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Episode 89: Match Review - Our first game of a new ERA!
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Southampton –It is our first game since Russel Martin left the club, and we are OUT of the Caraboa cup after another defeat to Liverpool, but... we are happy? We explain why!
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Introduction and Podcast Setup
00:00:08
Zak
Hello and welcome to the Daily Southampton part of the Global Sports Podcast Network. I am your host, Zach Ingo Finch, and I am once again joined by my co-host, Greg Elliott.
00:00:21
Zak
He went and retrieved his equipment that is vital to this daily podcast that we do.
00:00:27
Zak
So I am no longer on my lonesome today. Greg has just got home from the match. I stayed in, because quite frankly, I just just was I wasn't paying £35 for it.
00:00:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:00:40
Zak
Fair play to everyone that did, but I wasn't paying £35 for it. But what I will start with, Greg, is that my score prediction of 2-1 to Liverpool is correct!
00:00:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well hey,
Match Conditions and Team Dynamics
00:00:50
Zak
That's the first time that's happened!
00:00:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's like the first one of the season.
00:00:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fantastic that we're getting better at this. yeah no look what What can I say mate?
00:00:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's cold, I'm cold, I'm wet, it's a Wednesday night, we lost, but for a change I'm happy.
00:01:04
Zak
yeah right it was so weird to watch us enjoy the game right so we'll talk about the game and ah ah that's what we're gonna do we're gonna talk about the game and i'm acting like i'm gonna try and apply some sort of structure to the banter that me and greg have is it's kind of it's not gonna it's not what you're here for in a review but mate from from minute one to about minute 10 and then from minute 60 to minute 90 that was a game of football i feel
00:01:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:01:35
Zak
We kicked the ball up. We had shots on target. It it didn't feel like... I feel bad because i I've started to understand. Maybe all of the people, including myself, that had a bit of trust in Russell Martin were wrong.
00:01:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah right okay here's here's the thing right has has it has has getting rid of Russell Martin immediately solved all of our problems no was it ever gonna no is
00:01:47
Zak
I just... I knew that would set you off.
00:01:58
Zak
No. No.
00:02:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
the pressure that has been relieved from that happening and turned the atmosphere back up at St Mary's and just there's there's not the vibes are different the just the pressure the pressure the players must have been under no wind that the manager's job was on the line every game they played with that gone they played with freedom they played in a way that seemed natural to them And what we've talked about on the, our long episode on Monday about how it's now sort of a clean slate because it's impossible to judge how a a player plays football naturally compared to how they were playing when they were, I don't want to use the words shackled by the system.
00:02:45
Zak
no No, you you can.
00:02:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:02:46
Zak
you can so So if we're just getting into it, you you can because we shouldn't have to celebrate kicking a ball forward. That is insane.
00:02:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:02:56
Zak
And like the fact
00:02:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I think.
00:02:57
Zak
yeah
00:02:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
the key difference, right? Like we kicked the ball long on every goal kick and tonight. And was it successful very often? No, not really. We won, one i think I think I counted four that we made something of from the entire game. But when it didn't go well, instead of being on our 12 yard line with our backs to goal and it's being an instant goal,
00:03:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
it went out for a throw-in in their half somewhere and then we have the opportunity to get the ball and make something of that instead like we're up the pitch and sometimes even if it didn't turn into something and it went out of play in their half sometimes it was our throw-in so we're getting up the pitch you know it's it's gained yardage
00:03:45
Zak
But that's my point.
00:03:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
you don't
00:03:46
Zak
is it's It's absolutely insane that but th when you say, oh, they were shackled by the system, it feels like
Key Match Moments and Tactical Play
00:03:53
Zak
they were because they must have been being berated or told off when they were making what I guess were considered those mistakes, when in actuality, you know, OK, we didn't have a lot of the ball today.
00:03:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:04:06
Zak
You know, I've seen people complain.
00:04:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you know what though?
00:04:09
Zak
I've seen one person complain, I didn't care about not having it because we didn't need it.
00:04:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you know what though? What I've written down is, the difference is that instead of being good in spells, but holding the ball, we played for 90 minutes.
00:04:24
Zak
yes
00:04:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
And that didn't mean that we had the ball for 90 minutes, but we played.
00:04:24
Zak
Yes.
00:04:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
And yeah, okay. We can see the two, one of which I've watched back and was an unbelievable goal, just really well worked from Liverpool, the second goal. One of which. a deflection of a defender caught McCarthy off guard.
00:04:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was sort of all go for it.
00:04:42
Zak
Yeah, it was 50-50 weather, you should have actually gone for it.
00:04:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
What could go back for it? I think he should have gone for it. then he slipped over and the rest is, you know, Poundland Andy Carroll slipped in and scored a goal.
00:04:49
Zak
Well, the weather was pretty shocking, wasn't it? There was a couple of times that
00:04:54
Zak
he He got very bad.
00:04:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
So yeah.
00:04:56
Zak
He was rattled by that and it was very funny. yeah yeah You didn't see the zooms in on his face but we did. but but ah yeah it's just it is you know i'm not I'm not saying it's a revelation but like clearly clearly whether or not publicly they said they didn't believe in that anymore watching them play with that freedom and a lot of when their heads dropped a little bit after that first goal you could see them falling back into those habits and that was what were causing a lot more of the issues but you know yeah but that that's the difference and it and I think the the mad stuff the mad thing about it and i I'm sure we'll talk about it more as well but like the whole
00:05:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
But then we turned it round, back in and stuck our heads up, stuck our noses in.
00:05:38
Zak
after the 60th minute when we're sat there in the the sort of 85th 89th minute as we've spoken about before and one of the problems with with the Russell Martin system was that you know where are we trying to keep calm try and work the goal try and work the goal and there was no intensity but there was there was there was pressing there was there was a real desire to try and peg peg back you know Liverpool and actually get and a second goal where where previously we've seen them kind of try to work the ball up the system
00:06:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
or an actual interception. Like, it was mad.
00:06:11
Zak
It was it was beautiful seeing him back of the pitch, but my word is he not?
00:06:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Brembra and Diaz managed to shot on target. It's like the heavens have opened and we can play football again. It's, it's, and it's, it's crazy. And I don't think it's all Russell Martin's fault.
00:06:25
Zak
No
00:06:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think a lot of it is, like I said, the pressurized container they were in and partially the system. And, you know, there's always going to be a bounce from that relief and hopefully that bounce continues into a more important game on Sunday.
00:06:39
Zak
Yeah, agreed.
00:06:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
And, you know, did Liverpool play a rotated squad today? Yeah. Is their rotated squad still probably better than our first team on any given day? Yeah, probably.
00:06:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
But we, we stuck in there and held our own and we got a goal. And when, I think the telling point for me is when the board was held up in the 90th minute that said six minute stoppage time, we cheered!
00:07:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
We had a Neef that we were going to score!
00:07:04
Zak
Yeah, that that that was nuts and like you could tell just the atmosphere was different. and And that is...
00:07:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we probably should have had an opportunity to score with a red card, but a red card and a denial of a clear goal to score an opportunity, but even that can't bring my mood down.
00:07:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
like
00:07:23
Zak
We'll talk about that in a bit. It's it's funny because it's an argument for VAR, but also it's an argument for the fourth official using using his eyes. But there we are. That takes us nicely into a a little bit of a break.
00:07:36
Zak
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00:07:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
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00:08:02
Zak
So we're
Player Focus and Performance Mishaps
00:08:03
Zak
back, Greg. Greg, Greg, Greg, Greg, Greg. Well, for starters, I wanted to to quickly talk about the yellow card that Flynn Bounds got, because you you brought up something that I was unaware of, because it really it really bothered me, because it seemed like a complete waste. And we're already we don't need to rack up cards the way that we're racking up cards. And all he did really was sort of have a little scrap with Harvey Elliott for no reason.
00:08:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, from what I saw, Javier had hold of him the whole way and it was probably reasonable to moan.
00:08:29
Zak
and I didn't think he had the best game.
00:08:35
Zak
it it was It was a bit of a hug from both of them mate and I think that's why they both got yellowed but it was just a bit it was a bit frustrating because he didn't have his best game.
00:08:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:08:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's got a bit of that written in his
00:08:43
Zak
But you said that you saw him, you think you think he tweaked something.
00:08:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, so actually it was the the first goal. He was out of position quite drastically and pulled up holding his hamstring. and honestly, at that point, I thought he was going to go off, but we've seen it before with Flynn Downs, his, ah for better or for worse, his, his drive and want to continue through that.
00:09:00
Zak
Mm.
00:09:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
But he, he was lackluster after that. And he never really seemed to get going again. And, I think it's because of that knock and you know, he probably probably should have come off earlier than he did.
00:09:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
And, I mean, let's hope it's that and not the change out of the system. I guess, but yeah, he definitely didn't look to be moving freely after pulling up with that at any point.
00:09:31
Zak
Indeed. Yeah, so but it's hope I'm kind of ah ah in agreement. As I said, I think it's got to be there's also probably got to be some apprehension for some of the players as well for you know who keeps their place, what new system kind of gets introduced.
00:09:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Some players have definitely earned their spot after tonight. Let's talk about Cameron Archer.
00:09:52
Zak
Oh, fantastic. That goal, mate. Oh, my goodness gracious me.
00:09:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah the goal was unbelievable but not only was the goal unbelievable right he he had a really difficult game to tonight because the system that we were playing left him very isolated and despite that he he kept going and going and going and every time we moved the ball forward even if it ended up going backward he was
00:09:56
Zak
Yeah, it's been coming for ages.
00:10:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
making those defenders work and you probably don't see that on the cameras but I saw it sat behind the goal and he just moves and doesn't stop moving and he makes that movement and the defenders struggle with it and he just had a really good game he really impressed me um and and we missed it once again once he went off and or and actually came on it was
00:10:40
Zak
Yeah, I don't actually played played well, but it was one of those things where I think that you can tell he's not scored a goal in a hot minute because yeah, there's a couple of.
00:10:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think my six year old son could have scored that tap in.
00:10:51
Zak
I there have been times when I was younger and I would play football far more regularly than I ever play football now. I'm not very graceful man. Greg, you're aware of that.
00:11:01
Zak
That's very much the kind of thing that I would do, which is slide over when trying to kick the ball.
00:11:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just before that, there was a moment, a beautiful moment where he, someone played a like a looping, but to be fair, like the conditions to tonight, very grim, very windy,
00:11:07
Zak
And again, like I just think that
00:11:16
Zak
Shocking so I saw a lot of people slipping over Yeah no there we go's talking about And I'm pretty sure at one point it came off the back of his head at some point as well but I But on top of that, we actually saw Alana on the pitch.
00:11:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
whirling wind very difficult to play in but someone played like a lofted ball up towards him and as he turned back round to sort of scan it and see where it was going to land it just hit him in the face.
00:11:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:11:40
Zak
That was a thing that happened tonight. he's they they They cracked him out of cryostasis. He's finally got a bit of a game, even if it was 10 minutes. I was hoping he'd get a full start. But yeah i can't I can't really fault the players tonight.
00:11:53
Zak
like Again, like the thin down thing, I was worried that he'd been playing bad. But if you if he was carrying something, I'm not as worried.
00:11:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Let's hope that's all it was.
00:12:00
Zak
And like let's hope that's all that.
00:12:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. I mean, there was definitely something in it, but yeah, I think individually, I haven't really got a lot negatively to call out. Ryan Manning was one of our best players consistently again, which is not a sentence.
00:12:09
Zak
Yeah, which is nuts. like
00:12:15
Zak
No, you're not at all.
00:12:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
I thought I'd say at the start of the season, but here we are. Matty Fernandez, once again, played out of his boot.
00:12:22
Zak
I love part of me, and now now hear me out. Part of me is glad so much of the focus is on Tyler Dibbling and not as much of the focus is on Matthew Fernandez, because I think that if people started to pay attention to him,
00:12:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:12:37
Zak
then then we would be in for a rough we'll be in for a rough summer because they're
00:12:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
He blends an interest in and one, right, because he yeah had an alright game for tonight.
00:12:43
Zak
hot and cold. He didn't have a lot of
00:12:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
but he But the problem is my analysis of him is that he doesn't release the ball in any way quick enough. He tries to do one too many things with it, which is fine. Sometimes that gets him round a player, but sometimes I wish he'd make a pass a bit sooner or even just whip a shot in or a cross in just just like half a second earlier than he does. ah ah He lost the ball quite a few times tonight.
00:13:13
Zak
Mmm.
00:13:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
in that same sort of way but still when he gets on the ball his bravery uh not a buzzword we're gonna step away from usually I guess but his his lack of fear and his willingness to drive forward drags the rest of the team with him so although he he does lose the ball sometimes he still brings everyone up with him and it's great I mean yeah otherwise Nathan Wood again looks solid
00:13:43
Zak
Yeah, played ahead a good game.
00:13:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Howard Venice seems to be enjoying his new role as cheerleader, was trying to G up the fans at every possible opportunity and I love that. I'm all there for it.
00:13:51
Zak
Agreed. Medrak had a solid game. I know that he was a fault probably for the first goal, but at the same time, three of the other times,
00:13:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
I
Management Changes and Transfer Speculations
00:13:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
mean, I don't know.
00:13:57
Zak
three of the times he, three of the other times he'd done that, he managed to get rid of the ball.
00:14:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I don't know how much you can blame that on him because the condition for him.
00:14:01
Zak
And I, yeah, it's, it's, it's one of those things where like it could count as an individual fault, but not really.
00:14:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
In the same way, I don't really blame maccar McCarthy because it was an awkward deflection and it was awkwardly caught in the wind. And that was why he didn't really know whether to go for it or not. And then it carried further than it looked like it was going to initially add like the perfect view of this behind the goal from where I sit. So, but yeah, and he should he should have just gone for it, but he didn't go for it quick enough. And by the time he decided to go for it, he then ended up needing to backpedal because Darwin was coming onto it. And then he slipped up. And at that point he had no chance. I think McCarthy could have done better for the second goal.
00:14:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
It looked like he dived in slow motion from where I was at.
00:14:45
Zak
But like I think if that's if that's the two goals, it's not the same as what we've been seeing in most recent, where we've kicked the ball at an opposition player and they've struck and scored.
00:14:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
i thought so
00:14:56
Zak
And like those those are positives to take.
00:14:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
thisly but honestly but Honestly, outside of those two goals, I can't really think of anything that I would call clear cut for Liverpool.
00:14:59
Zak
They're well-worked goals, I don't care.
00:15:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
And if we can hold oppositions to two clear-cut chances again, then we're right, you know, we've got a chance.
00:15:17
Zak
Yes, it's he had he had a couple couple of moments where he showed the quality of...
00:15:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
What more can you ask for? Sulemana sort of looked a bit more interested to be there.
00:15:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
He looked like a player short on minutes who wants to get more.
00:15:32
Zak
Yeah, he he had a couple of moments where he was doing the things that we signed him for back in the day and then he had a lot of it.
00:15:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
which is better than we've seen of him under Russell Martin where he looked like a player who didn't want to beat it.
00:15:43
Zak
But I think that's the thing, right? Is a lot of these play, you know, if you're saying, as you said, it's a clean slate for everybody. I'm really hoping that's the case because obviously whoever's coming in is going to have the tough job of the fact that we have a transfer window, not 12 days away. Like it's it's wild because that will, there will be players and there will be people that have decided, you know,
00:16:05
Zak
Do we let Kyle Walker-Peters leave at the end of the season or do we sell him in January? He wasn't involved tonight. I heard it was an injury from Sunday, but I don't know how... It's hard to...
00:16:16
Zak
I don't want to speculate on something like that, but at the same time, considering Rusk, all of yesterday said that there were no new injur injury concerns and confirmed Ramsell was not playing.
00:16:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
believe
00:16:25
Zak
I didn't think that would be a thing.
00:16:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
just difficult one right because I mean they had a day off yesterday so who's to say how much he information he actually had and that's what I mean like we weren't expecting I wasn't personally particularly optimistic for the game because I just wasn't expecting much to have happened in three days where one of them was a day off and one of them was a recovery day like
00:16:33
Zak
This is also true.
00:16:44
Zak
Well, obviously, I was chatting, chatting, I'm alone some yesterday, but part of me, that was kind of the thing I had is that the day off was good and bad. It's, it's the same thing. Whereas if you get bad news at work and you have time off, that is away from work that you can process it and go back in happy days.
00:16:59
Zak
And it's a bit more, it gives the players a bit more of a time as opposed to finding out at 10 PM and immediately going into work the next day and then having to process that all as a group together.
00:17:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. But what I'm not sure about is this uncertainty, right?
00:17:09
Zak
But likewise.
00:17:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like he said, he wasn't sure. He hadn't been spoken to about Sunday yet. So it was the board thinking that we're going to have a manager in who's going to be ready to step in for Sunday.
00:17:20
Zak
i dont i didn't i I think that the problem is, is that the big fear that we had seems to be the case, which is they don't actually have a bit of a plan. and if but But the problem is, is their hand was forced. And if if if there's if to tonight is anything to go by, it was the correct decision. The only thing that I think a lot of people's arguments that are fair is maybe it should have happened earlier. And I understand why they wanted to give them the benefit of doubt.
00:17:49
Zak
But, you know, to tonight there just seemed to be a bit of more freedom and there seemed to be a bit more self confidence and belief. And we I watched what I would consider a full game of football.
00:18:01
Zak
know, even
Future Outlook and Closing Remarks
00:18:02
Zak
my wife sat down and watched with me and actually enjoyed some of the game. Whereas usually it's just an ongoing joke that we lose every time. And she was like, wow, you scored an actual goal and it was a good goal. And like that for me is a decent review of the game. Someone that doesn't watch football at all, who watched it, watched it tonight, sat with me and went, wow, I, you know, it it kept her attention for, I reckon about 50% of it, which is is significantly more than usual.
00:18:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
just just just the mood i've come home in i think speaks volumes like sure we've lost we're out of the cup
00:18:36
Zak
yeah
00:18:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
particularly care of the route of the carp.
00:18:40
Zak
No.
00:18:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, it saves me the money of going to the semi-final for just for us to get beat by someone else in over two legs probably.
00:18:42
Zak
That would be, yeah, £100 at that point.
00:18:50
Zak
I was just happy it wasn't a drop in, mate. That was what my big fear was.
00:18:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
I had
00:18:53
Zak
And I said anything, I said yesterday, anything that is not a dropping is a win. And the fact that I managed to predict it,
00:18:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
the entire section around me in stitches at 45 seconds because I went, well, already better than Sunday.
00:19:05
Zak
Yeah, thats that's the thing. the first The first thing, the first drive of the game was was to get it up. And we've just not seen that.
00:19:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:13
Zak
And obviously the fact that, you know, even the commentary mate was taking the mic out, the fact that every single time the ball was kicked out, it was getting actual cheers. Like this was an ironic cheering.
00:19:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:19:24
Zak
This was the ball is being driven forward. You know, you were looking at the stats for sort of halfway through the second half and like Liverpool had had one shot and one touch in our, you know,
00:19:35
Zak
that part of the game. And we'd had like two or three. It was nuts. And we will speak a little bit more. We'll look to what's coming next after a message from our partners at Global Sports Podcast Network.
00:19:50
Zak
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00:20:08
Zak
So yeah, ultimately off the back of it, it's it's positive and it turns out all we needed to do was not have a manager, apparently, to improve those results. and again that you know it might not be the same at the weekend um actual pressure of points and it not being sort of a cup that we're not as bothered by might change things we might have you know cameos a couple of cameos today as I said with Sugawara helped pretty much assist that first goal and he played really really well after coming on as well felt bad for Brie who's clearly just not had the minutes you know yeah Steve
00:20:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah well he took a knock as well was carrying something he went down injured in the for the start of the second half and then was surprised he wasn't going off then but stuck it out
00:20:50
Zak
But it's one of those one of those things, mate, where it's just, don't know, I think there was a catharsis cathartic release for the players and the fans and everyone that turned up. And, you know, the problem is, is that my worry is that there's Sports Republic guys, you know, you saw the the CEO and everybody was in attendance and it's one of those things where they were going to be patting themselves on the back saying it's the right decision. And it's like, that's great, but it's really, really what comes next. And obviously,
00:21:17
Zak
We play Fulham at the weekend, Fulham a team that has good form, are pretty much everything that we would have wanted to be as a team that came back down from the championship and back up despite our extremely long tenure in the Premier League beforehand.
00:21:32
Zak
ah ah you know it's That's going to be the the real test and the worry is we don't know who's going to be in
00:21:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
i
00:21:37
Zak
I struggled to keep up with who the next manager is going to be. Everyone keeps saying Danny Rolle and then we've had Carlos Córdaman Corbran.
00:21:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Danny Rowe, Call of School brand. e ah danish moy's name i'm not even going to attempt to pronounce
00:21:47
Zak
Yeah, but like that's the other but like like those are sort of the front runners, but they were also starting to see left field picks.
00:21:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
I saw thrown into the mix but I'm pretty sure he said no last time so I don't see why he would come in now.
00:21:53
Zak
you know I think everybody's calmed down on sort of the Moyes and Potter talk a little bit. I kind of realized that's not happening.
00:22:07
Zak
Depends how much money's on the table, but this is the thing. is is yeah it's the It's the what comes next. but As much as I consistently have a fear of the future and all humans have a fear of change.
00:22:18
Zak
Tonight was a positive. Tonight was a, there was a goal.
00:22:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I'm feeling positive.
00:22:23
Zak
There was movement. There were players who looked like they knew how to play football and players who weren't just most scared of playing a system that if they made an error would result in us losing because that is the mentality needs some work.
00:22:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:38
Zak
Maybe we'll have a coach that's a bit more.
00:22:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
then There's plenty of bits that need work. It is definitely, I mean, we still lost, but but there was forward progress and there's
00:22:46
Zak
I'm not bothered. Yeah, I am more...
00:22:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
And that's all we really want is we don't want to be shackled by a system. We just want some a little bit of dynamic in the team, a little bit more pragmatic, just a little bit more flex, a plan A and a plan B. don't think anyone's under any illusions. I think some games are going to be ugly. and You know, some games we might end up parking the bus a bit and playing that ugly football to write out a point. I don't think we want to see that every day.
00:23:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I don't think anyone's going to moan if occasionally that's what's necessary, right? We still want to have an identity of playing football. We're not going to stop. We saw it tonight. They were still passing it around the back and knocking it sideways a bit, but much less. And it was more meaningful when we did because it was actually recycling the ball to move it forward again, instead of just.
00:23:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Harwood Bellis and Yam Bednarek racking up the record for most passes when they're knocking a yard between each other, right? Like...
00:23:52
Zak
I was quite happy to see the possession stats, if I'm totally honest, because it showed we had we put a game in, because the possession stats were low, but the shots and the the on-targets were significantly higher.
00:23:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:03
Zak
And I just, as I said, it's...
00:24:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Wow, it says live for about 14 shots, I don't remember that.
00:24:06
Zak
it it Yeah, you've got to remember a couple of times, mate, they absolutely skied it.
00:24:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Or four of them on target, I guess that makes sense. we had look white look i mean look we're not the most statistically and analytical and driven podcast right but bearing in the mind we had well but bearing in mind we had probably half the possession we would normally expect to see in a game like this from us we were basically equal on touches inside the box like i think 14 might be one of our highest touches inside of the box of the season so
00:24:21
Zak
No. Well, you are.
00:24:43
Zak
yeah yeah as As I said, like for me,
00:24:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's crazy. is they It's just a difference in the approach and attitude that's really shown through. But that's what I was saying, right? Because to have been signed at this level, you know how to play a bit of ball.
00:24:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know how to play football. You don't just forget how to do that. Like, maybe pull off an attitude's the exception that proves that rule.
00:25:01
Zak
You look wrong.
00:25:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
But like,
00:25:05
Zak
i The problem is, with the problem it would be nice to see him score. When he scores, I'll feel a lot better because he was able to do it in the Turkish league.
00:25:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
I just never want to be told that he's the answer to all of our problems and scores goals wherever he goes ever again.
00:25:14
Zak
but who who Who cares if it means that the fans are slightly happier and it gets the atmosphere going?
00:25:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
He does look to be fair, give impact when he came on.
00:25:23
Zak
That's all that matters. Worth it.
00:25:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
And he made an interception. And the first thing he did was make a tackle off the press and run through on goal. And then he looked like a lost child. What do I do now?
00:25:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
like Yeah.
00:25:39
Zak
And that's when he would pass it to Archer if they played them together, where we keep getting messages on TikTok at all.
00:25:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
why we've been saying this so long.
00:25:46
Zak
It's so long. That that needs to happen somewhere. But we'll have to see. But like I guess where I want to end it today, mate, is that for once, there's not a pessimist and an optimist.
00:25:56
Zak
There's a a game of football happened. No one knew what to expect. The lineup for me was like, oh, that's not as exciting. But the game turned out to be much more so.
00:26:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:26:08
Zak
And I think lots of players stake their claim. Lots of players proved a bit more of their worth. And I know that we lost, but I don't feel devastated by it.
00:26:20
Zak
And I'm actually looking forward to the weekend.
00:26:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
The only downside I've got, mate, is that no one's going to be happy listening to this because we're happy.
00:26:28
Zak
yeah You're right, Misery does love company and Misery sells. But don't worry, it it gives you that sort of, you get to enjoy the, they're really happy.
00:26:38
Zak
When they get battered like 5-0 by Fulham on the weekend, bring them right back to Earth.
00:26:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, that's where poor naturally is going to admit the commentator's curse and score a hat trick.
00:26:45
Zak
And that is where we'll leave it, mate.
00:26:51
Zak
Rightio, well mate, thank you for joining me so late in the evening, especially driving home ah in the in the dark, but apparently you got home, you made quite good time.
00:26:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
pleasure
00:27:00
Zak
This isn't half as late as I expected to be recording.
00:27:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, no idea what happened. I just got in the car and there was no traffic in front of me. It was weird.
00:27:08
Zak
Madness. So thank you everybody for listening to all of our new listeners who have joined this journey. after the Russell Martin era you'll get hopefully you can get to know us and to all of our old listeners thank you so much for sticking around and listening to two mates banter about their football club a football club which here causes pain to severe pain to to support but then a couple of moments a year which are which are pure ecstasy and joy can find us on all the social media tick tock twitter blue sky
00:27:41
Zak
everywhere else. Let us know what you think of the game. Let us know how you think we're doing. we We really enjoy all of your feedback, and we appreciate all of you. And with that, we'll be back tomorrow with a crossover for the full game. Thank you very much, everyone. Goodbye.