
yeah The other thing I i wanted to you to address, Greg, is that Jack Steve was on the touchline the other day. didn't even talk about that. its really we We kind of skipped over that whole thing because we thought it was a bit bit nonsense.
00:19:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. He
00:19:16
Zak
But, you know, yeah, he was out he was out for injury.
00:19:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
pulled his ankle in training and wasn't able to be on the bench, but did manage to do the running after the game.
00:19:21
Zak
I couldn't...
00:19:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
but it's because the ankle's swollen and he can't turn on it? don't know.
00:19:32
Zak
I mean, either way, my point is that if it was to do with a clash to do with some massive internal fight that's going on that a lot of people said was going on, don't think he'd have been on the touchline with the manager.
00:19:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I fully agree with that. it Just absolutely put into bed that it was absolute nonsense that it would ever be about us, but you're right.
00:19:44
Zak
So, good.
00:19:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
i actually think the point you were trying to get to with Will Steele's words in the Echo that Ross Stewart's going to play 105 Saturday.
00:19:58
Zak
Yeah, no, that's because that's what we talked about we talked about earlier today off air. you Yeah, you're right. Ross Stewart, 105 minutes now. He's managed about an extra 15 minutes each time. So that means that now he's fit for a full game and then some.
00:20:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I don't know if that's quite how it works, but you can't you can drop him or Arma, at least at the start of the game. he might He may only make it 60-50 minutes into the game because three games in a week after coming back might be really rough.
00:20:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
But also, he's got a full international break to rest up afterwards, so you're going to push him, this is the the game to do it. And I mean... if it ain't broke, don't fix it, is kind of the system all the way through the team, right?
00:20:40
Zak
and
00:20:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
And him and Armour are the people who have scored goals in the last two games. We'll just blank the penalty. Don't worry about that.
00:20:52
Zak
I just just can't get over him making more of a joke out it than anyone else really took the bite out of it for me like i'd I'd love to be mad but clearly he got in there and was like yeah I messed that i so yeah I i agree it is what it is
00:20:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
And, you know...
00:20:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:21:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah What would be interesting is if we win a penalty on Saturday, who takes it?
00:21:13
Zak
Yeah, no, you're right. don that I can promise I can do it next start next time asked him, boss. It's very Bruno Fernandes, like score one, miss one, score one, miss one maybe Maybe it'll be like that.
00:21:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:24
Zak
But it's...
00:21:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah. but but But yeah.
00:21:27
Zak
I'm excited.
00:21:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Based off that logic for me, you know, a broke, don't fix it. As close to the starting 11 of Tuesday as possible, but probably changes earlier on than you you'd think.
Score Predictions and Podcast Wrap-up
00:21:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah Like I say, there are a couple of places that I could see swapped, like say, as Az, Manning, potentials, but but the rest of it, the core, has got to be exactly the same for me.
00:21:52
Zak
Okay, that's cool. it sounds It sounds like we're getting there.
00:21:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
What?
00:21:56
Zak
We just need the result to prove that we're getting there, not the result to say, turns out they had like well too many curries while they were away up in Sheffield and that completely forgot there was football to be had.
00:22:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:06
Zak
By the sounds of the training they're going through, I think they'll definitely know they've got a game coming up.
00:22:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's...
00:22:11
Zak
So very, very much excited to for it to crack on.
00:22:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think long gone are the days of pre-season camps being old jollies and benders. That's a thing of the past, I think. But you're right.
00:22:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Building towards like some sort of consistency means we're going to have to come up with something different for segment two of our match previews because because that's going to get real boring, isn't it? Yeah, just the same 11 as last week. They won. Why change?
00:22:36
Zak
I think that it says it all that that has been a part of our match previews for so long, including under Russell Martin, that we're like, wow, we obviously need to change the entire squad around because this squad ain't working.
00:22:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:47
Zak
And it's been like that for so long. but It's like, oh, a team that's the same two games in a row. Insanity.
00:22:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:22:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, mate. we'll We'll revisit our score predictions from yesterday and see if that's still how we're feeling after a day of ruminating on it. But first, let's have little break and have a message from our partners at Zencaster.
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00:23:33
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All right, mate, you said 2-1 yesterday, if I recall correctly.
00:23:37
Zak
oh
00:23:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is that that that's still how you feel him?
00:23:41
Zak
hey Maybe 3-1. Let's go with 3-1 because 3-1 is us putting the game to bed, right?
00:23:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:47
Zak
At least by our standards. And I think we we just need to do that because I just i don't think that another 2-1 win, regardless of the fact that it's a win, quietens down... the noise, right?
00:23:59
Zak
And I think that people will still be, well, like, oh, we got away with that one. And it will feel like that, right? Because if, even if we, if we score it last minute, it's going to feel like, you know, it's like, oh, we got away with that.
00:24:10
Zak
If we score it in the 45th after scoring an an old at the beginning of the game, and then they peg one back, we're going to be sat on that. I just would like to be in a position where we score three goals, in the league and there is at least that cushion between us and Derby, I still think they'll probably end up scoring off of fluke goal, especially considering the track record of recent games. But if we can put it to bed, it's fine.
00:24:35
Zak
So there you go, Greg. The optimism you've got, the the caffeine in my bloodstream, everything else in the world means that I am hoping for a three one win on Saturday.
00:24:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
I appreciate
00:24:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, I can't remember exactly what I said yesterday. can't remember if I said 2-1 or 3-1. I think I was stuck between the two. But actually, i've just I've just got a feeling about a clean sheet.
00:24:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've just, I don't know. feel it coming. So, i mean, 4-0. go go for it. es sco florian
00:25:05
Zak
i predict three, so you have to at least be slightly more optimistic than me.
00:25:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's it. Yeah, I've got to keep the overjump. Yeah, look, I mean, Ross do it with two, Arma with one, and then Tom Fellows to get his first goal in the Saints shirt.
00:25:18
Zak
it's It's great how often you keep saying Tom Pellows is going to score.
00:25:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's what we want.
00:25:22
Zak
You have predicted him to score to every single game thus far and you still haven't got your winch.
00:25:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
But when it comes true, mate, it's that one clip that everyone remembers when I predict it correctly. That's all that matters. We don't worry about the 100 minutes.
00:25:35
Zak
That's all that matters. Not the but the wonderful listeners, mate, who listen to us day in, day out, that just go, that see that on social media and be like, that bloke has been saying he's going to score every game for the last six months.
00:25:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, no, that too, because that just shows my consistent belief in in our team.
00:25:50
Zak
yeah
00:25:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's going to happen.
00:25:53
Zak
Sure.
00:25:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's going to happen soon.
00:25:54
Zak
consistent Consistent beliefs or whatever you pointed out yesterday, that like the law of averages is, where if you just say something enough, it's eventually going to happen.
00:26:03
Zak
If I say that like he is going to score a goal in a SACHA every day for the next year, eventually he might do it.
00:26:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely.
00:26:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's it, mate. But look, that is all we've got time for today. Thank you, Zach, for joining me. Thank you, everybody, for listening.
00:26:16
Zak
Thank you.
00:26:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Let us know in the comments your score predictions. How optimistic are you feeling? Hopefully as optimistic as me. Let's have a great weekend. Let us know. We're on all of the social medias.
00:26:31
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00:26:41
Zak
Thank you.
00:26:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Regardless of the outcome, though, we will be back Monday to talk about it in painstaking detail. I can't wait. I look forward to it. So until then, we hope you all have a great weekend.
00:26:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Come on, Saints. Another nice win heading into that international break.