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Episode 87: Tactics Tuesday - Which players can make it?
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Southampton – It's the morning after the night before, the night before, now that the dust slightly settled, we discuss what it might mean for our players.
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Introduction and Manager Departure
00:00:08
Zak
Hello, and welcome to the Daily Southampton, part of the Global Sports Podcast podcast Network. I'm your host, Zach Ingofinch, joined as always by my co-host, Gregory Elliott. Hello, mate.
00:00:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Am I?
00:00:19
Zak
Day after the night before, we've had some time to process the news.
00:00:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:00:25
Zak
Everyone reacted, including ourselves, completely normal and rationally to the news that our
00:00:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:00:31
Zak
a beloved previous manager has gone. wait we we yeah so it's It's been a very ah weird 24 hours and and you know I think it's it's it was ah it was a shame that it happened.
00:00:42
Zak
It got to a point that it felt like it was inevitable. It would have been lovely for it to have worked.
00:00:48
Zak
I hope Russell Martin goes on to have an illustrious career as long as it's not any of our rivals and it's just going to be weird to see where we go.
00:00:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah it's kind of exactly what we didn't want right because now there's this sense of not knowing and I feel like I very specifically said maybe we should wait until we know a plan have a plan until we move forward
00:00:59
Zak
from here and then before we... It's weird.
Managerial Decisions and Player Responsibility
00:01:14
Zak
but The thing is, just like we don't know how long this has been in the works and the fact that he was talking about k needing start winning games to get budgets in January to get more firepower means that they they clearly were at some level planning to give him more time.
00:01:31
Zak
ah But he's had like a lot of time and goodwill that's been used up and I'm i'm sad it kind of turned toxic towards the end. The decision should have been made before that happened.
00:01:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
hmm but with how embarrassing of a half of football it was that you do really
00:01:43
Zak
you know
00:01:50
Zak
Yeah, it was nailing the coffin time
Liverpool Game and Team Rotations
00:01:52
Zak
at that point. And and you know the players kind of have to take some responsibility with that. Like, OK, we switched from a back five to a back four.
00:01:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah oh
00:01:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
definitely yeah 100%
00:01:59
Zak
You don't immediately implode and let in four goals in 20 minutes. like and and i And I think some of the you know i think we'll we'll talk a bit about the players today, because it's quite difficult for us to do our usual tactics Tuesday, because it's it's we don't know what's going to come when Wednesday.
00:02:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Who knows?
00:02:14
Zak
We have absolutely no idea how the Liverpool game is going to turn out, right? like sorry Wednesday, Thursday?
00:02:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Especially because it's Carabao Cup, isn't it? It is Wednesday, yeah. I hope so anyway, because that's how I planned the week.
00:02:20
Zak
yeah
00:02:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, especially because it's Carabao Cup as well. I mean, we would normally expect to see some level of rotation. But rotation might be the new lineup that we're likely to see based off of player performances.
00:02:33
Zak
yeah but
00:02:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I mean, really, I mean what ah presumably today is a day off for recovery so he gets what tomorrow with them on the training pitch how much time is that to actually change anything are we just gonna see you know death by fire of the same because we have to play the same because we haven't got time to prayer anything else and in the scheme of things do we really care it's a caramel cup
00:02:59
Zak
Yeah, both.
00:03:05
Zak
No, it's it's weird. I don't know how, if you looked much at the results of the under 21s that we've had recently or not particularly.
00:03:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
I can't say that I've been following it in a
Under 21 Matches and Interim Management Challenges
00:03:15
Zak
So, so we were beaten 5-1 on Saturday by Manchester United, which is fitting after the Chelsea game.
00:03:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
great level of detail to be honest.
00:03:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
bio well
00:03:24
Zak
We were beaten by Rio Sociedad 4-3 on the 10th of December.
00:03:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
kind of i mean
00:03:31
Zak
Older Shot Town. on the 3rd of December, 2-1. And then the we beat, but but we beat Stoke City 3-0 at the end of November.
00:03:42
Zak
Drew with the baggies, lost to Wellstone 3-1, beat Swansea. So it's very up and down. Like there's even a 4-4 in there. then at one point we beat RB Leipzig under 21-4-1.
00:03:53
Zak
So it's been a, it'll be interesting to see how the in interim manager kind of like fills in. and And if it's just more of the same, lets the players
00:03:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
a It's hard right? It's hard with the under 21's because even based off of those results and like the table it's really hard to gauge what that actually means because that's exactly it right?
00:04:07
Zak
Yeah, especially when you've got senior players sometimes being involved in.
00:04:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
You don't have time to like properly build a squad it's just you just chuck whoever's already on who someone who needs development or a first team player who needs rotation. It's just, and it's the same for both sides. Like it's, it's a strange one.
00:04:28
Zak
Yes, it's going to it's very it's very strange and. It's going to be a bit of a strange period of time because ah ah If they've already been looking, it will be really telling how quickly we get someone in.
00:04:41
Zak
Because if it takes ages, you're going to know that, OK, they've been worried.
00:04:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:04:45
Zak
Let's talk about them trying to sort of get rid of, the word I'm trying to look for? Let's talk of them trying to not deal with a compensation fee, right?
00:04:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:04:58
Zak
So the idea is that, yeah.
00:04:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
So that seems like it's written Danny roll off potentially as a possibility because they don't want that additional expense.
00:05:04
Zak
because they've paid compensation multiple times now, but then the alternative for Russell Martin, yeah, but I'm relatively sure they did have to for Jones and I'm relatively sure they did have to pay out quite a lot of managers contracts before
00:05:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Or did they, or did they specifically not pay compensation and have it go to court? That was how that played out. Right.
Club Decision-Making and Danish Manager Appointment
00:05:21
Zak
that, right?
00:05:22
Zak
So this is this is the thing is that if the plan was never for us to get to this position, but the results have have just been that poor,
00:05:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:31
Zak
and now we're back to a stiff decision of, oh my God, what do we do? And but at the end of the day, it became the right decision because there was no way it was continue was able to be tenable to carry on, like regardless of whether a couple of referee decisions went our way, unless all of a sudden every single start player started playing like Man City in their prime and not the Man City of today, it wasn't nothing was going to happen.
00:05:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm. Hmm.
00:05:56
Zak
and it's yeah but it's It's a weird, horrible, space of uncertainty.
00:06:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
It seems like the most likely candidate based off of current readings is the Danish manager, right? The one who got them to the semifinals of the Euros, which might be a good fit.
00:06:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Wouldn't have to pay the compensation.
00:06:13
Zak
Who knows?
00:06:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
He, I don't know how much you want to rely on betting odds, but he was somewhere around 16 to one at lunchtime and is currently even money.
00:06:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
So they tend to be the people in the know.
00:06:26
Zak
You said previously Yeah, they're always the ones that know first, right? And after that Chelsea game, uh, you know, just it ended up being O'Neal that beat him to it, but only by a couple of hours.
00:06:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
couple of hours, yeah.
00:06:37
Zak
So, so that's the kind of mad thing. And it's like, I think even, I think I remember, I think it was the Salzburg manager as well also lost his job Sunday. So it's like a weird time for just a lot of managers getting laid off and people trying to give time, but not being able to give time.
00:06:52
Zak
And I guess we'll just have to see how it plans out, but I don't know how. I don't know how confident I ah that there's a plan going forward and everyone seems to have their own idea as to what's going to bring stability.
00:07:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
I can't claim to know anything about this manager who's the favorite apart from that.
00:07:04
Zak
And I just don't think we know.
00:07:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
He was, you know, the manager of the Danish national team, but, uh, having briefly read up on him, it's another defender, which I don't know. I don't know if that's a good thing or not, to be honest. I've heard some, you I've heard some really left field, uh, picks from people as to who they think we're going to get though.
00:07:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's mad. Uh, there was a, a. person on TalkSport this morning, a fan, a Saints fan, who seemed to think the only answer was someone who was going to knock him into shape and that Oshela Howard-Bellis should use the leverage of his position and get Roy Keenan for the rest of the season. and
00:07:45
Zak
Right, well, I guess with that absolute insanity that leads us nicely for me to take a ah ah break for my brain to stop imploding whilst we have a word from our partners at Zencaster.
Zencastr Promotion and Player Adaptation
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00:08:20
Zak
OK, so coming back, oh i want there's two things I want to discuss. So in this in this break, I wanted to basically say speak about going forward sort of the personnel we've got left in the club and and and whether or not has the quote unquote damage been done. Are they going to be able to learn a new way of football? There are players here that have supposedly joined for the specific way that we play football. how How are they going to adapt and who do we reckon of will adapt? And then I guess the the next part will be what what we've got to look forward to, like our next kind of run of games and what what do we reckon is a realistic take from them? Is it just going to be a nil-poire across the broad or what? so So, yeah, does this offer some opportunity, do you reckon? Like, how are the under 21s managers probably good for some of the youth players? We'll hopefully get on. Sam, Anno, we'll hopefully get a bit more like game-time players that actually, I think, want to play. You've you've seen Tyler Diblin come into the squad and be as good as he is.
00:09:17
Zak
and our academy kind of seems to be back on the up and and this kind of strikes forth there.
00:09:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
They very specifically called it out in the statement as well.
00:09:25
Zak
Yeah, very. But then the problem is, is that, you know, does it matter or are they just going to try and play the same way and lose the same way? Because as you said, there's a day before Liverpool, a day of training, and they they're not going to suddenly scrap overnight and start playing.
00:09:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:09:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
look
00:09:40
Zak
You know, is it going to be we just play out from the back until we've got this new person in? how Long will it take to implement a new style. There's so many ah so many unknowns, too many unknowns.
00:09:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
look at the end of the day when we playing out from the back generally speaking is the uh what's the the way to not make this the nerdiest sentence you've ever heard all right it's the current meta of football right it's the most effective tactic okay it's the most effective tactic is to play out from the back generally speaking and that's not going to change we're not going to stop
00:10:07
Zak
You tried.
00:10:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
playing out from the back more often than not we are hopefully going to stop playing out from the back and passing it to their players and the same players under different instruction and look nobody can expect miracles to change overnight before Liverpool right like it's just it's insanity to believe it but perhaps with the
00:10:30
Zak
But it's still the same place on the pitch! This is the this is the thing right? like Unless we...
00:10:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
the freedom to play their way, maybe something can happen miraculously. You never know that Liverpool aren't going to be playing their first team.
00:10:59
Zak
No.
00:10:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's the Caramel Cup. It's Wednesday night. anything Anything can happen. And frankly, anything other than an absolute batter-in is fine.
00:11:03
Zak
Interesting.
00:11:07
Zak
I mean, the last two home games, mate, they've had five goals for the opposition both times, right?
00:11:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:11:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:12
Zak
So so where I'm at is that anything less than five is probably its probably okay.
00:11:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Anything less than that is a result. Yeah.
00:11:17
Zak
But yeah, maybe you're right. Maybe the freedom will allow people to play. There's a couple of talks about
00:11:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, they're not going to be sticking to positions that they're clearly uncomfortable in, but they put themselves in because that's what Ghana's praise from the manager. They're going to be, you know, you don't get to play at even a championship level, right? You want to call our team a championship team. They've not done a huge amount to prove, disprove that. That's fine. but Even at a championship level, you don't get to that level of playing football without being able to play a bit of football.
00:11:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
So this is the opportunity to, you know, let the shackles off at least a bit and and play some football. And hopefully, you know, the determination to show themselves in a positive light with the new, new management coming in and with, you know, with the under 21 that's capped in, that's fine. And there are players that are gonna, that that's going to do well for, and there are players that aren't. There are interesting edge cases, right? Like Bemborough and Diaz has been less than useless right but was it because we were playing him in left wing in a position where we weren't actually getting the ball out to him like if we play him through the middle as a striker which is what i thought his position was when we signed him uh and you know huff the ball up to him or pass the ball up to him could do we actually see him start having an effect on games and scoring goals maybe it's it's not the least likely thing he scored goals for Sheffield United last season
00:12:22
Zak
You're not wrong unfortunately.
00:12:43
Zak
Will we see?
00:12:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
no reason he couldn't start scoring goals for us.
Team Strategy and Player Performance Risks
00:12:51
Zak
Yes, it's just a weird one.
00:12:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like Bellacottchapp right? I know that you're gonna groan an are and I agree right? Because there are definite question marks over his attitude and his willingness to play and you know he's got one foot out of the door in January potentially and he might be made a fibreglass for all we know.
00:13:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
But very clearly in a press conference Russell Martin said well he trains but he's just not suited to our style of football and so maybe he is the something different that stops us shipping five goals again I'm not i'm not saying that I can't put that pressure on him I'm not saying he is
00:13:24
Zak
Yes, this is the thing is this this.
00:13:30
Zak
but it But but you are right, and it is things like there's so many weird things that have been said over the last couple of weeks, and and I don't know whether it's to throw off opposition or what, but it's like this whole like old tool pools almost back. We're very excited and then he didn't even appear in the he was in the, you know, on the bench yesterday.
00:13:44
Zak
was barely any talk of Suleiman ever, and then he hooks him off after 15 minutes. Like you could tell that the last couple of games have been scrambled or Yammal surprised.
00:13:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
He was fuming.
00:13:53
Zak
you first Your first start.
00:13:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I'm happy that he was fuming. That shows that he wants to fight for something good.
00:13:58
Zak
Yeah.
00:13:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's what I want to see from a player. If a player is getting hooked off at 15 minutes, I want him at the manager's throat.
00:14:05
Zak
Yeah, you exactly.
00:14:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's the right reaction.
00:14:05
Zak
This is what you want. and And this is the thing is going forward. It's it's like, you know, ah You know, give a give a thought and a prayer for Jack Stevens captaincy because I imagine that's probably going.
00:14:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
We can only hope can only hope after
00:14:20
Zak
Well, he's not playing. So, you know, we didn't see back when to back like three or four games time.
00:14:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Christmas yeah I did and like to say like we're not gonna see wholesale change we're not all of a sudden gonna stop passing the ball around the back just hopefully we start to see that not be our only plan right if they're not different that's a genuine quote
00:14:25
Zak
So.
00:14:31
Zak
No.
00:14:40
Zak
Yeah, I know, I agree. because Because plan A was just plan B with with a len with a one less player in defense. and
00:14:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Plan B has to look like plan A.
00:14:50
Zak
Oh, it kind of pains you and it it makes you it makes you understand why.
00:14:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
she
00:14:57
Zak
but like And as much as I'd love to feel really bad, something the in the realm of 12 million pounds of compensation makes me not.
00:15:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah 12 million pound and shacked up with Lucy Pinder still feels like doing all right to me.
00:15:05
Zak
If I did a bad job and got paid for it, I think I'd be, and you know,
00:15:12
Zak
Yeah, right. yeah well Well, we'll talk about maybe who's ah ah who's at risk and what we think is going to happen going forward after a word from the Global Sports Podcast Network. So the Global Sports Podcast Network is changing the face of football podcasting, dedicated daily content from every Premier League team, women's football, fancy football and a daily Premier League wrap up broadcasted in five different languages. This is your one stop shop for your daily football fix. Find GSPN wherever you find your usual podcasts.
00:15:41
Zak
Okay, so as so as I alluded to, you like you've talked about potentially players that come back in, Bellagotch, hopefully Sam, ammo, getting a bit more game time.
00:15:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:50
Zak
you know Maybe in January, we see, depending on who comes in, we might see an end to some of the people's time at Southampton who are on loan. We might recall some people with those who might come back, Shay Charles might come back, who knows.
00:16:02
Zak
Who do you reckon is most at risk of not getting time? like Because this is the problem, is at the moment you don't really know because we could end up having players that have barely played for us that end up changing changing the complete way we play.
00:16:14
Zak
But then because of that, someone's going to have to miss out. And it's difficult to figure out who who's going to be who's going to miss out.
00:16:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's hard because so yeah because to some degree you have to take a completely clean slate and write off the previous part of the season from your judgement to some degree. which But I think players that will be concerned are Ryan Fraser, he who's been, I think it's generous to say has been up and down, more down than up.
00:16:40
Zak
Yeah.
00:16:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Bro and Diaz who couldn't find his way into the squad and then when he could find his way to the squad couldn't find his way to the ball.
00:16:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Corne who struggled against Stoke and we haven't seen since.
00:16:51
Zak
I I ah literally forgot he played frost for us for a couple of minutes then. Yeah, I agree i agree with all those names.
00:16:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:16:58
Zak
ah
00:16:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Sulemana again, painfully average under Russell Martin and whether that's the limitations that have been put on him and the way that we want to play. I don't know.
00:17:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
and then that's what I mean like it's hard it's impossible to say especially with the forward positions because the way that we play the ball starves them of the ball really I mean I think on the other hand to that there are four maybe five players that
00:17:20
Zak
it's gonna be I think it's gonna be interesting where we go where we go forward and I either way
00:17:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
will probably be essential and won't come as a surprise to anyone that those names will be probably the first name on the team sheet, right? Like Tyler Diblin, Matthew Fernandez, but maybe not Flint Downs anymore.
00:17:47
Zak
Agreed.
00:17:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
he's He's not been, you know, set in the legal light by any stretch of the imagination.
00:17:54
Zak
Yeah, it's very, it does start to feel like he was the reason that West Ham were quite happy to let him go was because he's not a Premier League player, but then I don't want to say that because that's a bit too mean.
00:18:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:18:06
Zak
He's probably been one of the better players, but then that's not a hard bar to judge by.
00:18:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Uh, I agree. Yeah.
Core Players and Team Structure Changes
00:18:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Uh, Yanny B. Puts his heart and soul into every game and his app.
00:18:13
Zak
He signed now until what, like,
00:18:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. yeah
00:18:16
Zak
forever right he basically said he wants to retire here so i wouldn't be surprised if he and he's managed to play under what every single manager we've had in the last yeah
00:18:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Uh, if he stays past January, Walker Peters, who still continues to put a hundred percent in every game, regardless of that situation. the utmost professional, the only player that ran really until the 93rd minute.
00:18:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, you know, they're the players that are going to, that are going to be the core of what we build going forward. And as far as I'm concerned, the rest is up for grabs.
00:18:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
And hopefully plenty of players will step up to the plate. And there are players that are definitely thinking capable of that.
00:18:57
Zak
Bye.
00:18:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Howard Bellis has not been his best. but is more than capable of stepping up to the plate and being a perfectly rounded Premier League defender, I think. You know, Sugawara's been a little bit hot and cold.
00:19:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
I would say more hot than cold, personally. But yeah, like we've got, we've got five or six solid options and lots of question marks.
00:19:13
Zak
Great.
00:19:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it's just how quickly we managed to sort the week from the chaff.
00:19:25
Zak
Yeah, that's the thing. I think it's probably almost advantageous that January is right around the corner. The problem I have is that without a director of football, and if Russell Martin was the the footballing brain of the operation, and he's now gone, yeah, yeah, we end up having another window where, you know, and that's this is no respect to poor and actually, but like, let's face it, when we when we signed him, he was like our fifth choice for signing.
00:19:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Things become a rush again, right? i
00:19:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:53
Zak
there were so many ah ah players above him that we wanted to sign and it might end up working out for him in the long run, but you know he came in and we we've had so many windows like this where you know we we'd like to think we're going into January with targets scouted, but are all of those targets been scouted by a team that are now no longer in charge of the club?
00:20:14
Zak
And you know you might have a manager that comes in with ideas of players he'd like, but
00:20:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:20
Zak
you know, that's not going to be the same as understanding how the ins and the outs of the
Player Transfers and Long-term Strategy
00:20:24
Zak
club work. And I think that, you know, it's fantastic that they're they're redeveloping the entirety of the waterfront and that we have this new Dell pub. It's none of this is going to matter if if the football once again like turns dire and they don't know what they're doing because you can spend, you know, it feels almost like that they they almost factor in a couple of like million pound a year for just dumb decisions they make.
00:20:49
Zak
And like then they' they're not going to do that sustainably. So I guess we'll have to see.
00:20:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
my
00:20:54
Zak
But yeah, I think it's it's my my big fear, as you pointed out, is is just the rush as we get towards January and and where and who might go and all that kind of stuff.
00:21:04
Zak
It's just a bit...
00:21:07
Zak
so I just don't like it. It leaves a bit of ah a a sour taste in my mouth, mate. And I'm sure you're probably the same.
00:21:19
Zak
Yeah, ah that's what we can hope for.
00:21:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
like There's a lot of unknowns, but hopefully, like I say, you don't you don't get to this level without being able to play a bit.
Tactics Tuesday Wrap-up and Closing Remarks
00:21:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I don't think that what we've seen from our players this season is necessarily a fair representation of of all of their abilities.
00:21:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think that even under the system, like Archer was starting to adapt. And I think that playing perhaps more to his strengths. Hopefully we'll see some good stuff from him.
00:21:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
but yeah, you're right. In January, we're going to need something probably a proven goal score and minimum and probably some more solid midfield minimum.
00:21:54
Zak
and It's go be going to be difficult to try and entice them over without the threat of them potentially playing in the league underneath. And I think that's once again, where a lot of these problems are going to end up sort of hitting us.
00:22:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:06
Zak
So that's pretty much, I guess, it for for tactics Tuesday, mate, unless you've got really anything to add, there's not again, it's not a huge amount we can sort of see until we see how we line up on Wednesday night.
00:22:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:22:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
night
00:22:17
Zak
And then at least from there, we can kind of see until the new manager takes charge, which hopefully won't be in the next couple will be won't be a couple of weeks. It will be something that they've decided on sooner rather than later. But ah the problem is, as I think we all know, that that's not the case.
00:22:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah where We'll do our best tomorrow to predict something for what's going to happen on Wednesday night.
00:22:37
Zak
I will have fun.
00:22:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll go from there.
00:22:38
Zak
It will be it will be part of the fun, mate.
00:22:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:40
Zak
No problem.
00:22:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
can't be any less accurate than my predictions the rest of the season broken clock by twice a day
00:22:44
Zak
Well, you you what you predicted that one win that we got, the only one that we had.
00:22:50
Zak
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