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Episode 295: How's it going so far?
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Southampton – We take the opportunity of the international break to refelct on the season as a whole so far. With plenty of thoughts, opinions and news, including the unfortunate news about Ross Stewart.
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Transcript
00:00:00
Zak
All right.
Predictions and Reflections
00:00:14
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 and wonderful co-host, Zach Inger Finch.
00:00:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
How you doing mate, you alright?
00:00:27
Zak
Hello, hello, yeah, multi-battle, multi-battle. Eugh!
00:00:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
And look, we're in international break, it's not news to anyone.
00:00:35
Zak
a
00:00:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
We're all thrilled by it as we frequently display, but one thing that is good about these these international breaks, Zach, is that it gives us the opportunity to have a pause and have a little you know moment of reflection upon ourselves and look back and look back at our predictions and how we're doing and just think about it and talk about it because, you know, it's been an interesting start, right?
00:00:59
Zak
I
00:01:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
So...
Unrealistic Expectations and Criticisms
00:01:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know. I've got some some, maybe some contrary opinions on this, but how are you feeling at the moment about how we're getting on?
00:01:18
Zak
i don't know why, and I don't think it's really related, but it's just very funny to me that Nathan Jones and James Bree are both up for Manager of the Month and Player of the Month. And i don't know why that's related, but I think that it's, I think it's more of the vibes that are off than the actual reality of the situation.
00:01:41
Zak
That's, that's what I'm, that's what I'm feeling at the moment. Like I think we're, we're, we're doing all right. We're not doing the worst. We're not doing great.
Transfer Market Struggles
00:01:48
Zak
I think that we ourselves and the club themselves set kind of unrealistic expectations that we were going to come down off of a 12-point season and somehow just make it back up straight away like we did the time before, especially considering that, you know, we didn't manage to really ship all of the players we wanted.
00:02:10
Zak
think there are high expectations that we should have brought in players of significantly better calibre than we have access to. And I can't stress this enough. Why would they want to?
00:02:23
Zak
Like, like you you are coming into a team that you know has had problems, you know has had trouble. You are only really going to get people who want to help grow from that and also players that, you know, probably but to step up into the club rather than step down or sideways, right?
00:02:48
Zak
It's just a lot of things that I think we could do better, but I don't think it's as in dire straits as everyone seems to kind of be acting like it is. And I can't can't help but feel that, you know, some of the people are reacting to, like, the fact that we've drawn a few, we've only lost two, but we've drawn a few games and barely won anything at the moment as, like, this sort of
00:03:16
Zak
do you, I know I'm not rambling it a bit, but do you see where I'm getting at? like It feels like the vibe doesn't match the reality of the situation.
League Standings Analysis
00:03:24
Zak
And like people are freaking out and being like, we should hire Russell Martin.
00:03:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. No.
00:03:27
Zak
We should get a another manager. And like, how are we ever expected to do well? like Do you want to just be Watford? Is that what you want?
00:03:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, look, yeah
00:03:35
Zak
Hire a manager every time that someone has, I guess it's like being weird. Like...
00:03:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
I fully agree with you.
00:03:40
Zak
one
00:03:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
I actually think we're doing all right. And look, I know that it's easy to look at the table and go, oh, well, we're seventeenth but also... look It's just too early in the league to actively look at the table.
00:03:53
Zak
It's like three... There's like six There's a lot. Nine points between top and 17. Okay.
00:03:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:03:58
Zak
hi
00:03:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, we are... we're not you know We're eight points off the top of the league, literally. that is That is a one-game week... you know That is a one, three-game week turnaround of games, right?
00:04:09
Zak
Are people thinking...
00:04:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Literally, we could come back from the international break... And it is not outside of the realms of possibility that Coventry lose those three games on the bounce in that three game week. Something, you know, happens to them. They, you know, hit a bump or something.
00:04:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we hit the ground running and have all of our stuff lined up and it all starts piecing together. And we win those three games. And then in literally seven days, we could be at the top of the table.
00:04:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
And now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that's what I think is going to happen, but that is that is not outside the realms of possibility. It's just not bad. I think we're doing fine. We're we're up and amongst it.
00:04:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes, it's taking longer for the players to gel than we would have liked.
00:04:55
Zak
Thank
00:04:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes, there's still this scar tissue. There's still this reluctance to take risks, I think, is more than scar tissue in a lot of areas. There's still this cautiousness.
00:05:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
and And, you know, some of that comes from from last season and some of that probably comes from just this insane pressure
Transfer Negotiations Impact on Team Dynamics
00:05:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
that's coming. But it's it' still looking promising and, you know, there are still questions to be answered.
00:05:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
For sure, because, you know, ross Stewart seemed to be, you know, one of these key puzzle pieces for how we've how we've sort of come together and done these things. And probably going to get goal of the month for that goal, right? That's one of the options you can vote for on the app.
00:05:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
and And now, you know, it looks like he's out for months and not weeks, which, you know, if
00:05:48
Zak
we should we should chat about that but i the only thing i wanted to bring up before we get on to that was that the other argument i keep seeing is that will still has had a full pre-season not really so so many of those players that were pre-season have now gone so we've got loads of new players and this is where there's a lot of like blame on the sports republic where it's like oh they should have got the transfers sorted earlier this is
00:06:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:06:12
Zak
we we discussed this throughout all of our transfer episodes. Like the moving puzzle pieces is is like a house chain, right? Like this player needs to leave at this club to do, to be able to sanction this transfer.
00:06:24
Zak
This team isn't refusing as to budge on their valuation, but we shouldn't just pay whatever any team wants for their player whenever.
00:06:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:06:32
Zak
So then the problem is if you, if you believe that we shouldn't pay whatever any other team wants us to pay, then you have to accept that there's a negotiation period. which means that it'll extend the amount of time before somebody be brought in, combined with the other factors, right? Like there have been players we've targeted that people will lament us not getting, like Sperzian's example, right?
00:06:55
Zak
How much time was wasted on that transfer? Of course, they then fell back on their backup plans. I don't know if Avinas Az was the backup plan for that. Not really quite too sure. But that took time, which means that All of these players came in significantly later than we wanted to. None of us wanted to be in a position where we had debuts happening at the Pompey game, right?
00:07:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:16
Zak
But it's unfortunately part and parcel of the game. So he didn't get a full, full preseason, right? And Russell Martin was the same, don't get me wrong. There was less turnaround, in my opinion, at that point. There were players that were brought in.
00:07:30
Zak
And obviously, to be honest, with that, it was more transforming the entirety of the way that most of those players played anyway. And
Historical Status and Financial Power Assumptions
00:07:36
Zak
all the ones that didn't want to got hooked off off after that Gillingham game, right?
00:07:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:07:41
Zak
so So the the like the the real crux of where I'm at is that people are thinking we should be, like, I can't use a visual aid on this podcast if you're listening to it, but, you know, people think we should be significantly far down the sort of the path towards top of the table than we are in reality.
00:08:06
Zak
Because there's just like almost an assumption that, well, we've come down, we've got this money, we're an ex-prem team, we should just immediately bounce back up. And like, I get it, but we came off the back of a 12-point season.
00:08:18
Zak
We've had to rebuild, replace the manager, and change everything else. Some of the players haven't hit the ground running, some have. Like, it's frustrating to me. We're all frustrated, but the problem is is the the snap.
00:08:32
Zak
I just don't see anything from him that that's positive or good. Okay, well then that's not going to change anything.
00:08:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
like oh
00:08:38
Zak
We all need to protest and get fired again.
00:08:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
i and do I disagree with that inherently because like we've had shots on target every game this season so that's already better right
00:08:44
Zak
Yeah.
Managerial Strategies Evaluation
00:08:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
like we need to remember how bad last season was right
00:08:50
Zak
Right, there you go. That's the other problem is it's it's it's not quite realising that like, okay, we had a full pre-season with a bunch of players, some of which have gone, but then like we had our issues with Taylor Harbour-Bellis and Jack Stephens being in defence. Like, you know, Jack Stephens was the hero of the Wrexham game. can't pull that away from him, but also that was a problem.
00:09:11
Zak
The first manager a long time has been willing to take that risk and then just go, well, okay, let's completely revamp your defence. I'm going to move into this formation. This formation isn't working. Let's move back. like You've got people like Ameren that are refusing to do that.
00:09:25
Zak
Russell Martin's just been fired off the back of refusing sort realistically to change his tactics. We've got a manager that's doing that and people like, nah, everything he does bad.
00:09:36
Zak
I think we should give somebody out for shot.
00:09:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:09:38
Zak
Bring Danny Rowling. It's like there needs to come a time that we just kind of... It's like, guys, just go with the flow for a little bit. Like, I admit, if we lose, like, 10 games in a row, 5-0, 3-1, probably start to change my tune a little bit.
00:09:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Indeed.
00:09:56
Zak
But I do think there's just a very, very big sort of
00:10:01
Zak
vibe that is just very, very off. And i I can understand all of the reasons to why, but I just think that... pointing directly at to the manager and screaming, we'll steal your rubbish and all the players you brought in are rubbish and then moaning about it constantly isn't is' it helping the situation won't improve that either. Right?
00:10:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
indeed
00:10:21
Zak
Not that anyone's not entitled to do that. Don't get me wrong. Also, so I'm entitled to completely ignore your opinion. Likewise, you're entitled to ignore mine.
00:10:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:10:29
Zak
But when we come back from this break, Greg, I guess we'll talk about the impact of Ross Stewart's injury. Because some of the some of the responses and what we should do about that have been funny.
00:10:39
Zak
LAUGHTER
00:10:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
funny, insane, all of these things. Yeah, so let's have a break and talk about it.
Ross Stewart's Injury Impact
00:11:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, mate, and we are back. Ross Stewart, man, right, look, he it's been reported he's going to be out for for months, not weeks, just as he was starting to, you know, look like the player that we'd expected when, or or at least the club expected when they signed him, right?
00:11:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
And there's been lots of murmurs and and panic about that. but I've got two, two points to make about that.
00:11:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
And the first is if we didn't come into this season, expecting him to be out for some of the season, what are we doing here?
00:12:07
Zak
Yeah.
00:12:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
And, and secondly, like we've got strikers who can score goals. We just need to play the appropriate type of ball to them. So let's just work on that. Right. Like,
00:12:22
Zak
yeah
00:12:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, oh, we've got no one that we can lump the ball up to. Well, maybe let's just not do that for a bit. Like, let's focus playing to their strengths and, like, playing to their feet, right?
00:12:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Let's just...
00:12:35
Zak
yeah and And again, like we've we've had we've had games like that, and do and that's been Will Steele's sort of criticism. He's like, I don't understand why the players are lumping the ball up to Archer. That isn't something we we taught them to do or have told them to do.
00:12:49
Zak
Again, maybe it's fallen back into a panic or or this or any other. Yeah, like Adam Armstrong finding a slight bit of form. We ignored the penalty the other day, besides the point. Arches scored some goals. i
00:13:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:03
Zak
Maybe downs we've already discussed in length. I'm not going to go into it again. don't think that Alad needs any more criticism than he's already getting elsewhere.
Player Injury Management
00:13:10
Zak
And if anything, I just hope he comes good.
00:13:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:13:13
Zak
We've also got...
00:13:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
He just, he needs time, patience, but, and, and throwing him straight into the team with the expectation that he's going to be this magic fix all for the gap that is Ross Stewart isn't going to help that.
00:13:26
Zak
No, not in the slightest.
00:13:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right. That's not, it's not going to help him. It's not going to help anyone. So let's not put him in that position.
00:13:32
Zak
You've got a lot in the under-21s that's 6-5 and was like last season that potentially they could always bring in if they really want to, if they ever want to experiment a little bit more around. don't think the answer is bringing in bunch of free agent strikers that are as injury-prone, if not more.
00:13:52
Zak
than the Ross Stewart. Like, I don't know if Antonio is ever going to be back to a state where I don't know if he's, if he's counting himself as a free agent or is kind of just accepted, he might be retiring. I'm i'm not entirely sure about that situation. I won't lie, but you know, surely, surely like a leg break is going to be probably mean that he's going to be an abundance of caution around him. Bamford has spent a lot of his time out because of the fact he, he was very injury prone.
00:14:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:14:17
Zak
The Ross Stewart thing is is heartbreaking.
00:14:19
Zak
It was a risk the club took when they signed him. They probably never thought it was going to be this much of a problem. i I said three games in one week for him was a bit too much. But as you pointed out, if he says he's ready...
00:14:32
Zak
What else can you really do? like Unless you're giving him a scan every single day and doing tests every single day, you kind of have to trust what's being said. Maybe he thought it was okay. Yeah, okay, he stretched too long and bang, that's hit his hamstring again. He knew straight away.
00:14:47
Zak
They subbed him off immediately. it's it really, really sucks. you know we've We've played this experiment of hiring injury-plung players before. It's not really paid out too well. I just feel for the guy more than anything else. Like, seem to finally be back, wanting to be back into football. And, you know, I very much doubt he'll get a renewal of his contract just because of these issues, which means that, you know, depending on whether he manages to come back this season and and play really well, which obviously we're all hoping for,
00:15:14
Zak
it might be that when he his contract comes to an end, he's he's played you know under 30-odd appearances and not managed to score the goals that he wants. and And that's just... It's just really sad. I don't think that... It's probably one of the few things I've ever really disagreed with Alfie House and stuff about is know putting out an article and talking about, oh, well, who can we get to replace him? kind of agree with you, Greg. like We've got but strikers. if It feels like the idea of us like panic buying...
00:15:42
Zak
And a striker that's a free agent is even more absurd than the fact that we hunted out a specific type of player that we decided to buy in, for example, Damien Downs.
00:15:53
Zak
And then it's not working out when everyone's mad and everyone seems to think that getting a free agent would would it would work out. Like, I don't understand you know why people think that.
00:16:05
Zak
Like, it's like, oh, but they've got a proven track record of scoring goals at this level. And I'm like, yeah, okay.
00:16:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
so do our strikers. Cameron Archer has that track record. Adam Armstrong has that track record.
00:16:14
Zak
Yeah, on top of that, I'm struggling with our top scorer for like... so So yeah, there's a lot of...
00:16:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
we're We're supposed to have an, uh, the whole, not the whole point, the biggest benefit and selling point of will still is that he's a pragmatic manager who will play the system that suits what we've got and be dynamic and evolved. And,
Striker Performance and Play Styles
00:16:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
and,
00:16:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
We have strikers that can score goals and now we have to put behind them the ability to get them the ball in the way they need to score the goals.
00:16:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't think at any point the strikers have really been the problem. Sure, they are not the most clinical finishers and they never have been, but that doesn't mean that we don't need to keep putting them in those positions, right? They still score goals. They score good goals.
00:17:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's, that that's the answer we've got to find. Just make the change and and like say, its stop trying to lump it up to Cameron Archer when that's clearly not what he's going to do.
00:17:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Damien Downs, when you watch him play, his movement suggests that he is also not a player that you're going to lump it up to despite him being slightly taller. Like, if you can play that way and play them in, there's attacking force there. We just need to get it to work.
00:17:34
Zak
I'm only laughing and smiling, mate, because I'm just thinking about Paul Oluwatu and everyone being like, well, he's really tall guy. let's like like let's Let's throw it to his head. And then it just never, ever playing with him, right? That's another perfect example.
00:17:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:17:47
Zak
i got an out-there take. I'd say out-there take. so it's it's a It's a take I've seen a few times. And... think that it's something I've brought up the last couple of the past couple of podcasts that we've we've done.
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00:18:04
Zak
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00:18:33
Zak
Right, mate.
Reintegrating Sidelined Players
00:18:36
Zak
My out-there take. and I don't say it's it's my out-there take. It's not. It's several people's out-there take. And I've seen it discussed a few times. But I've spoken about it early on.
00:18:47
Zak
When do we start reintegrating Joe Eribo and potentially Adozi? Because you're a big, tall guy to lump the ball up to. i mean, he's already he was our top goal scorer last season, like, for a while.
00:18:58
Zak
don't we just make Joe Eribo our new striker? Like...
00:19:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
look i I don't hate that idea. I don't, something, I'm surprised that they have not been integrated already at this point in some way.
00:19:14
Zak
Hmm.
00:19:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
And, and I mean, I guess the, the main problem is that we, we've got quite a big squad. So who drops out for them to drop in is, is the like,
00:19:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
outside looking in answer, but it still surprises me because they are quality players. And, you know, we talked, we'll still talked about wanting that quality on the wing. That's what Dozie brings.
00:19:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
And, you know last time we saw him, he was pacey and willing to take a player on and lacked an end product. And then he went away and had a good blown spell. And, you I don't know if that's going have changed, if that's still his outcome, but we don't know because we've not seen, we've not seen him.
00:19:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
And yeah, Rebo has time and time again in a Saints shirt shown that he you know he is not like the best player in the world, but he is a player who, when on form, can give you a solid 8 out of 10 performance in in a number of different roles. Very versatile player through the team. So i yeah I'm really surprised we've not seen them already, and I wouldn't be surprised to see them in some capacity after the international break but
00:20:32
Zak
Especially where he is reportedly a top paid player, right? Which makes sense. He's brought in during a Premier League campaign that we were trying to desperately save.
00:20:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:20:46
Zak
It odd. And that's one of the reasons that I think there must be something going on behind the scenes. But also you raise a valid point of like you know who do you drop? Do you drop all of the players that have been brought in from day one?
00:20:58
Zak
that are going to training, working really, really hard, of have been like willing to do anything. example, like Ryan Fraser, right? For... two players that were basically had their heads out of the door were just waiting and then it didn't pay out for them, right? Like with Eribo, I don't even think he was actually properly linked to anyone in the end.
00:21:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:21
Zak
Like it was like a Turkish team that he wasn't interested in going to.
00:21:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:25
Zak
And at one point, a loose rumor of Russell Martin bringing him to Rangers, right? which And because obviously going back to Rangers as well.
00:21:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:21:34
Zak
Other than that, it wasn't anything solid. So I don't really know. like Is it that he's being adamant that he's fallen behind the scenes? But the things that find bizarre about that are the club out promo of them returning to training after the closing of the transfer window.
00:21:51
Zak
But then it's print pretty much radioed, silent suits then. And we've not really seen them in the matchday squad. So I've not seen them on the bench, not really seen much else of them.
00:22:03
Zak
And the is it because of their, like, you know, if they're basically now just waiting for a January move, is that why? They don't want to bother, like, wasting, reintegrating them into the squad, building, like, a good run of form going and then having to deal with them leaving in January.
00:22:19
Zak
But then it says to me, like, why we wouldn't have just accepted whatever was thrown their way in August if we're just not going to play them for six months and then let them leave six months later.
Sidelined Players Speculation
00:22:29
Zak
Very, very strange situation, either way.
00:22:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah, it's it's truly bizarre. And look, wet we don't know. Maybe something else is happening in the background with them. and yeah just you turned know You don't know what happens.
00:22:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
but you Maybe they've had conversations with Will still.
00:22:44
Zak
There's human elements as well, right?
00:22:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:47
Zak
Like 100%. we don't we don't argue like The point is we don't really know. and i think but I think that's what's more more frustrating. It's understood that you know this was like when we had Gromback, right?
00:22:58
Zak
And we for a long, long time tried to figure out what was going on.
00:22:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:23:01
Zak
And then I literally think we had to get it like confirmed with... of George from the Echo that like it was like, oh yeah, he's out injured. I'm like, oh right, good. I'm glad somebody asked that question finally. And then I'm going see them playing for us again after that point. know But it's it was very much like that situation. But judging from the fact that that both Bruce Julian and Alfie House are talking about re-bordose in a similar way to the we are, there is a lot of just not knowing around it.
00:23:30
Zak
And it just feels a bit weird. But it is something that's there. It's like looking at a tool in your toolbox and being like, oh, we could use this tool. You're like, oh, no you can't touch that one. We don't know why.
00:23:41
Zak
i think that's probably why it feels a bit bizarre. but they you know Maybe that will change after the international break. Maybe it was getting an optimal speed. But I also think it could simply be that the other players are the ones that are showing the willingness show chance.
00:23:55
Zak
are up to speed, do want to play, and that's why they're getting picked. But then also, that kind of defeats the object of what we've talked about with Will still being really pragmatic, because he's chosen players and dropped players that you'd expect him to have loyalty too you know Very rus of Russell Martin-esque, right?
00:24:14
Zak
is what Is what you'd expect, but he's proven immediately, like, no, I'll drop Steven as a player, and not great, right?
00:24:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:21
Zak
So, very confusing.
00:24:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
You see it as well, like subbing off Tom Fellows, who to, you know, the eye of all of us have been one of the better players on the pitch and bringing on Fraser.
00:24:29
Zak
baffled little bit like, right?
00:24:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
But, you know, it's... Yeah. Yeah. It is a very strange one. I don't have the answer. I wish we did.
00:24:39
Zak
i No, I don't think any us do. And I think that, like, for me, one of the big important parts of it is is going to be increasing, like, as the players gel more, increasing that, like, level of pass accuracy, making sure that people in the right positions.
Pass Accuracy Challenges
00:24:53
Zak
Because that's been, like, a lot of our problems. It hasn't really even been, you know yeah, okay, finishing's always been a problem. That's just being a Saints fan, right? but Like, however, but like, losing sort of the second balls or not...
00:25:07
Zak
passing properly seems to be one of the big issues. And maybe that's why they've been like so reliant on this lumping up the ball system until that bit clicks into place, until we're able to like pass properly.
00:25:20
Zak
Because that's the other issue. If we can't have those three balls Cameron Archer, they're going constantly just end up passing to the opposition, right? So I just hope that Break does all of them good.
00:25:31
Zak
They're able to gel a bit more. And I just think as a base, maybe we should just like take it as it comes a bit more rather than thinking that you know every game that we don't win is a loss and every game that we don't win by like, well, every game that the two games that we have lost are like the worst things in the world and that we need to fire the manager immediately.
00:25:56
Zak
In fact, it's not the reality of how anything should work.
00:25:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:59
Zak
But again, just my opinion.
00:26:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
Upcoming Games and Fan Engagement
00:26:01
Zak
you're all entitled to your own.
00:26:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
But look, I mean, when we get back, we've got another three-game week. You know, they come thick and fast. You get this, like, odd international break, and then it's... Swansea, Bristol away, Blackburn away all in seven day period and I mean that in itself is the challenge of the league right like being physically ready to play that much football in three days like it's just you go back to the human element that's that's hard physically and mentally but look we'll talk more about that and more about the upcoming games I'm sure as the the break continues but
00:26:17
Zak
Woo!
00:26:21
Zak
Yeah.
00:26:30
Zak
Yeah, for sure.
00:26:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
But that's a wrap for us this week. Zach, as always, thank you so much for joining me and muffling nonsense about football. My favourite part of our day.
00:26:49
Zak
Likewise, mate.
00:26:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's
00:26:50
Zak
like you for Thank you for listening to me go on more than a few rants and, you know, about probably nonsense.
00:26:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
what what we love.
00:26:59
Zak
most most of it doesn't matter, but I enjoy it nonetheless.
00:27:06
Zak
but
00:27:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
let Let us know in the comments. What what do you think? Steps in the right direction, good enough so far, or we just had enough and want rid? If that is your opinion, what's the alternative? I'd love to hear it.
00:27:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
We take all of the opinions and we'd love to hear them anyway. We're on all the socials. us know there. We're on X, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Blue Sky, every single one of them. Hit us up. We'd love to hear from you. Like I say, we'll be back Monday. But until then, with no Saints to ruin your weekend, it's undeniable everybody has to have a fantastic weekend.
00:27:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
So we'll see you Monday.