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Episode 74: Forecast Friday - It's MATCH DAY! Brighton vs Southampton preview.
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Southampton –It's Match Day!! And as we try and get excited for the Saints heading down the coast to the AmEx, we think about what our lineup may look like, what our injury list might mean, and what we think the score will be...
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Introduction and Match Day Excitement
00:00:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the Daily Southampton. It is Match Day. We're here with Match Day Preview. My name is Greg Elliott. I'm, as always, joined by my illustrious co-host, Zach How are you doing, Zach?
00:00:22
Zak
ah
00:00:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm getting hyped for tonight.
00:00:23
Zak
A combination of things. I should be in Bath today, but I am not because my wife is ill, so I'm sad. However, I have been cheered up at your attempt to start this podcast three times in a row by clicking that intro button in the wrong way many times.
00:00:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's right.
00:00:43
Zak
ah yeah So if anything, I am balanced out, which is which is good.
00:00:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
What matters is we are here now and that is...
00:00:50
Zak
But no, I'm really hoping the last time I had something really, really depressing happen to me before a game was just before the Everton game and we won.
00:00:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
really that but Let's be honest, that can't be less true than any other superstition going
00:00:59
Zak
so So maybe my misery is key to us winning, which I guess that's fine.
Fan Reactions to Manager Russell Martin
00:01:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
And some in our fan base, I'm sure, would argue that that can't be less important ah than any of Russell Martin's input. But but look, look we've we've we've had our press conference now.
00:01:19
Zak
but
00:01:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
We're all caught up. ah Russell Martin's happy that he's had fans stop him in the street and say they're behind the process. So ah that I don't know.
00:01:33
Zak
It's just, I feel like there's a time and a place.
00:01:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
It really feels a little bit it feels a little bit like he's heading to that same sort of dream land where Nathan Jones went and married a PE teacher is really sort of the direction it feels like it's heading. but
00:01:48
Zak
it's It's one of those things where for every fan that's willing to stop in the streets, they stop, it's across the process. There's probably also somebody somebody that's willing to drive past and scream at him. The difference is that most of the fans who will scream at him will actually live in Southampton and and he's jogging down the street in Winchester. So it's the two two different places. yeah it's it's It is what it is. like I think that he probably is starting to feel the pressure a bit now more so than previous because you know it's it's we we now need literally a record breaking season to be able to stay up.
Southampton's League Challenges
00:02:23
Zak
Considering the state of the league around us, we might actually achieve it.
00:02:26
Zak
um But it means that everyone needs to start losing, and we need to start winning.
00:02:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
that's the spirit but look I mean that doesn't tell the whole story we were we performed better against Liverpool than we saw Real Madrid perform against Liverpool so by proxy we're better than Real Madrid so
00:02:30
Zak
And it does not it does not bode well when you trust the process, and the process is four points.
00:02:47
Zak
So it's more about Real Madrid's current predicament, but there we are.
00:02:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's just a matter of time, mate. I'm telling you, our title winning charge is coming.
Performance Against Liverpool
00:02:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it it needs to. i So we all know that I like to prepare some stats for our previous episodes and go through some AI blurb. But actually, I didn't even get past the ah first snippet of the website that I normally use to ah to help concatenate my stats because it's the form banner.
00:03:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
and It's just all red. It's just just zero points per game, five losses. It's pretty sad. It's pretty upsetting. It really, really doesn't paint a ah glorious picture for us. but
00:03:36
Zak
I think if anything, mate, it's really starting to prove that how how how hot like the level of your delusions of.
00:03:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
here
00:03:42
Zak
ah But to be fair, I would rather live in La La Land at the moment than live in the bleak, the bleakness of whatever the heck is going on at Southampton at the moment, because it's started to start a great me more than it should.
00:03:58
Zak
I think it's it's hard. I can't usually at a point like this, if I'm being honest, I'll probably try and maybe take a take a step away from football for a little bit. We do a daily podcast on Southampton.
00:04:08
Zak
That is that is near impossible for me to do.
Need for Consistency and Upcoming Brighton Match
00:04:11
Zak
Spend well too much time on Twitter than I was previously, which that's an argument in its own sense.
00:04:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
and.
00:04:16
Zak
but yeah so it's they They need to do something. And yes, scoring two goals against Liverpool is great, but losing by three goals, it meant that it hurt just that little bit extra.
00:04:29
Zak
Yeah, we did a better job than for Edward and had shots on target. However, it looks like the striker we wanted to get in on loan. but Maybe you'd not be as good as, you know, everyone keeps giving him the Lord. It's for, but <unk>ud it's for sorry. But yeah, we'll just have to, we just have to hope for the best, I guess, and hope that the confidence taken from that performance is something that will take Brighton by surprise. We end up with an extra three points.
00:04:57
Zak
It won't move us anywhere, but like you need to start stringing some level of results together.
00:05:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's a start, right? it's this the We needed to feel how to win in the team and to sort of start that train rolling because it's going to run out of steam soon otherwise, and it's pretty upsetting.
Injury Updates and Lineup Challenges
00:05:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I guess let's get to some of the team news out of the the press conference. Adam Lallana, unsurprisingly, ah still in cryo freeze, unavailable for selection for the game.
00:05:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
I guess we talked briefly about maybe but we don't see much more of him this season, but is there hope that he sort of bounces back is supposedly out for three to four weeks?
00:05:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Can you see in three to four weeks in coming back to fit enough level?
00:05:44
Zak
And doing the same thing, do the same injury and then being out front an off for three to four weeks. Yeah, I can see that. um ah What even is it this time, is it? like is To be clear, it's not me like blaming or being cross with him about it. just He's really injury-prone and older than he used to be, and this is going to be a problem throughout the rest of his career by the sounds of it. And if if we're fine with that and we're fine with having him for 30, 40-minute cameos every couple of games, then whatever. But it's it's frustrating that he's considered such a key part and a key person and brings the players up around him. But yeah, we're going to see him so little during a time when we probably needed him most, right?
Brighton Game Expectations and Player Performance
00:06:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah and and the other injury news coming out that uh although he's gone for a scan poor hanachi's injury very minor should be involved today if not today definitely Wednesday so I mean that reads like someone who's not starting the game but I mean historically when we've seen Russell Knight and say this in press conferences what happens is they're not involved at all so I don't really know what to make from it
00:06:55
Zak
Yes, it's difficult. I understand it is crazy. It is crazy how how he lit up St Mary's and they're a couple of you know ah because of amazing bits of skill that could have gone either way realistically.
00:07:09
Zak
and But they they they played off and and you know I'm happy for for him. um So yeah, it would be interesting.
00:07:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
do you think yeah Do you think if Jack Stevens tried a no-look pass in that area of the field it would have been received as positively as it's gone down with him?
00:07:27
Zak
Do you feel like if Jack Stevens did a no-look pass it would have actually gone to one of our players?
00:07:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
well
00:07:34
Zak
Because I think that if it did, if it, if it did end up with one of our players, it would probably be as well received. But I think the fact that he was making his full sort of debut and it was against Liverpool made made a big difference. And by full debut, not but really, ah I feel like people forgot like how many, how many games he played for us beforehand before we shipped them off on loan. and And it you know that that has to stick in your mind a little bit, at least if you've paid attention to the last couple of years. But like I think it was just good. It was good to take some positives, right? Because I worry, if we do we do go buck that back down, which is a big possibility this this year, um you're going to have to look for like bright sparks and fun moments of the season right to be able to at least enjoy anything from it.
Reasons for Hope Despite Struggles
00:08:20
Zak
So the season we went down, it was like Lavia's performances, which
00:08:24
Zak
were pretty much the end of what we saw a Flappier in a Saint shirt, to be honest. But there were, you know, a couple of other bits and pieces and and like, you know, some some free kicks from Prowsy and stuff like that, that we can kind of be like, well, maybe it wasn't, the maybe all of the season wasn't terrible. And like watching Dippling and ah and ah a tall pool redemption arc are kind of things that I think you're having to latch onto if that we were doing significantly better.
00:08:51
Zak
And we lost, um we we had like, you know, 20, 40 points to the board or whatever already. and And then we played Liverpool and lost 3-2 and he did all of that. I think it would probably equally have been as exciting because no one would have expected it. But I also wonder, you know, how, how we would have, how all of that would have played out in the first place. It's just, other day I don't know. I still don't know if I'm completely sold on him being the answer to all of our problems. um However, he did a good case for trying to resolve those problems and being that answer.
00:09:20
Zak
in that last game. But now it's like, if he's out injured, I really, really worry that the entirety of the fan base is going to be like, well, now we've lost the best attacking threat we've had all season.
Russell Martin's Coaching Strategy Debate
00:09:31
Zak
It's going to be the worst thing since sliced bread, you know, and yet like
00:09:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah To be fair, I don't think he touched the ball in Liverpool's half. like from what I can recall of the game like it was exciting when he got on the ball but also he was the one dropping deep to try and which to me is just and another argument to play him alongside Cameron Archer and see what happens but what do you make of Russell Martin's comments in the press conference that a lot of getting him ready and getting him to do the things that he wants to do involved him doing less?
00:10:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
What does that mean?
00:10:04
Zak
It's a sound bite that will do the rounds as soon as people pick up on it, I think is what it actually means. I think it's one of those things that I don't know what what he's saying in these press conferences anymore, I don't know how much he means and what he thinks people are going to take from them. I genuinely don't know what it means because it's one of those things where He wants him to do less, but also we have a really sty ah like really particular part, like style of football.
00:10:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
There's a couple of like different ways my brain can take it and one is like Stop coming so deep to get the ball because you need to be the out option if you're gonna play it But that doesn't really match the style so it's it like Stop making so many progressive runs forward because we need to play the ball in our own half more because that also doesn't seem It's just it's such a strange thing to say
00:10:36
Zak
well
00:10:45
Zak
It doesn't make sense because that's not how you played him.
00:10:59
Zak
stop being a striker, stop running, stop. it's yeah There's a lot of, this is this is the problem. Maybe it's just, you know, this word's been taken out of context, which they definitely will be. But yeah, sometimes
00:11:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, maybe it's the same sort of thing that we see with big Les, right? Where he just tries to do one too many things with the ball and ends up over committing. Whereas what Russell wants is him to do one or two of those things and then move the ball on in a pass.
00:11:25
Zak
Yeah, maybe that is the case. So maybe it is, or maybe it is, you know, whatever coaching he was given elsewhere. But like, I think that it proves that pretty much anyone can fit in if they put the work in.
Predicted Lineup and Tactical Changes
00:11:36
Zak
This is why the whole like, let's bring on, but like hot chap argument is me like, well, you know, he put his head down, did the work and pressed enough. It is now on the side. And I feel like that needs to be the case for any of our players that are in that aren't really performing that well.
00:11:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, there's no way that if he was training as well as the perception is that he would play then he would be in the starting lineup because Paul is proof of that because let's face it Did we ever think we'd see him get a start this season?
00:11:50
Zak
There's there's a chance.
00:12:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I didn't Yeah But a fair play for him to get his head down and earn that spot and do something with it and uh
00:12:05
Zak
I thought you'd be gone before the start of September, mate. I was very surprised to still see him here come the end of the transfer window.
00:12:17
Zak
Agreed.
00:12:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know, maybe like you say, maybe that's the product spark that brings the rest of the team forward and take something from it. Anyway, ah we'll move on to our predicted lineups and revisit our score predictions from yesterday. ah But first, I've got a message from our partners at Zencaster. So here at the Global Sports Podcast Network, we spent a lot of time selecting our delivery platform. And Zencaster came out the clear winner with 4K video recording from your phone and AI editing that automatically removes all those ums and rs It's super easy to start a podcast that sounds great and is delivered efficiently. If you're ready to tell your story, check out the link in the show description to learn more about Zencaster. All right, let's ah let's get straight into it then. How do you see us lining up tonight?
00:13:05
Zak
ah but This isn't the problem. is it's It's basically impossible at this point because everything I think is going to happen doesn't. So Kyle Walker-Peters will play. there There's a guaranteed one for you. Taylor Harwood-Bellis will play. Another guarantee for you. Jack Stevens, regardless of positioning, will play also. ah I'm hoping that maybe we get Kyle in on the left and Seguar on the right. I do not know if he will be trusted.
00:13:34
Zak
after last week's problem so I would not be surprised if then we end up seeing Fraser at left back again but surely they would have learnt for the lesson that the Flynn down centre back thing isn't isn't okay and maybe we put in like wood or like an actual centre back but who knows yeah just
00:13:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, do you hope?
00:13:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Or just play a back four, please. Stop, stop it. It doesn't work. No one likes it.
Goalkeeper and Defensive Decisions
00:13:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
It doesn't. If you've got the players, fine.
00:14:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
We don't. We barely do with our full strength starting 11 and we don't have our full strength starting 11 at the moment. Just stop.
00:14:10
Zak
But where will we play Jack Stevens?
00:14:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
A centre back with Taylor Harbour Bellis and that's fine.
00:14:14
Zak
The crux of our team. ah ah it's like That sounds so mean, and maybe I am a little bit, but it's just annoying.
00:14:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah McCarthy stays in goal for you?
00:14:23
Zak
I i don't see him switching out to Lumley. He would have switched out to Lumley lots of times before.
00:14:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think that we saw think we saw on that fateful day when Brazilian injured himself in the warm-up how much faith Russell Martin has in Joe Lumley.
00:14:38
Zak
I have a feeling that Lumley is just there for vibes. like He seems to be a bit of a character off the field, and he seems to be in a lot of the social media videos.
00:14:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:14:46
Zak
He's always laughing and joking. And it's like, well, yeah, but like I'm not going to put you on the pitch ever, apart from for a game I don't care about.
00:14:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
okay
00:14:54
Zak
um And I don't know if that's that sounds disrespectful to the guy, but at the same time, I'm going off of what we have seen and demonstrated so far. So, OK, Ramsdale is still out.
00:15:06
Zak
prezun is's still out So then that leaves McCarthy as the only option unless we try something different and put Jack Stevens and go.
00:15:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Good work, wait.
00:15:13
Zak
Who knows? So that seems to be how the formation works.
00:15:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'll tell you what, that would be a bold decision, we'll call it that. ah Shoehorn Jack Stevens in, we've got a positioning goal.
Midfield and Attacking Strategies
00:15:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah Arebo starting for you?
00:15:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Arebo and Matty Fernandes alongside Flynn Downs in the middle?
00:15:30
Zak
I mean, yeah, I mean, love Lana out. That makes sense, right? Surely.
00:15:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think that that's the midfield three that we've had the most success with this season and looked the most comfortable. Is there a concern that we see Flynn Downs drop into that back five role and we start big layers as well?
00:15:50
Zak
the That would be upsetting because it was one of the causes of last week and Finn didn't look comfortable in that position. I just, I feel like it would be dumb but I could also see that happening.
00:16:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Alright, well, what about up top? ah Tyler Diblin's gotta be one of the first names on the sheet, right?
00:16:11
Zak
Yeah, Adam Armstrong scored and assisted. I wouldn't see him being shifted much either and if ah
00:16:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Archer back in the mix.
00:16:20
Zak
Yeah, I know actually so we have one other stroker that is Archer. so And there you go.
00:16:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Could you see, I mean, could you see him do something crazy and start, like, Diblin Armstrong and burn Diaz or something?
00:16:26
Zak
there's
00:16:35
Zak
i i ah I don't see that happening. I don't think that it's the title. This must be a game that they think that we could win better than against Liverpool, regardless of the fact that Brighton are very good opposition.
00:16:47
Zak
we we still you know thought if they were going to experiment with anything, it would be against Liverpool. And we kind of did, because he started to pull. I don't think that Diaz and that lot have done enough clearly. like If you're struggling to even get on the sub bench, and you're struggling to even get minutes as a sub, I doubt that you're going to be started. ah And at every time that he's done that in recent times with those sort of players, they've proven to sit off of, you know, they've, they've proven why they're on the bench or in some respects, why they're not even in the match they I don't, I don't, I don't see it being anything drastically exciting.
00:17:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:24
Zak
Um, you could just end up with Fraser at left back again, which would be weird and Flynn down to the weird center packs.
00:17:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
is it sticking is it sticking big lads up front like oh
00:17:47
Zak
Wasn't that...
00:17:50
Zak
i would Consider it a shooting practice mate, I wouldn't really be confident in that.
00:17:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
no you're right no you're right uh
00:17:56
Zak
You more than anyone else here mate has seen him shoot and it is not is not ideal. um I don't really know, like this is why I think that they tried something different with Paul, it worked for a little bit and we had a little bit of time.
00:18:09
Zak
We had no out-and-out, I say we had no out-and-out strike from the field, we had an Armstrong in the field. I just, I'm wondering if it's just that We're running out of ideas and we don't know who else to put in and that most of our threat has come from those players.
00:18:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
right
00:18:23
Zak
So why change hugely, you know, it's it's it's in my head. It's like, why change something if it's not broken? Well, it's kind of broken because it's not scoring, but also.
00:18:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:35
Zak
It's not scoring usually down to the fact that they aren't there are needing to drive forward. And ironically, having Ramstell out and having McCarthy at the back is what spent a lot of our time driving us up because we don't want to rely on Ramstell's distribution.
00:18:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Pushes us up a bit.
00:18:50
Zak
So yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if if if we don't see anything exciting.
00:18:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. You're right.
00:18:53
Zak
But also, um' um'm I've been pretty bad with predicting the lineups recently just because he has randomly done left field changes last minute,
Impact of Unexpected Player Selections
00:19:02
Zak
right? And and you know at the end of the day, i'm I'm not the manager. I do not see them in training. I do not know who is going to be in week in, week out. I know who I think should be. um But every time I think that, it's wrong. I'm still surprised that like Fraser got in over manning, realistically. Unless Manning's injured or hurt, maybe Fraser's considered to be a better left back. Who knows at this point? um But yeah, so I don't really know what we'll be able to do. like Brighton are going to be a tough opposition.
00:19:31
Zak
um you know they they ah the Brighton lads prediction was three nil right so that is bold be overconfident and then maybe we'll get someone out of it correct yeah
00:19:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, but maybe there's a case to be made that they're gonna look past us too and and we'll be overconfident. Let's just hope we make it an uncomfortable evening for them and do our best. That's really what we're hoping for.
Game Predictions and Historical Context
00:19:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, ah we'll move into a bit more in-depth thought about our score predictions, but first a message from our partners at the Global Sports Podcast Network.
00:20:07
Zak
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00:20:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay mate, so remind me and everyone at home what your prediction was for tomorrow for tonight's game.
00:20:34
Zak
Mine was the same as yours, mate, which was too old. And I say that because I can't see us keeping a clean sheet because we just can't seem to be able to do that at the moment. Unless all of a sudden all of those mistakes stop, we are probably going to concede a goal or two. However, I think we will be underestimated. And I think that that will result in us being able to get ah one or two goals away. And then Brighton will be frustrated that as far as they're concerned, they dropped two points. We'll be happy we got something out of a game we probably expected to get nothing up from.
00:21:02
Zak
and But we'll still probably be a bit miserable because all that will do is put us an extra point above you know our bottom place and having five points. So yeah, but so that's kind of where I'm at.
00:21:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
The stats kind of back us up on this in the last 12 Premier League meetings between the two teams.
00:21:13
Zak
like I just think.
00:21:19
Zak
sir
00:21:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah There have been three Southampton wins, three Brighton wins and six draws.
00:21:26
Zak
Yeah, there you go.
00:21:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah so ah you know it's in If history plays any part at all, which let's face it, it doesn't, ah it's you know it's as close as they come.
00:21:28
Zak
ah
00:21:38
Zak
It's always find it really weird. Like I i find those sorts of stats fun. Like, oh, how did that team? Because like when sometimes when you talk about teams, like when we talk about Liverpool and bits and pieces like that, the personnel over the like the last five years haven't changed drastically. Yet one of my favorite things to do whenever we have a crossover episode is look the last time we played this team, how many of our players are still here?
00:21:58
Zak
from that team. And it's usually like Kyle Walker Peters, Alex McCarthy joe a repo like on ventor reckon and That's about it.
00:22:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah, I'm bedding the rack. Yeah.
00:22:06
Zak
Everyone else is different.
00:22:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:07
Zak
Stevens was either not here on loan or not an even in the starting lineup. So, you know, it's very, I always find, because I got to take history of a grain of salt, right? Because, you know, history would have not put Man City losing the five or six games in a row.
00:22:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:21
Zak
But yeah, that's happening at the moment. It's a, it's been a wild season so far.
00:22:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:22:25
Zak
But with that, you know, again, if we go on a winning streak, we have like three or four games in a row, and the people around us start losing again, like, and that's that's that's the that's a mad thing, right?
00:22:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
pitch drastically changes. well
00:22:36
Zak
Like, that's why I guess this record breaking season thing, it does need to change soon, needs to change sooner rather than later. ah Whether or not it does, I don't know. But I feel like, why why not against Brighton?
00:22:48
Zak
Like, we we almost did it against Liverpool last week.
00:22:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, why not?
00:22:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right mate, you've gone to all where he goes coming from for us.
00:22:52
Zak
You know,
00:22:55
Zak
if If Armstrong's playing, I think Armstrong will potentially get a goal. And ah like always, I think that Taylor Harbour-Bellis will score from some sort of free-cake-all corner, because that seems to be where most of our goal for it comes from now is set pieces, which is funny, considering we're not very well known for our set pieces anymore.
00:23:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:23:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Well, I'm going to change my prediction. ah
00:23:20
Zak
Oh, here it is.
00:23:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
and look my
00:23:22
Zak
Here it is. The optimism's caught up with him.
00:23:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
and how that which That's it. Now with're ah we're getting closer to the game and I'm feeling it in my bones. I think tonight, tonight, I think it's going to be 4-2 to Saints.
00:23:34
Zak
Are you insane? Wow, how come mate?
00:23:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think that ah think that we go 1-0 up, then 2-1 down. and then Paul O'Hanachu makes a miracle recovery off the bench and scores a three-minute hat
00:23:50
Zak
And then Liverpool buy him for 75 million, right?
00:23:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right mate, I take it.
00:23:54
Zak
ah Good Lord. um
00:23:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
What a feeling.
00:24:00
Zak
Mate, whatever you're eating or drinking, there's got to be something in the water there.
00:24:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
but i'm feeling it i'm feeling that wind coming and i can't wait to sit and watch it and uh yeah watching this one from home so it's going to be uh making the most of that sky sport subscription at least mate it's worth yeah
00:24:05
Zak
ah Right.
00:24:16
Zak
oh be I'll be the same. I was very much looking forward to watching it in a pub and bath, but alas, I'm going to be here now. um So I guess I'll have to try and enjoy it. Yeah, at least at least this way. of be able to get some money out of my Sky Sports subscription that we barely ever get to use for Saints.
00:24:33
Zak
So who knows?
00:24:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
my Sky Sports subscription is gonna pay for itself this weekend because my kids are away. So, and the wife is also out.
00:24:39
Zak
Well, you enjoy that mate.
00:24:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
So we are gonna be on Sky Sports all weekend and nothing else.
00:24:44
Zak
yeah
00:24:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
That is, all right, well, look, that's the positivity that we are looking for to finish on.
00:24:48
Zak
Absolute dream.
00:24:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'd love to end the show on an optimistic note. So clip it up, 4-2, Saturday morning, we'll be going viral. ah Positivity we love to see.
00:24:59
Zak
Uh-huh.
00:25:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah
00:25:02
Zak
Good old delusions. I love whatever's in your water, Greg. I need to start coming over. Because good lord, mate.
00:25:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
but As always, zack thank you very much for joining me.
00:25:09
Zak
Wild.
00:25:12
Zak
Thank you very much, mate.
00:25:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you everyone for listening. ah We will be back on Monday, come rain or shine, ah but buzzing still from that 4-2 win. ah mark Mark my words and we look forward to covering that in depth with you then.