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Episode 91: BONUS EPISODE! We have a new manager...
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Southampton – We have a new manager in the dugot. We discuss the surprise of him signing, and whether we think it's ambitious enough!
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Podcast Introduction
00:00:08
Zak
Welcome to the Daily Southampton, part of the Global Sports Podcast Network. Today, I am your host, Zackingo Finch. I'm joined as ever by my wonderful co-host, Gregory Elliott, who has managed to two days on the trot, not lose his microphone. Proud of you, mate. We make jokes. As you can tell, we're in a bit of a jovial mood.
New Manager Announcement: Excitement and Surprise
00:00:30
Zak
By jovial, I mean that there might be so an end to some of the uncertainty at the club.
00:00:35
Zak
because ah apparently according to all of our sources and confirmed and written on the dotted line is we have a new manager who is absolutely not a single one of the candidates we have discussed including on today's so or the episode that would have been released yesterday because I don't think anybody knew until about 8am Friday morning
00:00:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, what do the bookies know, mate? Like, all these prices coming in for Core Brand and Danny Roll, but...
00:01:02
Zak
Well, I'm guessing it's because apparently, so so I guess we'll so we'll start with, before we go into who the manager is, we'll we'll discuss
Challenges in Hiring: Financial Constraints and Skepticism
00:01:10
Zak
some of those other bits. So it looks to be that some of the candidates we suspected were interviewed. Some of that seems to have been confirmed by some of the daily echo reporting, where they're getting their sources, who knows, but usually they're, you know, probably usually correct about things like that. There's sort of sources that role had an interview, um It was eager to join, but a lot of the problems with hiring all of those managers, which are issues that unfortunately befall um a lot lot of clubs and specifically ours for the last couple of years, is so that we need to pay money to get them.
00:01:47
Zak
And unfortunately, we've invested it into having different types of beer at the stadium. So a lot I feel like Anderson paid for a lot of that.
00:01:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Don't forget that really impressive fireworks display when we were on Amazon as well.
00:02:00
Zak
As I say, if I'm totally honest, but yeah, obviously all jokes aside and stuff, is is but we it's it's a reminder to everybody out there that we basically know nothing all the time.
00:02:12
Zak
and always take our podcast with a pinch of salt because we have never claimed to be experts in either football or anything else we're just two mates that like to chat about it and have a laugh and quite frankly you know it's probably our saving grace because i do feel sorry for the journalists that do come out and say that their solid sources have said a
00:02:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
the
00:02:31
Zak
and then B never happens. And I think it confirms that some of the things that we've thought in the past, such as David Moyes, Graham Potter, all that kind of stuff, seemed a bit pipe dreamy. And I know a lot of people are like, oh no, we could get him in.
00:02:42
Zak
I'm like, yeah, but we just don't want to spend that amount of money.
00:02:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
I just can't believe it was ever on the cards.
00:02:48
Zak
Like half the transfers we made this season were sort of players that would have gone down to the championship. The other half are some lovely transfers, I think you'd be wrong.
00:02:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:02:59
Zak
but then our best players turned out to be an academy prospect. So the idea that we were going to break the bank.
00:03:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right. It takes someone absolutely mental to come in and take charge of the team at this point. and It turns out that's probably what we've got.
00:03:10
Zak
And that seems to be what we've got.
New Manager's Background and Approach
00:03:13
Zak
A man who most recently's tenure at Roma ended without happiness, but previously seems to have done all right at Torino. Even scrapping in car parks.
00:03:26
Zak
Over what he thinks is right about the team. Let's just hope it's not like the last sort of transfer We had from Roman mate, which was that he was found Yeah
00:03:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:03:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
wow thats
00:03:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I don't think I've got a response to that. Look, we wanted change and we wanted something different and I don't really think that it gets more of the other end of the scale from a sort of soft spoken, gentle parenting style approach of Russell Martin to a what who from what I can tell from everything I've read and seen about him just seems to be a passionate, hot-headed Croatian man who isn't isn't as strong as in his beliefs as Ross and mine was.
00:04:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I don't know.
00:04:18
Zak
have to see where I'm at.
00:04:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
We wanted something different and different is what we've got.
00:04:20
Zak
Yeah, that's it. We wanted something different. And like I said that I went when I was asked and they were like, Oh, what are the names you like being linked? And I'm kind of like, be i I don't mind a left field pick as long as it as long as it makes sense.
00:04:35
Zak
And it's something different and offers, you know, and for every sort of good manager we get, we usually get an off one. um I don't have a lot of faith in sports republics choices so far.
00:04:48
Zak
That's no disrespect to to, you know, our new incoming manager. It's just one of those things that, you know, it just when it came out that they hadn't even started thinking about candidates to replace him.
00:05:00
Zak
And he went on Sunday, where now five days later, they seem to have found found the answer to all our questions. And what was originally going to be a six month contract that became an 18th month sort contract, but
Contract Details and Financial Concerns
00:05:11
Zak
six months.
00:05:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
An 18 month contract with a six month break review is the the important part, which sounds a lot like a six month contract with a potential extension, but phrased differently.
00:05:15
Zak
Yeah.
00:05:23
Zak
Potentially, i'm guessing I'm guessing somewhere in between there, it just means that he'll maybe get some money ah ah under under it. you know But I think some of the things that do definitely worry me is if they've decided that they think he's the strongest candidate, and that's and and also it saves them a little bit of money all for it.
00:05:43
Zak
if they have decided they don't want to go for some of the candidates that they would prefer because they have to spend some money that's slightly worrying because we're about to go into a transfer window that everyone and their dog kind of knows is going to be vital for not only the rest of the season which however it may be although a lot of us have already accepted relegation at this point however it will be extremely important for the next a couple of seasons, or at least the next season.
00:06:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know you're a football manager player so you probably know you're probably gonna understand the reference I'm gonna make but there's a
00:06:15
Zak
I am.
00:06:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
challenge where you start at the bottom right and try and win all of the different champions leagues across the continents and I recently watched someone attempt that and what the running theme was that every job he got offered came with uh we hope that you're good at working with low resources and it just feels like that's the niche that irik naturally has carved himself because he did it with his previous teams right with
00:06:29
Zak
Correct.
00:06:46
Zak
you're right
00:06:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
the the lowest budget in the league. He stayed in Serie A twice in a row with, was it Hellas Veronas? So if that's the the niche he's carved himself, you're going to do well with not a lot.
00:07:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
the The most interesting thing I've seen, and obviously I'm no Serie A expert, all of my reading about
00:07:11
Zak
You're right!
00:07:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
his play style and his approach has come since the news broke this morning. So, but it looks like he, he likes a four, three, two, one system, which is fine. It sort of fits. I can see a lot of our players fitting into that system, but that interesting, what that means is there's no wingers, which is fascinating because we've got about 23 of them. So, I mean, Diblin's natural position tends to be in like a number 10 through the middle anyway.
00:07:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
on slightly to one side, which would fit into that system, as the same as I guess could be said for Adam Armstrong and Proton Diaz, maybe. But like all of our natural wingers, like Suleimana, Ryan Fraser, does it just mean we're not going to see him anymore?
00:08:03
Zak
Your words, not mine mate, but where I'm at is that once again, there's a transfer window coming up and, you know, wing wing backs is something we've also got abundance of, but I guess we'll speak a little bit more about this after a word from our partners at Sengcaster.
00:08:21
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00:08:44
Zak
So, yeah, this is this is this is the thing is obviously we've not really had much of a chance to to look at how he's going to set up. um And, you know, as you said, this is what the formation that we've seen. But if we're looking to play with that wingers, we've got quite a lot. What this means for a lot of the personnel will be will be interesting as well. It's the guy seems like an extremely different type of character to their previous boss, which is something everybody in life usually has to deal with. At some point, you're going to get a boss that's different to the boss you've had previously.
Manager's Philosophy and Mid-Season Adaptation Challenges
00:09:13
Zak
and part of existing is having the mentality to adapt to that but obviously the problem that you've got is what happens when your job role becomes obsolete and that's I think some of the worry that you've got with probably some of the players right now and how willing they're going to be to adapt to fit into a system but also importantly how willing he will be adapt he will be to adapt the system to the resources that he has because that is a big problem as you as we all know that we've struggled with so far this season
00:09:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah um Yeah and I guess you're right it's going to be trying to fit these square pegs into round holes and see what we can do and and that We, we needed something different and this is something
00:09:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
the, the word is that he's a high pressing style of play type manager that prefers his players to be super fit and to win the game with that.
00:10:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I mean, it's no secret on this podcast that that's something I've been criticizing this team for, for weeks now.
00:10:15
Zak
Yeah,
00:10:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, uh, so, and it's hard, I guess that.
00:10:16
Zak
great.
00:10:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's a really hard position to be in midway through the season to try and instill that when it's not been the case. It sounds like the sort of philosophy that almost needs a preseason to adapt to. And it'll be interesting to see how quickly he's able to to turn it around. And that transition, I think is the important part, right? Because any manager that you take on with a a defined style or a defined philosophy has the potential for success once you get to that end point but it's the transition from this point to that that's that's important and so yeah I mean I don't see us firing in before the end of the season if it doesn't go well either we did it before and it was stupid yeah
00:11:06
Zak
I agree, but only from a financial perspective, because we have been here before and and it and it took something like 30 odd days and Saints fans notoriously bad when it comes to, that's not true. That's not true. We're not notoriously bad for getting behind managers. but What I mean is that when things change, there is usually a small percentage, like there is any club that get very, very vocal very, very quickly. And like I could easily see, I can already picture what a Zurich out banner would look like in my head.
00:11:38
Zak
that That's the kind of worrying thing because it's like, we're going to have to back it, back him no matter what.
00:11:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:43
Zak
Because at this point, know we already have kind of the feeling that we're down, right?
00:11:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:11:47
Zak
when hassen hoter went it was because we thought oh, my God, he's going to drive us out. We need to find someone else. And then that person proceeded to be absolutely insane, but not make any differences on the pitch whatsoever, really.
00:11:59
Zak
And also complained it was to do with the fact that he was kind of too scared to stand up to the players. And then we ended up sort of seeing out the season with someone that's now gone on to have a great career, but was not ready for that step.
00:12:10
Zak
I feel like this guy seems unfazed by the Premier League and unfazed by that level of stuff.
00:12:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah he's certainly not going to be dropping i mean he might well be dropping quotes for sound bites for days but they're not going to be of the same ilk as Nathan Jones and i could have gone and married he he seems like someone who's going to immediately be all in and i like that i guess it is
00:12:25
Zak
Yeah, exactly. and
00:12:33
Zak
Yeah, it's been a while since we've had that, really. like I know that russe martin and Russell Russell Martin, as much as he was a Southampton manager and brought a lot of togetherness and brought a lot of togetherness with him and sort of like within the squad and things, I think that he cared about Southampton, but ultimately he showed that his style of football is what he cared about more because if he cared about the club more, he would have changed because he knew But he he said he's going to live by the sword, die by the sword, and he's unfortunately died by the sword.
00:12:59
Zak
And if someone who's used to coming in and going absolutely mad and overworking and kind of you know going in from full throttle is something that I think we wanted we've wanted to see for a while, like I'm not saying that he needs to cry if we beat Liverpool.
00:13:11
Zak
But it would be nice to see, i guess I guess it's just going to be such a different character.
00:13:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:19
Zak
And I think that's going to be one of the things exciting. You've got sort of a young 38-year-old guy you know dating an ex-Glamour model who you knew cared about the club but was very sort of harming his approach. And you've now got, as Greg likely pointed out, this kind of crow out that's happy to have a scrap that is a self-proclaimed metal head and can just lift off a bunch of death metal bands.
00:13:43
Zak
to And you're like, that is going to be a shock to a lot of these players who let's place it properly. You can hear from a lot of the sound bites over the summer what their favorite songs are. And I think that it's going to be a very strange dressing room going forward.
00:13:55
Zak
But yeah, different is what we wanted.
00:13:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Good. I need something different. Yeah.
Impact on Team and Relegation Risks
00:13:59
Zak
Difference what we wanted.
00:13:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Um, uh, I mean the, I, the interesting point for me is if, if he comes in for six months and does really well and like we put up a really good fight and you know, we we don't embarrass ourselves, we get ourselves into a much better position, but we still finish, I dunno, 18th and get relegated.
00:14:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do we then end up starting over or is that breaking the contract? as much for us as for him is that's my next visible point of concern right obviously there's concern that he just doesn't take off and do a very good job or struggles with this transition but but the optimist him he looks past that and sees us doing well gets the fight in at the end of the season but sees that potential hookup of you know if he comes in and does improve the squad do we keep him if we still go down even with improvement
00:14:52
Zak
Yeah, especially where for a group of people that have been so concerned about stability, it is kind of mad that they have provided stability in the way that is the same thing that they're doing over and over.
00:15:10
Zak
Like fire a manager around Christmas time, bring in another manager. The only way that it would be exactly the same is if we get rid of him after 35 days and then bring back Matt Gill and put him in charge. But I don't see that happening and I think i think yeah, the at the moment but there's there's there's there's a is a time for, in my opinion, cautious optimism.
00:15:34
Zak
It is not the most glamorous Ferrari style appointment. It was never going to be that.
00:15:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, I disagree though.
00:15:40
Zak
It isn't.
00:15:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
I just think that, I think that is, you're right.
00:15:41
Zak
No.
00:15:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, it's not like we've gone out and got, you know, like the, the next Alex Ferguson, but it's someone different, someone international.
00:15:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's got proven like, yeah, his last reign as manager wasn't great, but he's got proven success elsewhere. Like to the, the clubs that he's been at as definition of success.
00:16:09
Zak
Yes, that's true.
00:16:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's
00:16:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's bold and I like it and I think it is a bit glamorous to grab a bit of proven quality from an international market and say, go on then, do it in the Premier League.
00:16:48
Zak
Yeah, and i i I agree.
00:16:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Keep us up. Break some records. Let's go for it. Ruffle some feathers.
00:16:53
Zak
I agree with that. And I will also point out that that there's there's there's information news knocking around. As I said, everything, take it with a pinch of salt that apparently he was the first choice to get in before they decided to go for Nathan Jones, the last relegation.
00:17:07
Zak
So maybe this has always been in the back of their mind, their mind. And I don't know if that's but that that's also a
00:17:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah that doesn't feel me as much confident as you'd like because like great it means that they've like had him in mind for this long time and he's been part of their vision but also part of that vision included hiring Nathan Jones so
00:17:27
Zak
They are still the same company and they may have learned lessons this time around, but also I find it baffling that we, I've, one of the things, okay, so we'll move on and take a break shortly. But one of the things that I find baffling about the whole way that this has gone is that the first time we got rid of a manager, when we got rid of passing who and replacement Nathan Jones, we all went, oh my goodness, we've got a championship manager and that's insane.
00:17:54
Zak
And then as you pointed out, we've got rid of people this time around and we're like, we shouldn't get a championship manager, but also there's far more of a realistic prospect that we're going to have to deal with the championship. So we started looking at championship managers and then we decided on one who had a connection to the club and he seems to have been the favorite. And then as you said, yeah, this left field pick that's come out that's managed internationally and what would be there, his you know, the it's ah Italy's a equivalent of the premier league.
Fan Patience and Ownership Scrutiny
00:18:20
Zak
And there's a lot.
00:18:22
Zak
You know, I guess it is slightly more glamorous, but it is also a huge unknown. And I think that's going to be the thing that's probably upset the most people is that, like, sometimes you want change, but not too different. And this seems like a big change, but because he was already on the list, it also feels like, you know, Dragan's picked up the phone and gone, hello, mate, you're unemployed now. You know, I was talking about a job a couple of years ago, did you fancy it?
00:18:50
Zak
Yeah, all right. And they're like, oh, we don't need to pay all these guys a couple of million quidditch. So that there's lots of things to be optimistic about. but There's a lot of uncertainties. And quite frankly, we're just going to have to see how it plays out.
00:19:01
Zak
But it ends the uncertain period we're currently in and supposedly is going to be in charge for.
00:19:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
It leads us nicely to the next point I want to talk to you about actually, but I guess I'll leave that until after our message.
00:19:06
Zak
so Good.
00:19:12
Zak
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00:19:25
Zak
This is your one-stop shop for your daily football fix. Find GSPN wherever you find your usual podcasts. And we're back. So, mate, you said you you have a you have a point and you want to make.
00:19:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah all right i've got i've got more a question for you right okay uh sports republic have obviously had mixed reception and they've definitely come under criticism especially towards the end of Russell Martin's tenure with us right now they've made improvements to the ground and i don't i think that almost undisputedly across the fan base you could acknowledge that clearly they've got
00:19:38
Zak
Let's go.
00:20:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
the ability to run a business, the question marks are over the football side of things. And so with this, like you say, bold and brave and different appointment, how much more, if it doesn't go well, how much more patience does the fan base have with that, as with them as owners? Because there's been chatter about them being the problem four for a while.
00:20:31
Zak
All the people quid to go and see us play Liverpool the other day after we've not won ah ah we've won but one game this season and what, like two or three league games or the League Cup games.
00:20:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
If this is another signing that goes wrong, is that does that chatter become too loud? It's where I'm at.
00:20:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:52
Zak
the Again, As I keep pointing out, there's a lot of economic investment into running the business side of things and they keep forgetting that their primary motivation is football. If they keep undercutting and being cheap around it and not really knowing what to do, it will become a problem. I struggle to see the fan base mobilize in a way that would make a difference because if that was the case, I think we already would have, unless it gets to a point where the club comes under
00:21:24
Zak
extreme financial scrutiny like we go down to the championship and then we end up going down to league one and all of a sudden income becomes a huge problem because ultimately they want money out of this and you know there are they all have their own business interests as well they have multiple clubs that they're interested in obviously we are the flagship club but there is other things that are going on in their business that aren't the most important we like to think we are and we should be because of the revenue and the premier league and this and the other But I'm kind of of the impression that they haven't shown that they know how to do football and they seem to not really be learning.
00:22:02
Zak
So if it goes disastrously wrong, well, who's appointed all of the managers in recent times that have messed up?
00:22:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah and not even just the point in the managers either right because even before we got rid of ralph obviously ralph wasn't a sports republic hire but the season we got rid of ralph we actually got rid of all of his assistant coaching and staff and bought in sports republic idea to replace them of which reuben selez was part of that before sort of
00:22:09
Zak
And like I, I have said to you before, like,
00:22:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
getting rid of Ralph, which almost in an attempt, I guess, to manage him out of the position from what it looks like from the outside looking in. And from that point, yeah, it's been a real roller coaster, right?
00:22:47
Zak
Yeah and this is and this is the thing is it's almost like at least under Gal they didn't care so the people that were in the footballing positions really had to and it still feels very much like the thing that they primarily care about at the moment is the business because again you've got us losing 5-0 on the same day they opened this new pub And now they're trying to do fancy meals.
00:23:10
Zak
And again, like behind the scenes, they're having all these conversations about creating essentially a giant business zone area around some areas. And that's, and that's lovely, but it's very similar to sort of like, the, I can't remember the name of the guy we worked, we were speaking to at Spurs, but he was talking about Dan Levy being very same, like all, all sort of giant stadium, very businessy stuff for the football stuff.
00:23:30
Zak
It's like, you know, you get to a Champions League final and then just don't build on that because it doesn't matter because the business is running well.
00:23:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:23:36
Zak
And, and that is, that is a fear.
00:23:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
kind of different stakes for us though right because like fine Spurs don't win a Champions League they're still a Premier League club who are going to be competing in Europe some form of European competition but if we sink all the way down as low as we know we can and end up in league one a business district isn't going to be the hustle and bustle and buzz that you want it's not a league one club's not the draw like
00:23:47
Zak
Yeah.
00:24:02
Zak
And it's not like they're all in here. There are other clubs that are part of their network. They are not all in here. Like they could easily decide to sell their stake in Southampton and go back to kind of earn a little bit of money in in the sort of lower French league and the top Turkish league.
00:24:17
Zak
obviously that's not what they want to do but it's that's that's the kind of problem we've gotten and and it raises to me a wider question of ownership of football clubs in the Premier League right down to the bottom, right? Like we've all sat and seen like Wrexham do as amazing as they have because of all the stuff that's gone on behind the scenes with you know having a celebrity endorsement of this and any other and then you've also seen how if you inject a complete like a nation's worth of money into a football club you can turn it into a footballing powerhouse so there should be potentially more scrutiny we should have never ended up with realistically gal is an owner in the first place that led our club to ruin because the first time round he failed the ownership test and then they they they shifted the lines to sort of get him in so from a personal perspective i kind of
00:25:07
Zak
I think that yes, they should come under more scrutiny, but also so should the league for consistently allowing things like this to happen.
00:25:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:25:14
Zak
And I guess we'll just have to hope that it works out well going forward. But again, it's it's it's a lot of, there's a lot of relying and hoping on things sort of happening on a pitch decided by really the mentality of about 20 guys between the age of 20 to 30.
00:25:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:34
Zak
That's the bad thing about it is also
00:25:36
Zak
Also, you could put whatever manager you want in and you could do whatever and you could sign what you think is an amazing player that turns out to be bad. there's There's also an argument that some of the decisions have just ended up being poor, but not through intentions, right? It's back to the, is it incompetence rather than malice? And that leads me again to, are they just not that great at being football owners? So they keep going, well, we'll concentrate more on the stuff that
Fan Engagement and Club Priorities
00:26:02
Zak
isn't football.
00:26:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah Well, let's hope that it so doesn't become a point of concern, right?
00:26:04
Zak
So many, so many things can happen. But, life but but in this room, we need to see what happens.
00:26:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Let's hope that this jury can come in and keep us up and we'll just be living the dream.
00:26:16
Zak
Yeah, that's where I'm at.
00:26:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Breaking records, staying in the committee.
00:26:17
Zak
like that That could be it. That that could be it. we we are so of There is reason to be cautious as a Saints fan all the time. There's reason to be cautious, to be honest, as football fans all the time because anything like this at any point could happen. Theoretically, if a club decides to randomly sell up in the middle of a season and allow some ridiculous multinational corporations to take over, there's not really a huge amount that you can do. All you can kind of do realistically is is get behind the team, get behind the manager. But if we end up in a situation where we are
00:26:49
Zak
our heritage and our club is ruined, I hope that the fanbase are willing to take that step to tell them we are not happy because you you talked about how you thought that Caramel Cup game was going to be empty and there were a few seats empty in Northern but it ended up selling out better than they expected.
00:27:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:27:08
Zak
Whether that be Liverpool fans buying up seats or not, 35 quid a ticket, people complained about it but there was still a lot of people there.
00:27:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. See how the FA Cup goes. They put the price up for that as well. All right. It's like 25 pound nearly for the FA Cup game, which is a far cry from, uh, from the days of 15 pound tickets for the FA Cup with a five of the kids. It's crazy.
00:27:30
Zak
it's it's this is this is my point is it like it we will get we will get to a point hopefully not but we may end up getting to a point where we have to make those decisions and make our voices heard and you know i don't think any of us ever want to end up like a sort of reading or or any of this sort of you know barr burry like going completely under like these are all in the realms of possibility one of my friends is a bolton fan and i remember watching him go through the motions as their his club just got dismantled from the inside out, not being able to pay any wages, every single player gone. And then at one point, they they named the starting 11 that were just sort of 18 year olds. And like that, as long as we don't end up to that position, that's that's going to be probably better. And I'm glad that we have a business side. But also, like, again, if your business is football, football needs to come pretty high up your list of priorities.
00:28:24
Zak
And that's what we've not really seen. But that's all hypotheticals. What we do know now is that we have a new manager. He looks a bit mad.
00:28:36
Zak
He looks a bit crazy. It looks like it's going to be at least a bit of fun to the end of the season.
00:28:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
home weight I'm very excited let's get back to football make football our focus as well as the boards let's do it
00:28:41
Zak
So let's get to it. And obviously, we'll be previewing Fulham and get to kind of have that discussion. Because we don't know who's going to be in a dugout, apparently, supposedly him.
00:28:53
Zak
Who knows? Over the way, mate, it's exciting!
00:29:00
Zak
There we go, right. Thank you very much for joining us. Enjoy the holiday period to everybody. it's you know We're kind of, I think, me and you are are not clocked out of this because so much is going on, but everyone knows it's kind of the end of the year and everyone's getting a bit sleepy. So look after yourselves, everybody. um Check us all out on the social media. We're all over Twitter, Blue Sky, TikTok,
00:29:23
Zak
Instagram, we try and put out at least two bits of content a day on all of those. And yeah, to all of our new and old listeners, thank you very much for listening and we'll see you in the next one.