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Episode 70: Match Review Monday - Dropped points? Against Liverpool??
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Southampton – Zak and Greg describe a rollercoaster of a day at St Mary's and discuss once more how it's the hope that kills you.
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Mixed Emotions at St Mary's
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the Daily Southampton part of the Global Sports Podcast Network. My name is Greg Elliott and I'm joined as always today by my illustrious co-host Zach Ingofinch. How are you doing Zach?
00:00:21
Zak
Hello mate, I've got a little bit of my voice left enough for this recording. But yeah, we did.
00:00:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
We had a day out didn't we? We've we've been down to St Mary's. We watched the the old football and boy are we feeling some new emotions after that.
Do Teams Deserve Wins?
00:00:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's a I guess look it was very fitting of Saints this season right and how in in my mind it sums up beautifully because we we played well in spells, we've played well in spells we deserved something and we still ended up with absolutely nothing at the end of it.
00:00:39
Zak
ha Oh, it's it's it's our entire league.
00:00:58
Zak
if If we deserved something, Greg, we would have got something. um um I know it's not football room 101 anymore, if it's one thing that I could say needs to get in the bin completely and utterly, it's this whole, are we deserved something out of it? We deserve something out of it. The teams that deserve something out of a game,
00:01:17
Zak
go on to draw or win them.
Match Analysis and Fan Reactions
00:01:19
Zak
That's how that works.
00:01:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I disagree. There are definitely, definitely cases when you can deserve something from a game and feel hard done by.
00:01:24
Zak
I don't
00:01:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Unfortunately, it's hard to feel hard done by when all of the goals that we've given away were of our own creation, right?
00:01:28
Zak
think it's this game. I don't think it's game mate.
00:01:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
That was the real problem.
00:01:36
Zak
that's That's the problem. right iss okay ah ah I'll give it to you if for example both of the goals are down to say like weird ref decisions or like somebody goes down injured off the ball or this this this isn't this is this is three individual errors that have cost us you know yeah it was beautiful beautiful cross out
00:01:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was a wonderful assist by Flynn Downs. Alex McCarthy deciding to go and get a hot dog instead of running at the ball. And Yuki deciding to play rugby for three seconds to give them a penalty.
Hope and the Saints Fan Experience
00:02:06
Zak
Probably, you know, considering Japan's lost today, probably would have had a better job with them anyway. But, so I want to, I want to show you what my wife takes me. Sorry. I'll just bring it up. Um, you're too one up. Question mark. Question mark. Question mark. at Sorry. Why was the goalie half a mile away from the goal? What but f WTF is that? And I feel like that is just, yeah, you're right. It's the emotions are, the emotions are still quite high. We're recording quite.
00:02:35
Zak
quite close to post-match. But like, unlike say, when I was animated and I'm just a bit sad, mate, because again, it's, it's become the catchphrase of our season so far. It is the hope that kills you.
Game Specifics and Player Focus
00:02:45
Zak
Every, every single game we go in, you know, I don't know, we fancied a little bit more today. Maybe it's because we, you know, had our time in the fan zone. It was quite nice. You know, Ramsdale came out, Yanny B came out. We had a nice little chat with Ricky Lambert.
00:03:02
Zak
from you know Q and&A up. up so So there was just a lot more hope in it. The performance ah you know in spells did give us significantly more hope. Like, tool pool now, I know we're sure we're going to have a conversation about that throughout the space of this.
00:03:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh yes, we're going to almost have ah ah an entire segment dedicated to the Enigma that is called Pool.
00:03:19
Zak
Turning into like a, turning into like prime messy for like, and it with a no look pass that is just disgusting. you know a highlight of of of the game, right? There are some other bits and pieces, you know, regardless of how the goal came, you know, Armstrong scoring again, fantastic. Matty Fernandez is getting his goal finally.
00:03:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you know what? That goal was so well worked as well. It was like such a beautiful piece of football with like one time passing and a switch and then another switch and he found the space and I really felt at that point like it was due to go our way and it was 2-1, the score I predicted.
00:03:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was limbs in all the ends. It was just, it was always too early. That was the problem, right? It always felt like it was too early to score.
00:04:05
Zak
but I think the thing is that I've seen and a lot of people have pointed out is how how many Saints fans sat in that stadium at 2-1 up genuinely thought it was going to be 2-1 up at the end of the game and the answer to that question it says significantly overwhelming no I don't think it's gonna be 2-1 and I think that's that's maybe part of the for problem the problem in general right is it's like again like if
00:04:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
That doesn't just stem from this season though, that comes from years and years and years of disappointment as a Saints man.
00:04:36
Zak
That's just being, out that's yeah that's years of being a Hardin Saints fan. But I mean, if you specifically look at this season, it's just, it was never, it was never comfortable, but you're right. That second goal, it was just like, I don't understand how, how we were able to produce things like that against Liverpool, but but then just the rest of this season has felt like, you know, ah ah I don't want to be too dramatic. And I know that you think that It's not every game you're like, Oh, it's not the title will decider.
00:05:05
Zak
It's not going to be, it's not going to be the make or break of our season.
00:05:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, look, we've got
Southampton's Challenges
00:05:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
to talk about the fact.
00:05:08
Zak
There's a lot.
00:05:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, Liverpool versus Southampton is never the theport part of our season's side in our season. We've had several of those games that have not gone our way that have been bitterly crushing.
00:05:19
Zak
Yeah, this is the problem in it.
00:05:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
But frankly, losing 3-2 to Liverpool could happen in any season. And most seasons, you'd take that as getting off light. Do you think that if we had Ramsdale and Gotall, we win today?
00:05:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
because I'm thinking about it right. And the first goal was obviously a Flynn Downs mistake, but it was caused because he didn't want to give the ball to McCarthy and I suffer the same fate from McCarthy. The second goal was obviously McCarthy, I don't know. In the stadium, I thought it was a piece of Salah magic. I was like, oh, fair enough. He's beat him to the ball and he's made him look stupid. But video does not do Alex McCarthy any favors there because what was he doing?
00:06:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Where was he? Where was he?
00:06:04
Zak
It's I, I don't know.
00:06:07
Zak
I have a feeling that calling him, calling him Mr. Reliable. Like you can see, I don't know if you've seen the footage yet mate of Ramsdale sort of running up to him to try and console him after the game. Cause I'm guaranteed he probably felt the pain.
00:06:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:19
Zak
and
00:06:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then also the third one is like Yuki flapping at it because he's not come out to collect it, right? like
00:06:25
Zak
So, so what, yeah, but what what do you do at this point? Like Pazuni is still out injured. You give Lumley a look in. who we don't actually know how he's going to be because we've never played it for more than five minutes of the game.
00:06:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
He played in a couple of Caramel Ties last season and was fair to Midlimb.
00:06:40
Zak
But it shows you, it shows you, you know, quite quite like City with Rodry, right? how how some How our season and the performances we put in are so closely linked and tied to specific personnel, right? Like Downs being out caused us a lot of issues last season and so on this season when we've missed him.
00:07:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
We missed him at Wolves and that showed today because
00:07:01
Zak
Uh, yeah.
00:07:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know, we got but four minutes in and we'd had a shot on target. I think I turned around and went great. Exceeded expectations. We're already better than the wolves.
00:07:12
Zak
Yeah, I think this is, this is the thing, right? Like, I think this is why I'm so, I'm not, I just, I'm so defeated by it because it's, it's the fact of the matter of it. So if we turned off, we got beaten the five, no, by Liverpool, it would have been an expectation. It's the fact that we played so well, which means that we can play this well. We can do this well.
00:07:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
We can't get too disheartened by it.
00:07:32
Zak
Can we just...
00:07:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
we're go to We've got to take that and play well on Friday and get something from a game that should in theory be more winnable.
00:07:40
Zak
It's really worrying how like close we are to being sort of mathematically relegated in such a short period of time after the start of the season. and And I think that's where I'm at.
00:07:51
Zak
like we've had We've seen like Lester fire Steve Cooper today, which seems a bit of a surprise to us, but our Lester colleague at GSPN. seem to not be as surprised and and you know it's it's kind of I don't know I don't I don't think that they're gonna fire us apart we've had this conversation a hundred times it's this not I don't think it's gonna happen if it's gonna happen it already happened exactly so it it's just kind of
00:08:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's not going to happen. Look, we're not going to talk about it anymore until it happens, is where I'm at, because it's not happening.
Surprising Lineups and Performances
00:08:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Whether you like it or not, and and that's, you know, I appreciate both opinions on this matter, but it's down to the board at this point and I just don't see it happening.
00:08:19
Zak
yeah
00:08:28
Zak
And they, and you know, that this is, this is entirely about club ownership and business as opposed to it's, it's just,
00:08:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:08:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
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00:09:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
and learn more about Zencaster. Okay, so let's start at the start. The team lineups came out. I looked across the the crowded northern fanzone to you and mouthed the words to you, tall pool, what, or worse to that effect.
00:09:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
00:09:21
Zak
but Yeah, you're right. I was chatting to to our work colleague who we saw. um Shout out JP. It was nice to see you. yeah And and even even braving the fan zone as a Liverpool fan. But the fact that I think that that shocked me, but also I think he's done enough to sort of get a game in.
00:09:38
Zak
What did shock me more is Fraser being played in the back pack.
00:09:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, which kind of, as it sank in, we sort of looked around each other and went, that means you'll be marking Salah.
00:09:42
Zak
That was what shocked me more.
00:09:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
So we, you know, we started off the day pretty confused and baffled, to be honest, even after the team lineups came out, we were sort of looking going, just this doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
00:10:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:10:04
Zak
I mean despite like me I'd had a few bebs by that point and and you know at that point I was willing to give anything ago like why not why why not whatever let's see how it goes and and I don't i don't think really Fraser did a lot wrong really like he played right no yes it's not like it was it's not like it was his cameo appearance for the last time he was out and got carded was it it's so and and like tool pool did really really well I don't know how well he
00:10:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
It wasn't awful, but he also didn't ring a lot.
00:10:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. He did. He was all right
Late-Game Tactics: What Could Change?
00:10:31
Zak
did as a striker
00:10:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
at holding the ball up. Well, that's the thing though, but this is what we've talked about, right? Because what he brings to the table from what we've actually seen him do is not an aerial threat. That was abundantly clear, but he can hold the ball up and he will hold a player off.
00:10:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
or throw himself to the ground as comically funny as you dare in an effort to win something.
00:10:51
Zak
He's watching a brachiosaurus isn't it?
00:10:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
But this brings me back to why aren't we why haven't we played him and Archer together? I just think that it would work so well. But yeah, his hold up play and then unfortunately to go off injured.
00:11:06
Zak
Yeah, then and then his replacement in Big Lez was a surprise because you know we've we'veve discussed how we don't really think.
00:11:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's very clearly a profile that we were looking for there, right? He is a big player that we're going to knock the ball up to.
00:11:15
Zak
Yeah.
00:11:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
but I mean, as discussed with big glass, I think I said it to you after the game, he plays football like my son who plays under sevens. Like he just runs at the ball consistently and, and not with a huge amount of effect.
00:11:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
He tends to over commit and be out of position.
00:11:34
Zak
please yeah thank
00:11:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then before you know it, he's chasing down the goalkeeper. and like Well, hang on a minute. You're our CDM. What are you doing?
00:11:41
Zak
some um he yeah yeah He had okay game.
00:11:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
so
00:11:44
Zak
There was a chance that he almost had where you ah you were in absolute agony that he was going to take a shot on him. He didn't, but then we lost the ball straight after, so it didn't matter much. But you know he wasn't he wasn't really what I would consider to be the problem today.
00:11:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:11:57
Zak
And I don't, again, the problem realistically was at the end of the day that there's small individual errors, unfortunately, you know, Yuki giving away the penalty wasn't like ideal.
00:12:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah it's really because outside of that there was one one chance that we got lucky on the live pool didn't do better with where it sort of glanced across the face ago and just went behind uh i think it was saucer blow but
00:12:20
Zak
mistake and
00:12:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
But other than that, I can't really think of any hugely clear-cut chances. are you know McCarthy made a couple of saves and they had a couple of shots from distance, but we didn't get a we didn't get battered by Liverpool.
00:12:32
Zak
i i really took bridge hey yeah I really took umbrage to the slot comment of how they dominated us for like the entirety of the 90 minutes.
00:12:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, they dominated us in the same way that we dominated Wolves.
00:12:43
Zak
It's like, mate, we watch it.
00:12:46
Zak
Yeah. Like ah ah ah ah we watch in the same game because, you know, and then we add, I know that your favorite comments of around referees, like this wasn't exactly the best game, which is funny because a lot of the feedback has been like PGMLL against Liverpool.
00:13:00
Zak
and they're trying to charge down their title charge with like giving away a pet like oh that penalty they gave to them was like mate you also got a pen what what it's baffling it's it's very funny to me that it's like oh you know they're they're all against us i'm like didn't you also get a penalty like you yeah let's literally pushed over and then obviously
00:13:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Actually, we, I think we should have had three penalties, truth be told.
00:13:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then, you know, at the start of the game, there was that Armstrong transfer, he just got barged over by Kanatai. And then right in front of us, there was when he was running through on goal and got clattered by two defenders and taken out by the goalkeeper, none of whom got the ball.
00:13:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
And some of that went the other way as well.
00:13:31
Zak
And then, and then for us, and I think the the last eight minutes of the fact that we, we, we count at least two, three minutes worth of time wasting. And then they, they blew the whistle literally 98, which I thought was insane, but I don't know how much three would have mattered.
00:13:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
it was the audacity that in the 90 second minute they were took about a minute and a half to take a throw in and we were moaning at the ref and the ref pointed at his watch and then blew the whistle dead on 98 minutes so he clearly didn't mean anything by pointing at his watch because it's it's a joke.
00:13:57
Zak
No.
00:14:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
00:14:00
Zak
yeah I don't know. I don't know how much it would have made a difference.
00:14:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
rock
00:14:02
Zak
So this is the problem is that that's sort of last 10, 15 minutes. It's, I don't understand what it is with the sort of last, last season and championship. We, we were, we were like king of the late goals. We'd always somehow get a goal sort of 95th, 96th.
00:14:13
Zak
I don't know if they're trying to do the same by being calm and keeping everything calm. But like when you've got, as you pointed out, like we're already at that point, really
Fan Loyalty Amid Difficulties
00:14:22
Zak
on our way, like, you know, lose.
00:14:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
rather have lost 4-2 trying than.
00:14:25
Zak
Yeah. Rather lose four to try and then, you know, ah ah kind of not doing anything and that sort of last 10-15 minutes it's like we're having a screen with them to just like come towards us actually run at and yeah that was a bit is frustrating because it's the urgency you need that level of urgency but then I think you know
00:14:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's frustrating and I think it's symptomatic of the style we play, right? Where they try and knock it about, but it's frustrating, especially in the 95th minute when you're 3-2 down, you know, desperately needing a point And they just.
00:14:56
Zak
Paul getting injured changed the game because I think the the other crazy thing about was just the atmosphere whenever he had the ball I think it may be everyone in the stadium just wants a redemption arc and by redemption arc I don't really think he's done anything wrong he's just not been here for a long time but but you know every time he had the ball it was like it was it was kind of electric you could feel it through the crowd it was mad
00:15:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. It's just, it's just that cry out for something different because he is something different. He is.
00:15:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
He provides a plan B. He is not the same player as we have all of the other versions of that can do the Russian Metal Star. What he does is different. and And that's not always good.
00:15:32
Zak
yeah
00:15:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Sometimes different is bad, but also sometimes it's exactly what you need. And yeah, it's an energy that's needed because it's starting to get hard to watch us lose at home every week.
00:15:43
Zak
yeah agreed yeah but see this is this is the thing like I get to come I get to come visit and stuff but like you know for fee the actual season ticket holders like I can completely understand like the roster out crowd and this I know I was paying
00:15:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Brutal.
00:15:59
Zak
as much as you guys pay year like year in, year out, you know, last year you you were treated same with, same with your kids were treated to some fantastic football, some lovely goals, you know, your, your, your boy and your girl thinking that they're going to be going to Wembley every year. And then to come back and face the harsh realities of just being like consistently put to the sword. But again, it's that little sliver of hope that they give you that makes you think maybe just maybe we'll do it.
Injuries and Transfers Discussion
00:16:24
Zak
And I didn't know how I felt then I felt a little bit sort of more confident going in.
00:16:28
Zak
And then when the score line was at literally what you predicted, I was like, maybe just maybe, but I was like, but also.
00:16:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Then you looked at the clock and you understood that that is just not not how it was going to play out. but All we've got some other players to talk about i want to talk about.
00:16:40
Zak
No. And I think. Yeah.
00:16:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
I want to focus in on midfield a bit and how that went today. But first, I think you got a message from our partners at the Global Sports Podcast Network.
00:16:52
Zak
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00:17:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
OK, so yeah, I want to focus in on the midfield because I don't think that any of them had their best game today. But let's start with the almost cameo appearance for Adam Lallana.
00:17:22
Zak
Yeah.
00:17:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah we going to see butre go to We've seen from Lallana when he comes on for us that he you know we've talked before about how he raises everyone else's game and sort of like having a second manager on the pitch. but Do you maybe think this might be the last time we see him on the pitch this season?
00:17:43
Zak
It's a struggle to even keep him on for like a game anyway, and then he seems to go out sort of injured all the time. And, and it's, it seems like it's not like, I think I originally compared the transfer like the beginning of the season.
00:17:57
Zak
So like when we brought in Theo, we'll go at Theo, we'll go almost came, came home to sort of retire. But I think, you know, if you had goals in him, goodness gracious, he had goals in him in the charity match. Still, he still had legs on him.
00:18:07
Zak
And it does, it does very much feel like the Lana is here more of a coaching capacity because he gets in into the game and then, and then something happens, then here we are.
00:18:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just a lot and that's it.
00:18:18
Zak
But then yeah but he's he's still been, I think, ah a really a positive, I guess, signing and a positive influence to the club. and But you're just wondering how much that's going to have an effect on our end of our season.
00:18:28
Zak
like Ultimately, we didn't really pay anything for him other than his wages. But it just it's just incredibly frustrating and upsetting that when whenever he does get a sort of game, he can barely get through it.
00:18:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's a real of shame. And I mean, and you know, he was, he was injury prone when he was in his prime. So it's it's not coming as a surprise to anyone.
00:18:39
Zak
And more than anything,
00:18:45
Zak
Yeah, exactly. So it's no surprise, but still you kind of, you know, it it kind of upsets the flow of the game a little bit. But I think, I think unfortunately the substitutions did today because, you know, two of them were cheering the sheerly out of injury.
00:18:58
Zak
Anyway. Um, we also didn't talk about the, the switchover of moving from Kyle from right to left at some point as well to kind of deal with that.
00:19:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that was straight after the first goal.
00:19:09
Zak
Yeah.
00:19:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's what happened.
00:19:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
We noticed that. ah we didn't really have much luck defending that side of the pitch with either of those players to be fair so I guess Carl going forward on the left helped I don't know but ah but I mean a Rebo came on for the Lana and he actually I think he had quite a good game yeah
00:19:20
Zak
I don't think it made much of a difference.
00:19:29
Zak
Yeah. Rebo's always solid. I can't, again, like I can't, I think this is the upsetting thing. I can't fault the players. I think Liverpool are just the better squad, but it's just, it's just those individual errors that course cost us the game.
00:19:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
There was a sort of.
00:19:42
Zak
But it's, it's frustrating because it shows that we can do it. That, that, that team, the team goal that the Fernandez goal was just fantastic. you could literally it was like you were able to watch like oh my goodness gracious me we are a football club playing football I had forgotten what that felt like so well we did notice that that was very funny
00:19:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it's interesting though, because like it's one extreme to the other, because like we i talked earlier about Big Lez and his ability to over commit and he did that basically as soon as he came on the pitch, which was interesting, but.
00:20:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
for the rest of the game we really did this thing where we were just sitting off and not really attacking them at all trying not to get caught but but that's frustrating too i want to see someone get at them and try and get the ball it was just it was it was just you're right the word is frustrating because we would just sit off and let them come at us and then
00:20:23
Zak
You screamed the word press more than I've ever heard anyone say press in my life mate today. I just screamed and showered a lot clearly.
00:20:35
Zak
Yeah.
00:20:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
When we did get the ball, we just really didn't do huge amounts with it apart from, you know, the, the two or three times. I mean, I think dibbling was, uh, again, the player that drove us forward and picked up the ball and drove us into those areas.
00:20:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
We had three or four and Walker Peters as well was also fantastic at that.
00:20:53
Zak
yeah
00:20:57
Zak
always. like That's the thing, right?
00:20:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
And, yeah.
00:20:59
Zak
I think it worries me if he goes at the end of the season because you start to wonder where all of this is going to come from. So I tried to do that when he gets on on the pitch usually as well, but obviously he just, his his little cameo appearance today was less than, you know, partly wondrous.
00:21:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I can only presume that the only reason that Fraser gets picked over Sugawara is that Sugawara didn't get back into camp until presumably quite late after some you know far away international games to have to travel to.
00:21:23
Zak
Yeah, exactly. It's just, it's, it's just been, but it's the other thing we discussed just before we left and we were, so I remember us talking about is the problem is, is this we've had,
00:21:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
So that is my hope because otherwise that's a wild decision. and And like we say, Fraser wasn't bad, but he also didn't really bring a lot to the table.
00:21:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
a very sort of middling game.
00:21:51
Zak
us transfers have been so spotty.
Critiquing Transfer Decisions
00:21:54
Zak
I'm seeing a lot of criticism of sports Republic and their transfers to spend all this money and stuff. And you're like, but the problem is, is we have had some absolute gems. Like Matthew Fernandez, incredible, single wire, in my opinion, an absolute bargain price for what we've, you know, for the player that we've got out of him.
00:22:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:22:07
Zak
But then there are players that we would have expected to do more, like Ben Barrett and DS scored so much for Sheffield United. And it's not when he's had the ball, he's kind of doesn't do really a lot. Like the big lenses is there, but as you said, it's like,
00:22:19
Zak
It's like watching a kid run at the ball nonstop. Uh, Corneille disappeared.
00:22:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
There's promise there. There's promise with Big Lez. He just, he's not the polish, finished polish product, but he's, there is promise.
00:22:29
Zak
No.
00:22:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
You can see the potential.
00:22:33
Zak
Charlie Taylor's here. So I can, that's what I can tell you about him.
00:22:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
I forgot he was with us to be honest mate.
00:22:38
Zak
like And then a couple of other, a couple of other players have just been.
00:22:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, he, we haven't seen Charlie Taylor in a match day squad since that comment from Russell Martin that someone couldn't do as they were told.
00:22:44
Zak
No, which says a lot.
00:22:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
and stand on the penalty spot so you could only presume at this point that was him and he's been the I guess the scapegoat for that but
00:22:58
Zak
Potentially, but then you've also got like Edwards and Wood and stuff that that just obviously I think were longer term plan buys anyway, but it's like, you know, we've we've got an Archer and Archer has been able to score not as frequently as we'd like, but you know, and then we've been lucky with sort of tool pool almost being.
00:23:16
Zak
like a new sign in only because he didn't end up getting his moves to Turkey. And that could still very well happen in January if, you know, they want to pay enough money for him. And then you've got like the, the, the arm or bellicott chap conversation that we constantly have where people seem to think that bringing him in is suddenly going to revolutionize our back for, which isn't always the problem. As again, like today was not necessarily the back lines fault for everything that happened. It was a lot of things. It's just, again, it's frustrating.
00:23:45
Zak
because today could have been a really, really big positive to take.
00:23:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:47
Zak
And the problem is, is that all it's done is kind of consistently raise that noise. And it does, you do kind of when it's on paper, isn't it? Like, I think now we we would have to literally break records to stay up with the points tally that we have off the sort of 12 games and we've done it before, but it's the fact that it's like we were in that position and I don't know, you know,
00:23:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's upsetting.
00:24:10
Zak
I don't know, like, okay, if recruitment was slightly different, if a manager was slightly different, is it just because we've come up too early? And I don't want to put the players on blast like that, but sometimes it's like, it kind of, that is just the feeling.
00:24:22
Zak
And I feel like scrambling around for any old manager is like, well, you know, we were the fourth best team and we came up,
00:24:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
there's still ups and downs to go this season. And the positive to take from it is that Liverpool was never going to be.
00:24:31
Zak
there are, it's not the end of it. No.
00:24:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
it It was going to be three points that no one was expecting or even a point that I was expecting.
00:24:40
Zak
it's hope that killed me mate that's what it was is that i felt it felt it in my bones there are
00:24:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. But as we're running out of time and we like to finish on a positive, There are positives to take from the performance that we'll talk about in tactics Tuesday. I'm sure once the emotions have, uh, simmered down a little, but I would like to leave you with a quote from our Southampton Australian supporters you who, uh, who are on a wonderful Facebook page and do the most amazing match reports. If you haven't seen them, I would highly recommend you check them out because, this is my favorite quote of the day to end us on.
00:25:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it is, uh, Turkey's become famous recently for their ability to transform people's appearance, but turning Lionel Messi into a six for eight Nigeria may be their best work yet.
00:25:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
So if those are the positive words to leave you by, what more can we say?
00:25:32
Zak
oh Look, it's been a day, it's been it's been a long day, it was a day that we never expected to get a huge amount out as you've pointed out, but you know what, we scored two goals, that was better than wolves.
00:25:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. And we got the performance that we were hoping for.
00:25:47
Zak
Yeah, yeah, and it's it's it's been okay, it could be worse.
00:25:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
So they're the positives we're going to take from it. a Head into Friday with a lot more confidence and hopefully get something from that game.
00:26:00
Zak
It just means to me we should be beating more.
00:26:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
And the rest of the season is going to come as it comes. We can only take it one game at a time.
00:26:03
Zak
We should be winning more games.
Wrapping Up with Optimism
00:26:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right. Thank you very much for joining me today, Zach.
00:26:05
Zak
True that.
00:26:09
Zak
Thank you, Nate.
00:26:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's been a pleasure.
00:26:11
Zak
Little I have left of my voice will die by the time we're back to work tomorrow, but it's been a really good day, even if the result was exactly what we originally expected.
00:26:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's it. That's it. It's fine.
00:26:21
Zak
Sorry, exactly what I originally expected.
00:26:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
It has been a day. We will be back tomorrow with a slightly more in-depth breakdown of our tactics and maybe how we can switch them up into Brighton and hopefully transfer that into a win. Thanks for joining us on the Daily Southampton from the Global Sports Podcast Network and we will see you next time.