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Episode 112: Matchday Preview - A Trip to Old Trafford
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Southampton – It's match day! Which feels unusual on a Thursday, but we've got a trip to the Theatre of dreams! Let's hope our dreams come true. Could it really be our mist likely source
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00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the Daily Southampton, part of the Global Sports Podcast Network. My name is Greg Elliott, and as always, I'm joined by my wonderful co-host, Zachy Gophinch. How are you doing, Zach?
00:00:20
Zak
Yeah, right mate. Just feels a bit weird.
00:00:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ready?
00:00:23
Zak
i just I don't know how I feel going into games anymore.
00:00:28
Zak
It just seems the feels are right off at this point,
00:00:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
something really weird about football on a Thursday night as well, although something our opponents are much more familiar with in the last five or six years. But before we get into the game, I guess, since we last spoke publicly, some interesting news from the club about Henrik Kraft stepping down. I know you shared your thoughts a bit on it yesterday in the crossover episode, but
00:01:00
Zak
Yeah, quote unquote stepping down is is where I'm at. Again, it's really, as we've constantly pointed out, it's really nice that we've got a fancy new pub at St Mary's. But apparently they let the football go to absolute pot during that time.
00:01:13
Zak
And it seems like somebody's finally taken notice.
00:01:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it's nice to get acknowledgement of that, because we've been saying it, and it's been the discourse amongst other, you know, podcasts and social media for a while, and it's nice to see actual acknowledgement of that and step forward is Is it within their power to now go out and make the right hires to do that?
00:01:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
The jury's out for me, but it's good to see them trying.
00:01:42
Zak
Yeah, I was having a back and forth with one of the people we interact with on Twitter quite regularly and it's it's kind of like, oh well if they're hopefully bringing in some footballing heads, it makes me feel more confident.
00:01:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
I hope they can.
00:01:54
Zak
I don't know if they they know the right footballing heads to bring in because that requires you having a fundamental understanding of not being scammed by people who would be the right appointment and I just don't know If that's something they're capable of anymore because they've they've done this before they've they brought in, you know We had like a they brought in a good sort of recruitment network We had like the whole of man city's academy at one point and then later on obviously, you know Wilcox come in who then obviously went to Manchester United Who left that its it sort of seems like even if they do find someone that's good retention may also be a problem So
00:02:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
that
00:02:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, well, look that's let's hope that they've learnt from that in the past and can take the experience they've gained and make better decisions and like I say the jury's out I don't want to be negative on it and say they don't have the ability to hire properly but also I don't want to be all happy clappy and yeah we're football focused that's gonna solve all the problems because I just don't know until we find out more I just it could be the way but it's nice that the and it's acknowledgement right that they
00:03:00
Zak
It is a step forward, right?
00:03:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's the first time they've properly taken accountability and acknowledgement that the football side has not been good enough.
00:03:12
Zak
I think that's that that's probably the best thing to take from it, right? Is that is that somebody has recognised that this season has been awful and that it's one of the money people that matter. And they've decided that you know whilst it's fantastic that St Mary's now has safe standing in a new pub, that isn't going to cut it footballing-wise and potentially will get people with a better but head on their
00:03:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:03:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:03:33
Zak
Like, the big fear, though, is as much as they say they're not going to make the same mistakes again, are we end up going to do it we could end up doing transfer business towards the end of the window again? Again, I'm kind of accepting and almost happy if we end up just having outgoings at this point.
00:03:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean then nothing can be done to save this season if we're being realistic. Sure, we could win every game from this point forward and potentially stay up, but if we are taking the realistic analysis approach instead of the optimistic analysis approach,
00:04:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
when they came out and said no teams were getting Dr. PSR points, that really was the the final hope of getting anything from the season, which is already pretty sad, isn't it?
00:04:17
Zak
Yeah that's...
00:04:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
so
00:04:20
Zak
but is That is pretty sad, whenever we have to rely on things like that in general. But I will also point out to you that like, Forrester technically in a title battle with Liverpool, which if you'd said at the beginning of the season was also something no one would believe.
00:04:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:04:34
Zak
So who who knows what's what's going on where, but I'm just kind of, I'd like to to be optimistic. I just currently have absolutely zero trust in our ownership and it's up to them to work it back for, I think, the fans, to be perfectly honest.
00:04:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah agreed but uh as we've talked about on the show before whilst there are obvious flaws and holes in their approach i don't think you can question their intentions like they haven't set out to deliberately cause this they have invested and therefore are better than the previous establishment through lack of trying and hopefully You can teach or you can learn the ability to progress and get better. You can't forcibly make people who don't want to invest invest. So I think it's the right way around for it to be personally.
00:05:29
Zak
Yes, i just I just hope that they they put somebody where that communication is happening happening more regularly.
00:05:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:37
Zak
Because like again, I wouldn't be surprised if if it was off the back of they had this transfer meeting last week and they sat down and went, who are the targets? And then Kraft turned to Jureka and went, who are the targets?
00:05:50
Zak
ah solik was like, hang on, you're not doing anything footballing behind the scenes. And it like that's kind of how I imagine these conversations are going in my head, because we'd love to think there was a much wider plan. But we discovered on the day that Russell Martin was fired, mate, that the plan was about five minutes into it. like They were like, yeah, so we have no targets for managers because we didn't think we were going to do this until five minutes ago. And you're like,
00:06:14
Zak
Oh that's the pre-planning that's going into it but I will remain hopeful alongside you that it will be a positive change and in a season and a half time we'll be a lot happier and in a much better position.
00:06:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. All right. Well, let's, bring it back to the the task at hand and the nearer future. Uh, a trip to Old Trafford. How are we feeling?
00:06:40
Zak
Last time we won 2016, we won 1-0, Charlie Austin scored. It was just after we bought him. That was the last time we beat beat Manu.
00:06:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:47
Zak
Every other game has been a loss or a draw.
00:06:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:49
Zak
So that's about where my optimism lies.
00:06:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
this is not the feared away fixture of times gone past this is a man united who sit what 13th in the table
00:06:59
Zak
Yeah, but ah ah if if so previously, you've got to remember, you completely smashed me in the Fulham game. Because there's been things to be a high score in a fair and you're like, no, usually it's boring. And then it was the most boring game of football I've ever watched.
00:07:14
Zak
And that says a lot because what it means is that if you're going historically as to how we play United, the most we can hope for is a drill, if not a loss. And like, yeah, OK, Old Trafford isn't the fortress it once was to other teams. We've got a kind of hope on what the the guys said, you know, Samuel Ollie was talking about how sort of it could be for them considered a banana skin, right?
00:07:37
Zak
Like they could be so overconfident from their results that they they slip up against us. But I'm also pretty sure that we're still not in a position where we know our best 11. I'm genuinely like, when we go to do lineups, like when I was doing a lineup yesterday, I was like, I don't know, because we played our last game without the strikers and that worked better than when we played with the strikers.
00:07:58
Zak
So it could turn out to be something exciting and far more
00:08:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
I need.
00:08:03
Zak
Unpredictable than we expect especially we're just like being the weird vibes of Thursday night But then the last time we had a weird midweek game mate was when we went to see Chelsea against Chelsea and that was Well, we we were both there I am I'm sure you are
00:08:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah,
00:08:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'd rather not think about that. Yeah, no, you're right. Look, it might shock you to find out, Zach, that I'm feeling pretty optimistic about our chances. And frankly, of the of the two games coming up, this is the one I've got the most hope for, because I watched Liverpool Forest last night at the time of recording. and are very concerned about how Sunday's gonna play out for us but let's put it that way six points from forest a hundred percent yeah I thought I'm pretty sure in my predictions I had them to go down so
00:08:41
Zak
I'd love to think that I reckon when you were doing that, that list of teams you thought would be at the beginning of the season, I'd bet you any money that you probably had us being able to take points away from Forest. There it is.
00:09:00
Zak
what a world we live in mate, eh? But yes, how exciting.
00:09:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
well but Well, let's let's move on to the m unenviable task of predicted lineups, but first a message from our partners at Zencaster. So here at the Global Sports Podcast Network, we spent a lot of time selecting our delivery platform. Zencaster came out the clear winner with 4K video recording from your phone and AI editing that automatically removes all those ums and r's. It's super easy to start a podcast that sounds great and is delivered efficiently.
00:09:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
If you're ready to tell your story, check out the link in the show description and learn more about Zencaster. Okay, mate. Untraditionally, I'm going to take the reins here instead of throwing over two immediately.
00:09:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
And my prediction for the team lineup can very much be summarized by I don't see a lot of changes from the weekend coming.
00:09:52
Zak
Yeah, that's kind of what I said.
00:09:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
How are you? Yeah. How are you? but Maybe, maybe one, maybe two. Maybe, briefer would. That might be the only change I see.
00:10:00
Zak
Yeah, so that was basically pretty much what I said. Maybe Seguaro on the right is again with Kyle Karpeter's i my My concern is whether or not we go back to actually having a striker, because I don't know whether or not we're expecting to be dominated by Manchester United. I feel like we should. In which case, is he going to want a big man at the end and potentially put to a pool up there? But again, like it it was the only time in recent history we've we've had like a win that was also quite comfortable uh since probably the Cardiff game right and that was so far at the beginning of the season pretty sure it it feels like a millennia ago and even then we still can see the three so like so yeah i guess if it's not broken don't fix it but
00:10:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:10:48
Zak
I don't know. It's genuinely, you know, are we seeing the resurgence of Suleimana potentially?
00:10:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, you'd you'd be daft to not have him in the starting 11 based off of that performance. And I know that it was a lower opposition. I know that Manny United are not Swansea, but you've got to go on confidence and form.
00:11:07
Zak
Yeah, that's that's pretty much like what we've been lacking. throughout the entirety of the season and one of the problems that the side hasn't remained settled. Or even when the the side was remained was settled, that was, I think, be one of the biggest problems when we were constantly screaming for something to change because we were putting the same line up out week in, week out that was miserable.
00:11:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:11:26
Zak
But yeah, if you if you win the 3-0, why would you change that? It might be entirely based off of who's tired, who's not who might need a few more minutes.
00:11:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
00:11:35
Zak
you know I know Smallbone got on the pitch of the other day, so I know that he might be gunning to send some more people out. But yeah, i kind of I'm kind of with you. it's I don't really see any drastic changes to the to the lineup because it worked.
00:11:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:52
Zak
We won without Strikas.
00:11:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. and yeah it comes a lot from the way we played and the positioning and and and truthfully because ones were very poor but even so it um it seems daft that you would pull that off successfully and then immediately go back to exactly what wasn't working previously yeah it's i don't know it'll be an interesting one
00:12:18
Zak
the The flip side, as I pointed out yesterday, on the other side of things is like, Jorik has more than one plan. So it might be that he decides to mix things up because he's seen the way that Manu have played and wants to play in a specific way.
00:12:31
Zak
And we do we do something slightly different.
00:12:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:12:33
Zak
So this is where the other side comes in, is that we might decide to do something a bit more you know tactic tactically different
00:12:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
We fancy Cameron Archer's pace against the Tarim Maguire, definitely. Like...
00:12:47
Zak
Yeah, that's that's what that's what I mean. But they those could obviously become as changes as the game goes on, and you could start the same way that you went. But yeah, just it's it's difficult, I guess, to to preview. And I know that, obviously, and the thing is, especially with Manchester United at the moment, is that you on on their day, they could be incredible. And then on the other day, it is like playing in a championship opposition.
00:13:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, really fascinating sort of metrics with them where it really entirely depends which team show up.
00:13:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I guess it's the same from us, whereas we've had games this season where we've performed well and still lost, i but but have performed.
00:13:20
Zak
Mm.
00:13:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then also we've had days where we don't look like we want to be there. So I don't know. it I guess from both teams perspective, It depends who can be bothered to play on a Thursday night, right? Is there really what it's gonna come down to?
00:13:42
Zak
Pretty much, but again again, this is the cynic in me. we are We are coming to an end, to the January window. I feel like some players might want to get picked up in that window.
00:13:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is
00:13:53
Zak
If they are...
00:13:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
opportunity to put themselves on display?
00:13:56
Zak
Yeah, I know that you know people aren't like, Well, that's what I mean is that like, you know, but that is a potential for something that could happen with these games is that, you know, that I don't think that if you're a player and you're kind of confirmed at this point, we're essentially going down.
00:13:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know, if it's gonna get them playing though, I take it, you know? That's how bad it's been. he you know
00:14:19
Zak
your mindset surely is going to be, well, I'll try and, you know, it's like ah ah I took a driving test in the middle of this last year and and I failed it. I knew I failed it quite quickly. As soon as drivers had to touch the wheel, I was like, cool. I still finished strong. I went in another 20 minutes afterwards and sort of had to go through and and sort of then I got got told I was a really good driver. It was was only only really the big major that hit me. Other than that, I had like two or three faults and stuff. So yeah, it's like finishing finishing strong. And I feel like that's probably where a lot of them are at.
00:14:51
Zak
is that there are going to be those that are just like, well, I fell down towards where as we drive back to the centre, and there'll be the others that are kind of like, well, I want to push on and see what I can do for the best of the season, but also, because, yeah, I reckon with a couple of them, it's probably to put themselves into the shot window more, but also, as you pointed out, if it means they put a performance in, do we really care?
00:15:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I really don't.
00:15:10
Zak
At this point, no.
00:15:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
and he ah Whatever Whatever the motivation is, clearly the unreasonable amount of money they get paid a week isn't motivational enough. So whatever it's going to take to get a game out of them, I'm happy with is, yeah.
00:15:27
Zak
Yeah, it's just a strange old world we live in and it's going to be a strange rest of the season because it's like, you know, what are we really fighting for just to win the FA Cup at this point, right?
00:15:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah Well, just to get more points than Derby is still target one.
00:15:42
Zak
You're right. I keep I keep I say like i I blanked that out of my mind.
00:15:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
And that's why I think of the, I mean, arguably of the three games upcoming this one, Forest and Newcastle, United are the most likely for us to to get anything from, which again is a baffling
00:16:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
If you're not following this season, and it shows how crazy the Premier League really is, right?
00:16:07
Zak
Yeah, that is incredibly upsetting. And you're right, but I think that there are tons of games this season where we felt like we should have got something and we got nothing.
00:16:19
Zak
You know, we got what?
00:16:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:20
Zak
A couple of draws and one win. A win that was probably one of the worst games that we've had, to be honest.
00:16:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:26
Zak
So who knows?
00:16:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, I think there was reasonable to say that until Chelsea Spurs of Brentford. so maybe like the fifth worst we've had this season.
00:16:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know. yes
00:16:39
Zak
I don't know, somehow all of them are staying a little bit more than the nine Nils. At least the nine Nils, that was usually a red card and someone afterwards, right? But like, gah.
00:16:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Okie dokie, well let's move on to score predictions and after a message from our partners at the Global Sports Podcast Network.
00:16:58
Zak
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00:17:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, so remind me Zach from yesterday, what was your score prediction?
00:17:21
Zak
I had a heart and one and my heart wants to go 2-1 and that was mainly for you because I know that you can't bring yourself to somehow ever predict the Saints loss which is... at this point, makes me worry for your sanity. So I said 2-1, and I can't exactly remember who I said scored, maybe Matthew Fernandez, for because, you know, I think he deserves one, and he's the one that I really want everyone to stop looking at. Please don't pay attention to him. Let us have him in the championship, please. but But my head says, well, the last time we got beaten, we got beaten pretty comfortably, and I would say 3-0, and also they've got an out-of-form striker who is struggling for goals, Greg.
00:18:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh no.
00:18:02
Zak
So you know what that means, don't you?
00:18:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Means they're gonna score.
00:18:04
Zak
It means that he's going to score a hat trick. So that's what I said. So yeah, I said, like, my realistic score prediction is probably, probably free, you know, to Manchester United, which. wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, but like I think it would harm the confidence we've built coming off of that one game.
00:18:20
Zak
So to be honest, even even a a draw, at least with goals, would be something to build on that's more than what we've had the entirety of the season, really.
00:18:33
Zak
That's what I'm really hoping for. But yeah, i just I just can't see past us.
00:18:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
hi
00:18:38
Zak
being beaten in the middle of the week because it's like, everyone's looked their clock and gone, oh, it's Thursday. Oh, right, yeah, we've got to play tomorrow.
00:18:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, makes sense. Hard to prepare yourself for a game on a weird day. All right. Well, going to go two nil saints.
00:18:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's just what I'm feeling. I've got no no ah realistic justification for why I think that we're going to keep what I actually think would be only our second clean sheet away from home all season or where those two goals are coming from.
00:19:09
Zak
How bad do you think they are?
00:19:14
Zak
I can't even swansy had a had like a deflection off the post. Come on. To be honest, I can't make it easy for that. youha You're entirely entitled to your more crazy opinions.
00:19:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
So feet I'm just feeling it. i've got no look i've Honestly, I've tried to rationalize it and make a logical argument for that decision, but there really is nothing other than that's just what I'm feeling in my gut.
00:19:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
And sometimes you've just got to stick with it.
00:19:39
Zak
I'll just remind you of of when you you had a feeling that we were going to get a bunch of points up and before Christmas and then we ended up getting nothing.
00:19:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
but that was But that was pure optimism and trying to manifest it into the universe.
00:19:50
Zak
That was your feeling.
00:19:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
This is a real, it's just what I think. If I were a better man, which I i am, that's where my money's going. so
00:20:08
Zak
I can't wait. It was like, yeah, I really feel it the other day. I remember you sent me your slip of like, yeah, ah but I think Tall Paul is going to score. And then he gets like brought off after like 20 minutes.
00:20:18
Zak
And I was like, oh, well, you know, that's the entirety of your Acre. The Acre completely collapsed in on itself in it.
00:20:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, but build yeah I mean, I had Saints to win on it as well, so it was already doomed.
00:20:31
Zak
I mean, look, if you if you put a pound on Saints to win every single game, I feel like the odds by the time that we had the Everton game would probably mean you're on a profit, right? Like, but that's how it feels.
00:20:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
The safest bet on Saints when he's fit is a pound every match on Flynn Downs to get booked.
00:20:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's an inevitability.
00:20:51
Zak
That's much safer.
00:20:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:53
Zak
Yeah, it's just what a weird, I don't know, it just feels like such a ah ah transitionary period at the moment because obviously now we've had managerial changes, which we thought would bring a lot that really haven't massively.
00:21:07
Zak
Obviously we've changed the way we play a little bit, but you know that our new manager bounce ultimately was a nil-nil draw. That was the most exciting thing to happen after Russell Martin left.
00:21:17
Zak
Obviously, like we had our win in the FA Cup at the weekend, which was lovely.
00:21:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think you're doing it a disservice. I think that and the new manager bounce as such could still take effect. Like we've had one game since he's had a proper amount of time with the team that was a disappointed performance and then a game against Swansea that we should be comfortably winning. So, and he came out and said he was disappointed with the performance and so we'll have done work to rectify that. So I think as difficult as this period of games is now,
00:21:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
they're still spaced out in a more reasonable way, that it should be the true judgment of how he's doing as a manager. like
00:21:57
Zak
i I disagree. I don't think that we can judge how he is as a manager, probably for the rest of this season. Because as you've pointed out, it is entirely at this point down to the mentality of the players. And I think that I can have, ah yeah you know me very well as a person.
00:22:12
Zak
I could have somebody come and give for me, if I am in a rut, if i am in a I am down as a person, and I could have someone come in and give me the most inspirational speech, it could be LeBron James, it could be you know Travis Kelsey or anyone like that could come and give me a pet talk. I'd be like, wow, I feel i feel yeah, yeah thank thanks. I don't know how much that would genuinely shift my mood. And I think that obviously having a new boss in, yeah, they're trying to teach them all how to play a different way but I just don't know how many of them are interested because of the ah ah such slim hopes of survival. they're not They're not fighting like a team that are doing everything they desperately can stay up because they've kind of written off the season so I don't really think that whether we win or lose it's entirely down to what
00:22:58
Zak
sort of juric is doing I think a lot of it now is going to come down to the mentality of do these players want to like go down as the worst in Premier League history or not and it's as simple as that and maybe after a few more games and maybe after we've seen his style implemented slightly more but I don't even think it'll be over the next couple of months it will be
00:23:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:21
Zak
the The measure of the man for me will be if we start to do better and then he decides to take the contract on when we go down to the championship. If not, he will be, in my mind, remembered as a Celis or a Sparky in the sense of a middle manager that kind of keeps us in transition before the next manager.
00:23:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
00:23:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm Hmm Yeah, we've got a long way to go and it could be a really long way let's be honest, but You're right that I think that
00:23:42
Zak
sense?
00:23:42
Zak
a lot of um There's a lot of reaching and a lot of me overcomplicating that with words.
00:23:52
Zak
Yeah, that's kind of where I'm at.
00:23:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
vote's still out. We've seen that he he at least has different plans. It's not just the same thing every week.
00:24:04
Zak
Yeah, us that's nice.
00:24:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
and There is still hope going into every game. and As always, it's that hope that kills you. so
00:24:13
Zak
Yeah. I think that's the difference between me and you now, mate, is I think that the shreds of hope that I had are slowly... it's like It's like a little bit... Every time this green shoot of grass gets grown, instead of it just being chopped off now, it's just being dragged out with root at all.
00:24:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:24:28
Zak
jack i need I need a new field to be laid in, put it that way.
00:24:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Look, look, we could all be surprised. And at the end of this difficult run of three games be already past Darby's record and thinking, or maybe just maybe survival on the cards.
00:24:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
You never know. Football's a funny game. It could happen. I'm not predicting this one. I'm just saying it's football. Anything can happen. Well,
00:24:53
Zak
so You sound like a ah ah save scumming football manager. Football manager player mate is what's going on here. I'm going to keep redoing this until I beat Liverpool in the FA Cup final as like Port Vale. That's what it's given me but oh happily ride know I'll happily join you for the ride into this delusion.
00:25:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
lu Well, that's the the maybe delusional level of positivity that we love to end on here at the Daily Southampton. So as always, thank you very much for listening. Zach, thank you for joining me. We've been the Daily Southampton part of the Global Sports Podcast Network. ah Let us know how you think the game is going to go. We're on all the socials. We're on Twitter, X, Blue Sky, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram. I think that's all of them.
00:25:40
Zak
Take them all off mate.
00:25:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Give us a comment on any of the podcast platforms, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, we'd love to hear what you think. And we will be back tomorrow when we will find out how it goes and we'll be here to react to it.
00:25:52
Zak
thank you
00:25:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I can't wait, it's the part of football we'd love. ah Thank you very much and we'll see you tomorrow.