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West Ham vs Wolves - Match Preview
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Will and Nathan discuss Wolves' visit to the London Stadium, a fixture dubbed 'El Sackiko' with both manager's jobs seemingly on the line...
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Transcript
Introduction and Accidents
00:00:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome back to Daily Wolves podcast. My name's Nathan, and on this bright, sunny, and beautiful Monday morning, I'm joined by Will. Will, how are we doing?
00:00:19
Will
yeah yeah no all good thank you um when you say bright beautiful and sunny um i think that could be you know something something of a optimistic take on things yes well happy monday then happy monday of course yeah
00:00:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
it
00:00:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is, it is. And as always, we're trying to start things off on a on a positive note. And then but Happy Monday, exactly. Yeah, yeah.
West Ham Game Stakes and Managerial Talk
00:00:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
And um before before we get stuck into the the West Ham game and talk about the Wolves, I think it's important that we first notes that obviously here at Daily Wolves we saw over the over the weekend unfortunately Michael Antonio, West Ham striker got into a car accident so we just wanted to sort of pass our thoughts on to him and his family and we hope that he he recovers well from that.
00:01:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
um It's never a nice thing to see so yeah I think it's important that we we get that out there to absolutely
00:01:06
Will
Mm hmm.
00:01:10
Will
Yeah, no, we we wish him the best. And yeah, like I said, and his family as well. So, yeah.
00:01:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely, absolutely. and um yeah So if we if we get going on the um the West Ham fixture, I think it's it's obviously a massive, massive game for both teams, isn't it?
00:01:25
Will
Mm hmm.
00:01:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
There's talks over the weekend and this morning on Twitter and all social media feeds is talking about it being el sac eco, and referring to ah the likelihood of Juna Lopategi or Gary O'Neill getting sacked based off of who comes away with the three points this evening.
00:01:37
Will
Yeah.
00:01:45
Will
Mm hmm.
00:01:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Will, what are your thoughts in general? I know that you're not a ah massive Gary O'Neill supporter and the best of times, and obviously at the minute, given the recent run of form, what are your overall thoughts going into this game?
00:02:00
Will
yeah well to be honest it feels like quite a few of our last fixtures and the ones that we have upcoming could have been called el sakiko but this is this is certainly the main one um
00:02:14
Will
I'm sort of worried in terms of I feel a little bit like it could be a lose-lose situation, um you know, because I think even if we can get a point that's no good to us as such and it means that we keep O'Neill.
00:02:32
Will
if if if we win that's excellent in a sense but it just prolongs our suffering like the draw against Brighton and the win against um Southampton did um and then if we lose um okay that surely surely has to be the end of O'Neill's era with wolves even if there is no one
00:02:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:02:55
Will
to come in as a straight replacement it just simply can't continue but if we do lose Nathan I was just looking at the table now and there are games being played um in and around us Lester and Ipswich are playing currently with them you know so that that that could um affect things by time this recording goes out but at the time of a recording um You know, we're with three points um behind Ipswich and four behind Leicester.
00:03:26
Will
So depend on how other the results go. And if we were to lose, it's only going to set us back even further.
00:03:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely.
00:03:32
Will
um So, yeah, it's certainly, certainly worrying times either way. And I'm struggling to see what a positive outcome could be.
Potential New Managers for Wolves
00:03:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know, I know and it's the thing that's the most worrying is obviously the poor in a form has been going on for quite a while now and I you know if you if you as a manager aren't getting well you know O'Neill's not getting the sack after conceding eight goals in two games and also you know six against Chelsea at home five away to Brentford
00:04:06
Will
Five to Brentford, it's ridiculous.
00:04:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
there's there's so many games where we, you know, there's been no visible change to our approach and the same issues are coming up again and again.
00:04:14
Will
Hmm.
00:04:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
The fact that we've conceded 13 goals from set pieces this season, that's five more than any other team in the division and the team that's second on that statistic is Southampton who are rock bottom.
00:04:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think it's there's been that many reality checks this season and there hasn't been any visible changes or positive movements in the right direction for for stopping those issues and you know we go back to corners and free kicks and you know second phase is from free kicks and stuff and there's no apparent shape. There doesn't seem to be a this defensive mentality around it all. you know We referred to the I think it was the second Everton goal where there's just 11 players stuck on the six-yard line even though we could have pushed out after that first ball is cleared and there's this's anecdotes like that that have been going on throughout the whole season so it's it's really hard to see where the owners and what the board are or we even thinking with regards to this because if you want to bring someone in you need to give someone the time
00:05:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
to have that transfer window surely that that must be the most immediate thought is if we want that manager bounce and we want someone to put an imprint on on the team and change things absolutely or else you're you're appointing someone with you know you're just asking them to perform a miracle and I mean I actually wanted to get your thoughts on on who
00:05:27
Will
Yeah. Yeah, you've got to give them something to work with.
00:05:43
Will
Yeah, yeah.
Challenges in Attracting New Management
00:05:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
would potentially be, I mean, as we're saying at the time of recording and this, O'Neill's still in the job and we're all assuming that he's gonna, you know, take the team into the West Ham game and that things will sort of be decided after that.
00:06:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
um The three names that on our social media platforms we've put out there as questions to the different supporter groups would be David Moyes, Graham Potter, and then the outsider choice was Rob Edwards, three managers who are currently out of a job.
00:06:01
Will
yeah
00:06:15
Will
Hmm.
00:06:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
What are your thoughts on those three?
00:06:18
Will
Um. No to Rob Edwards straight off the bat just simply not good enough for what we need even though he's a walls man, you know um And it would be nice.
00:06:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:29
Will
We've just It would just be a like for like swap with O'Neill, you know a promising young English manager who is essentially not good ah good enough to you know progress high in the uh premier league um i don't have a clue why graham potter would join us um albeit i'm not 100 sold on him for the same reasons i i just mentioned um but i i just don't have a clue why he would go from being paid millions and millions and millions to sit at home on his ass whilst his chelsea contract is paid out why he would leave that to work for jeff she I think, you know, that'd be the biggest mistake of anyone's life.
00:06:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah unlikely apparently so yeah okay
00:07:13
Will
um The one I want is the first one you mentioned, David Moyes, but I've seen it rumoured that there was a point where he was up for the job. um But the Fosoons, what do they call it, a sustainable style, management style um has led to him.
00:07:33
Will
um you know, I think having second thoughts. And again, could you blame him? um It's something that after the Everton game, obviously, you know, go into work and what have you people come up, say, well, well, what's what's going on with the walls? Then what's happening? You know, you ruin my ruin in my FPL and all that. um And you get talking about the managers and I pose this question to some neutrals and
00:08:01
Will
The one person said, Pochettino, I thought you must be dreaming. ah yeah But I posed the questions to them, I said, why would anyone want want to join us right now? i just don't i don't see it happening um but yeah to to sum it up i would i would love it to be moist in a weird way which going back a few seasons is not something i ever thought i'd be saying but um just because i think if you get moist in now earlier sooner than later and you have a transfer window that is you know jeff she's gonna
00:08:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:08:36
Will
panic and have no choice but to back him. Otherwise we are finished, absolutely finished.
00:08:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah
00:08:42
Will
um I think if you do that and you get a ah manager of Moises experience and proven quality in the Premier League You stay up.
00:08:53
Will
You survive. It's that simple. And that that is the big concern. That's what you've got to be working towards. I think Rob Edwards would be too way too much of a gamble, but it would be the easy option.
00:09:05
Will
And I think in a way, that's what that's what's most likely, um which is unfortunate.
00:09:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. No, I think so. And just just briefly on the Rob Edwards one, I do think that he's Welsh, so I do apologise to any Welsh contingent.
00:09:19
Will
Sorry. Sorry.
00:09:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't think he's a he's another promising young English manager, although I completely yeah yeah i completely agree with you that he
00:09:21
Will
Sorry.
00:09:24
Will
ah you get you get the idea but he's the cheapest yeah
00:09:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know, he's he's like that, he's the gamble one out of the three, isn't he? He's the one that sort of not got the proven record. Yeah, exactly. And and that the thing is, is ah we're we're not too sure who Fosun are looking at um with regards to but the type of manager they want, so because it's really weird, the profiling of the last last few um with, you know, Lopategi who's such a high,
00:09:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
big name who had a massive, massive salary and with him.
00:09:59
Will
Hmm.
00:09:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
And, you know, I think it was rumored that he was what, the fourth or fifth most high paid manager in the prem when he was at Wolf's or something crazy.
00:10:07
Will
Yeah, because Jeff panicked.
00:10:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
So Jeff panicked. But then you go to Gary O'Neill, who's young and upcoming manager, who you assume it was only on a ah fraction of that wage.
00:10:11
Will
Yeah.
00:10:15
Will
Yeah.
00:10:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
So it's it's a bit weird and.
00:10:19
Will
We've been contract now though.
00:10:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
so
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00:10:22
Will
You know, so he's not on a fraction.
00:10:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely.
00:10:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
So maybe he's.
00:10:23
Will
I mean, don't get me wrong. He's still on less, but you know,
00:10:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah, but my my thought is that, you know, Lopateki wasn't fully backed in the transfer window. Now, whether Lopateki's claims are all correct, we don't know.
00:10:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
But Gary O'Neill clearly wasn't backed at all.
00:10:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
We can only, you know, assume that he wanted to bring in a centre-half with some Premier League experience to replace our club captain, and best performing one. So, yeah.
00:10:39
Will
and
00:10:48
Will
The thing about the centre half that I feel like we keep forgetting and I think this is not only doesn't only lie with her, she doesn't only lie with O'Neill but also Hobbes himself who gets away very very lightly considering this um was, if you remember, the obvious first choice and the saviour of our season
00:11:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:11
Will
of course would have been Darla O'Shea from Burnley I think it was which is just completely stupid in this I mean no disrespect but it's not exactly the the answer we were all looking for um but if we had have got him in if you remember the news being at the time just after that that if we'd signed O'Shea we would have sent Santiago Bueno out on loan
00:11:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, you're right.
00:11:33
Will
So you'd been just in the same position, which is bonkers, absolutely bonkers.
00:11:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:39
Will
um And can I just say, um just once you were talking there, my my um curiosity led me to Googling Rob Edwards.
00:11:48
Will
And he is he is indeed Welsh.
00:11:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right.
00:11:50
Will
however However, born in Shropshire to English at slash Welsh parents. So you can see you can see where my confusion lies.
00:11:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay. We can, ah I'm sure, I'm sure the wealth contingent will forgive you for that one.
00:12:05
Will
Yeah.
00:12:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Um, yeah, it's all, all this talk about managers comes out of really, um, a painful timing actually, because Gary O'Neill was a nominated for manager of the month for the month of November, the news that came shortly after our defeat to, um, away to Eberton where we just conceded four goals.
00:12:17
Will
yeah
00:12:21
Will
so
00:12:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
And in that, um, bunch of, uh, month nominees, Cunha was nominated for both. player of the month as well as three of his goals for for goal of the month which I think was the first time in Premier League history that one player has had three goals named in the the goal of the month category so it's it's just odd because if you looked at that you'd think oh well Wolves must be doing alright this season ah but but turns out we're not so it's um it's a weird moment at the time it's it's
00:12:42
Will
Yeah. Yeah.
00:12:49
Will
Yeah.
00:12:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
it hard to gather my thoughts on it but um before i do before we do go on and and dissect a little bit more going into the West Ham game I just want to let all of you guys know and remind you that 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 ahs, 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 the link in the show description to learn more.
Analyzing West Ham and Wolves' Tactics
00:13:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
So this this West Ham team that we're we're going away to play at the London Stadium, 8pm tonight, they're off the back of a 3-1 defeat away to Leicester, where i didn't I didn't see the whole game.
00:13:37
Will
Mhmm.
00:13:44
Will
Yeah.
00:13:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
I watched some of the highlights and also you know listening to some of the what the pundits had to say. Apparently West Ham overall had a decent enough showing with quite a few attempts on target.
00:13:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
um How do we, you know, I don't know what to think too much of this West Ham team this season, because they've obviously made some acquisitions in the summer that seem to be smart acquisitions.
00:14:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think, you know, getting Kilman off of us, who's obviously our club captain, plenty of prem experience, the striker in full cook, Somerville from Leeds, who Leeds fans highly, highly rate.
00:14:14
Will
yeah Somerville Somerville as well yeah
00:14:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
So it's, It is weird to think that they are where they are. And I wonder how much of that is down to their manager. I'm sure West Ham fans feel like he's obviously played a big part in it. But I'm not, yeah, I'm not too sure how I feel going into this one, Will. It's a weird game. I mean, obviously we're not that confident, but neither are they really.
00:14:45
Will
no i mean the one thing i would like to mention you spoke there about their loss against lester now um lester were one of the ones if you know you looked at um the table towards the start of the season when we were struggling but you know we had a difficult run of games and it's not gary's fault and all of that um you sort of looked and you thought well realistically who who's going to go down and you thought Southampton, they are useless.
00:15:12
Will
Ipswich looked good but maybe just lacking that bit of quality and then you thought Leicester, they look ropey. So what they did, they sacked their manager and they bought in Van Nistel who, interim at United obviously, and won the Dutch Cup in his seat note PSV with Fabio Silva's number 10 scoring the winning penalty in the final.
00:15:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:15:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah ruth yeah Yeah.
00:15:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely.
00:15:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely. What a talent.
00:15:38
Will
ah
00:15:39
Will
I know, ah but you know, it just goes to show that being proactive, having proactive owners could have turned things around for them as they're now outside of the relegation zone, at least at the time of recording. um But I'm going to sum up.
00:15:55
Will
my lack of confidence I'm going to ah bring back a little feature that I introduced Chris to in the last ah preview episode that I recorded which is that on Google, Google's are statistics and when you When you search up West Hammer wolves and it has a little wind probability meter i'd I'd like to call it um which says there's 24% chance of a draw which you know, to be honest, I don't think does us many favors a 25% chance of a wolves win and
00:16:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yes, yes.
00:16:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
okay
00:16:36
Will
and 51% chance of a West Ham win you have to think they've got um not only made those um acquisitions they have got um arguably well a better manager even if they don't necessarily rate them
00:16:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:54
Will
um
00:16:55
Will
and they've got that home advantage which which you know I spoke about it before the Everton game it could be massive it could hinder them depending on how the game starts and plays out but you'd rather of obviously be at home then away.
00:17:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Especially I am.
00:17:11
Will
Really, as I said, I just see it as a sort of lose-lose for us to be honest.
00:17:16
Will
I think we win, we keep O'Neill and that costs us in the long run. We draw, nothing changes. um We lose and we sort of depend on other results um could could could go even sort of you know six points or whatever it is away from safety depend on how the other fixtures go and you know none of those are good outcomes in in my opinion the only silver lining would be if we don't get a result is surely we get a new management and and the tide starts to change well that's the plan at least I suppose
00:17:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah no you'd think so you'd think so yeah and we need we need a bounce from somewhere and the most obvious one is a new manager bounce right
00:17:57
Will
um
00:18:02
Will
Hmm. Yeah.
00:18:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
We need that that injection of sort of confidence, a changed way of thinking. We just, we need something. And we all thought that Cunha's amazing sort of two, three performances in that um flurry of of four games and beaten was that, but clearly it wasn't.
00:18:23
Will
Hmm.
00:18:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
we we all I was hoping that it would be a turning point but I was also afraid that it might have just been ah a few flukes and as I can't remember if it was yourself or or Chris was saying that naturally we do have quality players in the squad so there will be results that we will get throughout a season but you need more than just relying on individuals to get out of sticky situations and you know we relied on Cunha heavily and he was he was outstanding against Fulham and was was good against Southampton as well and obviously popped up with some amazing goals in those games but as soon as obviously that was identified by opposing teams Bournemouth were very good at nullifying his his attack and against Tranlarson had a good performance but shipping four goals is just unforgivable and then
00:18:49
Will
yeah
00:19:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
again against Everton. Everton had come prepared. They they had had four poor games on the bounce as well and they really bullied our strikers and they completely marked them out the game but again, that's where you rely on structure and you just make that game as close as you have to make it.
00:19:12
Will
Yeah.
00:19:15
Will
Mm.
00:19:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's an away game. You're going to have to be scrappy. Don't give them anything. Make sure that you're doing all the basics right and as so many times happen this season, we just didn't and as we were saying it could have been 6-7 to Everton it wasn't like four goals really flattered them they could have had loads more and it wasn't like we looked like we were going to score every time we went forwards by any means whereas since previous games sometimes has so
00:19:41
Will
Yeah, yeah.
00:19:55
Will
Yeah, no, we we offered absolutely nothing. There seemed to be no plan. And so to be honest, when the fourth and then the ones that were ruled out for offside, when they were going in, I was quite content, to be honest, because all I was thinking was that surely I'll be waking up tomorrow to that corner flag um photo coming from the wolves Twitter announcing that the club have parted ways with O'Neill.
00:20:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:21
Will
But but no, it still seems to you know be going on. um
00:20:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
sure Surely the only thing I can think of and the reason to why he hasn't been sacked is that they just don't have anyone lined up.
00:20:33
Will
i think it's a mix of that now now it's that i think beforehand it was a financial thing they're just giving him a new contract and um she didn't want to pay out for it essentially and so as much as they were backing him in that sense to turn things around it wasn't due to a tactical or a football side of things more so a financial one and then you know as we said who who's going to join us now we don't know and i think the worrying thing about the Everton game that you've already spoken about um
00:20:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
Defensive Struggles and Key Players
00:21:06
Will
It's just the fact that it now leaves us with a um sort of goal difference of minus 14. Having conceded 36, which is just bonkers.
00:21:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:20
Will
Absolutely. um So yeah.
00:21:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's crazy. It's crazy. And then when when you look at that, you know, okay, we've got minus 14, so of us we've scored 22 goals.
00:21:30
Will
Yeah.
00:21:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's crazy.
00:21:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's crazy that we've we've been able to put the ball back. It's not like we're were struggling to find goals going forwards. There's a lot of other teams around us down that bottom area who whose main issue was scoring goals.
00:21:33
Will
Yeah.
00:21:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, Everton before playing us obviously hadn't scored in four games.
00:21:50
Will
yeah well if you if you if you look at the sort of bottom half of the bottom half um you know at the time of recording from um Southampton just below us to West Ham um you know Manchester United and even Newcastle up in up in 12th we've scored more than any other team in in that um sort of collection of
00:21:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
So scoring is something that we can do.
00:22:16
Will
of um
00:22:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:18
Will
you know uh clubs and so it's it's really weird to sort of try and you know figure out why we are just doing so bad defensively it's just yeah it's really really strange
00:22:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's it. It's super weird. And before we do continue talking about how, how well that's a bit, it was a bit depressing, isn't it? Really? How many we're conceding. Um, just a quick reminder to yourself, well, and to everyone listening that this podcast is part of the global sports podcast network, which is the only network bringing you exclusive daily news and views on your premier league team, the premier league women's football and fantasy football, a unique listening experience that puts fans first, bringing you the very latest breaking news from your team.
00:23:02
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Subscribe wherever you get your podcast and make us your first listen every day. That's the global sports podcast network every club every day every day indeed and Every day at the moment as a wolves fan is is a difficult one It's a difficult one and as you're saying when even when I head into work, it's it's a constant reminder because everyone is
00:23:10
Will
Every day. Yeah.
00:23:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, you know, we mentioned fancy, fancy football there. Everyone had Cunha in their fancy football after his performance against Fulham and rightfully so.
00:23:30
Will
Yeah. Yeah.
00:23:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
He was outstanding.
00:23:36
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It was, you know, when we really, really needed it, he he pulled out the bag. However, against Bournemouth and Everton, everyone was quite unhappy. and terms I like how, as football fans, we all tend to to sort of, we'll pin those things on individuals who support the club.
00:23:36
Will
Yeah.
00:23:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
So like, I'll head into work and people will come and inquire, going, what's what's up with Cunha?
00:23:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Why is he not performing?
00:23:59
Will
yeah
00:24:00
Will
yeah
00:24:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
and They bring it as like a personal issue ah to me.
00:24:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I mean, ah there it's a good question. It has been weird how unbelievably good he was against Fulham. And I know he is often the main,
00:24:04
Will
yeah
00:24:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
carrier going forwards and that that guy who's igniting the spark in the team but he was I think in my personal opinion very poor against Bournemouth and Everton as someone who thrives off confidence coming to drop get the ball deep and making runs in behind at times linking up with with with players around him I think there was there was none of that and it was it was weird the game against Bournemouth it was almost like he was trying too hard trying to beat an extra man trying to do
00:24:22
Will
Yeah. Yeah.
00:24:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
a bit too much. And then against Everton, there wasn't even that. So I wonder what's going on.
00:24:50
Will
No.
00:24:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, we mentioned that the the atmosphere around the change room must be toxic as it is, but as someone like him who's so positive and passionate emotionally often around the club, it is worrying to see that that energy seemed to have dropped off in the previous two games at a time when we really need him.
00:25:11
Will
Yeah, yeah, i think and I think there's two moving parts to it, to be honest. I think it's partly tactical with just how good he was. Teams play wolves. And I mean, I've been guilty of it myself.
00:25:24
Will
They say, you know, you stop Junior, you stop wolves. that's That's been the story of this season. um And so not only have teams been looking to nullify that, issue is, um we've spoken before about O'Neill having no apparent game plan whatsoever. It just you know seems completely random how everything from the back line changes each week to the no sort of um clear and obvious patterns of play or styles that that you see under different managers.
00:25:58
Will
um the plan appears to have instead been give it to kunya and hope you know um and so then it it becomes not only a tactical thing but a mental thing you know he spoke about he takes that on as our main man as our number 10 as our talisman um the there's good and bad to that we've spoken again before about how emotional um he is and passionate which is you know brilliant at times but has worked against him in terms of you know
00:26:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:26:29
Will
trying to take on too much and doing that extra step over instead of just laying it off and you know always trying to pick the um more difficult but potentially you know in theory more sort of successful route but it's you know it's difficult and um yeah it's that confidence thing and that is something that i mentioned at the very start of the season when we started to lose the first few and not just lose but perform poorly in them as well it was i was so worried of seeing what we are now seeing which is that you know um the less and less confident your team gets due to
00:27:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
The heads drop.
00:27:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:27:08
Will
yeah and then everything everything is then even more difficult and you start to lose badly to teams like Bournemouth and Everton and then when you do play a decent team um you know it makes that even harder having lost to ones that you'd like to think on paper you should be beating
00:27:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
Historical Match-ups and Optimism
00:27:29
Will
um and just just Nathan just to um you know just to bring us down even more I'd like to let you know a little stat that I saw um before before the game now it was the fact that you know it started off on a bright note about the fact that when we returned to the Premier League under Nuno um we we won all four of our first four games against West Ham um
00:27:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Go on.
00:27:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh god.
00:27:56
Will
in in the league but then since then West Ham have won their last six Premier League home games um against us and I think they drew the some of of the away ones it was something like that the stat was long story short we've not won or we've not beat West Ham
00:28:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
at the London stage.
00:28:15
Will
um or I don't think he full stop over the past couple of seasons. I can't remember the exact numbers, but it was something like that. you know and' Yeah, it's it's it's not it's not looking good for us.
00:28:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think I saw through the Wolves um channels um the some of the last times that we did play West Ham away from home at the London stage. I think the most ah I think the most recent win there was involved that Neto volley, I believe, the one that sort of floated to the back stick during COVID.
00:28:43
Will
Yeah. Was it? Was it? Yeah.
00:28:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
So there was no fans. And he sort of hits it on the volley. And um yeah, how we could do with some some quality like that this evening come 8 p.m. But yeah, i just as to to wrap us up um for this episode, the big the big question.
00:29:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah Can we get your predictions, please, Will, for tonight's game?
00:29:11
Will
um I think we'll lose and I think we'll lose 3-1. I see a scoring because that's what we do, but I just see lopatee you're getting the sort of grip between his teeth and if he if he's able to get a tune out of um this west ham team which i'm more i see more likely than um onil getting a tune out of the wolves players um i yeah i i can't see it going well for us and just to um conclude my my my thoughts for today's episode i'm gonna go a little bit vogue as well and i know it's not the question you asked but i just wanted to give a little a little shout out
00:29:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:29:52
Will
to the La Liga Under-23 Player of the Month. Current Wolves Loney, young promising st striker. Fabio Silva, Fabio Silva, yeah.
00:30:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Who's this?
00:30:05
Will
after After that late winter away at Barcelona, you know, he's shining, got another assist yesterday. um So, you know, come January, I'm sure there's a, I'm sure there's a clause where we could terminate that contract and look, you've heard it here first, Moise in, silver back and we'll, we'll, we'll push up to about 10th, nice and comfortably.
00:30:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's. Oh. Yeah. There we go.
00:30:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
There we go. I wonder if anyone would come in for 40 million for him. That would be a turn up, wouldn't it? Yeah, and then I guess my prediction, ah I've been predicting this score line for the past three weeks, I think, now.
00:30:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm going to go with 1-1 because, and I guess that's that's the most optimistic result I can think of, and that's, I guess,
00:30:44
Will
I really hope not.
00:30:48
Will
Yeah.
00:30:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
quite sad in itself but I do believe that we're going to score and I believe we're going to concede as we usually do.
00:30:58
Will
yeah i think those are the two certain things but something about that one old draw or any draw i think that's probably if you were to ask the west ham fans as well uh neither team is happy with that i would in a weird way i'd almost rather be lost and it was the definite end there was some sort of you know completely no way back phonia and we get that manager in before january as you spoke about um
00:31:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:31:26
Will
but yeah i think that that really would be worst case scenario that's true that's true
00:31:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. I know. And I just, I don't know if I can ah can deal with that the sinking feeling of another loss. So we've we've got our fingers crossed here at Daily Wolves. And um yeah, as we always try and end these episodes on a on a little bit of a positive note, it's a bit of a ah ritual that we've now started, but just reminding you guys that in times of darkness, that out of that darkness come with light.