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Daily Southampton: Episode 123 - Crossover with Ipswich!
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Southampton – Is an away trip to Ipswich the jump start we need for the rest of the season? Or are we both just destined to meet again in the Championship next year? We are joined by the Daily ipswich to find out what we think!
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Transcript
Crossover Introduction
00:00:08
Speaker
everyone and welcome back to the Daily Ipswich. This is a crossover special. Today I am joined by the Daily Southampton Boys. My name is Richard Popple and we have got Oscar and Greg from the Daily Southampton. Gentlemen, how are we? Yeah, looking forward to maybe the most promising game of the season that's left, right?
00:00:30
Speaker
Nice to have a competitive game for once. Yeah, but yeah i think I think we can both both agree with that. It probably will be a competitive game given given what both of us have had fairly recently.
00:00:42
Speaker
With that in mind then, are we thinking that this is the biggest game of the season?
Southampton's League Position
00:00:46
Speaker
You're obviously 10 points behind Ipswich at the moment, marooned at the bottom. I mean, I was talking to the guys on the Ipswich pod the other day. I'm not sure if our squads are that different, to be honest. So I was kind of like wondering how from the other side you look you look at Ipswich. Do you see as being 10 points better than you? Or is it just a kind of like combination of things that have dictated that you've, you are where you are. Greg, let's, let's start with you on that.
00:01:12
Speaker
I think that it's hard to see anyone being worse than us and how we've been this season. It's been sort of a is been a hard one for sure. They're probably misserved by having as few points as we have. There are definitely gains we deserve to get more out of than we did. A few decisions early on in the season that cost us points here and there. but But I think realistically, we've said it on the the podcast that at this point, our main targets just got to be getting to 12 points and not being the worst team in Premier League history. And beyond that, anything else is a plus.
00:01:53
Speaker
Yeah, I agree.
Squad Differences and What-Ifs
00:01:54
Speaker
i think I think it's an interesting point, because I was thinking the same thing when you look at our two squads. I think, personally, if had we got Dilap over the line before you did, because I think we were we've been heavily linked with them for the last few years, I think it might have completely flipped where we are. We struggled to score goals, and that might have been that might been in the catalyst that sort of pulled us pulled us back up to where you guys are. And who knows? But ultimately, that's not how it worked out, unfortunately.
00:02:23
Speaker
No, it's interesting. I mean, we you know, yeah, we, we got to lap and obviously we're very happy and he's, he's had a good year, but at the same time, we can't really score goals either outside of him. So we're, we're having problems sitting in the back of the net all year as well. So ah Greg, as you just mentioned there, the goal would be to get 12 points to avoid that, you know, unwanted record or whatever. That's it. Then you guys are resigned to kind of your fate at this stage. I think so. I think that it would be.
00:02:49
Speaker
Uh, a pretty deluded to hope otherwise, although I guess mathematically speaking, it was only this past week that it became impossible for us to win the league. So, but yeah, I think that most saints fans are pretty confident that the season's more or less done and to just try and not embarrass ourselves too much on the way down as we go.
00:03:13
Speaker
Yeah.
Fine Margins and Decisions
00:03:14
Speaker
Oscar, where where did it go wrong? Because like you both mentioned at the beginning, like you you weren't losing games that badly. You've been slapped a couple of times at home. We've just been slapped a couple of times. You know, we considered 10 goals in the last two games. That kind of happens to promoted teams, whoever you are, really. So why has it gone so badly wrong? I think i think it's it's like we spoke about fine margins. and we've had We've had times where things have gone against us and small little moments in important games, such as the reverse fixture, you know that corner gets blocked and all of a sudden it's a different game. yeah And similar with Leicester, and decisions haven't helped us in in small moments. As I say, we have been tonked a couple of times, but not it's not been too often. So it's just been those small moments really. So it's been frustrating and I don't think we deserve to be where we are, but you know it is what it is.
00:04:07
Speaker
What, what about the, uh, the sort of like Russell Martin factor, because obviously, you know, from the outside, it's, it's kind of the angiopostor Cogley thing, isn't
Russell Martin's Tenure and Plan B
00:04:15
Speaker
it? You know, a manager is being sort of lambasted constantly for having one way of playing football. And Russell Martin was very much that kind of guy with a lot of success before this season, obviously. So was it a case of, you know, he, he didn't really have a plan B because i and one of the guys on our podcast talks about this the other day that Ipswich aren't going to have that new manager bounce throughout the season because there's no way we're second here at McKenna, right? And that was never going to happen. Whereas every other club down the bottom have removed their manager. So you do, you know, more is Everton. Clearly that's going to keep them up probably. Wolves potentially not. And you guys potentially not. Maybe not Leicester either. But was that a problem? Did he stay on too long or would you have liked him to kind of stick around?
00:04:58
Speaker
It's a tough one. Unfortunately, our manager bounce was the one they lost to West Ham. So, you know, whilst that is better than it has been, it's still not ideal. But I think it's a difficult one. Ultimately, have we?
00:05:12
Speaker
In terms of points, have we improved that much since Russell Martin went? That's a question you could ask. I admire that he tried to do things slightly differently. was always a slightly dubious in the championship, how effective that way of playing would be when we weren't one of the better teams in the league. But I think ultimately, Martin or not, do we have enough goals to be able to to stay up anyway and are we good enough defensively?
00:05:39
Speaker
whether you've got Russell Martin or Pep Guardiola, I don't know whether it would have made a huge amount of difference if you can't score goals because that's what our issue was the last time we were in the Premier League and it's still the issue now, unfortunately. Yeah.
New Signings and Goal Issues
00:05:51
Speaker
Greg, anything going on in the transfer window that might alleviate some of these issues or is it a case of kind of standing pat now? They're just going to wait until the end of the season. We bought in a young fullback who signed a pre contract with us in the summer who's come over from Brazil, Wellington, who I think we're going to see probably involved for the first time on Saturday and we've signed a grumbak to the Danish midfielder and he's likely to be involved as well whether there they're an unknown as to whether they'll step up to the level I guess but it is a bit of optimistic, a bit of hope for someone that can come in and do something but I don't see us signing anyone at this point and that's going to bring goals to the team which
00:06:36
Speaker
ah ah Like Oscar said, I think it's our main problem. I mean, our joint top goal score is Jan Bednarak, so. He says it all really. Yeah. Yeah. How much did you guys spend in the summer?
00:06:49
Speaker
We spent a good amount, but a lot of it was was getting Harwood Bellis and Downs over the line and sorted for aliceda because they were loans. Ramsdale as well obviously was quite an important one, especially for how Russell Martin wanted to play, but to be honest, either the way with Bazouno picking up a big injury towards the end of last season, we needed another goalkeeper anyway.
00:07:11
Speaker
Archer again, I think more one for the future to be honest. So we we spent a good amount but unfortunately I think this to sign as as you guys found to sign a striker, that's going to be good enough to perform in the Premier League is the most costly costly part and I think we would just, I I don't know the entire financial details behind it but just outbid by you guys or or maybe you offer more wages or something like that. but Yeah, we spent a good amount, but just maybe not in the areas that we needed to. Yeah.
Historic Rivalry
00:07:42
Speaker
Yeah. Interesting. So Ipswich at the weekend, we'll talk about the kind of, we'll have a break in a second. We'll talk about the kind of lineups and how we expect the teams to look. But obviously there was a bit of, and most of this was social media, which I, to be perfectly honest, don't pay much attention to, but there was a bit of a kind of like build up of a grudge match between
00:08:00
Speaker
Southampton and Ipswich last year, you know, the four sides going for the automatic promotions, you were obviously on that incredible run at one stage, which kind of faltered towards the end of the season before you went up in the playoffs. But there was that kind of like slight grudge match between the two sides leads maybe a little bit more so with us. But that game at Portman Road last year where we, you know, that that for us Ipswich fans obviously that was the moment of the year really aside from actually going up itself that was kind of like ah an iconic moment that last minute winner but it was a bit of a obviously being on the other side for you guys gutting so how how have you seen Ipswich from the other side we were obviously away from the big big league for a long long time have you have you enjoyed watching a club like that come back or has it been a bit like uh you know they're coming up with all the cash and all the rest of it and how bidding is for players like Dalat
00:08:52
Speaker
Greg will go with you. Sorry, mate. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, i i I don't mind it. I like that it's a different name in the mix. I think surprised everyone with with what you achieved last season and sort of even in the midst of being where you were, there was a doubt that you would stay the course almost until sort of right near the end. But yeah, I think like you've done well to to get to where you are. And I guess it's it's interesting interesting
00:09:23
Speaker
that it seems likely that the three of us that came up are likely to be the three that go back down again and speaks volumes about what it's going to take to bridge that gap especially you know like you guys spent as well as we spent and it just doesn't seem to have quite been enough but I mean I don't know have you guys given up hope for the season or are you still thinking there's a chance that but you can catch one of the other teams in the midst to to keep you there?
Challenges for Promoted Clubs
00:09:51
Speaker
Yeah, I think there's a massive chance. I mean, obviously there was a very low points total last year. I wasn't there to stay in the league. I think it was 27, 28 points, something like that. And that will probably be roughly around the same thing to stay up again. It's not going to be like a high total. I don't think 30 points might keep you in the league. So yeah, I think we could easily do that. It's just whether the other sides continue to fall or around us really. it it Wolves are the key. I think, yeah.
00:10:18
Speaker
they're the ones if they keep hold of Cunha you would expect maybe they might just have enough to to stay up but if not then obviously the other sides well I guess maybe not yourselves because of your position but certainly Lesser and Ipswich could give it a good go but Yes, it's been obviously incredible for us as as kind of Ipswich fans to sort of see that journey, but it's you're right. you know What do you have to do to stay in this league? It just seems unbelievably weighted towards the other clubs. When you see teams like Bournemouth and Brentford performing the way they are and the players that they've got now, because of the budgets for these clubs that stay in the league year after year are just through the roof, it's it seems to be a
00:10:56
Speaker
a battle that the sides coming up can can't really compete with on on a fair scale really. and Oscar, what what what have you thought about Ipsage's kind of like renaissance from afar?
00:11:07
Speaker
Yeah, I think I think it fairly mirrors our own one from when we were down in league one. Yeah. And the resurgence from up there. So you always love to see it. And, you know, where were I in neutral neutral last season? I would have quite enjoyed seeing you up there with the big boys and and, you know, sitting behind you and trying to chase you. I didn't enjoy it quite so much. But, you know, you're and you're right about this year, like, is is it getting harder and harder? Like,
00:11:34
Speaker
we we're struggling to catch Derby's points total. And is that indicative of where the league quality is this now as opposed to where it was then? Is it getting harder each season? like It's just tricky. And I think with the PSR rules and things like that haven't helped matters either. So I think that's what affected us quite a bit as well. I think we struggled to spend, I know we did still spend some, but struggled to spend what we needed to because we can't afford, we spent a lot of money when we came down the first time, we couldn't afford to strengthen even further. So it does seem to be that that gap is getting bigger. Ironically, as a result of them trying to fix that problem. Yeah.
00:12:14
Speaker
Yeah, well, I think, you know, as Greg mentioned, if the three do go down that that came up for the second year in a row, and then it's going to be have to be something that the the authorities have a look at, really, because, it it yeah, it's just becoming a bit of a bit of a problem. All right, that'll do for part one. In the second part, we'll come back and talk about how the teams will be lining up, hopefully for the weekend.
00:12:34
Speaker
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00:12:58
Speaker
We are back on the daily Ipswich. South Visit Portman Road this weekend. It's a three o'clock kickoff on Saturday. It's a real shame, actually. It's not going to be on Sky Sports because it is a proverbial six pointer. and Michael Oliver is going to be the referee for it. There's going to be a lot of eyes on the game anyway.
00:13:18
Speaker
How are you guys sort of, you've been playing all right recently. I actually saw that you know you played against Newcastle, you gave them a bit of a run for their money. and We're obviously coming off a 4-1 defeat and a 6-0 defeat and a 2-0 defeat to Brighton. So three pretty abject performances in a row really where our team seems to be a little all over the place in terms of personnel and stuff. How do you see it this weekend? Are you coming into it with a little bit more stability even though results haven't been great Greg?
00:13:46
Speaker
I don't know. we've It feels like we've been building up to a point where we might have a really good 90 minutes in us, but it's kind of felt like that will season and never really come to pass. I don't know about stability. I think we're probably going to play both our new signings and and what that means for the shape and the sort of formation we go with. We're not entirely sure. yeah I don't know. I think it'll be still a case of of our new manager sort of trying to almost find the best 11 or just trying to find something that works and gets the ball in the goal, and kind of starved up front for goals. and And the goal seemed to come from just about anywhere else on the pitch. So I don't know if if it will be sticking to the same guns and hoping that it starts to work or changing out completely. I think the vote is out.
00:14:41
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, you've scored 16 goals this year. We scored 21, so we're the third lowest. Are we expecting goals at the weekend, Oscar? Are we we get both going to buck the trend? I mean, I'm not i'm not so sure. I think the the aim that Euroch had when he came in was to make us a bit tough to beat and a bit more Italian defending. And I don't want to look at how many goals we've conceded since he came in.
00:15:05
Speaker
I think it's it's sort of a last gasp for us this this weekend and this the next few weeks. If we're going to have a chance of staying up, we're going to find out over the next couple of weeks because we've got you guys and then we've got quite a few home games on the bounce. Or it's going to be the nail in the coffin and sort of finishes off our season. and you know I'd like to think that we could do a bit of damage but I just don't see where it comes from, to be honest. Again, we've said that the Ambednarik is our second top scorer. I'm not sure that Toolpool's goal scoring form lasted one game. So we'll we'll just have to see whether we can take that into the next one. And that's probably, I'd say, where most likely ah our goals are going to come from. But it's it's a tricky one.
00:15:53
Speaker
where do Where do you see the weaknesses in the Ipswich team? Because obviously we have, as I mentioned, I know it was against Liverpool and City, but we have just conceded 10 goals in the last two games. We've been playing a back five for the last few weeks in a bid to kind of like solidify a little bit. And that worked for a while. We only lost 1-0 at Arsenal. there We then beat Chelsea 2-0, which was obviously a fantastic result. But it's sort of been worked out a little bit by teams now. So we've obviously shipped these goals and there's a talk among star fans that will be shifting back to the formation that was McKenna's formation, you know, throughout league one, the championship and earlier this season, that back four, but with Leif Davis marauding off down the left-hand side and and putting in crosses and stuff for us. So where where do you think you can hurt us on Saturday? That could be an interesting matchup, to be fair, with Leif Davis, because we've got Carl Walker Peters on that side, well, at least at the time of writing.
00:16:47
Speaker
and he also likes to try and get forwards. Sometimes he's been playing on the left at left-back to be fair, but so that could be an interesting battle. But in terms of yeah in terms of trying to figure out what where we can get at you, i mean I don't know, the midfield battle could be quite interesting as well. How has Calvin Phillips been for you guys this season?
00:17:06
Speaker
The midfield, yeah, that's the kind of area of the pitch where we, even though we have been conceding, obviously, goals in the last couple of weeks, that's been the area of the pitch which we've really struggled with. Jens, because you stay, came into the side, Brentford were going to sign him at the start of the season, then turned him down, there was stuff around his medical that basically wasn't, you know, they weren't happy with or whatever. So we picked him up on loan from Napoli. And whenever he's played, he's been quality. and Because we've basically got three central midfielders. We've got Sam Morsey, the captain, obviously, who scored you know, the equaliser against you guys, we've got Calvin Phillips and and Jen's cause you say Calvin Phillips, you would have thought if you'd have got him, the Calvin Phillips are three years ago, he'd have walked into the Ipswich team, but he's just not that player anymore. I don't know what it is. physically he doesn't get around the pitch, particularly his passing, I think is pretty limited. He's quite similar to Sam Morsey in terms of like the profile of players. So if you play them together, you've got a very limited midfield, which can't play through the lines. So.
00:18:04
Speaker
Yeah, midfield's been the problem for us and and Phillips hasn't quite been the signing we were hoping really because we've got great little wingers and we've got obviously Dalap up front who's a handful for anyone.
00:18:15
Speaker
you know, Hutchinson, Broadheads, now we've signed Philogene from Villa and stuff. We've got NCSO on loan from bright and yeah from Brighton. We've got really good forward players, but we don't get the ball to them. So the midfield really has been a problem. And I think given that it's the 29th of January, I think most town fans are pretty surprised that that's not been the the area that's been focused on in January. Maybe it will before the the end of the window, but Phillips, to your question, and the midfield in general has been pretty disappointing, I would say.
00:18:45
Speaker
Yeah I must say and there's a bias that comes behind it because I've always felt that Walprous has been unjustifiably not given a chance in the England squad and I personally think he's always offered just as much as Calvin Phillips plus he's got the free kicks on top of it so I know I've got a little bit of a bias against him but and not I wasn't massively surprised to see him not do particularly well at West Ham or with you guys to be honest but I hope.
00:19:10
Speaker
Yeah, it'd be interesting where his career goes from here, really, because you know it's two years in a row, really, where he's not been pulling up trees at at clubs where, in theory, he really should have done. and What about Mr. Dibley? Is he going to still be there, Tyler Dibley? I think it's likely he'll still be with us, but he is out injured at the moment, ah ah probably for another couple of weeks, I think, from what we've seen. So unlikely to to be there to make a dent, which will be a shame.
00:19:37
Speaker
Yeah, it is. but you But you're confident you're going to keep hold of him by the end of the window? but This window, yeah. The next one, not so sure. I think the injury might have done us a bit of a favour, to be honest. Yeah. Well, I think Spurs were one of the suitors, right? I mean, who's who wants to get a Tottenham right now? So, yeah. That's the problem we're having. He wants to come to us.
00:20:02
Speaker
Well, I mean, I think we are, it seems to a certain extent. I think the McKenna thing was very much getting players through the door. That might have helped with with Liam Dalat, to be honest. I think he's very good at talking up the project of Ipswich and obviously the track record and stuff. But yeah, the mid the midfield thing, as I just mentioned, is it is strange that we've not bolstered that yet.
00:20:24
Speaker
We were linked with an Nemanja Matic earlier in the window, which is just like, do we want a 36 year old who hasn't played in the Premier League for a couple of, you know, is like is that really what we're looking forward to now? That could be a ah ah serious midfield three of Phillips, Morsy and Matic. Yeah.
00:20:39
Speaker
I mean, yeah, they clatter into tackles, that's for sure. But whether they can get up and up up and down the pitch or not is another matter. Yeah. All right. Any other things about about the weekend in terms of how you expect to set up? I mean, it can go probably one or two ways, right? It's either going to be really cagey because you've got two sides that aren't confident, or it's that last chance saloon a little bit, because it's it's very much last chance saloon for you guys. And to be honest,
00:21:04
Speaker
on paper, it should be it should be one of our easier games to before the end of the season. That's not me saying that we're going to win at all, but it's just like, you know, if you can't beat the bottom side at home, where are the wins going to come from kind of thing? yeah So do you expect it to be cage or do you expect both sides to kind of go for it a little bit more? What do you reckon, Oscar?
00:21:21
Speaker
Yeah, id ah'd i'd like to see I'd like to see them both go for it. I think everyone would. I don't think a nil-nil helps either of us, to be brutally honest. so And it was 3-3, the reverse game, isn't it, in the end? At the top of my head. What was the draw, anyway? At your place, it was 1-1. 1-1, sorry. I was confused in the last game.
00:21:44
Speaker
Yeah, so yeah, you know, is it going to be high goal scoring? Not so sure, but I'd like to see again. I think I think we have to show if if we want have any chance of showing of staying up or at least fighting till the end of the season, we've got to show something. So.
00:21:59
Speaker
Yeah, I'd like to see us go for it. And if we go for it and we lose justifiably, we've said a few times on over the last few weeks, what is a positive for us? If we go all guns out and we lose a game by by the odd goal through a worldly or good play from the opposition, then you know it's acceptable, I think, at this point. So yeah, I'd like to just give it a go. But I think at the moment, you just don't know what team's going to turn up. Yeah, what about you, Greg? Yeah, I think i think exactly the same. If we can bring the pieces of quality that we've had the last two or three games and sort of piece it together into a complete um um performance, then we give ourselves a good chance. But historically and very much so this season, we've seen ourselves show up against the bigger teams you wouldn't expect to put in a performance as brave as against. And when it comes to teams where we should be going for it and sort of aiming for that as to go for the jugular and take that as our opportunity, we and
00:22:57
Speaker
We just sort of don't and we just kind of fall off and don't really do a lot. So I'm hopeful that we can take it as the big game that it is and come out all guns blazing, but I'm not not sure I'm confident in that. All right. Well, when we come back after a break, we'll have everyone's predictions both for the weekend and for the rest of the season. This podcast is brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network.
00:23:21
Speaker
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00:23:49
Speaker
And we're back for the final part of today's show. So, you know, I feel your guys' pain a little bit. I mean, I know we're not quite where you are, but you know, we're not far off. And I think in some respects, it's almost Ipswich have got more to lose than Southampton potentially at the weekend. If the result goes, goes against us, obviously it would give you a renewed sense of belief that you could pull off an amazing heist sort of thing. But for us, I think it really is like a must win.
00:24:18
Speaker
Yeah, so it's going to be really interesting to see if they can step up to the plate, really. Oscar, what are you actually thinking of the game? We talked about the type of game we think it might be. Have you got any predictions about how you think it might go down? I'm going to go a rare predicted win, and it's more out of hope than anything else. So I'm going to go for a 2-1. A 2-1, I reckon we go 2-up, and then you guys pull back, and then it's a cagey last 10 minutes.
00:24:47
Speaker
that's purely out of optimism, nothing else. Have you got any scorers? Is Jan Beggenradt going to get on the score sheet again? Yeah, let's give Jan Ben-Narrach a go and then we like we've scored quite a few. I think own goals for the other team must be quite high up on our list of top scorers as well. so So let's go for Jan Ben-Narrach and an own goal. Nice. yeah Greg, what about you? Yeah, well, I find myself in a funny position where i I've not predicted a Saint's loss all season and subsequently and very rarely ah ah correct with my predictions, but yeah, i'm I'm feeling optimistic too. I think I'm feeling even more optimistic. I'm going to say a 3-1 win and I think tall Paul's going to get on the score sheet and we're going to start seeing some some striker goals coming into play. Is that just you shooting shooting from the hip or you do you really think you're going to come in and and knock us off 3-1?
00:25:42
Speaker
it' I think it's more ah ah blind optimism than anything at this point, to be fair. Look, I mean, it might happen. It might happen. Interestingly, you've not predicted Southampton to lose at all this season. Yeah. just the opt it's the The process is the cycle is you feel dejected after you lose, you go through the whole week of podcasts and by the time it gets to predictions again on Thursday and Friday,
00:26:07
Speaker
ah ah You are straight back in feeling optimistic and hopeful that you're going to get that performance and turn the season round. Yeah, I love it. I love it. and What did you guys predict before the season started? but Where were you going for this one? i I predicted us to finish 12th in our league predictions at the start of the season. so the the irony of aiming for 12 points at this point of the season is not fully lost on me either. say
00:26:40
Speaker
lets go what about you i probably would have i would have
00:26:45
Speaker
I would have said just a scrape to stay up. And again, maybe that was, maybe that was hard talking more than the head, but, a fight to stay up with a view to maybe building on it next season. I thought we would, I thought we would be much more competitive than we are, but I did think we would be in and around it. It basically depended on what we did in in the summer. And I don't think we necessarily did enough. So yeah, I think I'm not massively surprised where we are, but I thought we'd be more competitive than we have been. Yeah.
00:27:13
Speaker
I mean, look, you can't go into, even if you, you know, your clubs are at the bottom, like ours are, you can't go into a season thinking, you know, predicting you're going to go down or whatever I used. That's the beauty of being a football fan. You've got to kind of like go with it. I was even worse than you, Greg, to be perfectly honest. I went through Ipswich to finish 10th before the start of the season. I was just like, I was just convinced. I drank the Kool-Aid of McKenna and I kind of still have. I think he's a fantastic manager.
00:27:41
Speaker
And I thought the business that we were doing was really, really exciting. And I just thought we would catch teams off guard. And unfortunately it hasn't panned out that way. And I think because we got such a, this is the thing about the weekend as well. We've been awful at home this season. Like most of our points really have come away from home with one once apart from the Chelsea game, obviously that was a great game, but. And we've picked up a couple of good points at home against Villa and United, but generally we've lost some horrendous games at home, and particularly decides down
00:28:12
Speaker
you know, near the bottom and stuff. So it, that's a big thing for us to turn around, you know, a good chunk of the way into the season for this game. So that does give you guys a little bit of of hope potentially, but yeah, I went for 10th. That's not going to happen. I still think we might stay up just, and I think we will win this weekend. I'm going to go, I'm actually going to reverse yours, Greg. I'm going to go for three one. I think we need to release, release the hounds, which are our,
00:28:39
Speaker
tricky wingers, we really need to get them on the ball and let them just run. And I predict that that's going to happen this weekend. So I'm going to go for 3-1. Nice. Yeah. I can see any of those playing out is such an unknown. I agree. Yeah. But but then I guess the the saving grace of our predictions of the rest of the season of you predicting 10th and me predicting 12th is that I don't think any Spurs fans were predicting 15th either. So we can take that as a win. Yeah.
00:29:07
Speaker
Are they in a relegation scrap? It's pretty close too. Not a million miles away, right? It's only a couple of wins and a couple of losses for them away from it being a real question. Yeah, I mean, I thought that Leicester would win. There was just something about the weekend. I was like, I think Leicester will go there and win. They're just in freefall at the moment. It's mad, isn't it? Fascinating. Yeah. Because are we the only team to have made him look good this season?
00:29:34
Speaker
Oh yeah, you look you had a bad result at home. Well, that's Spurs though, isn't it? Jekyll and Hyde. They play Man City. They look like the best team in the world. It's it's really, really strange. Anyway. All right, guys. Well, look, good luck for the weekend. Are either of you going to the game? No, I'm not. Unfortunately not. No, sadly not myself either. But let's hope it's a good one. Let's hope both sides sort of like, yeah, go for it a little bit more. Let's see a bit of kind of like,
00:30:00
Speaker
drive from those from those wingers for us and maybe yes some of your attacking players get on the score sheet um but thank you Oscar competitive championship match yes a good competitive championship match we'll probably see you next year exactly um um yes guys appreciate you coming on and uh yeah good luck for the weekend too