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Daily Southampton: Episode 142: Matchday Review - JUST SAD against Chelsea
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Southampton – What can we say about that? Yet another heavy defeat, this time at the hands of Chelsea. Where do we go from here?
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The Daily Misery and Commendation of Fans
00:00:09
Zak
Hello and welcome to the Daily Southampton part of the Global Sports Podcast Network. We have yet to rename ourselves to the Daily Misery.
00:00:21
Zak
It's a working title because let's face it, currently watching Southampton Football Club play any sort of supposed quote-unquote football, it's only killing us all.
00:00:34
Zak
ah How do you feel, Greg, after this loss on a Tuesday, a couple of days after another loss? How many was that by? Four? Five?
00:00:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah
00:00:44
Zak
I'm losing track.
00:00:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's put years on me. Yeah. um ah Look, in an effort to not sound completely miserable, going to steal your your idea and your lines, Zach, and shout out r our away support.
00:01:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
because
Lineup Decisions and Management Critique
00:01:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because they were unbelievable. They were the only fans you could hear on the TV somehow. ah the The only thing that made me smile in the entirety of the second half was, we've got the ball.
00:01:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
um and we've lost the ball. there so anyone who, who paid good money to go up to Stanford bridge, uh, round of applause, fair play.
00:01:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Uh,
00:01:25
Zak
Yeah, bit big agree. it's it's It's insane what, as fans, we're having to part with at the moment, as it is. um Yeah, to be able to go and sit and sing throughout all of that, I guess is probably the only thing you can do to have fun.
00:01:41
Zak
But good good grief. I hope at the very least they came in Clapture. It's the the very least you will deserve. That's right. I guess, unfortunately, Greg, now we've shouted out the true heroes of Southampton Football Club, we're going to have to talk about the game.
00:02:00
Zak
And this
Midfield Performance and Player Analysis
00:02:00
Zak
is our second attempt at recording. Because the last one broke, which is great. This really sums up how the day's gone.
00:02:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it really cheed it really cheered us up.
00:02:10
Zak
Really. Rightio. So we will start at the start. And the start was something that me, you, and our compatriot Oscar, who was there tonight, um we're yet to hear from him. But I imagine he's had a whale of a time.
00:02:26
Zak
ah The first thing we we all noticed was the team sheet. Now, I understand we have a few injuries and there's a few centre-backs that are causing problems. If only we had some centre-backs that are light in the championship a light or something like that, um that that could have actually been in our squad.
00:02:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Or even three on the bench as a start.
00:02:46
Zak
Oh, yeah, yeah, know you know, who knows?
00:02:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
But no, instead instead of our big change that we were promised from Juric, we get one centre-back who's playing his second game in four days after not playing any games for 500.
00:03:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
um We play James Bree, who is a full-back by trade. ah and And our top goal scorer.
00:03:11
Zak
our top goalscorer and an attacking midfielder, Joe Aribo
00:03:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. yeah
00:03:15
Zak
um i I was reminded due to the Rangers situation recently with Clement going that, you know, he was in a European final at one point.
00:03:26
Zak
play and i
00:03:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:03:27
Zak
You wonder, yeah,
00:03:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
aus Yeah. Playing striker, by the way,
00:03:29
Zak
yeah you you wonder how, if if he thought that he made the right decision. don't...
00:03:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
And look, with with credit to Joe Aribo he he steps up to the mark when we play him at centre-back and does all right, but he's not a centre-back.
00:03:43
Zak
It's not centre back.
00:03:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
so So, what are we doing?
00:03:44
Zak
No. we
00:03:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've got three centre-backs on the bench, so if they're not fit to start, why are they on the bench? I
Defensive Strategy Concerns
00:03:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
understand they're probably not fit enough in 90 minutes, but there's three of them.
00:03:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Figure it out. Surely they can do half an hour each. Like,
00:04:00
Zak
Yeah, that's exactly where i'm at.
00:04:01
Zak
like looking Looking at our lineups, it's baed genuinely baffling. And like, Sagawa and Kyle Walker-Peters, sure. Fine.
00:04:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Sugawara is the the worst defensive fullback we have.
00:04:14
Zak
Yeah, I love the guy, but like...
00:04:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's fine. He's pretty good going forward. But defensively, shocking. that We didn't see any of that tonight, tonight to be clear. But in the past, we've seen that he can put a ball in and get on the end of a ball.
00:04:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then you move forward to the midfield.
00:04:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
And...
00:04:33
Zak
it's they're just They're just not good enough, mate.
00:04:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:04:37
Zak
We've got Big Les out, because obviously he's getting his parent club. But you've got Downs and Smallbone, and I'm sure we're going to get into the discussion about the both of them.
00:04:47
Zak
But this was Downs' redemption. Supposed to come back in after throwing his toys out the pram because doesn't get to play for Russell and go to Whipswitch and whatever. ah Clean slate when you step on the field and you're actually going to put the effort in.
00:05:00
Zak
And gave away a goal and did Downs things. And it's just the same script every game.
00:05:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. It wasn't through lack of effort, to be clear. He did put effort in, but also he was poor. he He kept passing it to Chelsea players.
00:05:16
Zak
Good sign.
00:05:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
hey Yeah, consistently. I think there were... I think it was four or five in a 10-minute period where he couldn't find a red ah yellow shirt. was just passing it
Manager Juric Under Fire
00:05:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
to any Chelsea player he fancied. It's just...
00:05:29
Zak
that
00:05:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
was madness. There was one right after the goal where he got lucky and we didn't concede again. It's just... It's just baffling. ah And Smallbone. Yeah.
00:05:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, i feel like we rag on Real Smallbone a lot on this podcast and I feel bad for it because I don't dislike Real Smallbone.
00:05:47
Zak
he's He's a nice guy. He's one of our own. He like he's scored pivotal goals in the championship. he's he say you know He's a my nice guy. He suffered probably more abuse than he should have when it was fair as well.
00:05:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely. Absolutely.
00:06:01
Zak
like Again, I've always said this before. We're always criticizing the footballing ability or stuff that's footballing. Never personal. It's weird when people do that. You don't know them.
00:06:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:10
Zak
um But like as ah as a footballer, he's just not.
00:06:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
But he's not a Premier League player. He didn't do that in 90 minutes tonight because I don't... he is He was just not there at all. How he gets 90 minutes is baffling. And then... And then, yeah you know, what's the point in Grombeck?
00:06:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
We brought him in, supposedly, to be this midfielder. And instead, we stick with 90 minutes of small bone and, and what, 78 minutes of downs before we whip him off and put a striker on.
00:06:34
Zak
i
00:06:38
Zak
I can't work out what or who made that transfer.
00:06:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, what are we doing?
00:06:42
Zak
Like, is it Juric's people? Is it some random scout that works for Sports Republic that said, oh, he looks like he wants some minutes. It'll be cheap.
Team Morale and Acceptance of Mediocrity
00:06:52
Zak
um Why do we keep, you know, it's a couple of, tras we already know that our transfer business is shocking and I'm hoping that will change going forward with Spores. I don't really actually have as much confidence that it will because at the end of the day, Sports Republic is slowly running us into the ground. And I know that I also put a ode to hope out there.
00:07:09
Zak
And I guess that's the best case scenario, right? Like it's my idea of the best case scenario of the fact that they do invest, they don't want to lose money out on their investment. But like, you cannot,
00:07:20
Zak
allow this to continue and you cannot randomly keep getting managers in that try and completely shift the way that we work and in regards to this one specifically i think the jury's out and like what one you know we'll talk about it after a a nicer positive message from our wonderful partners at bionique
00:08:25
Zak
And we're back. ah Yeah, so like thank you for this small interlude there where both me and Greg can take a breath and try to be less sad and mad. But I will unfortunately probably rile you up slightly more, Greg.
00:08:40
Zak
We've we've just asked this question a couple of times. um we've we've We've always stayed a little bit ambiguous when it comes to the managers because, you know, you just want to see how it goes. With Juric, it's not going great.
00:08:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't see how he can...
00:08:54
Zak
What's it, Greg?
00:08:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
don't see what he has as a defence now. He came out after the last game and said something needs to change. Now he's the something that needs to change because what we did was exactly the same thing. We played a a system that clearly doesn't work.
00:09:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah We get trodden over in midfield. 100% of the time, even when we actually play midfielders. Our defence is non-existent because we don't play defenders.
00:09:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah And poor Ramsdale's left out to dry to, you know, stop it being an absolute hammering. Well, mean, even 4-0 is a hammering. But with without Ramsdale in goal, it's what, 7-8?
00:09:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
eight
00:09:40
Zak
but That's the upsetting thing. is We've accepted the 4-0 isn't really a hammer
Tactical Failures and System Issues
00:09:43
Zak
anymore. We accept.
00:09:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:09:45
Zak
We've got to a point now where the mediocrity of this football club is just... it's it's not It's beyond embarrassing. like We have to be self-deprecating to get through the day.
00:09:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
but But the real really upsetting part of it is not even the loss.
00:09:54
Zak
like I get it, but
00:09:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, should we go to Stamford Bridge and expect to get anything? No. Do we expect to lose? Yes. With you know our form and the clear quality in our team, do we expect to lose pretty heavily?
00:10:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, probably. Do we expect to just give up at 45 minutes? Or not even that, 26 minutes when the first goal goes in? No. And that's what we did. We just gave up.
00:10:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it's sad.
00:10:26
Zak
I've never seen... it the problem is it comes out of the... You're right, Shane falls the correct word because it it comes out of the the same playbook that we've seen all season regardless of manager.
00:10:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's shameful.
00:10:38
Zak
And it's that we go a goal down, confidence is shot despite the fact we were playing quite well. And then our reaction to that is everyone to start kind of just... sort of put in about 50%. And the thing is, with the type of football they where they want us to play, all the managers we've had, 50% effort ain't going to cut it.
00:10:54
Zak
And that's that that shows you that we've got put to the sword once again. And again, i mean we've not seen the post-match presser. We jumped straight in after the game to record it. I don't even if I want to.
00:11:05
Zak
I'm just going to hear the same old stories from across the board that we've heard time and time again. And I think I ah saw a good summary, I think he was in the Guardian or somebody, somebody doesn't even really follow Saints,
00:11:16
Zak
What is it like you know where teams aren't willing to accept or play ugly football anymore? Right? Like, we're the worst at that, right? Like, even under Puel, yeah, it was boring.
00:11:27
Zak
But it still finished, like, eighth or whatever. But yet, we're like, no, we need this attacking. We're not good enough for
Player Effort and Potential Exceptions
00:11:32
Zak
it. We're not good enough for the system Russell Martin's implemented. We're not good enough for what Juric wants to see. We've got about three or four players that probably put in 100% each game.
00:11:41
Zak
And even those, that like, that 100% when you're surrounded by people that aren't. And then also, I reckon there are players that are trying that just aren't good enough for the Premier League. um' I'm really sorry, but like you can't say that you are and and then be going down in history currently as the worst team in Premier League history.
00:11:59
Zak
That is what they will go down as unless they put the fight in.
00:12:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
And deservedly so, frankly.
00:12:03
Zak
Yeah.
00:12:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Especially based off of just giving up tonight. It's really ah awful. Like, I think I can count on one hand the amount of players who continues to try tonight.
00:12:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
And that's the most upsetting part. ah You know, Aribo playing at centre-back, our top goal scorer for the season. gets into a position where he dribbles past five Chelsea players and ends up in a position where he's almost through goal but forced wide.
00:12:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
And there is no one in a 30-yard radius of him. Like, how? Why? just mad. just, yeah. ah ah just yeah
00:12:48
Zak
It's the basics, man. like they They keep speaking about it. It's going back to basics. Instead of trying to play weird ways that these like the experimental managers come in and chop and change and this, that, and the other. and like just It's just awful. like For me, that's kind of the nail in the coffin when it comes to Juric. I just don't ah just don't see it It's not working. i don't there's no It's almost like we've gone from...
00:13:12
Zak
ah the complete opposite, right? Like, it was like when we had Hasenhutl and he was really passionate and really said a lot, but didn't really a lot. And then we ended up having Jones, who was just like, you know, he's doing really well with Charlton because it's his level, but also he was just awful, vitriol, like the complete opposite.
00:13:31
Zak
And now we've gone from like Russell Martin, who quite personable, but was willing to die by his principles to now a man that was supposedly not as personable.
00:13:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:13:40
Zak
And that might just be the fact that, you know, He's not got those relationships with those players and it takes a while to establish that. And he is already doing better with some of them, but also supposedly isn't willing to, isn't going to like stick to specific principles and is going to try and play a certain way, but also is willing to adapt. And then we'll come out in a post-match conference and say, yeah, something needs to change.
00:14:04
Zak
get home and go, actually, no, we're going to do the same thing again. These players just need to play well enough. They haven't played well enough that all of your games so far, mate. What makes it you think it's going happen now?
00:14:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
but Not only are they not playing well enough, there's just no fight.
00:14:13
Zak
Baffling.
00:14:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
There's no way they're playing for him. You want to talk about losing the dressing room?
00:14:18
Zak
No.
00:14:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, it's ridiculous. ah No effort after the 26th minute.
00:14:23
Zak
You've got play play players, ah there are some players playing for them, right? Don't
Mid-Season Manager Replacement Debate
00:14:27
Zak
me wrong.
00:14:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:14:28
Zak
Salaman is one of them. thank thank And he's got the freedom to do that.
00:14:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:14:32
Zak
Paul, another one. But, again, not good enough.
00:14:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:14:36
Zak
But, like...
00:14:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't care about the motivation. Like, that's not...
00:14:41
Zak
Same.
00:14:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's a bit It's a bit of fight. It's a bit of something.
00:14:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, Suleymane today actually chased down players, closed down, didn't give up on the ball anywhere near as much as I've seen from him in the past. When he did get on the ball, took on the defender, more often than not beat the defender. and then But then what?
00:14:44
Zak
Hmm...
00:15:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Got one cross into Paul where Paul was actually in the right position. And then was so surprised that he'd managed to head it towards goal that he didn't follow up and chase the rebound. And one that pulled back to Manning.
00:15:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, if Manning is the player you've got most progressed in the team to be in a position to score, the system's wrong.
00:15:18
Zak
Oh, it's heroin.
00:15:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, it's just, what can you do? it's just, it's not working. ah is it even worth changing him before the end of the season?
00:15:37
Zak
iy probably No, probably not.
00:15:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Probably not, but that's miserable in itself because now is you have to suffer every game and, you know, shout out to the Saints fans that attended, but the chance at the end of battered again, a la ala really say it like
00:15:56
Zak
Oh, it kills you inside, doesn't it? Right. Let's, I guess, have our closing thoughts and a little bit more
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00:16:36
Zak
And we're back. So, yeah, obviously, as far as we're concerned, it's not, it's not Juric out, but it's absolutely zero faith in him. And by, by not Juric out, what I mean is that one, I think it's too expensive to what's the point at this rate.
00:16:50
Zak
I don't think we'll get, don't know. Maybe is it worth getting another manager, new manager bounce to get two or three draws. we just beat Derby's podcast, like the podcast Derby's points record. Do we, do we do that?
00:17:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah ah Honestly, ah just I don't even know, mate.
00:17:03
Zak
Can we afford to do that?
00:17:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
It just feels deserved oh this point.
00:17:10
Zak
and You're right.
00:17:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's horrible.
00:17:11
Zak
It's just the sad thing about it.
00:17:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
What is it, like 67 goals now we've conceded?
00:17:17
Zak
we are We have conceded the most in like top flight as i say top flight in all English leagues apart from Plymouth. That was the stat that appeared on the screen tonight. and I was like, oh you're you're right.
00:17:29
Zak
but again it's' It's like how we're not even considering 4-0 to be like a battering because it's just it just happens so often.
00:17:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
just That's just
Relegation Fears and Team's Future
00:17:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
every week. Frankly, four is probably better than it could have been. i Where do we go? I mean, we've got Liverpool next.
00:17:44
Zak
Oh, it's all right then.
00:17:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, they they could play their B team because they've got Champions League, you know, before us.
00:17:46
Zak
Chuck everyone behind the ball, don't bother. That's where I'm at. ah Try and keep them out.
00:17:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I just think their B team will still batter us.
00:17:58
Zak
Well, you had Chelsea sub 17-year-old today and 18-year-old debuted across the board.
00:17:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's just...
00:18:03
Zak
so This is the thing. It's like we're... there's there's There's nothing to give the faithful hope at the moment. And I can understand why. And like... yeah it's it's it's absolutely harrowing that like they seem to not know what their instructions are so they they wing it and they wing it badly a lot of them still wing it by trying to pass it back and that fails miserably the you know Rambo is great as a shot stopper i don't really understand why he's acting as captain when you know for a fact that ah you know this is no disrespect to the player he's a really good player but you know for a fact that he knows he's not going to be in next season he's going to go somewhere else
00:18:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's just... It's just...
00:18:41
Zak
Yeah, agreed.
00:18:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's just sad, mate. Like, do you remember at the beginning of the season, like, if there was a midweek game, it would get to... to half past two of an afternoon at work, and I'd be messaging you going, can't focus on work, just buzzing for the game tonight.
00:19:00
Zak
like that. and now
00:19:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
It got to quarter to eight tonight, and I went, got to watch football tonight.
00:19:03
Zak
lot
00:19:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, it's just... It's just sad. Like, but we knew what was going to happen.
00:19:11
Zak
a
00:19:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's not a surprise that we lost tonight. It's devastating that we gave up and capitulated so easily. It's even more upsetting that we actually weren't awful for the first 20 minutes, but it doesn't matter because what happened after that was abysmal.
00:19:27
Zak
it's this this but again it's the It's the same, it follows the script. It's 20, 25 minutes of spells here or there. We could we actually look like something's gonna happen. Nothing ends up happening. We don't take our chances.
00:19:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Didn't even follow the script tonight though, mate, because the script is, play an or look at the team if you go, what are they doing? What is this shape? ah Play surprisingly well for 15 to 20 minutes.
00:19:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Concede a sloppy goal. Heads drop. Probably concede a second or third sloppy goal. Get into the break at halftime. Come out in the second half and do something. and That didn't even happen tonight.
00:20:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
The second half was a waste time. We might as well have started recording at halftime and we'd have had the same podcast.
00:20:06
Zak
just Just all we'd have to do is say, well, yeah, obviously, you know, we've lost over a nil.
00:20:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:20:14
Zak
We just, at this point, we just start recording soundbites of us saying whatever. Yeah, you're right. I think i think it's the sad the sad thing about it is that it's it's just sad.
00:20:26
Zak
it's There's nothing else.
00:20:26
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Dibbling
00:20:26
Zak
And then
Hope for Improvement in Upcoming Matches
00:20:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
came on and looked uninterested or couldn't get involved, one one or the other.
00:20:31
Zak
probably both.
00:20:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
i mean, to me, it looks uninterested because Remo's driving up the pitch. And that's exactly the sort of position you'd think. Dibbling would find space to be passed in and there's just no one there.
00:20:39
Zak
Probably both.
00:20:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like we took off Flynn downs in like the 78th minute or something and chucked on Cameron Archer. So then at that point we're playing what? Four forward players, no midfield because small bone doesn't count and attacking midfielder at a center back.
00:20:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah Just like if they'd have put the sub board up,
00:21:01
Zak
It's... um
00:21:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
And gone. Now we're going to see Jack Stevens in goal. I mean, like, yeah, that, that checks out. Like, we're just going to rest Rambo so we can make our money back on him at the end of the season.
00:21:12
Zak
It does feel just a bit of a roll of the dice, and this is what I mean.
00:21:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
We're not going to play him anymore. We'll just stick Jan Benderick in goal. Like, it's just make it make sense.
00:21:26
Zak
We knew, like, okay, so we knew it was going to come down to this, and we knew that it was going to get to a point where, like, they they'd already kind of given up. I think it's it's happened earlier than we'd have liked it to. It's happened in a way that feels gross.
00:21:40
Zak
um It feels grim around the the club. The the the ah way that season ticket holders are kind of treated sucks. We had a discussion today because you were thinking, oh, maybe I'll take my my wife my wife and my mum to the Dell for a pub lunch. And then and then you started looking at the prices. And when it was 40 quid for a mixed grill. You're like, or ah could just do literally anything else.
00:22:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:04
Zak
And you're there like, it's you know i think this isn't just a
00:22:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
For the record, I floated that idea to my wife as a bit of a joke and it did not land.
00:22:13
Zak
yeah so there you go and like i think that's um god good lord you're right yeah's sure it's just it's just a sad state of affairs and it's it's it's hard to figure out what what comes next
00:22:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was about on target as Paul Arnatchew's single shot this evening. Uh,
00:22:29
Zak
but but where we are next. And like, all I can really say in any sort of sense of positivity is championship, ole, ole, ole. Like, if if we if it comes down to it and we do a Luton next season, ah you know, that that will be about 100%.
00:22:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:22:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Very, very possible. Very, very possible the way it's going.
00:22:44
Zak
hundred The state it is at the moment, the state of the... Because they I feel like, you know, if you're the players as well, you don't really know what you're meant to be doing anymore.
00:22:55
Zak
And again, like...
00:22:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Also, whether we get another win and manage to break deby Derby's record or not, we are fully on track to be the team that with the earliest ever confirmation of relegation from the Premier League.
00:23:09
Zak
surprised there already isn't there to be fair.
00:23:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think that if, with Wolves winning at the weekend, I think that if they get a win and we lose to Liverpool, which we're going to do, ah that confirms relegation.
00:23:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
We're in February. like we we'll but We'll be in March by then.
00:23:31
Zak
This is nuts, isn't it?
00:23:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just about.
00:23:36
Zak
it's hard it's hard to to do this daily at the moment and not be and not be miserable and
Ownership Criticism and Management Hopes
00:23:41
Zak
we'll make our jokes and the only good thing i think going forward is that we'll have a little bit of a gap now because obviously we're out of every single cup we'll try and do some maybe fun stuff uh maybe some there you go like looking back at some of the the happier days about you know do you remember when weren't sort of in a position that is now beyond farcical um
00:23:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've got some nice ideas lined up.
00:24:05
Zak
And, you know, maybe they'll go and do some work off the training ground and I feel like someone somewhere needs to start making decisions or alternatively just Sports Republic need to understand that maybe they're just not cut out for this football thing or alternatively not cut out for this Premier League thing and going up, innit?
00:24:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
oh
00:24:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
the volume of that Sports Republic out movement is only increasing. And look, ah still a strong advocator of be careful what you wish for.
00:24:31
Zak
Yeah, as then, like,
00:24:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah ah But, but like I get it.
00:24:35
Zak
I get it.
00:24:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right?
00:24:37
Zak
by My ode to hope.
00:24:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
i understand yeah i understand the frustration and you're right. They have not done a good job and I am not disagreeing with that sentiment. However, there's a difference between becoming Luton next season and becoming Berry, you know?
00:24:52
Zak
Yeah, and we've we've been there before. We skirted it. We've had clubs around us skirt around it.
00:24:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:57
Zak
it's It's terrifying. As I said, like my ode to hope best case scenario is where I'm at. like they They think it through. They start to realise where the problems are and they do something about it. i I feel like anyone with half a brain who's been watching the way we've been playing, has been watching what's happening behind the scenes, has kind of watched what's going on.
00:25:15
Zak
And the fact that they put they were smart enough to put a six-month break clause into Juric's contract, to me says that that that's it.
00:25:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah Well, i've I've heard reports that that that might not be the case, but I don't see him being manager here next season, whether that's a clause or not. So...
00:25:28
Zak
if you if you if you supposedly you want to show ambition and you want to build something um again it's the whole stick into your principles thing and like i was under the understanding that we brought him in to defensively shore up and also adapt when necessary and he's proven today he's unable to do that so is what it is yeah
00:25:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's mad, isn't it? Because we're supposed to defensively shore us up, and can you name a time where he's played two centre-backs together?
00:25:56
Zak
well, when we had Taylor Harbour, Bellis and Jan Bednarek at the same time, but then even then, yeah, we still, we still tried to do this weird three, again, like ah it's almost like a, a shake up from, from the top down and maybe we'll have it.
00:25:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, yeah. And then even then, it was Bree, right? So...
00:26:10
Zak
Maybe we won't. I understand the sentiment likewise of the sports public out. I'm just very scared of by selling financially to you know, you don't know who might take over and that's always worrying. And I don't think they're going to sell off the basis that people are upset about it.
00:26:24
Zak
Um, Yeah, it's harrowing, guys. But ah hopefully it will get better. And in the interim, we'll try and entertain you with some stuff that isn't the harrowing results of Southampton Football Club. But
Fan Appreciation and Season Reflections
00:26:37
Zak
instead, happier times, happier memories, funny things that we will talk about.
00:26:41
Zak
um Going forward, it's not going to be the worst. The fact that I'm having to be the positive one, because I think they finally got to Greg, it's really upsetting.
00:26:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah the I don't know, mate.
00:26:51
Zak
um
00:26:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Look, we've got...
00:26:51
Zak
Really the Oscar here to to balance me out, but I don't think he's going to have much
00:26:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've got... We've got a break coming up where I've got to try my absolute hardest to get optimistic going into play... probably the most informed team in the country.
00:27:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
so
00:27:06
Zak
Look, here you go. Here's a positive. If we lose 10-0, we break another Southampton record. And on top of that, I feel they'll probably fire Juric off the back of it.
00:27:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Brilliant.
00:27:15
Zak
So if that's what you want...
00:27:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just a bit of breaking news from Juric's post-match press conference as it sort of filters in. ah In his true, blunt fashion, ah when asked by Alfie House if he worries for his job, he says...
00:27:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Everything's possible. It's the club's decision what they want to do, of course. So...
00:27:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:27:39
Zak
That's all we got, Saints fans. Thank
00:27:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right. Look, I mean, ah there is a positive, right? We like to end on a positive. I i actually somehow, Zach, I found a positive.
00:27:47
Zak
you. I guess they were coming from me.
00:27:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
we had We had almost 0.5 more XG tonight than we managed against Brighton.
00:28:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
but had a 0.6 expected goals.
00:28:02
Zak
me
00:28:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
expected goals
00:28:06
Zak
Oh, honestly, thank you to all of those that listen. And thank you to you, Greg, because if not, I think that this season might have actually finished me off. ah What a horrible, weird season it's been.
00:28:19
Zak
But thank goodness we've got to have a laugh about it day in, day out, because genuinely it's it's been great.
00:28:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
If you didn't laugh, you'd cry, right?
00:28:27
Zak
This is true.
00:28:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
So.
00:28:28
Zak
And once again, shout out to the heroes that are away support. We heard you. We agree with you. We laughed with you. Every single time you complain that they're only winning by a certain amount of goals, you make my wife laugh and that makes my life easier.
00:28:44
Zak
Yeah. ah yeah yeah yeah So ah catch us on all of the socials. We're on all the social medias. There'll probably be clips of today up. And again, we'll try and try and lighten the mood a little bit with some and fun stuff coming up.
00:28:57
Zak
if Unless you're all about misery, in which case we've probably still got abundance of that left. There's still some later season.
00:29:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, sure, there's plenty of that. We've got to fill loads of days until we play Liverpool.
00:29:09
Zak
And until then, ah thank you very much for listening and we will catch you in the next one. Bye-bye!