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Our last game under O'Neil? - Crossover episode
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Will welcomes Rob and Tom from Ipswich to preview Saturday's game.
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Introduction to the Crossover Episode
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello everybody, it's Will from Daily Wolves and today is our crossover episode with Ipswich and I'm joined by Rob. Rob, hello.
00:00:17
Rob Binns
Alright mate, how you doing?
00:00:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, not too bad. Thanks, not too bad. And also Tom from Ipswich as well. Tom, how are we?
00:00:24
Tom Crack - Ipswich
I'm good of mate, I'm a good. yeah Excited to get ah looking at today's Saturday's game. you know It's a big one for both of us, isn't it?
Challenges of Promotion: Ipswich's Experience
00:00:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah i mean to be honest it feels like i don't know about you guys um but we've been saying it's a big one about every game the past sort of couple of weeks ah every game feels like a you know six pointer if you like Um, but yeah, so to kick us off with, I just wanted to ask you guys, um, obviously as a newly promoted team and we've been there just, you know, five, six years ago, coming up from the championship. Um, how have you found, you know, your, your start to the Premier League season? Obviously a difficult one, but you know, um, just in terms of the level of football and how, how you think your squad has adapted, is there anything like specifically that you've noticed different at all?
00:01:17
Rob Binns
ah Just the quality is higher, to be honest. to be honest this we always sort of Back in the last year, when we were looking at promotions, still thinking I would probably fall away at some point, and we were letting ourselves get excited, but not over the top.
00:01:31
Rob Binns
We always said that the sort of football we played in the championship, we wouldn't get away with in the Premier League, so something we'd have to give.
00:01:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:01:38
Rob Binns
And it hasn't really given, and we aren't getting away with it.
00:01:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:01:42
Rob Binns
and so some of the goals, some of the mistakes we make at the back are the sort of things that, one that stands out to me, I think some of the games we have now this season where we've given a couple of poor goals away, obviously most recently with Muric's error against Bournemouth, but I think back to Rotherham last year, we won that game 4-3, but one of the goals we gave away in that game was exactly, we were like, we've messed about at the back all game and somehow we only considered once from it, we should have been two or three, but
00:01:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:02:10
Rob Binns
Like it was rather him at home in that time. So we got away with it and got a result. And then now it's, um now we don't, we don't get away with it.
00:02:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah i'm well i was going to say that um messing about at the back is something that we are oh so familiar with here at daily wolves i think we've conceded the most out of any team um in the in the league this year um so yeah it's familiar familiar territory and um i mean as you mentioned you just you have to be so much more clinical i suppose um
00:02:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
this level but you guys you know you spoke about just there um how you saw that the football you're playing in the championship you won't be able to get away within the programm but ah for as far as i'm aware
00:03:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
um but but everyone seems surprised by you know the phrase they're playing decent football um crops up a lot and you know is that true and how much of that um you know would you would you trade to to I suppose be a ah few places higher up in in the table currently?
00:03:20
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Mm.
Ipswich's Performance: Competitive Yet Struggling
00:03:33
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, it's kind of a double edged sword that that question, to be honest, well, because, you know, this season, you know, we've drawn six games, I think, only pallets have drawn more than us in the league. So it shows that we've been competitive. A lot of the fixtures, you know, games in which we haven't necessarily expected to get anything from, like, you know, a villa United and obviously our win at Spurs. We we play good football in those games. We are relatively competitive. it's But it's just the games against teams in the bottom half of the table were really not showing things. You know, but there's the argument of like, would you like to play you know rubbish out of 75% and then snake a few wins or like we are for the most part being in in most of these games and then losing in a really heartbreaking fashion like we did again this past weekend and then you know only have one win on the board so it's a difficult place to be I am happy with our performances for the most part but like you said there's been moments for season when you'd like to we should be a bit far up the table we were so close to beating Leicester to get that first home win
00:04:25
Tom Crack - Ipswich
this past weekend, can we were also close to getting another win at home. So it's it's the fine margins. That's what I'm really finding in the Premier League. As Rob said, it's it's much harder, obviously, that goes without saying, but it's those small moments in which we've only slightly lost out on which sees us in 18th as opposed to us potentially being in 14th if a few more things went our way.
00:04:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah, no, 100%. I mean, I think we've had a fair bit of that. And, um you know, in terms of, I don't know if you guys are aware of the whole VAR decisions for and against like with, ah with the team with the most against and I mean, you can only use that excuse, so you know, those fine margins so long before I think personally, you need to see um some change.
00:05:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I was just wondering, in
00:05:07
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:05:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know for us at wolves being where we are in the table right now and we have a joint on points with nine points and you're sitting just just above us O'Neill is under a hell of a lot of pressure in fact I don't know how he's still in the job I just wanted to know what your thoughts are is that is that a similar situation with McKenna it's which all of the thoughts just just different around that in general yeah
00:05:35
Rob Binns
No, I think, yeah, he's McKenna's got more than enough credit in the bank.
Managerial Pressure: McKenna vs. O'Neill
00:05:39
Rob Binns
I don't think he's ever going to be in danger. I think from the outside point of view, you probably will have to start asking the question at some point, when it's how long does it stay on one whim for?
00:05:50
Rob Binns
But from our point of view, that it's like Rob Edwards at Luton last year. He just knew it was never going to happen.
00:05:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:56
Rob Binns
There was enough credit in the bank from getting there in the first place that like the only way we you know the only way we're going to lose him is
00:05:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:04
Rob Binns
because because he steps up and gets a better job. He's he's never going to be forced away unless again, unless it is like Rob Edwards at Luton and we go down and then we're at the danger of going down again.
00:06:15
Rob Binns
It would have to be something like that before it even becomes a consideration. that So we're more scared that something like the United it or someone like that will come and nab him from us if we do go down.
00:06:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah Yeah I mean you just mentioned there the possibility of unfortunately going down and then going down again and just to give you guys a bit of context
00:06:30
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Thank you.
The High Stakes Match Against Ipswich
00:06:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
um when i first sort of started supporting wolves when i first got my ever season ticket was yeah when we had that double relegation from a the premier league down into league one and um it's been a sort of you know quite the roller coaster since then in terms of you know sitting on those cold tuesday nights watching some of the worst football possible being played but you know winning league one so to then um you know qualifying for europe and having a good run in that and you know an fa cup semi-final under under nuno which i suppose um from a neutrals point of view that's sort of what we're known for um and i think it would have been yeah the nuno era when when we've last faced ip switch uh in the league at least i know you you actually beat us last year in the cup
00:07:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
um which I think was towards the start of O'Neill's era and um I think you know this game coming up on Saturday could well be the end of O'Neill's era um so yeah just just looking towards Saturday then um I'm just going to briefly look over now we've got this thing here at Daily Wars which I introduced Chris to on our team not so long back and it's it's not been proven wrong just yet but I don't know if you guys know Google has a win probability feature um for games and for this one it is telling me that we have a 50% chance of winning with an Ipswich win at 25 and a draw at 25
00:08:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
So obviously with that in mind, um you know how confident are or aren't you guys looking ahead towards Saturday?
00:08:30
Tom Crack - Ipswich
I think to be honest, looking at that probability thing, that is the only reason you've got 25% more than us is purely because you're at home. If you look at points and everything like that and how we've both been playing this season, it is very much equal. Like it it really is. I only went away this season was away. So, you know, that's, that's something to take into, I've, I've actually found recently that our performances at home have been a lot worse than it had been away. I don't know. It's just because.
00:08:52
Tom Crack - Ipswich
there's less There's less pressure when you're on the road. It's kind of us against the world mentality, which I think that's that's always a good thing to adopt.
00:08:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:08:59
Tom Crack - Ipswich
But yeah, i we've got to go into this weekend thinking we can win. This is one of the few games we we can potentially do that on paper. like I've said earlier on the show today that our worst performances have been against, so we could really get something against and maybe slightly expect to.
00:09:13
Tom Crack - Ipswich
So that's what I'm slightly ah wary of going into Saturday's game. But, you know, both of us as fans of Wolves and Town, we notice we we know we need to start grabbing three points instead of the occasional one.
00:09:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Hmm.
00:09:25
Tom Crack - Ipswich
And this is one of us, so i I've got to go into it this weekend. I don't know about you, Rob, with a point of view that we can win this.
00:09:31
Rob Binns
Yeah. This must win is a term that he's throwing around a lot in these sort of games. Oh, no doubt. Obviously pie us a lot of the time, particularly with the games we've had this week as well, which we then haven't won.
00:09:43
Rob Binns
But this is the definition of must win because the draw suits neither of us.
Relegation Battle: The Fight for Survival
00:09:49
Rob Binns
It's quite frightening.
00:09:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah.
00:09:50
Rob Binns
Look at what and we get draw here. That just all it does is open the opportunity for ah your palaces, your Lester's ever and all those sort of teams that gives them a chance to go and build a bit of a gap because we've taken points off each other and it could end up just screwing us both over if the game finishes level with but it can't be one of those boring games where both teams turn up scared to lose and it finishes a nil-nil or something like that.
00:10:14
Rob Binns
We can't, it it needs to be two teams going completely out at trying to win the game on all weeks I could say because normally I go into these sort of games and I say as the away team as long as you don't lose you've done your job in these big games but I
00:10:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:10:30
Rob Binns
I'm going to completely against everything I've said in that, as I would be really disappointed with anything except the wind, just because, like I say, the draw is near enough as bad. A draw helps us in terms of walls don't gain points on us.
00:10:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:10:43
Rob Binns
But all we're doing is effectively dragging each other down with us and just basically trying to nail on that bottom three as it is at the moment if one of us doesn't go.
00:10:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:10:52
Rob Binns
You're almost fighting for your life and just sort of get us out. Don't worry about them, rez. At the same time, we are trying to like, You're trying to claw them back down with you, but like I say, it has to be a win, simply.
00:11:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah no um it's funny you should mention that um the the idea of a draw benefits no one um because those were my thoughts um against our game against west ham that we've just come out of which you know uh dubbed el sakiko and both both managers have kept their jobs somehow um but it it did feel you know um as i alluded to earlier every game right now is a must win um you know every game has even more pressure on it um than we should i mean before i i give give any sort of thoughts in terms of how me and you know the other guys at daily wolves are feeling um before saturday i just want to take a quick break to remind you that here at global sports podcast network we spent a lot of time selecting our delivery platform and zencaster came out the clear winner
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00:12:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
our trouble
Wolves' Defensive Weaknesses
00:12:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
has just been conceding goals like there's no tomorrow i think we've conceded 38 or 39 so far this season and i think um about 15 or something like that of those have been from set pieces which is just ridiculous um so you know um you spoke about having the home advantage um but whether it's been home or away we've been scoring goals you know the game that springs to mind is I think we lost 5-2 away to Brentford and Rob as you mentioned there
00:13:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know if you go into that and you think as the away team um if you don't lose then you've done a good job um by that same logic as an away team if your strikers are scoring two goals yet you're not even getting a point you've done a bad job i think and that's been the same for us um when we've been at home and lately what's worrying is those goals have dried up a little bit. um I mean we beat Fulham 4-1 but since then we um only grabbed 1 against West Ham and got hammered 4-0 away to Everton which is...
00:14:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
frankly embarrassing and um I know I know you guys you've got some big players I mean the laps brings to mind I can just picture it you know a sort of late corner a late sort of free kick just lumped into the box and we're shaky we're shaky um and yeah i mean i don't know what you guys i don't know what your what are your thoughts on walls so far this is from from what you've seen at least or or based on on what i've said you know um where do you think that we could potentially caused cause cause view issues
00:14:42
Rob Binns
Yeah, it's the opposite of what you said, basically, that your problem is letting goals in. And but the thing is is, you also score a lot of goals. so So just having a quick glance at the table, you've scored more goals than the likes of Forrest and Villa, who are right up the top of the table.
00:14:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah yeah
00:14:56
Rob Binns
So you haven't got, you know where the net is. And we, we tend to, we haven't conceded as many goals as some of the other teams around us, but we tend to give a lot of opportunities away from mistakes and people with the quality of, I mean, obviously Cooney is the obvious one. If you give someone like him half a chance on a mistake, he's going to take it. And I look at Palace the other week that that was a one of the dullest games I've seen for a long time, destined to be nil, nil. We made one mistake and so but it was, we get, we gave that mistake and it created a chance for someone with enough quality as Mateta who took it and scored. And that's my worry again, that
00:15:39
Rob Binns
walls again, and have that players that if we make those sort of mistakes, it could be a dry, nil, nil game. And we'll gift a goal again. Let's say even Bournemouth, we gifted the first one back to Bournemouth and then got under the cost.
00:15:51
Rob Binns
So we've got mistakes in us. And like you say, you know where the goal is.
00:15:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Heh heh.
00:15:55
Rob Binns
It might have dried up a bit recently, but the way isn the way to get out of that sometimes is to get one handed on a plate here, which we seem to have a really horrible habit of doing for our opponents.
00:15:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:06
Rob Binns
That's my fear because yeah,
00:16:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, Tom. Tom, do you have anything to add to that?
00:16:11
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, I mean, i'll start I'll just say here, guys, I know we're both nice, but let like we're we're still in the prem. Come on, let's let's start a complete negative hour here. But no, I mean, if I'm looking at from looking at walls across across the season. Yeah, you know, obviously, yeah goals, conceding goals has been a big issue.
00:16:27
Tom Crack - Ipswich
But I think individually, like, if you look at player for player, I know, yeah, the likes of Talat has been fantastic for us this season, then fingers crossed we can hold on to him regardless of where we finished this season. But, you know, the likes of Qurn Yavir, I'm a big fan of eight Nori as well. I think he's a fantastic player. I think, you know, if you do go down along alongside our left back as well, and Leif Davis, I think those two guys, whether they'll be in the prem or some or somewhere else the next season, he's a fantastic player. i could I could see him even in the French squad at some point as well.
00:16:52
Tom Crack - Ipswich
So there's quality across the park there. I just think from our perspective, you know, you said that you could see us scoring a late set-piece goal. I don't think we've scored from a corner all season, so you shouldn't have much to worry about there.
00:17:03
Rob Binns
No, I was going to say that. and Yeah, I was going to bring it up as well.
00:17:05
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, yeah.
00:17:06
Rob Binns
We're the only team in the league to have not scored a headed goal this season.
00:17:08
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Not to score.
00:17:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
well look now is your chance and i can't stress this enough i can't stress this enough if you haven't scored one already you are going to um i think the one thing yeah um the one thing i would say i mean there's two things um
00:17:13
Rob Binns
I think we've already played Man United though. They're the other ones up there with you who can't defend them. We didn't score one against Man United.
00:17:25
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Mm.
00:17:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
First of all, I've said this about a few of our games so far this season. And if you're saying that you give opportunities away, um again, I think you've met your match because so do we, and not so much direct opportunities. I mean, there's been a few in recent weeks with Dawson yeah ended up getting dropped just due to sloppy performances, which, you know, when that's your best defender and that's the form they're on, it sort of paints a picture for you of how things are going.
00:17:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Um, but I've been quite critical and, um, Tom, I'm sorry to continue down this sort of route of negativity, but it's a, it's a daily wolves podcast and I'm on it.
00:18:08
Tom Crack - Ipswich
It's okay.
00:18:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
So it's, it's, you know, it's not going to be sunshine and rainbows, unfortunately. Um, but a lot of the games, you know, even if I was just watching as a neutral, um,
00:18:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
apart from the likes of Kunia who of course every everybody mentions and rightly so because it's a sort of it seems to be you know if you stop him you stop wolves at times um but apart apart from him and one or two moments of you know just obscene skill
00:18:28
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:18:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
um games have lacked quality and just appear to to be just a match of two teams who just can't defend just simply don't know how to defend and that's that's what's cost us so much so so far so if if you if you saying that um you think that you'll give away chances i i can't imagine this being a boring game um which is funny because going back a few weeks i suppose um as you guys have both mentioned you've you've drawn a lot of games so far this season um I would have killed for that I would have killed for just you know a boring one we'll draw in a couple of our past fixtures if not all of them but now it's getting to that period where as we've both mentioned we need we just we need to be going at it we we really do
00:19:27
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm. Hmm.
00:19:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I mean, Tom, you mentioned there, Cunha and Aitnori, obviously probably are two most skillful players. And I'm glad that Aitnori got a mention, because people, neutrals outside the wolves often overlook him. And he is one of the silkiest footballers I've ah i've ever watched.
00:19:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
um But is there any, anyone in particular, is there anything in terms of a man to man thing that you can see being an issue for for us, for wolves? Is there anyone who we should be wary of apart from just whenever there's a set piece?
00:20:17
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
Ipswich's Key Players and Threats
00:20:18
Tom Crack - Ipswich
um I mean, from our prop for our perspective going forward, you know we like Rob said, we have struggled to score a fair few this season. and I think looking at just how you guys recently lined up with 3-5-2, is that how it generally is, or 3
00:20:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
um yeah it chops and changes i just it just depends what's that what um the the guaranteed is that it's going to be kunu and strandalas and there's a two up front well i say that it just depends what side of bed gary gets out of in the morning when he spins the wheel for his team sheet so yeah
00:20:35
Tom Crack - Ipswich
-4-2-1?
00:20:50
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Right. Okay. I mean, for us, our front three behind the lap kind of does change on a weekly basis, it's hard for us to really predict. You know, we've had a few injuries, um, and never start the season, like of Bennett, who we got from Luton, who I thought would have been that solid right side of the field if the season went on. Cause I think he'll have against site Laurie would have been the battle going into this weekend because he's a really strong player. It does seem to be the kind of thing we say a lot of time when we speak to, um, our colleagues, uh, different podcasts is that Because our our left side, I think, is our strongest part of the field with the likes of Leif Davis, who's one of the best left backs in the Premier League, in my opinion, as well as Sam Schmonick's out in the left.
00:21:22
Tom Crack - Ipswich
He does sometimes drift in. But then again, from your perspective with Eint Nouri and Kunja kind of being the left side, it's the same as well. So it it really, for me, it's whichever side of that pitch can get controlled the game the most is what's going to win hopefully win a game for one of us.
00:21:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:35
Tom Crack - Ipswich
um Yeah, either there or if you look at the middle of the park, I'm really impressed recently with Jens Kiyuste, who we got online from Napoli this season. He's kind of come into the team and bullied Calvin Phillips out of that position, become a fan favorite, one player of the month for us as well, putting some really good performances.
00:21:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
But.
00:21:50
Tom Crack - Ipswich
He didn't start against Bournemouth last week. I don't know if that was just a fitness s thing or something else at play, but I'd like to see him back this week.
00:21:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:21:56
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Cause I think considering the amount of width you guys have and with him in the middle and then Amari Hutchinson potentially in front of him, that's somewhere we hopefully can capitalize as well. But it's it's really difficult to say when, you know, we've been this equal all season.
00:22:10
Tom Crack - Ipswich
It's, I think it's going to be an individual or individuals who will be the difference maker rather than our overall team performance, to be honest, which is what we're both allowed in all season, isn't it?
00:22:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah, and it's it's no real way to so sort of get anywhere over the course of the season. You can't rely on individual moments.
00:22:27
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
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00:22:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
um but yeah no it's it's funny you should mention like you said ah this sort of individual um moments um that that we're both relying on and that could both cost us as well I imagine. I mean I don't know if you guys are aware but our goalkeeper seems to be chopping and changing.
00:23:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:23:18
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Mm.
00:23:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
we we It's a long old story but we signed Sam Johnston for 10 million despite being told that we had no money to spend and not bringing in a centre back that we needed um for him to play a few games and then get dropped and then have a falling out with O'Neal apparently and then he played against West Ham and there was no Saar in the squad at all. um So it's a weird one. But the one thing I did just want to pick up on Tom, um because it leads me nicely onto my next question for you guys is you mentioned and it's stuck out for me. You said how we even we have been so far this season.
00:23:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
now um i don't know if i'm correct in saying this but as a newly promoted side i would imagine that um you know if if you knew that you'd be saying that you'd been even with wolves so far this season who I don't want to say we're an established Premier League team now, but we've been here for six, seven years since we got promoted.
00:24:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
um you know um What sort of atmosphere is there around Ipswich right now? Because
Ipswich Fans: Enjoyment vs. Relegation Concerns
00:24:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
from a Wolves point of view, the fact that we're um you know so even with teams in the relegation zone and we're one of them,
00:24:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
obviously coming from where where we've come from from Europe a couple of seasons ago to this there's a really really sour and potentially toxic vibe around the club at times so I just want to know if that's you know obviously I can't imagine it'll be the same but just what is the feeling are you guys just yeah enjoying the Premier League or are the results going against you starting to sort of drag you down a little bit
00:25:01
Tom Crack - Ipswich
But I think that initial sort of, like you said, enjoyment of being back after 22 years in the Premier League, that has inevitably faded away, even if results were going away. I think that's sort of, oh my God, we're here, kind of vibe.
00:25:12
Tom Crack - Ipswich
That eventually goes, the honeymoon phase, shall we call it. But, you know, ahead of the season, myself and Rob, we both predicted town to stay up, but just in the 17th position.
00:25:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, yeah.
00:25:21
Tom Crack - Ipswich
So in terms of where we are on the table, i'm i'm I don't want to say I'm more than happy, but I'm more than expectant of where they're aware about what we're supposed to be.
00:25:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
You okay with it for now?
00:25:28
Tom Crack - Ipswich
It's just, you know, Yeah, yeah, exactly. you know I mean, I don't want to be 18th come mid-May or whenever the season finishes, of course.
00:25:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
00:25:34
Tom Crack - Ipswich
But you know we I expect us to be in a relegation fight and we're in one. But you know we're not in if you look at the table, and we're not, either of us, and I'm happy about this, we're not Southampton where I feel like our victory has already of been written, to be honest.
00:25:47
Tom Crack - Ipswich
There's definitely a fighting chance of both sides here, which is why this game is so important on the weekend.
00:25:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:51
Tom Crack - Ipswich
But yeah, it's it's starting to get a bit hairy, but um I'd rather be doing this than, you know, I said many times two years ago we on a Tuesday night, we are playing more and more something like that in a cold, almost empty Portland road.
00:26:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. yeah
00:26:03
Tom Crack - Ipswich
So these sort of games, you know, yes, for not going our way. But as I said earlier, we are playing some decent football and I'd like to think hopefully that can turn around. And I'd rather be playing these games and potentially thinking, Oh my God, we're going to get really relegated from the Premier League.
00:26:17
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Then back in those league one horrible days, cause they really weren't good. But yeah, Rob, do you do you echo that or are you a bit more, I know from the team, you're a bit, sometimes a bit more negative, should I say, but ah like, yeah, where are you at?
00:26:26
Rob Binns
yeah yeah that's something i'm trying to get better at i think because i have been just been moaning and getting annoyed to the results but i saw it on twitter the other day that someone was saying like
00:26:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Same.
00:26:44
Rob Binns
Let's put things into perspective like you just done there that compare that. And I thought i do need to sort of, I'm in danger of it coming to the end of the season if we do go down and having not made the most of it, and like it could be a one and done season.
00:26:55
Tom Crack - Ipswich
enjoyed it.
00:26:58
Rob Binns
And for all we know, like we could go down and not come back for 20 years again. I feel like um I've suddenly sort of realized I've not been making the most of it. So I'm trying to improve on that and just try and pick the positives out where I can, but that's only sort of been as of the last week or so, i so I've sort of had that epiphany and realized I need to start doing it.
00:27:17
Rob Binns
But the last couple of weeks, I've just been disappointed at everything. But ah trying to fit pick I'm trying to look for those horrible stats that people go out on Twitter now and just this hope they're about other teams. So like Southampton having five points, no team on five points after 15 games has ever stayed up.
00:27:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
so
00:27:32
Rob Binns
So I was like, all right, that's one down, one position gone.
00:27:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah I was going to say those horrible stats were...
00:27:36
Rob Binns
Sort of walks about 38 goals in, no team who's left 35 goals in at this point in the season.
00:27:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. yeah
00:27:42
Rob Binns
I mean, 35 or 36 goals or something, every team who's let that many in has gone down.
00:27:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:27:46
Rob Binns
So I was like, right, bang, one position to play for, we've got a chance again.
00:27:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
where Yeah.
00:27:50
Rob Binns
History repeats itself, Wolves and Southampton are gone.
00:27:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:27:53
Rob Binns
So where' so but it's all right for us. so youre the wos The Daily Wolves fans are going to hate me for that, but oh well.
00:28:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I dare say that they'll probably somewhat just agree with you. There seems to be an ever-growing sense of concern and and then some, you know, and it's it's funny because you you mentioned the sort of different perspectives that we're both coming from and, you know, you talk about those league one days and I remember it oh so well as I as i mentioned.
00:28:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know and then when we were in your position i remember when we first came up i was thinking yeah just stay up just stay up i don't care just stay up and then we and then we qualified for you in that first season which was just obscene um and that's why now there's such a sense of negativity and
00:28:34
Tom Crack - Ipswich
yeah
00:28:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's getting really toxic the way we've been dragged down purely by our owners which i'm sure you know most wolves fans are in agreement on but you mentioned there guys that uh was it 22 years since you were last in the firm
00:29:02
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah. Yeah.
Match Predictions and Expectations
00:29:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Well, leads me very nicely onto my fun fact that I was going to give you just before I asked for score predictions, which is the fact that um this is the first ever Premier League meeting between Wolves and Ipswich.
00:29:03
Rob Binns
Yep.
00:29:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
um The tractor boys have won six of the last seven top flight games between the sides, obviously before it became the Premier League.
00:29:18
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Nice.
00:29:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
So just on that note, um Bob, can I get your score prediction for for Saturday?
00:29:36
Rob Binns
this is tough because i've got two different answers i've got head and and just pure hope answer because if i'm being but obviously the hope side of things that i want us to go in and put out a statement before and sort of two nil two ni or nil or something three ones or something like that i could go was in there that sort of performance but
00:29:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Stranger things have happened.
00:29:59
Rob Binns
Yeah, that's, that's the thing as well that I think it will be, if we're going to win, I think it will be a statement performance. Cause from what I've seen and not even just this season and sort of last season, the world away, we won games.
00:30:12
Rob Binns
I honestly don't think we have that sort of trying to think of a word I can say on the podcast S house one nil performance in us.
00:30:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
But, okay. Yeah.
00:30:21
Rob Binns
We, I, I truly don't think we have that in the locker to go, especially in the, what's going to these away games.
00:30:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:30:27
Rob Binns
I don't think we will go and grind out and like, sort of game for us done over us the other week where we go and we focus on the clean sheet and when we nick that goal we protect it.
00:30:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:30:36
Rob Binns
ah I don't think that's in our DNA for the way we play and so when we try and do it it doesn't work but I don't it so a naaa and the sort of in this sort of massive must-win game is the sort of performance you need to come in and do is in a wayside I think and I don't think we have in the locker so the hope is like a big statement like 3-1 like I say we both league chances but
00:30:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:30:58
Rob Binns
If I'm being completely honest and go with what my head says, I think we're both, I think we're both going to walk away extremely disappointed at a drab one, one drill.
00:30:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:31:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah Tom, do you, well, which sort of prediction do you ah sort of find yourself leaning more towards?
00:31:15
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Well, under Kieran McKenna and Rob, you can tell me if I'm wrong here. I believe this is the case. We've never lost four in a row. So we're currently standing on the precipice of that. Um, this season, obviously the first one, I think we've been lost three in a row, obviously seen the league one championship names that never really to took play.
00:31:27
Rob Binns
no
00:31:30
Tom Crack - Ipswich
So, you know, that, that's something that's very much in my head going into Saturday. um um but I am a bit more confident because, you know, as I said earlier, I kind of have to be, these are results where I'd like to, we can get something from that hasn't really happened all season.
00:31:44
Tom Crack - Ipswich
To be honest, we've got points against sides we necessarily shouldn't have on paper. um So that's the thing I'm slightly wary of. But I think it's good to get away from Portland Road, in all honesty, just just for this week. i I said, ahead of the ah back-to-back home games, I'm not a big fan of fan of them, to be honest, because you can get a bit more comfortable, and Black Today is cool.
00:32:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
00:32:01
Tom Crack - Ipswich
I think if we had another one this weekend, it could have been the case as well, and remind us of the ghosts that haunted us at home recently.
00:32:05
Tom Crack - Ipswich
So I think it's good to get away, and the players just to kind of look themselves in the mirror a bit, and being that minority molecule on the weekend, and just focus on the game, rather than the many fans.
00:32:16
Tom Crack - Ipswich
There'll be less fans having a go at them, for sure. So my prediction, I'm going to go 3-1 town, that's a crazy one I know, but I'm a bit more outlandish with our predictions than Rob is as our listeners will know and I think as Rob said we can't grind out a
00:32:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, okay. Okay.
00:32:36
Tom Crack - Ipswich
an S-house 1-0, very well put, Rob. And I don't see it ever being the case of us, you know, the the win at Spurs wasn't that. It was a 2-0 lead before we, again, we did have to hold them, but we were going all out of attack even when we were 1-0 up against the, quote, unquote, top six side.
00:32:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:32:50
Tom Crack - Ipswich
So I think even against you guys, I don't see that being the case if you do grab an early goal. And there's a lot of players I'd like to see hopefully put in a good performance weekend, especially Dilap's been, I know he's obviously Courtney, I have many fans on the outside this season, but recently since that Spurs game, to be honest, hasn't really managed to find the back of a net, I believe.
00:33:08
Tom Crack - Ipswich
So I'd like to hope to see him get back on the goals this weekend and get us up to back, keep us in 18th and get us on 12 points as we leave the Midlands on Saturday evening.
00:33:18
Rob Binns
I think what you've seen there, Will, is the difference between me and Tom that you'll get.
00:33:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:33:19
Tom Crack - Ipswich
3-1.
00:33:23
Rob Binns
We've both had 3-1 come to mind as a sort of result we'd like.
00:33:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
hu
00:33:27
Rob Binns
The difference is, Tom, as the positive the most positive one of the four of us on our pod, as stuck with it and said 3-1, and me as the most negative of the four has gone, I want a sort of 3-1 statement performance because we need one, but it's probably going to be a rubbish game and finish 1-1.
00:33:34
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yes.
00:33:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Rob, Rob.
00:33:44
Tom Crack - Ipswich
I did predict to lose to Bournemouth last week to fair. i did I did go for a loss and it did happen unfortunately, so um it's been known to happen.
00:33:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
to
00:33:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Rob you appear to be the me of Daily Ipswich because that's that's my job here Daily Wolves just um you know just giving people a reality check perhaps or um you know just completely being pessimistic and speaking of which um no i'm gonna i'm going to um
00:33:55
Rob Binns
Yeah, I think that's that's come across, yeah.
00:34:01
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:34:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm going to be, you know, a glass off half full and also empty and I'm going to predict what neither of of us want.
00:34:11
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Come on, well, come on, big game.
00:34:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
I see it being a draw purely because I can't ah can't bring myself to predict us. losing at home to a newly promoted team, even though that could well happen. um But I do also predict there being goals, so I'm going for a two-wall draw. We're simply not going to keep a clean sheet, um but at the same time we do have that quality to capitalise on on um your potential defensive errors. um And with that, guys, it concludes today's crossover episode. So thank you both ah for joining. um And I'm going to close with and I apologize to the Ipswich listeners, I'm going to close with our sort of catchphrase that's ah attached itself to our Daily Wolves podcast, which is out of darkness, come with light. Thank you.