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2:05in Ipswich Town podcast. That was probably very loud, but I am very happy to be back on the pre-match show. He said, full of my home edition man, that international brake drag, didn't it? We're the opposite of the midweek blue show because Henry was very much in favour of it. Mikey said that he was all right at the start, but it dragged on. But I think it's fair to say that you and I are very much in the anti-international football outside of tournaments and the international break. My god, it went on for an awful long time. I've not known what to do last Thursday for the last two weeks, but thank god it's back. We've got, because it's five games now, six games, maybe for the next one, but the next one is only a two-weeker. So yeah, it's over. The marathon is over and hopefully now,

3:07we can all pick up some points before the next one. And then you get that lovely spell where there's no international brakes from like the middle of November, whatever it is, to the bout march. I want to say middle of March. So yeah, it's done people. We've made it through. We're on the right side of it, and the normal build-up can begin now. Yeah, business is usual returns. We're delighted to have you with us. If you're watching here live, let's know in the chat that you're, yeah, your thoughts on Saturday's game, a big one, which we'll obviously drill into and give you the detail, give you the insight ahead of, yeah, a big game of Portman Road. It'd be great to get back to Portman Road. I forgot what that looks like too. And yeah, of course, plenty going on on the channel, as usual. So we'll give you all the usual bits and pieces and details. But Seb, we'd bemoaned maybe the lack of interest. Every few weeks, someone was saying, when will we see some behind the scenes of the training ground? We've finally seen some behind the scenes of the training ground, and it's pretty damn impressive, isn't it? It is. Yeah, I think it's fully operational from the video, but it's not,

4:07just the training ground, which is a place of work. Let's not forget it. It looks very impressive. Yeah, I'm surprised they waited until 72 hours before football returns to release the video. You thought they'd done it halfway through when we were all kind of climbing the walls, but incredibly impressive facility. It looks state of the art. Some of the stuff in there was just stuff we could never have dreamed about. I'm sure, like most of us, we've seen kind of the dome and stuff and the old training ground and the Porter cabins, etc. And this facility just looks absolutely incredible. It does show how far the club has come. And yeah, it's a world-class place that they will use to entice new signings. If you want to go and play on Kilimanjaro, they've got a room where you can kind of get yourself fully acclimatized before that. And if you have a wee in the Orion, they'll tell you how hydrated and stuff you are, the data that goes straight to the nutritionists. And the rest, I bet as well. And the rest, yeah. It's very hydration, will it? But keep going. All the fun stuff that comes with modern football. So incredibly impressive. It was great to see. It was good over half an hour, wasn't it? It was a really good kind of deep dive into it. And yeah, it was really impressive and glad that it's fully

5:10up and running. And let's hope it we can look back at it and say, yeah, that's when they did that. And then they looked at Portman Road and they did this. And it's a sign of more infrastructure projects as Mark Ashley would call them to come. Yeah. Well, we love a bit of infrastructure projects, don't we? But a real statement, as you say, and kind of I was going to say no expense better. I guess we don't know about budgets. And I think Ashton said it was on budget. On budget. Yeah. Yeah. We fully expect from a very prudent and pragmatic project manager. But in terms of the statement it makes in terms of the seriousness of the club, the technology that's deployed, you've mentioned some of it, you know, it's a real serious statement, isn't it? And I'm both really well for the future. So yeah, give us your thoughts about that in the chat we did it. We had someone, I think Strieky was saying the place of work, the podcast is a place of work. Good to see so many of you in the chat. Let's know we're there. We'll dip in an out one. I even into Neil off the name from the US of A says gutted to be missing Saturday. I'm not sure. Is that going to bowed well for us

6:11or is this just an away day thing that we need to worry about with you Neil? But it'll be watching from a bar in Boston. So let us know if you're watching from all parts of the world. We'll shout out anyone doing meetups and that kind of stuff. Let us know in the chat. Sharon, yeah, we're all back. It's good and it's like, so I've been back to school like back in the day like you just happy to be around everybody again. Mike bring us back to back to being depressed and sad. Hopefully, hopefully not. Mike and Bendy Garsh, Australia. Good, good, good, a good A to Mike. Max, sorry, I've been a long three weeks. Absolutely. Hasn't Anthony forgot the names of half the players? Yeah, Trevor. The flip side to Mike. Look on the bright side. Unbeatable for the three weeks. Absolutely right. A test. Good to see you too. Although I'm with Henry. Love a bit of instant. A different football different needs test. We won't judge you. But a lot of people, here's Rob, Blue Moneys, Place of Work, evening or a lot of love for that one. A.D. with us too. It celebrated a birthday,

7:16I believe last week. So I belated happy birthday to you, A.D. Any other bits and pieces? Cure McKinnon's interview with our mate Nick Ames. Not a huge amount there that I think was a surprise, I think confirming what had been kind of speculated in terms of the difficulty of the season. His mindset around the exit and what a challenge last season had been. A lot of the national media have kind of fixed it on. He's got a role with UEFA, isn't he? I think or FIFA. Technical observer. Yeah, which is it Champions League or your own? It feels like it. It feels to me like a nice word for a scout right or an assessor. But everyone is kind of saying McKinnon has got a new job, which is obviously kind of in theory right, but not really what they're trying to make out. Click baity headlines, but really good chat, wasn't it? Nick does great work there and yeah, do you again, anything new? Any new insights out of that? I'd be honest, I've really liked hearing from him, which sounds a little bit weird because I've never met the bloke. I enjoyed reading. I enjoyed reading it and yeah, nice to see that he's clearly enjoying his time off,

8:19you know, he emphasized the fact he wasn't looking to rush straight back in there with certain projects. He's actually turned down a couple of offers, which was perhaps not overly surprising. I wonder where they might have come from, but yeah, great to hear he's been in a campervan up the the Norfolk coast, et cetera, with his family. So he stayed local as well. I like that fact. So good to hear from him. Hopefully he's enjoying the break, well rested, et cetera. And yeah, when the time is right, I guess we will see him come back into football. I wonder with sacking season probably about a month away now. It was always the October break, wasn't it? But there will won't be one now. So maybe it's fallen November break is when Premier League starts. It's Premier League side will start to get twitchy. I'd imagine he will be made the favorite for pretty much any managerial sacking outside of the top six. So it'll be interesting to see what happens next in his career. But yeah, great to hear from him again. Norman mentions our record after international break with McKenna. Wasn't that so great? Do you think it would be more positive now? I mean, we can only speculate. We haven't got any kind of real data to call upon, but you'd like to think, go on new training ground, no excuses, culture, Seb. But we better equipped, haven't we?

9:21Yeah, I would have thought so. I think did we fix that under McKenna? I think we were awful for a while. Then we fixed it and it might have slipped again last year in the back in the championship. But yeah, as you say, it's a whole new era. Isn't it be interesting? Gary Niels had three weeks to work on them. It's almost a mini kind of preseason preseason is about five, six weeks, isn't it? So it's not that much shorter than a preseason. Half the sort of been away, half the sort of been here. They had the friendly against Espanyol last weekend or last Friday. I think it was. So it'll be interesting to see what what he's worked on. I mean, we heard from leaf Davis saying we've never practiced a three at the back, et cetera, with some of the upcoming games more towards December and January. Is Gary and Neil going to be of practicing that in the last three weeks or so? It'll be interesting. Natural tractor boys with us. He'll be watching. Give us the name of the bar. Is it Fog Street? Fog Street. Yeah. Yeah. So Horn Club, I want to say. Yeah. Let us know in Nashville what the proper name is because we're going to fudge that. But we'll get it right later on and we'll show out where you guys are at. But yeah, good to have you with us. Neil is back for Man City next week more on that later on. Might write England. England did a right in. They did you see the

10:23seven. No, I missed that one. I missed that. I watched Spain. Spain was a really good game of football, but they were crap defensively. Didn't watch the seven. Neil. I can't what the other ones were. I watched the one the other night where Harry Kane made his record appearance and got a couple of goals. I think he did. So yeah, I watched probably the half of the four games in total. Lovely stuff. Well, we can move on from the Incessio Bridge. Fog Street, Laund, Club. There you go. And join up with Nashville Trotsbow and find him on socials, all the details there and particularly on Instra, I think is very very active. Other bits of pieces that we've just gone live with a print giveaway. I'll make Matthew Woods who does it. Done prints for all clubs and I think I've got something behind me some squad stuff there. And yeah, we've got a giveaway for one of his it's easy kit history prints. That's on our x page. No, not everybody's an x these days, but it is there and that's where it is and deal with it. I'm afraid we'll try and find different avenues to do giveaways in the future. And also shout it's call me Ted. I do have a call me Ted print. Thank you to the guys for hookin me up there as well. Ahead of full on you can get your print at callmeeted.co.de.uk

11:28and also in person at the Greyhound and the love one shop in Ipswich 2. So I'm do support that great print. I'm really liking that. So I'm happy to have that behind me and hopefully it brings some positive vibes ahead of saturday and also in terms of positive vibes always doing brilliant work in the community. So I TFC fans supporting food banks tell us about what they're up to. Yeah, it's the October collection point the usual places opposite planet blue surround the surile for statue and in the fan zone from half 11 until 30 minutes before kick off early request for advent calendars. They requested it a month earlier than normal that normally kicks off in the November one for distribution but they are requesting it slightly earlier. So if you can please do help out as always an excellent excellent cause all the details are on twitter slash x at itFC underscore fsf but yeah focusing the advent calendar this time if possible please. Brilliant stuff good luck to them and thank you for all the hard work. They do in the community where we're 10 minutes in we can talk about a football match at Port Monroe. Full in town Seb and

12:32you know people have been putting in the chat already that it kind of has the feeling of a big game we did our 120's at the start of the season and if I remember rightly I'd kind of pinpointed full of them as I think you might have done as well as maybe some of the bookies have of you know the post-marko silver era there's a lot of question marks about them some decent results in there against kind of top tier kind of teams really very unlucky in their last game out when they which we'll get into but it's just down at home we need to kind of take advantage of being at home and that's where the points are going to be accumulated and a team yeah as I say with those kind of question marks about them is that is that fair something upset? I think so it's really interesting to see how they approach this game I think for full of mits must not lose I think being on six points there on two points four point gap if that were to be what we're hoping at seven point gap by close of play by five p.m. on Saturday afternoon I think that's probably a bit of a problem for full and so I think for them anything it's must not lose big game can you have a must-win

13:35game six games into the season for us probably not but this this run of fixtures does look a little bit favoritive I would say at man city aside obviously next week ignore that one but then you're talking forest under the lights at Portman Road you're talking hull away you're talking Bournemouth on a Sunday and Bournemouth have a very busy campaign with European football before then as well so it's a chance to really pick up some points before the next break in the season and I guess you identify them you have them going down in your once to twenty so I think I had them just outside sixteen for seventeen potentially because of the the raft of changes that they've seen over the summer you know incredibly solid manager in Marco Silva win promotion comfortably from the championship mid-Trovich scores 79 goals and since then they've never been involved in any kind of relegation battle it was four mid-table finishes 10th 13th 11th 11th really steady really well established Marco Silva has moved on Joseph Merini left Benfika to go to Real Madrid Marco Silva went back to Portugal is it fair to say his ambitions probably probably realized he couldn't take full

14:35them to the level he wants to be at in terms of European football he's got Europa League football at Benfika that's possible and well for a while it very much seemed that Keira McKenna was going to get that job obviously that didn't work out so they went for Arbeloa who left Real Madrid so very high pedigree a very impressive playing career we'll discuss but it's a big change on the managerial dugout it's a big change in the squad in terms of the players that have left that we'll discuss and as a result it is very much aside that town will have designs on to really sort of drag into that that relegation scrap and they haven't started the season well have they they're sat 19th they are winless unluckily so against the man United result will discuss last time out only got two points so far this season played five games haven't won any drawn to lost three scored five goals average a goal again have conceded eight they want a couple in the cup they've beaten West Ham and they've been winbled in in the early rounds of the league cup they are struggling for creating chances 16th in the league for chance creation they do get themselves in really good positions though they are third for touches in the opposition box so they're lacking that clinical execution once they

15:38get themselves into the into the final third but I don't think it's to be sniffed out that their last two games have seen two points one away at Anfield a meal nil draw against Liverpool which is a you know it was the game after Liverpool came to us wasn't it and you cause kind of thought they're starting clicking to gear but that's a really good point and then they were unlucky last time out against man United in the the final game before the the shutdown so maybe signs in the last couple of games that they are starting to kind of take his teachings on board and kind of move from this more solid style of football that silver would have given them to this kind of Spanish flair and more technical and more up tempo kind of play is it fair to say I kind of I know there'll be people who've got a thing in about Mick McCarthy but for me Marco Silva had just bringing the whole club together vibes he was probably the the biggest name I know that some good star players in their squad but Marco Silva is probably the kind of focal point for the club and I think replacing him was always going to be a challenge I mean I'll

16:41be able to say it's early days isn't it I think the bookies are starting to get a little bit trigger happy with with him which I think is probably a little bit premature but is it fair to say that Marco Silva for you like me was was the galvanising kind of yearnighting force there and therefore it's kind of an end of an era isn't it for full of them and that's what makes them a little bit you know in that kind of jeopardy yeah well it was an end of an era like you say it was five seasons in charge he took charge of them after they'd been relegated so his first season in charge which stormed back to back to promotion and then as I said they're just really solid and I guess I mean he was you say it was a galvanising force for everybody he was he was outspoken at times that's that's definitely fair we'll discuss some of his comments when we discuss kind of how he left the club but he wasn't afraid to kind of hold the board to account if he felt that transfers have been mismanaged and there was a lack of funding or the squad was light in certain areas and I guess a bit like Mick the longer everyone knew going into last season he was going into the last year is contract the longer that contract remains unsigned you know full of them three-year deal would have made him their best paid manager in the Premier League era so it's

17:43clearly an attractive offer but the longer things don't get signed you do just start to think there's going to have to be a be a change here and I guess timing wise we'll discuss the players that were out of contract that have left them it's a really unfortunate block where they announced silver is leaving in early June I think it is and there's a month before Arbeloa came in part of that might be McKenna and that kind of stuff they were the bookies were very clear the McKenna was the favourite so they lost time and crucially a couple of key players decided to move on they might be unrelated you know those players might have decided back in January they fancy fresh starts etc but the kind of the the lost month I would suggest before Arbeloa took charge might end up costing them and there was a live Q&A with the I think what the the owner's son I think it is yeah who about the time when McKenna was linked which is why I was watching it and it felt like the Marco Silver departure took them by surprise really and I think that hasn't helped them I think they were a little bit too reactive to that situation as opposed to being prepared and I think that might have you know probably you write the McKenna they put their eggs in the McKenna basket

18:46as it were but I think they also expected silver maybe to stay and therefore were a little bit taken aback when he decided to move on let's let's bring things more recent all that we are talking three weeks away the the draw of the United was really brutal isn't it they were probably the better team for good chunks of that but United I guess just dug in and maybe could have had a penalty could they or there was a var moment in there and eventually probably got the equalizer they merited but like a pretty solid fund right full of muscle it yeah so it followed on from the Neil Neal drawer and fields more encouraging signs for them it finished one all United started better there was a volley from the Sandra Martinez which burnt Leonard kind of tipped away couldn't you hit the post as well after a pullback from Bruno Fernandez but they they took the lead Cal and Bassy kind of more on him later he drove forward got a shot off lemons the lemons lemons the the Manu 90 goalkeeper kind of palms it straight into the on rushing Lissandra Martinez for a bit of a comical own goal and then you kind of got those comments from Gary never

19:48when he was doing the the the co-com saying it was the worst Manu 90 performance he'd seen in ever I think he said at one point which is strange because when they lost you know seven little anfield and stuff but I guess he was tapping into the kind of the the lethargy amongst the Manu 90 side they were they were clear kind of issues with the guys the tempo they were playing out but they eventually they did kind of finish slightly stronger and they get the equalizer a huge chunk of fortune for Manu 90 on it couldn't you cut it onto his right foot takes a shot which deflects past but then when the 89th minutes they were so close to seeing out the game and getting their just reward getting their first win off the season I think a draw was probably fair based on the overall playing you know full and did play well at spells in the first half and then from sort of kind of the second half until the last 15 minutes so when United kind of stepped it up a level they didn't have the line share of possession only 42% possession four full and XG so similar 1.62 for full and 1.6 for Manu 90 12 shots for full and six on target three big chances and interestingly they ran six kilometers more than Manu 90 which does tie into those comments

20:49from Gary Neville will discuss tactically how they play but they are a side that really does put a shift in and covers an awful lot of ground so interesting and then are below or afterwards clearly he's frustrated in the the mix zone straight away after when he gets a microphone put in his face he has been handed an FH charge for his comments at full time where he says every decision for them and I knew after the game against Manu 90 to the officials would not let Manu 90 to United lose here so he was slapped with an FH charge he hadn't till about I think it was this time last week to respond no news yet as to whether that's been upheld or what the punishment will be so there is a chance he might not be in the dugout for Saturday's game I guess we'll get some sort of announcement on that tomorrow but yeah but you can't stand wise frustrated because they played well and they were within two three four minutes have been in their first points of the season and usually that offense is a fine and a one match band so it is worth keeping an eye out for that but it expected something by now they had they charged him on the 30th and as he said he

21:51had to the first to respond knew to think they'd have done something about it but maybe we'll find out tomorrow mate he's got his press conference on Friday so that more might come out at that point and you want to profile our below it's a name that I think will be familiar for people from his playing days particularly Liverpool but a coach with some decent pedigree yeah very much so 43 years old appointed right at the start of July left Real Madrid a month before joining up with with fullham so he was in charge of Real Madrid the Castilla which is their reserve slash B side they appointed Zabia Lonzo last summer he got fired in January and our below a stepped up for the second half of the of the campaign managed 28 games from Madrid 118 drew two doesn't draw many games lost eight exactly two points per game which is normally pretty good but not for your Real Madrid if you're one of those top sides two points per game isn't good enough and if you finish eight points behind Barcelona and you don't win the Champions League which you didn't they would have to buy Munich in the semis you lose the you lose your job and that's exactly what happened to him as you mentioned very good stellar playing career two seasons I think at Liverpool and then a

22:54season at Westown we didn't really do much but the the honest list is is pretty impressive you won LaLiga with Real Madrid two Copa del Rey two Champions League an FA Cup uh sorry an FA club World Cup and a UEFA super Cup 56 caps for Spain and he was part of all three squads that did that euros in 2008 World Cup 2010 euros 2012 kind of winning sandwich so yeah incredibly stellar playing career I wonder though maybe sometimes you do see don't you with these really elite level players they do sometimes struggle when they take charge at clubs where the players can't necessarily do what they want them to do we sort of with Roy Keane obviously with ourselves and there are a few instances over the years where excellent players have gone into clubs and kind of not been able to get there tactics in their style of play and their methodology across because of perhaps the limitations of what they've gone into you know going from Real Madrid where you've got you know vanishius junior and you know absolutely top elite level footballers jude belligerme etc to to no disrespect to some of the the full-on players is going to be a big drop off so it might take

23:56a little bit longer to get his points of view across yeah that clinch here I'm filled though I think that that both were fun they're from a full-on fan but it's the games against the likes of Ipswich and that waveform as well where yeah probably needs to do a little bit more but early days as we said not much of a sample size to judge him just yet let's move on to their history with with us and this is a rare instance said where I'm surprised at the stats yeah we've not played them as much as I've perhaps thought we would have done nine wins for town 10 draws between the two 14 wins for full of me I can't forget when when we were kind of I'm thinking latter Mick era it's way too far 14 15 yeah yeah we would we would have that spell we were really good at Craven cottage but they would always just win two or three nil at Portman Road so I guess you have all that kind of stuff up it was two draws wasn't it in the Premier League last time the the first the third the third game of the season the first points we picked up two years ago after the Liverpool Man City Games Leigh and the laps smashed one in from range a Dama Trial Ray equalise about 15

25:00minutes later or so and that was very much in those kind of list of games that we looked back on early doors that and Villa and those are the kind of times we kind of thought down that was a bit of a missed opportunity obviously it was a two-all draw on New Year's Day or the day after New Year's day where infamously Jack Clarke hits the post it rebounds out perfectly they got their end and rail him and his scores there were three one defeat in the league cup in November 2023 that's the early days of the championship promotion season I think we've beaten wolves in the previous rounds but they did us three one opening date of 2014-15 violent badgerner lasted for 40 minutes two one victory Murphy got up and running for the season that 27 epic goal season that he had and Mcgoldry got one in the second half as well a certain Cameron Burgess playing in midfield that day for full him 2000 Martin Royce joins on loan in the 90th minute slides in front of the north stand to win the game one-0 I remember a 2002 one because town tweeted it I think earlier today Marcus bent scoring off his kind of shoulder slash head at the far post that might have been one of the very last games

26:04in that really impressive kind of six seven winning run that we went on that might have been the very last one I think right now the same time as the ever seen away game so some decent memories but as I said under Mick when they used to come to Portman Road their parachute payments quality were just kind of shine through it did yeah do you want to do a bit of both because I'll be honest with you I had my hole in not in my back pocket and it was Can Burgess but you said his name which suggests to me it's not Can Burgess well this is the problem it's it's not an overly easy one there's either some really obvious ones or there's some really vague one so it's not a classic one but you've had a couple of really easy weeks I mean I was a little bit harder for you maybe go on do your do your hole in one I was can it was Can Burgess I haven't got anything else in my back pocket so all fair enough let's see how you get on with this one then signed by town in 2010 that's not an error that I remember particularly fondly mine Pringles I don't know no had previously had a spell at full him in their 2007 2008 season where he scored four goals in 30 appearances it's not

27:07terrible is it is he a midfielder or a striker pass yeah don't know scored one goal in 12 appearances of four town it's not Sylvan Le Guinzki is it no that was the only that was that just came to me that's the only other name I can think of yeah he made way more appearances anyway yeah scored more than one goal as well yeah key go to number four the the chat hasn't got it there there's a name in the chat that was a choice we haven't got it yet was signed on the same day as a certain Darrell Murphy oh man I want to say David Healy it is David Healy yeah it is like I say it's not a classic one but the final clue you did got it was 36 goals in 95 appearances for Northern Ireland including in a in a famous 1 0 victory over England in 2005 but yeah it really wasn't a classic one because it was either like Jimmy Bullard David stocked out or can Burgess I thought you get

28:09those ones straight away or Bobby Petter was in there but I couldn't think of five clues yeah I couldn't think of five clues Gus Oolambique was in there but again I was trying to fill him five clues very briefly I don't remember wasn't Simon Milton born down the road from full him I don't think he was in play for no I because he scored that goal in the league cup which was which is on the celebrations round on they think it's all over where he was kind of stretched back to the halfway line he scored that long ranger and I think he was like I was born just down the road or something like that but that was one of the historic games against full and that went in our favor but yeah so not a classic week we've had a couple of days and the chart got off Trevor bringing up the 10 one goodness could it be them like six four or something like that the next week is there some sort of Christmas day yeah that's the one that everyone talks about I think we'd still thrashed him in there and there was kind of a you did like a double over head over Christmas I think so I think we beat six six three but no one no one talks about that do they Trevor

29:09Blimey Bullard is a shout that's a good one you got that that's too easy they'd have got that maybe yeah maybe I don't know more it's vaults that John L.A.1988 that was my second choice by thoughts and as Andy says the Bobby Robinson managerial Derby great shout yeah David Haley I think John L.A. got it we are we saying that yeah he did time is to get it yeah that's what Ryan Tannikliff says Danny KG 16 vaults we've got that yeah and Cottage talk is here good evening to you I think Ben speak to you guys last night apologies if I got that one wrong but Ben did speak to a full and pod but yeah it's the deal and Sassaluki could have been in there as well couldn't they said but that was maybe too obvious wasn't it talking to transfer business do you want to get onto full and summer deals because you know if I'm being brutal about my thoughts about full and season I don't think you want to lose the kind of experience that you've got with Diop and Luke itch what have they done to kind of replace it yeah so they've they're kind of adding in a bit of

30:11Spanish flair to go with their new Spanish manager it's two players have been recruited that he knows very well from his time at the Real Madrid Castilla and the 19's was the big money signing rumored to be up to 40 million quid was Gonzalo Garcia who's a center forward he's as I say Barbalo and Nozim he's managed him before he it's a big responsibility I think to come in and replace the incredibly experienced Rao Jimenez he has scored to five this season this is going to debut against Chelsea but we'll discuss him a little bit later on has a time struggled since Shay Charles was 28 million pounds from Southampton central midfield defensive midfield I like him I think he's a good player big thing though is it though for this in this day and age for an established Premier League side I'm not entirely sure my bet my barometer for a reasonable fear is kind of gone but if you look at it 10 million quid for Sassaloo Kitch yeah I guess the difference is the age isn't it so you know in Shay Charles is vast I think he's 20th tray really I want to say 24 so he's probably got eight nine years on Sassaloo Kitch a really good bite was David Affengruba who came in from Elchay 10 million quid center off he came in for the Liverpool

31:13game and there's impressed in his two appearances he's doing well as a center back he kind of replaced Joaquim Anderson and he's playing alongside Calvin Bassie so he's used to be a certainly a good bite and the other player they signed from Remordred was says our Palacios there'll be two Palacios is involved at the weekend nine million pounds he's kind of a number 10 again signed by Arbelok as he managed him at the Castilla and under 19 level as well but I guess the big things the talking points are the four key departures we benefit from two of them obviously Iceda Diop and and Sassaloo Kitch came to ourselves they they're the only two players they received money for this summer Harry Wilson we're on a free to leave that's a blow yeah 10 goals seven assist last season to not recruit any money for him he's actually struggled at leads but to not get any money in for him is a bit of a a blow and Raul him and his who was always good for 10 12 goals a season free to walls I'm surprised I thought he'd get another Premier League gig I guess he's 33 34 so maybe that goes against him but nine goals three assists last season so Wilson and him and his were

32:15their top scorers last year the next highest score was Alex a woby with four so if you add in Diop Lukic Wilson and him and his they've made nearly 500 appearances for them 491 appearances combined that's a lot of experience to leave out the door for not much money and to replace it with kind of more diminutive probably technically better Spanish players is a risk I think yeah high potential maybe but yeah that's what you need right now maybe not I don't know will we back after a little bit of a break to talk through how our below we think we'll set up his team and of course plenty of time to discuss how Gary O'Neill picks his globe trotting Ipswich town team to face up to full him back after this from our friends at Atwells blue Monday is proudly brought to you in partnership with Atwell solicitors award winning local lawyers and Essex Suffolk and London whether you're buying a home starting a business or just need legal guidance atwells has you covered

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35:26channel this season and our friends at one stop badges as well are exclusive pretty much so partner you can find out about both by clicking the links in the description so said tactical bad it's back it's been away for a break but here we are let's pretend they were on Monday night football. So they line up with a 4-2-3 and this is they lined up against last Sunday is Man United but they have used 4-2-3-1 in all the games so far this season a couple of names that people will instantly recognise Bert Leno and incredibly experienced Premier League goalkeeper they got him from Arsenal when Arsenal signed Ramsdale a few years ago and I think he's an excellent top flight keeper Timothy Castanier the right back well known from Leicester he made the move when Leicester got relegated I think a few years ago I mentioned Affan Gruber and how well he's done in the last couple of games and Man Mountain Calvin Bassie is his centre back partnership that the two key names have really impressed me so far this season are Josh King playing in the the number 10 position and well I'm a big fan of Anthony Robinson he's maybe not hit the heights of previous

36:28campaigns but there are signs in recent weeks he's getting back to how he used to be move it forward to the average player positions and you'll see it's kind of representing a it sticks almost as a back four but Robinson does push slightly further up so it's almost like a bit of a back three with Castanier Affan Gruber and Bassie no surprises Sander Birge and Shay Charles just sit there in front of those two centre backs to provide the the defence Josh King in this game peeled off wide right to link up with Oscar Bob another incredibly exciting young attacking prospect I've mentioned Garcia the striker but the big threat from fullham comes down that left hand flank with Robinson and Alex Iwobie where we got a little bit of stick recently but in terms if you want a willing runner a presser an excellent presser Iwobie as you man and as I mentioned he did get four goals last season so he's a bit of a a bit of a threat but they they're left hand side is the big threat 43% of their attacks come down that flank which is the second highest in the league move it forward again to where they touch the ball the most and no surprises Sander Birge drops into the middle of those two centre-offs to kind of get on the ball and I guess provide a little

37:32bit more defensive kind of stability now this is against Manu Naiti don't forget so side normally will flex and alter things up when they play against the so-called big boys in the division really it's the that I saw that child's pushes right up to kind of get involved almost players are a number ten alongside Garcia with King and Bob looking to create an overload down that right hand side the left hand side very rarely move from the average player positions where they touch the ball Iwobie and Robinson kind of hold the width out wide left and look to get forward Robinson especially I think he got the assist for the Treyore goal in the home game a couple of years ago look out for that kind of whipped low cross in he's very very good at that in terms of a playing style we've mentioned it earlier they are looking to move away from kind of the mid block football of silver it's definitely high tempo they're definitely running an awful lot more they are second in the league for total distance covered behind only Arsenal they're very much a short passing side and it's very much kind of slower more methodical build up play they're slowest in the league from going from back to front so it's not a case of launching it up front Garcia's profile wouldn't

38:33fit that anyway to be fair fourth highest for passing sequence times they do like to get the ball and knock it around and fifth highest for passes per game and interestingly they are third highest for passing backwards so don't be surprised to see the occasional check and the ball going backwards into midfield or into some deeper areas in terms of possession Spanish style of football 44 54% possession is the seventh highest in the league they do like to look off the ball generally they are third highest for an XG difference hello XG fans I'm sure you've missed the last three weeks or so minus 3.9's nearly minus four on the goals scored versus what they their XG prediction was so that's clear an area that we mentioned they are kind of struggling in and it might be a little bit open 17 goals conceded per game is the fourth highest in the division town how our third highest so it's two sides going head to head that do concede chances against each other in terms of pressing pretty much identical numbers to town but they are good they're fourth highest in the league for winning turnovers resulting in a shot but they haven't scored any goals from yet so they do press effectively but as I mentioned earlier maybe lacking that clinical execution

39:37in the final third and any particular person now that you want to shout out I think there's a lot of positive chat about Josh King I think I'll read a chat today that he's got the most touches in the opposition box of any player in the Premier League maybe but appears to be impactful for them I agree with you I like Bernt Leno as a keeper seems pretty solid at the back to anyone else yeah Josh King two goals in five appearances plays the 10 but does drift right like you just saw on that graphic fourth highest for shots on target in the league so far this season and he is top for distance covered with 55 kilometers in the five games averaging over 10 kilometers again he will really put a shift in I mentioned Alexi woe be already he's a runner who will look to get them up the pitch he plays on the left of the three behind the striker eleventh in the league the carries up the pitch with two of those carries ending in shots and has created 10 chances so far this season I think he's got one assist or maybe no assist so he is he's creating the chances it's the striking options the attacking players not necessarily taking it we mentioned Gonzalo Garcia quite a lot only got the one goal in five appearances only five foot nine

40:41so I think it's fair to say he might be struggling a little bit with the physicality of the Premier League did score twice for the Spanish under 21s in midweek and he got eight goals for Madrid last season so to quote McCarthey is no muggy might be one of those that comes good but he might need a year or so to settle in Calvin Bassy absolute man mountain it was his driving run forward with the shot that created the own goal that miss Andromat and is scored he wins 74 percent of his ground joules which is the eighth highest in the league he's eleventh in the league for winning possession and he is eighth highest in the league for progressive carries up the pitch so once to watch out picking the ball up and driving full and forward you mentioned but then no excellent keeper I think in my opinion 67% save rate three saves per game maybe not been as good so far this season as previous campaigns but a really solid pair of hands and I've mentioned Anthony Robinson who I really like I think he's second for sprints per game so a big threat down that left hand side and any key absentees I see Tom Cairney who I like but and why we link with Tom Cairney in January was that January was it yeah I've tried to remember when it was wasn't that agent talk he was

41:44out of contract with full him in the summer I think he signed a new tier the back week later so that might be some agent posturing yeah the minor knee operation at the start of August he's due back pretty quickly but the suggestions online whether this weekend might be a little bit too soon and it'll more largely be next weekend nice one thank you sir but we'll keep our fingers cross for an Arbelow attached line ban and obviously we don't know how the international break has impacted full him either but we'll get on to how Gary Nill reacts for his team in a second need to shower again at Wells and one stop I just thank you to their support and in terms of bits and pieces going on on the channel we are back in the groove in terms of shows Seb's mentioned midweek glues still available from Mikey and Henry looking back and recapping how things went on the international break and looking ahead to the weekend the weekend preview we available to our top team members if you haven't got involved in top tier yet new sign ups get a month for free courtesy of YouTube so now's a great time to get involved in that add free content at least two extra shows a week often three blogs but also access if you can figure out the technology for our discord

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43:52my mind the goalkeeper situation I think has maybe got a little bit of question mark over it but obviously the biggest kind of head scratcher is the right hand side wing position without your fatio we suspended where do you want to start let's start from the back and work our way forward shall we so Walton will be the keeper you can't really sharpen out for you can't take sharpen out for one game and then bring him back in it would make no sense whatsoever you can't keep chopping and changing your goalkeeper you need that position to be to be settled I don't know why he would take him out suddenly bringing back in if you were surely you would you would play him in the everton game and then if you want to make the change during the international break you could bring Walton in then so to change it you must have felt a reason therefore I can't he can possibly change it back so for me Walton stays in goal and then there are well there yeah the the right wing issue could be solved a number of ways but I'm not sure I'm really sold on any of them so we've seen dies in Maida has come off in that sort of come on in the palace and everton away games at

44:52right midfield but as I think I would say I I think Wattara was our man of the match at Everton from the right back position he was really really good there's an argument that you shift him further forward it's a bit of a Swiss army knife isn't he could go further forward O'Shea returns to the right back hybrid role and then you bring grieves back in alongside D.Op I don't think he'll do that I think Wattara was that good at right back he retains the shirt and I want a real athlete on that side as well with Robinson and a Woby going up against him so I won't do that option Casey McAteer looked way off it you know he's featured in the Cup games he made the bench didn't he come off against Sunday the opening day maybe that hasn't been making bench in recent weeks Sindra Wallet Eglie scored for the Norwegian at 21s but places in the middle he doesn't play right wing does he for them so he's in good form goal scoring for but he doesn't play right wing so I think he will shift over Jack Clarke to the right or he will put Jason a Jason Jason Phillagine on the right and he'll be Clark and Phillagine on the flanks I just don't know which one will be on which side personally Jack Clarke was no one was great against Everton Willet Jack

45:58Clarke was impressive I thought against Palace away you were there I'm pretty sure that's the same video you've got from the stands Everton away he struggled but a lot of sides did to be fair so I guess do you keep him on the left and therefore Phillagine's the one shoehorn doing or do you get Phillagine back in his proper position and as we saw at times last season when he had to be done Jack Clarke was the one to shift across it's none of these options really work for me to be honest if we're ruling out Wattara did you go Casey McAteer is a most likely replacement do you go Eglie for the cutting in on the left foot like Fattarwu or do you go Jack Clarke slash Jaden Phillagine out of position I don't know why you're so quick to dismiss Wattara moving up the pitch well because he was so good at right back and it just kind of felt a lot more steady didn't it with a center off alongside what aspect of his right back play impressed you the most against Everton for me it was him getting up the athleticism yeah and the athleticism so I think he can get back and I think he can cover and I think I would worry not people don't I'd worry with that full of left

47:00flank running it oh shea though but they would be running at oh shea and Wattara if you put it but if Wattara is breaking forward and quickly then they break quickly then you're in a world of trouble I don't think so made a can't play there for me I haven't been impressed he looks agree totally lost on that right side plus I think he's been either way with Japan isn't he so I think there would have been a question mark about him anyway whether he'd been in the first team ahead of the break anyway down that left hand side but we'll come back to left hand side in second so it's not made I don't think Clarke is a right-sided wing or any more I think he's proving himself down the left and I think shifting him over is putting him out of position even though I know that he's played there in the past as a spillage I kind of feel like Wattara is more of a round pegging around whole than any of those and I think Casey might have a sniff I don't know well let's know in the chat I don't think there's a perfect option. Someone get

48:01and he's going right when's best when's Ben Johnson when you need that's a great shot and he Michael I would play West I would play West Burns to yeah so I'm West Burns for the for the day all right. Tammy mentioned he ugly you know on fire in the international for the end of the 21s but he plays for every other thing for Norway under 21s he's a striker isn't he that's the problem so you know we saw at times last season that right hand wing that right wing roll can really kind of swallow him up and I guess if he's going to be cutting his eyes and his left foot that's an awful lot of space for the likes of Robinson and it won't be too exploits so yeah I don't know if you know it's the answer. A position have you given like a your assessment of philogen moving over to the right rather than clock well every time I don't remember I said I've a try and they was always jack clock they got shifted over so philogen when he first joined in the Premier League old traffic away I'm thinking of you know because West Burns got injured philogen was doing the job there but last season under McKenna I know it's completely changed last season under McKenna it was always jack clock that would shift over and philogen would always get his favored left spot so we've seen Gary O'Neill want to involve philogen he came off the bench against

49:05Palace didn't look fit at all did he start against Arsenal in the cup came on it ever turn about a minute before the red card for Futsal we're then kind of had to do bit of a job so we need to get him back up to full fitness because you know he's he's off the off the ball stuff is incredibly impressive as well so he's a kind of you know both an offensive and a defensive threat so I think O'Neill probably likes him he's been around for three weeks so he probably we don't know the details of the the espagnol game but I imagine he probably played there and I just think Gary O'Neill likes him we'll want to get him back into the side and I think he'd rather play him on the left and therefore shift jack clock over to the right wing spot and then I guess we've got to issue around sorry Andrew Farrow saying can you see so play off the right eggly at the 10 you could do yeah but I wouldn't trust in seesows discipline a real wonder visually yeah getting back and doing the shift and stuff you know if you want him you want him in the number 10 role where you can have the likes of Luke Kitch and A midfield partner will discuss now alongside him to cover for his kind of forays up up front the the big other talking point is the who partners Luke Kitch on Saturday

50:07what is is is your right winger then jack Clark Jack Clark I'm going to go with Tara I'm going to fill a gene on the lesson you're bringing grooves back to the center back yeah and I'll stick fill a gene on the left and then a clerk on the left sorry and you're going to put grooves back alongside the up and I'll shout right back yeah okay yeah let's know in the chat on that one it's it's a that's a real conundrum isn't it um I kind of feel like I would like what Tara's energy and covering ability for a shame and that's why it's a fit I think anyone else there you're relying on with Tara doing a lot of defensive work so that's that's my that's my gut feeling when it will all see what happens there and Harry is saying made her at right wing um I just look he has to look comfortable in either appearance there as he I think he's definitely a player at the place of the left I'd love to be comfortable there because of his work rate and he's pressing a stuff but you know Danny Siri chirping out there you know be like John Walters again the gold kicks will go straight to Sherpins head when they win a lot of headers yeah yeah send him a field talk to me yeah so he polacios played in Messi's final game for Argentina that was a midnight to choose

51:11the night slash Wednesday morning kickoff time UK time so I guess he won't have got back to Ipsigen till today and given his injury record at the past at the likes of bio-lavercoose and I just wonder if it will come a little bit too soon for him and Florentina Luish has been around for the three weeks with the training camp he's looked good at times adding some physicality adding some legs in central midfield so I just wonder if it might be his full Premier League debut along therefore Premier League debut start alongside Luke itch and that's what I think they're probably doing placios will be on the bench given his jaunts halfway across the world so yeah I'm going to turn Luish and sassalukicch in the middle of the par like that it's good I like that midfield so I'm going to put your your predicting 11 up and you can get us what I'm guessing with yeah so Walton to continue in goal Wattara de op Oche and Davis the back four Luish and Luish the two central midfield holders Jack Clarke on the right NC so in the ten need a goal from in season of my FPL team fillaging down the left and Emerson leading the line up front still struggled a bit at good as not good ascent at hill Dickinson I think ZMF probably knocking on the door but I think

52:12Emerson probably gets the nod on this one agree with that yeah and that right side is the big question is not I agree with your midfield selection and I agree with you that Walton probably continues there NC's only question marks about him and international stuff was he playing recent I don't know it was it was like the weekend it was sure it was like Saturday Sunday was his last game for Paraguay so he's been back for ages the only one that really went late was palatius obviously Minus returned early my it dies in my eder played on like Monday I think so other than palatius I think they were all probably back by the Wednesday and he's the only one that's that's returned late because of the late kickoff time come okay well we'll we'll find out at 145 won't we on Saturday in the pub car park at the Greyhound won't we and and hopefully I think Neil put it in the chat hopefully Gary's been sure he's been working on something over the last three weeks and the TV screens at the training ground that were obviously put onto the town badge rather than the tactical kind of they don't show TV rich the judges show TV tactical

53:13stuff plays a work exactly right Tammy's making a shout for starting Fleming and Neil suggesting Fleming on on the right I don't know about him on the right I've got no idea if he can if he can play you there from his mill wall or Burnley days Fleming out front I've got no issue with that person I guess Emma's it's a bit harsh and I'm a sin I like it's great against debaton but you know two goals against two goals against palace or a goal on a sister I remember it feels like a lifetime ago loads of moments in the F.P. two goals for the season and yeah I think he's I think he's growing nicely but I think he often will have a big role to play especially in these games that are upcoming I think we might see a bit of rotation in the number nine position cool we'll get you thinking caps on for score predictions we'll finish there we've got a couple more bits and pieces to do and we've still got a bit of time and so if we've got some extra minutes feel free to pose your questions to Seb too but we've mentioned FPL a few times let's talk about the best feature on the podcast Joey we're in week five and Rich has got a 10 point lead and has one three out of five weeks it's looking pretty rosy in the garden for now I'm not going to get too much

54:16ahead of myself but that crystal palace week has been the game change if you look at it Seb it's basically the only reason you're winning is because leaf Davis and Emma's not a great week and you played your bench boots which I haven't even played yet so don't count your chickens yet boy and also I have made I spent the international break reconfiguring my team so I had five transfers build up because I haven't done a single thing since the start of the season and I've made all five so I've changed Sherpen for Walton for one of my town players because I want to have a backup keeper who is playing I took out James Tarkowski because he was too expensive and too good but I could never play him because I had to play D-Op and I chose to play Gabrielle and Gavardio alongside him so I've bought in Vuska Vitch the young lad that Brighton signed from Spurs he's coming for Tarkowski I have taken out somebody on the right we Adam Scott because he's injured and bought in Pascal Gross for Brighton because everybody's a same gross he's like an excellent FPL player he doesn't cost much plays a lot I get a lot of points and I've re-jigged my front line so I had Jal Pedro Dominic

55:18Cavart Lewin and Erling Harland I have kept Erling Harland he is still my captain but the two strikers alongside him I have taken out Jal Pedro because he was an injury doubt and I've bought in Alexander Isac who apparently is also an injury doubt brilliant God bless the international break and because of that I couldn't afford Dominic Cavart Lewin anymore so I took him out and bought back old favorite from two years ago Liam Delap is my other striker so my front three is now Alexander Isac Erling Harland and Liam Delap so a few changes made let's hope I can catch you up this this game week yeah I don't appear to have done well with my transfers I only had one transfer and I finally taken Subozly out and replaced him with Sharda of Brentford which is also freed up about a million quids worth of transfer value so I was really tempted by the wild card this week I'll be honest because my team is a bit meh we're sticking with it and my my Epsych starters are Leaf Davis and Emerson so I'm hoping for a repeat of the kind of palace

56:19epic will be good for me just keep my nose in front so we'll return next week and talk more about FPL then and finally before we get your score predictions everybody so keep them coming in in the live chat Epsych town time machine our new feature I'm gonna I could have talked to you about well 5th of October 2025 Seb does that date ring any bells for if she's down history oh yeah the knowledge yeah the 7th of October 2023 so that's the star of the day Monday live oh it's the wonder goal by Brando Williams isn't that correct that was the 7th of October so 3-3-2 was it 4-2 4-2 Kaden Jackson added one lay on the knee I think to make it was it when he put that pressed and play into the stands and laugh it was me yeah this guy's unhinged yeah really open time probably won't remember the 9th of October 2021 Epsych 2 Shrewsbury 1 that's not really yeah not and 8th of October 2020 yeah 8th of October 2022

57:23more than 1 Epsych 2 I think that was Lea Evans penalties was it we were really grotty that day I think we got the win over line if I remember rightly away away yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Lea Evans called a penalty I can't remember who got the other goal was it was did you get any miss one as well I think you like miss one well to somebody else miss one and Lea Evans took the secondary what I can't read yeah maybe but yeah it's not vintage turn it to your way now so I but yeah so I'm going I'm going to take you back to October the 10th so on this day on Saturday 3 o'clock Epsych Town away at Blackpool behind closed doors we are still post lock down I'm not opening up the stadium yet do you remember the score away at Blackpool and do you remember who scored the opening goal a world it's a world if from Luke Chambers is it 4-1 Teddy Bishop scored Greene Edwards scored nice Teddy Bishop get 2 Greene Edwards got 2 well remember we know it's got to yeah remember it was an absolute world he from Luke Chambers yeah great wasn't it he was playing right back again that season he got shunted over didn't he and yeah he absolutely hit it like a

58:26dream it was an absolute top-class goal that's the start of that's the second season back down the Disneyland Lam Lam Lam but it's still the manager and that's the that's after the summer where we signed Stephen Ward and all you know yeah but with three four games in at that point one three drawn one so we are top of the league like we're doing really well but yeah it was identical to the year before wasn't it when we were doing really well and we lost doing his acting to both times and it just probably all went to shit yeah derailed who was in the opposition dug out Neil Christian correct yeah now a member of the town coaching stuff of course and there is an x-right winger and an x-left back also in the Blackpool starting lineup can you name him I think I think Luke Garbert was the left back because I really wanted to sign him all summer and we yeah didn't did we bizarrely thinking we are free as well and a right winger you say yeah Barnsley Hatrick oh Grant Ward Grant Ward is playing for Barnsley that day yeah other names to chuck at you well the Yipshish team is is standard at that point Oli Hawkins up from

59:30Keenan Bennett's on the bench you can still find him he took Benito Ensiala but yeah they had him who did that Gary made Medine yeah not not vintage Chris Maxwell I think played for Atkinson against us in that cup you know that when they knocked out the FA Cup do you remember that 1-0 at Atkinson we were on that away Terrace in the cold oh yeah yeah we start the league one toss it will keen debut I think that was and he got a beautiful enough so yeah I I'm trying to find games that make us grateful for us having a multi million pound work first play seconds training centre and being in the Premier League it was the keeper on that day is it is it Dijkorn L or is it Thomas Holy or is it Will no Thomas Holy your best it's all sailing yeah my mate my mate yeah indeed so yeah there you go so anniversary of Ibshish for Blackpool 1 on Saturday so as you're walking up to Port Monroe to play for them in the Premier League have that in the back

1:00:31of your mind so let's finish off with some predictions streaky saying have you done a man's sit you rich is that a suggestion that I'm fixing the FBL feature streak I couldn't comment and until until the charges have been confirmed we should should not speculate about man's sit his culpability at all at any of this Tavis going for a 2-1 feeling positive least going for a 1-0 a disappointing draw I don't know if that's the score line or the performance that Lee is thinking about draw said would you would would that be the worst thing in the world I guess everyone's going to go to saturdays game well it's been so long for a start so we want to win don't we but he kind of got to have me for serious there'll be expectations I think because a bit like when we played them a few years ago after we played Liverpool and Man City we all kind of thought oh beatful them because it's not Liverpool or Man City and yeah I guess had they had they held on against man united I'd probably feel a little bit apprehensive because that would be four points from Liverpool away and Man United at home but they didn't so they are still struggling the manager might

1:01:34not be on the touch line they're still got players still learning the Premier League the physicality the demands of it so I think that I think we're going to win I'm going to go I'm going to match what Tammy said I think it's going to be a 2-1 victory for town start this next run of games off in a really crucial way and to be on if we can do that and get ourselves to nine points and that's an excellent start this this block and you know probably more than most of us would have thought going into mid October to be on nine points so yeah I'm confident a 2-1 victory I hope to God we don't after what was it Liverpool was it's four five six minutes was it or nine minutes it was all over wasn't it by two guys down so yeah I think point will be rocking I think we've everyone's missed it a lot yeah so let's yeah let's enjoy it but I'm confident I'm going for a 2-1 town victory well so so is Robbie's predicting Davis and and Emerson that'll help that was song in front of Seb a chap has missed the penalty against Malcolm says Chris say thank you second one yeah digging that one out yeah Trevor black for Malcolm Shrews for you those were the days yeah what else have we got

1:02:37Andy three to win despite the problems on the right hand side to clearly not confident that we've been working on our defensive shape over the last three weeks Michael I would put third on a fallback with a sharp elbows and move the tyre forward so who's dropping out there I shade dropping out then there's no no no no a shade would stay alongside D. O.P. agrees wouldn't come back in fine yeah okay um Ashford Trafford was going for a three one ibshish town scoreline Michael is matching your two one goal and assist for leaf Emerson with the win I'm loving everyone manifest in this for me in the FBL and see so we need a goal for NC so let's have a yeah yeah I need that so Norman's going for a two on our defence still worries me he says Trevor a draw would be disappointed not the end of the world Mike can we keep a clean sheet he's suggesting no he's going for a two one though which is the consensus cottage talk is still with us he's going for a three two for them when totally understand that and goals in the game seems to think they're open sensors yeah I think there'll be goals two open sides you can see the lot of chances

1:03:40so yeah they average a goal a game um so yeah I think there will be goals in it I need so I I can't with all the greatest love and respect to our of visiting full and fun I need a ibshish prediction to him with and Tim is right out of yeah clutch for me a prediction from down and cold Plymouth Tim going for a three one town win I think we have to end it with that one thank you everybody for joining us back here again the pre match I back football back at Port Manrodo on saturday we're super excited for it do join us for episode 1100 on Sunday hopefully looking back on the weekend with positivity do get involved with top tier and all the additional content over there and as always mate thank you for your research great to have our normal Thursday evening routine back again and great see somebody be the chat I'll let you say final words and don't forget ibshishish fans supporting two banks as well everybody yeah how about you can get the advent calendars down there thanks everybody enjoy saturday feels like ages since we were at Port Manrodo it's a rare saturday three p.m game they are a a rarity in the Premier League so

1:04:44make the most of it and yeah let's get this run off to a really good start starting at the weekend and we'll be back this time next week to discuss always man city away isn't it what will we talk about seeing next week everybody rich takers yeah keep your questions about man city situation for a week or so yep nice one thank you everybody let's put some nice comments up shall we yeah thank you everybody really positive thank you everybody really lovely to see you all again and yeah i'll do my usual bit if you're in the greyhound come and say hello but until saturday come on you blues you know what's wild most people are still overpaying for car insurance just because it's a pain

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