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Hammering Away Ep #21 - Worst Performance of the Season
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On today's episode of the podcast, Jack and Joe discuss West Ham's 4-1 loss to Aston Villa, what went wrong, what needs to change, and more!
Music by: LADI OGUN & @ANTlll
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Transcript
Episode Introduction
00:00:24
Speaker
Welcome back to the hammer my podcast is episode number 21. I'll be your host, Jack as always. I'm with Joe and I really just said that I want to get this over with, but I, I don't want to talk bad about my guys. I'm going to be doing a lot of that today. How are you feeling? Good. I mean, I'm doing good now, but I certainly wasn't doing good on Sunday. Um, first bad game, first bad, bad game to talk about bad, bad game.
00:00:54
Speaker
I feel a lot more sane right now. You were wilding on Sunday. Yo, I was still, I'm still, I'm still fucking pissed off, but I, I sat back today and I was like, I forget what I even saw, but something, something sued my nerves and calmed me down.
Team Comparison: Are We Better?
00:01:16
Speaker
I do stand by what I said.
00:01:21
Speaker
I'll just say what I said instead of like being around the bush because I don't it's kind of tough to say on mic because I feel like I might be wrong and in some ways I do think I'm wrong but what makes us better than Brighton Newcastle and Asinville in the league what makes us better than them any one of them to say
00:01:49
Speaker
Alright, that's different than what you told me. You said that we are not on the same level as those teams. Oh, that excused my language. I was angry. That's not what I wanted to say. And you put united in that too. You nasty bastard. I was angry. I was angry, okay. But notice who I didn't put in there.
00:02:19
Speaker
But dude I just Something about us it's you know what it is it's the The one guy isn't here that that that's what it is. Yeah, that's the difference That is whatever the fuck you want to say That is the difference between us and them is that we don't have that one, right?
Potential Improvements with New Players
00:02:42
Speaker
It's just the difference in us, no, but it's the difference in us being like what we were two years ago and three years ago, and us kind of like finishing like ninth or 10th this year. And what something I did say is I've like kind of had this gut feeling like the way we've been over performing stuff. And I think that we're a really good side. And I think we could explode when kudos comes in.
00:03:08
Speaker
to the team. This striker, if Antonio, we'll get to that. But we could explode when Kudos comes into the team, and with another match-winner, we could be a lot more dangerous. But I just think that we're a good side. I never really thought we were going to finish in the top six. Seventh is doable. We could finish eighth and get conference league, technically.
00:03:33
Speaker
This is what I'll have to say about this, and there's no reason why this episode should be starting positively for me, but you're kind of putting me in this position.
Performance Review Against Top Teams
00:03:45
Speaker
Whatever you think of this start to the season and calling it over-performing, you know, pointing to XG, over-performing on both ends and all that,
00:03:56
Speaker
We played all three of the teams that you said are better than us. Yes. We spanked Brighton. We absolutely deserved three points against Newcastle. And we got cross Shainsville. There's no doubt about that. But we played them at home, I mean, at Villa Park, where they've been red hot since last season.
00:04:25
Speaker
That's just not that. It's a bad loss because of the effort and actual quality that we put forth. But I really don't think that there's so much ahead of us. I really don't. And to the point of the metrics,
00:04:45
Speaker
You actually made this point to me earlier in the season before you had this emotional rap that we've played so many good teams. Of course, our XG assets are going to be terrible. Yeah, you actually reminded me of what I saw. But the fact is that, you know, whether or not we overperformed, the points are still there. Like we still got points from Chelsea and Brighton, even though we'd lost those games on XG. And then
00:05:15
Speaker
We're going to we're going to play these bad teams and we're going to, we're going to beat them on XG. Like this is how it works. We just haven't played that many bad teams yet. You've actually, you've re-soothed me because what you said reminded me of what I saw. What I saw was that I think we've played five of last season's top seven already. Yeah. And of, of the teams through nine games.
00:05:40
Speaker
And I forgot the stat that you initially were referencing, but it was like we played.
00:05:46
Speaker
At that point, when we were talking about it, we played that all of the teams that were in the top like six or seven of XG like create. Yeah. Yeah. It was like Chelsea were up there. It was ridiculous. Yeah. And, and we beat some of those teams and we got points from, from almost all of them besides Chelsea. I mean, besides city and Liverpool. Well, but now it's pissing me off. Okay. We've conceded, what is the stat?
Defensive Concerns
00:06:12
Speaker
We've conceded 16 goals in nine games. Uh,
00:06:16
Speaker
We're back even on goal difference, which is whatever. But we've considered 16 and 9. It has to improve now, and if we're being really, probably will. But we need to be more defensively solid, especially being a Mois team. We can score a lot of goals. I think that's always been underappreciated about us in this Mois era, is how many goals we can score, especially when we're playing well, the first two years.
00:06:46
Speaker
but 16 goals conceded in nine is really, really, it's just not a recipe for finishing in the top seven, top eight. No, I agree. And I think that- No matter who you play, by the way. I think once we start playing less offensively potent teams, we're gonna, the clean sheets are gonna start coming in. Because, I mean, just watching the team, we're so, like, we are so improved defensively from last year. Forget the goal record.
00:07:16
Speaker
I mean, we just are way more compact defensively. Everyone seems to be more, like, defensively drilled in terms of just, like, being... I thought we were a better defensive team towards the tail end of last season than we have in this season. I'd say, I guess, that form was a continuation. Like, this current form is a continuation of that form. I think that we are better the last two months of last year defensively than the first two months of this season.
00:07:47
Speaker
I mean, I don't know. I, hmm. I don't know. I disagree.
Player Critiques: Paquetta & Antonio
00:07:56
Speaker
Well, I mean, like United didn't have a sniff when they came to our place and that team was generally pretty good. Bleeds had one chance that I can remember if you're in Tina had two chances, maybe three, if you count that this allowed goal. Um, what are the games we play in that run?
00:08:14
Speaker
Bournemouth, Bournemouth didn't have a sniff away from home. The Leicester game doesn't count as far as I'm concerned. I can't remember who else we played over the last two months that season, but I feel like we're just, and it is because we're playing good teams. I understand that it is. I think he needs to shake it up. I think that the system needs to change. The system, it had a good run. It's definitely something that we can use sometimes.
00:08:48
Speaker
What do you stuff? Because I don't I don't like look Antonio Hall of Shame performance. Mm hmm. One of his worst. I'm not gonna say his absolute worst piece. Some people are saying that I I can remind people the leads away are the leads at home. 2122 is my favorite. The Jack Harrison Patrick game. He's fucking terribly and assist that day. He's terrible.
00:09:19
Speaker
It was a bad touch for now, scored. But I don't want to drop him, because I think that he really does give us a lot. And I think that he is a good striker. But I think what's actually going to convince me to drop him is, dude, I'm done. I'm done with the Paquette left wing thing. The first half was a fucking
00:09:47
Speaker
It was ridiculous. And then the goal, the penalty that he just passes the concert in the box is nonsense. He can do that with his back to the defender stuff. I like when he does it. Like for the most part it fills me with confidence. This year he's gotten a little carried away with it. There's the thing, remember against Chelsea when Sterling grabbed his wrist and he just stopped playing. And like there's yesterday, there was another incident. There was another incident yesterday. He got bailed out with a terrible foul call.
00:10:15
Speaker
He can do that all he wants, but to me, just watching, I don't know what's going through his head, but to me, when he does it now, it feels like he's not looking to play out at that point. He's just looking to have his back to somebody.
00:10:34
Speaker
And he's just like, how long can I hold this here? It doesn't feel like he used to do that. And he'd find a pass and pick a pass. He doesn't do it anymore. Yeah, he's got like losing himself in these little battles. Dude, he just puts his back into somebody, bro. And he fucking, he's just like.
00:10:47
Speaker
It's like he's high, bro. I don't know what he's doing. He just is enjoying it, which is cool. It seemed for a portion of the game where he was just targeting Kamara. It was like, all right, let's see if you could take this ball away from me. I heard that you're at the end. I'm like, let's see. But that was actually in the first half, right? Yeah. That was the portion where he probably had his best little spell. No, he was having a good game up until a certain point. I did have a lot of it.
00:11:18
Speaker
I don't know if I can blame him for this, but there was like, he was, he just kept trying those like vertical over the top balls to like Antonio and it wasn't kind of coming off. And I think, not to interrupt you, I think that that was a tactical choice. And maybe it was, but it was playing right into Emory's hands.
00:11:37
Speaker
Yeah, I think that we decided that if they want to play that high line, if we put Bowen in, because it was never just Antonio. It was always Bowen and Antonio. We were just like, we put them two there, and we let Piccatta play this pass. It's going to get there. And a few times on a better day for Antonio, because Antonio just has these games sometimes. Honestly, I woke up with like, you know, like when old people are like, oh, my ankles are swelling up. It's going to rain. I didn't say anything to you, but I woke up, dude. And I was like, oh, it's not Antonio's day today.
00:12:09
Speaker
In an ocean away, you just felt it. I do. Antonio's got bad vibes today. I got chills up my spine. I hate him off these international break games. I can't stand that he still plays for Jamaica, and he can do that all he wants, like, supportive of it, like, play for your country, like, you know, be happy. At first, I felt that way. Well, yeah, but I'm not gonna diminish him playing for his country, even though, like, he tried to play for England, whatever. Like, I'm not gonna diminish that.
00:12:39
Speaker
I'd be proud of where you're from and all that. To your 34, you're not going to a major tournament. Like, don't you want to extend your career? Like this is ridiculous. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous now. It's, it's so, he's 34, right? Yeah. 33 or 34. He also sucks when he plays for Jamaica. He's always consistently garbage when he plays with him and nobody knows because it happens in the middle of the night. But as Americans, I know I watch these games and I've been that.
00:13:09
Speaker
I've been to it Antonio. You were at the same performance. He did not touch the ball.
00:13:18
Speaker
Like he had no, he had nothing against those, um, yeah, those center backs. I don't even remember. I think it was like Otamendi and like, it's probably Romero and Otamendi or something like that. Yeah. I think it was Romero and Otamendi. It wasn't Alessandro. Alessandro came on at a sub actually. Um, but yeah, Antonio was garbage and he's always garbage for Jamaica. Besides that one goal he scored against the United States.
00:13:45
Speaker
Yeah, that was great. Look, I don't want to light him up, though, because I think that he still is allowed to offer us. No, yeah. Well, like, it's a waste of time. It's driving me crazy. It's because this this it feels like this happens a lot. Maybe didn't at the end of last year, maybe he was just always bad at the beginning last year. So that's why I felt that way.
00:14:09
Speaker
But look, I'm done with him going off and then coming back and just playing that way. It's ridiculous because it didn't have to be that way yesterday. He could have gave him a ton of trouble. I also had this thought early, because I think very early in the game, he did target pal Torres. Yeah, that first action of the game. You know what I think it was? He didn't look comfortable. I just don't think that he likes drifting to the right.
00:14:33
Speaker
I think he just really likes playing off that left center back. So I think it was a combination of a lot of things like it wasn't his day. He's like back on Thursday from the plane. And he's like playing kind of in like a place where he probably feels awkward. Whatever. My overarching point is that I'm not crazy about dropping him, but I almost would drop him so you can bring Peketa back into the middle.
00:15:02
Speaker
Because not that he can't do the left side thing, I just think that Emery exposed a way to nullify that, especially when Kudus is on the pitch. Not that Kudus played well, but when Piketto's the only way of building up with Emerson, and it's all so focused on that left side, and it's the only way that we have to get up with the two left footers on the left side, I think Emery did a great job of nullifying that. I want to challenge you on this Piketto left wing thing.
00:15:29
Speaker
Cause I mean, what's the alternative? Like, who plays on our left wing? Like, are you going to bring Ben Rama back into the team? Yeah. Give Ben Rama another chance. No, I'm being serious. That's crazy, bro. It is crazy. Dude, he's fat. He's not a single thing to learn to. He played that pass against Brighton. He played that. He's had one kick this season. That was like, okay, that's nice. No, he played it right against the first half against Bournemouth.
00:16:00
Speaker
August 11th Like two months ago three months ago at this point. Yeah, but no like look man like but the thing is that it is a long season And always likes Minh Rama and then Rama was done good things before we might get a penalty Soon might get a penalty soon. I get a penalty soon And you know a word process to score a free kick before he's allowed to take penalty I
00:16:27
Speaker
That's it. We can talk about him later. But what I said, and I think you said this too, I at least suggested a three at the back with Emerson and Kufall as the wing backs. Paquette and Alvarez in the middle. Yeah, you were talking about that. And then Sucek.
Ward-Prowse's Recent Form
00:16:51
Speaker
No, and WordPress and fucking La La Land.
00:16:54
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, no, yeah, it's war prowess. This this does not ring food war prowess and then kudos and Bowen as like No, fuck this you check thing. You don't want to check in there No, play Antonio on bone in that situation and play kudos behind them and put the keto in the pivot I don't know man. We're giving up a lot there. No, we're not
00:17:15
Speaker
No, we're not. No, just look, this is not the team. Like I would still start WordPress on Sunday against Everton. So I don't want anybody to get this twisted. I'm not calling for WordPress to be dropped. Although one thing I do want to say about him and I'm not going to lay into him that much because we did a lot of that before he signed and he's had this one terrible game. He's allowed to have a bad game because that goes hand to hand with what I'm about to say.
00:17:38
Speaker
He's not as un-droppable as a Paquetta, as a Bowen, or as a Zuma. He's just not on that level of un-droppableness. The only thing that gets him close is that we don't have that many other midfielders. Having said that, forgot where I was for a second, having said that, I forgot, fuck, what was I gonna say? He, why can I not remember what I was saying? He was really talking about Paquetta and the pivot,
00:18:09
Speaker
WordPress. What do you have to say about WordPress? Say something. Dude, shit. I'm so serious. I completely lost the train of thought. It felt good too. You have not a single thing to say about WordPress right now. Having said that, he's just not as good as people think he is.
00:18:34
Speaker
That's not where I was going with that. I genuinely, completely lost my train of thought. I don't know what happened. My mind blinked. What I'll say about Ward Prowse is that a lot of, and I feel secure saying this now, after his first couple games in a row where he's not had a goal contribution, I can finally come outside the woodwork and say that a lot of what we were worried about
00:19:04
Speaker
with him signing kind of was on display in the game on Sunday. Oh yeah, I mean that's not what I was going to say. Oh, I remember what I was going to say, but that's not what I was going to say, but it kind of has to do with it. I'm not going to like talk about that too much because it's just like we know who he is and what he is. I don't think he's played generally well.
00:19:31
Speaker
A few times this year, I think that the top of the game is one of them. The first Europa League game. I didn't think he was that good. I thought he took a lot of really good set pieces. I didn't think he was that good that day. And it's not to say that he can't play well without set pieces. He can and he has.
00:19:50
Speaker
I just think that there are things about his game that I don't love. He's not really, I think I want him to be a quicker decision maker with the ball. And I like that he keeps it every once in a while. I just think he has more ability to go forward. I think tactically, the way he's used in possession is a little weird. I don't know if it's a him thing or if it's a moist thing. I want to say it's a moist thing because if he wants to bring the cut, the in more from the left.
00:20:12
Speaker
then WordPress kind of gets shoved down more towards the right, you notice that he's so wide and build up some time. Yeah, it's like there's no really plan for him in possession a lot of the times.
00:20:23
Speaker
And when he does get the ball in most areas and most egregiously in the final third, like you said, he's not making quick decisions. Remember when he was at Southampton and used to get those passes in the half space and he would just whip crosses in first time? We haven't seen one of those yet. We haven't seen one. We haven't seen one yet. And that wasn't even just a comp thing. You'd see that all the time. Yeah.
00:20:48
Speaker
That was that was his game which is I feel like why Moyes has him like kind of shoved out right like that but I think I think that Dropping suit check against Everton and kind of playing this word prowess Alvarez pivot, which is what I assume he's gonna do and bring kudos in But hopefully drops Antonio and sutured Oh shit, I'd like to see him drop Antonio and sutured and the Garrett
00:21:14
Speaker
And then Emerson will have to make way too, cause he's suspended. What I was going to say was I think that you're not, you're saying that we're losing a lot in that five at the back formation, circling all the way back now. Yeah. Cause that's not what I want to play against every 10. I don't think that WordPress should be dropped, but in the situation that you are dropping him, if you're going to a five at the back formation, especially for conceding a lot of goals, I think a Garrett plays better in a five at the back. If you want to play a five at the back,
00:21:42
Speaker
Just play Piketto and Alvarez and the pivot together. Like, are you really losing that much, like, solidity from Ward Prowse and Piketto in a pivot and a five? I was worried more about Zuchek, to be honest. But there's five, but there's five defenders.
00:21:59
Speaker
That's fair, but I mean, like you're relying so much on Emerson and Kufal to be like, or as I should say, Emerson to be like the main like entity, like get us up the field as usual. So like, No, no, no. If you play Paqueta in the pivot and you play Kudus in the 10 in a formation like that, there's plenty of help to get the ball up the field. Sure. But I mean, like in terms of like, you have to have some wide presence. And yeah, but what changes?
00:22:28
Speaker
between what you're saying in this five at the back formation, what changes between Soucek and Antonio being in the team? Nothing. We're more solid in the middle with Soucek. We can move the ball up worse with Soucek instead of a cut in there. With a cut there deeper, and Antonio is an outlet, you can move the ball much easier in that specific system. And I don't think in that five at the back that I want, this isn't like a Soucek thing, I just don't think
00:22:58
Speaker
that you need all that. I think Peketa's like fourth in the league and like tackles one. It's not like he doesn't do any work. We've seen, we saw Peketa play in the pivot against Bournemouth. Like he's ridiculous that day. No, yeah, yeah, yeah. I, I know
00:23:14
Speaker
I'm like as big of a proponent of Paquetta's, like that aspect of his game, as I think about anyone is, but still like our, like the foundation of like whatever good defending that we've had this season has been that solid, like Alvarez, Paquetta, Zuchek, Ward Prowse, like that middle has just been rock solid at times.
00:23:39
Speaker
And I think to, to like, you can sacrifice it a little bit, but to completely decimate that like solid rock that that has
Tactical Changes: Formation Experimentation
00:23:48
Speaker
served for us. But that, but that's not, that's why I'm not saying I don't want to go to that formation on Sunday. Cause I think that that's too much, but like it's so long season, like he's going to drop suit check for this Everton game. Like he's going to the question is if he drops Antonio too.
00:24:06
Speaker
So now you go to the war prowess Alvarez pivot. Now you're just one step away. You're just a center back for WordPress at that point. Um, yeah. WordPress man. Like I said, like I'm not trying to victory a lot that he played bad because it like, I actually really liked the guy. I think he's a good player and he's impressed me a lot.
00:24:31
Speaker
But dude, like, I don't know. People are saying, like, he wasn't that much worse than anybody else. Besides Antonio and Paquetta, because I think that those two, I think that those two were the standout, like horror show, Hall of Shame performance players on Sunday. He's in that next tier, guys, who were bad. He ghosted, and then when he wasn't ghosting, he was taking two on me. You know when he started playing all right? It was that stretch at 2-1.
00:25:00
Speaker
He played okay during, but. Yeah, I mean, I mean, in the first half there was like, uh, I know you texted me like right after it and he, there was like a, like a three on two or a two on one where he had the ball. He never, he like just never really made a decision. It was so frustrating. I forgot about that. I forgot about that.
00:25:18
Speaker
I would honestly put WordPress in that Antonio Paquetta tier of guys on Sunday who were absolutely terrible and really, really hurt the team. It's semantics, but I wouldn't.
00:25:36
Speaker
I don't know, man. Like, Paquetta's just a much more volatile player, so he probably, he had higher moments, but I mean, the lows were, and then he didn't do anything the whole second half after he made a mistake. He didn't fucking do anything. And his, the whole point of Lucas Paquetta is that he's going to do something. He does everything. That's the whole point. So if he doesn't do anything, not to like excuse word of prowess, because I forgot about that. That was ridiculous. That pissed me off.
00:26:05
Speaker
Well, to be fair, I didn't see like much of the second half. So you have a different experience of watching the game from me. So I like what my experience. I actually have like a pretty positive, like remembering him. He had like, he like is playing with a lot of energy when we were down to one. He won the ball behind back a few times. He got a lot more involved, but more prowess, more prowess. But I think there's something to be said about Moy's tactical setup.
00:26:33
Speaker
on Sunday too. I think he got it wrong. Yeah, I think so too. But I mean, the thing is that he's just been running the same thing that's been successful all season. And it kind of just ran into a wall, which like fair. Which happens over the course of the long season. I think part of it was, and I think people don't give Mois enough credit for this, especially with us and like, because things got really gross last year.
00:26:59
Speaker
When he feels like we're as good as a team, he sets us up to go toe-to-toe with them. That's what he did. The first 15 minutes of this villa game, I was thinking, man, these are two really good teams going toe-to-toe. I think that the way he set up, that there wasn't enough athleticism out there for us to match them. I think that we couldn't press the way that we wanted to once they settled into the game after the first 10 minutes.
00:27:26
Speaker
And then I think that he wanted to check higher up the pitch, which I understand, but I think if we're going to press like that, but that three at midfield, it should more often than not be. Workhouse pressing from that high up then to check. Yeah.
Defending Ariola
00:27:42
Speaker
I can't read that. Cause he, cause I, I think that switched at some point and actually in the second half, that's probably the one I'm referring to, but it is also like then kudos came on. It was.
00:27:54
Speaker
We're kind of all over the place at that point. What do you think about Ariola? I mean, it's hard to slight him because, you know, he's been so damn good this year, but he kind of, I guess he did come down to earth. I think the Watkins goal, you don't really, there's nothing you can really do about that. That's what I'm saying. People are complaining about that. That's ridiculous. The Watkins goal. Dude, people see a finish at the near post.
00:28:24
Speaker
and think it has to be saved. Like, for the most part, like, yeah, if it's at your near post, it shouldn't go in. That specific kind of finish from that specific kind of striker, you see them all the time from, as Aguero used to do that for a fucking living.
00:28:37
Speaker
Um, and Watkins has, has had that finish in his bag for a long time. It's hit so hard and high in Zuma. There's absolutely nothing to help the goalkeeper. That goal is on Kurt Zuma more than anybody else. Cause he just has to get closer to him. Yeah. Um, especially cause we're pushing. I'm not going to really blame for fall. It's more of an athleticism issue with Kufo, but that's for the transfer market. Yeah. Um, but yeah, I just, I have no issue with Ariel letting
00:29:05
Speaker
I think it's insane to complain about that. It's just like one of those finishes where it's just like, like you just, you just put your hands up and you say that was like, you, like for that ball to go in and for Ariel to not save it, it had to be hit as hard as he did and placed in the exact spot that he placed it. Cause it's just unsavable. Like that's what all the top, that's the finish that all the top finishers has that in his back. And when they pull it out,
00:29:36
Speaker
There's just nothing you could do about it. You know, respect Ollie Watkins for making his leap, whatever. That's just as much as he gets from me. But you know what, you know what, dude? Diabi was not good. So there's that. He's dangerous in the first little... Yeah, he did all right. He had a few minutes. He had moments. But nothing out of him. Did not make me regret going for kudos over
00:30:03
Speaker
over him at all. Yeah, even though kudos was really quiet too. Yeah, we don't care. Yeah, who cares. We'll start against every 10. I'll score. It'll be all right. Yeah. He needs, he needs, he needs his full debut at this point. He's, he's, he's gone too. He's, he's going to start that every 10 game no matter what. Cause I think it's just one of those things where
00:30:23
Speaker
And you never like to think about it. Cause like we were playing so well and obviously like we all want to see kudos or see something change, but it's like, we're playing well, so don't change it. And the back of your mind, you're like, well, one day there's going to be a result where it's like, okay, now it's time to shake it up. And you, you hope that result never comes, but it does. Uh, it's pretty annoying because good teams don't really concede for, but you know, United conceded seven last year and qualified for the champions league. I mean, Brighton just conceded six.
00:30:52
Speaker
Yeah, finish seventh. They're lucky. Newcastle conceded three last season to Villa at the park. Yeah, whatever. They lost by a same margin as us. I just, I don't know. I guess sometimes I think that it's annoying that we don't have these outbursts that other teams have.
00:31:15
Speaker
because you feel like the really good teams have these outbursts, but we might have just not had ours yet. I'm sure we'll score four in a game this year. I mean, we beat Brighton 3-1. Should have been four. Should have been four. We beat Chelsea 3-1. I wouldn't classify that as an outburst, though. They suck when we scored a penalty in the 90th minute. Yeah. I don't know.
00:31:41
Speaker
I I I wouldn't I wouldn't put because we're scoring a lot of goals like this It's just is so like demoralizing that game, especially because this villa. It's my Super Bowl. I hate that team Yeah, it was a shame like I don't know about you But I had a moment of realization where I was like, oh I care way more than these players do about this game dude, I had a moment where I was like I
00:32:10
Speaker
Fuck, they're good. And it wasn't that they were that good, necessarily. It was the Watkins goal.
Reflecting on Recent Loss
00:32:19
Speaker
Yeah, that was a real show. That was a statement that they put us in the dirt when I was really like, we can fight back and get a 2-2 here. It was like one pass, one dribble, and everything was undone.
00:32:37
Speaker
And it was, the game was really in the balance at 2-1. I thought we were doing a lot. And if we don't concede, maybe we do do enough to get a second, whatever sports have fine margins. But yeah, it was, it was pretty annoying. Like, cause like, you know, we both knew they were good, but like having to sit there and be like, this team is good and we just lost. But you know, I do think a lot of it is down to our own mistakes too. I think at the London stadium, there's no reason we can't beat them.
00:33:05
Speaker
Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, we'll beat them out.
Upcoming Matches Preview
00:33:10
Speaker
They don't really plan us anyways. We'll probably lose the bright now. We'll be both. That curse is lifted.
00:33:23
Speaker
Something I do want to ask you about next five fixtures is everything at home, Brentford away, Forest at home, Burnley away, Palace at home. How many points is that? Dude, like that's that's just goes to like what we were talking about earlier. Like those look like we haven't had like played a stretch of five teams like that. No, like
00:33:45
Speaker
Not even close like they are our like record our like schedule up until this point has been a hundred times harder than the stretch that we have coming up If we take 10 to 12 points from that I'll be pretty happy Yeah, like like whatever you're feeling right now You're gonna feel a lot better After the next five games like if we're sitting on 24 points after 14 games Because then you still have 15 points on a table and
00:34:13
Speaker
before it's halfway through the season. If you're on 30 points halfway through the season, like we are in business for the European places. So if we're sitting on 24 to 26 after these five games, that'll be 24 points after 14 with Tottenham, Fulham, Wolves, United and Arsenal to play in the week. Yeah. Like, well, probably.
00:34:34
Speaker
drop points here and there over the next five games. But if we take care of business, which I mean, beating all five teams would be taking care of business, honestly. Taking care of business is beating for them and losing to Brentford away. But we should expect, I mean, all those games are games that we should be expecting to go in with. I'm accounting for a loss at Brentford.
00:35:01
Speaker
Yeah, it'll probably be. Redford is probably going to be the team that we slip up against. No, no, we will lose that game. OK. OK. I hope not. We don't beat them. We've never shown a sign of life against Brentford since they've been in the Premier League. I know. But we beat them. Last time we played them without, I guess, no, we played them in the spring. But we played them without Tony in the cup. And we beat them. Yeah. Yeah, that was fake. I can't believe that happened.
00:35:30
Speaker
That was ridiculous. Have we scored a goal against them in the Premier League since they got promoted? Yes, Bowen scored against them. Yeah. Yeah. In the game where they scored, begins in like a six minute. Dude, that one hurt so bad, too. That was brutal. But look, if we lose the Everton game, I'm going to be really angry if we lose. I understand they're playing well.
00:35:58
Speaker
And they're better than like the num, than like their numbers say that they're better than they suggest. And I think that Everton are a dangerous team. They're going to give us problems. But if we lose or we don't beat Everton at home, that's ridiculous. And if we don't beat Everton at home, then we really aren't as good as we thought we were. Yeah, we can, we can have a, you know, change the conversation. And then Forest home, Burnley away, Palace home, that has to be nine points. I'm sorry. Yeah. It just has to be nine points. I agree.
00:36:31
Speaker
Crystal pals at home. Don't make me laugh. How do you feel about Thursday? Should be a fun little run out for the boys. It's going to be a good game, dude. They're not a bad side at all. This is Olympiacos we're playing? Yeah. It'll be all right. Emerson will play. And I know that for sure. Who do you think should play left back on Sunday?
00:37:02
Speaker
It's going to be dead Johnson. I'm pretty sure Moise kind of said that Presswell was further away than Johnson. I think it's going to be. There is rumors that Presswell might never play for us again. Really? You didn't see those? I didn't see that. That's that's that's insane. That's that's incredible. Honestly, it's I literally said that after the last time you played is I should never play for us again. I mean, I'm sure it's like not true. I'm sure I'll get fit and then like we'll fucking throw them out.
00:37:31
Speaker
Like, Johnson, like, should kind of have this chance, and he's played well when he's given the chance, no matter what anybody really wants to say. Like, he has played well. Yeah, generally, he's... No, like, this... because his... his one game this year was... Yeah, his one game this year would have been on Lincoln City. And he was great, according to Sophie Square. He hit the post.
00:38:01
Speaker
Fucking had the fakest stats you've ever seen. But, uh, yeah, like why not start him against Everton? He's probably earned it. You know, he might, he might start career there. He started him against the driver, but, but, uh, Johnson was hurt for that game. We'll see. There's no clear answer.
00:38:26
Speaker
The more I think about it, the more I think it's going to be Carrera, actually. I guess it depends on Johnson's fitness. Not even that. Moyes just has his guys and has his guys that he trusts. I think he trusts Ben Johnson. It comes in ways. I think it should be Johnson, for the record. I like Carrera and everything. I just think that Johnson is more of a callback and a better left back.
00:38:54
Speaker
Yeah, I think we forget that Ben Johnson can be a good player, man. He can be. Especially up the left. Especially up the left. He said his best game is just up the left. Absolutely. Besides the one-runner form, 2122. In that fall, that was ridiculous. It's probably our best-runner form in the Moyzera. People can disrespect him. Yeah, Ben Johnson was right at the center of it. Dude, this is a big game, honestly. If we beat Olympiakos,
00:39:24
Speaker
to go to nine points, they'll be on one fry burger going to be top low. So we'll basically be qualified for knockout rounds. We can, we can qualify for the knockout rounds in the next two games. If we beat Olympiacos twice or if we draw them.
00:39:42
Speaker
We'll probably go really strong against Olympiacos, because Mois, I mean, you know Mois, he's like a huge, like, let's go. We should absolutely go strong on Thursday. Yeah, yeah. And Mois always plays that way. He's always like, let's, like, let's get qualified and then we can start rotating in these Europa League games, which I love that about him. I mean, like, look, look at these, look at Aston Villa in the conference league. Fucking around with Yuri Tillman.
00:40:10
Speaker
And look who that's got them. They have three points through their what three games or whatever. Yeah, it's ridiculous. And the other thing is Marce and not Marce. Brighton, I like fucked around a little bit. They fucked around against PAOK, which is ridiculous, by the way, to fuck around in your first.
00:40:28
Speaker
You're you're ugly. We didn't do that shit. We played our strongest 11 or almost that our first Yeah, I guess it's a grab. It's a grab. But Fabiansky rice played Antonio played and Tony never plays on Thursdays. Exactly. Like
00:40:44
Speaker
And that was probably the last time he played a group game, like from the start. I mean, besides last year when he wasn't playing. But like, he hasn't played Thursday, Sunday, Antonio. He's never experienced it. Even for Villa to do it is pretty disgraceful. It's not.
Europa League Struggles: Aston Villa & Brighton
00:41:04
Speaker
But the Villa thing, I can get a bit more just because it's Unai Emery.
00:41:11
Speaker
He has expectations on his, like he's been at the clubs, Seville and Arsenal and Villa Real, where he has expectations of his squad to be able to do that. Not saying he doesn't understand what Villa are, but I think he just has an expectation of his players. So I can cut him some slack for
00:41:33
Speaker
for deserby to do it with Brighton is absolutely fucking nuts it's absolutely it's it's it's primarily cubers is what it is it's it's ridiculous it's weird we play in the best league in the world our second and third guys can go out and stop everyone else he's been so weird on either side of it too on like on the Premier League side like when they play on the Thursday and Sunday he's acted like a freak with his lineup choices it's insane I'm glad he's reaping what he's so
00:42:03
Speaker
And it's legitimately causing them problems on both days. Yeah, hopefully. Long may it continue. Long may they drop points. No, I hope they get grouped out of the Europa League. I hope it does not last very long. Mm-hmm. Be nice if they finish fourth.
00:42:22
Speaker
Yeah. That'd be funny. Yeah. Or, or, or let them go to the conference league and let the, those two teams beat the hell out of each other in a conflict league tie. Uh, here's a weird thing. Olympiacos pantheocos abandoned after firework hits player yesterday. What? Oh, the Olympiacos match yesterday was suspended.
00:42:51
Speaker
after a firework hit a player during Europe's maddest RV. Game was abandoned. Well, our fans are also hooligans, so I'm sure that would be very interesting. It was at home. This is our first game back. This is great. Somebody's going to die. Yes, this is our first. This is at the London Stadium on Thursday, right?
00:43:21
Speaker
Uh, yeah. No, no, no, no. It's in Greece. It's in Greece. This is our first away away day for the Europa League. Uh, with fans. Yeah. That's why, that's why I meant. Yeah. Interesting. Very interesting. I'm looking at their squad right now. Um, just from, cause I know that they have a weird squad. Uh, I know Daniel Potence is in there. Let's see. Daniel Potence is on Olympiacos. What the hell?
Olympiacos Match Preview
00:44:04
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents. Yeah. Potents.
00:44:16
Speaker
Dude, Daniel Potent. That's so weird. We're going to kick the hell out of him. Suchak's going to be in the nightmares. I do think that he'll play tomorrow. He'll play something like, or not tomorrow, Thursday. He'll play something like Fabiansky, Carrere, Mavropanos, Laguerre, Emerson, Alvarez, Suchak.
00:44:41
Speaker
like kudu spinnrama bowling in fornals like some combination of those four sounds good to me yeah maybe he'll play antonio if antonio is often placed someday probably doesn't want to give that much away he probably is going to start antonio someday which is fine i don't know i'm i'm i'm like maybe two because here's the thing maybe one of these fucking guys spinnrama fornals can go out there on thursday and show that they're worth the damn
00:45:10
Speaker
Maybe they could play a game in the Premier League. That's some wishful thinking, my man. I don't see it with either of them. We'll see. I mean, like, he's got to try something. He's just got to bring kudos to the team. This is what I mean, bro. Like, this is a huge hole on the left wing that we have. It's a huge hole. Do these other teams have issues like this?
00:45:38
Speaker
No, no. Like do Newcastle have to like, they have to play a center midfielder and some random spot because they're starting off winning from last season is fat as shit. Respectfully, Said, I love you. I do love site, but it's like, man, he's such a, dude, he's chubby. It's just the same thing. You can't move anymore.
00:46:05
Speaker
but like, okay, they don't have that problem. It's not like, it doesn't mean that they're, it means a lot. The whole in the 11. It means a lot. It doesn't mean we can't hang with them. These are going to struggle. These are going to struggle too. I thought we were five points clear of us right now. I had the head. We were fine with against new castle more than fine.
00:46:33
Speaker
I don't know, man. It's just like... If I said to you after the Newcastle game, I was like, we're not even close to as good as them. They're ahead of us. We have been surpassed by Newcastle. Right after the game, what would you say? I'm just worried, man. I don't...
00:46:56
Speaker
Like I've never witnessed like the Mois team be like the team that's like not like the eventual come out on top against like these like little fucking runs that are trying to compete with us. Yeah. But like, and that's like what gives me confidence in a way, but it's also like, like am I do like, like am I do to be like the idiot on the outside looking in? Mois has us covered. It's a long season. Head to head matches are important, but they can be overcome.
00:47:27
Speaker
they are doing we got one point from a possible six from the castle we got we got seven of twelve from Chelsea Brighton Newcastle and Villa Chelsea yeah I mean yeah there's ways to paint the picture you're right like I know that you're right but it's just like dude
00:47:52
Speaker
And you know I'm right because you convinced me. You're just being emotional. Dude, I'm allowed to be emotional. We could have recorded this yesterday. I would have been trying throwing up on the mic. I would have been mad too. But if you tried to pull that same shit that you're trying to pull yesterday and now, I would have checked you on it.
00:48:17
Speaker
We'll be lucky to hang with nodding for us and everything. I'm actually shaking. I'm moved, bro. I told you he was nice. The issue I have with them is the other one. We're going to put the other one.
00:48:37
Speaker
The other one of what? The other winger that they signed! Dude, what is good with you? That's a crazy thing to insinuate. No, like, I just like... Like, they get shoved out on the right wing, Tom Hudson and Doy. Like, I thought Alanga was a great sign. People talk about this team, this forest super team. Get a fucking grip. Dude, I was joking. Not you! I'm talking about the general public. Forest super team. The fuck are we talking about? Super team.
00:49:08
Speaker
If it's 13th! They were also probably joking. It's just funny that they had- No, they weren't! Dude, these people are serious! It's just funny that they have these two, like, young wingers who, like, were at one point- Bro, not. He's not young. Young. Young. They were, um, they were young ones. No. Oh, Enga's young. Oh, I guess the other guy used to be young. He's 22?!
00:49:39
Speaker
What? Oh my god, it's not- Get the fuck out of here, he's 22. It is genuinely not too late for uni. I mean, it'll be 23 in two weeks, but like 20- I thought Kyle Hudson and Dwight was like going on 24. No, no, no, not 26. I knew he was- Damn, 22. My god.
00:50:10
Speaker
Dude, he still only made one appearance for Forrest with that one goal. What the hell is he doing? That goal was great. It was a great goal. No, because the thing is, I like count months in a door. I'm not trying to be a dickhead, but it's not a super team. Only one of them can play left wing at one time.
00:50:28
Speaker
I think everyone knows that Kalamazoo sucks. People just like him, and I think that's funny. I like him. Oh, they're sick now. They have these two... No, but my issue comes from the fucking Desungare part of it. Like, look at this midfield. Yeah. Look at it. Use your eyes. Look at it.
00:50:53
Speaker
I think the funniest part about Phorus is that they loaned in Andre Santos and have no plans on using him. They should use him! No, they shouldn't. Because that helps Chelsea. And I would like to see the destruction of that club as soon as possible. That's true. That's fair. So I think that this loan... Who's playing enough back for them, by the way? That is ridiculous. I've never once wondered that in my life.
00:51:18
Speaker
Dude, I was just chillin. It was like who is playing left back for Nottingham Forest? No, who is playing left back? I have no idea. It used to be low D. By the way, Drew in town yesterday, I saw that I was like, what a result for the hatters. It's awesome, dude. It's fucking go away from home to at the city ground at the fortress. His team might get relegated. They'll be all right. They'll bring in Lingard in January.
00:51:47
Speaker
Dude yo, you ready to hear this super team, bro? Matt Turner and goal surge or a right back willy-bully center back Myrtle yo Yeah, sure by the way before you continue he scored Oh, no, no, no, he didn't know he didn't really bully has been having an exceptional season. He got hooked up He got hooked yesterday, dude, Harry Toffolo play left back yesterday
00:52:14
Speaker
What happened to Nico Williams? OK, that Dominguez is actually a decent player. Yeah, he is. Mungala, Sangare, Gibbs-White, Chris Wood, Alanga. That's your super team. Well, our knee is in there inside of Chris Wood normally. Let's see who the super team played against Crystal Palace. And then, no, no, draw, sell her a spark. In terms of. OK, Wikipedia lied. Hudson and Doise played more than one game for Forest.
00:52:44
Speaker
Matt Turner, Orie Boley, Marielo, Toffolo. It's just Toffolo just playing left back. It's the same team but with Odoya instead of Valenga that played Palace. I think that in terms of teams that have finished 15. I don't think that the bottom half quality of this league is that good. I don't think it is.
00:53:09
Speaker
I think that after like us, Chelsea and United, you know, that tier under Brighton, no, I'm playing, but after that, like 16 tier, 17 tier, like with Chelsea United and then these... It's like a 19 tier. Nah, it's like, there's like City Arsenal, Liverpool Tottenham. Yeah. And then West Ham, Newcastle, Villa, Brighton, Chelsea, United.
00:53:37
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. Cause I was, I misinterpreted what you said. I was like cutting it. It's like all the good teams and then all the shit. Like if that's, if that's your top half, right.
00:53:49
Speaker
Then you look at Palace, they lost, they have all these injuries. Like they're solid team, tough to play against, but they're not very good. No, they're dreadful. Okay. Wolves, like Gary O'Neill. I think Gary O'Neill is a really good manager. He's, we probably talked about this. I don't know if we talked about it. Maybe we did the first week. We talked about how terrible they are. Yeah. Um, they're bad and he's doing a good job with them. They're vibes. Honestly, like I turned on. Dude.
00:54:19
Speaker
Gary O'Neill is kind of the truth for these teams, man. Good, great hire by wolves in that situation that they were in. He's doing a business. And for Bournemouth to move on from Gary O'Neill is looking insane. They have a lot of guys that come back from injury. They haven't won a game yet. They're firing Ariola. Yeah, I mean, good.
00:54:45
Speaker
I saw a report. I don't know if it's like a legit thing, but he's done nine win lists of games to start his manager or career in the prime adios The thing is like they're good like like they they have a lot of injuries I don't even think Scott has played yet. Has he? No, Tyler Adams. Well, I guess he's Adam sounds like they need solutions earlier than Tyler Adam. Yeah But I think they'll be all right
00:55:14
Speaker
If they're not though, I'm licking my lips. I'm looking at left back. I'm looking at right here today I'm looking at dude, but kept just gonna leave because then Alex got to replace him All right, yeah, I'm just saying keep it low-key though, I won't tell them I don't tell anybody I
00:55:37
Speaker
We can do a little cheeky little right on Bournemouth and I wouldn't think twice about it. There's a few guys in there that you wouldn't mind. So Lanky, Kirk, Kirk as Scott. Dude, so Lanky, oh my god, everybody wants all these other shakers. They're gonna go down. Moi's gonna be like, I know who I want. And good, honestly. Yeah, I have to fucking listen to another month and a half.
00:56:00
Speaker
Fucking Steiden wants a 31 year old who scored 9 and 9 and 22 in the Bundesliga 2 Mois just wants another English-relegated player No, but Selenke would be great for us for sure. Okay now Fulham
00:56:21
Speaker
The Lost Metruvits just didn't replace them. They just haven't brought little minnows. They're bad. That's not a replacement. Although, if you watch them today, they sometimes play cute stuff. They're bad. I didn't watch, but... Renford are like a banana peel. But that's all they really do. Yeah. Because they're not... They just don't have the difference makers that they once had. Forest, they're bad.
00:56:52
Speaker
Superteam whatever every 10 are every time of all six games like I don't care about the whole Metrics and stuff like they're better than they are. They've lost six games. It's not a good I don't care. I just like I
00:57:07
Speaker
I don't care about the metrics. They're like a bad team on paper and they're losing games. Like that's all I have to know. The bottom four is Lewton town who are currently have their heads above the relegation zone. Congrats. Happy for them. Yeah, for early Bournemouth, Sheffield United. These are terrible, terrible teams. They're like, there are way more free wins on the table than there were last year. That's my point. I remember we looked at the fixture list.
00:57:36
Speaker
Last year when it came out, we were like, man, I don't know where the points are coming from. God damn it, were we right. Yeah, right. Like maybe we just knew we were bad deep down. Nah, man, like. Well, we didn't think we were better than anybody. Well, the way I saw it was like, teams will fall off. And like, we fell off. The C's will be parted. But I didn't think it would be us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Man, Tottenham are top of the league. It's absolutely disgusting.
00:58:07
Speaker
When is it going to end with them? Like, it's going to end, right? I was actually thinking that today. I was going to text you about it, but I don't want to put anything good for them out in the air. I don't want to legitimize it with a conversation. Dude, that's like they'll finish in the top four.
00:58:28
Speaker
Like, that's how I've been coping for the past like, month or so, maybe a little more. I've been coping by just being like, yeah, you know, they're the fourth team, there had to be a fourth. My thing is like, okay, like we've seen this before, like, oh, they'll have a good season now. And then next season, they'll struggle with Europe and the league. And then they'll have no Europe the year after and they'll do good again. Like we've seen this movie, but now they're getting really, really good. And it's like,
00:58:58
Speaker
Yeah. We've actually not had this conversation. This is three months into the season. Well, because we've been avoiding it. Yeah. And it's just like, look, they play Palace at Selhurst and they put Chelsea at home. They play Wolves away. They play Villa at home. That's their next four. So they'll lose at Villa Park. They play Villa at home. Oh, at their home. At the lane.
00:59:26
Speaker
They're going to win probably all four of those games. At the worst, they're going to take 10 points a minute, which means that they're going to be on 33, 35 points after 13 games. Are they still going to catch their annual city win too? That's the next game after Filla is they play at the Etihad. If they beat city.
00:59:49
Speaker
After that, so this is the tough run of fixtures after wolves, Chelsea and palace is they, uh, they welcome Villa to the lane and this is all after the international break. So they might be top of the league going into the break and then they're going to.
01:00:06
Speaker
Welcome Villa to White Hart Lane. They're going to go to the Eddie had to play city. They're going to welcome us to White Hart Lane. That'd be their first loss of the season. Yeah. And then they play Newcastle at home and then it's back to nonsense, bro. When do they play the good teams? They don't have, they don't have like a tough stretch. Okay. Here you go. April.
01:00:34
Speaker
April 20th. They play Tottenham at home, Arsenal at home and Liverpool away. That's the only difficult stretch on their schedule. They don't play. We've done that already. They don't play any big six teams back to back until then. They don't. OK, they played Arsenal and Liverpool back to back already.
01:01:05
Speaker
And they got points from both those games. Fuck. They picked up four from those games, yeah. Yeah. Dude, what if that Diaz decision wins them the title of a local, like, directly? Man. Like, that would be some real-life corruption. I don't even know what I'd do at that point, bro. If they won the league, just generally, I'd be destroyed. One thing I'll say about Tottenham, one nice thing I'll say about Tottenham,
01:01:37
Speaker
I don't even want to say it. I'll tell you, come on man. Van de Ven is un-fucking-real. Yeah man, he's pretty good. He's pretty damn good. Dude, he's like ridiculous, bro. He's in our FPL, I'm pretty sure. I was just waiting. I was like, man, the percentage got 50 million. Maybe it'll be pretty good. Maybe it might suck. I never considered he might be a fucking home run. What is this?
01:02:05
Speaker
See how fast he is? Dude, we got to start asking questions about Timmy Steiden. How is this beast coming from the Bundesliga under our watch?
Tottenham's Surprising Success
01:02:16
Speaker
You're supposed to be the Bundesliga guy. Any good player that comes from the Bundesliga under Steiden's reign will be a blemish if we don't sign him. He asked, they got to check in with us at least. You know, before they come over, they got to check in with Tim. Yeah.
01:02:34
Speaker
especially go to Tottenham. And it's so annoying about them too, because they're such a Tottenham team, if that makes sense. I don't know how they've done it. They've fully just transitioned away from Kane with no blemish. How did that even happen? Do you want the answer? And it's fucked up that this is the answer, but it's the real answer.
01:03:03
Speaker
What is it? It's James Madison. Yeah. Yes, it is. Damn it. Unbelievable player. Truly, there's no player I'd rather see fail than James Madison. Dude, but just taking the hate out of it for a second. I remember people used to try and tell us Mountain was better than him. Yeah, I mean. We out of our fucking minds.
01:03:33
Speaker
It's like there's no, there's almost no better case. He never was. He never was. He never was. The hat trick of assists against no one is not.
01:03:45
Speaker
his best season for Chelsea like nine or 10 of his 10 or 11 goals came against the bottom five and like he had like five of them against the bottom team and then the other goals against us which is just because Rice plays for us and he had a score against his dog his boy and and now it's been pretty bad this season he's he's a fine player he's just not as good as James Madison and that was always like pretty fucking apparent to see
01:04:10
Speaker
The thing is with Mount is that he just genuinely has no outstanding qualities. Look at the fuck, Mount. Like, the focal point of a team that's not in the Big Six finishing in the top five twice, like the literal fucking beating heart of their attack, is not better than Mason Mount. Yeah, I mean, Madison is just an out of the spot. It's because we let that fanbase have opinions, bro.
01:04:38
Speaker
Chelsea? They shouldn't be allowed to talk about the game. They should just enjoy the fact that they get to watch. Yeah, just go there, go to the stadium, scream Chelsea for 90 minutes, and then go home.
Podcast Conclusion & Engagement Reminder
01:04:51
Speaker
And then you put on a muzzle until the next game. I'm going to end it there. I like that.
01:05:03
Speaker
Sounds good to me. Thank you everybody for listening. If you're a Chelsea fan, earplugs and muzzles on. Talk to you next week. Go check out the blog at hammering-away.blog. Joe just put up an article about our good friend Jared Bowen. Spectacular six goals now because that counts as his goal. How epic is that? He's matched his goal tally.
01:05:27
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Yeah, we need to talk about him. How's your goals? Yeah, we'll score again next week. We'll have a good performance, and we'll get the gush again. Congrats. You think we can get him in on the pot next week? He'll be here next week to discuss his brace. He'll score. His outstanding achievement. He scores against everything every time they come to the ball, as far as I can remember. So he'll be fine. He loves it. He loves it. But yeah, hammering-away.blog, the Twitter handle is hammering underscore away. The TikTok is hammering.away.
01:05:57
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and the Instagram is hammering away underscore. Thank you everybody for listening and we'll talk to you next week. Peace.