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Matchday Review - Fulham vs Wolves
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It's rare this season to feel good on a Monday, but 4-1!!
Chris & Will react to an unexpected result and can't quite believe it.
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Transcript
Positive Vibes After Wolves' Victory
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hey everyone, welcome in. Happy Monday as it is when you're going to listen to this. um I am Chris with you again and with me today is Will. Hey Will.
00:00:20
Will
Hello, hello. Definitely more positive vibes today, which I'm all for.
00:00:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
definitely because yeah yeah because we are recorded to put this in into context again we are recording this live um saturday night after the game in question that we're going to be discussing Fulham versus wolves and uh my my i mean we I think everyone expected goals of some sort.
00:00:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'd said maybe a 2-2 draw because I could see goals in it either way, you know, because we we are scoring quite well throughout the season, but we're conceding as well.
00:00:45
Will
Yeah.
00:00:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I i have to admit, well, even though I've become slightly more optimistic again as my sort Mr. Optimism risk returned over this three previously three-game unbeaten streak, now four, I did not see this this result coming.
00:01:05
Will
No, no. I mean, I don't think any of us did.
Surprising Fulham vs. Wolves Game Result
00:01:11
Will
I mean, it's weird because we spoke during the week about, you know, there was a sort of fresh feeling after the international break.
00:01:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mmhmm.
00:01:21
Will
And yeah, we were a bit more sort of optimistic than than we have been. um But to to see what we saw earlier today,
00:01:33
Will
I'm in a weird sort of state of shock. I don't know so quite know. I'm not used to it. Not used to it.
00:01:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah i mean to put it into context again by the time this goes out everyone if you didn't watch or listen to it live we'll know the score undoubtedly but it was full and one wolves four and i mean just saying it just saying we full and one wolves four
00:01:47
Will
Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:01:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
I did not, I did just not dream of that. And I mean, at two, one, I was uncomfortable because, you know, we've just thrown so much away this season.
00:02:00
Will
No.
00:02:06
Will
yeah yeah yeah i mean um during the week when nathan and i was sort of looking forward to um the the game away at craven cottage we were sort of
00:02:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then, but to ah score four away from home at Craven Cottage, and they've had a decent start to the season. It just feels like, yeah, that morale boost that we spoke about after Southampton seems to have had an effect.
00:02:30
Will
perhaps embarrassingly so um very complimentary of Fulham and the way they have been playing in the start they've had and you know um obviously fearful of the threats that they you know we expected them to carry or the you know so familiar to us obviously with the Dharma and Raul and yeah I just I mean I'll stress it again I'm
00:02:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm?
00:02:57
Will
I just, I can't believe it. I can't quite believe what but what we've seen. and Yeah.
00:03:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
Wolves' Makeshift Lineup Success
00:03:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I think to put it into context as well, what's even more amazing is we've done it with a weird, ah like amalgamation of a lineup due to the amount of injuries we've got in the back line.
00:03:03
Will
No.
00:03:11
Will
Yes. Yes.
00:03:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, the defensive unit to put this into perspective, I think that's what makes the result even more, and the performance, not just the result.
00:03:13
Will
Yeah.
00:03:17
Will
Mm hmm.
00:03:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, it's not flukey, the performance overall, even more impressive.
00:03:20
Will
Yeah.
00:03:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because, you know, Dawson, illness, ah from what I heard, and Bueno we knew was goingnna was a doubt because of his his injury, so they pulled him out of the the national team squad.
00:03:32
Will
Yeah. Yeah.
00:03:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
And so he Dawson and Bueno not in there. So the back line, we saw Lamina filling at centre back.
00:03:40
Will
Mm
00:03:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
alongside Totti Gomez with Eitan Aurian's Tomatoes.
00:03:44
Will
hmm.
00:03:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, I mean, three of that four is your thoughts.
00:03:50
Will
Yeah.
00:03:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
But li Captain, you know, Captain Mario filling in and doing beautifully well, amazingly. I mean, and Mr. Pond even came on late on in the game to get a few minutes.
00:04:01
Will
yes yes i thought that would get a mention from you no i know yeah yeah yeah yeah
00:04:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, of course. He's been waiting for his moment. I mean, if if he wasn't going to get some kind of minutes today, then what? When else is he going to get it when the entire back line is basically gone? um but ah But when you look at that, it just makes this performance even more ridiculous.
00:04:21
Will
Well, ah no, that's exactly it. I mean, there was a lot of sort of talk and a lot of panic, I think, when the lineups were announced and everyone saw that makeshift back four, which I mean, again, even when you say it on paper, it just adds to my sort of disbelief and and happiness, you know, of of how the events played out. um But I think there was that and then um you know we didn't get off to the greatest start and there was that feeling of our here we go again but yeah
00:05:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep, yep.
Impact of Formation Changes
00:05:03
Will
it was just
00:05:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, uh, what, what was weird about that formation in some, and maybe, maybe it was a silver lining that kind of played a little bit into O'Neill's hands the way, because Lamina dropping into the back meant that we saw some other changes in the, in the lineup. Cause Andre took his spot.
00:05:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
in midfield so we saw Andre come back who we've been saying like where's he gone because he gets player of the the month and then vanishes from the lineup but he took in that spot in midfield and that switched things around we saw Rodrigo Gomez get his first start since the opening day of the season
00:05:20
Will
Yes. Yeah, yeah.
00:05:38
Will
Yeah.
00:05:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
which Which just kind of came out of nowhere and I've been saying I would like to see more of him We I think we've all mentioned at some point we we'd like to see more of this exciting young talent He's he gets a game And and and I come just like wow and so that it just put a bit more vibrancy I think in the squad because you've got two people there alone that have been dying to get back into the lineup Undoubtedly and it just brought again a bit more vigor and a bit more, you know excitement
00:05:48
Will
yeah
00:06:05
Will
Yeah, I mean, albeit these were sort of decisions that we were forced into. um It was, I mean, I suppose not so much with the Rodrigo Gomez, but the RJ.
00:06:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, the Andre one, yeah, because it he's basically taken, arguably taken Lemina's spot in midfield, but the Gomez one, that's a complete shift.
00:06:20
Will
Yeah.
00:06:25
Will
Yeah.
00:06:29
Will
yeah and it was just it just adds to the list of unexpected ongoings um you know if imagine chris if someone told you that this was going to happen this morning you know from the formation to the performance to the
00:06:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:06:45
Will
personnel um and and then the school line. There's just, you know, it's it's crazy, isn't it, to to think about, especially with the way um if we backtrack um to to, you know, our recordings on a personal level here at Daily Wolves and the overall thoughts and feelings just just a couple of weeks ago before the international break, to today's performance. In in a way,
00:07:15
Will
um and this isn't me bringing it down this isn't me bringing it down but in a way it's sort of it gives me more questions than it does answers in terms of where where has this been the whole time
00:07:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm hmm.
00:07:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, I think, um yeah, I mean, that's a little bit of a mystery. But obviously, yeah, the the fact that i' I'm not gonna I'm not gonna I don't know.
00:07:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm just happy.
Wolves' Unbeaten Streak and Consistency Debate
00:07:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm just happy, dude.
00:07:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't want to, I don't want to dig too deep on that because you've got, looking at the bigger picture now, that's four games unbeaten, two draws, two wins. This one, ah you know, people, the first, like the win against our Southampton people are like, Oh, well it's Southampton.
00:07:43
Will
yes yes no i know yeah yeah you take it with a pinch of salt sort of thing yeah yeah yeah
00:08:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fulham, Fulham are a decent side, and and we were all a little bit scared going into this game of how it was going to be. Fair enough, things could have gone differently early on because, the you know, Iwobi scores that quite a nice goal, to be fair.
00:08:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
But even before that, Jimenez has missed like an open net.
00:08:18
Will
Yeah.
00:08:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, I don't know, like,
00:08:21
Will
He did it, he did it on purpose.
00:08:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know.
00:08:22
Will
He did it on purpose.
00:08:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I don't know if it's a subconscious thing of his, you know, against the old team, but how, he's like two yards out and he somehow hit the post and Sar is, he's already gone past the ball and it's just like, wow, that it could have been a bit, but then that's football, right?
00:08:31
Will
Yeah.
00:08:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Everything is on a coin flip things.
00:08:37
Will
Yeah.
00:08:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
You don't, these things are just ifs and buts.
00:08:42
Will
Hmm.
00:08:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then that first goal from a Wobi and I'm thinking, Oh, here we go. This is going to be another long afternoon.
00:08:47
Will
Well, I would also like to point out the fact that it just had to be him, didn't it? I don't understand how he always, always seems to score against us, even when he was back at Everton.
00:09:01
Will
It's just so through such a sort of random bogey player to to have it. It's so weird, but I can't believe we um never picked up on it before the game. It was that focused on him and his scoring, that sort of chance that he should have scored.
00:09:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep. Mm-hmm.
00:09:16
Will
and are sidetracked by the fact that Oobi seems to score against us whenever we we play but yeah like you said um when that goal did go in and you know all the noise prior to kick off about the the lineup It felt, for all of those reasons, like, yeah, we're in for another long, long day.
00:09:42
Will
But it just it just adds to the beauty of it, in my opinion.
00:09:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
It does.
00:09:47
Will
You know, it makes it even sweeter.
00:09:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. And the the first half was, I think, fairly, you know, that was ah took a bit of settling in, obviously, and ah not as amazing.
00:09:56
Will
Yeah, yeah.
00:09:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was decent, decent performance. um And then the equalizing goal kind of just felt like, yeah, okay, we we're we're back in the game. And it was a beautiful, like 40-yard pass.
00:10:09
Will
yeah yes yes no
00:10:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
from Lamina very Cody ask almost of just like, I'm playing a center back and I'm just going to, cause it's not, again, it's not just a place and long ball. It's a beautifully precision pass. And, and, and then Konya first touch is fabulous. Maybe a little bit fortunate with the second. It kind of seems to bounce up back off his thigh. And then the third, the third is the finish. And suddenly it's one one and you're like, Hey, we're we're back in the game. But then.
00:10:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
halftime comes and the second half the second half was just all wolves no no
00:10:42
Will
Yeah and I mean that's not a sentence that I don't think Chris the whole time that we've been doing this podcast that's not a sentence that you've ever had the opportunity to say.
00:10:57
Will
um And this isn't a feeling that we've had the opportunity to feel either, so I'm just i'm still just soaking it all in, just enjoying it.
Cunha's Contributions and Improvement
00:11:06
Will
enjoying it um i mean And you mentioned it him there for our first goal, I do just want to talk about the man, because Cunha is just unbelievable. one I know we've spoken in the crossover episodes and just amongst ourselves about there is that feeling of, oh, there has been this season of, if you stop him, you you stop wolves. There was the start that I remember Nathan saying um recently about him being involved in that like 40% of our goals or whatever it is, but the man was just on fire.
00:11:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, because I was going to go into him a bit further on later, but as you've as you brought him up, and ah in actual fact, before we get before I go into my Kunya stats that that I've got on this since we since you've kind of honed in on him, I will just say, and just remind everyone that, you know, the we're having obviously this roller coaster of a season.
00:11:55
Will
Mm hmm, mm hmm.
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00:12:36
Will
Every day.
00:12:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
But you mentioned Konya, so he gets a brace in this game. We can, we we can hone in individually on each guy. I kind of mentioned a little, like describe the first goal a little bit, which was beautiful.
00:12:46
Will
Hmm. Yeah. Yeah.
00:12:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
The second one, oh my, but you, you, so you spoke about his record. It's 26 goals in no, 26 goal contributions in 29 league starts.
00:13:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
26 goal contributions in 29 league starts.
00:13:01
Will
That's unreal.
00:13:03
Will
Yeah. Yeah.
00:13:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's a mixture of goals and assists, but like that just shows the form he's on.
00:13:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
And only Erling Haaland has scored more away goals since the start of last season.
00:13:09
Will
Yeah.
00:13:13
Will
Who?
00:13:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Only Haaland has...
00:13:16
Will
The only Norwegian striker I know is our number nine.
00:13:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah Yeah, good point, good point. But yeah, only the only this Erling Haaland guy has scored more away goals since the start of last season than Mateus Kunje.
00:13:27
Will
Yeah.
00:13:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
And so yeah, that just gives you an indication of like what a form he we see it, but not everyone is seeing it.
00:13:33
Will
yeah Yeah, I think people are starting to realise the quality that he possesses um and the the joy of it is it's not just the quality, it's how integrally he is because of that and a combination of those two things, yeah I suppose in a way it's maybe not you know i'm sure o'neill doesn't just see it as is that but the stats don't lie some of the goals he scored for us and the points that he's picked up for us almost single-handedly at times taking the game to to the opposition and you know um carrying us on on his back going forwards at least um
00:14:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
to To play, like again, do the whole devil's advocate thing again, because you know I know you're very anti-O'Neal and all this kind of thing, ah but looking we're we're on the Konya discussion before we go on to the other goals and the rest of the game.
00:14:26
Will
Yeah. ah Yeah.
00:14:30
Will
yeah
00:14:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Obviously under, say, Lopategi for example, Konya comes in and he does okay, but everyone's like, this guy is not, you know he's not going to score a lot of goals. He's a number 10, he's not a number nine.
00:14:41
Will
Yeah. now Yeah.
00:14:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Now, this last season or two, those stats I just read out show that he's really picked things up. Now, a lot of that has been under O'Neill's reign.
00:14:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
So my question is, is it how much how much um of that do you to do you give to O'Neill in terms of his coaching, in terms of bringing in some of the best out of Cunha?
00:15:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because arguably, he has improved his form under O'Neill's reign.
00:15:12
Will
yeah i think undoubtedly he has yeah and play play it off him yeah yeah
00:15:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then this season, obviously the, the added benefit, yes, he w he was already scoring goals last season, but this season now we have a proper number nine. So Kunya is now allowed to sit deeper to and like Rome as a proper number 10. So is it just now that he has the number nine, or is that still a mixture of that and Gary Nils? Like, is it, oh, what I'm saying is I don't, is, is O'Neal doing better with him than Lopateki did?
00:15:43
Will
look I'll happily give credit where credit is due and um you know um yeah what you're alluding to is is right I think it does help having Larson in um the one thing about O'Neill last season was the but belief and confidence that he instilled in players such as um Cunha and I remember um listening to an interview with Kunio actually and you know he's talking about how at home he is here and um it's something it's probably the closest to Lao in that sense because he said about feeling the confidence from the manager and the fans to feel like he's the main man you know to to
00:16:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:16:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:31
Will
And you play better. As we spoke about in early on in the season, the less confidence you have, the worse you play. Of course that works in the other direction. O'Neill has given that belief for players to express themselves.
00:16:46
Will
I mean, you look at how much he he admires and rates out in the early. You know, they're very much a confidence-based player.
00:16:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:16:56
Will
And I think it's the same with Cunha because we see how emotional he is. And I think if that's channeled in the right direction by by the manager, if they're able to control that, um then it can only be good for for everyone involved.
00:17:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, and i I think I saw that interview you were leading to where Kunya said, I can't remember the exact line, the phrase, but yeah, he spoke about realizing that he is you know integral to the team, and but he didn't say it in an egotistical way.
00:17:10
Will
So, yeah.
00:17:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was in a very humble way.
00:17:23
Will
No, yeah, because he he was talking about, um you know, being a Leipzig and Athletico Madrid and you know it not quite clicking like having good moments on the pitch but not feeling that same sense of importance and and belonging and you know wanting to be somewhere and being wanted in that way and I think a lot of that comes from a ah manager
00:17:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:17:54
Will
giving you that confidence. I know it's a bit off topic but I saw earlier I was just um scrolling on my phone and I saw a couple of quotes from Tani Abraham about Josie Mourinho and talking about just how important it is to have a manager instilling you with that belief in in yourself and that's that's only going to have a a positive effect. And um as I mentioned, when you add to that just the sheer quality that Cunha is capable of and being able to harness that and and we're seeing it now, the the you know the benefits are going to be unbelievable and there and there have been.
00:18:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he he is phenomenal. And I think, um I've just forgotten, I had of something lined up in my head to say, and it's gone now typically. So I'll move on for now and then maybe it will come back to me.
00:18:53
Will
Yeah.
00:18:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, but yeah he's sensational.
Diverse Goal Scoring in Wolves' Squad
00:18:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
But the obviously, the he um the equalizing goal, sorry, the Gomez goal, I mean, in that in that moment, couldn't you get the assist?
00:19:02
Will
Yes.
00:19:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
everyone's kind of looking that he might shoot. He lays it off to Gomez and I was actually impressed with that finish. I didn't expect him to slide it away the way he did.
00:19:12
Will
Yeah.
00:19:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
I thought that was really well taken. And then the third goal, the CUNY goal, the second of his goals, oh my word, it's just
00:19:22
Will
yeah
00:19:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, Joe Gomez wins the ball back after Kun-Yun he had been hustling. And then it's just, it's like an instant strike. There's no touch.
00:19:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
He just looks up. He just looks up and just wellies it. It's just beautiful.
00:19:31
Will
yeah yeah and that's exactly the quality that you can't coach you know but what you can coach is the confidence and the belief to yeah i'm hearing this i'm hearing this and it's going it's going top bins and that's just what's happening and that's what did happen and yeah it it was great it was great and then just on the gel gomez goal and finish um
00:19:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:00
Will
I remember thinking that exact thought about just how nice of a little finish it was um when Guedes set him up the other the week and he just caressed it um into the bottom right hand corner.
00:20:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:20:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:20:13
Will
And speaking of Guedes.
00:20:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know.
00:20:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. It leads you nicely onto the fourth goal, which again, he comes on and, and actually, well, because we're getting onto Guedes. What's interesting is obviously he, he gets the substitution.
00:20:15
Will
Yeah.
00:20:25
Will
Mmm.
00:20:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
We saw um what was interesting. We saw Fulham make ah all air sub changes in a flurry midway through the second half when they realized it's not working.
00:20:33
Will
Hmm.
00:20:36
Will
Panicking. Panicking.
00:20:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, and then because they use all their substitutions in about the 79th minute, they get an injury and ah I've forgotten the guy's name now, I had it written down, but he he can't continue.
00:20:43
Will
Yes. Yes.
00:20:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
So they go down to 10 men.
00:20:50
Will
Was it Anderson?
00:20:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
It might have been, it might someone's gonna tell me that's wrong now.
00:20:55
Will
Yeah, they'll let us know. The listeners will let us know.
00:20:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, um but the fact that they so they go down to 10 men.
00:21:01
Will
Hmm.
00:21:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
um el Late in the game just because just because they've they've the they've gone so heavy on the substitutions.
00:21:06
Will
Hmm.
00:21:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
We didn't make substitution still quite late because we were having such a positive impact in the second half for once I feel like Gary Neil did get this right because the team was, not only was the starting lineup effective with Gomez coming in, Andre coming in, even the bizarre Lamina at center back because of injuries, it all seemed to work.
00:21:16
Will
Yeah.
00:21:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then, so the fresh faces helped. And then the likes of Guedes coming on late on and getting another goal. Like he's, he's scored them in the cup and now he's got his first league goal of the season and he looks sharp.
00:21:39
Will
Yeah, the only concern I have about him and I don't blame him for a second about this concern is it seems glaringly obvious to me that he just still does not want to be here but he's being professional I mean when he when he took that goal away which was a good finish because he wasn't a pressure by time he he went to put his foot through the ball and it was great back across goal and to the bottom left hand corner he just didn't celebrate he didn't didn't really care and
00:22:14
Will
In a way, i well I think there was celebration from those around him, happy for him.
00:22:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think there was a reason, but I think it was a little bit of celebration there, but a fourth goal, I think, again, the fourth goal is always a bit like, wow, yeah, we've got a fourth goal.
00:22:28
Will
But um the the overall narrative is that you know he's probably pushing for a move, which is just unfortunate because we're we're fans of his and he's he's, you know, given a very good account of himself each time we've seen him play this season.
00:22:46
Will
And yeah, buzzing for him to finally get that chance in the league and to get that goal in the league and, you know.
00:22:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. And what I do think, sorry, what I do think is nice is that yes, Kunya is on fire, but <unk>ve we've had goals from other people today.
00:22:59
Will
Yes, yes.
00:23:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like Kunya scored, Gomez has scored again for, you know, we've he's got a couple of goals now. And then now Guedes has come on and scored. We've seen Larsen scoring in previous goals. So once again, we whilst Kunya is on fire, we do have goals coming from other people, which is always nice.
00:23:10
Will
yeah yeah
00:23:15
Will
Yeah I mean it's what you mentioned about it's not just the goals it's the assists as well um obviously for the Gomez goal and
00:23:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:23:24
Will
So I think, and again, it's what I spoke about, um you know, in the past few months of the, you know, poor performances lead to less confidence, lead to worse performances. ah Again, works you the other way. Players playing well around you, things going well around you.
00:23:48
Will
you're going to do better and I remember Nathan saying about trying to create that winning atmosphere and not just create it but maintain it then and things will um you know become become sort of second nature so to have that confidence
00:24:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm hmm.
00:24:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. And you've got to think now, I mean, there's a couple of things ah of note, actually, before before I make those points, let's just make remind everyone that here at um Oh, I can't talk properly today.
00:24:22
Will
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00:24:44
Will
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It's super easy to start a podcast that sounds great and did is delivered efficiently. If you're ready to tell your story, check out the link in the show description to learn more about Zencaster. So you spoke about morale and getting that winning feeling and all that that kind of things.
Wolves Climb Out of Relegation Zone
00:25:00
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What is surely going to be a massive boost for the team is we are out of the bottom three. I mean, just looking at the table.
00:25:06
Will
Woo!
00:25:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know. Yeah. So we're on nine points.
00:25:11
Will
Yeah.
00:25:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
We're one point above now, Crystal Palace. I mean, just, just being able to visualize that on the table. When you look at the table, it just looks so much healthier.
00:25:19
Will
Yeah.
00:25:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then we now have, is it Bournemouth at home? Next. That's going there.
00:25:25
Will
Yeah.
00:25:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah I mean, coming back home, taking on Bournemouth, having just beaten Fulham away for one and with the morale booster being out the Boston three as well. I mean, that's got to, that's surely going to be a massive boon going into this next game.
00:25:42
Will
yeah it can only have a positive effect as you said um i mean we we spoke about it actually after we drew to Brighton about it sort of being this springboard to then kick start our season from and i suppose in a way it has been um but yeah surely now with the run of fixtures we've got coming up playing the likes of um West Ham, Everton, Ipswich, Bournemouth. Surely we we start to kick on. you know i mean Fingers crossed. If we play like today, then I dare say it won't be an issue. And it does beg the question in my head, as you know, having been so critical about O'Neill,
00:26:33
Will
it It does beg the question of how I feel about about him now, which I'm sure you probably, you know, evidently very interested in.
00:26:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah.
00:26:43
Will
And it's it's a weird one because it's, like I said earlier, it just makes me wonder where this has been. um you know all season because as you said it's not just the results it was the performance today as well and you know to to be able to get both a performance and a result has been yeah but miles miles away this season so it's just yeah it's weird it's weird but i'm all for it i'm all for it yeah
00:27:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mmhmm.
00:27:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I said the other day, ah this could have been, I think I said after the Southampton game, this could be, you know, the beginning of of something with the run we've got.
00:27:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
And there was hope ah lies at the end of the tunnel. And I think, I mean, speaking about how deadly we are, I mean, five shots on target, four goals. I mean, we had 10 shots in all, but only five on target and four goals.
00:27:35
Will
Yeah.
00:27:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because when we do get, when we do hit the target, if you look back at most of our games, when we hit the target, we're pretty clinical.
00:27:43
Will
Yes.
00:27:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
and Which is, but before we before we kind of get round up to closing out, there was one thing that's been on my mind that I've seen people talking about, and I don't know if if you've come across this.
00:27:44
Will
Yeah.
00:27:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Sam Johnston is not in the squad again, right?
Player Absences and Team Dynamics
00:27:57
Will
Yeah.
00:27:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
The rumor is, or the story is illness. Now there's a lot of discussion about the fact he seems to be mystically ill the last few games, even after having recovered from this apparent injury that he had.
00:28:09
Will
Yes Yeah Yeah yeah
00:28:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
There's a lot of stories going around that he was fine at open training because there was an open training thing around the Halloween period as well. And a couple of open training sessions recently that he's been in training in full. And so therefore why is he not on the bench if he's, you know, if if he's fit at the very least of Sal's choice. And there's a few stories going around that he basically doesn't want to be on the bench because he didn't come here to be a sub. And so that's intrigued me if this is true, because apparently this is what he did at Crystal Palace at points where he was like, if I'm not number one, I don't want to be.
00:28:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
on the bench and do you do you have you heard this do you think it's true and if so or like have you heard anything different and do you think there's he's actually ill and because it does seem mystical that he's not he's not been on the bench pretty much since he was he's become number two again for a bit
00:28:46
Will
Um, well, yeah, I mean, I obviously can't comment on the palace situation, but in a weird way,
00:29:07
Will
I don't blame him because you can only imagine um the conversations that were had um with him when he signed. it It would have been, you're going to be my number one, you're going to play, otherwise he simply would not have come and we wouldn't have spent 10 million on him. That's not up for debate. So he's quite clearly one of the players that have been lied to by the club, which the list is somewhat endless over the past couple of seasons.
00:29:34
Will
um
00:29:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I mean we said he's he wasn't an upgrade.
00:29:38
Will
No, no, of course. This is it.
00:29:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
So arguably it's a bad purchase as well, because that's 10 million we could have put on a set towards the center back, which we blatantly now need.
00:29:43
Will
Yeah.
00:29:46
Will
Yes, yes, yes.
00:29:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we bought in a goalkeeper who wasn't an upgrade and is now not not even on the bench.
00:29:52
Will
Chris, Chris, you've given me the opportunity here to moan about O'Neill.
00:29:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hey, but this is potentially a Foson thing as well.
00:29:57
Will
I'm
00:29:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, we're talking about a bigger picture here.
00:30:00
Will
No well yeah I get that but only it was the one who didn't rate Tsar and wanted a new keeper and Johnson was identified as that man by him and Hobbs and that's soon been found out so like we said not be the case and not be an upgrade.
00:30:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:30:20
Will
It's just and it's just ah I don't want I don't want to end on this on this note in a way because this Yeah, no rightly so rightly so Yeah No, there's definitely something Yeah
00:30:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
And again, yeah. Sorry, I'm i'm sorry, but it's been bugging me and it and it is partly conjecture, obviously a lot of it is conjecture. ah You know, yeah you there's a lot of things go around social media and you never know, but it did, the more I read about it, the more I was like, actually,
00:30:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah I'm not sure what's going on here because and then some Crystal Palace fans were saying something similar happened when he was at Palace that once he was no longer the number one he often wasn't on the bench because he just like said I don't want to be a sub and and but that I don't want that disharmony if that's the case that's my that's my thing.
00:30:56
Will
no but i agree with you but i can understand it from his point of view but purely just because i can imagine the conversations that i had i'm not saying i agree with him essentially shucking his toys out the pram if that is the case um but i can understand it it definitely seems as though there's there's you know um
00:31:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
But to me, as a professional, you're not going to earn your spot back. If you're not on the bench, on the, say Sar gets an injury midway through a game, fair enough, you want to earn it back through training and everything else. But as a goalkeeper, you've got so few chances. If you're not putting yourself on the bench, how are you going to earn the opportunity?
00:31:39
Will
I can only imagine it's from a point of principle when it gets to that bit of, I imagine he doesn't want to be on the bench. Not for wolves, ah so as a club or as himself as a professional, but on a personal level, on a, you know, that human thing of, you've just been completely lied to um by O'Neill and Hobbes, which I think he has, I think he has.
00:32:06
Will
um Because he was born, as you said, 10 million to be to be number one. That was obviously the conversations that that held with him and the promise was that he would come here to play and then to just.
00:32:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:32:19
Will
not so i can understand it as much as i agree with you and i'm not saying if these rooms are true what the way is reacting is the correct way to go about things all i'm saying is i can i can picture the sort of you know um conversations that have been had that we will simply never know about
00:32:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, and I mean, that you know, this week, I can't comment on other weeks, this week particularly, he may be genuinely ill. I know, you know, apparently there are some, so we weve we've all suffered with Manfulu recently. There is stuff going around.
00:32:49
Will
Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Dawson apparently has been ill. A few people in the squad have have picked up some illness here and there.
00:32:53
Will
Mhm.
00:32:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's not impossible.
00:32:57
Will
No.
00:32:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's just something that I thought was worth touching on because people, fans are discussing the goalkeeper situation and what's going on there and we are fans, we're in that discussion too and it's it's worth talking about whatever's going on.
00:32:59
Will
Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:04
Will
Mhm.
00:33:08
Will
Yeah.
00:33:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I'm interested to see how it plays out.
00:33:11
Will
Whatever's going on is weird. ah That's what I will say.
00:33:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's true. However, it doesn't detract from the fact that today of all days, we can be arguably the happiest we've been all season.
Celebration and Optimism for Wolves' Future
00:33:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, it doesn't get better than this 4-1 away at Craven Cottage.
00:33:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Konya with another just like worldly performance and then, and then just feeling great going into the, into the new week, out to the bottom three and no longer like just being ridiculed.
00:33:42
Will
Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I, as we record this, as we record this match of the day has yet to air and I'm excited to watch match of the day for the first time properly. Even the Southampton game was a bit like meh.
00:33:51
Will
That's such a, that's such a weird thought, isn't it?
00:33:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
But you know, we've scored four goals.
00:33:56
Will
Yeah.
00:33:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
We might not be on last guys. We might not be on last.
00:33:58
Will
No, yeah, yeah. And my, I mean, my parting words would be that I put this change of form down to one thing and one thing only.
00:34:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
are you gonna please don't you're gonna steal my thunder you're gonna steal my thunder because you know i you'd steal all my best okay i'm curious where are you not where i was going okay
00:34:12
Will
yeah I don't know. Oh, I don't know. It's because if this is your Thunder that I'm stealing, that it should have been mine anyway, because it because i I was going down the route of it can only be because the return of Nevis against Southampton.
00:34:31
Will
You know, two wins, two goals from outside the box in typical Nevis fashion and we're we're up and away. So that's that's the only logical reason as far as I'm concerned.
00:34:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
We are. We are. And we said it we've said it for the last few weeks, even when we were in the depths of misery. Don't despair, people. Don't despair. Because out of darkness, cometh light.