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Daily Ipswich: Episode 101 - Tactics Tuesday
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Rob and Richard pick the bones out of Saturday's defeat to Southampton and wonder how why the blues keep falling to these disappointing loses. Does Omari need a rest? What do to about Muric? And is Broadhead a nailed on starter?
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Guest: ROb Binns
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Disastrous Episode at Portman Road
00:00:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello everyone and welcome back to the Daily Ipswich. It is Tactics Tuesday today. ah My name's Richard Popple and I'm going to be joined by Rob Binns. Hello Rob.
00:00:20
Rob Binns
Hello mate, I'm sorry we've dragged you back into the depressing episode of the week. the We tried to keep the spirits as cheery as possible yesterday, but unfortunately that I don't think we'll be able to do the same thing on today's episode as we're forced to go more in depth.
00:00:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, that's... That's all right. We've had we've had a couple of days away from, you know, the result itself. So we've had ah we've had some time to sort of um recalibrate a little bit from. Yeah, a pretty disastrous result. Let's be let's be perfectly honest about it.
Performance vs. Expectations
00:00:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
But today we're going to go through it in a bit more detail nonetheless to see where the game was indeed lost at Portman Road at the weekend. um You and James obviously gave it a little bit of a reactionary um ah part yesterday briefly.
00:01:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
How are you feeling about it today? Is it kind of, I mean, i you know, I've seen from the town fans, there's a lot of people just saying, you know, fundamentally it's just another defeat, right? But it feels pretty abject where the one fixture you have left was this one where you expect to win essentially. And, and we've laid a real egg there. So how are you feeling about it overall?
00:01:21
Rob Binns
No, I was disappointed. There's no, there's no quite going about it. Like we were saying yesterday, it's one of the poorest results in probably since made stone in the cup in terms of expectation to reality. We've had a lot of it the other way around of going into games, not expecting anything and then walking away of a win. They last season a lot of the time as we mounted the promotion charts and a couple of times this year, obviously Spurs, Chelsea, but there's been a particularly he said this yesterday as
Murich's Impact on Confidence
00:01:50
Rob Binns
well. We're like,
00:01:52
Rob Binns
particularly home games, but generally over the course of the season, if you ignore walls away, how many of these big games that not necessarily we should win, but that have to have the buildup of going into it, if we need to win, and we need a performance to reflect that. So take walls away out of it. How many other games can we on can we say we've played well enough to to get the results in those games? And so there's literally And even so, the only the only only time we've got the win in a game like that, we were we nearly threw it away, again, like we have done on a few of them, and until we snatched it from a corner in the 94th minute. That's the really worry more so than who it was, and obviously the context of Southampton's season going into this game and everything, that what will concern me more is this is another game on that list now of you go in almost
00:02:48
Rob Binns
um when they expect in a result will certainly expect in a performance that just hasn't been there and it's a really worrying trend to see but ah on the on the counterpoint is James summed up pretty well yesterday and there's we just we just have to get on
Ipswich's Year in Review
00:03:02
Rob Binns
with it don't we? isn' that We can't sit and you can eat there's all well and good sitting here and getting say you can call it season over as how it feels it might feel like that at the moment is that you struggle maybe struggle to see where the points come from if you can't beat bottom of the league at home, but ultimately we do we haven't got a choice but to get on with it and carry on with the season. We can sit and dwell on it for three months and coast of relegation or we can we can get on with it and then look ahead to the next game and try and pick up some points as in the last few games of the season.
00:03:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah. I mean, let's be honest, 2025 so far has been a tough old year. um But you know, Ipswich Town fans did have three fantastic years in a row 2022 to 2024 with three fantastic years. So yeah, we've had it tough. And obviously, that's four Premier League defeats in a row for us. um Just two goals scored in that time. And uh, 14 conceded in the last four games. So yeah, it's not great. It
First Half Analysis and Team Dynamics
00:04:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
really isn't great. So let's, let's sort of break it down a little bit. I mean, the first half was a fairly even contest. I mean, Southampton kind of went ahead against the run of play. Um, I would say, but again, it's another mistake or, you know, you can certainly levy some of the, some of the responsibility at the door of, uh, no marriage who didn't cover himself in any glory once again.
00:04:25
Rob Binns
Yeah, definitely. that Again, we we said it yesterday when we were talking about Hutchinson, but it applies to Muirich as well in the case. We don't want to use this podcast as a platform to just call out players and slag them off all the time and say, he's not good enough. He they shouldn't be in the team. It's not what we want to do. We want for the podcast. But that that conversation ah has to be had with Muirich now, doesn't it? I threw all the stats out here on yesterday's episode in terms of errors leading to goals and how that doesn't even count some of the things. But ultimately, the one most important that you can, you don't need an official statistician to work out, you just watch the games is how many points these mistakes cost in context. And ultimately, James said it yesterday, Southampton turned up to Portland Road, never didn't put too much threat on the goal and never really looked like scoring and walked away with two goals and to win it.
Murich's Technical Deficiencies
00:05:22
Rob Binns
which ultimately was pretty much exclusively down to Murich on the day. And obviously he's low confidence from previous areas, obviously a big factor in that. but i'll say ah And so we know Walton's injured, it's not like he's come back in, but it's getting his two mistakes, his three points dropped from from those two mistakes.
00:05:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah. But his, no, I mean, his low, yeah, his low confidence is kind of, it's kind of spreading into the team though, isn't it? Because he he comes back into the team and you can immediately kind of see his body language, just the whole thing around him just doesn't, it doesn't reek of a confident footballer. And it kind of hasn't really throughout the whole season. I think when he When he first, you know, even going back to pre-season stuff, he was kind of like pinging these passes into midfield and stuff. And you thought, oh, wow, this is a, this is a Haladki kind of like, you know, confident kind of keeper who's willing to kind of play these balls and stuff. um This is what McKenna wants. And as the season's gone on, that has, great that has, you know, regressed hugely his ability to kind of like,
00:06:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
be open to playing with his feet and stuff ah with any confidence. And then obviously the saving and the shot stopping, which for somebody of his frame, you think, well, that should be a given, right? But technically he doesn't seem to be very good. He gets he gets in the wrong position quite often. He's saving balls with his feet a lot, which I always think is a sign of a keeper who's who's not a great keeper, to be honest. They're just kind of like chucking their body around and kind of like getting away with it a little bit. And it's kind of a bit sad to see because I think the confidence levels that he has is now spreading to the team.
00:06:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
They don't really know what they've got behind them really. And you, you've just got that disconnect kind of happening. And when you get that in a football team, unfortunately that spells trouble really, no matter what, no matter how good players might be or, you know, not to the levels of opposition and all the rest of it. If you don't have that confidence in each other, then it's very, very difficult to rely on each other to win football matches. And I think unfortunately for him, that's what he's bringing to the table at the moment.
Trust Issues in Defense
00:07:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
And you can kind of see it seeping out.
00:07:22
Rob Binns
Yeah, definitely. I mean, look, i've I've not come anywhere close to being a professional footballer in my life, but I'm a centre-half and I can tell you that, say, any level I play, whatever level you play at, say, even to say, as a centre-half, if you do not have confidence or trust with a man in the sticks behind you, it makes your job so much harder because you almost have to, you almost play with the feeling that you can't afford to let people get shots away because you can't guarantee he's going to save it even if it's simple.
00:07:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Me neither, Rob.
00:07:53
Rob Binns
and that makes you sort of mentally play the whole game differently. as ah Obviously, ah as like I said, I can't relate anywhere near to a professional standard, but the basics are there that you have to, as a defender, as a centre-half, you have to trust who's next to you, you have to trust your fallbacks, and you have to trust your goalkeeper. And if one of those things isn't there, which it clearly isn't, with Mureich being in goal, then it makes the game completely different in sort of how you line it up. and say even still things like not passing the ball back like you say his distribution's not been there like it was back in preseason and in the early few games of the season that you almost feel like you have to exclude him from the game in fear of an error which nobody wants because it makes a job so much harder having to try and play the game like that it seems like action has been taken we're going to cover deadline day in more detail on tomorrow's episode but it looks like an action we could we asked yesterday is it time should that be the case or
00:08:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
No. No.
00:08:47
Rob Binns
maybe Slicker comes in and looks like that he's going to have them because it can't carry on like this. so say Just purely because nothing to do with like, we have to get him out because he's threatened cause he's rubbish, but it's the confidence that's
Goalkeeper Changes Speculation
00:08:59
Rob Binns
the problem.
00:08:59
Rob Binns
Because like you said, it does spread.
00:09:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:09:01
Rob Binns
And that's if you're playing even one person in the 11 low on confidence, regardless of the position, it can cause a problem. And when it's an and as important of a role as a goalkeeper, it's an even bigger problem.
00:09:12
Rob Binns
So it's something that I thought we'd be coming in today saying, and It's something we've got to deal with. We'll look at law. So the FA Cup's coming up with Slicker. Do you test him there? Let's say it looks like the club have taken further action with and Alex Palmer. Looks like he's coming in, but we'll like said we'll discuss that in more depth tomorrow.
00:09:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
What about the slicker thing? Because obviously, you know, I suppose because he took Maricha out of the team about a month ago now, ah Christian Walton obviously came in, conceded a lot of goals in the last few games himself, but that's not obviously down to him. But we know he's kind of restricted in in terms of like he's playing out ability and and that is something McKenna wants. Was there a kind of argument for saying you go straight to slicker or At that point, you know, is he not ready clearly? Because, you know, as you say, it looks as if we're bringing somebody else in. So you've got a third choice keeper who was, you know, highly rated or whatever. Now is the number two, bearing in mind, Walton's injured. Was there not an argument to bring him in given that the confidence levels of Miric and people in Miric was not even just the the other players, the crowd, like everyone would have seen that team sheet and thought,
00:10:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh my God, Murch is back in goal. And that's not having a go at him, but that's just the kind of feeling around a player. And I think when you've got that, you look at somebody like Raheem Sterling at Arsenal. No one's got any confidence in Raheem Sterling being a decent footballer anymore, right? So you create this kind of like energy about the place. And I think Murch, unfortunately, is that kind of scapegoat, I suppose, around our club at the moment. So do you think Slicker would have been an option potentially?
00:10:50
Rob Binns
I think, i said as I so said yesterday, I think just because of the timing with it being FA Cup before our next league game, I think it would have worked no it would have worked out in terms of giving them a chance. Because I think you could have quite easily thrown them in there against Coventry and just sort of sussed him out a bit more, give it so in the next Coventry. are on They're on a good run of form as well. It's not going to be the same quality as a Premier League game, especially going to Villa Park in the week after. but if he puts a good account of himself, if he plays with confidence, as we said, this is the key, the key thing we're missing in goal when the Irish plays that they give him that commentary game as a warmup and then see how it goes. But he's obviously inexperienced. He's barely played in the time. He's been, there he has been, he's been signed to be a number three goalkeeper, hasn't he? though There was an option in the summer with Haki going to promote Walton back to one and how, how slicker is he too. And we've opted to go and get another goalkeeper. So he clearly,
00:11:47
Rob Binns
is viewed as their choice and then because of that has doesn't have enough experience at a high enough level I don't ah don't think to to have been thrown in. I would i would have been open to them to him giving a go because you something you do just never know sometimes don't you? I mean I always think back to Nick Pope that he'd never played he'd he'd never played at that level until he got drafted in last minute at Burnley when Tom Heaton got injured and then Heaton never got his spot back did he? And and now now he's at Newcastle and he's nailed on number one there Sometimes it does pay off, so I would have been willing to give it a risk, but I think signing so signing a different keeper who has played a lot more football in the last few years is is the smarter way to go with it.
00:12:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it's really interesting. I suppose as well, that I mean, that would have killed off any confidence Miroch would have had if it if if if you know all of a sudden he's demoted to kind of like third choice. um Yeah, but that that business will will'll obviously review it at some point, but that business in the summer of Haladki going and him coming in,
00:12:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
It looked a bit odd at the time, and it and it doesn't look like it's bit is' paying off at all. So yeah, we will review that at some point. All right, when we come back after a quick break, we will be talking about how we got back into the game after falling behind.
00:13:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right, we are back for the second part of the daily Ipswich. So Rob, we fell behind Joe Ribo's, you know, fairly weak shot that um somehow managed to get through ah in the 21st
High-Intensity Strategies and Key Players
00:13:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
minute. We kind of came back straight away into the game and we're looking to put pressure on Southampton um and then obviously found ourselves an equalizer. How do you think overall we were we were sort of playing at that point midway through the first half and and the sort of reactions going a goal down?
00:13:49
Rob Binns
I thought the reaction was good, but like I said, obviously the goal came against to run a run of play with oh the whole first half. I thought we actually played, we played quite well. And so it was, it was a goalkeeping error. The reason why we didn't go in and ahead to as the result, as a reward for sort of that performance. But I said on the front, I said on the preview on Friday, you want to see a high intensity performance. You want to set the tempo of the game. You want to press from the front and.
00:14:15
Rob Binns
So the really the key to, I think, in that little spell we piled the pressure on, the two players who were doing that, trying to add a bit of pace to the game and build our attacks, were in CSER and Broadhead. And so two players we called, we we both called for in the week to see from the start again, let's say we which we did. And I thought they they both had really good games and they were sort of the driving forces in that little spell we had after going behind that sort of kept the intensity up, piled the pressure on. because So we had chances, Dilap had that one,
00:14:45
Rob Binns
and very awkward finishes, you've like fallen over while sliding in at the same time to try and poke it in. He almost converted that one and he got his goal five minutes or so later. It's not a coincidence as well, obviously we know the quality of Davis as well. It's not a coincidence that most of the threat came down that left-hand side as it normally does, but so particularly, it seemed a little more emphasis on that left-hand side being back when Broadheads in the team, because we spoke about it with
00:15:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:15:13
Rob Binns
with Burgess before, haven't we, that ah Burgess playing makes Davis play a bit better because the relationship's already there. The same as with Broadheads, although Davis and Broadhead have that, they've been such a key component down that left-hand side for years. And they both look better when the other one is when the other one's playing in there with them, particularly Davis. that So if you put a Clarke or somebody or Hutchinson over there, someone in front, it just doesn't work as well as it does when Nathan Broadheads in the team.
00:15:40
Rob Binns
And that left-hand side was where we kept doubling up. We caused a lot of problems. So the majority of the bulls were over there. And CSO was lively as well. But it was the pace. And that was ultimately what I thought we struggled to keep up in the second half, as particularly as it as the game went on. We just saw, as an attacking force, we slowly died down over the course of the second half, I thought. And as tired legs. And then there's that argument at the bench again that we thought had maybe been tackled in January. But in some ways, it has. And in some ways, it really hasn't. i mean the midfield that we we've mentioned after every single week, Caillou stay off.
00:16:15
Rob Binns
He lasted a bit longer this week, he got to about 77-78 minutes but still had to come off and we don't have a direct replacement and then how much threat do we really provide in the last 10 minutes of that game this and before eventually conceding again.
00:16:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:30
Rob Binns
There's still a lot of question marks with the bench that we say like i say and we play We look strong when we can play at a higher pace and we just can't hold that for 60 minutes or any more than about 60 minutes or so.
00:16:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, I mean, look.
00:16:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:16:42
Rob Binns
But that was the key in that spell where we were on top and got the goal back that we couldn't replicate.
00:16:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. And you say about the bench, it said you know, and the and the fact that the attacking threat kind of like dissipated as the game went on, that's our season. That's our season in a nutshell, really. And I think.
00:16:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
talk about some of those things being being sort of like ah the solutions being found in January, you would argue with a few hours to go as we record this that the the main issues haven't been, haven they haven't found solutions for at all, they haven't changed in the midfield, they haven't bought in any mid for central midfielders and they haven't bought in a striker.
Transfer Window Disappointments
00:17:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
So at the moment it doesn't look like the January business is what we were maybe expecting it to be, that that obviously might change. And look, there might there may be a solution within the players that we already have, but it's been a strange window, I think it is fair to say so far in terms of the players that we brought in, particularly how it started with obviously Philogene and ah Ben Godfrey coming in, like in the first few days of the window. i I know it's tough. I know you've got other parties involved, but still it has been a bit strange. And and it seems to be that the same things are happening again, and we we are running out of steam a little bit.
00:17:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
As the second half went on, did you see us being able to change it? what What were you seeing from Southampton as well? You know, James mentioned they kind of came in, didn't really do a lot, ended up scoring two goals and winning the game, but the stats are fairly even throughout the whole game. Pretty much we we had a few more shots. Possession was relatively even. Um, they nicked it, you know, obviously. So did you, did you kind of see that coming or again, are we looking at another, you know, individual mistake?
00:18:19
Rob Binns
I don't know. I wouldn't say I saw it coming, but the the nervousness grew. As you could see, we were dying off and looking less likely to win it than you saw book up because naturally, if you think if we're not on top looking like we're going to score a winner, then the nervousness comes in of what if we can see down the other end and say, but ultimately it's, I'd argue it's actually not as bad as the first one for me.
00:18:46
Rob Binns
but But even though this is the one that would count as an error leading to goal, because the initial save he makes, he's unsighted, he gets down well to to get there. It's just how poor the parry is.
00:18:58
Rob Binns
You see it with a lot of keepers now that ah seems to be the art of a good parry sort of away from danger seems to be dying almost. because ever i I don't know what for what reason, but are they trying to catch it?
00:19:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
That old classic, yeah.
00:19:12
Rob Binns
are they trying ah Is it almost that element of playing out from the back, that you're trying to push it out to somebody? I don't know what it is, but nobody...
00:19:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:20
Rob Binns
So what's happened to just sort of throwing yourself across and smacking the ball as far away as you can? i don't It's risk a really poor effort to clear the ball. The save is good, but the aftermath of making sure you deal with getting the ball out of danger
Murich's Goalkeeping Errors
00:19:33
Rob Binns
is really poor.
00:19:34
Rob Binns
And it only takes a good number nine, or good enough number nine, to be in the right place at the right time and punish you. And that's what honoratu did. he He's been struggling in front of goal all season. He's talking about confidence again. He got that goal against Forrest to give him a boost. And then he's looked he looked sharp against Newcastle after that. And then he was in the right place at the right time and took the goal well. So I give him the fact that he could say the element of being unsighted for the initial shot. I was actually saying the save was good from the initial shot. It's then just
00:20:08
Rob Binns
you've got it You can't just save the shot. You have to you have to clear the danger as best you can as well. Just have it roll out by three yards or whatever and have a striker there.
00:20:18
Rob Binns
it just pull Just push it wide if anything.
00:20:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah no of course he's it is yeah yeah i think i think you're absolutely right of course he's not meaning to do that he's not meaning to push it back into play and stuff but um
00:20:21
Rob Binns
I'm making it sound easy. and So I imagine when the zip and the ball zipped towards your bottom corner like that and you have to get down after seeing it lay, it's obviously not easy. But again, it's the confidence thing.
00:20:32
Rob Binns
I think a more confident Miurich would probably deal with that better and stop the goal getting cleared.
00:20:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
There's a technical thing. I still think around him. I think he's, he's never in the right, he doesn't seem to be in the right position quite often for these kinds of life saves, particularly low down. He's obviously a big guy. So it's obviously harder for him to kind of like get into those positions anyway. So you're right. The saving in isolation is kind of all right, but.
00:21:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's the technique of kind of like pushing it back basically straight in front of him. It's always going to cause problems. And yeah, the guy sticks it away. It's really disappointing. Did you, was there any kind of hope that we would, would snatch an equalizer? Was there any kind of like response from us in terms of that you saw, you know, the players coming off the bench? Was there much impact there? Did you think?
00:21:23
Rob Binns
Not massively, if I'm being honest. It was when you said I had the hope being there. The hope was almost there more because you think back to Sarmiento and Morsy at St Mary's at the start of the year that we we have previous against Southampton. so And you know what their defence is like. They might well hand you a chance on a plate. like You might think, oh, we're giving up here. And then suddenly ah Hutchinson or someone might close down the striker. That was the centre half even.
00:21:49
Rob Binns
you'll pass it straight to the lap or something just out of panic that they have got those mistakes in them but it wasn't like we were banging down the door and forcing an equalizer deal it felt like it was going to take a mistake or a bit of brilliance and we don't seem to have that little bit of brilliance in us a lot of the time we are we look like we were waiting for a mistake which even against say Southampton who make a lot of them at the back it's not a position you want to be relying on that you have to you want to be applying the pressure yourself and Part of that obviously is because of how short time there was. Was it two minutes plus how much stoppage time there was? To try and get something when with a lot of tired legs on the pitch for the due to the reasons we've said before. So tired legs or a drop off in quality, it makes it difficult to push right to the end. So we had done it before, but you never felt confident, I wouldn't say.
00:22:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, no. Yeah, no, it was frustrating. I mean, they didn't feel like to me, a ah I think the belief, you know, you just saw the kind of response to the second goal, really, like the the the energy just got sucked out of the stadium. I think it was all a result that we kind of like feared, obviously, but I'm not sure if we many of us, you know, I was, I was pretty confident we would get a result this weekend. But I think The thing is, we we're so clearly not a 90-minute team. we have these kind of like you know we have ah We have a very strict plan. We're very well coached, obviously very well set up. Individual errors have ah happened throughout the season, which obviously always undermines that. But we seem to have this kind of like energy that we can throw at teams. And McKenna talked about it after the game. He's like, ah we should have been ahead at halftime.
00:23:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it's almost as if when we don't get into the positions that we think our play deserves, we don't have the reserves or the kind of like mental confidence this year, the mental kind of like, you know, strength to kind of go again and attack again, particularly when we go behind or, you know, or get hit but hit back or whatever. There's obviously been moments where we have full and we we retook the lead and responded well and stuff. Villa, we've did it as well. But I think the longer the season's gone on, you've seen our response to going behind, even though we went behind in this game, has not been great to find another gear again. And it's difficult, I think, at this moment in time to see where that's coming from, because there does seem to be a bit of ah a confidence problem throughout the team. And I guess it's down to individual players not playing brilliant. Morsy had another poor game. Amari Hutchinson didn't have a very good game. Again, you know these kind of talismanic players, whether that's correct or not, you know
00:24:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
on kind of, you know, Jacob Greaves, they're not stepping up to the plate, unfortunately. So you're kind of getting throughout the team, a bit of a, a bit of a mediocrity. Is that fair? is it It feels harsh, but that feels like what what you're kind of watching really.
00:24:41
Rob Binns
Yeah, ah I'd agree. I mean, two of the players you picked out there, I said I would, I didn't want to see him start a lineup coming into it and for the sort of the fear.
00:24:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know. Which is bonkers, right? You think at the start of the season, they are the two players that we we would hang our hats on.
00:24:52
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:24:57
Rob Binns
Yeah. And I say, I said, with I expected we'd move back to a four and we did. I said, for that reason, I'd want Burgess back in there rather than Greaves. And obviously we spoke about Hutchinson a lot in the last couple of weeks.
00:25:08
Rob Binns
And I said, I'd like to have seen Philip Jean, because he would at least has like he has a point to prove, doesn't he, that as the man coming in, that you think that I'd give him that extra emphasis that Hutchinson doesn't have, where he's proven himself already, that he sort of, he can, he's got that expectation there now.
00:25:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:25:27
Rob Binns
He's more managing expectation rather than proven a point, which is the opposite of what Philogene would be. But that's sort of my fear. I say I picked those two as a couple to drop out the team, because I feared another performance like they've sitting a lot they've had and lot in a few games recently.
00:25:45
Rob Binns
They say mediocrity, it sounds harsh, but it probably is the fairest way you can describe those performances. And so I feared we'd see that again, if they started, they did start and we saw it again.
00:25:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:57
Rob Binns
And it's sort of
00:25:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:58
Rob Binns
I just hope it's not, it's almost like we're all almost repeating the same mistakes at some point now. It's sort of the first time we've ever really had to question McKenna decisions but because he's got everything right in two and a half years. And obviously this level is significantly harder and we know we know that. or not But someone commented this on our TikTok actually the other day and I forgot the name so I can't say shout you out, I'm sorry. But I agree with it is that The fact we haven't got, like he doesn't know his best 11, which we've made that point, but we've got to February and we still don't know our best 11, which is, that's ah such a big part of the problem.
00:26:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know.
00:26:40
Rob Binns
And obviously it's difficult to know that when you've got so many under performing players, but how can you expect, say, how can you expect a manager to so set up his set up his team tactically right to go and get results when he doesn't, he can't even know what 11 players he wants on the pitch a lot of the time.
00:26:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:26:58
Rob Binns
It's something that should have been sorted out by now.
00:27:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it is. And you can only really say that that, you know, some of the players have let him down in that in terms of the people that you would have expected to to be b players you can build around. A goalkeeper, for example, ah you know, a couple of centre backs, a central midfielder. Dilap's done that job, you know, in the sense of he's been that totemic kind of striker for us, but a lot of those those players down that spine have not done that. O'Shea, you could argue, kind of has, um and made himself, you know, a regular starter. But even that, you know, I know I'm not his biggest, like, fan, but even that, I think that's down more to kind of
00:27:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
at least he puts in consistent kind of like effort for 90 minutes in a game and he's not making those really silly kind of like mistakes that some of the other guys have made and again it's not pulling people out it's just more of a sense of When a, when a ship is kind of really sort of rocking, which we really are at the moment, you know, this could go one of two ways. We can get galvanized and pick up a couple of points and give ourselves another burst for the final part of the season, or we can start
Rallying for Upcoming Games
00:28:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
to sink without a trace. If we lose another three or four in a row, then we're probably gone. You know, so.
00:28:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
We're at that point in the season now. I thought we we all thought that maybe before the Southampton game, but given the fixtures that we'd lost, you can kind of write them off anyway. This is very much a kind of like, where's the club at? Where we you know where where where kind can the staff kind of galvanise them? And it'd be interesting to see if they can. But anyway, look, we'll take one more quick break um and then we'll come back and pick the bones of um of any other business.
00:29:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, let me ask you a question and go back to one of the players that we were talking about a little bit earlier. Why has McKenna, do you think been so reticent to take Hutchinson out of the team, just even for a game?
00:29:22
Rob Binns
I don't know. I think it's because the only thing I can think is because we've seen the quality there before and I'd go back to a point I made earlier on that about sometimes games need a mistake or a bit of magic. we don't see it We don't look very capable of producing bits of magic but someone who can on his day is Hutchinson. You almost feel like you need to you to have him in the team because just in case, because when he clicks, he can effectively win a game on his own.
00:29:54
Rob Binns
We saw that, well, we'll certainly get results on his own.
00:29:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:29:56
Rob Binns
I won' ah know we obviously go back to the whole game as the prime example, but how many other players, even now with all the silence we've made in our squad, could you see wrapping two in from outside the box side of that to get us a point in a game like that?
00:30:10
Rob Binns
That he has got that, but to counter that point, that if he's not showing on a consistent time in a row, And more so when he looks tired, give him a break.
00:30:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. That's yeah.
00:30:20
Rob Binns
It's not so, it's not so much starting, but he played 90 minutes and he's looked so tired for the last couple of games.
00:30:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. yeah
00:30:29
Rob Binns
And I know we're saying the options off a bench on a hundred percent, but you do look, you do have to question it. As we talk about that front three behind the lap, we had broad head.
00:30:42
Rob Binns
I thought I had a really good game and see so played well.
00:30:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:30:45
Rob Binns
as well and look very sharp. Hutchinson will look off a bit. Who played 90 minutes out of those three?
00:30:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I know. Yeah.
00:30:52
Rob Binns
that's faster' to That's the where my question mark is. But look, like I said, I know it's tough for McKenna.
00:30:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Of course.
00:31:01
Rob Binns
Like you say, if you look at that 11, how many players he are nailed on when you say in in your you'll hip switch best 11 this season. You're probably at six or less, aren't you?
00:31:13
Rob Binns
In terms of nailed on, must start every week.
00:31:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, well, that's it.
00:31:17
Rob Binns
And that's the big problem he's got.
00:31:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, but that but that's what you said earlier, you know.
00:31:18
Rob Binns
but
00:31:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he's not easy's but he's in February and hasn't found his starting 11. And you're right, any fan would find it very difficult to say this is my starting 11.
00:31:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
um I would say that there's been a few, I mean, we've obviously had quite a lot of injuries where players have come in for a couple of games, picked up something, and then they've missed like two or three games. It's been a bit bitty. The whole season has been a bit bitty, but that's kind of part and parcel of football, isn't it? I think, ah you know, Calvin Phillips should be playing. It's an indictment on him more than anyone that he's not, um but he should be, we've talked about this, but he should be in that Ipswich team. that's It's kind of incredible that he's not managed to do that.
00:32:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think the Hutchinson thing, you you kind of nailed it there, you know, like he is, he is one of the players that we have that has proven, albeit in the championship for the most part, has proven that you can come up with those moments of real, real quality. And he's done it a few, you know, two or three times in the Premier League as well. Now, of course, the expectation levels really high with him but from the fan base because of what he did last year because of his quality and stuff. But for me, when we need a spark off the bench and we need a spark at the 60 minute mark,
00:32:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's the perfect player for that. And you've now bought in Philogene, who's playing in his position as well. why don't you start filleggine for a couple of weeks? Start him for 60 minutes, let him run himself ragged, trying to prove a point, trying to get that first, you know, staying in the side web. And then Hutchinson comes back in and has to earn those minutes again. And also gives him perhaps the opportunity to just absolutely bomb it for 30 minutes and do what he does so well, especially at a time in games where we offer so little threat. I think he would be more effective against those tiring defenders. Because even though he is quick, he is tricky,
00:33:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
There's plenty of quicker and trickier wingers in the league than Amari Hutchinson, to be perfectly honest. So it's not as if the defenders are coming up against something that's kind of out of the ordinary, you know what I mean? So I think for him, it makes perfect sense that he would come into games a little bit later, certainly at this point where he's not in form. But McKenna, and i um this is not critical, but he he seems to have a ah ah slight blind spot when it comes to him at the moment. and um And it would I think it'd be interesting to see him him come into the game later and see what impact he can have then.
00:33:39
Rob Binns
Yeah, i think I think the competition will be good as well, because obviously we've questioned the plan of over the course of the January window, but ultimately, obviously, Hutchinson swaps between the number 10 and the right-hand side, and we've brought in two players there who you could very feasibly start over him in each position, which then ah you it has to get us back to that argument of he's struggling with expectation, but so he doesn't have that point to prove at the moment.
00:33:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:34:07
Rob Binns
like like they used to do by coming in, but if they come in the team and become the first choice in those positions, then then he's got that point to prove again. and But so I think that will i think i will honestly make a difference, but it can only make a difference if it's if it is a competition, if he's if he can play poorly and start and and play 90 minutes the next game anyway.
00:34:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:34:33
Rob Binns
then that that competition isn't there. He doesn't he doesn't have to go and prove himself and maintain that start and spot if he's guaranteed it anyway. So it has to go both ways, but I really do think the sign is made.
00:34:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:34:43
Rob Binns
I think the kind of having that element of competition there, I do, because he certainly has got another dick and get another gear to hit this season. I do think this very much could be the ah push to get him into that next gear we need.
00:34:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:34:54
Rob Binns
And then, and the same for in CSO and Fullerton as well. they the The best case scenario is to have all three playing well and make that a really tough choice for McKenna to make every week. Like, if we have three of them playing well with a Battland to keep the team ahead of the other two, then that's only going to end well for us.
00:35:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. And as you say, Nathan Broadhead came on again and had another played again and you know had another good another good performance. It'll be interesting to see if he keeps his place because every single time he's coming to the team, hes he's been one of our better, more consistent players, I would say.
00:35:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
He obviously had a fairly good chance in the first half as well, which Ramsdale, to be fair, did make her did make a decent save from. All right Robler, it was a very disappointing result for sure, not a great performance either. um Any other thoughts from you before we ah go and see what's happening in the transfer market?
00:35:46
Rob Binns
Yeah, I just can't believe Joe Rebo scored after I said, I literally picked him out as an example last week, the comparison from the Liverpool game. And to be fair, I was right. I said if he gave him a similar position, he wouldn't produce as high quality of a shot or show us life. But what I didn't factor in is that Murch would be in goal and let it in anyway. But as it had to be, didn't it, after all? It's just the first Southampton midfielder I could think of and I mean, yeah, he wouldn't score from a similar position would he? And then then he does but admittedly like i say the shot was worse i was right about that part i just didn't factor in that having the goalie let it in anyway no well it to be fair neither end to see many goals in front of the important road this year except for the opposition
00:36:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. No. No. Yeah, not great. The North stand haven't seen many goals in front of it this year, have they?
00:36:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
I was just thinking, how many goals have we scored in the second half at home? Really not many.
00:36:41
Rob Binns
No. Well, how many, how long ago do we, someone brought a stat in, not probably, what, a few weeks ago now that we'd scored five goals, 70 minutes onwards in games.
00:36:52
Rob Binns
And can you think of one we have added to that tally since then?
00:36:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that was me.
00:36:56
Rob Binns
Yeah. I can't remember how many weeks ago that was, but have we got another one since?
00:36:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:37:01
Rob Binns
Which is again, part of the problem.
00:37:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, the last goal we scored in the... Yeah, Greaves, obviously, in in injury time at Liverpool.
00:37:06
Rob Binns
Mm-hmm. Oh yes, of course. I can't count if it's consolation though, can we?
00:37:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
But that was the... No, probably not, probably not. All right, anyway, look, we're going to be back tomorrow, everyone, for a wrap up of the January transfer window. We know that Ipswich are pretty close to confirming some business, which we, ah well, from following the weekend, we thought could happen. There's a few hours left as we're recording to see if there's any other business done. I mean, McKenna was expecting it to be pretty quiet.
00:37:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've obviously bought in ah two two three three players to this point, confirmed. So we've already bought in three. Whether there's another one snuck in at the end, we're not too sure. We obviously still don't have that striker that everyone was thinking with that we were going to get. So at the moment we're relying on running to lap into the ground and hoping that George Hearst doesn't pick up an injury, but that seems like a long shot, unfortunately. um So yeah, we'll wait and see. Rob, um thank you for your thoughts.
00:38:06
Rob Binns
there No worries, happy happy to give him.
00:38:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
and good good as always lovely stuff all right thank you everyone for listening and we will see you tomorrow for a wrap-up of the transfer news