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Episode 386: Matchday Review: CHALLENGED BY CHARLTON!
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Southampton – Not the result we were after from the game, but still things to feel positive about, even if the end result is frustration once again.
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Transcript
Introduction and Initial Thoughts
00:00:13
DailySaintsPod
Hello and welcome back to the Daily Saints pod. My name is Greg and as always today joined by my good friend and wonderful co-host Zach. And mate, nice day out at St. Mary's with you yesterday. How are you feeling today mate?
00:00:27
Zak
I just need to stop coming, don't I really? yeah yeah yeah I genuinely don't think... I think genuinely can't remember the last time i seen a win. It's nuts. We won quite a few times this season.
00:00:38
Zak
So...
00:00:39
DailySaintsPod
Funnily enough, Zach, I think I remember the last time you went and saw a win. and I think it's when Sophie Ambu Fowle scored that ridiculous goal against West Brom.
00:00:48
Zak
No, I just talk about that a lot because I remember it. It's probably playoff final against West Brom. I think I should only come when we play West Brom.
00:00:53
DailySaintsPod
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Match Reaction and Fan Environment
00:00:56
Zak
That's basically it.
00:00:56
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:00:57
Zak
So, yeah, it was it was it was nice enough day out, to be fair. As you can tell, lost my voice almost immediately. This is why I couldn't do it week in, week out. But we we had a we had nice time.
00:01:09
Zak
It was just a shame about the football.
00:01:09
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:01:11
Zak
But wasn't the worst game I've ever seen.
00:01:12
DailySaintsPod
I mean, look.
00:01:14
Zak
It wasn't terrible. just the goal Their goal was against the grade of play, and then they set back on that. And some of the most egregious time-wasting I've ever seen. Yeah.
00:01:26
Zak
combined with just a a fan base that suit their manager. And I mean that in an actual complimentary way, because they were loud and you have to admit that. But, you know, Nathan Jones is also quite loud.
00:01:40
Zak
Doesn't mean that, you know, feel like...
00:01:41
DailySaintsPod
Yeah. Well, I mean, look, I think that it'll be taken in the right way, Zach, if I say what I said to you yesterday, in that Cholton are a team where you you only follow Cholton if you're a proper fan of football, right?
00:01:56
DailySaintsPod
Like, you're not...
00:01:57
Zak
yeah you're not Yeah, nobody's glory hunting with Chelten Athletic, are they? That's the thing. and So, you know, other than the odd sort of...
00:02:04
DailySaintsPod
but we We were both amazed, right, at the amount of police around, seemingly for the occasion.
00:02:10
Zak
was nuts. Even my mum, who, to be quite honest, forgets what the name of our podcast is very regularly. yeah knows I do one, but it's not very sort of like in the know, was baffled by the sheer amount of police in Southampton on the weekend. And the yeah, it just seemed like quite a lot for, don't know, is it just because of Nathan Jones? Is it they just bring a massive contingent of Met Police with them? Like,
Match Analysis and Strategy
00:02:42
Zak
who knows, mate? But yeah, it was definitely noticeable, right?
00:02:46
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, it was a strange one, for sure. But like I say, a bit of a disappointing day at the office. But I mean, overall, in the grand scheme of things, I know coming into the game, we said kind of every game coming up is a must win.
00:03:01
DailySaintsPod
But whilst that still remains mostly true, if you sort of take a step back and look at where we are in the table, we're only... We're still... Only four points away from that magic sixth for playoffs, right? And sure, if we'd have won, we'd have been up in joint seventh with Birmingham.
00:03:21
DailySaintsPod
I mean, a point is better than nothing. And, I mean, in the scheme of things, it's not the the end of the world. It's not the end of our playoff chances. it It was a pretty decent performance. Like you say, I don't think there was a lot we could have done For the goal, it was just a good strike that found its way in. And its it was frustrating at the end, right? Because you're thinking, oh, we just need to... and but But not for the same reasons as it it has been, right? Because there there was urgency. They were getting the ball towards the goal. Yeah.
00:03:57
DailySaintsPod
But it shouldn't have got to that, right? We should have just been bit more clinical or a bit more creative with the amount of the ball that we had, I think is where the frustration drives from for me.
00:04:08
Zak
Yeah, and I think that there are a couple of reasons for that, if I'm totally honest. like the The line-up, we're not really going to talk about because it threw no surprises. it was pretty much what we expected.
00:04:19
Zak
But I think that the game started to turn after they scored their goal. And but I don't want to be like one of those Arsenal fan TV people, but like weather changed and that genuinely had an effect on the game.
00:04:32
Zak
And it genuinely had an effect on, the chances. And I don't know. I know that previously it worked against Leicester bringing on an entirely new strike force, right?
00:04:40
DailySaintsPod
Thank
00:04:42
Zak
I don't think it quite had the same effect yesterday.
00:04:47
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, and I mean, I don't know.
00:04:49
DailySaintsPod
so that's the thing, right? It all happened just after the goal, which is less than ideal circumstances. i presume at least two of the changes were planned at that point. And it's you know kind of the expected, right?
00:05:02
DailySaintsPod
Because we know Ross Stewart, especially in a week where we are playing three games and are probably going to want him for at least
Nathan Jones' Influence and Team Dynamics
00:05:09
DailySaintsPod
two of them. We know that he's only really going to play 60 minutes.
00:05:14
DailySaintsPod
as we would expect. So him off for Carl Lahren makes sense. And Fels for Matski, don't have a problem with either particularly.
00:05:24
DailySaintsPod
It's it's kind of a different different challenge for the fullback that Matski brings than Fels, right? Whereas Matski is quite an aggressive physical player as opposed to Tom Fels kind of technical...
00:05:30
Zak
Mm-hmm.
00:05:37
DailySaintsPod
touch and drag the player out of position approach. is it It kind of makes sense change up. I don't know if if bringing Leo off was also part of that plan or kind of enforced because I mean, he fell hard.
00:05:51
Zak
Yeah, he went down pretty pretty heavy.
00:05:53
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:05:53
Zak
Yeah.
00:05:53
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:05:54
Zak
But again, like weather changed and that that kept happening a little bit. I do think that maybe... If I know that it's probably like managing minutes for Charles more than anything, but I'd have preferred to keep him on move him up and take off Azaz.
00:06:15
DailySaintsPod
no
00:06:16
Zak
Ultimately, it shouldn't have come down to us... you know, not being able to get another goal. And I get that we knocked on the door towards the end, but it was very... don't know, obviously it became super frantic and they they definitely did their... They did their job of slowing down the game as much as they possibly could. And I feel like the ref was fine right up until...
00:06:42
Zak
you know, the little brawl that they had on the pitch, which we didn't really get to see properly. but obviously we immediately knew that Downs was heavily involved and of course was heavily involved.
00:06:54
DailySaintsPod
It was not surprise to anyone in the stadium that that was the case.
00:06:54
Zak
Uh, No, not not even slightly. but you know and and and Admittedly, we'd had some decisions that went well against us before, like for us beforehand. that's probably one of the reasons why, youre right?
00:07:05
Zak
Like I'm not going a you know, lot of a lot went our way. But then after that, just kind of seemed to like go go crazy. And like the lad, I don't know if the guy picked up an injury or what, but the guy who had cramp at the end for seemingly 20 minutes, it wasn't that long, but it felt like it.
00:07:20
Zak
who would not move, the physios would not move him off of the pitch.
00:07:21
DailySaintsPod
e
00:07:24
Zak
The ref didn't really care. you know And i' like I understand that if it was the other way around and we were we were doing game management and we were doing those things, we wouldn't be as upset. But it was just sort of incredibly stressful to watch.
00:07:48
Zak
did not quite have the effect that they wanted it to. they they did They did not come to win.
00:07:52
DailySaintsPod
but I mean, it kind of... it was a game that kind of played out more or less exactly how you'd expect, right? They played the low block from the very start. They had their lot high press for the first couple of minutes and then sat behind the ball. They came for a draw and we you know we tried to play through them with...
00:08:12
DailySaintsPod
not a great amount of success in the first half. And I mean, to be honest, we had, I think 83 or something percent possession at halftime and just really had not a huge amount to show for it. I mean, Azaz absolutely skied one from 10 yards, but to be fair, it kind of fizzed in at him and there was a free kick. I think Bree had a free kick saved. And was it Manning that hit the crossbar?
00:08:37
Zak
Yeah, Manning came quite close early on.
00:08:37
DailySaintsPod
So it's, but it's like, it's, this that's not as much as you'd like to get out of that much possession. You want clearer cut chances and goals. And then, you know, but, you know, playing against a team that's playing that way that we have to have patience and break down is something that we've struggled with all season. So,
00:08:59
DailySaintsPod
You know, it's it is where it is. And we we did break them down. We got that goal. Moment of quality right in front of us. Leo crossed the ball in. Stuart with a beautiful looping header into the back of the net.
00:09:11
DailySaintsPod
Fantastic, right?
00:09:12
Zak
Spartan good go.
00:09:13
DailySaintsPod
And to me, it was at that point, really, where this kind of...
00:09:13
Zak
Very, very good go.
00:09:20
DailySaintsPod
Like I say, the writing was on the wall. I obviously didn't expect us to concede or or hope we didn't, but... At that point, the game opened up and instead of pressing on and getting another, we we kind of let them come into the game a bit and we had a couple of chances. I mean...
00:09:40
DailySaintsPod
That unbelievable throw from Peretz down the line for for Leo, who stopped and squared it back to Fellows. I don't know if Leo could have just taken the shot himself and done better with it, or Fellows just couldn't quite get it out from under his feet.
00:09:58
DailySaintsPod
It was just... That was like the golden opportunity at the right moment in the game, where if that goes in, that's the game done, right? the
00:10:06
Zak
Stop predicting he's going to score.
00:10:07
DailySaintsPod
The floodgates are...
00:10:07
Zak
i take I keep telling you. like Every time you predict he's going to score, he doesn't, mate. and and that might just It's not entirely down to you.
00:10:12
DailySaintsPod
Yeah. To be fair, I didn't predict him to score this week. But...
00:10:18
Zak
Your boy did, though. that's That didn't help. yeah You were taking in too many baggies games back in the day.
00:10:21
DailySaintsPod
That was... That was the... The turning point, really, right? Because that was the clear-cut opportunity. That goes in the net. We're 2-0 up. And you you know you struggle to see anything other than really the floodgates opening. Yeah.
00:10:40
DailySaintsPod
but But, you know, they they go up from their moment of quality and it goes in and then that's it. We got we go back to patience and unfortunately we've gone back to patience with, what, 23 minutes left on the clock and three unbedded in attacking players.
00:11:01
DailySaintsPod
And I mean, it did even with that feel like it was going to come. It was, you know, they tried and they put the ball in they had their opportunities, but it just, yeah.
00:11:11
Zak
Yeah, like when we when we got 10 minutes added on, which admittedly, you know, was a positive thing. And you you could tell that it was probably going to be quite a bit of time simply by the sheer amount of police they put towards the away end. yeah yeah yeah And the fact that yeah even my wife messaged me to go, it said plus three minutes, but then it said plus 10. And I was like, yeah, I think that some some decisions were made. But yeah, just kind of every single one of them just kind of felt like they weren't, they weren't, just nothing was coming off. and there was that like moment of what could have been poetic beauty right at the end with Bree taking the in-swing in, but then just, it's what it was. Yeah, it just wasn't our day.
00:11:51
Zak
But at least it's not like, as you pointed out, games that we've had like that before where it's just kind of like the sense of urgency is not there. There was almost too much urgency which resulted in a almost frantic energy especially in that last 10 minutes.
00:12:00
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:12:05
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:12:07
Zak
So yeah, it's what it is.
00:12:09
DailySaintsPod
And, and do you know, like say, it you you Charlton knew what they would come to do and they, at the end, just had all of the bodies in the way preventing us taking the shots. But I think...
00:12:19
Zak
Are you sure? Because I think that Nathan Jones is tactically the best manager in the world, right? And, you know, we haven't beat Man City since him or made it to a semi-final of the Carabao Cup.
00:12:29
DailySaintsPod
Oh, we haven't kept a clean sheet against Man City since him, apart from that one time that we did in the league, even in our work season.
00:12:35
Zak
Yeah, but obviously tactically, he's just really, really good, which is which is why he's the best manager. i just... God, like, imagine what he'd been like if he'd won.
00:12:43
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:12:46
Zak
Like, this is...
00:12:46
DailySaintsPod
Oh, it would have been unbearable.
00:12:47
Zak
this is Well, yeah, it's it's, to be honest, I can understand why he's wound up. We gave him a bunch of stick throughout the entirety of the game.
00:12:57
DailySaintsPod
13 seconds into the game before the first cheer up Nathan Jones chant. We were counting. It was...
00:13:02
Zak
Yeah, no, you're right. But, you know, he's he's just a very odd individual. And, you know, he's but you can tell he's he's very, as I said, very, very passionate.
Team Form and Future Prospects
00:13:11
Zak
But you can tell that, like, there's something about us that has rattled him deep down.
00:13:16
Zak
And he says that it's not true. He's like, oh, yeah, I have, you know, i spent more time in Starbucks than I have at the club. And I'm like, and whose fault is that? And then he's like, oh, yeah, no, I don't really have. If I actually said what my opinions were of this place, or you're just like...
00:13:31
Zak
Mate, like just say yeah it was a really good just say it was a really good point for today.
00:13:31
DailySaintsPod
oh i I completely, i
00:13:35
Zak
be done with it
00:13:36
DailySaintsPod
as much as are yeah I completely get it from his side though, like, whether you like him or not, and I think it's very clear how all Saints fans fall on that side of the fence, like, he probably didn't get given a real fair shake of the stick here, even though he did not help himself in that scenario, and from perspective, it's
00:13:56
Zak
Yeah, but the reason that that that's that's why, though, right? like if I think that if he had made absolutely any effort to establish a morsel of likability amongst the fan base, right?
00:14:09
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:14:09
Zak
after If he'd spent more than two seconds before just agreeing to a Premier League job, looking at the background, the fans, the history, who our previous manager was and the type of temperament he had, right?
00:14:21
Zak
Yeah. And yeah, that is also entirely on Sports Republic. But the guy who's in charge of that decision is no longer making decisions because of that. And I just think that, you know, to to come in and sort of do like sort of just upset the apple apple cart, but in a way that wasn't like, it's not like he upset it tactically.
00:14:39
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:14:43
Zak
He just seemed to like be out to have a go at the fans and yeah. Okay. We immediately judged him. But it's, it's again, it's because of the fact that we expected more and better after, remember we had just had a takeover where part of that was, we were going to massively invest and supposedly, you know, bring in somebody that it was going to lead us on.
00:15:05
Zak
And what we got was this guy that had been heading up the scrappy Luton side in league, like in championship. So there's a combination of things. But ultimately, when you look at you look at personalities, i just i just never think he was suited for our club.
00:15:21
Zak
And he he suits Charlton.
00:15:21
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, and I mean, to wrap up this segment to wrap up this segment neatly and nicely and kind of put the full perspective on it, as an ex-Saints manager, that was Nathan Jones' first league point at St Mary's. So...
00:15:38
DailySaintsPod
He kind of says it already, doesn't he?
00:15:43
Zak
See, look, we're actually more complimentary than you'd think. know I don't know. It's the Nathan Jones derbies have been done for the season now.
00:15:54
Zak
We have won on 6-2 on aggregate overall.
00:15:59
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, exactly.
00:16:00
Zak
Somehow more goals than our actual derby. But there we are. Yeah.
00:16:04
DailySaintsPod
don't know. it Did you... let Let's... Let's try and think about like the performance as a whole, though. Did what you saw out there kind of convince you that we can sort of push on and keep the performances up and and make the playoffs?
00:16:21
DailySaintsPod
Because, it you know, we didn't lose. We drew. So what's that?
00:16:24
Zak
No, yeah, but...
00:16:24
DailySaintsPod
Five wins, two draws in the last seven now?
00:16:26
Zak
so So, okay, so every single team puts a low block in front of us for the next, you know, couple games. How many points do we drop?
00:16:33
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, we'll work it out eventually, right?
00:16:35
Zak
Yeah, you'd like to think. we'd like to have I'd like to have thought we'd worked out by now. And again, the problem is is that we have a lot of players that are very hot and cold as well. And like Azar's been one of those, like he's had such a purple patch and just hasn't quite got back into it.
00:16:48
Zak
And then he's had some sort of good run of games. And then...
00:16:52
DailySaintsPod
Well, you shared with me some pretty damning stats on his performance yesterday, which which in one of those moments where i kind of regret in the preview saying...
00:16:52
Zak
you
00:16:56
Zak
Yeah, it was shared by Saint Statistics.
00:17:03
DailySaintsPod
that it would be the sort of game that might suit him because, what was it, 90 minutes, no duels, one out of seven, no crosses completed out of four, no successful dribbles out of two, shots on target, zero out of four.
00:17:21
DailySaintsPod
It's, I mean, it's not pretty reading, but he put himself about a bit and he tried.
00:17:25
Zak
He created two chances. He created two chances. He passed. yeah There was at one point we saw him go on a massive run where we were both shocked by the fact that he went on a massive run, which like again, can't yeah car't can't work out if i'm if I'm more annoyed that it means that we know he can do it and he's not.
00:17:35
DailySaintsPod
was a proper high press. It was good.
00:17:43
Zak
or that I'm happy that he has. But yeah, it's like, it wasn't, the the problem the problem is, is that having such a key part position of the field, being that hot and cold, you know, you are then also relying on the Leo Cienzas of the world.
00:17:53
DailySaintsPod
Hmm.
00:17:57
Zak
And I love Leo, and sometimes I wish he'd pass more. And Ross Stewart is good when he's fit, and it's about keeping him fit. at one point he went down and he clutched his hamstring, and me and you took a breath, because we were like, oh no, not again.
00:18:09
Zak
And luckily he got back up. And that's a bit of a worry. And I think the problem is, is that, when When we missed out on the top spots and almost missed out on the playoffs under Russell Martin in the championship, it was basically just down to the day, right?
00:18:26
Zak
That's how it kind of felt.
00:18:27
DailySaintsPod
Hmm.
00:18:27
Zak
It very much felt like it was just ours to lose and we would go through like a little bit of mental. At the moment, it very feel much feels like there is a a house of cards, right? So if Bree goes out injured or Manning picks up an injury now, we have literally at that point got no left back.
00:18:43
Zak
Okay, we have 37 midfielders at this point. Azaz, there's other other sort of Jay Robinson and Shea Charles. There's no one really to replace him, which is probably why, even when he's not having the best game, we'll kind of keep him in there.
00:18:57
Zak
While Stuart goes out injured, we've got Karl Arryn and Archer, who looked all right in shooting practice, to be fair.
00:18:57
DailySaintsPod
Hmm.
00:19:04
Zak
Admittedly, significantly more balls went over the top than we'd have preferred. But, you know... there is just, it feels like we are like an injury away from getting, picking up draws and stuff.
00:19:17
Zak
So I don't really know, you know, how, if I feel confident necessarily, but that is also entirely my personality. Like it might just be that I'm pessimistic because I'm pessimistic.
00:19:27
DailySaintsPod
but like it was it was a solid It was a solid enough performance that it didn't completely abolish the hope, right? Is,
Player Performance Review
00:19:35
DailySaintsPod
is I guess, the thing.
00:19:36
Zak
Yeah. I'm not, I'm not like, I haven't come out of it mad.
00:19:37
DailySaintsPod
There were sparks of life. na And I think Edozie looked pretty sharp when he came on.
00:19:44
Zak
Very, very good.
00:19:45
DailySaintsPod
I wish he shot more.
00:19:46
Zak
Yeah.
00:19:47
DailySaintsPod
even even having seen him shoot with us in previous ten years at the club, I'd still wish he would just shoot a bit more. But again, it was a point in the game when, you know, Charlton had every man behind the ball, you know, not allowing that to come off.
00:20:02
Zak
It...
00:20:03
DailySaintsPod
So it was a bit trickier, but, but yeah.
00:20:06
Zak
it he he's really impressed me simply for the fact that he's been a away, you know, he played in a completely different league and a completely different team set up and then was away.
00:20:17
Zak
And in then part of the club for so long in the background, not really getting a chance, not really, you know, didn't get a loan, didn't get a move, come back into the side and has just come back into the side with the ability to play football still.
00:20:29
Zak
And like, that's, that's really positive and really good because we've seen,
00:20:33
DailySaintsPod
eight
00:20:34
Zak
you know, admittedly he's younger than some of the other ones, but like we've seen what happens when you leave Joe Uribe out for a long time and then he suddenly came back in and it wasn't really that great. And, you know,
00:20:43
DailySaintsPod
It makes you wonder what was happening behind the scenes up until the point that he get got given a shot, right? Because we know we know that that's what he brings to the table. We have seen that for us. and you know It's no secret that what he lacks is that end product, but...
00:21:01
DailySaintsPod
you know If he can you know make a fullback, think twice and run at them and get across it, that's that's just as good as anything, right? is
00:21:09
Zak
It could have been as simple as they thought he was going to go in January. He thought he was going to go in January. They kind of ummed and ahed about it for ages. He carried on training.
00:21:20
Zak
We don't know. We're never going to know, mate, quite frankly. That kind of stuff was always going to be kept behind the scenes.
00:21:23
DailySaintsPod
yeah
00:21:25
Zak
For me, the positive positive part of it is that he is sort of come out of the blue after a long time being out of the side. And he is putting in the performances that shows that he should be there. He is a very, very competent substitute for Leo Siena.
00:21:41
Zak
he is in the played in the right position. And again, no disrespect to Jay Robinson. If anything, I'd maybe like to see Jay Robinson when he's back fit again, because I think he's had an injury, that, you know, come on for Azaz a little bit more, rather than always being the replacement for Leo, kind of did him a discredit. and now But i'm I'm very happy to have Adozi back in the side.
00:22:03
Zak
Cam Bragg came on. and he didn't It wasn't really a lot he could do, but it was nice to see him get more first team minutes too. There were some positives to take from that game for sure. Yeah, their goal was frustrating. Yeah, we probably maybe shouldn't have had to have relied on one goal. But even before the game, you said, I don't actually know how I feel about my score prediction anymore. Feeling more like it's a 1-0 because they're just going to shove a low block in. It's going to be really, really hard to grind them down. Exactly what happened. They just got lucky on another goal. But fair play to them. That was what they they came to do from the start.
00:22:35
Zak
And you know i wish nothing for the best for their their fan base. And the know the fact that they were very, very loud, you know all part all good things about the championship are teams like that, right?
00:22:48
Zak
That's where I'm at.
00:22:48
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, for sure. and And, you know, it's... Like say, it's easy to feel frustrated because perhaps we we should have done better. But also, like, I forgot about Leo's volley that was saved and cleared off the line quite early in the game. But if, you know, if that isn't cleared off the line and goes in, or or Manning's shot is, like, three centimetres lower and goes in off the crossbar, then you're already looking a different result. Like, we...
00:23:17
DailySaintsPod
We had the opportunities. They were there. We created the chances. were just not quite lucky enough to put any of them away. And, you know, their goal... It's just, yeah. It wasn't like... it At least it wasn't like Perrette passed it to them or anything. It was, you know, just just a scramble, you know. other than that, i think I think really that was the only time I felt they were a proper throw-and-goal. think we had another one cleared...
00:23:45
DailySaintsPod
just off the line, but I don't know. it was There was one where their fans thought they scored, it actually went behind the goal, right? That was a fun one.
00:23:55
Zak
that was That was fun.
00:23:55
DailySaintsPod
Hmm.
00:23:56
Zak
That was enjoyable. yeah But yeah, it's it just it just wasn't to be our day. and And we knew that as soon as as soon as we beat Chilton the way that we beat them last time around, right?
00:24:10
Zak
I wish we'd done better. But this is this is the other thing where I say, like I don't know how prepped we are. If we were to ever go up anyway, I guess we'll just have to see what happens. Either way, I feel better about the season than I did, say, six months ago. Yeah.
00:24:24
DailySaintsPod
yeah Yeah, definitely. And and look, more more games coming up in quick succession this week that you know potentially have the ability for this one to slide under the radar as a small dip. right If we would beat QPR at home on Wednesday, no one's thinking about it too much. and And then you know off to Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday, which...
00:24:50
DailySaintsPod
Because, you know, I know you love those jokes where I mess around with days. But yeah, I mean, look, positives to be taken, still a bit frustrating.
00:25:02
DailySaintsPod
I mean, just a textbook one all draw, right? his
00:25:05
Zak
Yeah.
00:25:06
DailySaintsPod
What more can you say?
00:25:06
Zak
the and For those that have stuck with us to the end, because, you know, no one's massively thrilled with a one-on draw and do not usually listen to us speak about it a lot. We appreciate you wholeheartedly. And we'll be back to, you know, cover some more football, Greg, right?
00:25:22
Zak
Seems to be what we do.
00:25:22
DailySaintsPod
Oh, wait. That's the thing. The joy of football is that it never ends. There is always more football to talk about. So, yeah, you're right. Look, that that is all that we have got time for today.
00:25:35
DailySaintsPod
But we will be back tomorrow to preview the next one as it comes up thick and fast.
00:25:35
Zak
Thank
00:25:42
DailySaintsPod
QPR to preview tomorrow. but look, let us know... in the socials, in the comments, what you think, how you feeling about the draw. Are you more on the side of frustration? are you seeing the bigger picture and that it is you know, it's not the end of the world. We're still well on our way to, to positivity.
00:26:03
DailySaintsPod
i don't know. Let us know. We are daily saints pod. Absolutely everywhere. X, Blue Sky, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, everywhere. Hit us up, let us know. we love hearing from you. When there, why not drop a like and a subscribe because it goes so far to helping us out.
00:26:22
DailySaintsPod
And we love seeing it. We love hearing from you, reading through all the comments. Until tomorrow, over everyone, have a wonderful day and we'll see you then.