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Banana Skin Avoided, End of the Season Gauntlet and Prep for the Derby Game
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As Like Everyday Wale, Joe, Alex, and Dan are discussing the latest goings on at the Mighty Palace
In this Episode: Alex and Dan are relived for not stumbling against Southampton, which helped them get a little bit further away from the Dreaded Record. Discuss the Last Leg of the Season were Palace play Title Contenders and European Spot Chancers. Finally Previews and Score Predictions before the Big Derby game against Brighton.
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Introduction and Weekly Recap
00:00:06
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promise Hello and welcome to the Daily Palace podcast brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. I'm your host for this this particular episode, Dan Tanner, and I'm joined by fellow Palace enthusiast, Alex Wake. How are you doing, mate? How's your week been so far?
00:00:26
Alex
Yeah, it's been busy as usual, Dan. Broken up by a couple of Palace games, which I'm really pleased to have us back, especially after last week we were discussing how bad it is when Palace don't play.
Crystal Palace's Recent Games Analysis
00:00:39
Alex
But yeah, I'm sure as we all discussed, it's been an up and down week for us. But yeah, I'm sure it'll get on to that.
00:00:47
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Yes, mentioning yes has been a very, very much up and down week. Last weekend we were celebrating going to Wembley and yesterday we were kind of pleading with the gods not to have a banana skin result, which we will bring up in a moment. So the review of the Southampton game.
00:01:05
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Also have a look at the last leg of the season. which if you're a Palace fan, you probably don't know, but it's a bit of a gauntlet that we're going to have for the last few games and then add in at least one, maybe two trips to Wembley.
00:01:21
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So it's going to be interesting. And then one the last thing we're going to talk about is the main reason we're here doing this one. We have the Derby game on the weekend. So we are, as the as the Palace fans in this particular podcast group,
00:01:38
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This means more to us, a little bit more than it does, I think, to Joe and Wale. So you're going to get the the real Palace sort of view on the Brighton fixture. So well we'll hang on to that for a little while.
00:01:51
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but Just keep that keep that close. We're not going to go too far away. But first, we have to talk about that Southampton game.
Southampton Game In-Depth Discussion
00:01:58
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that oh That could have been way worse than...
00:02:03
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Oh, I'm just glad we avoided this banana skin of a result because I was talking to the Southampton guys for the crossover and they were very much that idea of this could be really bad for Palace at this point.
00:02:18
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We don't want to lose to Southampton. Just don't. I've got nothing against them, but just this season, you don't want to do it. So, i Alex, I'm... What did you make of the performance yesterday? And are you kind of relieved that it wasn't such a great disaster?
00:02:36
Alex
Yeah, i mean, a point is always all right in the Premier League, especially when you you concede first and come back to get it. It's always okay. But yeah, I think just we were saying before we came on, Dan, just like it's a proper Palace thing to do. Palace in sort of air quotes there is to do.
00:02:58
Alex
yeah It's just like,
00:03:00
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Definitely.
00:03:00
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The air quotes. Yeah.
00:03:01
Alex
yeah
00:03:02
Alex
but Very palace-y, yeah. and Yeah, it's just a very palace thing to do is go on a great winning streak and then draw to the bottom of the table side who were on track to get one of the worst ever points tallies in the Premier League.
00:03:19
Alex
Yeah. But if we were in a different situation where we had lost on Saturday to Fulham and then drawn to Southampton, I think the Palace fans might have been a bit more irritated than we are. But because we got such a big result against Fulham in the FA Cup on on Saturday,
00:03:38
Alex
It just sort of took a bit of the edge off drawing at
FA Cup vs Premier League Importance
00:03:41
Alex
Southampton. Like, I think personally, I would have been livid if we if we if we'd drawn that and lost to Fulham. I would have been really annoyed. But yeah, because we're in the FA Cup semi-final, it feels like that's kind of our...
00:03:55
Alex
you know it Well, it is the biggest game of our season. So all these Premier League results, like drawing at Southampton, it's like, all right, okay, it's another a point on the board kind of thing. It's not the end of the world.
00:04:05
Alex
It's better than a defeat, obviously. But yeah, i mean, the positives, there were some positives as well. Mateta had a few good chances in the game. He hit the bar as well, which was a great strike that was like dipping over the keeper.
00:04:19
Alex
And I think he thought he'd scored because he was like running off celebrating after he hit it.
00:04:24
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yeah I watched the highlights and I thought he scored as well and I already knew the result...
00:04:29
Alex
Yeah, I was celebrating. And then i was like, oh, wait, he didn't score. But yeah, that that was great. And then I think he was denied by like a really good save as well. little snapshot in the area.
00:04:40
Alex
So that was a proper positive was seeing him. And obviously Franca, who we've heard so much about, but very rarely seen at Palace, getting the winner. I think it'd be nice to see a bit more of him and see what he's about because I think he is a good has the potential to be a really good player, but we just haven't seen anything yet.
00:04:59
Alex
So hopefully in this last stretch of games, he'll get a bit of a run out. But yeah, just on the whole, we probably should have won last night, but I'm not massively disappointed with a draw. It's...
00:05:12
Alex
it's all right. You know, like I said, the Premier League now is sort of, we're mid-table, we're like 20 points above the relegation zone. We're like 18 points off the top four or whatever it is.
00:05:25
Alex
don't maybe 12 points, a bit closer, but we're not going to get through all these teams into Europe in the Premier League. So, It's just sort of like, you know, FA Cup is the one, man. Like, Premier League can fizzle out for all I care. We can draw 1-0 in every game for the rest of the season.
00:05:41
Alex
It's all about that Cup semi-final against Villa, mate. That's all it's all about.
00:05:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, just slightly hold your views on the the last stretch of the season because that's the next bit.
00:05:51
Alex
We've got plenty more, mate.
00:05:51
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so
00:05:54
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i think
00:05:54
Alex
It's fine.
00:05:54
Alex
It's all good.
00:05:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've got plenty more, yeah. But on very much, I'm slightly annoyed that we didn't get the win just because we were on such stuff of good form recently and we were all buzzing and especially watching Palace in the FA Cup game where we were just just so good.
00:06:02
Alex
Thank you.
00:06:11
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Even my sort of mates that aren't particularly like Palace fans, I've got one or two Liverpool fans that were saying, this is the best I've ever seen. i me Liverpool could play like this and they just be apps that you'd think that would be amazing. But Palace doing it, we were just so good.
00:06:26
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There wasn't any sort of light thing wrong with it or anything. But then you go the next game with Southampton and we just looked a little bit lackadaisical, a little bit like... A little bit like we were at the beginning of the season, not so totally clicking, not quite there. And it's just like, are we sure this is the same team?
00:06:45
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wi just It was just not just not there. And it's just kind of annoying sort of getting a draw against Southampton when so that they scored, what, I think in the 20-something minute.
00:06:57
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And it took us to the almost the last kick of the game. for Franco to get what I've just discovered with his first goal for the club. So we've got a new new but new Palace goal scorer.
00:07:10
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And yeah, as you're saying, i got a guy that's been touted to have sort of a bright future and being sort of well, he's a, I think, Brazilian wonder kid. So they're always good.
00:07:22
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So, well, most of the time.
00:07:25
Alex
Yeah.
00:07:28
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So yeah, it was just sort of slightly annoying that we didn't get the win. We should have sort of been a relatively comfortable too nil but no, we had to go and do our palace and make it difficult for ourselves.
00:07:42
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But at least we didn't lose, so we're still a little bit comfortable in that mid-table. But the so the ones behind us are a bit closer than I thought they were,
00:07:54
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so like We kind of need to sort of keep it going that little bit longer, get a couple of results in this next stint. But as you'll find out in a little while, that might be a little bit more difficult than we think.
00:08:07
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So on that, we'll take a quick break. Thank our sponsor. And then after the break, we're going to go and have a look at this fixture list that I keep talk going on about and doom and gloom and you you might agree you might disagree but we'll have a look at that in a minute
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00:09:07
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And we are back with the Daily Palace podcast brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. And well, and Alex is still here. He hasn't gone anywhere. He's still still willing to talk Palace.
00:09:21
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So now we're coming to the business end of the season. The last nine, eight, eight, nine games ago, depending on a scheduling. And, well, we just had essentially one of our easier fixtures in the last stint, come and go with Southampton.
Upcoming Fixture Challenges
00:09:40
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So just for context, this is our schedule for the next couple of weeks. Let me just find it again. There we go. Right. So as I know, we have Brighton next on, which we're going to talk about in a bit.
00:09:54
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Then we have City, Newcastle, Bournemouth, Arsenal. Sandwiched in between that is the if i the FA Cup semi-final.
00:10:08
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Then Forest, Spurs, Wolves and Liverpool. That is our last eight, nine games of the season.
00:10:19
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That is just nuts. We've got four of the so-called top six.
00:10:26
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I think it's eight of the top ten.
00:10:30
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It's just insane. We've got two of them are going for a title. Four or five of them are going for European spots. We could determine so many sort of clubs' din of destinies over the next but the next season in the next couple of weeks. It's just classic, yet again, another classic palatine of having a really nasty back end of the season where we just play the big clubs back to back.
00:10:56
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So, Alex, what are your kind of views and how what do you make of this gauntlet that we're going to be going through for the next few weeks?
00:11:05
Alex
Yes, a bit of a nightmare fixture list. You're absolutely right. just yeah like Quite a lot of those are away as well, I think. like Liverpool and City are definitely a away, and Newcastle.
00:11:17
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and Liverpool City Arsenal has been rescheduled because of the final.
00:11:22
Alex
Yeah.
00:11:22
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And I think it one or two more, but yeah, most of them are away.
00:11:25
Alex
yeah uh just that that always just makes it harder obviously especially places like the emirates were never good there we've got had a few good results that the etihad over the years and city are obviously off it at the moment so we could could have some joy there but it's the games like you know like the wolves and nottingham forest bournemouths like they kind of scare me more to be honest like We're never expected to get a result against like Liverpool, Man City, Arsenal, although we sometimes do.
00:11:55
Alex
But it's those games, especially Forest, who are like so good this season. They're just like Jose Mourinho's Chelsea, aren't they? There's a lot of 1-0s, a lot of clean sheets. They're just so difficult.
00:12:09
Alex
And then Wolves are getting better. Bournemouth are quite good. like yeah just They're all sort of tricky teams. They're you know we kind of expect this season especially like the ipswiches leicester's southampton's you know we've taken almost maximum points off of off of them and or like drawing at least or one a couple it's just yeah but those teams are like they're just tough man and it is difficult especially with that cup tie as well in between
00:12:39
Alex
which I think just knowing Glasner, he'll want to get as many points as he can and try and get to the FA Cup final and win the FA Cup. But I just sort of think like, you know, with that tough fixture list, maybe something's got to give.
00:12:54
Alex
I'm not saying like rotate the squad or anything, but, you know, I don't think we can play of the same intensity throughout all of this fixture list and try and get to the Cup final as well. I'm just not sure if that's realistic.
00:13:07
Alex
But yeah, I think he said in his press conference the other day that he wanted 30 points out of 30 before the Southampton game. So that's now 27 out of 27. We've already dropped two points.
00:13:20
Alex
So it's not realistic. But yeah, it's it's a tough end to the season for sure. But I think, you know, if we didn't have the FA Cup, we'd be like, OK, it's another mid-table probably. We're not going to get, you know, loads of points from those games.
00:13:35
Alex
But yeah, just having the FA Cup as like a buffer is quite nice. And I mean, yeah, like like I said earlier as well, we're on the 40 points now, which is like the magic number for survival.
00:13:47
Alex
and And just, yeah, it'd be nice to try and just finish as high as we can, really, lie and break out of that 15th to mould that we've been in for 10 years and try and go for a top half finish would be nice but yeah it's not it's not going to be an easy ride that's for sure with with those games coming up
00:14:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, sort of looking at that list earlier, sort very much the same idea of it's the ones around us I think are going to be the difficult ones. The Bournemouth, not Forest at the moment. It's just like, my God, they've got the cheat sheet. They've been safe scumming it like you would on Football Manager. disolve They don't get the result they want. They'll just start again.
00:14:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
They've got, yeah, some kind of magic is going on at Forest. They've gone from a team that was just survived relegation last year to now pushing for a a champions league spot what what happened this season seriously but that's a uh one for the uh english premier league boys to uh sort out not over here but yeah it's these mid the mid table team ones i think i've got a little bit more concerned oh yeah the same with you bournemouth uh newcastle could be a little bit interesting
00:14:37
Alex
Mm-hmm.
00:15:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Since we played them, they've gone on to strength to strength. Even to point, Brighton have got a really good run going. I think they've only lost one in the last five. Bournemouth might be a little bit easier if they're not having the greatest last five, seven games, something like that.
00:15:16
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so But it's just... It's not going to be fun when we're having to play the big clubs when they're pushing for extra points, all the points they can get. And...
00:15:28
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it's just not going to be fun because, yeah, we've got, we could decide the title depending on us of how certain result results go because both of the top two have to come to, are going to be playing us.
00:15:39
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So it could be theoretically, i think it's still a little bit out there, but could be playing at Anfield for the title and we could mess up either Arsenal or Liverpool's fans day, which is always fun.
00:15:52
Alex
We've done it before. We have history, so.
00:15:54
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Yeah. We have history with Liverpool. I bring up with my Liverpool fan mates all the time. It's just, when we were playing you guys, it's not until the end of the season. Oh, insert word here.
00:16:05
Alex
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, what is it?
00:16:07
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Oh,
00:16:07
Alex
Last game of the season, title decider, Palace at Home. That's like their worst nightmare.
00:16:11
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it's at home. Oh, yeah.
00:16:12
Alex
Yeah.
00:16:17
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So, yeah. But it hopefully we can sort of at least get a few points from these guys and kind of stay where we are. But we are closer to the but bottom end of the table than we are to the top.
00:16:31
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So there's a little bit of a gap. But yeah, with Man United and Spurs are only, I think, two points, maybe three behind us. So we could get kind of dragged into that sort like 15th spot, which which were at the beginning of the season I would have taken, and the way we were playing.
00:16:51
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But After the last couple of weeks, i was kind of hoping to push up a little bit further before we did this gauntlet run. But c'est la vie, we've got a cup run. We're going to Wembley, so whatever.
Sponsor Break and Brighton Game Preview
00:17:05
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On that, I think we'll take another quick break to thank our provider here that allows us to do these podcasts more or less daily. And after that, we'll come back from the main event.
00:17:17
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00:17:46
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If you're ready to tell your story, check out the the link in the the show description to learn more about Zancaster. And we are back with the final bit of the Daily Palace podcast.
00:17:58
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I am still your host, Dan Tanner. And Alex is yet again still here. He's not missing this last bit of the yeah podcast. he's not He's not going anywhere. He's been wanting to do this all week. He's practically stretching. You can see it in his face.
00:18:11
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He's ready to go.
00:18:14
Alex
Oh, yeah, mate. I can't wait. can't wait to to get stuck into Brighton.
00:18:20
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you should be waiting in a couple of months to do this again haven't you so yeah
00:18:23
Alex
Always, mate. Whenever you see Brighton on the fixture list, it's straight in your mind, isn't it?
00:18:31
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so yeah we're gonna go straight into it then so uh alex what are your kind of like predictions key players sort of and kind of kind of a score prediction what do you think what do you want to go for
00:18:44
Alex
So like I was had a look earlier at team news and that kind of thing for this game. And Brighton, think, have like 10 players out injured.
00:18:55
Alex
Which, yeah, I mean, we're we're not too bad on the injury front right now.
00:18:55
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Ooh, I thought we were bad.
00:19:01
Alex
We've got a pretty good good squad available. But at first I was like, oh, do you know what? going to do my classic and go for draw. Like you said, Brighton are quite good, fairly good form.
00:19:13
Alex
And then I was just like, I'll have a quick look. And then, yeah, ten I think it's 10 players out. And I was like, oh, mate, this has got Palace win written all over it. like We're very good at the moment, obviously, bar the Southampton result.
00:19:28
Alex
And I think because we weren't so good against Southampton, Glasner will want a response against Brighton at home. like The crowd will be up for it. We've just beaten Fulham, got to the semi-final. There's going to be a buzz around.
00:19:40
Alex
Brighton has sort of like fizzled off a bit. I think they drawn well they got knocked out of the cup, didn't they? And then drew... I think they draw and then lost in the Premier League. So the they're sort of tailing off a bit. They've got all these injuries. I just think, yeah, we're going to do it on so on Saturday.
00:19:57
Alex
So I'm going to go for a 2-0 Palace. Mateta to get back on the score sheet. I reckon he's going to get back on it. And Nketiah, you know what? I like Nketiah scored, obviously, at Fulham.
00:20:09
Alex
And he had a shot last night that just went over the bar. And I was like, oh, I so badly wanted him to score, man. was like... He's such a good player and I think he's slowly like finding his confidence.
00:20:20
Alex
So I reckon he might get one off the bench. But yeah, Dan, I think we're going to do him, mate. We're going to do him at Sellers. 2-0 to the Palace.
00:20:29
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2-0 to the Palace, you're going to go that one, are you?
00:20:32
Alex
Yeah, unfortunately I'm not going, but yeah, there'll be a buzz around Sellers for this game for sure, man.
00:20:32
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as oh
00:20:37
Alex
Not just because it's the rivalry, but because of the FA Cup stuff. It's going to be buzzing, mate.
00:20:43
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Yeah, I tend to agree with you there, we are. but we're in Yeah, it's a mood I haven't had at Palace for quite a while. so've Just sort of that confidence of, we can take on anybody, that's but let's do it, basically.
00:20:58
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I'm maybe slightly less inclined to sort of a comfortable Palace win. I think it's going to be 2-1. i think they're probably, they're on decent enough form over the last six or seven games that they're not going to just, so it's not going to be a walkover.
00:21:14
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We're not just going to cruise past them. And Palace, as I've said many times, we take our time when it comes to going forward. It's going to be, yeah, the first 20 minutes or so is going to be sort of locking down, making sure that everybody is sort of where they're supposed to be and sort of, they've got their assignments.
00:21:31
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You know what you're doing guys. Let's soak some pressure for a bit. And then we'll just sort of couple of little jabs, see what they've got. So I'm probably going to go a to one.
00:21:42
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Just, I just don't think we're going to sort of, uh, keep a clean sheet on this one. It's kind of looking at of the palace, uh, without sort of Richards yesterday did look a little bit shaky.
00:21:56
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putting Nathaniel Klein in was a little bit of a gamble because I think me and Joe were talking about it literally yeah maybe an hour or two before the game happened and neither one of us would have picked Klein.
00:22:06
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I think both of us went, nope, I wouldn't have put him in. He'd be a 15, 20 minute at the end. No, he played most of the game and it's like, oh, okay. so But Richard should be back for this.
00:22:20
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So I'm a little bit, it might be a bit sort of more of a solid defensive but and outing. So that's our scores. You're going to go 2-0.
00:22:31
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I'm going to go And we'll, yeah, well we definitely want Palace to win, obviously. And that would be counterproductive if that was the case.
Episode Conclusion
00:22:40
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So on that, I think we will wrap it up there.
00:22:44
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Thank you, Alex, for sort of So just being here, it's always fun to talk to you about Palace. You're as passionate as Palace as I am about all of this stuff. You've been through the walls, you've been there, you've done that as well. So it's always fun.
00:23:00
Alex
yeah Always a pleasure, Dan. and Let's hope for a big win on on Saturday, hopefully.
00:23:05
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