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Daily Ipswich: Episode 97 - Wedensday Round up
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Richard and Rob go through some transfer news while having a little look around the rest of the league.
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Host: Richard Popple
Guest: Rob Binns
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Introduction and Transfer News Overview
00:00:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello everyone and welcome back to the daily Ipswich. It is Wednesday, it's hump day, your middle of the week episode. And today joining me, Richard Popple, is Mr Rob Binz. How are we, Rob?
00:00:23
Rob Binns
Yeah, I'm doing good mate. I'm like I was just saying before we came on it, I'm slightly disappointed that there's a distinct lack of transfer news going around at the moment as we approach the end of the window because certainly in my head there's some, um I didn't think we'd be done, but you know, maybe maybe we'll turn up late and do a deal, keep a more esque deal that works out quite well fairly late in the window.
00:00:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, well, I think a few clubs are probably feeling a little bit like this, aren't they? A bit frustrated that there's not more
Transfer Dynamics: Snowball Effect
00:00:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
business going on. But what tends to happen in January, if it does sort of start to snowball, is that you get one deal and then that leads to another and all the rest of it. so Chelsea will probably be involved somehow because they normally are. Aston Villa seem to be sort of knocking around as well and yeah maybe Ipswich and and others get involved too. So we'll have to wait and see. We've got a few little bits of transfer stuff that's dripped out over the last couple of days which we can talk about. and The latest one being Harry Clarke. Harry Clarke's been linked with a move, I think it's a lone move to Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship.
00:01:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
and Clark's not really been in the team much this year, to be honest. Well, he's had five, six, seven appearances, maybe perhaps a few more than that, but not much. ah Very much, you know, with two hands, they'd be coming back as well. Godfrey coming into the squad. You know, he's probably fourth choice now as well behind Ben Johnson, too. So that kind of makes sense, doesn't it?
00:01:46
Rob Binns
Yeah, I think it makes, it was a move we all saw pointed out at the start of the window had and we'd done that two spot, that two-parter of what to expect from the window and I think we all had a Harry Clarke exit on loan fairly high on the list of likely things that would happen. I did wonder if, obviously we still don't know the extent yet at the time of recording, but I did wonder if the Burns injury might maybe put those plans on hold because I sort of, like we were saying, and we had the discussion on Monday, didn't we? Do we stick with a five or do we go back to a four now? Because we've had a couple of results where it's been, where we've been figured out and the gaps have been there. But if we were to stick with a five, Clark is the only other person in the squad really, apart from Johnson, that you think could comfortably play that wing back role. So if we are they're still willing to let him go out, then it suggests to me either burns injuries, isn't as bad as before, or that maybe we're sort of knocking the fire on the head.
00:02:38
Rob Binns
and because so I think it'd be a bit risky to stick to, stick to playing that set up if you got one player to suit one of the positions. But yeah, I'd say he's not offered too much. And it's, I think, I think, I think it's seven games he's had this year. He's looked fairly dodgy, particularly obviously Brentford, he came in for his first, he came in for the first um on his debut, didn't he, against Brentford. He got, he got books, he got a fairly, fairly poor book and scored an own goal and then,
00:03:10
Rob Binns
got another a poor bookend to see himself sent off. And was it was a penalty as well? Or was it just outside the box one or it something like that? But it wasn't an ideal debut. And then yeah, he's not he's not showing the quality to the level he has in League One, the championship this season.
00:03:26
Rob Binns
So I think I think it's similar to Al Hamadi, really, that he's going to struggle for game time. So it's best for him to drop down to the championship for six months and try and find his form.
00:03:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm. Hmm.
00:03:36
Rob Binns
And then we'll see where we're at in the summer.
Harry Clarke's Challenges
00:03:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. I mean, I think, I think someone like Clark really, he's that classic sort of when you step up to the premier league, you know, that, that cliche almost that you don't have as much time there, um, as you do in the, in the divisions below, particularly kind of like league one, but you know even the championship.
00:03:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I think with him, when we've seen him this year, he has looked quite hurried the whole time. Um, and he's not alone. There's a few other players that, that similarly, you know, have found that kind of like step up in pace and physicality and stuff too much. And I just think, yeah, he doesn't look like he's got much time on the ball and therefore that obviously impacts composure and decision-making and all the rest of it. And yeah, as you mentioned, he had a bit of a disastrous kind of first game against Brentford and unfortunately for him has not, has not really managed to get back into the team, but I think.
00:04:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
We kind of knew this was maybe coming. He wasn't necessarily a nailed on start or at the end of the championship season either, really, once to Anzabe had been switched over. So um yeah, you know, maybe this is the second exit of Harry Clarke from Ipswich, but um you never rule out a third coming with somebody like him. I'm i'm sure, I'm sure there could be ah an option back there at some point in the future, if he if indeed he does go. But that looks like it might happen and and probably makes sense if Town are going to be bringing more players in.
00:04:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
And another rumor and
Ipswich's Transfer Links
00:04:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
i I was kind of, I wasn't annoyed. That's too far to go. But like, I was a bit like, why would we be linked with this player? And it was, it's not going to happen by the looks of it because he's going somewhere else, but it was side Ben Rama, the former West Ham winger who plays for Leon, I think now.
00:05:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
But it looks as if he's going to Saudi Arabia instead. But that was quite a heavy link earlier in the week. And I was just like, why do we need another five foot seven winger? And he literally is a five foot seven winger and and predominantly on the left hand side. i was that That kind of baffled me. did you Did you see that one coming? Was there anything kind of behind that, do you think?
00:05:34
Rob Binns
No, I don't know really. I mean i know there's, it's what I say, it'll be on that list. could We mentioned the situation at Leon, didn't we, when we talked about the links to the Manumatic. They are in a situation where a fair amount of players need to be moved on in January.
00:05:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:48
Rob Binns
And so, So I suppose it's sort of naturally, if you know a player is going to be available, then there's going to be links thrown around for the teams who say, whether it's their agent or whether there's actual links there, there's going to be some names thrown around. But ah again, I don't, and I didn't know understand if that was to be true. That was something we're exploring because it's sort of like, so we're crying out, we'll get onto it later, but so we're crying out for another striker option and a midfielder especially, but so,
00:06:19
Rob Binns
to go into the market and get more wingers. It sort it doesn't seem like the way to go. So it would have felt like a waste to me, definitely. So I'm quite glad that that sort of moved on now. And he looks like he's going to be off elsewhere. Because that he he was good he has some good spells, obviously fantastic at Brentford, wasn't he? Then at West Ham, he sort of, but I think he was the start of one year. He went on a really good run because I'm around purely because I like there was a little run of a few years in a row where one West Ham player used to score loads of FBL points.
00:06:53
Rob Binns
It was different one every year. So so I took a punt on Ben Rama one year and then flew to the top of my league and he scored like five and six games or something. But I remember him because of that.
00:07:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's very astute of you, Rob.
00:07:04
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:07:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's very good. and
00:07:05
Rob Binns
I just went through the West Ham midfield and this thought, oh, he's not had that. so He's not had that spell yet. I'll go in the same. That's the only really thing I remember him for at West Ham. Other than that, he didn't have too many too many positive little spells so a good one to avoid I'd say overall really.
00:07:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I yeah think he was a decent player and as you say, he was good at Brentford and he was all right for West Ham, but I just don't think he's what we need. I don't think he's he would particularly be an upgrade on what we have and it it just seems, it would it would be bizarre if we were to bring in somebody else in those positions. um I think we've got a lot of players that need to need to have some game time ultimately and and sort of like we need to find the solution from within now and obviously we've already gone out and got NCSO and Philogene in this transfer window. so It would be strange if we bought in another winger, ah particularly of that profile, like another five foot seven, five foot eight, they are all that ilk.
00:07:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
We don't need more like that, I i don't think. um And as you say, yeah, we need we need a midfielder and a striker pronto. We'll get to that in the second part. Are there any other um transfer news bits coming in that we've seen?
00:08:12
Rob Binns
uh yeah so it's just somewhere along the same line with the Ben Rama stuff really that our names have thrown in there but it looks like the players going elsewhere was uh going back in for former lone player in Tom Lawrence that apparently is part of Rangers having a bit of a restructure and shifting some old some of the the older players on so I think they've had ah Lawrence is on the list to be moved on but so by the looks of it that they're shelled United and Burnley sort of fighting each other for his signature or which I don't know if our name's been thrown in there because he was here on loan, had a really successful spell. I was just saying a little flurry of loan, but we had one every year, didn't we, for a while that sort of carried the team for that season. I don't know if it's for that reason or whether there is actual interest there, but again, it's not quite a this. It's not what we're looking for. Is it really the same? thing You can, all the points we just made about Ben Rama, you can, you can put on this again. So again, I'll be happy. but I'd happen to let him move on to Sheffield United or
00:09:11
Rob Binns
or Burnley and move on there. But so it's a bit concerning that I could say we're what six days until the end of the window. Now we've got positions that you would have said were a prior priority at the start of the window that there's just no talk about now. There's barely any talk at all. And then a few little rumors that are popping up of positions we don't need, which is say for a a club who tends to do January very well over the last couple of years.
00:09:39
Rob Binns
you you'd be sort of anticipating a strong finish really and we're sort of going out with a whimper but as I keep seeing journalists but put tweets out saying expect Ipswich Town to be active between now and the end of the window but they keep telling I'll keep getting told we're gonna be active but they're not seeing any names so it's hard to believe it really but like as I say you never know we could this like I say six days in theory is still a long time and transfer window but I certainly would like to see some more coming in and not any more wingers.
00:10:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, agreed. All right, well, we'll take a quick break. And then when we come back, we'll talk about the type of positions and type of players that we would like to be seeing coming through the door over the next few days.
00:10:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
and We are back for the second part of the daily Ipswich. We're talking transfers because of course it's January, the last week of January in fact, so that's all that anybody is talking about unless
Ipswich’s Transfer Needs: Priorities and Challenges
00:10:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's the referee controversies that are going around the league at the moment. Alright Rob, so we you mentioned a little bit before, I've mentioned as well, I think most Ipswich fans are mentioning this on Twitter quite a lot as well. um We desperately need a striker, we know that and we
00:11:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
desperately need a midfielder. And it doesn't really seem apart from the Matich kind of stuff that was being talked about earlier in the window, which you mentioned before with Leon, I mean, I don't know whether that's going to rear its head again. That would Matich give us what we need, given his kind of like age, the fact that he's been out of the league for a little while, the Premier League, I mean, um is that the kind of profile that's going to help us?
00:11:42
Rob Binns
No, I don't think so. It's a bit concerning really, like we say, that we've obviously said on here, I think so you've definitely been the most vocal about it and the dire need for another progressive midfielder. So we've got Phillips and Morsy who are basically the same player in terms of their play. And then you've got Caruso who is sort of running that area on his own really and sort of as a different sort of kind of player. And there's a reason why he's screwed back-to-back club player of the month awards, because he actually brings something into that midfield that helps us break up a bit, sort of alleviate the bit of the pressure and start trying to go up the other end. He's key to that. And so, and especially now, given the context of, ah so I think the quote was ongoing knee injury, which what kept which kicked him out of the squad at Anfield at the weekend. But say again, we know we know what the club's like. We spoke about this on Monday. We're not going to get,
00:12:35
Rob Binns
details about this to maybe the prep. We're like, if we're lucky, we'll get someone in the press conference before Southampton. We're not going to find out what that means. So to me, ongoing sounds like he's been playing through pain for a little while and may have to continue to play through pain, which so it is how important he's become. If he gets an injury now, um that' just then we know with the current options we've got, the midfield is going to be run through far more often than it is at the moment, which is already a problem. so I should emphasise it even more to go and get another midfielder of that sort of calibre. So someone who can so play that either play together with Christ or play his role. An ongoing injury would also suggest why he often comes off after 70 minutes or so, which it's quite I question a lot of the time when we do the reactions. I say, how come he came off again? that There must be something going on, which that would sort of maybe answer that if he's been playing through pain. for We don't know how long. but
00:13:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, well, there's also a reason.
00:13:34
Rob Binns
Certainly it would have been topped with a list.
00:13:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, and and there's a reason why Brentford, the the deal to Brentford fell through right just before we got him in the summer, because I think there were concerns about his medical records and stuff.
00:13:36
Rob Binns
Sorry.
00:13:41
Rob Binns
and
00:13:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
So we obviously took a bit of a chance. um You could argue that it has paid off because he was so good, as you mentioned, for those couple of months, and he continues to be good when he plays. But yeah, we we we need more.
00:13:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
We need we need him to be available, obviously, but we still need more in there. um Yeah, I think You know, I think Morsy and Phillips can still definitely play a part in the season. I'm not suggesting for a moment that they should be jettisoned or anything, but I just think that's been fairly obvious from the moment that Calvin Phillips wasn't really stepping up. I think, you know, early in the season, you mentioned it in ah in a previous part, I think maybe um on Mondays that Morsy actually started the season really well. Like the first six or seven games, he was one of our better players.
00:14:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
the league didn't seem to to, you know, he seemed to have adapted to the league to a certain extent. There were games, obviously, where we were playing against the better sides, where it was difficult for him, but he was holding his own. And I think that you have seen a drop off from him um in the last couple of months, I would say, probably. um And, but you know, that we we thought that might happen at the start of the season. So I'm not suggesting that he can't come back and finish the season strongly, but If we're relying on him all the time, which we are at the moment, and then I think that is a bit of a problem. So yeah, I mean, I guess we'll see. I think, I think that the club must know, right? I mean, McKenna must know because Jack Taylor can't is not that player. He can't play in a two, as you've mentioned. So you really are down to three midfielders. That's not adequate considering we've got like five, six central defender options and.
00:15:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know, cover in the fullback areas and plenty of wingers, as we've already mentioned, it's just not adequate. So the club must be aware of it. And I'm sure they are probably working on it. It's just whether, you know, is it going to be hard to attract players to Ipswich given our position and and how long is left in the season? Do you think that's going to be a problem for the club?
00:15:40
Rob Binns
It might well be, yeah, well, I don't know, because we were doing very well in the summer, obviously, weren't we? Because pretty much everyone who come in was won over by the chance to play under Keira McKenna, but say, I think particularly the last couple of weeks, obviously, you can say even put our results into context against who it was playing against, but more so other teams,
00:16:03
Rob Binns
picking results up like, obviously, Everton, two wins on the bounce, that the situation looks a bit more dire than it did a couple of weeks ago. And then you sort of, that will put ah we'll put some players off. but ah So I always worry when you the later you go in the window that you enter paricck panic by territory. And we haven't been a panic by a club in recent years, definitely. So there's a bit of confidence there, but Again, as ah it seems to have gone a bit, I don't know.
00:16:36
Rob Binns
There's not as assured of the window, like you say, maybe, because of the we're in a less far more perilous position, really, than we were. We were selling projects to people in previous years, but now it's sort of, they yeah you almost have to put the short term first.
00:16:50
Rob Binns
You can't say oh that this is our product can't sell them a project if we want to grow over time and ah establish ourselves in the Premier League if you get relegated.
00:16:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:16:59
Rob Binns
um four months time or whenever the season ends. you It's almost a different selling point now, but like I say, last year, we i lost the Keith and Morty last year was done fairly late, or very late in the window actually, wasn't it? And that worked out brilliantly. So you have to say, based on past windows, I have enough faith in McKenna Ashton, they all this stuff behind the scenes to get something out of the bag. But like I say, to go back to the initial talking point, the fact that we're we've had 28 full days of a January window in which many of us saw a midfielder as a top three priority position and we've had one link and it'd be Matics who doesn't fit the build of what we wanted at all and would just be another one for that list of so the Mausie Phillips sort of role is quite concerning really despite all the confidence I have in the team behind the scenes that worries me a lot that maybe somehow they don't see it as a big of a priority as we do.
00:17:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. I mean, you make a load of good points around, yeah around how, how the club are going to be selling this thing to, to, to a player at the moment, because you're right. It's a short term thing. You know, I remember we, we all can remember clearly forest, the way that they kind of, um, bought in all of those players like two or three years ago and stuff over the summer and that January window and everyone thought they were crazy, but it kind of like worked out. I don't know how many of those players are still at forest and how much of a turnover it was, but I'm i'm sure it was quite a lot.
00:18:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
And you kind of, you know, January is always used much more by the clubs at the lower end of the, of the table, the ones trying to get out of something more often than not. So that's the problem, isn't it? We're going to play probably a higher tariff for a player. We might have to play pay bonuses for, ah for, for a player if we stay in the division and all that kind of stuff. Um, so yeah, it's a tricky one for the clubs to try and negotiate. Do they do how far do they gamble because they get, you know, they've already backed.
00:18:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
McKenna and the team massively, but it's how much further they can go with that really.
00:19:01
Rob Binns
Yeah. Yeah. There's going to be a PSR conversation to have there as well. Obviously, I don't know how close to the line we are that say we will, on because so it I think the the way they work out, I think they're switching to the UEFA system where it's done as a percentage of revenue.
00:19:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Of course.
00:19:19
Rob Binns
So how much you can lose and what your wages are and everything that revenue wise, we will be one of, if not the smallest club in the league, which compare that to money being spent in the summer, like we say, McKenna was backed heavily. And so that that will be, that will be a conversation there is do it. So either so we certainly don't know how close the line we are, but maybe it might even be a case of people at the club can't guarantee how close the line they are. So don't want to be taken any, any unnecessary risks that could backfire into next season. Cause so we've, we've, we've closed the current window. So that went by early this month, nobody got punished, but
00:19:58
Rob Binns
you don't want to set yourself up in a bad way next year because ultimately summer windows are more important than January windows so if you take a risk now it backfires you get relegated and then you mess up your summer window for a temperature and come back up so that would be an element as well which now they're tighter on the rules but like i say i have no clue whether we're sailing close to the line or not that certainly he spent a lot in the summer that maybe would and then already 20 million on filigene as well so We can't have too much of that little spell left before we get in, start being in trouble.
00:20:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah,
00:20:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
no i wouldn't have thought i yeah I agree. i mean I think quite a few of those deals in the summer, though that a lot of them were 15 and 5 or 18 and 3, that kind of thing, because they were clearly heavily incentivized to kind of like stay in the league or whatever. So we'd we'd probably we probably have a bill to pay if we do manage to stay up anyway in the summer, and a lot of that summer budget will potentially have already been gone. But they're probably very aware as well that
00:21:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know, the end of the end of this season is going to be the end of Liam to lapse. My my doorbells going off consistently. Has it has it got stuck? I don't know what's going on.
00:21:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think the doorbells got stuck.
00:21:14
Rob Binns
ah pra
00:21:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
We might have to pause.
00:21:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, there we go. I'm out of breath, but managed to get the doorbell to stop going off ah by itself. That was fun.
00:21:25
Rob Binns
That's right.
00:21:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:21:26
Rob Binns
okay
00:21:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right, I think we've kind of got through that, Rob. PSR problems, no midfielders, no strikers. That's the, well, not PSR problems, but PSR tightrope to walk, potentially. Anyway, when we come back in the final part of the show, we'll just do a little bit of a roundup from what else has been going on in the Premier League.
Ipswich's League Position and Competitors
00:22:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Welcome back to the final part of the show. So Rob, we went further down the league. this we We're now down to 19th. Wolves have gone above us. leicester have gone Well, let wolves were already above us, but Leicester have now gone above us as well. um Can you talk to us what's what's been going on down there, both both good results for Leicester and Everton at the weekend?
00:22:39
Rob Binns
Yeah, so Moises come in and steady the ship at Everton as an ease. they They play quite well even though they lost 1-0 to Villa and then they've They say we picked up a couple of wins in a row that, and that our bounce was natural.
00:22:55
Rob Binns
as So that's always that as always something you felt going into the season was a disadvantage we were going to have. Cause we, every other club was going to sack a manager at some point and go on a little run. Whereas we had to put it out ourselves.
00:23:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
should we Should we say we cannot?
00:23:08
Rob Binns
No, I'm not going to go that far yet. But so you always knew that we knew we were never going to do that.
00:23:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:23:12
Rob Binns
We had to put a new manager bounce esc run together ourselves. Cause every other club was bam though.
00:23:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:19
Rob Binns
Deutsch was probably the one I thought was maybe safe, which i hasn't worked out that well in the end, but you always knew every other club was going to let the manager go at some point and say, Wolves done it and got seven points in three games. Everton have done it and won two on the bounce now. Leicester have done it and before that, I was saying, Brandeis Schori got some good results in his first couple of games. ah Southampton aside, really, because they are just so far back. They're the one sort of outlier that even say West Ham as well with Potters coming and got a few good results and pulled them right out of it really that that was a disadvantage we were going to have and Moyes has had the intended effect of Everton so far and then it's going to be about he's given himself a start on block to hang on to hang on to it was now going about hanging on to that really isn't it and then so unfortunately for us that's something we felt the benefit of earlier in the season to
00:24:13
Rob Binns
pick ourselves up for our first win of the seasons, now come back against us. The old Dr. Tottenham treatment has handed six points to our rivals in the last two weeks, which has not helped us out. So we've Everton and a now Leicester.
00:24:25
Rob Binns
And that's the way we obviously, we spoke last week. We had a jokey chat, didn't we? have Are they in the scrap? But really the the worrying thing for them, and obviously in our case as well, was that you just you knew they were going to lose for Leicester, didn't you?
00:24:40
Rob Binns
no That was it was almost,
00:24:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm, you did, yeah.
00:24:43
Rob Binns
There was no, it might as well have been like, I tell you, it was just so, again, not something to keep trying to dig out in Southampton. We are only one position above them. I know there's a few points there, but like you were so confident at Leicester result, they might as well have been playing like a Southampton at home. You just sort of, in my head, I just looked at it and I saw right off, as soon as we didn't get it, it was like, not that I was expecting a result at Anfield. As soon as we didn't get one, I was like, well, Leicester will be above us this week now. It was just nailed on. They were going to go to Spurs and win.
00:25:12
Rob Binns
and I don't know. You knew it was coming. Luckily, hopefully we get the old, hopefully we get the Tottenham treatment again when we play them in a couple of weeks. So we joked about it a little while ago, but they are now only one, there's only one point between them and Everton now and we consider Everton still in the race.
00:25:31
Rob Binns
So is that point, do we?
00:25:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know if I do, actually. I think Everton are gone.
00:25:35
Rob Binns
Hmm.
00:25:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think Everton are gone because of Mois, really. I think those two results absolutely have kind of solidified their position. But also, he's just not he's not going to get relegated. He's just not.
00:25:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
He hasn't done for his whole career. He's kept West Ham on you know a very decent level for a long time. He kept Everton at a very decent level for a long time. I just don't see that happening. So I think that that's their get out of jail free card, really.
00:25:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think they've they've done well there, really. and Leicester are still the one, aren't they? I mean, yeah, you're right. That was a great result for them at Spurs, but they don't look great. Wolves, I don't think look good at all. I think they they are in real trouble. And Southampton is an interesting one because, you know, they do look doomed. But is their squad that much worse than our squad or is it just the same realistically in terms of quality?
00:26:28
Rob Binns
yeah it was It was an issue with the style of football, well not with the style of football but the blend of the style of football and the squad was the issue under Russell Martin wasn't it?
00:26:38
Rob Binns
That he was trying to enforce his always playing out from the back with Ramsdale aside but and apart from saying he's even got what Walker Peters as all right. Harvard Bellis is quite fairly decent with people like Bednarik he's a good centre half but playing out from the back is not his strength.
00:26:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
no
00:26:56
Rob Binns
He's a big brute of a centre half you don't want him trying to play intricate passes with his goalkeeper and then obviously it all fell apart when Ramsdale got injured and Alex McCarthy goes in goal because he, he didn't haven't even got a keeper to play that role.
00:27:08
Rob Binns
and They've sort
Southampton’s Struggles and Resilience
00:27:09
Rob Binns
of found a better balance now since Martin's gone. But to me actually, in recent weeks, they'd look better than Wolves and to me in recent weeks.
00:27:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:27:18
Rob Binns
They've just not been getting over the line.
00:27:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:27:20
Rob Binns
Their their performances haven't been too bad. this ah i mean They started very poorly against Forrest, but they really pulled out, the the third goal just sparked them into life. And so they were, well,
00:27:31
Rob Binns
six inches or something away from an an equalizer and I hooked that ball off the line. weren It wasn't far at all and then so Newcastle again they got themselves ahead they almost pulled themselves back into it towards the end before VAR got involved but that's why we talk about being a bit unlucky maybe with the timings we have to play games
00:27:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. yeah
00:27:52
Rob Binns
We said, obviously, the city coming in, like, writes Foden, hits form again, who then went on to score a couple of goals and get an assist. We said it about Newcastle as well, that some of their key men had turned, said Isaac and Murphy, didn't we, had turned the corner, and then Isaac scored a hat trick. And it seems like Southampton are on their way, they're doing their hard, they're trying their best to turn a corner. They're just almost getting done in on the quality, as reserve like I say, with new fast-forward forest results particularly, whereas That's sort of my worry now coming into this weekend is that if they put in that sort of level of shift, do do we have the quality to just win the game anyway? And certainly also we spoke about our issues in front of goal that I'm now starting to worry maybe not. And even the draw would be a poor result this weekend.
00:28:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, like that we we've got the crossover to do with the Southampton guys tomorrow and then there'll be a preview obviously on Friday as well. But I think that our attackers have to step up this week. It's as simple as that. They have to grab the game by the scuff scruff of the neck and hopefully the formation gives them a bit more of a um ah license to kind of like get on the ball and and get involved in the game. But we've got to see something from our wide men. We have to. And obviously that's going to help to lap.
00:29:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
um But yeah, we'll talk to we'll talk to the Southampton guys tomorrow. and Anything else to add, Rob? Anything else of interest around the league from you?
00:29:12
Rob Binns
Well, so sort of link it back to us as well, weren't we, that you mentioned earlier, we talked the big talking points of the week, obviously a lot to do with referees is that obviously, Michael Oliver, the ref who gave that red card decision against Lewis Skelly in the Wolves Arsenal game is going to be in the centre
Ipswich-Southampton Match Official Decision
00:29:29
Rob Binns
for our game with Southampton on Saturday.
00:29:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
He is, yeah.
00:29:31
Rob Binns
So and say seems an interesting one there because he is
00:29:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:29:37
Rob Binns
I believe he's considered the top ref in the league and he's been given a game of the bottom two clubs, which I would sense is perhaps a punishment for a poor decision. I don't know because say considering you've got Arsenal Man City also taking place this weekend.
00:29:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, he was never going to get another Arsenal game, was he?
00:29:53
Rob Binns
You think he would have been? No.
00:29:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
i doubt I doubt he's going to be in charge of one of their games for the rest of the year.
00:29:56
Rob Binns
No.
00:29:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
But like, yeah, it's interesting. You're right. because ah but But arguably, apart from maybe Arsenal, Man City, this is the game with the most on it. So it is still a very important game and he, you would hope, tries to keep a low profile um and it's not about him.
00:30:08
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:30:12
Rob Binns
I don't know how this is not on TV, by the way, at this point.
00:30:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
and But yeah.
00:30:16
Rob Binns
I know, I suppose it's maybe not late enough in the season, but you think some of the three o'clock games this weekend, and then you've got, I think it's Brentford Spurs who's on TV on the Sunday. So you've literally got, you've got effectively a relegation six pointer on Saturday.
00:30:25
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is it
00:30:31
Rob Binns
I think Liverpool, or Bournemouth but bor of liverpore I should say that way, um I think. That's this weekend, I think, and that's three o'clock as well. and then say've got So I don't know how games like this, and so I know we're not, well, no one under no illusion, not going to get picked for TV very often, but if you can't get a relegation six-pointer on TV, then we ain't got a chance.
00:30:50
Rob Binns
So we just have to wait until we play the big six teams, and they might get thrown on, theyll say like and be one of those games everyone else moans about, like Spurs, Brentford is this week.
00:30:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I agree.
00:31:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's also Everton Leicester this week as well. And to be honest, we kind of want an Everton win, which which basically pulls them right out of it if they get a third win in a row.
00:31:08
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:31:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
and ah yeah We'll see how it all shakes out. All right. Thank you, Rob, um for your insights as always. Thank you all for listening. And we will see you tomorrow for our crossover episode with the Daily Southampton guys.
00:31:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Cheers.