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Daily Southampton: Episode 134: Match Preview for Bournemouth!
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Southampton – We build up to our home match against Bournemouth. Are we looking forward to getting back to St Mary's? Or perhaps rightfully anxious based on our home form? We discuss that and how we think we'll lineup and get on.
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Introduction and Match Preview
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome back to the Daily Southampton, a part of the Global Sports Podcast Network. My name is Greg Elliott and we have a full team in house today for our matchday preview.
00:00:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oscar, how are you doing?
00:00:22
Oscar
Yeah, good thank you.
00:00:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Zach, how are you feeling?
00:00:25
Zak
I'll cut off the really long elaborate answer where I tell you that I've been out all day and I'm tired, so let's just say that.
Defensive Concerns Before the Match
00:00:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
it is our preview time we are coming up against the cherries at the weekend and we we had a crossover episode yesterday and elaborated on it a bit but uh we've had a press conference since then so you know we're all assured that we still don't have any center backs uh zach zach i'll go to you first it feels like last week was the game that if we were going to see bella kochamp we're going to see bella kochamp right like
00:00:59
Zak
I know I've become like the de facto person that we asked him this question about. I think it's because I was one of the people that brought it up first because it was on Twitter a lot.
00:01:09
Zak
Unless, by the sounds of it, Stevens, Bednarek, Brie, Manning, Wood, and everyone else is
Player Performance Under New Management
00:01:20
Zak
injured.
00:01:20
Zak
I just don't think we're going to see him.
00:01:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:01:21
Oscar
in the reboot.
00:01:23
Zak
Ana Repo are back up, back up, centre
00:01:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
The reboot, yeah.
00:01:27
Zak
Which again, says a lot. All finally say on this is that he has come in and he has given other players a chance. Players that did not thrive under Russell Martin, players that did not get a chance under rushroom mark or under under Russell Martin. right He said it was an open slate.
00:01:46
Zak
He said what he liked to see of him in training. He said he wanted to see a bit more. It's now been multiple weeks since then.
00:01:53
Zak
And I think that we have a huge squad. We have lots of players in it.
00:01:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:01:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
But no left centre backs, not even Taylor Hall will be able to play there, but at least he can use his left foot. Is that a scathing indictment of the rest of the squad?
Team Formation and Strategy Issues
00:02:11
Zak
Look, we all
00:02:11
Oscar
I haven't seen it yet. Did he say anything about wood?
00:02:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I think Wood is, he also said he doesn't naturally fit a left-sided centre back role, ah so that's why he wasn't but played last week.
00:02:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just play. He would rather see someone who can use their left foot and isn't a centre back, play that position than someone who is a centre back but can't use their left foot.
00:02:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Which I guess I can i can kind of see, yeah.
00:02:36
Oscar
Interesting.
00:02:39
Oscar
I understand it. I mean, you did like you need you need that balance and maybe there's a certain intricate part of his system that requires that. But again, for me, I think if we've got players there, if we've got wood there, for example, that would be who who I'd be putting in there, but I'm not a manager.
00:02:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see if we go back to some sort of centre-back or we stick with this ridiculous four-four-back solution. Zach, Oscar and I shared our opinions yesterday, so I'll throw it back to you. How are you feeling about this game? You feeling like it's a ah good chance or are you feeling like woefully beaten down?
Performance Critique and Honest Assessments
00:03:20
Zak
Somebody commented on one of the takesucks we put up for Neil to Bournemouth that I'm kind of like, yeah, I can see that. I could also see us playing it game by game and potentially doing something different. The problem is, is it's like at the moment it's expected unexpected, right? We still have the fact that at one point we were playing two left backs and two right backs.
00:03:40
Zak
in a centre back positions around that area. It's just a bit weird to see. And then I also can't go over the cognitive dissonance of Jurich saying we played well at Burnley and it was a really good performance and there were things that he thought were good.
00:03:56
Zak
And I'm like, we lost one nil. We barely had a shot.
00:03:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
I really, I really enjoyed the quote where he said, I thought we played really well until they scored.
00:03:59
Zak
Like what?
00:04:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
That was, that was his juror-esque entire input on the on the solution.
00:04:11
Zak
I just sometimes I feel like obviously they they try to say things that that is it doesn't put a massive negative light on it. I just take the L. That's like where I'm at, right? like the Obviously being, I know this is a completely different sport, but like looking at the Kansas City Chiefs reaction to the Super Bowl, just like, yeah, we were just bad.
00:04:19
Oscar
for us.
00:04:28
Zak
I just want them to come out and say that sometimes rather than this BS of like, well, we did some really good things here and there. It's like, no, we didn't. We lost 1-0 at home to Burnley on a game that was barely sold out on a miserable day. And all of us were sad that we had to watch
Fan Morale and Expectations
00:04:40
Zak
it. And all of us wanted to do better things. We love Southampton. We want to see us win. It's difficult to be optimistic, right? And I feel like you can see that in the fan base itself that and they felt like before Burnley, we had a chance to do something. We'd lost in a really bad way. Luckily, it wasn't in the league. But at the same time, it would have made a blind bit of difference anyway.
00:05:00
Zak
it's really hard for me to imagine us bouncing back against the team that are in the form that Bournemouth are in. But on top of that, Bournemouth have this weird thing where, and you know, apologies to Vic, but this weird thing where like we are considered super rivals to them, right? And we we just don't reciprocate. Same with Brighton, where they try to bug Brighton off about the whole come to the good part of the seaside. Like they're truly trying to push the rivalry because it means more to them than it does to us.
00:05:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:26
Zak
and that's And that's fine. But like you could see that in the first game. I think they potentially might just want it more. the other the others The other side of things, though, could be that, once again, we are woefully unpredicted and we end up coming out and doing well. But I just don't think that like when we did that against Ipswich, Ipswich are a calibre of team that when we go man for man, kind of similar.
Match Speculations and Rivalry Dynamics
00:05:48
Zak
when we go man for man against Bournemouth I expect Bournemouth to probably come out on top and that's just you know and on top of that they have the form to back them up so I'm not hugely hopeful but as always Greg I am really really happy to be disappointed in my predictions unlike you where all of your predictions ruin your day
00:06:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just part of the cycle. Before we get into team lineup predictions, I want to touch briefly, I don't want to spend too much time on it, on the ever-evolving Flynn down situation. And I guess what's come out of the press conference is that maybe publicly calling out your player for that and throwing it into the wild hasn't been the escalation that would solutionize it. Oscar, do you?
00:06:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you see a way back? or Or is this really the end of it with Flynn?
00:06:40
Oscar
I think it's difficult, I think with quite a few of these managers, I think Diblin came out today as well and said that how good a relationship the he had with Russell Martin as well and he obviously was very personable and that's that's the impression I think every player that's played with him is given. um um And all of a sudden someone coming in and and who probably doesn't take as much give as much leeway, shall we say. I can understand why people don't like it, but at the same time just knuckle down and be professional. Is there a way back that you'd like to think there always is? And Yurich has said that a few times about other players, so you'd like to think so.
Professionalism in Player-Management Relations
00:07:20
Oscar
But you know we discussed last time about professionalism with players and the new generation and things like that. so
00:07:26
Oscar
I think it's basically the balls in downs is caught as to what he wants to do really.
00:07:32
Zak
I don't think it was bad to come out and say it. I don't think he would have said it unless it was relevant. I agree. There was one guy, I think, the poster that said to us, one police guy, like, well, I think that those comments definitely shielded a lot of criticism of Djuric from the Burnley game. Because basically, admittedly, even I said myself, it put my more of my focus was how annoyed I was about that, probably to get over the fact that I was actually quite upset and annoyed by the Burnley result.
00:07:59
Zak
But like a week later, obviously they've asked him the questions about it. It's like, is he going to be involved? No. That says a lot. Like he's not back in the match that he scored a two. Is there a way of resolving it? I'd like to resolve it. Yes. How how far are you away from that? Yeah, I'm not talking about that in a press conference.
00:08:15
Zak
which to me says well actually it's miles away in it and and you're you're right bussel Russell Martin was sorry very very and like impressionable we all liked him he's a really nice guy it's probably one of the reasons he got more time than he probably deserved that was fantastic but fortunately the results were bad and he he lost his job and that and that sucks And the problem is, is that they might blame themselves for it. Do you know what you would do to redeem that? Get on with your job. That's what I would have to do if my manager got fired and I lost, you know, he got fired because of results in my performance in the business I work in, right? The outcome from that isn't that I'm just like, well, I'm not going to do it anymore because I liked him. I'm like,
00:08:54
Zak
Get me a job you paid tons of money to do it like I'm sorry if you're being asked to play a different way And yeah, okay, George might be not the most in like impersonable guy to to them They might struggle because you know they they had this really close relationship with Russell Martin But that is also a problem in my opinion that maybe you shouldn't be having managers have such close relationships To that level with their players because whilst there needs to be a step of professionalism between them, right?
00:09:20
Zak
It's one of the things where you always talk about how Ryan Fraser is like his best mate and that's basically how he got a contract here and now he's left a little bit out in the lurch, right?
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00:09:28
Zak
And it's like, well, yeah, because it should not necessarily be that way.
00:09:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:09:32
Zak
And obviously everyone's got different ways of managing, but I'm really worried it's going to become like a talking point for the rest of the season. If he wants to rot in the reserves because he's having an argument about throwing his toys at the pram,
00:09:42
Zak
that's fine because you know it means that they'll sell him but they won't budge on price so then he can just have an armelbellar cockchat moment and spend all of his time not getting played game time is that going to be good for his career yeah i'm very much in your court oscar knuckle down get on with it
00:09:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
nice
00:09:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep, I agree. Right.
00:10:01
Zak
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00:10:02
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00:10:20
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Lineup Predictions and Tactical Challenges
00:10:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's got to be an opinion across the board, I presume.
00:10:41
Zak
really hope so
00:10:41
Oscar
Yeah. Yeah. I think if you...
00:10:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then...
00:10:47
Oscar
ah Go on.
00:10:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Go on, Oscar.
00:10:49
Oscar
I'll say, I think if you look at it, I think there are five, five players that without doubt, if they are fit, they are playing um for me.
00:10:59
Oscar
And oh wow, I'd imagine it would be for them for them as well. And that's Ramsdale, Benarek, Wellington, Fernandez and Suleimana.
00:11:04
Zak
I really hope so.
00:11:07
Oscar
I think if those five are fit, they're playing probably Walker Peters, you're chucking there as well.
00:11:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:13
Oscar
It's just around that where where, you know, I don't think there'll be too much rotation, I wouldn't have thought.
00:11:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:11:19
Oscar
they shouldn't be so yeah I think so yeah
00:11:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Toolpool comes back into the mix.
00:11:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
What are we doing at the pack with Howard Bellis and Stevens out? Do you think we stick with what we had last week or or do you think you see Wood come in?
00:11:34
Zak
I think when he was asked that question in the press conference, he was like, you could play these players. He was like, so, you know, we are playing full backs to set it back, so you're right. And we like it because it gives us lots of attacking threat. I feel like you'd probably try and do the same. It's going to be weird to try and outscore a team that score more goals than us for sure.
00:11:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
It could be another Spurs, honestly.
00:11:56
Oscar
with with pace on the counter attack as well.
00:11:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
It really could go that way. Yeah.
00:12:02
Zak
It could be another the time that we played Bournemouth where we decided to experiment with a weird formation and that turned out to be absolutely terrible. When we were at one point playing all of our wingers as strikers, it was weird. so
00:12:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:12:13
Zak
yeah oh
00:12:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'll throw another name into that mix of be straight on the team sheet if they're fit. That's a good Chugwoo, right? you didn't He wasn't in your list, was he?
00:12:22
Oscar
yeah i would i would Yeah I would have them on my list for sure in terms of if it was my choice who would be starting week in week out for me.
00:12:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
I feel like he's
00:12:31
Oscar
Have you got other options there in terms of I'm trying to think of it as Euroch thinks of it and Will Smallbone for one reason or another doesn't seem to resonate particularly strongly with with all of the fan base, I'd say.
00:12:46
Oscar
And yet both of the managers seem to be very keen on him. There's a few players like that. Steven seems to be a bit like that as well. And I think they're obviously seeing things in training or seeing something that makes them really believe in them and and you know for all the way on the world.
00:13:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's almost like being someone who pays money to go and watch football doesn't qualify you as much to go and may have an opinion as someone who they pay to do it, which I am 100% guilty of to be clear.
00:13:06
Oscar
Yeah.
00:13:07
Zak
It's... it's... that... that...
00:13:09
Oscar
and
00:13:09
Zak
yeah, that...
00:13:11
Oscar
yeah yeah
00:13:13
Zak
Right, same. you play You play one too many games of FM and you think you could run Barcelona. like It's one of those situations where I think they're both they're both incredibly good utility players.
00:13:23
Zak
The problem is is that when they're brought on as like subs, like, we'll talk about him, bless him, it's just that he's not a game changer. The one thing that Martin always used to say is he like brings him in to calm the game down or whatever.
00:13:35
Oscar
Yeah.
00:13:36
Zak
And the problem is, it's nine times out of ten, when we're in a situation that we've needed to bring in game and-changing subs, we also usually need like a goal or two.
00:13:39
Oscar
Yeah. Yeah.
00:13:44
Zak
And that doesn't always happen.
Player Versatility and Substitution Strategy
00:13:46
Zak
There have been instances that it has. And I think that, like yeah like obviously, we've got like personal vendettas.
00:13:54
Zak
It's probably the wrong word. But personal opinions about the suitability of Stevens. But also, like he's a centre-back that's got significantly more Premier League experience than most of our team at the moment.
00:14:06
Zak
and you know for one reason or another he is the captain and you know for seven minutes we saw of him it wasn't the worst player I'd seen on the pitch when you know he went off injured but it's one of those things that just frustrating right like it's and again and this this reeks back to us talking about it previously Greg we've talked about all season where like our bench quality just isn't that exciting
00:14:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:14:30
Zak
to and that doesn't seem like there's anyone there to be a game changer that's not in my opinion the fault of the players it's just that you know pre previously like even to an extent like the the sort of renaissance of sudaman is great but there are a lot of times that he was brought on for like explosive pace in the last 10 minutes which didn't happen whether it be tactics, whether it be...
00:14:52
Zak
So yeah, i think I think he gets a bad rap for the fact that he's not really starting, he's being brought on sort of as a substitute. And when everyone's like, we've brought on Will Smallbone, it doesn't have the same fireworks, right?
00:15:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Let's do you with joy, doesn't it?
00:15:07
Zak
It's just not like you've just brought on Jude Bellingham, you're kind of like, so Smallbone's come on and you're like, great.
00:15:10
Oscar
and I think it's it's difficult as well because i don't I don't really know what he is. Is he a ball-winner? Is he an anchorman-fielder?
00:15:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:19
Oscar
No, probably not a bit too lightweight for that. is he Is he a deep-line playmaker? Probably the closest to what he is. Is he a number 10? I don't think so. is like he almost just and He can do a little bit of everything, but yeah.
00:15:31
Zak
Yeah, it's just Jack of all trades in it.
00:15:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:15:35
Zak
Jack of all trades, but when you're a Jack of all trades, you're a master of none. And I think that's the thing is he's brilliant way to replace a player that's potentially tired and play the role that they're playing in. And sometimes he can do that to the level that is like a Joa Rebo or whoever he's replacing and other times he doesn't.
00:15:50
Zak
probably not to the fault of his own it can depend on the momentum of the game. I do find sometimes we make really weird substitutions in situations where we're like oh great you're going to bring on like Cameron Archer with five minutes to go when we're one nil down and we don't look like we're going to score.
00:15:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:16:04
Zak
That's going to be great for his confidence but also you know if he'd done it 30 minutes it earlier would have it made a huge difference. So yeah I think you're right in the sense of he's a very much sort of In my head, he's just ah ah he's a very good utility player where he can fill those gaps, right?
00:16:20
Zak
like I wouldn't be surprised if at any point we were like, well, our centre backs have gone on. I guess we'll put small boat at centre back. I just wouldn't be surprised by that.
00:16:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
no sorry we got breeziness on that you bring small bone into boss the entirety of the midfield and move a rebo to send the bag because he's
00:16:35
Zak
Yes, though, you're right, we did see that and it was bizarre. And that's when you realise that, you know, when that should have been the answer to any questions about Armabella Kochap at any point, right? And now we now even would.
00:16:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah no he's not as good as you can show a rebo
00:16:47
Zak
And now even now even would potentially is getting a little bit of that treatment, which I think is harsh.
00:16:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:16:52
Zak
But ultimately, it's how Djuric wants to play. And if he wants to play with ridiculous attacking threat, I guess he's just going to shove a bunch of attacking fullbacks in our defensive line.
00:17:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, just.
00:17:02
Oscar
wi Was the young French lad, was he is he left-sided?
00:17:02
Zak
with
00:17:06
Oscar
Do we know?
00:17:06
Zak
don't know where he he plays actually um waquim
00:17:08
Oscar
I just I wonder if that was I assume maybe why he was looking at him because maybe that was an area that he wanted to strengthen it would make sense. But we do have quite a lot of centre backs. So.
00:17:20
Zak
It is weird that it seemed to be, I think I was saying it a while ago, like it seems to be a a position we have tons of players for, but apparently none of them fit there anymore?
Addressing Defensive Concerns
00:17:29
Zak
It's really, because I think that was one of the few playtimes that when we went into the beginning of the season, I was like, well, we've got a ton of defensive options now, that should be really useful, and still seems to be a place that everyone's like, sell Bednarak, and I'm like,
00:17:29
Oscar
Hmm.
00:17:40
Zak
but but yeah, it's it's bizarre. I don't know how how you guys feel about it, but I've always found, you know, I still get worried that our right back position is really lacking because I'm still scared from that season where we ended up playing like James Ward-Prowse in right back because everybody was out injured. My brain still flicks back to that occasionally. At center back, it does feel like we both have no center backs and like a hundred at the same time.
00:18:03
Oscar
Hmm, it's a strange one.
00:18:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
An interesting one.
00:18:05
Zak
Hmm.
00:18:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I get the only other name I haven't touched on. Do we think Tyler Diblin still gets a start? Do you still think he's one of the names on the team sheet? Or has he got more to do?
00:18:17
Oscar
It's difficult where where he fits in because if you look at the front three, who are you dropping out of? Sulemana, Fernandes and Tallpool, I think. It's a tricky one. I don't don't think any of them merit dropping really.
00:18:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I agree with that.
00:18:34
Oscar
But then you said about having, yeah, I think you're about to say the same thing about having options to come off the bench.
00:18:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm going back to a previous point.
00:18:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:18:41
Oscar
100% that will add. And another name we haven't mentioned as well is Gromback.
00:18:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:18:46
Oscar
So a couple more, a bit more promising options off the bench now. and That just seems to have come through.
00:18:51
Zak
yeah we have We have more, I guess, and and also you know he's been promising his first couple of games.
00:18:52
Oscar
ceiling
00:18:58
Zak
I think he's fallen a bit under the radar because he had a good solid first game and then the Burnley game is just etched into our memory. It's the same thing with Wellington played quite well in that game, but it was so...
00:19:10
Zak
The result was so, I think, infuriating. It clouded a lot of a lot of people's opinions on like who did well that game. I think it was Total Science podcast, or somebody put out like a poll, their player of the match, and it was 85%, 90% Wellington, because yeah he was one of the few players that actually did stuff.
00:19:27
Zak
So that means that, theoretically, we have more like fallback options off the bench as well, which is...
00:19:30
Oscar
I think he he got into some, it might have been who scored or some statistical website. I think he was in the FA Cup team in the week for the round, which is interesting because like I say, i't I didn't notice ah loads of stuff that he did really well. but
00:19:43
Zak
I think it's some at this point, having somebody whenever we lose a key player, having somebody to come in that is sort of able to instantly pick that up without it being without us being absolutely terrified they're going to bottle it, is always a nice thing, right?
00:19:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:19:57
Zak
Especially like, the goalkeepers is a significantly bigger question, and but it is one of those things that like, ramsdell's out and instantly we all go,
00:20:06
Zak
Oh no. And then Macaulay went out and we were like, oh no. But it's nice now that like when we have players, like you know if, for example, Kyle Walker Peters is out or Manning is out, like you know there's competition.
00:20:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh.
00:20:18
Zak
They have to kind of up their game a little bit to get in.
00:20:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:21
Zak
Whereas when previously, they're just like, well, I'm the first name on the team sheet.
00:20:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:20:23
Zak
I don't need to put the same amount of effort in. And also, who are you going to drop me for? Whereas now, there's like I think it adds that element of competition, which you need.
00:20:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm quite excited actually because it'll be the first time hopefully I'll have seen Wellington and Grombeck in person and actually sort of get a proper measure of where they're at, that'd be nice.
00:20:32
Zak
is
00:20:41
Zak
get get to shout and swear at them at the top of your lungs, mate.
00:20:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Always, you know, you know me. yeah yeah Okay, so we're going to move on to score predictions and how we think it's going to play out tomorrow, but first a message from our partners at the Global Sports Podcast Network.
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00:20:57
Zak
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00:21:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, that everyone's favorite section of the show, I'm sure. It's already ah got some reactions on social media from my guests, but Zach, as
Score Predictions and Match Outlook
00:21:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
the member of the team we've not heard from, I'm gonna throw to you first, how do you think it's gonna play out?
00:21:26
Zak
Oh no!
00:21:32
Zak
it's It's really difficult because I i genuinely think that if if they actually hit us on the counter much better than Burnley did or anyone else does, you know it could just be a drop-in. I'm not going to say 4-0, potentially it could be it could be another 3-0 situation. Let's say that we managed to score a goal,
00:21:49
Zak
Go on, Paul, I'm actually scoring. So maybe 3-1 to Bournemouth. That's kind of where the realist is at. I'd love it to be your prediction, mate, genuinely. But like I'm too... It will help me feel better when we when we when you with your prediction is fulfilled and mine lay lies dead in the water. If not, at the very least, I'll be able to sit there sit through it on Saturday knowing that I guessed the score correctly again. So, yeah, 3-1, Bournemouth. But I think I'd like to see Paul get us some Murray's Girl again.
00:22:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oscar, have you changed your opinion at all or are you still the same?
00:22:20
Zak
Well.
00:22:23
Oscar
No, I'm going to stick with mine. i think I think for me, I feel that's quite an optimistic one. I'm not entirely sure it will happen, but but you know I've just got a feeling. I went 2-2 with the tool pool last-minute equalizer.
00:22:38
Oscar
I think 2-0 down the first half, we looked dead and buried, and then all of a sudden something happens, and then we suddenly start waking up again, and then we throw the kitchen sink, and then it happens.
00:22:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. and the the final proof that it's not a Derby when Tallpool still celebrates in front of the Bournemouth fans and doesn't get a response like Liverpool-Wefton, right?
Fan Culture and Matchday Rituals
00:22:56
Oscar
That was nice to see Charlie Alcaraz hasn't changed as well.
00:23:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah ah I the commentators saying, this is not the scene you'd like to see where I'm sat there thinking this is exactly what I want to see.
00:23:02
Oscar
I think the pictures I saw of him scrapping with a policeman.
00:23:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
so
00:23:12
Zak
Exactly what we paid to go and see, right?
00:23:13
Oscar
100%.
00:23:15
Zak
like
00:23:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's it. I, unsurprisingly, I'm unfaltering in my optimism. I'm sticking with the 2-1 win. I actually think we might go 1-0 down and show some resilience and mentality and fight back.
00:23:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think Sulemana will get the first goal and Torpula will get the winner and the Rufle absolutely come off St Mary's and I'll be singing all the way home.
00:23:41
Zak
So you you really, you really just want me to lose 60 quid, don't you?
00:23:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's the plan.
00:23:46
Zak
That's what, actually, it's going to be more, because I'm going to be the his name printed on the back. Oh, good.
00:23:50
Oscar
Have you got to get the Premier League badges on it as well?
00:23:53
Zak
I don't think we'll agree to that. i I guess I'll have to find out whether that's in the terms or not, but yeah. Thanks, Greg.
00:24:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
needs to be a club official shop as well ain't none of these dodgy websites can't be having that
00:24:04
Zak
Are you using none of that? I don't even know if they existed until you told me about them.
00:24:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
and I don't know what you mean.
00:24:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
OK, well, that ah is is just about all we've got time for today. So if you see us down at St Mary's, give us a shout, say hello.
Personal Emotions on a Player's Situation
00:24:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
If not, we look forward to seeing you Monday when we talk about the fallout and whatever comes, we will be here.
00:24:30
Zak
I got one last point and it's just that, and to be clear on Flynn Downs, I know it might sound that I came across, I know, this is my own personal thing, right? But I come across like quite angry, quite aggressive. I think he's a really good player, I think he's probably deep down a really good guy. I just think this whole situation is horrible and gross and should be sorted out for the sake of both player and club.
00:24:54
Zak
And I just want to make sure that that's like put out there into the world because I don't want them to think that I'm sat there like, I just hate him and have a dartboard that I'm throwing at because that's not how I feel. It's just that it's incredibly upsetting and disappointing.
00:25:06
Zak
That was sort of about a point before.
00:25:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. That's it. Okay. Well, thank you very much for joining us. We look forward to seeing you Monday when we're talking about our gracious win against Bournemouth and our fight back to avoid relegation. Until then, relentless optimism continues. Oscar, Zach, thanks for joining me and we will see you then.