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Episode 357: Matchday Preview: Doncaster away in the Cup!
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Southampton – The magic of the cup, who doesn't love it! Well, maybe us, let's see how the weekend goes! Can we get past struggling Doncaster?
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Podcast Introduction and Hosts' Updates
00:00:04
Speaker
This is the Daily Saints pod with Zach and Greg.
00:00:14
Speaker
Hello and welcome back to the Daily Saints pod.
00:00:18
Speaker
I am your host, Greg, and as always today, joined by my good friend, wonderful co-host who held the ship down fantastically whilst I was off yesterday, Zach.
00:00:28
Speaker
How you doing, mate?
00:00:29
Speaker
You alright?
00:00:29
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not too bad, mate.
00:00:31
Speaker
I'm all good, I'm all good.
00:00:33
Speaker
We actually had confirmation of one of the transfers I talked about yesterday, so that's interesting.
00:00:38
Speaker
New goalkeeper between the sticks, probably for this game, I'd imagine, but we'll talk about that more in a bit.
00:00:44
Speaker
So yeah, doing pretty well, mate.
00:00:44
Speaker
How are you feeling?
00:00:45
Speaker
You seem to have had a remarkable turnaround for usually, like, I'll get knocked out by like a week by Manflame.
00:00:53
Speaker
Look, lots of orange juice and lots of cold and flu tablets, and I'm feeling all right.
00:00:59
Speaker
I'm on the mend, for
Mixed Feelings on the FA Cup
00:01:01
Speaker
sure.
00:01:01
Speaker
So, looking forward to some cup magic, mate.
00:01:04
Speaker
Who doesn't love the FA Cup?
00:01:05
Speaker
Although... No, him!
00:01:09
Speaker
It's got to be said that it's definitely easier to care less about the Cup in a championship season than you do in a season in the Prem, right?
00:01:17
Speaker
Yeah.
00:01:18
Speaker
Yes and no.
00:01:19
Speaker
I felt like that would be if we felt like we were in contention for promotion.
00:01:26
Speaker
I don't really know how I feel about that anymore.
00:01:29
Speaker
So maybe a cup run would be nice, but we've had this discussion more than a few times before in the past, right, about what our opinions are on the FA Cup and things.
00:01:38
Speaker
It's a lovely... I feel like it would be lovely.
00:01:42
Speaker
I just don't know if we're really going to get far in it.
00:01:46
Speaker
And let's face it, we're going to end up at some point, for some reason, playing Liverpool and they're going to beat us because that's just how it works.
00:01:52
Speaker
But that's if we get past this game.
00:01:53
Speaker
We do need to get past this game first.
00:01:55
Speaker
Yeah, that's very true.
00:01:56
Speaker
50 years this year since we famously won the FA Cup.
00:02:03
Speaker
Yeah.
00:02:03
Speaker
Before your or my lifetime, but you know, football loves the gentleman, right?
00:02:07
Speaker
Maybe that's a sign or an omen.
00:02:09
Speaker
I do have my granddad's cup somewhere.
00:02:12
Speaker
I didn't, I should have prepped it, but I forgot.
00:02:14
Speaker
But he's, I've got the FA not winning, like mug from, from years gone by.
00:02:20
Speaker
Alas.
Upcoming Match Against Doncaster Rovers
00:02:22
Speaker
It'd be an interesting game coming up against Doncaster Rovers, a team who, you know, we don't play very often.
00:02:30
Speaker
Only four times since 2008 have we played them.
00:02:34
Speaker
So, you know, before we came in the year, what, 2012?
00:02:39
Speaker
Yeah, 2012, 24th of March, we played them in the league championship.
00:02:44
Speaker
So, it would have been, yeah, two goals from Billy Sharp.
00:02:48
Speaker
And it was prime promotion squad back then, right?
00:02:51
Speaker
You know, you've got like, you say Font, Lallana, Lambert, Schneidlin.
00:02:57
Speaker
Kind of crazy.
00:02:57
Speaker
Kind of crazy to think back to how, like, Schneidlin eventually ended up playing for Manchester United, which is just a bit weird.
00:03:06
Speaker
I mean, that's not the claim to glory or fame it used to be these days.
00:03:10
Speaker
No, but I think for the time it probably was, if you remember rightly.
00:03:15
Speaker
You know, it was a weird time, but yeah.
00:03:19
Speaker
We haven't really historically played them a lot, but heading into the game, they seem to actually have worse form than us.
00:03:26
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, five losses and a draw is what's visible to me on the form table, mate.
00:03:33
Speaker
It's not really reading.
00:03:34
Speaker
Yeah, five losses and a draw, and two of those losses are by five goals, four goals.
00:03:39
Speaker
Or like, you know, 4-3, 5-1, like 4-2.
00:03:41
Speaker
That's not a good timeout.
00:03:47
Speaker
This is where it's important, right?
00:03:49
Speaker
Because second from bottom in the league below us, you don't want to write any team off, but surely we should be absolutely... I mean, even if we have a full rotation game and put out a second or third XI, we should have enough in our squad to be putting them away.
00:04:10
Speaker
Yeah, you'd think that.
00:04:11
Speaker
Do you remember when the United lost to Grimsby?
00:04:12
Speaker
LAUGHTER
00:04:15
Speaker
Do you remember when we leave?
00:04:17
Speaker
We lost to Grimsby.
00:04:18
Speaker
I swear we lost to Grimsby, right?
00:04:19
Speaker
Yes.
00:04:20
Speaker
That's that whole contract.
00:04:20
Speaker
That's your other fish.
00:04:21
Speaker
That's what I remember more than anything else.
00:04:23
Speaker
Yeah, we banned their haddocks, but then we let them in in the end.
00:04:26
Speaker
They're harrowed haddocks.
00:04:28
Speaker
We gave them back their power.
00:04:29
Speaker
That's the problem.
00:04:31
Speaker
But yeah, you're right.
00:04:32
Speaker
We should be putting this team to bed, especially where their form says otherwise.
00:04:37
Speaker
I just worry about where everyone is mentally at the moment.
Team Strategy: New Players and Lineup Decisions
00:04:41
Speaker
Like, hopefully it will prove that actually, because we've had instances this season where we're like, oh, it turns out we're actually better than we are.
00:04:48
Speaker
And again, I think, to be honest, those couple of wins we got in a row, we were almost overperforming.
00:04:55
Speaker
What is it?
00:04:55
Speaker
We're supposedly underperforming a lot of the time according to the metrics of where we should be and what we should be doing.
00:05:05
Speaker
But again, the reality of the situation is that we seem to just be at the moment quite a mid-table side.
00:05:11
Speaker
And I don't know if a goalkeeper strengthening the squad is going to fix everything.
00:05:17
Speaker
I'd like to see if we... It's a start, though, right?
00:05:19
Speaker
You know what I mean?
00:05:21
Speaker
That's what's fascinating about this game, for me, will be to see how Tonda approaches it.
00:05:30
Speaker
Because...
00:05:32
Speaker
It really could range anywhere from we need the confidence of a win back in the team.
00:05:38
Speaker
I'm going to play most of our strong players to who cares about the FA Cup?
00:05:45
Speaker
I'm going to play all of the kids and some fringe players and it doesn't really matter if we lose because who cares about the cup?
00:05:56
Speaker
And it really could go either of those ways, right?
00:05:59
Speaker
We haven't had a press conference yet.
00:06:02
Speaker
Lord knows Tonda loves a late presser.
00:06:04
Speaker
Yeah, well, probably that.
00:06:06
Speaker
It'll be one-word answers anyway most of the time.
00:06:08
Speaker
That's no disrespect.
00:06:09
Speaker
It's just how it is now, isn't it?
00:06:13
Speaker
I would say there's secret option C, which is they play the players that aren't fringe players, but the players that they probably want to sell.
00:06:24
Speaker
Is it going to be like when Russell Martin took over and we have that last Charlotte for players to...
00:06:31
Speaker
play in a game where the manager sees them as competent before deciding whether or not they want to get rid of them.
00:06:37
Speaker
You know, the last game we had for Gennepo, the last game we had for Bianco.
00:06:41
Speaker
Yeah, I just think we're at a different point of the season than that.
00:06:45
Speaker
I think that... Transfer windows open, mate.
00:06:48
Speaker
Yeah, but I just think that you're likely... I think that those decisions, you know, have been made.
00:06:55
Speaker
I think that you'll see Cam Bragg.
00:06:59
Speaker
I think that you'll probably see Williams.
00:07:04
Speaker
I think we'll probably see Matske.
00:07:07
Speaker
Yeah.
00:07:08
Speaker
You reckon there is literally just going to be a team of kids then and fringe players who don't think they're going to play a strong team?
00:07:14
Speaker
I think that you could argue that they're players that would be brought in as fringe players right close to the first team.
00:07:24
Speaker
And, you know, you could mix them in with, I mean, I would be surprised to see Fellows play and Sienza based on how much we've managed their minutes over the festive period.
00:07:35
Speaker
Oh, that worked out real well for us, didn't it?
00:07:38
Speaker
Yeah, exactly.
00:07:39
Speaker
This is exactly what I mean, right?
00:07:41
Speaker
Like, if we're worried about managing minutes and we've managed it up to this point, I don't know if chucking them in a game, you know, away at a League One ground where, you know, who knows what the conditions are going to be like.
00:07:55
Speaker
But, you know, it's a different world down there, isn't it, right?
00:07:59
Speaker
Like, it's not...
00:08:01
Speaker
But like your high, hybrid, turf, like, if a player's got a niggle that you're trying not to aggravate, sending them there to play is a risk, isn't it?
00:08:13
Speaker
Yeah, that's true.
00:08:15
Speaker
But I do think back to that game that, like, Ange Postacogli played at that ground and all the players sort of, like, you know, got all the stick thrown at them and
00:08:25
Speaker
you know, ultimately, they're the league below us.
00:08:28
Speaker
Like, you know, if we drop down, we'd have to play them every week.
00:08:31
Speaker
So, worrying about sort of, you know, you say that as well.
00:08:34
Speaker
Plus, like, we've had literally more than a few games this weekend called off for frozen pitches.
00:08:42
Speaker
Yeah.
00:08:42
Speaker
So I don't know, like, you know, with a little wet wipe of a frost cover that they managed to throw out or something, right?
00:08:50
Speaker
Yeah, something like that.
00:08:51
Speaker
But like listening to sort of the conditions that say like Siense has played in and some of the other players, you know, a lot of them have come up through sort of third, second leagues, you know, I just don't feel like that that's a reasonable argument.
00:09:04
Speaker
That's just me personally.
00:09:07
Speaker
So who do you think's lining up to start then?
00:09:10
Speaker
What's your predicted 11?
00:09:15
Speaker
Do we just go with who started the last game?
00:09:18
Speaker
I know it sounds risky, but at the same time to rebuild the confidence, right?
00:09:22
Speaker
That's the approach you'd take.
00:09:25
Speaker
Yeah, because I'd understand.
00:09:27
Speaker
Maybe we're swapping out Baz, because why else are we bringing in a goalkeeper if it's not to put him in the sticks, right?
00:09:33
Speaker
That's already kind of been decided.
00:09:35
Speaker
There's no need to discuss it anymore.
00:09:38
Speaker
Is a two-day turnaround enough for him to... I know it's different for a goalkeeper than it is for an outfield player, right?
00:09:45
Speaker
But two days is still a pretty tight turnaround.
00:09:48
Speaker
Do you think maybe this is just Baz's last game in goal?
00:09:51
Speaker
Or do you think because it's coming up against the lower league opposition, it's kind of the perfect bedded-in session?
00:09:58
Speaker
Yeah, of course it is.
00:09:59
Speaker
Because you should be
Match Predictions and Expectations
00:10:00
Speaker
able to, you know, arguably do better against a team that are an entire league below us.
00:10:05
Speaker
So...
00:10:06
Speaker
I would say that it's perfect opportunity to start him.
00:10:09
Speaker
And then for the rest, you'd keep the rest of the starting XI we've had because we said we played our strongest starting XI.
00:10:16
Speaker
We expected significantly more for Middlesbrough.
00:10:18
Speaker
I think that's another reason I'm so cross about it, right?
00:10:20
Speaker
Like the team that brought us such a short period of joy brought us absolute despair
00:10:27
Speaker
the other day, right?
00:10:29
Speaker
And so to be able to prove that actually, no guys, get back out there as the unit that played the previous time and absolutely smash them and blow them away and then go into...
00:10:42
Speaker
you know, the whole game after with the confidence that, you know, we had a really, really good win, regardless of whether or not it's against a languishing league one side.
00:10:49
Speaker
And yeah, that would kind of be my approach.
00:10:52
Speaker
But I know the reality of the situation is probably more likely where you're landing, which is, oh yeah, some of them are tired.
00:10:58
Speaker
They need some time off, et cetera, blah, blah, blah.
00:11:00
Speaker
So we're probably going to end up seeing a mix of, you're right, a fringe player, youth player, and maybe sort of bring on Adam Armstrong or Tienza like the 75th minute.
00:11:10
Speaker
Maybe Romelu gets to start properly.
00:11:12
Speaker
Like, you know, it's been a blow.
00:11:13
Speaker
Yeah, that'd be nice.
00:11:14
Speaker
Yeah.
00:11:15
Speaker
And, yeah, it's just a bit... I don't know.
00:11:19
Speaker
Like Joaquin Kaya-Sanders back now from Red Star as well.
00:11:23
Speaker
Maybe he gets in.
00:11:25
Speaker
Maybe he's seen T. Because, you know, once again, the defence is a point of contention.
00:11:31
Speaker
And we kind of let them get away with it when they weren't shipping as many goals.
00:11:35
Speaker
But now we've started to just revert back to this just shipping goals no matter what.
00:11:40
Speaker
I don't think that any of them should feel like their position is secure.
00:11:44
Speaker
especially with just how much we're conceding.
00:11:48
Speaker
So if we've got potentially new candidates to fill in those boots, just to see what they can do.
00:11:52
Speaker
But like, as I said, if I was in charge,
00:11:56
Speaker
I would put the same 11 out from last game, but switch out the goalkeeper.
00:12:00
Speaker
But I actually think that the reality of the situation is going to be what you've said.
00:12:06
Speaker
I think there's merit to both arguments.
00:12:09
Speaker
I can see arguments for both schools of thought.
00:12:13
Speaker
And like you say, the reality is we'll probably get a mix of the two.
00:12:17
Speaker
It's fascinating because after such a busy period of games, what was it, four games in 10 days, it's now this game and then another full week until the next game.
00:12:33
Speaker
So it's like treading the balance between what is resting for match fitness and what is suddenly this player's had two weeks off and they're rusty again.
00:12:42
Speaker
Like, what kind of line are you treading on that?
00:12:46
Speaker
I think that's just the problem with modern football anyway, right?
00:12:48
Speaker
Like, the idea that we've constantly got, like, this whole, like, managing Siena's minutes because he's not used to how many games he's playing, etc.
00:12:55
Speaker
And all that jazz is kind of like, well, it depends on how you're managing them because if it's managing them to try and get the best out of them, you've not managed to do that so far successfully.
00:13:07
Speaker
So maybe taking the risk and playing them and getting a dominant win and getting a morale-boosting victory would be really, really handy.
00:13:15
Speaker
And plus, like, no offense, but I think it's about time that they showed something to the travelling fans a little bit better, right?
00:13:21
Speaker
Like, you know, they gave out a pie and a...
00:13:25
Speaker
a pie in, I think it's like, what is it, a pie in a program?
00:13:28
Speaker
Yeah.
00:13:29
Speaker
To one took official.
00:13:30
Speaker
To be honest, considering they lost, considering none of the players even came over, Barcienza, not really, not really right in my opinion.
00:13:37
Speaker
But, yeah, I think it's about time they showed something and I think a dominant show of force against the team and getting a big victory would be, would be really morale boosting.
00:13:46
Speaker
But,
00:13:47
Speaker
I don't want to count my laurels because, you know, we watched the whole Grimmensby Man United thing play out.
00:13:54
Speaker
Sky was so desperate to use those clips as well.
00:13:57
Speaker
Like you could tell, like somebody tweeted out, like Sky had been sat on those clips of Amarin, like sat on his little tactics board, right?
00:14:04
Speaker
Yeah.
00:14:05
Speaker
And like, I don't want that to be a picture of Tonda and that be used when Tonda's fired and gets a corner post because I'm not saying that's going to happen, but let's face it, like we are at this point, the new Watford.
00:14:17
Speaker
So yeah, I'd much prefer to go out and get a dominant win, but I'm also very wary that we said, we should smash Oxford, and we got beaten by Oxford.
00:14:28
Speaker
And I think ever since then, I've just been very careful, Greg, about being like, yeah, we should just wreck those guys, right?
00:14:34
Speaker
And then just watching opposition Flans flood to our videos to be like, oh yeah!
00:14:42
Speaker
I mean, that's the thing, right?
00:14:44
Speaker
I mean, there's always a bit of cup magic sprinkled in and there's always an element of risk at this sort of time of the year with it all floating around.
00:14:52
Speaker
It's what people love the FA Cup for, right?
00:14:55
Speaker
It's these sort of crazy match-ups and crazy victories.
00:14:58
Speaker
Like you say, Doncaster, a team that got promoted to League One last season.
00:15:02
Speaker
So, you know, they're real surprised that they're sort of down and around struggling at the bottom of the table.
00:15:08
Speaker
So...
00:15:09
Speaker
You know, you think that last year this would be a Premier League versus League 2 fixture, and it kind of puts it in perspective of how important it is for us to decisively win.
00:15:21
Speaker
Otherwise, what are we doing?
00:15:23
Speaker
Even more so, mate, like, you remember how I used to make the jokes about Rotherham constantly, right?
00:15:27
Speaker
And it probably drew the ire of a Rotherham fan or two eventually.
00:15:32
Speaker
Rotherham are a place above Doncaster Rovers, but they are also in the relegation zone of League 1.
00:15:38
Speaker
Right?
00:15:38
Speaker
Like Huddersfield Town fourth in League One at the moment.
00:15:42
Speaker
They were once a Premier League outfit not too long ago.
00:15:44
Speaker
Same with Luton, Luton at mid-table.
00:15:46
Speaker
It's very... Yeah, it can be very... I don't want to walk into any sort of game anymore with a sense of superiority or arrogance.
00:15:56
Speaker
We haven't done that a lot, but we've tended to a little bit more this season, despite us prefacing most of this season, Greg, with the idea that, well, it's a championship, anyone can beat anyone.
00:16:08
Speaker
So yeah, I want to give credit where credit's due, but you're right, based on form, we should be putting them to bed.
00:16:14
Speaker
Based off of form.
00:16:17
Speaker
Yeah.
00:16:18
Speaker
But, yeah, I mean, look, that's it.
00:16:21
Speaker
Like I said, not a huge amount of history between the two sides.
00:16:25
Speaker
In fact, the data that I've got only goes back as far as 2008, in which there were four competitive fixtures against them.
00:16:35
Speaker
Two wins apiece.
00:16:38
Speaker
So...
00:16:40
Speaker
Yeah, that's... Well, in historical form back to 2012, it's like, at this point, what's the point?
00:16:49
Speaker
Right?
00:16:51
Speaker
There's just no wrong point of having a look, to be honest.
00:16:55
Speaker
I just can't believe how Adam Lallana is in a lot of those squads.
00:17:00
Speaker
Yep.
00:17:02
Speaker
Crazy.
00:17:02
Speaker
Look, their form at home this season is apparently average.
00:17:09
Speaker
which is the same as our away form, believe it or not, also average.
00:17:13
Speaker
So the line it goes with as an expected outcome is a 1-0 Saints win, which, I mean, that sums up tight to me, right?
00:17:27
Speaker
Yeah, that's a bit harrowing as well, considering we were putting teams to bed by a few goals in the first half, and now we're being predicted to win by a goal if we can manage that.
00:17:37
Speaker
Bar attacking woes, it's just... I know we've discussed this time and time again.
00:17:42
Speaker
I know maybe a match preview to Doncaster isn't the time and place for it, but it is difficult to try and figure out where all of a sudden everything just changed again, other than the fact that Tonda was made head coach,
00:17:57
Speaker
And that just seems to be kind of it.
00:18:00
Speaker
I don't know if it's all the players or what.
00:18:01
Speaker
And obviously I alluded yesterday to us talking about player power potentially next week and whether that has a say or not.
00:18:10
Speaker
So that'll also be interesting as to how the lineup, you know, are they going to be players that would expect to play regardless of it being an FA Cup game?
00:18:18
Speaker
It's not a thing we really cater to.
00:18:20
Speaker
We kind of think at the moment, oh, well, yeah, obviously the manager picks the team.
00:18:23
Speaker
I'm like, do they?
00:18:24
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:27
Speaker
I mean, that's the thing.
00:18:29
Speaker
We'll see, right?
00:18:30
Speaker
And we'll see what that line-up is.
00:18:31
Speaker
And I guess what's interesting is that if you do get those sort of fringe players in, you'd expect to see a bit of hunger and a bit of bite about the team.
00:18:40
Speaker
So maybe that's exactly what we need to get back to that sort of dynamic, nice attacking football that we all want to see.
00:18:49
Speaker
So, you know, maybe there is hope yet.
00:18:52
Speaker
It's just, it'll be...
00:18:54
Speaker
I think one of the most interesting points of the afternoon is definitely going to be the team sheets and how seriously it is or isn't taken.
00:19:03
Speaker
And I mean, yeah, who does and doesn't make the cut will be, this is going to be a really interesting one to see how it goes.
00:19:13
Speaker
All right, Zach.
00:19:14
Speaker
So AI says one nil.
00:19:16
Speaker
How are you feeling heading into the game?
00:19:18
Speaker
What do you think?
00:19:22
Speaker
I don't think I'm at a point where I can predict a loss to a team in the relegation zone of the league below us.
00:19:31
Speaker
I also don't think I can predict a 1-0 because that just seems like a joke.
00:19:36
Speaker
However, if they shove 11 men behind the ball, that could be predictable, considering how we've been so far this season trying to break down anything.
00:19:45
Speaker
But let's go with two.
00:19:46
Speaker
Let's go with 2-0.
00:19:48
Speaker
Let's go with a goal for Cam Bragg at some point and a goal for Rumeo at some point.
00:19:54
Speaker
I don't know if both will start.
00:19:56
Speaker
But as I said, even if the first 11 that I'd expect to start, I don't think that any of them will be ending the game.
00:20:04
Speaker
So let's have them being shipped off for someone else and a 2-0 win.
00:20:12
Speaker
There you go, Greg.
00:20:14
Speaker
Is that enough positivity since the horrific loss last weekend for you?
00:20:18
Speaker
Yeah, I like it.
00:20:19
Speaker
I like a nice 2-0 win.
00:20:22
Speaker
Almost comfortable, although nothing's really comfortable as a Saints fan, if we're being wholeheartedly honest.
00:20:27
Speaker
Right, what do I think?
00:20:28
Speaker
Well... 4-1.
00:20:32
Speaker
Let's...
00:20:39
Speaker
I don't know where it's come from.
00:20:40
Speaker
I think that... Are you saying our new keeper is going to concede on his first game against a League 1 opposition side?
00:20:47
Speaker
A League 1 relegation opposition side, which again, no disrespect, that's just the reality of where they are.
00:20:54
Speaker
I don't know entirely if our new goalkeeper is going to be in the squad in time anyway.
00:20:59
Speaker
And that said... So what you're saying is that Baz will go out conceding one last goal?
00:21:07
Speaker
But also, changing the keeper doesn't mean that we're not liable to a defensive mistake.
00:21:16
Speaker
It will be interesting to see how much of an effect it does have and whether or not people realise that maybe it's the defence.
00:21:24
Speaker
And then we go from having six defenders to needing 20 because all of them aren't doing what we want them to do.
00:21:30
Speaker
But I think we'll go 4-0 up fairly early on.
00:21:34
Speaker
There'll be four first-half goals.
00:21:36
Speaker
We'll come out aggressive and with this desire and hunger, and then we'll just take off the pedal in the second half and just lose concentration, and then there'll just be a really daft goal or maybe a moment of quality.
00:21:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:14
Speaker
Where all of a sudden you're like, I actually sit down and think for hours on end about what I actually think the problem is.
00:22:20
Speaker
And here's the problem.
00:22:21
Speaker
And here it is connected into one minute.
00:22:23
Speaker
Whereas the problem with the poor listeners with me is they get every single part of my thought process.
00:22:30
Speaker
splayed out over a 30 minute period you can have that focused and condensed thoughts all you want when it comes to the rest of the football but when it comes to scores I mean I've put bets on enough football games to know that thinking that long and hard about football scores never gets you the correct answer so
00:22:52
Speaker
Just got to go on for what's in the window, right?
00:22:54
Speaker
Like, just put it this way.
00:22:59
Speaker
I've never won super six.
00:23:00
Speaker
So how easy could it be?
00:23:05
Speaker
Oh, dear.
00:23:07
Speaker
Right.
00:23:08
Speaker
Look, that is just about all that we have got time for today.
00:23:12
Speaker
Thank you as ever, Zach, for joining me.
00:23:14
Speaker
Thank you, everyone for listening.
00:23:16
Speaker
Let's hope for some good cup magic this weekend and then a decent cup tie.
00:23:23
Speaker
for something to sink our teeth into in the next round and not another Liverpool away.
00:23:28
Speaker
Until then, though, let us know in the comments or the socials, how do you think it's going to go?
00:23:35
Speaker
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00:23:39
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00:24:00
Speaker
Regardless of what happens on Saturday, though, we will be back to talk about it, as always.
00:24:06
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Until then, I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and we'll see you then.
00:24:13
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