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Episode 451: END OF SEASON AWARDS! - Part 1!
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Southampton – As we head towards the end of our 25/26 season coverage, we finish on the high note of any season, the end of season awards! Plenty of categories to get through in this one! Do you agree with all of our picks? Let us know!
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Introduction
00:00:13
DailySaintsPod
Hello and welcome back to the Daily Saints pod. My name is Greg and as always today joined by my good friend, a wonderful co-host for episode 451, Zach. mate, you alright?
00:00:27
Zak
would see you, buddy. I've spent the entire day waking for an open breach engineer who eventually arrived. So we're recording a bit later than usual. But the good thing and the great thing is obviously he's from Middlesbrough. No matter what I do, I can't escape Spygate.
00:00:41
Zak
It's
00:00:42
DailySaintsPod
That's it, mate. But look, we've got most of the day without any like game-breaking or game-changing news or statements, which is nice.
00:00:50
Zak
been quite
Sponsorship Updates
00:00:51
Zak
pleasant, yeah, to able to just, you know, think.
00:00:51
DailySaintsPod
I did see that P&O came out and confirmed they're staying as front-of-shirt sponsors for next season. And my favourite comment on that was they've probably benefited from their boats floating on all the Middlesbrough tiers, which was nice.
00:00:58
Zak
Yep.
00:01:05
DailySaintsPod
Just a got lot of
00:01:11
Zak
some It's good. and I think long-term fan of the show, Josh from America, pointed out that I would probably be happy about that confirmation, and I am, because I think it was my my worry more like a lot of on a lot of it as well. It's just like the commercial impact the reputation damage does.
00:01:27
Zak
And if they're quite happy to just be like, cool, we don't care because we get plenty of people sign up for cruises from Southampton, then fine.
00:01:32
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:01:37
Zak
So be it. I guess, you know, we've already kind of got to the point now that it'll be what it'll be.
00:01:38
DailySaintsPod
Uh,
00:01:42
DailySaintsPod
You and I are both fairly cynical people and look at the world in a certain kind of way, mate. And you and I both know that for, in terms of brand awareness and those other nonsense statistics that come up from these sponsorships, there's no such thing as bad press, right? Like, oh no our sponsor has been all over national news for weeks.
00:02:09
DailySaintsPod
Crazy. Um, Crazy.
00:02:13
DailySaintsPod
a
00:02:13
Zak
True. True. Like, you know, you're right, we are. I am not cynical.
00:02:17
DailySaintsPod
but
00:02:18
Zak
LAUGHTER
00:02:21
DailySaintsPod
But look, let's let's get into what today's episode is
Inaugural Pod Awards
00:02:25
DailySaintsPod
all about. We promised that the this week was going to be us wrapping up the post-season stuff so that we, like Dragan, could look forward to July and and Build with the summer. And so it is time for the prestigious Daily Saints Pod Awards, the first edition. We've not done it before. We didn't do it last year. There was not a lot to cheer about last year. It did feel for a while there wouldn't be a lot to cheer about this year, but...
00:02:57
DailySaintsPod
Look, we can there was some good stuff to look back on. So we've got some some categories, some serious ones, some not so serious ones. I'm just going to go through it, give some names that we've nominated, and then Zach's to pick one, I'm going to pick one, and we're going to hash it out and debate it until we either agree or disagree, but it's no longer worth talking about. Yeah.
00:03:21
DailySaintsPod
And we'll roll with that I will say, Zach, that not all of my categories made the cut forra for these end-of-year awards. I did have to cut the the Spy Who Loved Me award for the best mid-game tactic change, which is unfortunate, really, isn't it? It's... sir
00:03:43
Zak
Anyway, you know.
00:03:47
DailySaintsPod
Look, that's going to set the tone for where we're at for a lot of these, right?
00:03:49
Zak
We're going to have to part with like a whole year of it.
00:03:50
DailySaintsPod
That's
00:03:54
Zak
I may as well start getting used to it now.
00:03:56
DailySaintsPod
that's it.
00:03:57
Zak
Oh, dear.
00:03:59
DailySaintsPod
Uh, so look, I, I don't know Where shall I start?
Debate: Safest Bet in Football
00:04:06
DailySaintsPod
Uh, Okay, let's go with the safest bet in football award.
00:04:13
DailySaintsPod
There have been many things across the season that we we say are are safe bets when it comes to Saints. And so we've we've narrowed it down to a few of them.
00:04:27
DailySaintsPod
and And what we think is is the real safest bet in football from the 25-26 season. so I've got Tom Fellows narrowly misses a clear-cut chance.
00:04:40
DailySaintsPod
Leo Sienza gets kicked. Daniel Peretz makes a world-class save. Harwood Bellis makes a peach cross-field pass to Manning.
00:04:52
DailySaintsPod
Shea Charles scores a worldie. Or Flynn Downs gets a booking. Okay.
00:04:58
Zak
Now, I know what yours is, but I'm also very aware of what mine is. And mine was the Tom Fellow's just never scoring because you've cursed him and he's never going to score as long as he's in a Saint shirt, mate, until you like know make up with whatever eldritch god that you've offended.
00:05:15
Zak
And that's just that, isn't it? Yeah.
00:05:19
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, you're right. you just You just made me think back. I was watching some of the talk sport stuff about us, as as I do tend to do, and there was a Saints fan who called in, outraged the prospect of us keeping Tondo because we as a club have St. Mary watching over us and watched Simon Jordan in particular physically recoil at that statement, which which was really funny to me. No. Yeah.
00:05:51
Zak
but it's one of those things that if you've got beliefs and live your life however the best way you want but I genuinely really don't think a lot of them are going to have a huge impact on the football field that's my personal belief but you know mean to be fair sometimes we're all kind of sitting there and to say a word or two.
00:06:08
Zak
I also kind truly believe that somewhere in the deep depths of Rhinophel, Cthulhu, or some sort of other eldritch being, doesn't want Tom Fellows to score because you kept banging on about it so much that, you know, that's just the way it is.
00:06:20
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:06:24
Zak
So...
00:06:27
DailySaintsPod
Look, my my obvious pick here is Flynn Downs gets booked. I still, I'd love to go back and do the calculation match on match, or if you put a pound on it every game, how much profit you'd be in by the end of the season, but it feels like genuinely, like the fact it still odds against is in itself just baffling to me. Yeah.
00:06:50
Zak
yeah I guess not enough people put it on. right like I think it's one of those things that yes, he has been able to keep level-headed when it's needed, right?
00:07:02
Zak
Like, to avoid a ban.
00:07:03
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:07:04
Zak
a another Another sort of ban.
00:07:07
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:07:08
Zak
So, like, it's one of those things where don't know that's the safest bet, whereas Tom Fellows has yet to register a gold mate. So... You know, who from a percentage point, like, you know, I have 100% success rate on Fellows never scoring a goal.
00:07:24
Zak
You don't have quite a 100% success rate on, you know, if I put a bet every game that Tom Fellows wouldn't score, who'd have more money?
00:07:27
DailySaintsPod
Wow.
00:07:32
DailySaintsPod
I don't think you're doing profit, right?
00:07:34
Zak
Who'd have more money, you know?
00:07:35
DailySaintsPod
But I still think me, because I don't think that's a bet. but
00:07:39
Zak
Look, now that polymarket exists, mate, you can bet on anything. No. We're not affiliated.
00:07:48
DailySaintsPod
But yeah, let hit us up. Yes. Yeah. All right. the I can't argue with it. I'll take it. Safe spent football.
00:07:57
DailySaintsPod
Tom Fellows to unfortunately miss a sitter. But you know what?
00:08:01
Zak
sorry.
00:08:02
DailySaintsPod
He makes up for it in assists.
00:08:05
Zak
That's fine. There you go. There you go. It's because you said specifically goals, mate. That's the problem.
00:08:09
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, that's it. Right. Next on my list, the main character award
Main Characters in Stories
00:08:19
Zak
Yeah.
00:08:20
DailySaintsPod
for a player that somehow finds themselves involved in in every story, no matter how outlandish or ridiculous.
00:08:33
DailySaintsPod
So the shortlist I made for this was Flynn Downs, who, let's face it, will be the first on the scene for any kind of altercation.
00:08:46
DailySaintsPod
Leo Sienza, who's shown a bit of that of himself too. And Shea Charles, who maybe not so much on the getting in trouble front, but does find himself captured on camera in certain moments in certain ways, should we say.
00:09:00
Zak
Not only that, like he I would also argue that he has been the main...
00:09:00
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:09:04
Zak
like If you're going do a, say, players a player, FIFA style, following a player this season, I also say said we should follow Jalert just because it would be fascinating.
00:09:19
Zak
However, you're talking about the main character, the one that scored the key most important goals, the most ridiculous goals, the goals that weren't meant to be goals, that sh** tells me.
00:09:19
DailySaintsPod
me Yeah.
00:09:25
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:09:28
DailySaintsPod
Only scores. Yeah.
00:09:31
Zak
I'm sorry.
00:09:33
DailySaintsPod
I agree with that.
00:09:37
DailySaintsPod
100%. think that that would be my pick because... I mean, if you only watched his goals from this season, even without the context of what they meant in games, you would already be blown away. Then when you take into account where and what they meant in games, I mean, maybe spoiler alerts for later, but goal of the season contender was a was sure a list, wasn't it? Like...
00:10:07
Zak
That's kind of my point. Like, yeah, as far as I know that a lot of people will go, oh, it's Leo Cienzo. I'm like, Leo's probably one of the most charismatic players.
00:10:19
Zak
If you are looking at the, you know, you're looking at the sort of, the the main character in the novel of this season. You know, come back from Sheffield Wednesday after being sent out on loan during the prem, absolutely loved and adored there as Bronwyn plays there, you know, and then he comes back in and then just has been there for the key moment after key moment after key moment. The goals that you're just like, how'd he score that?
00:10:44
Zak
And it sounds like sometimes unintentionally.
00:10:44
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:10:46
Zak
So, yeah.
00:10:47
DailySaintsPod
Well, yeah.
00:10:48
Zak
No chance. That's
00:10:49
DailySaintsPod
Uh, coined the, the new football phrase, which I look forward to seeing in the, uh, the Oxford dictionary next year when the words get added, right? A cross shot. It was a cross shot.
00:10:59
Zak
Yeah, crush that, right?
00:11:00
DailySaintsPod
Uh, oh
00:11:02
Zak
Go from cool to net.
00:11:02
DailySaintsPod
but but said with enough confidence that it's definitely a thing. Yeah, no, 100% agree.
00:11:08
Zak
Yeah. like
00:11:09
DailySaintsPod
In agreement. Shay Charles for me, main character energy, and long may it continue. Next up on my list, then, the Pub Debate Award. The most divisive
Most Divisive Player
00:11:22
DailySaintsPod
player. The the player who would would cause the the biggest debate in the pub about about their oh no about like how they're playing, whether they're playing well, their quality, there their ability. Shortlist for me, I've got Finnazaz, Wellington, or Tomfellows.
00:11:43
Zak
Oh, okay. Interesting. I went for Finna Zaz, and that mainly is due to the fact that we ourselves have had that debate the whole of the season, sometimes without really knowing why. Well, we're like, well, Zaz had a terrible game in this game that we lost with all of the other players that also didn't play well.
00:12:03
Zak
Or like, you know... oh, he did really well today. He managed to get goal. And they were like, hang on, he's our top goal scorer at one point during the season. We're like, wait, what is why is this? But it seems to be like the people have the most conversations around him.
00:12:19
Zak
And it seemed to be that case when he was at Borough as well. And I think that it just comes from, I think we've discussed this before, like, a level of stoicism that for some reason just invites criticism and people get mad. I don't really know what it is about him specifically, it seems to like roll people up when talking about it.
00:12:37
Zak
that That's my personal, all like, where is the others that you've mentioned? Like, you know, Wellington, I don't think really people have seen enough of him to think much about it.
00:12:48
Zak
So, yeah.
00:12:49
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, no, I agree. An honourable mention for someone I did write on one of the lists but didn't make it onto my final list in front of me. Gavin Bozzunu might have been in with a shout, but...
00:13:00
Zak
Yeah, because people get really get ready mad
00:13:04
Zak
and like Again, I think maybe I come across too much and defend somebody too much and maybe he's not as young as he used to be and that isn't as much of excuse any anymore. But I do also think just like the circumstances he's been throttled into haven't helped him.
00:13:18
Zak
But also the other problem is that we brought in a goalkeeper...
00:13:18
DailySaintsPod
none
00:13:22
Zak
you know number two or three at Bayern Munich then he started paying for us. We're like, oh, man, it's really weird to have like such a good goalkeeper. But I feel like if you sit in a pub with you know some people that follow the Irish national team, that's going to be an argument that you have if you say he's not very good.
00:13:40
DailySaintsPod
But yeah, no I'm in agreement with you. As as a somehow, even though joint top goal scorer for us this season, basically leading the way in assists,
00:13:52
DailySaintsPod
that that chat always seems to be there. And like I say, my theory on it is that he just plays that close to the edge that when it doesn't work, it looks rubbish. But But honestly, it's just speculation. Who who knows? It's a really strange one.
00:14:09
DailySaintsPod
Really odd. Right.
Miss of the Season Contenders
00:14:11
DailySaintsPod
Next on the list, the Miss of the Season.
00:14:18
DailySaintsPod
some some blinders in here, mate. We've watched them all all season. We could have just nominated the entire Swansea game, to be fair.
00:14:31
DailySaintsPod
that That would have been an option, right?
00:14:34
Zak
Yeah.
00:14:36
DailySaintsPod
but But we didn't. we didn't i' I've wrote some some more specific examples down. Uh, there was, yeah, Casper Yander before he, managed to bag his first goal when he somehow managed to hit both posts in one opportunity. Uh, Ross Stewart in the playoff semifinal second leg where, I mean, I was already in the air. I thought it was in how it went wide of the post. I do not know.
00:15:06
DailySaintsPod
Harwood Bellis hitting row double Z from distance, although I think we're already 4-0 up at that point, so maybe there's some forgiveness to be thrown his way. And I've written down Tom Fellows, take your pick. Maybe somewhat unfairly, but but there are a few that that spring to mind, tripping over his own feet and and such.
00:15:31
DailySaintsPod
So I don't know, mate, what do you think?
00:15:34
Zak
but i had I had the under-hitting both posts because it was just it was just so... For me, that was like the most memorable one because you're like, man, you managed to do everything apart from get in the goal, right? It's like when you see those like insane crossbar challenges and it was harder to...
00:15:51
Zak
hit the crossbar like don't know if there was ai anymore or what so i remember seeing a video of someone like off the top of wembley right and always try and get it in the goal and what actually did was hit the crossbar and you're like that's insane and that's kind of like you think of the a percentage inch of chance to hit both of the posts rather than anywhere in between and yeah it's hard to do so that's why that's mine
00:15:57
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:16:14
DailySaintsPod
I realise it's like opposite end of the pitch in regard to Saints stats, but do you think in terms of preventing us from scoring goals this season in particular, compared to stopping goals going in on net, do you think that the woodwork is a better statistical accuracy than Bazzini?
00:16:35
DailySaintsPod
LAUGHTER
00:16:36
Zak
play Play the line from like, stop, stop, he's already dead. Play the Simpsons reference, man. There's just no need.
00:16:45
DailySaintsPod
a
00:16:46
Zak
I don't know, maybe at this point.
00:16:47
DailySaintsPod
Look,
00:16:48
Zak
like
00:16:51
DailySaintsPod
I am 100% with you. Caspian are hitting both posts for me. fully encapsulates that period of the season in such a special way. Look, for a lot of these categories, I also asked my sister-in-law, asked my kids and and asked my wife for some of the answers. And I've picked out some of the highlights of their opinions to to share as honourable mentions in this. And my daughter, when asked about miss of the season, her first response was...
00:17:21
DailySaintsPod
wow, there's a lot. And her second response was, oh, when Laren missed from a corner. like, all right, in which game? She's like, I have no idea.
00:17:34
DailySaintsPod
so that really narrowed down for me.
00:17:36
DailySaintsPod
but
00:17:39
Zak
There's been a couple of misses that have been big and important, right?
00:17:42
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:17:43
Zak
It's just there have been some that are more memorable than others, some that are really important.
00:17:46
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:17:48
Zak
But sometimes you kind of forget because it all tends into one, right? Like any of the games that went really far into extra time that ended up just being draws, and you're like, oh, I thought you would hit it with the last sort of hit in the corner, and it just isn't isn't the way.
00:17:51
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:18:02
DailySaintsPod
Yeah. But that Yander one stands out like particularly because A, it was it was particularly sensational, but B, because with the context in the rest of the season of of how our season was going and what was happening, it was...
00:18:16
DailySaintsPod
It was like the b perfectly concise encapsulation of, oh, this is just never going to happen and no no one knows why. right,
00:18:31
DailySaintsPod
mate. A couple of more humorous ones, and maybe I'll finish on on one of the big serious ones for today before we head into part two.
00:18:39
Zak
okay
00:18:40
DailySaintsPod
So let's go with...
How Did He Do That Award
00:18:44
DailySaintsPod
the How Did He Do That Award for some accidental skill or or skill that may or may not have been intentional, but, but you know, looks looks good in the long run for sure. and So my nominations are...
00:19:08
DailySaintsPod
Matsuki scoring from the corner. Cameron Archer's assist for Shea Charles' goal against Oxford.
00:19:19
DailySaintsPod
And there was, cannot pinpoint which game it happened, but there was a moment where Manning got the ball stuck between his feet and managed to accidentally nutmeg the opposing player.
00:19:32
DailySaintsPod
And I remember that vividly. And so that's Y3. So what are your thoughts, what are your feelings on that?
00:19:38
Zak
I'm going to add one that's not a part of that at all. And that is, you're going be mad, but it's fine. It is Gavin Pizzunu assisting from from a corner against the Real Madrid under-21s to Tvrour, right?
00:19:52
Zak
Where his header bolted, hit the crossbar, and then Oli Kudle just like sort of tapped it in with a diving header off the bottom.
00:19:53
DailySaintsPod
Oh, man, that was mad. I love that.
00:20:01
Zak
But like, you know, for all the stick he got, he almost got a very good goal! LAUGHTER How did he do that? Because maybe at this point, do you just change his position and maybe we go it from there? or
00:20:13
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, I mean, that was a particularly special moment. I remember it was there. It was good. I enjoyed it. i
00:20:21
Zak
However, it's probably not bad if it's not on the list.
00:20:24
DailySaintsPod
it's not that one. No, it's it's not that one. For me, it's the Cameron Archer assist. Because... Because that will go down as as an assist of all time. And it was the worst misplaced pass I've ever seen.
00:20:44
Zak
Yeah. I mean, like, this is this is one of the reasons, not to bring it back to the the forbidden word that we're not going to utter but much more about, but, like, it is one of those things where you think, man, all of those moments that they all did, great we pulled off some crazy things to try and edge us closer to to getting promotion.
00:21:04
Zak
And now they're just going to fall into, like, memory of, you know, whatever.
00:21:11
DailySaintsPod
Indeed.
00:21:12
Zak
Oh, dear.
00:21:13
DailySaintsPod
Uh, Right, I think one more funny one and we'll wrap up on on our goal of the season today and we'll save all the the big procedures ones, the young player of the season, the player of the season and all of that stuff for for the next episode. But before we get to goal of the season, mate, let's go for the Never in Doubt Award for a game That was never in
Games That Slipped Away
00:21:42
DailySaintsPod
doubt. We were always going to come away with those points.
00:21:47
DailySaintsPod
Surely. that's That's the the the criteria. So the the games for me, Leicester away, of course, 4-3 win.
00:21:58
DailySaintsPod
Never in doubt. Wrexham at home, opening day of the season. which of course was the 2-1 win with the Jack Stephens very last minute winner.
00:22:14
DailySaintsPod
I've got West Brom at home,
00:22:17
Zak
Thank you.
00:22:17
DailySaintsPod
which which we won three two very late on. West Brom away, where we salvaged the equaliser right at the end.
00:22:27
DailySaintsPod
And Swansea at home. where, of course, it was all wrapped up. Was it? It was never a doubt. It finished nil-nil.
00:22:41
DailySaintsPod
You tell me. Thoughts, mate?
00:22:44
Zak
Mate, when you for you create history in a game where at halftime, was gearing up for a very, very different podcast.
00:22:56
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:22:56
Zak
And then I had to deal with the fact that we scored...
00:22:57
DailySaintsPod
You're going for Swamsy as well, yeah? Hmm.
00:23:02
Zak
Then I had to deal with the fact that we scored four goals and won and came back in something that, you know, I don't think even would be capable of most people's playthroughs of any, like, you know, thousands of simulated games in Football Manager, right?
00:23:06
DailySaintsPod
yeah
00:23:18
Zak
And that was where whatever belief went through this team, you say what you want about everything else. But from the team perspective, like, I don't think there's any amount of putting
00:23:33
Zak
somebody's head like what they did, right? That that was pulling back. That was like a comeback for the ages. I'm pretty sure we created history at that moment. And yeah, and I feel like if that's one of the... Like, Freedom Dad, we just assumed we'd had the game lost.
00:23:49
Zak
Leicester assumed they'd had it won. Wouldn't be surprised if they had people going around the concourse trying to sell the 9-0 DVDs. And like, I genuinely think, by the way, that is like, that was the start of the end of Leicester's season.
00:24:02
Zak
Like, I think that they might have been able to push on if they won there.
00:24:03
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:24:05
Zak
And, you know, maybe we would have beaten them in the cup, but that didn't really matter to them and also us, really, at that point. Bear in mind, we played, you know, a lot of youth players towards the end of that game against them at home.
00:24:16
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:24:16
Zak
But after that, they just seemed to, you know, we put them on like a losing run for a while. And, like, I get it because, you know, they were 3-0 up. Of course they're going win. so yeah, that that for me is, that that if you want the Nether in Doubt award, mate,
00:24:31
Zak
the the game where I 100% threw out my notes from the first half because what was the point? Like...
00:24:39
DailySaintsPod
but Yeah. Yeah. I'm in full agreement. And if we're being entirely honest, as much as this is a very, very Saint style award, that was always going to be the game for it, right?
00:24:53
DailySaintsPod
the The most ridiculous comeback in our club's history. And... just Just ridiculous. Nobody nobody predicted that. And it was fantastic. Right, mate. Let's wrap up
Goal of the Season Deliberation
00:25:07
DailySaintsPod
on a big one. Big, serious one. Proper prestige involved.
00:25:13
DailySaintsPod
Unfortunately, don't think there's going to be a lot of debate. Goal of the season. So my shortlist for this was Shea Charles versus Leicester.
00:25:26
DailySaintsPod
Shea Charles versus Arsenal in the FA Cup. Shea Charles versus Oxford. And Finnazaz against Man City.
00:25:35
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:25:35
Zak
Yeah, just take your pick, innit, really? Any goal that Shea Childs has scored, right?
00:25:38
DailySaintsPod
Hmm.
00:25:41
Zak
Finizaz versus City was great, but it's one of those things where... i don't know if this just doesn't feel as special because they that we lost that game. Also, I think because neither me or you were there.
00:25:41
DailySaintsPod
yeah
00:25:52
Zak
I reckon if you were there, probably would have meant a lot more and probably, you know...
00:25:53
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, I think that one's I suspect that one might get another shout-out in our Moment of the Year Award, or maybe in our Seven Minutes of the Year Award with that bit of belief that was created.
00:26:01
Zak
Yeah.
00:26:05
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:26:07
Zak
Ultimately, like we've we've backed and forth because it's obviously Oxford. It's the goal against Oxford. Also, the goal against Leicester for me, we just didn't know.
00:26:14
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:26:19
Zak
didn't know that was going to happen. We didn't know it was coming. We didn't know. like Man, they can't believe it. We managed to get 4-3. I think like the weight of the reasoning behind it made that game so much more enjoyable.
00:26:32
DailySaintsPod
Mm-hmm.
00:26:33
Zak
But if you're looking objectively at the better goal, yeah, it's the one at Oxford. It's ridiculous. LAUGHTER
00:26:43
DailySaintsPod
100% agreement, right? if if it were If it were a most important goal of the season, there are other arguments to be had, right? And and the turning point of our season that comes from that goal at Leicester and the importance of it in the context of just the game gives it that, but yeah, from sheer quality of goal.
00:27:04
DailySaintsPod
I mean, had the perfect seat in the stadium for that goal, and I still can't quite believe what I saw. I could watch the the replay from the 15 camera angles that we have put on social media and will time and time again because it was ridiculous. And shout out for the vision of Cam Archer to make that pass.
00:27:32
DailySaintsPod
a
00:27:33
Zak
Uh-huh.
00:27:36
DailySaintsPod
and What is it? Master Uguay says in Kung Fu Panda 8, there are no accidents.
00:27:45
DailySaintsPod
Truly words to live by. Uh...
00:27:48
Zak
Shortly, you also pointed out the other day, there's no such thing as a wrong opinion. Illimitized inform funds, right? Yeah. feel like if I went for anything other than that, that's how you'd feel about me.
00:28:01
DailySaintsPod
I will say that I asked both of my kids for their goal of the season without providing them any shortlist, which which led to a somewhat wild ride where obviously all of the games blur together for them at their quite young age, to be fair.
00:28:20
DailySaintsPod
My son said that his goal of the season was Matski scoring from a corner, He couldn't remember what game, and I could not particularly remember which game that happened in, but I do remember the goal.
00:28:36
DailySaintsPod
And my daughter said, Ryan Manning's free kick, not the one against Wrexham, one of the other ones where right in front of us, it just flew and curled top bins.
00:28:48
DailySaintsPod
So, yeah, hard to disagree with that.
00:28:48
Zak
Nice.
00:28:49
Zak
and he any he Yeah, there's quite a few of those as well.
00:28:52
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, yeah. Didn't narrow it down for me, but it was a fair opinion. Always nice to see the net ripple from a free kick. And, yeah, that was that. was that But that's part one, mate.
Conclusion and Next Episode Teaser
00:29:08
DailySaintsPod
Plenty more left to cover. did We did discuss pre-episode whether I thought this was going to be more than one episode or not. And, as always, should have aired on the side of caution.
00:29:19
Zak
It's very funny when you're like, hey, do you reckon we'll talk a lot about the things that happen with this club that we cover every single day?
00:29:26
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:29:26
Zak
Like, nah, mate, I don't actually think so. You're right. We're just going to go this is the award. This is why it's been given. Next one. Like, that's that's how it played out in your head, forgetting that, you know, it's not how we have conversations.
00:29:39
DailySaintsPod
So, you're right, that is on me. In fact, I still have no less than 12 categories to get through in tomorrow's episode. And of course, the the big ones, the prestigious ones as well, as some other light-hearted ones. But...
00:30:00
DailySaintsPod
Come back and join us tomorrow for that. Let us know on the socials, in the comments, your opinions. Did I miss anything from any of my lists? do you agree with our award picks? Let us know. We'd love to hear from you. We are Daily Saints Pod absolutely everywhere. X, Blue Sky, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, everywhere.
00:30:23
DailySaintsPod
Hit us up. Let us know. But until tomorrow when we're back with part two, everyone, have a wonderful day and we will see you then.
00:30:33
Zak
Thank you.