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Episode *744*

Ipswitch Town Go full on Grinch 2 days before Christmas and serve up a turkey a couple of days early welcome to the Blue Monday [Applause] [Applause] podcast hello and welcome to the Blue Monday podcast following the fortunes of ipswitch town since 2015 I’m Craig fimbo it’s Christmas Eve and with me are my little helpers David Diamond and Joe FS Merry Christmas to you both first and foremost um how are things going in your

Relative households Joe fars is it ramping up is the are the excitement levels reaching uh Crescendo just yet yeah not quite Crescendo yet they are working towards it as we speak I can I can feel the sort of decibel levels Rising outside the room where I’m recording this but sadly I can’t hide

Out in here all day long cuz I am tasked with cooking Christmas dinner tomorrow I’ve already got a gam in the slow cooker ready for the side event and I’ve now got I’ve now got to get out there and S my gravy and my Sprout Grattan out ready for tomorrow oh beautiful cover

Stuff in cheese mate anything is edible isn’t it um yeah simil to yourself I’m cooking the one of the down one of the many downsides of being Mar married to a vegetarian is they don’t know how to cook meat particularly well so yeah rest your turkey for as long as it Cooks

That’s what Gordon Ramsey has been telling people so there’s a my tip for the day um and David how are things your side you got you got a a grand excited grandchild are they yeah yeah we’ll be seeing her I think briefly tomorrow then on boxing day so that’s that’s kind of

Nice if if um yeah if it wasn’t for I think little rosy with Christmas would obviously my boys are much much older one’s not left home now so yeah I can only imagine or I can only yeah just about recall the excitement levels of probably 20 years ago maybe even 25

Years ago now so I know what Joe’s about to um about to face but no all good um yeah finished work nice and early on Friday um having a nice day present wrapped and then Along Came leads yeah well we we’ll briefly go go across go across that um five minutes or

So I think we’ll give that towards the end of the show um but F firstly we’ll we’ll talk about a bit of news I know the guys um in the pr quickly with regards to my my Christmas dinner I have the the extra problem that my

Father-in-law is a leads fan and um they came around to watch the game yesterday and I was getting stressed and after the first goal I just took myself up to my bedroom to watch the game on my own and I come I didn’t come down until they’ve

Left so um I now have to sort of come down they’re around for Christmas dinner so I I will have my tail between my legs as they turn up on um tomorrow sort of lunchtime ready for it but I’ll just ignore that I hid in my room two hours

Yesterday and just carry on the day as normal it it’ll be very reminiscent of the uh the Paul McCartney Pipes of Peace video won’t it there’ll be like this meeting across no man’s land of uh well not the Germans and the English but yeah the the it switch and the leads across

The uh yeah in the mud um yeah so when you Ser him up that extra bloody bit of turkey you can just say I bit of cranberry sauce being left over there I’m interested in the Sprout Grattan I need I think we need to know that recipe

Cuz Sprouts to me are the devil’s work but Sprout gretan sounds fantastic let’s forget about group let’s just go on to Christmas recipe sod the football come on well we’re always looking to expand aren’t we but so you know we can add along with the pot Master group yeah

We’ll had a uh Joe’s Joe’s Christmas Christmas fair I was going to say that right anyway yeah let’s talk about some let’s talk about football for a little bit before we go back to Sprouts um I said the guy spoke about it briefly on the on the pre-match Pod but say I your

Um your Fell’s uh input as yet there were a couple of bits of um news dropping um leading up to the weekend one of which was uh related to International call-ups um and we’ll also talk about the little bit of news that broke before the match I think it was

Yesterday as well um masim moongo announced his International retirement uh which I think was a a surprise to a few people and a pleasant surprise maybe to um Ipswich fans and the ipswitch management um Joe that was good news I think from from our perspective how do

You see that um helping us from from here on in was great news isn’t it because he’s such an important player for us and that Midfield him and Sam Mor have formed a brilliant partnership and we got games coming thick and fast over the next few weeks leading up to it and

To lose a player of that well you just don’t want to lose any of your regular starters for any reason do you and to lose him for potentially six Championship Games is massive that’s over a quarter of what we got left this season isn’t it the six games there and

It’s already bad enough losing cam Burgess but to lose Mass would be severe as well but I can I can see why he’s retired I haven’t had a chance to listen to his town TV interview but I guess they talk about Cycles in International Football don’t they and I’m sure they’re

Working towards the cycle to World Cup 2026 something which Cameron bur will be hoping to be starting for Australia in where there’s I don’t think there’s any way mimo Longo is still going to be playing in three years or sort two and a half years time for the national team at

The AG if he’s he’s only on a one-year deal here I think he’d almost talked about heading back to Australia to retire previously when he left Middlesboro chefer Wednesday so yeah I can see why he maybe is not right for this cycle but it’s obviously great for

Us that he hasn’t gone yeah and then um yesterday day there was a funny little bit of news broke that Axel Twan Zab is being called up to the uh the Democratic Republic of Congo Squad I think just in time for the African nations um cup your knowledge of the Democratic Republic

Congo Squad how’s their defensive depth looking sure got toala available haven’t they so toen I’m sure was isn’t it wellknown thing Dominic Republic Congo is that the most popular answer on pointless apparently anyway um I um uh yeah that was a kind of a weird one but

Then later on I think it was named in like a 45 man squad which is 10 less than the Egyptian original Squad was um so um but that was kind of um sort of almost shut down after the game by um by McKenna wasn’t it saying he doesn’t

Think there quite quite odd wasn’t he so came Al been Nam doesn’t think that will happen I don’t he said they’ve spoken about it this week and as things stand at the moment it doesn’t look like he’ll be going but it wasn’t a total rule out

Of it was it no but no that did come sort of from Left Field somewhat didn’t it well it came from me a Plymouth fan told me it so I then messaged Phil about it for then see finger on the pulse ofing one of my yeah AF African sort of

Whisperers here for the blue manay podcast we’ve got these guys set up on all different cont everywhere a our African correspondent down in Plymouth did you say there you go it’s close to Africa than here isn’t it yeah so so um we again you know Squad depth and

Everything else that goes with it we would hope that doesn’t um that doesn’t transpire yeah cuz it’s interesting how how that potentially has knock on effects to what you do in January isn’t it if you haven’t had any inkling at all that the center half that you’ve been dripping

Into your squad I know and this might this probably won’t happen but you know just as a knock on effect full stop you probably been thinking oh long Longo we’re to missing long as Joe said for a chunk of the time oh we might need to worry about finding a center Center

Midfielder now he that has the need for that has maybe lessened a little bit whereas now you think oh hang on a second we might need to juggle things around and we’re potentially looking at I wonder if he’s even eligible for them as yet because he’s played for England

Under 21s in competitive games which means he would have had to file a switch to be eligible so sometimes they’ll call players up that aren’t eligible and try and sort of force through the paperwork quickly and stuff it wouldn’t it wouldn’t surprise me if he isn’t even

Eligible and it doesn’t go anywhere and that’s just uh these lists are so long if you think for the England World Cup squad they put a 55 man list together you look at if you think what extra players are going to be on that I think

Someone like Adam Webster was on it for the World Cup for example where he’s miles away from the team but you have to have named 55 initially it’s it’s a huge number of players isn’t it and again further Complicated by well potentially um elen baget off with Indonesia first

Of Jan I think yeah yeah so yeah we would hope there’s nothing in that um and also another bit of news the guy spoke about was broken was that potential of uh current Birmingham Looney J Stanfield um being on on our radar as the as the saying goes um it’s

Sort of been bubbling under a little bit the name hasn’t it uh guys um and obviously the the performance that he putting against us was a half decent performance a good goal good little poachers goal in in the Box he just always looks like a a lively um Pest of

A of a player not wishing to um denigrate the work that he does but he looks like a bit of a Jamie vardy Pest of a of a center forward who can probably play all four um of our four positions um completely different um stature of um physicality to George

Hurst for example but um potentially adds a different dimension and takes a little bit of the workload um off of George H I said we don’t know for sure whether this is anything going in it but it’s a name that was mentioned twtd and and the East angling have reported the

Reports if you like um but Dave that’s um again a gap that needs to be filled and potentially following yesterday’s match one of of two gaps that needs to be filled I think so yeah busy I describe him busy around the Box isn’t he scored yesterday Watch the watch the

Highlights he got no end of grief yesterday as you would think from Plymouth with his um obviously quite strong ex links with his time there on loan and also um his um his father’s his father being there he also had his shirt on underneath when he scored which said

Once a red always a red on it so yeah which you show to their fans kind of kind of incitement but um yeah say scored again yes I think you had assist as well so yeah I quite like him and I know I think it was you Craig was I

Think you were championing him some weeks ago or some months ago and apparently as this as this as broken I think I saw on twtd that um we made inquiry for him back in 22 perhaps I think or certainly certainly earlier on in the piece so um yeah looks uh you

Know looks a good player has proved he can sort of score goals at that level so watch watch this space I think and I suppose Joe from our perspective it’s a sort of deal that we can do in January isn’t it you see what I mean from it’s a

Loan it’s similar to what we did last last season with um well both Broadhead and Hurst to a certain ex extent I Clark and yeah we signed them permanently but they were recalled from an existing loan to to come to us um yeah say is that

Sort of it’s probably the sort of top level of player that we could probably be looking at in January do you think yeah and also you’re going to want players who have at least been around a first team squad for the first half of the Season AR news that are maybe not

Fully match fit but are close to being match fit where he obviously is fully match fit playing week in week out for Birmingham but yeah you looking at sort of other players from the bottom end of this league loans that can be repurposed or turned into permanence or top League

One players so it’s difficult to be difficult to find the right ones isn’t it yeah yeah cool right right okay what’s that 12 minutes well done guys we’ve successfully managed to uh talk about sprouts and uh the Democratic Republic of Congo for for long enough

We’re going to have to move on to uh to Saturday’s game which took us to Ellen Road um the home of Le United who were yet to lose at home um they hadn’t won their last couple of games certainly the the home game against centry who are potentially slightly fortunate to uh get

Away with the point the last time out which may have offered us some hope um along with our own away form which wasn’t too shabby certainly in terms of points and goals conceded you know we’re pretty um watertight at home uh sorry away um so going into the game this was

Our lineup uh the normal normal lineup I suppose the only um potential would have been as ever the right back and then again that swapping of the center halfes Joe how does that look to you as any any surprises or were you happy with us going relatively strong for this with

The games coming up um I was surprised to see two anaban instead of wolfon I expected it to be an unchanged team but in this period when we’ve got these four games in nine days I think there will be some more selections which probably catch the fans out a little bit more

Than than they have done in recent weeks because we don’t know what their workload to like how how these guys getting on how fit they are and there will be changes made which people won’t see coming over the next few games yeah anything there for you Dave and

Obviously moving on to without knowing the result you know what sort of positions would you expect to be rotated in any case for the for the next game yeah I think I’d think wolfenden will be back in for Twan z um maybe yeah maybe potentially Williams Williams in for

Clark I would have thought um uh yeah Taylor I would have perhaps thought in for Leo next game so yeah that’s what I that’s what I would see maybe maybe another rotation with Broadhead potentially but I’d certainly see those three I think yeah and leads themselves

Were as strong as they can be I think as well certainly from the the front four perspective um orbe it they had a some artillery on the on the bench as well um the they had some makeshift fallbacks which again the guys in pre-match were

Hopeful that we may be able to take some advantage of um Jed Spence playing out normally out position on the left um Arch gray normally out position right as as right back um as it transpired we didn’t really get too close to have a chance to get too close to those guys

But Dave that’s a that’s a a pretty strong line up for a team sitting third in the championship isn’t it potent I think you describe it and I think word about the fullbacks I mean how well they played yesterday he wouldn’t have thought who would have thought you know

After watching yesterday’s game that both gray and spent weren’t full-time full-time fullbacks to be fair they were very good that Great’s a player in he flipping he’s not even 18 yet good grief he could you think he could go the whole way but yeah the strong aadu again in Midfield and Kamar

And that front four is yeah yeah too too good isn’t it really is yeah um so yeah the game started pretty breathlessly um to be honest the first five or six minutes it was um two teams pressing very high and not giving either uh either set of players much

Time on the ball I think it was maybe the first five or six minutes until such time as Twan Z actually got his foot on the ball I know Joe was talking about um potentially playing wolfon in that relatively calm imp possession role and

I say it did it for the first five six minutes nobody certainly in our team was getting much of a um a foot on the ball um until chaplain got fed it on the halfway line Dave nice little ball into him on his um yeah on his inep on the

Halfway line I mean his trademark isn’t it that was a good ball so that actually Twan Zab did he he chaplain showed well for that and it was a good ball from Twan Zab driven in just how chaplain likes and this is trademark outside of the foot spin round the player isn’t he

And he did done him clear I think it was ironically I think it was strike that actually makes the challenge and goes clearly it’s clearly it’s a foul um look ref ref doesn’t give it and yeah um the move breaks up it’s fed to I think it’s

Fed wide to Somerville and Clark c as well but it’s a corner and yeah I mean yeah irrespective of the chaplain foul this is poor isn’t it it’s really poor I mean it’s a good Corner well driven in but KY piro’s pretty much got free header from six yards and someone said

On the telegram group this morning almost the Gordon Banks like sa from um save from glad key but unfortunately unlike Banks he doesn’t sort of flick it over the bar and it yeah again it goes straight to strike ironically go straight to strike who’s what a yard out

And just sort of nods it in so it’s a poor poor goal to concede really the last thing we wanted you know 36 37,000 leads crowd we know it’s going to be intimidating what you do we know spoke about it right first 15 and we’ve got

This habit of conceding in the first 15 keep it tight quiet in the crowd then you start to play and make your way into the game and you’re on the back foot straight away aren’t you it’s especially conceding a bad goal like that but ironically it should never probably

Should never have been because it’s a foul on the halfway line yeah I don’t think it was too too far after Sky had actually showed the the graphic of us being the most Prof proplate maybe charitable team in the first 50 minutes of games in terms of goals conceded and

Lo and behold it happens and Joe I think Kier McKenna doesn’t give away too much in his in his postmatch um interviews but you could see there was quite a lot of annoyance um in him from not only conceding from a as early but conceding as he referenced the West Brom game as

Well conceding from the opposition’s first corner of the match as well yeah and it was it’s just that is the game plan out the window there isn’t it because the game plan is obviously to try and quieten the cow crowd down and turn the crowd from a sort of 12 man to

A millstone around the neck of the players and we sort of turn them into a 12th man and a 13th man be in the first 10 15 minutes of the game and yeah frustrated and I think I know you’ve got to defend the corner better but when you don’t get

That free kick in a halfway line it’s such a big moment because that means that the game takes a pause to breathe doesn’t it and then you move up there and then you’ve in a position to try and gain some territory up the pitch and when you don’t get that and in these

Games when you’re playing away against sides of the quality of lead you need all the little the little things to go in your way don’t you if you’re going to have a chance in these games and when things like that start going against you then it’s frustrating but you you’ve got

To defend the corner better I think it looks like from one angle sort of I think it’s R maybe just sort of pushes Burns shoves him just as he’s about to try and sort of get the header above Peru as well but it’s all total wrong

Side for the ref there’s no way you can expect him to see it but yeah he sort of gets caught under the ball because he sort of gets shoved in the in the side but yeah you’re never ever going to get given that yeah and we we’re clever at

That ourselves aren’t we in terms of our attacking Corners now we’re we’re pretty pretty good at the uh blocking off the ball and making sure that people the not the not the not obvious run is being blocked um somewhere along the line sort of thing so yeah a poor a poor

Goal and as a guy say there it’s uh all of a sudden that a crowd which is already up for it is uh is even more even more whipped up but saying that things did calm down a little bit now whether that’s because we were getting

More of a foothold in the game or whether that’s because leads had sort of completed their initial task of the match and and got the early goal and could then take a little bit of a Brea and take the foot the ball who knows um but yeah so for the rest of the

Remaining quarter of of the match I say things calm down and things were starting to play out a little bit Chaplan then got sided in half um just outside their area didn’t he by ampadu I think it was um the referee played Advantage but there was no no yellow

Card um resulting from that that could have gone one way or the other in terms of having a free kick pulled back um but then just a couple of minutes later um Joe Somerville has the run on Clark but from from our position yes it’s we’re s pushing I

Quite up on the high on the left hand side don’t me between Broadhead and Davis they sort of getting a bit of a muddle over it and the ball is nicked away from Broadhead and then Davis tries to get there but he just gets they kept

Looking back to see if it was a foul but it didn’t look in any way a foul to me on Davis at all and I don’t think any it players appeared for either so it seemed a strange one that the commentators and the Sky cover seemed to focus on it just

They it was just a good bit of play I think it was gray wasn’t it just Nicks the ball away from him plays it and then from that point we are in big trouble and you get there and somerville’s there and M’s over there to give a bit of help

But very unlike Sam Mory he just sort of almost lets him walk past him doesn’t he maybe he’s the wrong side he’s worried about getting that 10th yellow or whatever it is but he doesn’t really put any pressure on Somerville and then it’s just Somerville flying at Clark and I

Don’t think there’s a defender in the league that can stop him in in that position because he’s just so quick and so tricky and so powerful and he puts the cross across and again it’s one that whilst all that happened we should defend it better it’s not a particularly

Great ball in there bur just sort of dangles a lazy leg at it and then it hits Davis but even Davis I think I know it just hits him and goes in but I think he’s got to be a little bit more alert to that doesn’t he it’s not like it’s

It’s not hitting from a yard away has it it just seemed like yeah theyve they’re going to tear you apart at times because of the player that Somerville is and and the the way they move the ball to him but when it gets s it’s not like his

Veins running ice cold he was putting a perfect balling we we had chances to defend that at that point which we then failed to do so I think there’s a few disappointments in that goal yeah and I said it’s not as if as you’re saying

About when the ball gets into the six y box it’s not as if Leeds had a lot of players putting us under pressure in that sixy box with they they themselves are probably eight to 10 yards away and it’s we we’d actually set ourselves up quite nicely to defend that cross hadn’t

We the fact that Burgess as you say sort of dangles a leg and half a misses it and then Davis probably has time to wreck but probably wasn’t expecting burges to miss it and yeah unfortunately it drops in and then poor old Davis who’s returning back to his his former

Club as uh has not the the ideal start Dave um again I don’t think you can underestimate routz part in that goal because as the ball as they smuggle the ball out I think it goes to James and James just sort of knocks one into the

Halfway and rout is so good he holds off tanabi and knocks it off early first time and I think it might be jampa maybe Kamar then knocks it first time as Somerville and then he’s gone he’s if he’s got a run on Clark or whatever he’s gone and um yeah it’s not great

Defending but what he does do he puts a ball across a six-yard box with pace and it comes in you know it’s not an Airy fairy just a roll ball across the Box absolutely drives it in and yeah Davis is they picked up and he’s just facing

The facing the wrong way isn’t he yeah yeah but then um a couple of minutes after that or maybe a minute so after that you want to tell through chaplain effort dve and through to through to halftime yeah this is superb isn’t it I mean this is CH this is the Davis

Chaplain combination which we’ve seen so often this season and yeah we work the ball well Davis gets the ball wide left and again you know a measured balling just outside the box and it’s great technique on his wrong foot as well from chaplain doesn’t he he hasn’t got a lot

Of time there controls it absolutely smashes a right foot half volley and yeah just you can just see it on the you know behind it on Sky just swerves away slightly and you know inside the Mel’s not saving that he’s not even moving is he but just strikes the outside of the

Post and you think then yeah maybe maybe it’s not maybe it’s not going to be our day and then what again this is disappointing the goal just on half time it’s it’s our throw it’s a good throw again with deep Davis you know a good really good long throw and burges

Burgess up Center half um wins the first ball really well flicks in a really good area behind him in a six-yard box no one’s there no one’s anticipating and it’s just hacked clear and again this is rout who’s just it’s a bouncing ball and I think we spoke about this before um

This is where perhaps morsy with perhaps one mind on his on his sort of yellow card situation um allows rout to to get the better of him so any other game and and he’s not a nine yellow card I think he takes him out there he just you know

Just takes one for the team there but he breaks and again as soon as it breaks the sum of still his his pace is just ridiculous isn’t it and poor old Davis poor old Davis to be fair he’s done well to get across and cover but

It’s a clumsy Challenge and it’s no yeah it’s a penalty yeah he doesn’t he doesn’t get the ball and he just sort of he sort of slides and almost bundles into him falls into him doesn’t he and um yeah it’s a clear penalty look at two-nil okay you’re holding on you don’t

Yeah two- nil you’ve got a chance you know get an early goal back in the second half you’re in the game but 3-0 and it’s a it’s Clinic you know I don’t think leg can be further away from a penalty it’s it’s a really good penalty

Isn’t it he goes left and his um he had legy goes left and he dispatches it in the top um top right corner yes classy yeah didn’t roll it didn’t roll it in did he he didn’t know other way around whatever but yeah three 3-0 Dan it’s

Just a killer and yeah game’s gone game’s gone absolutely well and the thing is as well what was what was evident from that first half certainly to my eyes was just the press the leads press they were just honest whener they they were all over so that that one

Chaplain um chance was the only real well it was one of the only real chances decent enough effort didn’t we work the sort of little situation chap was fouled wasn’t it yeah yeah that was it yeah where allowed the advantage so that wasn’t you know that far wide but that was it and

Unfortunately that was it yeah but I think that I think that those two shots were our two shots um for the for the match yeah absolutely but it was just the what was evident was the physicality wasn’t it of the Le’s te and they were they were big they were strong they were

Quick when they all over the pitch and they were anticipating um passes and then when when we did have the ball they were just they were on us all over us and obviously being 2-0 up and then 3-0 up it the atmosphere just um gives them even more energy and adrenaline

To it was similar to the West Brom game wasn’t it where you you let in that early goal and then you you game has to be perfect from that point on because they are just monsters off the ball at you and maybe this is the difference

Between like you got remember a lot of these players League one players last season and they’re doing fantastic this year but when you’re in those real real tight spaces you noted it yesterday during the game Craig Broadhead may be the only attacker with that real real high technical ability when you’ve got

Two players right on you all the time when the pressure isn’t just big pressure it’s massive pressure that you’ve got to be able to keep the ball and move it on to the guys when you’re actually around like George Hurst wasn’t able to have the ball stick in in that

Thing West Burns when he was had a bit of space he was okay but as soon as it got to an ingested area struggled Conor chaplain sort of drifted in and out of the game and Mas moongo in the Midfield you didn’t really notice him there so

Morsy was on his own in there and it we just to to win a game like that against a team like that with their tails up everyone’s got to be on their game and you can’t carry any I want to say passengers cuz to their patches but you

Can’t carry any players at playing five five or six out of 10 they’ve all got to be seven eight out of 10 and there weren’t any seven or eights out of 10 yes they were there their Midfield their Midfield two were massive weren’t they just that U’s a player any he I never

Really but it is just the the little things as well like without sort of isn’t an excuse but if if aadu gets booked for that foul on chaplain which he should do start of the game it affects his game in the same way that Mor’s having to not play his full

Capacity he doesn’t want a two game suspension and it’s these it’s these little things and and for us to win there you need all those little things or at least the if there’s 10 little things you need eight of them to go your way we probably had two of them go our

Way yesterday and like I say it’s it’s not the difference between winning or losing it’s the difference between us being in the game or not being in the game and give giving us s a chance which we may still have lost anyway had to be fair you know some of the some maybe

Some home games some of the away games those little decisions have perhaps gone away you know certainly cly had more than enough yeah yeah it works itself out I guess yeah you say about the ball not sticking to Hurst it didn’t particularly yesterday but then in the

First minute of the second half it did stick to him but he gave the ball away and that leads to leads to leads hitting our crossbar you know within the first minute of the second half and again just when you sort of you know as you said

Dave the game is pretty much done and dusted but you think right at least we can start the second half with a bit of momentum we didn’t even get the chance to do that because again they’ve hit the crossbar within the first the first minute and then five or six minutes

After that horrible this is a horrible goal this one I mean burges who burges you know as we’ve seen you know where I sit at P Monroe you know the times I see burges play that ball to Davis and all all this season it’s just been you know

We’ve always com we’ve commented this season how burges technique has improved and then nicely driven balls straight to his feet you know absolutely but yeah whether it’s a bad ball it is a bad ball and whether Davis who wasn’t having the greatest game as perhaps on his heels a

Bit but you could look maybe say it’s great anticipation by Archie gray who’s so I think’s just gonna I say going to be a superstar any he but you know wins the ball and and from them then then they’re off I think it’s an interchange with James and I think rout gets

Involved and then I think it kind of respond I think they get to the ball and Edge of the box they’ve got overload with sumerville I think and um they get a bit lucky here because I think rout tries to play the ball across actually the Somerville and Clark just sort of

Like it hit Clark on the heel I think he’s he’s going past him he s of sticks out his leg hits him on the heel and you know just sits perfectly for Pirro good finish one touch two touch and just blast again lacking no chance with that

From about 18 yards and you think at that stage 51 what 52 minutes gone um boys let’s not go for six or seven here because that was such was their dominance but yeah I think um yeah at I think at four already at 4-0 there was talk from certainly the telegram grou

Get Moy off get him off get him off so um yeah and for once um not for once um yeah um that that happened quite quite reasonably early on what 70th minute I think yeah that’s right I think he he’d had a couple of little challenges and

Nibbles and you know a little thigh into someone to knock him over and you think just yeah I think yeah he was he was very much trading that tight R wasn’t he in on 67 minutes it was there were four Subs made Jackson for Hurst hard for Broadhead

Hutchinson for Burns and probably most importantly ball for Mory and that is very much Joe a case of that’s a a tacit implication that the the game is now up we are repping these boys in Cotton we ready for boxing day yeah and I think Mory did one more foul didn’t he a

Couple of minutes before he went off and at this point everyone was already screaming like you just got to get him off and move on to Leicester and I think had he been booked in that period I think it would have been a real poor piece of squad management for the for

The um winter period because the game was over there was no need for it the ref was sort of blowing up every time he went near someone almost it seemed at one point like they weren’t exactly a couple of them didn’t even look like fouls he sort of pulled out of them and

He went down and it’s like he’s going to get booked here and it’s and it’s totally totally avoidable so just make sure you get him off and McKenna did get him off and we sort of we go again for Tuesday night at Leicester versus Leicester I mean yeah that was the only

Positive thing that come out of yesterday really wasn’t it yeah that was pretty much it for the rest of the match they did again they hit the crossbar um R hit the crossbar it deflected off Longo and slammed against a crossbar uh around about the 70th

Minute but yeah that is all she wrote I think we barely got the ball in and round their box second half did we I don’t think we did barely no no I said what what the as the guys again highlighted pre-match um I think they had 49 goal contributions from their

Front four before the game where you can add another add another three or four to that um to that total after after Saturday um so we I will excuse me I’ll get up Rich’s favorite chart which is the momentum chart which very often um apologies for those watching sorry

Listening on the Pod very often it tells a story a lot of blue yeah but there’s there’s not an aw certainly that second half look you talk about starting the second half well and um maybe cloring a gold back that um second half’s a tree

As is the first what qu of an hour 20 minutes it it really does show the um yeah the momentum of the I I think the um when you look at the first half and as a whole 3-0 didn’t really sum up what the first half looked like did it they

Basically took every chance they had and were sort of just better than us in the key moments and that is a problem in against quality and if you’re not quite on it you can be three-nil down but ultimately it wasn’t a fre n game until that point and obviously the game State

Then changes how the game went from there that like you play that game another 10 times you’re not going to lose that 4-0 again probably are you you’re not going to have you’re not going to have those issues and not everyone’s having an off day at the same

Time and people getting dragged about it’s just I don’t know it’s just one of those one of those days good a good day to get a few mistakes out of the system in yeah end of the game as you pointed out earlier dve before we before we

Started end of the game with not only zero shots on target but zero Corners as well and a an xg12 I think I didn’t see it what was our xg12 fingers in here okay yeah as Joe says maybe hopefully a a day to have got everything out of our system and you

Know refresh and take take your take your slap and and um recover I know the fans don’t always have the same approach but I think the players and the squad have very much got the same approach of we’ve lost the game we draw a line under

It we start preparing for the next one and we move on to it doesn’t really matter if it’s one n or 4-0 once if you’ve lost you’ve lost it’s zero points we’ve got zero points they’ve got three points that was the worst that could happen that has happened we now move on

To the next game and as last two times we’ve lost this season with then one4 on the bounce straight after so the club have been very good at compartmentalizing a defeat especially that West braon W because there was a big reaction to that West Brom defeat

Which was of a similar vein to this where we were just outclassed over the over the game didn’t L A Love on them they were they were easily able to shut that shut that off and move on and yeah we got a much harder game to move on to

Next but it’s one of those games coming up Leicester where you think it’s either we and we won’t know this until sort of 10 p.m. Tuesday night they’re either the perfect team to play because it’s they might treat us a free hit and we get a

Good chance to get back on and then if we win that game you’re doing well or it’s the worst team to play because they equality s to come down and beat us and we lose till on the bound but I don’t know it it might turn out to be a a

Really good game to be going into that one you sometimes the pressure if we were playing QPR next having lost there there’s so much pressure to then beat QPR isn’t there that it’s like BL we got to go and beat these now after losing that last game but I think it’ll work

Out okay yeah and as McKenna said afterwards you know as you as you guys said it’s just one of those days you you learn from it you learn from the the goals you concede um you basically have to suck it up the second he basically

Said that didn’t he we just got had to suck it up in the second half we were going to lose you go out there you suffer and it’s all it’s all now about the uh the reaction whether that reaction comes a boxing days you say j or whether that reaction comes in the

The subsequent six months of the the season we’ll we’ll find out won’t we um and and as a few guys were pointing out in the in the telegram groups um last night you don’t get many successful Seasons without being punched in the face a couple of times um throughout the

Course of it um and potentially that is arguably Lester away in the next month or so is is a hardest game of the season done and dusted you’ve now played leads twice as Rich has pointed out a couple of times um you know you you remember

Where we are and uh you get on with the rest of the season yeah what we do I’ll just quickly get up the results from yesterday um I don’t and Friday I don’t think there there’s too much to go through there not many surprises I don’t I think certainly

From a a late Plymouth goal um situation um Watford I think Drew back a couple of late goals but I say yeah there’s there’s not too much there I think shefer Wednesday were looking on target to creepy ever closer to getting out that bottom three

But ciff again had a couple of late ones themselves sunderland’s probably the interesting one guys isn’t it in terms of what’s happened there in the last week and then the the subsequent um lost yesterday the commentary I don’t think the the natives are particularly happy up in the Northeast at the

Moment no no that’s a that’s a bad a bad start for Mick Beal who’s gone in there there was talk of him not being a man a lot of Sunderland fans wanted obviously Tony mry was happy there but then there was talk of sort of will steel and

Managers that have done well on the continent coming in then all of a sudden you’ve got a guy who’s had less than half a good season at QPR done okay at Rangers but he sacked from there after not being able to compete with Celtic but that was against

And pol Celtic who were sort of one for the ages at the moment but you come in you come in there and you’re hoping to get a good start at home just before Christmas and you get turned over 3-0 in your first home game and I think it’s

Going to be a a long battle to win some of those fans around and you reference QPR there they were at home yesterday to Southampton and you probably want to keep half an eye uh on our friends at Southampton because they it does seem interesting how little has been spoke

About Southampton does doesn’t it when they’re like 16 it does just seem leads leads I think maybe because leads have such a dominant voice on social media mainstream media because they are just the biggest fan base by a massive distance in this league that it’s just

All you hear about is them but I say Southampton considering they lost what did they lose three on the bounce or four on the bounce I can’t remember they lost at least three on the bounce didn’t they and now they’re have only lost four all season and they’re seven points off

Us and 50 being unbeaten they’re they’re definitely on their way aren’t they yeah I think it’s fair to say we played them at a good up um down there we played them at a good the right time didn’t we yeah absolutely but you know again looking at that League table there we

Are still seven points clear of both leads and Southampton and courtesy of our good friend Chris Rand he’d put together again apologies for those listening on on podcast but um what Chris has put together is a a historic view of the last 10 years um from 2014 2015 season of the

Championship the points that various teams have acred over the first half of that season um and there is only to my eyes one team that’s got more go more points than us at this point of the Season that was wolves in 2017 who went then went on to get promoted but um

Leicester being very much an outlier at this point the season but goes a show there doesn’t it to to both of you the point that this is and as Kiera McKenna was Keen to understandably Keen to point out after the match yesterday is we are still in a ridiculously good position um

Historically and also from from where we were this point last season to be in the position we are I think everyone just needs to just yeah take take result take on the chin and just look at the slightly bigger picture for the time being don’t we yeah well if you look we

Play 23 games 52 points if we win win 14 of our next 23 so sort of basically two out of every three games we’ll get that just that alone without taking it draws into kind takes us to 94 points so we are in an incredible position and it is

Just the case of just if you if you win all the games you should win in the second half of the season so you’re sort of home games against bottom half teams away games against the lower reach teams you’re probably six or seven points short of where you need to be and you’ve

Just got and if you can pick those up against top half teams away from home top half teams at home you you’re going to get over the line so you just have to look at it sort of one game at a time you see who’s coming up you try and get

The win you try and keep the Gap ultimately it’s not US versus leads or US versus Southampton in a playoff final tomorrow it is they need to accumulate seven points more than us over half a season that’s that’s a lot of points for them to get as long as we don’t just

Totally collapse which I I don’t see us doing with the with the squad we’ve got with the manager we’ve got and the sort of the players who have done this before we’re now in that stage of the Season where we probably are going to be managing Fitness for a few weeks to get

Us through to the other side of it and then hopefully can end the season obviously probably not with as many points as last year but on that sort of run where we just become Relentless through the second half of the season that’s what we’ll be working towards

Now yeah big as we said at the start excuse me big transfer window incoming very very big just to give that you know the squatter a little a little pep a little refresh I think um I mean leicester’s just unprecedent I mean we’d forget about Leicester I know but it’s

Just unpr I think I saw somewhere it’s the best start any second tier Club has had in 74 year Seasons or something like that it’s absolutely mad isn’t it but you think like um reading have got the second TI points record or the championship points record since the

Premier League with 106 points Lester currently on track for 116 10 more points than that and no one’s ever even got close to that 106 I don’t think anyone’s won like 10 no I don’t think so so you’re talking they’re like 20 points ahead of probably the second best team

In sort of ever which is incredible but yeah it’s it’s nuts but yeah I think we we don’t need to worry well worry about them worry about them on Tuesday but then forget about them we just need to worry we just need to worry about us

Don’t we yeah just need to worry about us and getting enough points from our gam yeah indeed yeah yeah and so thanks again Chris for for that graphic hopefully it’s a bit of a positive note for everyone um who managed to get a look at it and on that upward note a

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Like the ipwi town um Squad we’ve got some rotation coming up but we’re all over it in the next uh week or so um so following on from the Leicester match uh we have a Leicester reaction show on Wednesday I know everyone loses complete track of what days which Etc so Wednesday the

27th is our Leicester reaction and QPR preview show 8:00 Wednesday night Friday which is the night of the QPR game yeah I think uh we have a live reaction postmatch on Friday after the QPR match and then following New Year’s Day there is a reaction to

The Stoke game on Tuesday the 2nd so I won’t be I won’t be testing everyone but Wednesday the 27th 8:00 P.M Friday the 29th postmatch Tuesday the 2nd 8:00 p.m. so we’ve got we’re hopefully fully covered in in terms of reaction and pre-match and reaction and reaction so

That’s what we’ve got coming up in the next the next week or so um and obviously on top of that we’ve got all the interviews Etc that the guys have have done between them they’re all on the on the YouTube and can be picked up on on the YouTube they’re all on YouTube

And be picked up on the various podcast streams um and also we have a at least one winner to uh announce we had our metala designs Wes Burns print uh Was Won by gentleman Joe per purbrook sorry um has won that and also we have a winner for the shirt giveaway um which

Was our promo for last week or so rich has advised me that he’s just waiting to hear back from the winner of that but that will be announced the winner of that will be announced um as a win but yeah thank you very much for everyone that entered and assisted um Us in

Getting our subscriptions Etc done and as ever please like And subscribe and all that funky stuff leave the reviews etc etc um going on to questions we had a mountain of questions coming in I don’t know whether people had been on the eggnog and getting a little getting

Uh you know a bit Larry with the with the reactions toh to the match yesterday but you know it was old school Blue Monday um you know mailbag question time and I’ve I’ve managed to hopefully um compile them into some sort of logical um categorization should we we say um

There were some relating to the match there were some relating to transfer Windows there were some relating to what happens between now and the end of the season really so guys I will throw these out there um please forgive me if I don’t manage to do it in turn because

I’ll I’ll lose track of where I’m at but in terms of yesterday’s match I know we’ve gone through it quite a lot actually but um just very very briefly Jacob asked were there any changes in hindsight you’d have made Joe I know you’d reference wolfenden but could we

Maybe have done with an extra body in the middle of Midfield would maybe and tailor legs in there I think it’s very difficult because we we set ourselves up to play the way we do and I don’t think we’re going to be able to flick a switch to

Sort of be like actually leads a tough game we need to set more negatively because everything we do is geared around how we play so I I I don’t think that extra body in the Midfield is something that would even be considered let alone done because we then lose

Something in the attacking rate everything everything will fall down if one thing is moved out of place there but obviously you look at the the performance you’re saying Luongo wasn’t in the game and it’s like maybe Jack Taylor would have been better in there because a little bit more legs coming

Backwards but I I didn’t see the team and other than sort of wol in for ax which is understandable I didn’t see that thing oh I wouldn’t have done this we should have done this or that instead I think it was just this is how we were

Going to go out and we hope we get that extra bit of luck we hope we quiet in the crowd or we get the early goal and then it’s a totally different game isn’t it yeah well what question that um we had from both Matt and Nick Dave was

About the tactics yesterday was it a tactical error by McKenna Matt asked was it the right or was it the right tactics not followed by the players and then similarly Nick asks are our players capable of playing that brand of football against a premier league standard team in effect well we we spoke

At the start I think not many teams will go to leads and get try to go head-to-head like we did pretty much pretty much let’s face it pretty much same formation 42 31 um not many teams will go there and go there and try and pull that off and um because they’ve got

Better play you know no no no question they’ve got Premier you know you up against the Premier League certainly front forward Midfield you know right the way through the team they’ve got better players than we have so yeah but as Joe quite rightly said that would have so knocked us off our

Our sort of um our you know our usual our usual game plan that I’m not sure we’re we’re s of capable of going any other way really yeah I I get it that perhaps some legs from additional legs from Taylor in Midfield giving you a little bit more mobility in there but

Yeah they were just totally nullified the way the way we play so very much as we’ve said like right the way the thread right the way through this podcast you know almost yesterday was a was a free hit you’ve only lost you’ve lost three points um yeah there was fears certainly

From me that we could have gone to six or seven or whatever at one stage but you know really really move on from there I think and I think as well McKenna pointed out in his post interview we played this way at Southampton we played this way at

Middlesboro we played this way at middlesbor and Watford in the last week or two and Come Away with nine points from those three games I think leads were are A Step Above aren’t they in terms of the personnel as you point out there da and and it’s the narrative as

Well The Narrative of the game you know supposedly you know been chased they see us they got you know chasing us down I was on a lead’s podcast in in the week um LS1 I think it was and um yesterday was their season pretty much you know

They’re building up that’s the vibe I was getting absolutely their season oh if we don’t if we don’t beat you I think that’s what I’ll be you know still Tempo that’s our season done almost so um yeah the game was so hyped up the narrative

Was so so hyped up for that game that yeah it was always going to be a tough AR now what no matter what system we played yesterday yeah I think Neil Neil ARS I think you alluded to it earlier Joe was was yesterday the perfect time

If not the opposition to throw in a a poor performance and result and I say it’s just how we how we react to it isn’t it really um James asks Joe just to go on with that what’s the biggest lesson or take away from the defeat

Um I guess you you just got to execute our plans better don’t you I think that’s the lesson but I think we we know that anyway you can’t give the ball away there and be caught in transition against these teams because that’s they’re so quickened but we are an All

Or Nothing team we play a high press a a high line and that’s just how we’re going to be but maybe it’s a it’s indicative that maybe there is an if we could add a little bit more quality to the squad which I’m sure we’ll be desperately trying to do in the January

Transfer window that’ll help to push us forward a little bit Yeah Yeah and finally just to draw a line at cheeky Jim in our telegram group he asks our leads of bang average Premier League side doing mediocre in the championship or a good championship team that haven’t

Got as many points as us right that will do for um leads I think we’ve uh done that to death so moving on as you sort of spoke about there Joe in terms of um January transfer windows and as you said earlier Dave it’s it’s looking even even

More important now as as you look over your shoulder and see Southampton leads creeping a little bit closer um and as we spoke about earlier about um Stanfield and as we found out postmatch um that danne Scara is being recalled rather than sent back to Spurs it’s um

It’s been reported that he’s been recalled by Spurs due to the fact that they’re going to be losing a few plays in January themselves with the various competitions that are going on around the world mlet asked us do we expect Stanfield to be an easy deal to do and

With scarlot going back do we expect Freddy to move now or in the summer which one of you guys wants to cover that yeah I I personally think Freddy will move now he’s just getting so few minutes at the moment isn’t he and it just seems almost pointless in being

Here when he still player with sort of residual value that a league one team will be desperate to sign to get in to help them with their promotion push he’s not he’s not going to play a part for us this season we’ we’ve seen that over the

Last five months he’s not deemed up to the what is required it seems by Kiera McKenna and the management team so you try and move him on D Scarlet one it’s frustrating because the whole loan seems to been so badly managed by Tottenham so to speak

Where they held on to him all the way through pre-season then gave him a few minutes in the League Cup tie which then meant when he came here he then couldn’t play in The League Cup ties he then couldn’t he then went away for the international

Break so he didn’t get a chance to try and get his foot in the door so that cost him games and now we’re at a stage where in what two weeks time we playing AFC Wimbledon in the FA Cup game a game where he could start and they they’re

Going to pull him back and effectively that they just cost him any chance of getting a start here and yeah he hasn’t he obviously hasn’t been able to do enough to get into the league team but that’s no great shame when you see the form of sort of Broadhead Hurst um

Chaplain even the sort of harnesses Jackson’s coming off the bench but W burn starting so it was a tough role to get in but he’s been done no favors in that so now it’s a case of just trying to we we’ll need to replace him straight away hopefully Stansfield can be that

Player that we can get in straight away or there’s somebody else a there was talk with a Brendan vasques but it seems like he’s going to be well above are sort of station when you see the other teams linked there I wonder in the way

That Jay stord is one we’ve been in for in previous windows if there’s other players like that one name that sort of jumps to mind is Colby Bishop who we were in for in the summer had a couple of bids rejected for him is that one we

Revisit yeah he’s probably going to be two or three million quid and it’s a lot of money for a league one forward to step up but if you were making a change and you bringing on kobby Bishop or Freddy lppo who would you prefer to see on there when you’re trying have

Somebody mirror the role of George Hurst and But ultimately we nothing’s going to come cheap for us this window there’s not going to be uh million pound player that no one knows about because we’re a big swinging League one Club who can do what we want to do and have a and sort

Things out we are now seen as a team on the brink of the Premier League and and our negotiations will I’m sure sort of take that into account I suppose Dave that that’s the difficulty isn’t it in terms of the Recruitment and the type of player we look at and this is no

Disrespect to to Colby Bishop at all but when we were recruiting in League one with half an eye or more than half an eye on the championship you go out and um recruit Broadhead Hurst Luongo Clark in January with a with pretty much knowing that they are able to make the

Step Up should you be fortunate enough to do it now we find ourselves in a very similar position albeit a league above you’re what type of player can you know realistically are you able to buy a player or recruit a player that you can again use should you happen to be up in

The Premier League or are you in effect throwing away two million again I don’t want to sound this discri to someone like Co let’s say a player like Kobe Bishop as Joe said you you give a club two million pound three3 million pound for a player to hopefully make assist

You to make that step but then next year should you happen to make it are they now the Freddy Leo of this year to see what I mean who I think you’re right I think that’s absolutely a really good observation that spot on really yeah you’re really now you’re really now

Going to recruit someone to get you really to to give the squad the impetus to you know if it is someone like a kobby bishop to effectively be a a like for like for George Hurst to and and and then also hopefully maybe even Stanfield

As well to just get you over the line and then it’s it’s a totally different it’s a totally different scenario once you get to you know once and if you get up it’s totally different isn’t you’ve just got to look again haven’t you um

You know if big if if we get up if we get up this season um yeah this time you know we’ll be sitting here perhaps doing the Christmas pod this time next year I think our our first 11 and certainly our Squad will have a totally different look

About it I I guess you almost have to look as though there’s a third league isn’t there so when we signed when we’re in League one we signed players who would be able to cut it in a championship now we’re in the championship we almost need to sign

Players who we think might be able to cut it as a top six Championship player I know we are currently a top two championship side but you’re signing players that you think can be top Championship players because you just you just are not able to sign players who are Premier League players

There’s just no way you can sign those at this stage so you’re signing players that you hope if you don’t go up this year are still good enough to be top six Championship players next year who might who when you come to sell them might be

Able to be sold to a parachute payment relegated team I guess that’s the sort of height of well not the height of your Ambitions but probably the height of the realistic ambition that you can have this window players that could it’s like these players able to be like Jay

Stansfield is probably one who you think yeah he could be a top six Championship player he looks like he’s got the sort of bits to do that but is he a premier league player well if he was a premier league player Fulham wouldn’t even be countenance and selling him for a sort

Of fee that we could afford yeah yeah that’s interesting and that sort of um links into a question we had from Tom about with Scarlet being recalled do we now need two attacking players I think I think we probably probably do U because we already thought

We we may need one in in any case um Ed Ed asks do we need and probably on the back of of yesterday do we need a little bit more dynamism or Pace in our in our Midfield Center Midfield um it’s interesting as I said earlier about

Luongo Dave staying now for for January whether that does um alleviate the the sudden urge to need another Cent Fielder or does a performance like yesterday highlight that we might need some legs given the the relative ages of the guys in there yeah it’s a good part I don’t I

Don’t necessarily think so I think you know you won’t come up well we won’t come up against a Midfield to I don’t think quite like it although you’ve got Harry Winks on coming up on coming up on Tuesday and and whoever but um uh no I I think um I yeah I think

We’re fairly well fairly well served in that position and I think well Don ball came on from Moy yesterday a little very rare Cameo for Don ball yesterday um and against teams perhaps not of the Southampton not the Leicester or leads ilk you know he could probably you

Someone like him could probably come in and do a job and certainly certainly I think Jack Taylor Jack Taylor again has had little cameos I mean we know we know all about his his his goal scoring attributes and stuff like that but I think you know as as as time goes on

He’s going to obviously you know more experienced of being in and in and around the team and I’m sure he’ll get yeah he’ll get a lot of um he’ll get a lot of ingame play between now and the end of the season and I think he could

Step up quite easily Yeah just they do just get another and just another I should say ball play just got his booking and whe they whether they ride out or whether they as Joe says you there would have been as in relation to Stanfield um there will be names that

Would have been after previously it’s just whether they’re still on our radar now we’ve made a little bit of an edge up through the leagues and probably ahead of expectations where we where we hoped we would be um whether those those um players have you dropped off our

Radio a little bit Yeah so thank thanks to those guys for those question thanks to Adam and Neil who had very similar um questions um in terms of transfers and bits as you can probably understand people are very much asking questions along the same lines about attacking

Areas and Center Midfield areas um and whether yesterday’s match stroke performance um would alter those in any way I can’t really um imagin that it that it would have um moving on to Boxing Day Paul asks if you can see any tactical changes for Leicester is there

An argument for a deepen midfielder to combat their potency on the break Joe I I don’t think there’ll be any tactical changes there might be some slight tweaks in there but I don’t see any any major changes for it no no not at home no no you might just you might

Just play a little bit deeper maybe have a lesser High lineer maybe not quite as high press but you’re not you’re not going to be doing anything fundamentally different because ultimately what we’ve done has earned US 52 points from 23 games and we’re gonna we can’t we can’t

Move away from that can we and I think it’s when you because you look took at teams when they go to the Premier League some like Burnley for example they’ve kept doing what they want to do and yeah they’ve had some sort of chastening days like we had yesterday but ultimately

They need to get better at what they want to do so that when they do have the games against teams of a similar standard they can then beat them which is what happened to them yesterday when they went away to full them to win and

Yeah they they might go down but I don’t think you can just fundamentally change the way you want your team to play just because you’re playing better teams you just need to try and do it better yeah no especially being at home you know we we’ve we’re attacking we’re

Attacking away from home but we’re attacking at home aren’t we it’s what we do it’s what’s brought us the amount of points the amount of goals both for and against um so far this this season so yeah as J I think they’ll be tweaks rather than an actual and with the lead

Lester have got in the table they they put their strongest team out yesterday they beat Rin 3-0 they could easily just say look we’re GNA we’re going to make eight changes for the game on Tuesday because we’re we’re so far ahead we see we’d rather just rest the squad till the

29th game and do that they’ve earned the right to be able to do something like that and if they do Fair playing thank you are you saying they’d rather us go up with than them leads I don’t think it’s about who they want to go up I

Think it’s more just the way the fixtures are falling of course yeah they just need you can’t sort of try and be too clever and be like oh we’re rest players against ram because then if you lose that one then you then put loads of pressure on this game where now we talk

About us our as a free hit for us it’s the biggest free hit going for Leicester isn’t it yeah yeah they’ll probably draft in v in at or something um question from from Jamie here is given in his opinion every player is performing above and beyond their ceiling to get us where we

Currently find ourselves do you think Dave that where the team currently finds itself is sustainable with the current Squad yeah it’s a very good question there was another question I think well this might well come up about um you know obviously playing the second second stre games against you know teams and

Teams perhaps wising wising up against is I think we’ve said you know yeah I think the squad the squad needs need to lift any you any new players any any any new you know transfers you know they’re going to be players of a reasonable we know you think a reasonable Championship

Or higher end Championship stature so that’s just going to give the squad going to give the whole Squad a lift and the whole the play to live not that we necessarily need it’s an odd one it’s not necessarily need it look we lost 4-0 to let’s face it a very very very good

You know a very very very good side so yeah it’s it’s a difficult one but you know any any new transfers coming in are just going to give the squad and the whole and and the place uh hopefully the Boost not a lift the Boost to um to

Carry us through as Joe said you know with those what 14 wins is it yeah carry us through to achieve what we need to yeah was Mark’s talking about the number of wins Etc Mark ask that will we win 16 of our next 23 League games if not

How many do you predict us to win as you said Joe you know it’s it’s a question of seeing trying to win the ones that you should you should be winning picking a draw up where you can and seeing where you find yourself isn’t it but even if you think bearing in mind

We’ve lost what three games in 23 if we were to win 13 draw five lose five which is a significantly worse record than what we’ve had in the first half of the Season that takes us to 96 points it’s crazy is it so we’re in we’re in such an

Incredible position and chances like this won’t come around again like I’m not saying we’ll never get promoted but we are never going to be in a stronger position going into the second half of the Season as we are now because no team other than leester has done in the last

20 years so it’s such a big opportunity for the club to really go for it and I’ve got no doubt that McKenna will be imploring that on Ashton and that zero doubt that Ashton will be putting that on to the owners and the owners know Co

We are so far ahead of sheduling even if you can go up one season and come back down what that will do to the club the town and everything around it will just give you such a lift and such a boost and make make all their long-term

Planning so much easier yeah yeah that’s quite because Chris Rand again you asked the question is it possible for a team to be outclassed by the half dozen teams on parachute money yet be so consistent and dominant in the other 75% of matches that they get enough points to make

Automatic protion promotion regardless and I think that’s where we find ourselves Dave isn’t it absolutely flat flat what they call the flat track bullies don’t they call him Cricket is that is that is that a term I think not can we be the the gr hick of the

Championship yeah the gr hit glove that and not come across too many M huses he’s yeah yeah his Kryptonite wasn’t it um yeah I you know don’t forget as we said earlier we’ve been to Southampton um played them at the right time got three points there so you know

Um we got two more games against Leicester starting Tuesday one against um one against Southampton and there’s look there going to be tough games there’s going to be tough games along the way umy you know the one up the a140 in April look we on local D we know

That’s going to be you know we all know what it was like last weekend that’s going to be that’s going to be a toughy and and others are going to be pushing you know pushing up towards the you know pushing up towards the playoffs so um

Yeah as Joe said the points in the bag when when you when you when you consider the points that we’ve got in the bag um you know the the drop the you know drop off we can be we can allow to to acru 4 95 points that we think will will get us

There um it’s just looking so good isn’t it it really is so I think we’ve got a very much you know very much be so positive still uh and finally a couple of questions here from uh Carl and Mark which I’ll I’ll link together is Carl

Asks do you feel teams have started to work out our system and should we make a change to it for the second half of the system and Mark asks what are the biggest improvements to make from the first half going into the into the second half

Can’t chall you um I don’t I don’t think we’ll be making changes to the system the system works doesn’t it works better than any other system I’ve seen if Town play with for the other 30 OD years I’ve been coming to the club so no and the

Tweaks I guess one I guess one of the only tweaks would be the the type of player in the roles maybe sort of like a Conor chaplain maybe you have somebody who’s more gets up and down the pitch a bit more than the Conor chaplain but I

Don’t think for a second you’ll be dropping him out maybe some one I don’t know maybe you go a little bit more Orthodox with the sort of Center back and don’t push the right back on so much from there but and I guess it’s just the makeup of the central Midfield pairing

Is the only thing there I guess the plan would be would have been previously for Jack Taylor to sort of take over from masamo Luongo which changes things slightly but I don’t I don’t see that particularly happening this season now with the way Luongo’s been so yeah I

Think it’ll only be sort of personnel and and the the different styles that that personnel has if that makes sense as opposed to ripping the system up so someone like maybe if in games later in the year you might Tak a Nathan Broadhead out and put a Marcus harness

Him because he is just uh better off the ball player than Broadhead is obviously a much Superior on the ball player but it might be actually when we’d want to play games where we think they’re going to be tougher games you might maybe make a change like that to try and GNA be

Neutralize them a little bit more as opposed to go out and try and necessarily outscore them yeah you’re it’s going to be Personnel tweaks rather than tactical tweaks you know tactically he’s got his 52 points from 23 games well you know if it ain’t broke you’re

Not you know don’t fix it and I and I think if there are any tactical changes there’ll be so imperceptible to our Layman’s eyes won’t they that um they’ll be they’ll be happening but not Sean will Sean will keep us posted and also these things do happen

Quite gradually as well though so it might be that something is changing slowly and it and you look at the team in 10 games from now to 10 games previously something has changed but it’s just been a gradual change which has just worked its way around yeah

Absolutely well thank you very much for that apologies to to those of you who haven’t managed to get round to the question as as you can probably understand there were there were a few that were along similar lines but hopefully we’ve we’ve covered off the the majority of them but I say again

Thanks very much for for sending them through and you know congratulations to the Royal Male for getting them to us in time this this time of year um one last one from Romeo what are the Blue Monday boys hoping for from Father Christmas this year Joe do you want to go

First don’t say three points on boxing day please that doesn’t care no but if if somebody could find me one of the two bird shirts from the last 25 years I haven’t managed to get hold off and put one of those through my chimney that would that would be great but they they

Seem they seem rarer than elves poo at the moment so what was that what shirt was it um it’s the red and black one from the 92 93 season the black awaken the black bur and then the black one we wore at R is a TXU Energy one that one and then a

And then a red one which we was supposed to wear against cry in the Premier League but we didn’t actually wear in the end so I’m not too worried about that about green King one but if either of those three want to find their way to

My doorstep then I will be very very grateful yeah it’s just Star Wars Lego for me really all right well the Millennium Falcon yeah the sort of the one I saw the one I saw I took Little Rosie to Smiths the other day this there for like

It’s like £600 I I did have to look twice I did have to look twice I must admit yeah yeah and the rest I think some of them is they when when you step up through the levels ,000 or some Lego yeah absolutely by the way did you see that thing about

Darren Ambrose and he’s a Lego collection I saw the headline do you see it Joe yeah that he’s I know he’s a Lego build he got like a Lego Instagram account I can’t really here not quite on camera I’ve probably got about2 and half th000 worth

Of Lego there forgot Joe as a Lego yeah Darren Ambrose yeah incredible him they’ve actually got a um yeah actually got sort of like I think I do a vlog on it and stuff like that yeah yeah the the Darren Amro Lego 7 or something like

That he’s got like five five kids hasn’t he and stuff yeah incredible stuff Lego if he’ found that Lego a few years ago he might not have had so many Legos barber shop got his finger in a lot lot of Pies is he that oh dear yeah wonderful stuff well I think that

Will pretty much do us I think we’ve gone above and beyond on again on Christmas Eve it’s Christmas Eve morning there’s there’s wrapping to do Joe’s got to start boiling his Sprouts ready for their 12 hours stint in the in the pot before he can um get get that recipe out

There Joe get that Sprout Grattan recipe we need to see it any Christmas messages from you guys before I click the button just hopefully 24 can be as good as 2023 has been what what a fantastic year sport nip town it’s been yeah absolutely dito that absolutely incredible if if if

24 can be it’s a half as good yeah yeah almost as good as 23 there we’re in for an exciting ride wonderful well thank you very much guys thank you everyone who’s who’s watched or listened to us uh today and over the the previous weeks and months of of this year um have

Everyone have a fantastic Christmas have a couple of days not worrying or thinking about football if you can um enjoy your time with your your family and friends Merry Christmas from everyone at the Blue Monday Podcast