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"Your Brother in Law's A Chicken" ACN Pod 94
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Edie, Jon & Tom preview Brighton(a) and predict how many points this shower end up with at the end of the season.
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Introduction and Podcast Overview
00:00:22
Speaker
Welcome to the Long Come Knowledge podcast. A pair of plonkers procrastinating with their pals upon the plight of the Canaries. Can we plow on with positive pontification to appease the pessimistic possibility another premise season has already been pissed up the wall?
Can Norwich Beat Brighton?
00:00:36
Speaker
John and I are joined by Edie to see if we can put a bit of a positive spin on things between now and Brighton. I'll be honest, I'm not confident we can. Edie, Brighton.
00:00:49
Speaker
potential three points, do we travel in hope, expectation or despair?
Fan Support During Tough Times
00:00:55
Speaker
Well, I suppose it depends if you have sort of deep-seated religious belief that travelling to Brighton will yield the three points, that that will be the magical thing. I would say probably it's very likely seeing Brighton's current form, that three points would be a spectacular thing to happen. But I think
00:01:17
Speaker
we maybe have reached the stage where it's time to chuck a pebble in the well of hope and not just hope for this game by going to this game and making us win by going, but actually just that kind of starting to make those fan contributions where you are supporting a team that at the moment probably could just do in general with somebody standing behind them and going, yay.
00:01:47
Speaker
because this is like the kind of the true test of the times, isn't it? So don't go thinking you'll get three points, but maybe go and just put some vibes out there that maybe will help us in the future is all I can weekly suggest.
Upcoming Fixtures and Relegation Hopes
00:02:04
Speaker
Well, I think there is an element of
00:02:07
Speaker
build up some credit with the team so that when you are enjoying things more next year, you can say I was there at Brighton being miserable and cold and losing. But I mean, on a positive side, John, the next two games, this was sort of a double-header that we thought was definitely earlier in the season even, definitely an opportunity. I mean, we also included leads in this.
00:02:34
Speaker
Um, but, but Brighton Burnley back to back, you know, in the next kind of, you know, eight days or from, you know, Saturday to the following Sunday, an eight day run where six points could make the table look usually different. Couldn't it? Or is that just, you know, you've got to get the six points first. So what's the point? Mate, what are you talking about? Like there's, I mean, what all evidence leads you to the fact that Norwich will not get a result from either game. I mean, Brighton, I know Brighton are on a, uh,
00:03:00
Speaker
absolutely horrendous run of form, and you could probably say, well, look, long-term Norwich is set to land on this one, but actually Brighton are a decent side, Burnley have picked up, we've been dreadful of late, and you can't, there's just no, there's no green shoots of recovery to this season, and I think that's maybe where I'm at with this, is look,
Squad Planning for Championship
00:03:23
Speaker
the local media have all accepted relegation. I think probably behind closed doors, there's people within the club that accepted relegation. And that just leads me to think, well, the rest of the season now has to be an audition for 2223. So that means that if you are Dean Smith and
00:03:40
Speaker
shaky, I can't call him shaky, Craig Shakespeare. So if you are those people, you have to start thinking about, well, what does next season look like? And that means, unfortunately, but we have to fuck Matthias Norman off and just say, do you know what, mate? You've said you're not going to be here in the championship, so we're not going to play you anymore. We have to fuck Billy Gilmour off because actually we haven't got long enough on this podcast to talk about the reasons that we're going to fuck Billy Gilmour off.
00:04:08
Speaker
But, you know, and probably Brandon Williams as well. And we have to start saying, right, well, of the current squad, who is going to be an effective member of the starting lineup? Who is who is going to press their claim for a place? So, you know, do we look at, you know, kind of lungi in midfield? Do we start looking at Lucas Ripon go? Is he worth another year on his deal? Do we start looking at Jonathan Rowe as a long term successor to, I don't know,
00:04:35
Speaker
whoever or someone who's going to be effective as a pacey winger, do we give Poeta a bit of an extended run in the side to say, look, are you going to be up to the rigors of English football? I think that's where we need to be as a football club now, because this Premier League season, as much as Dean Smith can say, oh, look, we're only two wins away from it, there's nothing to suggest that we're anywhere near that. And we're going to be capable of putting that together. And
Avoiding Relegation: Is There Hope?
00:05:01
Speaker
I would love to be wrong. And if we go and get six points, then of course it's all on again.
00:05:05
Speaker
Nah, no chance mate. Yeah, I mean after that we've got, you know, Man United, Wolves, West Ham, Tottenham. Nice and easy then. Yeah, I mean, so yes, there's Newcastle, yes, there's Villa, where you think, oh, maybe, and obviously Wolves, we, yeah, they're one of our better performances, but realistically, with the eight games we've got left, it's these two, if you don't win both of them,
00:05:30
Speaker
It's done because you then, if you won both of them, you would then be in a situation where you go, well, actually, we found a bit of form. We got ourselves together in an international break and found a bit of form, which ironically used to be FARC, a special move, didn't it? Winning just after the international break. And we then go, right, well, we've got some momentum and some form to build upon to cause an upset at Old Trafford or cause an upset at Villa Park or Molyneux.
00:05:55
Speaker
However, if you don't get anything other than six points in the next two games, and you just think, well, no, we haven't got it done. I mean, I'm with you. I've thought for a long time that it's not feasible for this team and this squad, which we'll come on to in a second, to compete at this level. Edie, on the people coming, the people going, do you agree with John on that point of view? Do you think actually most fans would be accepting if all of the loanees and all of the likely
00:06:25
Speaker
Departees were out of the lineup from now on? Yeah, for sure. It's a pact. It's a pact between supporters and fans, sorry, supporters and players and the team. And if the team can't be a team at this stage, then the people who can't be a member of that team, like there's no point pouring any energy or consideration into them. It's
00:06:53
Speaker
had there been like a kind of flux of goals from those people, then obviously it'd be like that joke about your brother-in-law thinking he's a chicken, but not abusing, disabusing the notion because we need the eggs. At this stage, it's like they're doing nothing and they're whining. So there can't be any scenario that means that they're worth keeping on board. Like how much more smoke do we need to blow up their asses to get some sort of result from them?
00:07:21
Speaker
But also, it's like they're also bumming everyone out. You can't bum everyone out at this stage of the journey.
Coaching Staff Concerns
00:07:29
Speaker
It's just not going to improve things and it's pretty toxic. We can't have the same tail end of the season that we had in Project Restart because then Dean Smith and Shaky Waky won't be back. I mean, if they put on, if they lose eight in the bounce,
00:07:47
Speaker
I don't think they will be here for the championship campaign. I'm totally fine with that. No, I appreciate it. We're all learning lessons this season and I think we need to take a lot of them with us rather than just try and cling to what we think is what works. Yeah, I mean, there's been things that Smith and Shakespeare have done that I have really enjoyed. But part of that is through the lens of four years of one thing, oh, look, there's something else.
00:08:15
Speaker
It's an element of going out for a hamburger when you've got a steak at home. Playing 4-4-2 was so exciting because we haven't done it for so long. It doesn't necessarily mean that that's what we should do forever. The idea of really going for it because we were at last chance saloon was attractive for a bit.
00:08:41
Speaker
you know, we lost that kind of defensive rigidity that we seem to just start to get on the Smith for that little run of games. That too, hasn't he? Initial bounce and then another little run again. How can you replicate that? Because the squad he's had available to him, the Norwich fans don't seem to be able to agree on, although everyone seems to agree on Gilmore,
00:09:09
Speaker
they don't seem to agree who the other scapegoats should be. I was astonished to see that some Canaries fans were okay in the slightest with letting Pookie go or making out like that's not a good option. Now, if Ida is projected by the sports science people at the club to make a 100% recovery and it's not the sort of injury that they go, oh, we might not be the same in terms of twisting and turning or whatever. And you've got him plus Sergeant,
00:09:39
Speaker
maybe you think that actually we've got two people who can play a nine and we've got a pair that can play a four-four-two, actually is the smart move to allow Pookie to move on for the amount of money that he's going to need. But to suggest that that wouldn't be anything other than an absolute tragedy, even if the really hard-headed decision was to make that 50 grand a week, I think is what was being branded about.
Teemu Pukki's Season Analysis
00:10:03
Speaker
I can't quite follow anyone who's got an issue with with Pookie's contribution this season.
00:10:09
Speaker
And I saw a stat that he's got a shots to goals conversion ratio, not far off seller in terms of he just doesn't, he's not actually getting very many shots. You know, he's missing one or two, but he only gets one or two. So he's not getting fed.
00:10:25
Speaker
No, he's not. And I was talking to a Tottenham fan earlier today who was bemoaning how much they miss Ollie Skip since having him in their team for a while and I thought, you think you miss him. We are still painfully reeling from the ghost of Ollie Skip and I can just see it being the exact same. Be very careful what you wish for in terms of
00:10:52
Speaker
I would prefer a pookie on his kind of coming down season. Even if that's what it is, he doesn't to me, he doesn't show any signs of coming off his best form. He should score to Finland again at the weekend. A nice finish as well. I would basically say he can have a massive chunk of the player's wages budget to keep him because what is the alternative going to be? Ede is completely unproven. Sargent is completely unproven over a long season.
00:11:21
Speaker
So yeah, there's people panning McLean. I still don't get the McLean. He has done absolutely nothing any worse than any other diminished fielder in the team. And it almost feels like he's
00:11:36
Speaker
He's been a scapegoat purely for being picked, you know, because he keeps getting picked, he keeps getting panned. I honestly don't think there is anything in the squad. I think there's something in that though. I think there's something in with McLean. I mean, you know, I've never been his biggest fan, although I haven't been a huge detractor of him certainly last season. But I think that Kenny McLean this season can't be associated with many or any of the good performances that Nourish City have put together.
00:12:01
Speaker
And it felt like, and it felt like, I mean, well, he came on for a bit against Watford, didn't he? But it's, it's like, we've seemed to have stumbled upon a formula with P.L.S. Malou and Jakob Sensen that
00:12:17
Speaker
Actually look like it might be effective and look like it might have a bit more bite and look like it might be a little bit more Positionally aware rather than just running around lots and pointing which seems like you know, that's that's all that I think Kenny is good at this level if I'm perfectly honest, there's plenty of endeavor with McLean There's plenty of playing, you know for the sure and and I think you know that gets him so far I just don't think there's anywhere near enough quality or awareness of what's going on around him to be an effective
00:12:47
Speaker
Premier League midfielder but I'd completely agree with you with regards to Pookie. I think that it would be madness, absolute madness to let him go. I think it's incredibly unfortunate that he's on or the renewal of his contract would mean that
00:13:05
Speaker
contractually, if we exercise the option that we'd have to give them 50 grand a week, you would think that the club are frantically trying to say, mate, we can't pay you 50K a week in the championship, but how about we give you, I don't know, 35 or whatever it might be. And a free go on the soccer bot once a week or wherever it might be, so it pays for itself.
00:13:25
Speaker
But, you know, we have to keep him next season because I don't even think you say, you know, like either could potentially be our next number nine. I don't think Josh Sargent is a nine. I think he's a wide forward. And so that relies on us playing in a four three three or four four two with a winger that that probably hasn't got much defensive mindset around him, which is is fine if we're going for it. But it's not going to be the absolute optimal in every scenario.
00:13:54
Speaker
I don't know, I think there's just a lot of work and there's a lot of, not necessarily churn to go through this summer, but there's a lot of us needing to work out exactly what we're going to look like as a football club this summer and from a philosophy perspective because it was really clear with Weber and Farka actually where their values kind of aligned don't think we can say the same with Weber and Smith as yet.
Norwich's Management and Philosophy Issues
00:14:21
Speaker
Can we say,
00:14:23
Speaker
It's probably too early to say this. Can we say it was even Weber or Farka? Because Weber is still here. He's still here yet there doesn't seem to be anything of the identity and philosophy anymore. I think he ripped it up in a kind of, right, we're going to have to be more pragmatic and then maybe that'll keep us in the league and actually...
00:14:43
Speaker
from Weber. He's quite into legacy, so I think legacy for him is keeping Norwich in the Premier League, putting us on a more stable financial footing, expanding the stadium, and then he can leave us in a much better place than when he found us. He needs to get us to base camp, doesn't he, before he kicks on to the summit? Exactly, and there is definitely amount interclimbing in that regard. Just to pick up on that last point before we transition into recruitment, I just want to come back on the McLean thing, because again... Would you love him?
00:15:12
Speaker
I don't love him any more than other hard-working, very talented championship players who have at times played well in the Premier League. He's not my top 10 players of all time or anything like that. I just think that he in particular has been so unfortunate that he is the best of a bad job and because that best is not Oli Skip,
00:15:38
Speaker
He has been hammered for it. My comeback to you, John, on what you just said about McLean, which I will then throw to Edie, like the season podcast host that I tend to be, is that, yes, he is fantastic in the championship and he runs a lot for the shirt and he does a lot of pointing and shouting.
00:15:58
Speaker
but he doesn't quite have what it takes to be a leading CM in the Premier League. Point to the person in the squad that can take his shirt and do what he does better than him. But I think I just said to that, I said the more effective performances had Pierre Lesmalu and... I think I don't know. Pierre Lesmalu is a fucking waste of a shirt. I think he's a better option than McLean for me. Oh, you're talking French.
00:16:23
Speaker
Literally, you know, it is nonsense. I mean, again, I don't dislike the human. I don't again, he's not in my top 20 worst knowledge players of all time. They nearly all came in the same year. We should do it as a podcast. But it was better than talking about the football. And thank God it will be mathematically over soon. We can just start talking about podcasts like that. But with regards to McLean versus PLM, PLM is, in my opinion,
00:16:49
Speaker
The difference between the two of them is a few percentage points either way, depending on who's having a slightly better game. The idea that either of them is a solution at Centre midfield in the Premier League is bonkers. They could both be the third best Centre midfielder at a successful bottom half Premier League team, in my opinion. I don't think either of them
00:17:08
Speaker
should be the first name or the first two names on a centre midfield team sheet. And you can argue the toss about which one's slightly better at this and that. But that segues into a failure in recruitment, doesn't it? Exactly. And that's the fair point. And I want to bring you in here, Edie, the fact that we know that with our model, and we look at the accounts that came out this week showing that the Brighton owner had to pump in the best part of ยฃ437 million just to narrowly avoid relegation and nearly sort of break even-ish.
00:17:38
Speaker
And we know we simply cannot compete financially, which means we have to go outside of the box and to the kind of wider areas of scouting networks to find players that other teams don't want.
Recruitment Strategy Critique
00:17:49
Speaker
Like Aya from Celtic down to Brentford, as soon as Brentford were involved, the price climbed above 10 million and we had to bow out. We couldn't compete with the wages. We couldn't compete with the fee. And we had to go looking again, like an oddball loan like Quebec to try and strengthen its centre back.
00:18:03
Speaker
Now, what do you think in terms of this summary? Do you feel going back into the championship, well, that's where Weber has shown three or four transfer windows in a row, he can get it right? Or do you think actually this most recent one was so bad that perhaps it's kind of shaken your faith in him even recruiting at the championship level?
00:18:26
Speaker
I think probably the latter, just because if you were to do a SWOT analysis on this with your strengths and your weaknesses and your opportunities and your threats, you would recognise, you wouldn't be sort of like looking at the fact that we've not got much money and going, well, the solution to that is getting some rando in who can do donuts in the car park in a Lamborghini and, you know, he'll solve all our problems. That's not going to happen. So
00:18:53
Speaker
But I truly believe that the reason why all of those like kind of rare cut signings that Farka came up with, they worked because somebody, and I suspect that's Farka, was able to explain to them, here's where you are. Here is the city that you're now living in. Here is what the relationship is between fans and you. Here is the culture. Here is what we stand for. And then I think that
00:19:21
Speaker
that allowed people to understand the team that they were being part of, that they're not like a stable of top-notch racehorses who can all just gallop and everyone wins. They have to learn how to work together and communicate, often across different languages. And I think what Faka did really well was tell everyone the clearest, strongest story that allowed them to operate on what was the closest possible alignment to each other.
00:19:51
Speaker
And I think what, if you look at the whole kind of Weber signing window thing there and the fact that clearly FACA was on the outs as these people were starting to touch down at Norwich Airport, it's really interesting to see that all these people just sort of were just sort of randomly flailing around. Like you start a huge new company and you haven't had an induction and you just do your best. So I think that with a stronger kind of cultural framework, maybe people would understand
00:20:21
Speaker
what's required of them and how they work. If you look at Solis taking his little sneaky free kick, that to me sort of, you know, it told a bit of a story of what exactly personal priorities and personal understandings were against what should have been a team ethos. I just think how happy he must have been at the end of that week when he scored in the league cup to what, a month later?
00:20:49
Speaker
like how quickly his kind of Norwich career flickered and then just disappeared. It's a fascinatingly high transfer fee. In terms of pounds to minutes played, without injuries,
00:21:07
Speaker
that might be the worst ROI we've had. I can't think of a player who, other than injury-wise, would be, in theory, fit and available and not playing on the pitch, who's cost anything like what he costs. So he's one that's a real... I do think this is a very, very interesting offseason, potentially a lot more interesting than
00:21:34
Speaker
after project restart, which was all doom and gloom and awful, but we didn't really feel that there was many players that were likely to go because they'd basically shut the bed on the biggest stage so badly that they'd all diminished their own value. This season, you feel that, so let's go through them.
Post-Relegation Player Departures
00:21:52
Speaker
Rashida, for example, I feel he has done enough to say I'm a top-flight footballer. He's just scored internationally again, similar to Pookie.
00:22:00
Speaker
I wouldn't blame Scheeter and Ahrens and obviously the Lonies, but Goodriddance in pretty much all cases. I've seen enough of Norman in terms of his play when he was good to think that in the championship he would be a cheat code. However, as you said, Johnny, he's just said in Norwegian that he's not up for the championship fight. And again, fair enough. That's not what he joined for.
00:22:29
Speaker
anyone other than errands and machines a punt that i'm missing that you might think has got a real um belief that they should claim to to definitely go um i think there's there's going to be obviously yeah i mean yeah but then again he's not figuring you know kind of large for for bournemouth so is that
00:22:47
Speaker
Is there a way that we can reintegrate him into this? We don't know what's happened. I think we've got a fair idea that the relationship broke down to an extent that between Cantwell and FACA that that was definitely not going to be repairable. We don't actually know whether
00:23:05
Speaker
it was completely attitude with Smith that led us to Jetson him and whether bridges can be built, because he could be ridiculous in the championship. I don't think he will. I think we'll be looking at trying to get that 11 million off Bournemouth if we possibly can. I think you're right, Reshitsa and Arends are the most saleable assets. Where the Reshitsa goes is a really interesting one, actually, because he's got two relegations on his CV now, with Verda and with Norwich.
00:23:35
Speaker
Can he then legitimately say, do you know what? I'm jumping ship and it's fine. Will there be clubs that look at him and go, yeah, two relegations in a row, is he up to it? I don't know. I think it would, they'll have had to have been clubs scouting him really well to understand that.
00:23:51
Speaker
actually his performance because his performances have flickered you know he's been in and out he hasn't shown the type of consistency that we've required across you know however many games we've played like 30 odd or 30 ish games at the moment and he could be phenomenal in the championship you know kind of he definitely has something about him
00:24:10
Speaker
Aaron's will go and fair play to him. I actually think we're having this discussion on a WhatsApp group the other day. I think this has been Aaron's poorest season in a Norwich shirt and so it probably is time for him to go because he's kind of... He's had enough poor love. His ceiling's been reached at Norwich hasn't he? For his own development he needs to go.
00:24:31
Speaker
Yeah, he's also won two medals. Completely. And I think he has completed the championship. I maintain with Max that he is technically the most talented fullback that I've seen play for this football club. Maybe not fullback, right back. You know, actually fullback are probably not bowing. I sometimes wonder if he'd have got just a little bit more love, care and attention if he was a slightly squeakier wheel.
00:24:59
Speaker
I feel like the squeaky wheels get far too much bandwidth and I think he's just such a worker and like a dutiful turns up every day you know you can always depend on him and attitude wise just gets on with it. Yeah there's been none of that kind of being put in the shop window
00:25:21
Speaker
and no head turn. We've not had any head turn rumours at all from him. Just to pick up on the campwell point, he started nearly every game since they got him. He was on the bench on the weekend, but only because he'd played Saturday, Wednesday. But I don't think the Bournemouth fans are completely... Oh really? He's playing a lot of minutes for them. And they're winning.
00:25:40
Speaker
Yeah and to be fair it's a poor championship isn't it this season as well so it looks like they will go up automatically. That's an interesting one that will obviously conclude itself over the summer but you know I wouldn't be completely adverse to the idea of him coming back if his head is screwed on and he's got his fitness back and he comes back into it sharp and willing to work and able to work under Dean Smith but Max is one of those ones that you just look at and go well
00:26:08
Speaker
No one could actually say that he's not turned it in for us and everyone is going to wish him well because he's been a credit to this football club. He's been absolutely fantastic and I think you're right Edie about the fact that because he is just such a steady Edie and he just gets his head down and gets on with it.
00:26:26
Speaker
that people don't really notice him and his performances go under the radar and he has probably in one of our more underrated players, but I maintain that he's definitely plateaued and it is time for him to go now. Can you speak around better coaching and better players? Tottenham have got a big... Again, from this conversation with Tottenham Season 2 holder earlier today, they've got a real pain right back. Tottenham is a graveyard for right back, so I wouldn't go there if I was Max.
00:26:56
Speaker
Yeah, well, that might be, but they also, Daniel Levy and Delia are good mates and they've got loads of money. So if they want to give us 30 million, then that's fine. I think, I don't know if we'd get 20s for him now because of the way our season's gone. He should be high team. 17 and a half million would be the over-under I set for Maxis V.
00:27:17
Speaker
We'll see what happens. Actually, the way the market looks this summer will be very interesting with the fact that clubs are still being impacted by the pandemic and actually the cost of living and everything. The cost of all of that is going to be a really interesting summer and what happens to transfer fees.
Transfer Market and Stable Players
00:27:33
Speaker
I think Russia will disrupt the market as well because there will be loads of players that will be potentially, if the war is still ongoing, might be available for next to nothing. I think that's where you might see the most stability with the exception of Aaron's. You've got Janoulis, Byram, Gibson, Hanley.
00:27:53
Speaker
cruel gun I think pretty much I mean that they are all very very good championship names and you knew this maybe might force a move because he's not happy with playing time although you know with the with the you know the fullback which again I don't understand the adulation over he's a very tidy
00:28:12
Speaker
hardworking kind of player, but again, I just, I think, again, I don't want to keep going about McLean, but for me, Williams gets a lot of praise, exactly the thing that people bash McLean with. You know, he's like, oh, he points and he runs around and he tries really hard. It's like, but apparently that's what McLean does wrong, but that's exactly why Williams is so loved. I like him both, I like him both. McLean definitely, I think, is suffering from a lot of poor perception
00:28:41
Speaker
that is above what it should be because of how there's a slight overlap between like the banter was awesome when we were on top. It was hilarious. And then he didn't quite time the banter graph to kind of point down a little bit once things got a bit kind of turgid and you kind of as a fan are going to sort of spot that sort of thing. And I think that's what he suffered from that. I don't think a lot of it has to do with actual performance. It's just that kind of public perception.
00:29:10
Speaker
Well, I love Kenny McLean. Oh my God. Because it's one of those things, it's like when some people came to Rupp's rescue when he was getting panned. I love Lucas Rupp. Yeah, and Lucas Rupp is a solid, solid sentiment fielder who hopefully will be part of the championship squad next year. I mean, he has won as a contract, I would hope would get extended because he has proven that if a team is in the championship,
00:29:35
Speaker
he belongs in the in the top four to six teams in the championship that is that is that is his level and I don't mean that in any way criticism because that's most of our squad you know he very much fits into a strong Norwich championship vision okay so let's let's try and round off with a bit of a prediction we've got eight eight games left
End-of-Season Predictions
00:29:54
Speaker
So what is the total number of points do you think we will have amassed by the time it's 6pm on the 22nd of May and Tottenham have beaten us at Carrow Road? What do you think is the total points? Start with you Edie. I think three would be a really good one. Wow, that's project restart though. Is that three draws though? Because that might seem more positive actually. Yeah, no I'm just thinking at some stage they've got to draw three times and that's the most I can hope for.
00:30:22
Speaker
So you're basically saying we'll finish on 20 points on 17 now. Yeah, it's like if we draw, that's awesome. It means we're not crapper that day.
00:30:39
Speaker
Okay, so you're going with 29. I like that punt. What are you saying? I mean, that would make us worse than the 1920 season because I think we only got 21. Things can happen. During that campaign. And we had 21 with 10 games to go as well. So we are behind the curve of that 1920 season. I think we will win a couple and we might draw one or two. So what is that? Eight?
00:31:03
Speaker
Let's say seven more points. God, that's optimistic. So yeah, what does that take us to? We're on 24. That's quite girthy. I'm going 22. I think we'll get five more points because I think we will win at the weekend.
00:31:21
Speaker
Um, because you really, really think, wow, because it's just, it's just so silly, but the world is silly. You know, I could end the day, but yes, it is a long common knowledge for us to turn up and bright and find his change there. They run a form, but maybe not. Maybe we do shit out something. And then there's that. And also Pookie scored and he tends to Pookie does tend to be full of it. Can I just say, right? There's another reason that we need to extend Tammy's contract. And that is because.
00:31:49
Speaker
Another season in the championship and he will hit 100 goals for Norwich. He's on 75 at the moment. He needs to hit that. I think he is, again, this is a podcast for once, relegation is mathematical, but I think we need to start doing a kind of goal scoring look to properly make an argument for whether or not he is the GOAT. Even after last season, I think people were not
00:32:15
Speaker
necessarily accepting that pure goal scoring ability wise, he's the best that we've had. And I think in my nearly 30 years now, it is definitely the case. But okay, so we're going, we predicted 22 and 25, no 24 points. So even our most positive prediction, if no one else got a single point, we'd still go down. Which shows how poor
00:32:44
Speaker
and helpful and
00:32:46
Speaker
our season has been so far. But anyway, thank you for listening to our friends. Sorry it's been a while. It's not really felt like there's been enough for us to talk about, other than just saying what everyone has said, which is, isn't it awful? Fingers crossed for some kind of miracle on Saturday with a performance that also lifts the spirits. And yeah, hopefully there's some momentum that we can start to build going into the promotion push for next season, when who knows, there might be a lot of different heroes to cheer on.
00:33:16
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My take.