It may have been a boring game, however Fulham secured their place in the fourth round of the FA Cup with a one-nil victory – thanks to a sweetly-struck long range effort from Bobby De Cordova-Reid. Whilst the game itself was turgid, arguably it was exactly what the doctor ordered ahead of Fulham’s semi final clash againt Liverpool at Anfield on Wednesday. The team analyse the game (as best they can), look ahead to Wednesday, and answer some of your questions.
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Their pockets Senate Bill 1838 would enact harmful credit card routing mandates that would end credit card rewards as we know it if you love your credit card rewards visit handsoffmydinosaur Ladies and gentlemen it is Showtime please welcome the team of the fish Podcast it’s the fulhamish podcast your independent voice for FM FC my name is George Cooper and welcome to the show Fulham are in the fourth round draw of the FA Cup after creeping over the line against the Millers after a fantastic rocket from Bobby deer do Reed the
Moment of quality that was much needed in what was quite frankly a bit of a turgid Affair however with our semi-final against Liverpool looming next week Liverpool will got to play Arsenal tomorrow seeming to me like this was exactly what we needed but anyway boring game asides here to perk you up today
We’ve got Dan cir how you doing mate I’m doing all right CS I’m doing all right I’m feeling a little bit worse for where but um ultimately fine was it a uh was it a a fourth round celebration night out for you yesterday were you in um
Lafz game just just went to the dukee U with a couple of the the other fish lot you know Friday nights are great if you if you win and especially when the game doesn’t really matter it was just a good even I like I like a Friday night game
Because it get I feel like especially if you win it just gets out of the way you got the whole of the weekend just to to to bask in that kind of uh feeling anyway Don bets how you doing have you recovered from the darts on Wednesday no
I don’t think so mate I think it’s just all all looping into one no it yeah post game as my BG standard go to the railway and Putney until closing time and cross the road and get the 93 home job done yeah is the railway you’re new standard
Now cuz that that that opened up just as I left uh PNE so I haven’t had a chance to go there it looks very nice it’s always very busy it was weather spoon was like years ago and then it became a revolution and then I think what was it
Some some point last year it then turned back into a pub it’s really good in there now shows the football still got the two floors yeah I think it’s my my new designated Boozer for uh home games considering my normal one of the CED Tre norie disappeared in Co I sort of didn’t
Know where to go but yeah uh the railway top Gaff there you go now all the listeners know which pop to avoid uh pre and post match uh Elizabeth Barnard how you doing yeah I’m all good I wasn’t at the game and 2024 is my granny year I
Was in bed with a book at 10 p.m. so yeah is that your New Year’s resolution be more be more granny gerric not quite uh just long week at work so fair enough fair enough I believe you also got some three-word reviews for us
If you mind kicking us off I do so I’ll start off with our very own cam Ramsey who had rotheram didn’t bother him which I thought s out perfectly um alist nmo with a creative use of the apostrophe um to make it three words run of Tam
Millas then I’ve got FFC in Sheldon South Devon um with I think sums up the game Z us all falling asleep as we were watching it and then finally um Luke with I think a really realistic goal for this season cup double pending nice nice I mean I have another
One go on um that came from someone called Marl Funk um who gave us treble is on technically he’s not wrong you know he’s uh he’s to something that um Marl Funk Dom going into the match much changed lineup I suppose to be expected you know we had rodak starting uh CNA in
Doop Reed Sasa lukic and Harry Wilson um we expected a bit of rotation obviously we’ve got one eye on that FA Cup semifinal against Liverpool any surprises there for you really or is it kind of what we expected to see I think the surprise was I was actually
Expecting to see maybe more of the the youngsters who who’ve played well in the youth team’s bit more involved you know tyres franois I feel like has been a promising youngster for about last 10 years I feel like he’s always happened to be there but like I’m talking about
The likes of I’m not saying he should start but just even in in in the squad the likes of dibl Diaz the likes of Josh King but we didn’t see him but I think the main thing which I wanted to see was whatever the set of that partnership that’s playing against Liverpool wanted
To see last night because I think that’s important we because Bassie and tosson have sort of been everpresent since tosson came back from his injury and we have been a lot better since though to have come in so was interest I assumed it was going to be do that that came in
Alongside him but it was good to see them get um a game in together just before that Li game just so it’s not their first game sort of together um I wanted part that I wanted to see sort of 11 changes um and you know I I wouldn’t
Like I thought about to food roles but I thought no actually we need to be playing cerb partnership that we’re going to we’re going to see against Liverpool you know good to see Harris read um getting some minutes because obviously with Ken he sort of coming
Into the team he’s not really had too much and then you know with and I the thing that surprised me most actually was the players we ended up bringing on but I guess it’s just to get a bit of a bit of a bit bit of something into their
Legs ahead of a big game on Wednesday really I think it kind of helps our games on the Friday so you’re not it’s not like it’s not like we’ve only got two days preparation we’ still got you know what four days really so it’s not it’s not it’s not it’s not it’s not
Absolutely horic you know some teams have had that between Premier League games when they’ve played on a Monday then Friday so but yeah know I was had no real complaints with the team um and you know we I said we got the job done
But I said it’s yeah it was just it was just yeah just nice to just comfortable win really I did think that the substitutions were like bringing the uh the year 13s on like the big boys came on towards the end of the game just to
Be like hold up R I know you’ve sort of battled to stay in this game but there’s absolutely nothing for you here like we’ll just bring on Tom keny he’ll have the ball for half an hour and we’ll all go home yeah was we’ll bring on Willian
Who probably didn’t even want to come on himself anyway he was coming on like yeah I’ll just have the ball for a bit make a couple of runs couple inside couple of times but uh yeah um yeah but I said yeah I think yesterday was yesterday me and my M talking about it
In regard to progressing in the cup yesterday’s sort of your perfect third round Cup tie in that respect not as a fan obviously you want you want to be going away to East Le Chesterfield or mainstone but um from a from from progressing in the cup perspective is
Your perfect you know struggling team in the championship and I think it helps that if let’s like like the olden game a couple of years ago for example it’s kind of a big day out for them kind of thing whereas for R we’ve played them what like three times in the last sort
Of 10 years or so so it’s it’s sort of not as big for them as it as it could have been you know if we were playing a team in struggling League one or League two they could have probably bought a couple of thousand fans as opposed to
700 but you got to give those 700 fans credit I think considering they’ve not won in 14 months was it 25 26 games with away win but yeah job done yesterday and I think that’s what the you could you could judge that from the team lineup
Yeah on a Friday night as well which obviously I think kind of took the sting out of the toil I think if it had been a Saturday you would have seen that attendance you know at least doubled to be honest but yeah let’s be honest here
It’s not P around the bush it was a bit of a stinker of the game right Mill they failed to register a shot on target which bows well for the the partnership of deop and toss in I think they they did their job um but as kind of Dom
Alluded to Dan this this game felt like exactly what we wanted you know we crept over the line we never really had to sort of break a sweat we controlled large portions of the of the game we didn’t have to you know bust a nut or anything oh God that’s
Yeah is what I meant to say um oh that’s one for the blue per uh we didn’t have the bus to got um Dan do you feel like I mean it was per it was perfect I’m starting to think there was another Marco Silva Master stroke we look back and we’re
Like yeah it was bit bit rubbish a match but we’re in the fourth round it was OB it was a it was a weaker team it was still a strong team you know we paid rotheram due respect and we’re in the draw and we’re we’re looking in another
Win as well which will add to the confidence I think we we I think I think we might have played a Blinder even though it was such a bad game yeah I think I think you’re not wrong it’s when you’re in that moment when we were
Watching you sort of it was it was drab I don’t think I’ve ever yawned so much at a game of football like I was sat in the Riverside stand for the first time just sort of taking it easy with my Dad we enjoyed the game but it was dull but
You’re right because we kept it flat as well like there was no Edge no bite in the game which I think is perfect because you obviously you’re reducing the risk of injuries there as well um so because the last thing we want is you
Get a bit of nibble in the game a couple of heavy challenges go in and then suddenly we’re missing a player for a few weeks weeks and and we just didn’t let that happen we kept the ball well yes it was a bit tepid and I’m not
Sure think I’ve speak to a couple of people I’m not sure if the mentality was right maybe from a couple of players it felt like we went into that game a little bit complacent But ultimately we were professional enough to get over the line and I don’t imagine it was too
Taxing like I can’t picture many players who started that game feeling particularly tired this morning which is as you say a good result yeah no injuries as well I mean it’s it it went about as well as it could have done I think Elizabeth it was as we’ve gone
Over just a bit of a dull game uh it took a moment of uh a mistake really from from the ram Center back Sebastian Ren giving us an opportunity trying to be prime Gerard PK playing from the back getting pressed by har Harry Wilson um but Bobby just absolutely smashed it in
And the question I want to ask you is is Bobby Deco over Reed not rul currently our inform goal scorer right he’s got four in the league one in the Cup last night ral’s got five all of them coming from the league but I mean I would argue
That bobb’s our best finisher at the minute I I don’t think I’d go that far obviously he’s a very useful player and his Strike last night was really cool like that was and what a goal it was I don’t I wouldn’t be starting him in
Ahead of R um or I don’t think he’s our number one finisher um but yeah a very useful player and a really tidy strike I would I wouldn’t say that we I we should be starting him at Center forward by any stretch but I think that if you have a
Chance and it’s going to fall to any one of our players I would argue I’d want it to fall to Bobby at the minute rather than Ral I think that Bobby is finding the net and he’s he’s a great finisher if you take from when he joined
He has been probably our second most clinical player in that period you obviously mitrovic being the first but Bobby has consistently proved that whilst maybe some games you’re you’re not entirely sure whether he adds enough going forward we all know how much he adds just in general play in terms of
His work rate and his movement but his actually his ability in front of goal is is great and he’s he seems to just be very composed very calm in front of goal um and I think he’s I think he’s got you know sort of that cult hero State he
Struggled to find anyone who doesn’t like Bobby I think he’s just been such a he was a great to the squad when we went down um and came back up with Parker That season I thought he was a great addition and ever since then he has survived all of the squad rotation
That’s gone on the churn you know players have come players have gone and he is one of the few players who have stuck that out and it’s that it proves it’s proven to be such a great signing for a great value yeah I love him he’s definitely
Our coolest player by a country mile and I’ve been trying to work out who I’m I’m going to buy a shirt this year and I’m going to get a name on the back and I was going to get a Dhat Tri already just because it’s that would be funny but I’m
Thinking I’m leaning towards Bobby de got over read at the minute um Dom so as I said we needed that moment of quality from Bobby to break the deadlock we really were pretty poor in the final third I thought the link up play just wasn’t working we were very wasteful in
Possession bad touches uh Wayward passes was it just I think it’s just when you got we’ve seen in the games where Jimenez were suspended how toothless we were sort of in the in the final third I think it’s got to do with it I think also you know
Like the fact that they weren’t really concerned of R and really threatening us at all didn’t meant they were sort of quite complacent in that respect but I said once you get that first goal in a game like this you kind of do well the foot was never under gas in the first
Place but you know they they’re not really you’re not pushing pushing pushing just to make sure you get that goal um yeah I think it’s got to do with the lights of vitious of munes you we talk about the resurance of gimenez it I’ve said on previous podcast it doesn’t
Mean we need we shouldn’t be looking for a striker because you need you you can’t just rely on one player who’s going to score you goals you need you do need another option for us to move forward you know maybe it’s something somebody who off something a bit different to
What real heenez does in a more of a sort of Plan B type Striker I don’t know because I expect at least vanish is definitely to be off in this January CH to window I don’t think marus Silva really rates him at all um yeah I think
That’s got a part to play for it and I think you know the Friday night half seven third round the FA Cup it’s not exactly the most enticing in game that’s going to get the players motivated I know they’re sort of playing for a place in the um Liverpool game on Wednesday
But I think Marcus was pretty much rcid his line up for that so yeah I think I think the game played a big part but as I said before it was when you do when you do get a draw like this was is a f
Is quite dull and boring but from a club perspective they’re like we just get just get the win and progress to the fourth round and that cup double still on it did feel like for a lot of people just following a bit of the discourse on
Online after the game that it was the the final straw the straw that broke the camels back as it were for uh moones and venicius Elizabeth are you I I just feel like people like you know we’re halfway through the season now if if you’re not if you’re not proving your worth against
Reram who haven’t won a league game in something like 23 24 games away like it’s it’s it’s not Bing well is it no not at all I’ve got a little more sympathy for munas just because I kind of think it you can see that he’s trying
And he’d really like to be good and maybe that’s like not how you should conduct your transfer business um yeah I I could do that but I’d like I think I think I’d like him to stay like I think he’s a valuable enough asset to be a second or a third choice Striker
Venicius I’m like at the end of my tether with honestly like when he came on I wrote in my notes like ven last game question mark and then when he was going into a situation where he was going to be one-on-one with the keeper and he shot from like the middle of the
Half I just put like we can hope that that’s going to be his last game in the film sh because honestly I’m fed up with him at the moment yeah I think where do you think he would go like what teams are going to pick him up in Jan do you think because
He’s not exactly go and score goals in Brazil like he would and SC he’d score goals I reckon in most leagues that aren’t in the top five in Europe as well like he’s not a horrendous football in he has proved that he can score goals but I think Elizabeth’s like spot on and
I think the difference between munes and venicius is that there is still a glimmer of hope with Rodrigo munes that through good coaching and proper sort of mentorship you could maybe get a striker out of him I think he’s got some of the sort of physical traits and he’s shown in the
Past that sometimes his instinct is there where he is someone who could become a good Striker whereas that ship sailed for venicius like there’s there’s I don’t think there’s any way we can build him into the player that we need him to be at his age whereas you’ve got
That time with Rodrigo moon is ultimately I I don’t think either are good enough but there’s still a chance with Rodrigo yeah it certainly wasn’t a great performance for me either the striker last night Dom was there anyone who really stood up who do you think was our
Man of the match I don’t think we had one personally just everyone equally average I think everyone was just playing sort of six out of 10 or five out of 10 like just what you need to do to get to get through the game but like
No I don’t think I I was watching the game I don’t think anyone in particular really stood out I guess you’d have to give it to Bobby Reed for scoring the goal but for me yeah I even like Ken Seto didn’t look like his normal he didn’t look his energetic normal self
Trying to drive forward know I think everyone was everyone even the players are looking ahead to Wednesday really and not trying to and maybe that was that may maybe that was the game plan Sil don’t exert yourselves really at all and just get the job done and that’s
What it seemed like because it didn’t really feel like we were pushing for the second goal like oh let’s let’s kill the game off type thing like we were getting the ball in in areas and but it was still you know I don’t really remember apart from that header from tossing from
The corner I don’t really remember that go to do too much to be to perfectly Frank for The Possession we had maybe maybe suggest Harrison Reed I thought he was again but I think by the nature of the way that Harrison Reed plays he’s always industrious so he catches the eye
But as Captain on the night he sat in that Midfield obviously we completely ran the game him and lukic paired up quite nicely is it a pairing that I’d like to see in a serious game of football probably not but you know they they did well at the base of that
Midfield and sort of controlled the game but that was because Rotherham didn’t have any interest in having the football at any point in the game castania had quite a good game as well I thought he looked quite bright I thought he looked like he cared even the littlest bit but
Yeah I agree it was a pretty dra Affair yeah let’s not lose out the fact we are in the fourth round draw though that’s my favorite bit about the FA Cup to be honest is the draw like watching that although I have to say I don’t know why
They do this but do you ever find when you’re watching the FA Cup draw the the buildup before they actually draw the ball balls it’s about 15 20 minutes of the most innan chat you have ever heard and I don’t know there’s not a single football fan in the land that isn’t
Watching the Telly being like get on with it just pull the balls out of the bag come on but anyway just I want to throw this out to all of you who is your dream draw come on let’s have it Dan who you going for what do you want anyone
Other than Liverpool or Everton cuz I cannot be I can’t wait to get one of them in the fourth round you imagine God like honestly if we draw one of them we may as well club together in full adiss should just buy a flat in Liverpool and just just resign ourselves to playing
Them every single week no I mean what would that be the sixth time in 12 months right well not even 12 months like nine months yeah it’s it’s ridiculous so I think i’ I’d like a a new ground I think that’s always what you’re looking for in in in
Cup draws you know there’s some quite fun looking ones in there when you scroll through look at like Sutton eastly eastly would be quite fun I’m telling you you don’t want you don’t want to go to sat mate I’m telling you I also would I tell you what I would take
QPR at LOF I was thinking QPR at lofter road yeah they’re obviously struggling the championship we AB we do another Derby I love the QPR awful that would be that would be really nice uh Dom would you like uh probably looking at like which teams could like lower down could
Potentially actually win their ties I wouldn’t mind like a Maidstone or a Chesterfield away I think that’d be good fun you know I think Chester Chesterfield’s ground is actually a decent size so it wouldn’t be an absolute minuscule allocation uh but masstone would always be good I got
Family down in Kent so that that that would always be fun I think the have a non- league team left is it is it eastley um but yeah basic basically I just want a new ground and I’m not really too bothered where it is but obviously um I think all ones in London
Obviously would be because I’ve done a and I’ve done certain um but yeah it’s a new ground you know if if Mo could manag to get a result over at way Swansea today I think that would be an interesting trip Blackpool yes please that’s a long way they put the
Blackpool Tower fire out yet does anyone know the little bit of orange uh orange whatever it was like surely people would realize there’s no there’s no smoke so hilarious only in Black Lizzy Lizzy who who you after I’d love it if we drew Cambridge they have got a tie against
Blackburn um but that would be my dream drawer um at the ABY which is such a fun ground and one of my best friends also lives in Cambridge so that would just be like ideal um but also Oxford would be great because then I could walk to the
Ground um or Gillingham because uh one of my other very close friends is a Gillingham fan and we always every Cup draw we like hope that film get Gillingham so we can go together so we will see basically just not like a grab Premier League team not like I
Don’t know Bournemouth or someone West Ham away that would be that’s generally the worst draw I think we can get C away would be pretty pretty poor no I be more inclined to go to City because to day at Manchester I’m the only the two the two the two grounds in
The Premier League I’m not going to is molu or west Ham’s ground see I was going to say this cuz I wouldn’t I wouldn’t mind bees either cuz I reckon at the moment brenford in such a a rough spot but the problem is if we get brenford in the Hat there’s also the
Potential that turns into wolves instead and that’s considerably worse there’s nothing I’ve still got PTSD from that England nil Hungary 4 game at Molly new so I’m not ever going back there yeah I was thinking uh if I got my notes QPR I’d like to go to plow Lane um Wimbledon
I think that’d be quite uh the ground new ground’s good Cambridge again I put that in there just uh you know nice day out or rexam I think rexam could be quite fun also I just would like to see how that would be covered on that silly little documentary um them just losing
Their minds like we’ve got eepl Fulham this is the big yeah it would just be quite quite enjoyable to see fullam in that kind of be the most coverage that we’d ever get in a game of football like no Fulham game would ever get so much
Coverage yeah so I think that that could the whole circus around that would be would be quite uh fun to behold yeah it’s the shame do you think we’ll ever get like an All or Nothing FFC CU I reckon it would be I reckon it’d be batshit it’d be utter chaos um maybe
That’s why they haven’t decided to uh to go down that route but we’ll ever get one we had a little like YouTube docky series when we got promoted that was done by the club but it was basically run by nin scano um so yeah it was pretty magical watch
Obviously yeah the fulam all on nothing but directed by nkin cabano on his on his directoral debut that would be that’d be quite something right I think that’ll do for part one don’t go anywh cuz we’ve got some of your questions and then we’ll take a look to the big say
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End credit card rewards as we know it if you love your credit card rewards visit handsoffmydinosaur Touched upon the Moon is venicius um their showings last night but F and fan news asked after seeing Moonis and Venus fail misery last night surely a move for me though doesn’t look like a bad option so I’ve seen this rumor bounded about a bit he’s obviously having a horrible
Time in Saudi Arabia um somewhat to be expected Dom do you think there’s any Credence in this rumor and would you welcome it if it came into fruition yeah I think you know just the sber whites can march on is what that’s what we need you know will Willian and
Firmino linking up but I think it’s weird for me though like I feel like it would it would fit into this a system we play okay but it’s more what would happen with whoever plays in the 10 whether it’s AI or Pereira I feel like they might just start occupying similar
Spaces but with a player of his quality there’s no reason why we wouldn’t take him go and going by what Sila said in his press conference ahead of the room game it does seem more like we’re going to be looking at maybe short-term loan options as opposed to going into the
Market and spending sort of 30 million pounds on a player so in in that respect it would make sense but um I think as I said we do need someone in that position if I mean you wouldn’t say no toino you know the quality he’s got you know what
His link up plays like but yeah I think it’s something I could see happening but I just don’t see how it how it work with the wages and ffp and things like that so is it worth play paying you know someone six figures a week for him to be
There six months and he might score four goals but only only way I take it is if we sign him in time to play against Liverpool and he scores the winner yeah I mean like could you imagine if we had a front line containing both Harry Wilson and Bobby
Firmino that’ be the most prominent nashers of a front three I think I have ever seen it just be too much to uh take on D would you would you welcome Bobby forino absolutely I I think he he would fit the sort of the slightly new Fulham
That we’ve turned into this season Post meich in terms of you know a little bit more to feat your Center forward dropping in probably even a bit deeper I think bobb’s perfect um but I just don’t I I really don’t think we can afford his wages like we’ve never had anyone on the
Wages that it would require to get him in so I don’t know how we make that happen um that’s that’s my concern I I just think especially I think this is the problem with the players that have gone to Saudi Arabia is that coming back into Europe is difficult to pick them up
Unless you’re a top top club because it’s such a significant pay drop if he was to come you know obviously if he’s coming permanently even even more so but so I think that’s where it’s going to be difficult to pick up players from Saudi Arabia like for example like jot who’s
Having a a horrid time out there would be a fantastic addition but are we going to be able to offer him enough money that he’s willing to take that much of a pay decrease that’s my concern as well so I It’s Tricky with players coming from Saudi Arabia at the
Moment I think you can tell a lot about the player by the ones who are having a horrible time I know playing in front of crowds of 700 people like what professional footballer with any shred of ambition would want that and I feel like the true mercenaries are coming
Like me seems to be absolutely loving it he doesn’t get he doesn’t care does he’s like my bank account is [Â __Â ] loaded I couldn’t I reckon he could play non league and if he was getting that money he just wouldn’t wouldn’t bat an eyelid he just want to score goals if he’s
Scoring goals he’ll be happy do I think he’d probably score goals for free actually but uh Lizzy we got a question here that I think is Tailor Made For You So Michael B asks is Marco Silva’s greatest achievement as F and boss getting eight goals out of Carlos venicius um I
Wouldn’t say greatest achievement I think that’s possibly a little bit F but I do think that it was a very impressive achievement especially last season when mitovich was in suspended for a bit and then suspended for those 10 games um that or was it eight games in and around
That kind of number that we managed to have a sort of functional front line with Carlos venicius in um yeah that that is a very impressive achievement considering his it seems complete lack of n in front of goal um and yeah Marco Sila is a genius what can I
Say yeah he has also Marco has also shown time and time again that he’s really good at problem solving in terms of you know trying to bring players in who don’t necessarily fit the mold having to make those changes and it doesn’t quite do the maybe as quick as
We would like but we saw it in that spell without Metro and Vinnie came in that towards the end of it Marco had really worked out how to to get him into the team and he’s done the same thing this season with Raul like he’s he’s just by watching and learning he’s he’s
Found out how we need to play and Marco’s been very good at that across his three years here he does he like I it’s a Hallmark of such a a fantastic manager that we’ve got that goes under the radar elsewhere like I was listening
To uh was it five live I think after we beat Arsenal and they were all talking about the fact that no one speaks about how good a manager maros Sila is because everyone clings on to some of his failings previously at Everton and actually doesn’t get enough
Credit for what he’s done with this Fulham side because it is insanely impressive I I would argue the most important moment of the last year is him signing that contract from that moment you can almost pinpoint the the sort of turning point of the Season where things
Started to click a little bit and it was that is the most that is the best thing that the KH have have done and I mean yeah hats off to them for for he’s he’s a real Gem and uh long may this era continue and it’s like it’s
Kind of I don’t want to jinx it obviously but it’s kind of nice I feel like whenever we get a good manager there’s there’s the the dreaded threeyear cycle of fulam bosses that you know you get them for three years they they reach the the bit where it’s all
Starting to get exciting and then they get poached by a a different um bigger Club but you know hopefully Penning his I think I think Moy is looking like signing that new deal at West Ham is a good thing because he’s he he it’s that’s the sort of level he’d be you see
Him moving on to a team who’s sort of pushing for Europe every season so but yeah Sil Silva I mean for me in in my lifetime he’s best after Hodson and if he won The League Cup you’d have to argue maybe he’d even go he’d even go
Above that just winning our first ever major Trophy and if we did well in Europe next season who who knows but yeah I think Silva when we appointed Silva a lot of a lot of people I thought it was a good appointment a lot of people were um sort of saying I don’t
Know it’s good you know we’ve seen what we’ve done in in previous times but you got to remember like he’s the last ever when he was Everton manager in his first full season I finish eighth and look what they’re finally they’re finally starting to look like an actual football
Team again so he finished higher than angelot did both his Seasons yeah so um yeah Marco Silva as as a chant goes he he is a genius and he’s done so well with his FM side but what I’m liking is he’s kind of done so well but keeping us
Slightly under the radar at no one was quite talking about us I thought it was so telling like last season when the manager of the month manager of the Year nominations came out and Silva was on there having taken Pham to 10th and everyone was like where the hell is Gary
O’Neal Who had taken Bournemouth to I think 15th like it was so telling this kind of under the radar way that Marco Silva operates like people didn’t really think he deserved to be there they would have put Gary O’Neal on there like yeah it’s he is a genius and I’m so glad cuz
Everyone had everyone had conveniently forgotten that they’d all predicted us to get relegated last season because we were just so brilliant all season they were like oh yeah full and finish 10th because they’re really good like mon before you said we were [Â __Â ] and finish the entirety of the Season weren’t we
Because we we started fairly well which we never do in a which we’ve never done even when we were like finish in the top half on that Hodson Hughes Yol whatever like even then we’d always start the season terribly whereas we just start the season solidly I think yeah we
Pretty much never really left either the top 10 or top top top end of mid table in the second half of the table so yeah I think that that was a point last season because we were always there people didn’t really say but yeah the job that marus was done is absolutely
Remarkable and yeah for me he’s after Hudson the best manager I’ve seen it full in my lifetime got a question here for you Dan Peter Murphy asks with Bassie off to afcon and REE injured should we be looking for a loan for a center back in January what you
Reckon or do we have enough with the f I think we’re okay I think we’re okay and you you want to be like ultimately do we need like another player in the mold of like Shane Duffy and probably not I think Ream’s on his way back now I can’t
Imagine it’ll be too many more games without him especially because we get that winter break which is one weekend where we don’t play football um I think that that means we should be all right with with tosson and doop together re coming back into the fold I do see the
The the worry though because obviously if if tossin pulls up or it pulls up against Liverpool then def fuger rolls is is next on the list to come in but I think you need to we need to focus our Acquisitions in January on play positions where we’re genuinely lacking
When we’ve got everyone because it is only a month and actually you think more long term towards not just the end of this season but next season as well where the holes are in the squad and obviously that’s you know one of those positions is up top uh there’s probably
An argument to say that we need another Winger I think for Center back at the moment I’d hold fire on that I was going to say if we signed a um Center back they probably wouldn’t be playing until after the Chelsea game so by that point bass’s probably coming
Back quite soon anyway and Reams probably fit again soon anyway so valid point valid point indeed Luca leley asks Dom I’m going to sh this one to you turning our attention now to the Liverpool match match how hard are we praying for an Arsenal Liverpool draw adds an extra fixture into presumably
The week leading up to Bournemouth vs Liverpool so that would be nice wouldn’t it just a just a chaotic three all or something like that where they all are flagging and a few injuries on either side that’s that’s the best case scenario for us isn’t it Dom yeah best
Case scenario is an all action as you say 33 or 4-4 draw between between between the two sides it’s inter I’m interest to see actually what lineups both teams put out because you know I I think it’s a competition that both teams will be will be looking at I know
They’re both going for the title and Liverpool is still in Europa League and League Cup but you know the FA Cup you know I think I think Arta kind of need needs a trophy as well this season um just because of how The Season’s gone especially in the last couple of weeks
Um so hopefully yes in all action tie I don’t think Liverpool really got the squad dep to make wholesale changes considering the injuries they’ve got um especially in defensive areas so hopefully Arsenal Arsenal want to bounce back tear them wear them out but not wear them out enough to actually win the
Game and get a draw to take to a replay which be would basically Scupper their winter break essentially because my my worst nightmare was R we’re going to equalize and we’d be going we’d have to go to R them away during our winter break yeah go up to the the New York
City Stadium which I think is the funniest funniest name stadium in in the country and obviously there’s that f Missy monkeys lyric from the tune fake tales of San Francisco where he goes yeah I’d love to tell you my problem you’re not from New York City off from
ROM which it’s just I I don’t know whether that was planned how that came about but it’s just it’s just amazing have you been to the New York City Stadium D yeah uh I remember the first time I went was our first season down 33 I think Dan Burns scored a late
Equalizer uh there was the son aluco one and I feel like there’s I feel like there’s one more I’m missing I want to don’t know I feel like McCormack or dembele scored really early on um I think those are the yeah those are the three times we’ve been there I think
Yeah I I went to the one we won one nil must have been 20 I want to say yeah that would yeah that son luk playing that bright yellow kit um I want to say yeah there was yeah there was one that yeah MCC scored very early on I can’t we
Either drew that 22 or maybe one two1 I can’t remember but the 3 three is the one I remember because it was like first season down we’ve gone from being the 13 years to go to ro on a Tuesday night yeah it’s a real reality check was it um
But I mean fun era of sporting film I’ve got a lot of good memories for my days around that time um anyway so Sammy previewed the Liverpool game uh quite extensively on the Thursday Club so if you do want to hear Sammy Drew and Peter’s take on that do just uh listen
Back to that episode um I mean I don’t want to jinx it Dan but I’m I’m feeling a lot more positive now looking to this fixture compared to when the draw happen they’ve obviously got no Salah um we’ had more recovery time you know we beat rotheram without breaking a sweat all of
The things that we’ve already mentioned um what how are you feeling like I I think the general consensus is we we go there and just cling on with the intention of still being in the tie when for the for the second leg um obviously saos has picked up an injury in in that
Time which is huge for them he’s obviously an incredibly influential player another thing going in our favor um again do we just we’re just Clinging On surely that’s that that’s the game plan yeah I I think not just no Salah but no watoo Endo which I think is is
Really useful for us as well because Liverpool losing a little bit of his solidity in Midfield gives us a chance to expose that on the Counterattack and actually I mean one of the things that Liverpool are crying out for is a player like Joel pinho and Endo was the closest they’ve
Got to that and still not quite the solution so I think they lose a little bit of solidity there and I I imagine that’s what Marco’s going to look to expose especially in the in the first leg when you’re away from home we will ultimately try and sit in and break on
Them as you say it it it could it could definitely be a lot worse the conditions going into this game could be a whole lot worse than they are we’ve probably got it at the best time we could I do wonder if Bassie and aobi are a bigger
Miss for us then it is a positive that they’re missing Salah and Endo I think that’s probably that is unfortunate for us they are such key players and you look at Liverpool and yes no Salah is massive but then the other players they’ve got around it are also exceptional
Footballers so that’s tricky but I I we couldn’t ask for better conditions and that’s all we can do we’ve got a a squad that has now beaten a top six side last week which is another massive hurdle that we finally got over we got so close and honestly I mean if we could
Replicate our League result there 43 yes absolutely take it you know if we if we get this within a goal coming to the second leg then we will fly at them and and I’ve got a real belief that we could possibly get something uh and I trust in
Marco I think you know we’ve got a good chance we do have a good chance I’m really nervous um I I look at all the positives for us and then I look at all the positives for them which are like their fabulous team and great manager um and I’m really really
Stressed I just I really just hope tomorrow there’s an Absolut insane SE of set of circumstances at the Emirates and they’re exhausted and we managed to keep it tight at anfield to be fair the last two times we’ve gone to anfield we’ve only lost by one goal but we could also go to
Anfield and be done 3-0 and the tie basically be over before it comes back to the cottage so yeah I’m just really stressed and just trying to like light all my candles and say all my prayers and ask for some divine intervention on this one is there is there an argument
That this means more to us than it does to them oh 100% it does like for us a carabal cup semi-final this is the biggest game we’ve had in years for them a carabal cup semi-final happens like pretty regularly doesn’t it yeah and and and that is like that is
Not their goal this season and I’m not saying that it means that you know that you’ve got some Liverpool players shering out of 50-50s because they want to stay fit but they’re they’re not going to be throwing everything at us in the same way that they did in the league
Because the league is their ultimate goal that’s what they’re they’re eyeing up and whilst every opportunity to win a trophy is taken by all teams and and you know klopp will want to win the league cup because they are in the semi-finals you give them a choice it’s the league
Not the League Cup and I think that’s something we we can play on as well potentially if we just this is what we are resting the rest of our season on so we’re just going to lob everything at this and maybe the same won’t be true of
Liverpool I think we can cling on to a bit of Hope there as well yeah what are your plans heading to Liverpool Dom you uh are you going to the match yeah I’ve basically got the exact same plans as Evon like it’s just a day later it’s the
Same train up the same Hotel of the same train back and I’ll probably end up in the same pubs want a name check them rinse and repeat going going going to the same Pub in Liverpool for the game ended up in Einstein or 2: in the morning after and
Then being hung over going into a half day at work the day after I think that’s you what the plan probably is going to be you know work at Everton so so we’ll do it again I mean like I expect with the Liverpool match we’ll see you know
Uh himene back in the frame yeah I think it’ll be you explain to me basically the team that played against Arsenal I imagine yeah exactly anyway biggest match for fulam fans for the club in a long long time it’s incredibly exciting and Incredibly nerve-wracking in equal
Measure but yeah we are be um on back on the podcast with Sammy after the match uh either celebrating or commiserating we’ll wait and see but yeah huge game very excited for that one I think that’s about all we got time for today Lizzy what was your favorite three-word review
What we going for I’m gonna have to give it to our very own cam Ramsey with rotheram didn’t bother him yeah it was good that it no complaints whatsoever you can hear it in cam Ramsey’s voice as well like I can just hear cam saying that which makes it even
Better yeah um yeah so the FA Cup fourth round draw is on Monday at 10 to8 so all keep your eyes open for that yeah in the meantime have a fantastic uh week and yeah coming you wh you Watch oh hello