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time hello and welcome to anothere episode of Sut United talk time on podcast it's the Sutton podcast in
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association with Lucky Star Jin I'm your host Mike and today's panel is Alex and Neil we're going to be covering the
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little match against altering them or altering Dam I don't know where the D
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came from in the Highlight show but I'm assured it's it's National League TV and we're going to look forward to the trip
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to wheelstone um as always I love putting the engagement thing here it never flows
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off the tongue no matter how I do it but I do really really appreciate all the engagement and Alex you're one of the ones who keeps liking and all the rest
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of it so thank you very much um it does kind of do the algorithm's job for it so
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it gets a picture in other people's names um all those on Tik Tok you're just crazy I'll put anything on Tik Tok
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and it's liked within like four seconds and I'm like okay just so thank you all much on Tik Tok
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um one little bit housekeeping I guess is if you are a first-time listener and
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you've or viewer and you've joined because of the feature in the match Day program yesterday you are very very
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welcome but I do have to stress some of the words were lals and any complaints
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regarding the trades description act will need to be directed to Lyle um but now let's get on with the oral and
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visual treats and
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an oral and visual treat is what he put it's oh God
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yeah I I don't even know what that means yes so yeah take it up a l um but
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yes um it was it was quite good I like I like doing that and hopefully we'll be a to carry that on throughout the whole season um because I think it gives a
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nice little insight um and a nice little crossover as well um
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we well Neil had you w a couple of weeks ago nearly had you one on Wednesday as
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well but um how have you been since a couple of weeks ago just getting happier and happier so
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uh you know it's great being a sun United fan again long wasn't great last
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year but you know what I mean yeah yeah um Alex great to have you back on um I didn't look up when the last time you on
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was but how was your break and I hear there is some news of a new Su United
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Support so whichever you want to answer first Yeah well yeah I would think I was last on after sford away I think last
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season which was a a one of a few uh a rare Pleasant away trip uh last season
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that went very well um but yeah no good break enjoyed playing in the fans game with you Mike of course over the summer
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always that was my first time in the fans game and that was genuinely really really good fun um so definitely be
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doing that next year and yeah just wanted a quick a quick shout out I know sometimes we do shout outs at the end but quick at the start one of the guys
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who you all know Mike is a chat called Dan Golding he's had a season ticket for
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um few years now playing the fans game as well and Not only was yesterday his birthday he was unable to make the
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fixture yesterday because he and his wife have just given birth to a beautiful little baby girl Nova Nova
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Grace Golding and she was dressed in she was she only arrived on Friday and she was dressed in her yellow onesie
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yesterday and we won 5- nil so I'm not saying she's a lucky charm yet but she's off to a good start so yeah we've got
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another another new SAT United fan amongst us well i' I'd definitely be
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changing that name to I missed a five-nil win because of you and I'm Rel reliably informed that
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she's going to that's going to be washed and the same outfit will be put on on Tuesday evening away from absolutely for
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all time you'll have a hat or something um congratulations Dan yeah
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you'll be pleased and thank you Alex and the fans game yeah my my favorite memory
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of that was the only one contribution I think I made to the game is Paul had
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given us instructions at the start and he was quite clear on his instructions and everyone only ever sees happy Paul
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but I've played fo with him before and uh you as the ball came in you shouted
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Keepers don't ever do that again it was it was the Keeper's ball it was but he
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will tell you when it's coming don't ever and the other other bit was you're telling me to I can't remember who it
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was it was one of the whoever was on the wing or on the overlap say you go after him and I started pling after him and
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you T tried to tackle the man that you had and then you ran back and pass me to get to the guy that
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you teamwork Mike it's teamw Anthony any chance we could it's been four minutes
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Mike with it but yeah they are real fun so if anyone does want to do them um the more
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people that want to do them the less chance I will have to um right we're going to move on to a new segment I'm
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not going to play the video this time because I have the machine and I've worked out how to get it on the machine
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so we're not going to have the video but we're going to have the
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music this get so good the small wins man that's all you
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got so all the small wins um so I wrote
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these questions in the summer I didn't really think of long-term things and the
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question you guys were set has been kind of changed already because is what does a typical day look like for you neither
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you can go on the curve anymore although it was empty yesterday I'm not bitter about that Tim um but um so Neil what
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what does a typical game day look like to you you can choose whether it was
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last season or what you think it's going to be this season so a typical game day
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is depending on whether my wife's at work or not first of all I've got to sort out somebody to perhaps look after
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the dog because living the other side of Oxford it's a long day to something so a
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long day to leave the dog on his own so that's the first thing so a dog walk
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then I'll get in the car and I will um head over and call in on my daughter who
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conveniently lives on the outskirts of woking so that's a that's a cup of
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coffee and a loose stop being a man of a certain age and uh usually uh there's a
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job or something that she needs sorting out yesterday was taking a part of redundant cab cabinet to go in the back
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of her little car to take to the tip and then heading off to uh to Su from there
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and usually cursing all the roadworks particularly at the moment the A3 Junction which holds me up forever and
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then the fact that utilities can dig hold in the road everywhere to hold me up so instead of getting to something at
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2:00 so I could work out where the heck the Collingwood road entrance was and where I was going to stand I didn't get
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to the ground till about quarter to three so it was a bit of a panic so normally I'd a to get there two o'clock
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meet up you know see some friends have a drink sort of get myself orientated and
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look forward to the match and read the program so that would be a typical match day for me oh you went into full victim
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hre there you with the traffic lights and the utility companies and all the rest of it you can still come in the the
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main gates by the way and you just walk around it's not um so you can so if you're late you'll obviously have to
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wait for the tunnel to go back in it was to it was a new tradition I was trying to season new Lu and now of course we've
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won 5 nil I now have got to stand and do everything exactly the same I'm trying
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to break that habit I'm like you know what I've got a chance chance to start stop all this just I must stand here I
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must stand here um Alex again new new new new Match Day tradition or what you
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usually do yeah what kind what what's your match day like the pre-match is the
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same this year as it is last year that's I I live up in up in town by uh in berm
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up in London and so I get the I well I get the train down I can do a similar rant to what we've just heard about
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trains but I'll probably leave that for the purposes of this podcast but yeah my um my parents and my grandmother live
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nearby Saturn so I often pop in to see them before the game particularly because you know my dad comes to the
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games with me has done ever since I've been going and that leads my mom to moan
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sometimes about how little she sees me she's always offered she was always we always offer that she comes and she gets involved but that is not to her fancy so
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I do go and see see her um so that she doesn't mind me spending too much time with Dad and then yeah we did we went in
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the main gate yesterday today and and similar to what we've just heard I was considering we were considering you know
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we'll stand we still the opposite curver today the new curve if we're allowed to call it that probably not um and we were
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going to do that for yesterday's game and then sort of move around different parts of the ground as the fixtures come
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upon us but we will be doing exactly the same next week as we did yesterday and
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that was the first half in that bit and then the second half in the [ __ ] it's basically going whichever End St the shooting and that will be exactly the
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same until results mean we need a change which hopefully doesn't come so that was and then often afterwards you know stay
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for a drink and see AG go mental in the draw and I hope my ball comes out of strike as a
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key yeah so so mine was um I'm desperately trying to change all
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this now lot's working behind the bar it it can change because she she picks up
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on my little um Madness so when I walked down a certain Road and have to pass a certain lamp post to then cross the road
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can't do it beforehand she's like nah we're crossing the road here just it doesn't affect the game in anyway um
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then they did last year they they didn't really open the the park Gates um because I was going through there but I
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have been known to wait while whoever was on the gate number one turnar number one when
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they went for a l break and there was no nothing going in the other Gates I'm standing there waiting for Mar to come
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back to gate one Steward's like oh yeah you're that guy je and then um yeah so I've usually
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in the bar now a bit beforehand wanding around say hello to people um which is quite nice um I'm not sure how long I'll
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keep getting away with it because um it's all been sort of shut down everywhere now but it was all right yesterday and and then wand around
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usually to claim my spot about an hour or so before but again don't me to do that anymore I'll just kind of be free
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to go yes yesterday I went in with the young on and the
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Ultras do you know what there''s got Saints talk about but they they were brilliant yesterday the noise was
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fantastic yesterday really good it already is making me go okay they're
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making use to this I I I have always said as long as is a benefit I don't
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mind losing my spot I do obviously but if there's a benefit I can cope with it and they they did superb yesterday so
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yeah I was just kind of in there with them um which is quite funny um Jenny joined me but yeah the the normal
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everyone's kind of spread around a little bit which would be good because especially for me wandering around I can see different people everywhere so yeah
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but let us know what your um old or new match day looks like um there is a bit
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to talk about later on about the changes um and we will do um but very very
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quickly we've got some Club news um lside um one with a brilliant race from
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Jazz today um so that is great start for
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the new ground there um although I hate to say it Lucy if you listen uh that
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means the new 135 goal in twoyear Striker didn't score for sat United have ruined already I don't
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know um there was a lot on social media this week
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um a bit of uh ants lots of Engagement come on
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but I don't know what you guys thought of the um the whole sort of who are altering them where they based thing um
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Alex did you have much of an opinion or did you kind of get it's it's not it's not really for us it's to get the name
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out there in front of people this actually it actually prompted a bit of a life crisis in that for the first time
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in my life looking at social media I realized that this wasn't aimed at me and I'm I've suddenly realized that I'm
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in the bracket of being too old for the social media content to be aimed at me so but therefore as a result I mean I
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saw this stuff I wasn't you know I don't know that I would have decided to do it
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myself if I was in charge of the social media team but there's very several reasons why I'm not in charge of the
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social media team and it seems you know as you said mik I was talking to CLA about it and she was rightly pointing out that any engagement is good
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engagement I definitely wasn't as anti it as some of the comments on on various socials but I think as you said in your
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video after the game Mike yesterday did it ra them did it work who knows but
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yeah all engagement is good engagement so I can't get too worked up about it yeah I mean there's a lot a lot of us
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aren't going to ever understand about how that works because it's like well surely no it's not right but I do know
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and I did say to someone if I completely flipped and made this whole thing about
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ranting and raving about how awful we are and how terrible this is and just started just spewing out hate engagement
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and listeners would go up by at least 5% not 5% five times um because people love
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hate they love arguing they love doing it obviously I'd be miserable and I wouldn't want to do it but um it is one
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of the things um Neil what was your take on it did you see it or did you just hear about it yeah I saw it and I got
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asked by people on some national football Forums on you know about what
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my opinion was and I didn't think it was intended to be derogatory I think it was
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just a bit of fun and then I did a bit of a social experiment so I asked 10
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people how they would spell altringham and nobody could spell
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it I asked the same 10 people where it was and the only shall we say the more
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mature people had any idea the younger people had not got a Scooby-Doo where ringham was and then in terms I couldn't
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name the nine uh clubs in Greater Manchester I forgot Wigan cuz to me I
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thought that was more Liverpool because I always used to seen signs for Wigan when I was going out to visit my
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daughter who was at Liverpool uni so I I failed on that one so I don't think
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there was anything derogatory about it I think just people tried as seems to
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happen these days try and find offence where offense isn't intended yeah what I
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thought was relatively I mean I thought it was weird because we weren't playing in ringham so it's like what does why
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we're telling people where it is um but I I kind of I think on the I think it
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was the fourth one I was like this does seem like something that's going to backfire on us well do you think do you
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think alham them their F their Club account do you think they had picked up on it and there were loads of Tweets in
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their drafts if they had won responding to if if it had been the other way round
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yeah 100% he would have and I wouldn't have blamed if they had absolutely absolutely I'm wondering I didn't
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actually asked Jack this directly but I'm wondering if there was supposed to be another one for Saturday morning
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saying something like you don't know where altering them is but I can tell you where they'll be today Gander Green
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Lane 3 o' come and get your tickets um I don't know that's maybe me being over generous but Jack did say it went too
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far he said I I should have stopped it on two or three um because it wasn't it was taken not the way it was meant to be
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um so um but the engagement thing is huge it's got the name out there lots of
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people lots of national accounts talking about it Neil you said on a national Forum they were talking about it so it's kind of done the job um and yes as I've
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said to a lot of people we're all coming to something anyway um so it doesn't actually matter
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what the Twitter account does because we're going to be here rain will shine anyway um and that's that was a little
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pun I made yesterday and no one got it um but yeah so um that was a bit of fun
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but I think he sort of acknowledged he went a little bit too far excuse me sorry um so also the news
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about yesterday there was a lot of moving around and as I say obviously something wasn't right because the fans were in the park side not on the curve
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as expected um probably good yesterday In fairness because it was boiling hot
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um and that wouldn't have been nice they also didn't have any beer in the way end either which is just terrible that's
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just that's just not on at all um someone put on what are you scared of if they have a log and it's like no would'
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rather you spend your money so I'm not sure why that happened but the big thing is and I'm sure cla's repeated this
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yesterday to many people try it try the new things try and keep an open mind it is a change um give
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feedback moaning I don't like it isn't feedback so me going I want to go on my
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C that's not that's not feedback telling them what worked what didn't work what you like some suggestions that's
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feedback um so yeah give the feedback you can fire it over to to CLA I think oh she's going to hate that I've said
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that but far to clear far to me and I I'll pass it on as well um but other
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than that I think um I'll move on very quickly um podcast news there isn't
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really an awful lot but I went out yesterday with some friends and I found out that I'm very famous in Crawley
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because um my nephews at school some of his friends said is he is the podcast
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guy really your uncle and he was like yeah oh my God can we meet
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him sorry so Perry Charlie's offered next time I put around the house that they
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can come around and say hello okay and then um n well these are
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all close friends that their kids of nephews and nieces um and nce was having a FaceTime conversation with a boy who
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may or may not have been a player I'm not Academy player not 100% sure but she
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suddenly stopped and went what's Why is my Uncle Mike on the screen behind you
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he was watching the podcast while talking to us I was like Yay Fame
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everywhere um but other than that no everything's carrying on as it is so let's get to the match quickly um I've
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wa waffled a lot so I didn't enter anything on the lineup but I did genuinely get the 11 because I would
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have said only one change which Josh coming in for for Dylan um what do you guys feel the lineup and what was your
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expectations from the match Neil I thought ners nson might start up
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front alongside will um that was what I thought might be I thought we might sort
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of finish up with the the side that we had um from halim at Town worth so I'd got 10 out of
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the 10 out of the 11 um but um you know
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uh he knows what he's doing so I wasn't really complaining you know yeah you got
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to try to answer these questions with without the benefit of hindsight it's always hard because you're like oh no it all went perfectly well um Alex what did
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you think of the lineup what were you expecting from the M yeah I think I think that similar to to Neil I think it
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made sense that Josh came in not just because of the injury to to Dylan but also the fact that Josh scored as well I
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think you you know most often I'm in favor of if someone have a goal TI in the way he in the manner he did away to
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Tamworth and you give him a start the next game especially when Dylan's injured so I think it yeah I think it made sense and I would pick exactly the
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same 11 on Tuesday assuming they're all fit enough yeah um yeah I mean I
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thought like you know I'm sort of thinking what's with nadison I think that's his first goal in a year um and
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it may well just be we're getting him up to speed um but we all did superb yesterday um but I did think I'll be
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honest this may be the suton fan bias of oh my God everything's terrible isn't it awful I thought we look quite shaky and
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passes were massively over hereit and we just give them chances I think I think Steve had a couple saves to make in the
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first sort of um 15 20 minutes
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um were you guys similar you're both nodding um she's great
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audio yes Mike well you were kind of thinking the same thing Alex on yeah definitely yeah
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completely agree first 15 20 minutes not convinced I think we were fortunate couple of times where they struck shots
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straight at Steve there's one I can't remember the lad's name but there I think it's their Winger came inside onto his left foot and if if that go if he
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hits it either side of Steve which he probably should have done he had the space to do so it's a goal but fortunately it was straight at him um
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yeah wasn't convinced first 20 minutes I thought they looked they looked nervous to be at home you know I think they were
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feeling the pressure of you know everyone coming down G glorious day let's see who basically let's see who
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you all are you're all new come on prove yourself to us um and I think you could see the nerves from that but they they
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stepped up and proved themselves didn't they fair play absolutely um yeah I didn't know until Steve's video that was
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all the big family day because obviously that was one of the changes normally being around the bar saying lot of different people and kind of picking
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that up but didn't didn't quite get that but Neil what were you thinking for the first 20 minutes uh as I said to the
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guys around me it was the pitch that was the problem it was so slick it was so
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fast they had absolutely didn't they I wondered whether they'd actually played
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or even trained on it but it was such a contrast with the last week you know they were doing slight you know sideways
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passes that were shooting out and going off and not controlling and it took them
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30 minutes or so and I think actually it affected altering a little bit they were Str struggling to to cope with the pace
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of the the pitch and it was um they had to learn how to play on it and as as
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they got used to it so it very much played to our played to our strengths
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you know we want to play play a fast passing game get the ball forwards and
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uh ultimately it uh it works though aling them helped us you can see it for
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the first goal couldn't you because their guy misplaces his past slightly
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and actually Co Josh doesn't initially react because it's only marginally away from their place you think we're
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probably going to get it but the speed of the pitch as you say Neil it suddenly fizzed through and was at Cody's feet and they thought orav I can go now but
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the initial reaction was not quite there because I think we're not used to it so yeah I think that's a really good point yeah I mean I I don't know exactly but I
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do know someone who shouldn't have did walk across the pitch on
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Friday um and the players had come out and they could just see these Footprints
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walking across the pitch and it was supposed to be they were the first ones on so I think Friday might have been the first day they actually got to be on it
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um and someone else had already walked across it who was very naughty wasn't me absolutely not me I I don't step on the
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pitch unless I'm invited um but they seem to wilt um and maybe it's as Neil
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saying we're getting our eye in with a pitch um but do we think it's because of the the um pressing the I mean the guys
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did keep it up and it puts them under pressure a lot and we then had 15 just
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glorious minutes it was like I'm sitting going what actually happened in those 15
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minutes and I was trying to remember all um but Neil what did you kind of do you think it was the the pressing game as
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well as the pitch or was it just we got our eye in for that 15 minutes all through the preseason it's
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obvious we're going to the pressing game that's what we've done the guys are seem
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to be incredibly fit they were still running around when we were 4-0 up
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pressing chasing the ball when you could have forgiven them it was 23 24 degrees
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they could have had a stroll in the in in the the second half but they carried on Absolut Will Will Davis particularly
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ran himself into the ground and he was a complete nuisance and the same with
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Jaden Harris they were just always there and in the end the ultran guys were just
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sort of panicking there seemed to be no way out always seem to be four certain players in deep in their half and even
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if they got it past them then you'd have um Lewis simper and uh even the the the center
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backs pushing up taking up that space in Midfield so it was obviously that's
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going to be our way of playing and uh that they're fit enough to actually
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carry it out and not drop off yeah if they can do that in that heat we've got
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no worries about January um so Alex you agree do you think there was more to it
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or I think I know definitely agree I think yeah the fitness really stood out and I think you could may you could
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being a bit cynical you could say it is quite easy to run around a lot when you're 4 up in the sunshine it's all
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going really well but no I do agree that that they kept going um I think that's actually where it sort of flipp you know
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we mentioned earlier about the fact that it was the first home game and the families were there and there's a lot of expectation put pressure on them I
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actually think once we went ahead it brought out the best of them because it was kind of you know puffy chest out this is what we are this is what we do
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and that's why it was they kept it going for the whole game I my favorite thing about the Press itself was given the
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sort of 4411 formation we're having with Will up top by himself and then Harris sort of playing number 10 role you get a
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Bolter for press if you play 442 a couple of times we've seen in the last last few seasons the sort of two
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Strikers do their press a little bit they amble a bit because you know that's my man okay I'll sort of jog over he'll
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pass it he'll press him but because you've got Harris running out from Midfield it accelerates it and it makes
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it more intense I think I think that was a really really big part of the game yesterday as you said Neil will running
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himself into the ground but then Harris bolting from Midfield to help impressed catches them by surprise more and I
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think it really worked excellent well I was shell shocked at halftime because I
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was like is this a 4-n performance it didn't feel obviously again this is the
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pessimistic bias coming in didn't feel like a 4-n I know it was 4-0 but it didn't feel like it but then thinking
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back the keeper had actually made two good saves in the first half as well um so it could have been six um so how how
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were you at Hal time were you kind of going with the sutt fan route of oh it's only 40 up it could all go wrong now
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which apparently Steve said in the changing room to be fair you four goals in this half they could score four goals
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in this half so you've seen how quickly it can change it's like oh he is buying into something but how are you sort of
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feeling at halim or is it just bewildered Neil I'll start with you I
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might start with you last time but never mind that I sort of compared it in my mind with the Warsaw 4-nil where we last
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season 4-0 up at halim when in fact Warsaw have been had more better chances
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than us and were probably marginally the better side so that that was what I compared it with I didn't think you know
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we'd F you know drop off or fall away I I thought I I expected the second half
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to be a bit of a boring not KN and um they perhaps might get a consolation
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goal towards the you know towards the end so that's how it was playing out in my mind to stop all the uh clean sheet
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bonuses um Alex what what were you thinking at Hal time well yeah stunned
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also mildly annoyed only because I always predict as you know Mike I always
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predict that we'll win 4-0 and for once they you know I underestimated them I I couldn't believe that we were falling up
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at half time I I thought we would get another one another one or possibly two in the second half so I couldn't believe that I'd somehow managed to underpredict
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the score um I think the the thing we we were discussing at halim was obviously there's comparisons as I'm sure we'll
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come on to with the knots County game last season the first home game or first the whole season then with with the five
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goals we scored then this felt different because I appreciate alham had a couple
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of sloppy moments but everything went our way in a knots County game you know errors from them Galore the red cards
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all that kind of stuff this felt like we were playing well and we we forced
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altringham into the eras they made rather than than just being complete gifts you know partly because the Press
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we discussed and so much of the talk at halim was the excitement around that aspect of it yeah we we we had to
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fight for the right to do oh God no to get in there to yeah to popular front um
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but second half I mean things dropped off um which we now know that Steve was saying the clean sheet is now really
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important um but he was glad that we got a goal at our end um but they're both
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our ends now um but um there was one little little thing that I was like oh
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that needs to stop Jaden managed to talk himself into a yellow card um because I
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get it's the fighting thing I get I get it but the defender cleared it off of
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him to go out for what he thought should have been a corner and it was a goal kick and he was just livid with it and he was like we're 4-0 up we don't need
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to get defit it was definitely a goal kick as well just I think he was trying
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to say it came off him and then CLI the defender on the way but it wasn't it
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wasn't as obvious I couldn't believe he got so wound up about that yeah and he kept on talking I was like if he gets a
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red because of this yeah it's just gonna go mad he it just shows he cares they
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all care they want to play they want to win they want to win as well you know he
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talked himself Tyler talked himself into a booking in in the first half didn't he which I I don't love because he's the
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captain and God don't want him to get sent off but I do I think Neil is right you know the the passion and the desire
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and I do think it fact it comes back to the things we were saying earlier about factoring in the first game of the season the pressure first home game of
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the season the pressure of all of that they're desperate to put perform and and do well um you know I mean he was he
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went straight to the ref after we scored our third goal was talking about his shirt being ped and kept doing this and all that and then eventually talked
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himself into a yellow so it's it's you know where' you come down on the passion versus just calm down a bit don't get
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set off it is Steve said this about this group as well they all want to win
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whatever they're doing whether it's they're on the training ground doing one-on ones or they're playing chess or
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whatever in the chain in the thing area um so I'm guessing that they deciding this individual battle is something they
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need to win um but yeah was just we're for the alarm come
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on it is showing that that that competitive Spirit and the passion go on
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I like the mini huddle after the first goal that was new I don't know if you saw that after I think it was after the
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first goal Josh's goal um Tyler got everyone bit sorry for Steve Miles Away in the go but but the rest of them
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obviously gone to celebrate in that corner and he put them into a little huddle and I imagine he was you know Focus up there's only one come on keep
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on it small thing but I like that good leadership yeah I mean and at the end
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they all something that didn't happen a lot last season um but they all came back over um to to the the the end and
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was giv all the fans makes so much difference having an end doesn't it really felt like you know with cju doing
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the fist pums that really felt like almost what we've seen more in the way trips where they've come over to the end
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I thought was ftic it is definitely going to be and again not to keep harping on about it but the the the
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young ons having their spot rather than having to move old vintage fans away
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from a spot this is their new spot so it was great um I mean Ashley got off to
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his start with which again first goal in about a year which is great um I should keep calling Ashley I've got to try it
34:25
it's nadison NAD yeah that sounds about right not knes done anyway um but on
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overall I mean the gate was 2450 or something like that which is about 550
34:40
lower than last season's average um but the first game a lot of people say people are away on holidays um and we
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kind of expected I believe the figure they were working from was about 500 lower um so if we're only 50 down on
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what they're expecting that's pretty damn good and then more people are going to come after that um they're most
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definitely going to come watch this um I wasn't sure what the noise sounded
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like from outside the wreck end um you guys were sounding different places was
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it as yeah good good um and sorry no
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nodding yes Mike you're right thank you controversial Mike and say I liked the
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drum no it's that's been changed it was we all anti- drum because most drums we
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hear are shite and the person can't play them but Seb does really well oh I
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thought he was banging the wall no he's got a drum it's a drum that makes sense because it was really good and really
35:45
loud I thought it's poor hand yeah no they they went last year and negotiated
35:51
with can we bring a drum and um it was only one person's allowed to do it and
35:56
there's all sorts of things and if there's any misbehaving from that group they're out um and um but it was like we
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don't want to drum it [ __ ] it's rubbish blah blah it's like great actually you know what he's quite good quite good at
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it he's not overusing it it's not constant constant thing um but so yeah um big shout out to Seb that's well done
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even when you got the old gits like me and Dan saying no we're not having drums but yeah um it's really really good um
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it's easy to get caught up so if if you're a younger one and you come start you don't know people just go into that end because they they're all super
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friendly and there was one little thing that you know how you know how the Sutton fans of this young disrespectful
36:39
little gits and all the rest of it Jenny was with me for quite a lot a while cat chatting then she said all I'm going off
36:45
and I'm going to find some other people and I wasn't really paying attention to what was going around me um and next thing one of these kids kind of moved up
36:51
to where Jenny was standing and two or three of them moved him away and I'm kind of looking and then went no there's
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a lady standing there she'd be back in a minute they moved him off and I'd go no she's not coming back I oh my God you're
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supposed to be horrible people what's wrong with you um so yeah they were really really nice um people of space
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for someone as well um so is it too early for this to be any impact in the
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season um I mean we've got 95.7% of the
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season to go but what do you feel like the impact
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is if there's any um I mean I think they played with confidence aside from that first
37:33
bit but it's going to be even more work to do with getting on the same wavelength and I think once they do we
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will we will really really play well um so Alex start with you what do you think
37:45
is it too early or are you excited to see what yeah it's definitely too early I think but you can be excited as
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well you know I think I think both things could be true um it's way too early to say what this means you know
37:59
altering as we have discussed were pretty poor I mean I know we we as I say
38:04
I do believe that we forced them into the mistakes that they made that led to some of our goals and that is a great thing but they they weren't a
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particularly good side from what we saw even before then they a better side would have capitalized on our nerby
38:16
first half an hour so I think yeah I think it's it's early to be making season predictions and all that kind of
38:22
stuff having said that different to KN County last season because of how well we played versus just getting lucky in
38:29
basically every respect completely agree with your point Mike that if this is what they're doing now having you know
38:35
still a relatively new group of players learning how each other work and starting to trust each other and build
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those relationships on the left wing and the right wing and the center backs and all that kind of stuff that can only get
38:46
better and that is the thing that I am most excited by not much what it means for the season yet but the fact that
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they're doing this already and it presumably with the training getting know each other will will improve that
38:59
that is is definitely exciting and there's some real players in that in that Squad yeah absolutely um Neil what
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about you is it too early or what we calling comp promotion now it's it's far too early but it's
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living up to my pre-season prediction which was with this group of players we
39:17
win a few 4-0 we're potentially because they're young in experience lose a few 4-0 and probably draw a few four all so
39:25
so far you know but I suspect that we're going to be you know in and around and
39:31
the right end of the table come Christmas but you know I I think there's going to be a bit of a roller coaster
39:37
between then and now and you know it's far far too easy to get carried away
39:43
absolutely yeah I mean just the same if we'd lost fournil I would have said you know it's not going to it's not going to
39:50
define the season because there's a heck of a long way to go there was a reason for that so apparently on the coach back
39:57
from tanworth um last week there were people on the coach saying well we're we're two points worse off than the
40:03
opening game last season and we got relegated last season so that means we're g to get relegated this season and
40:08
now we're a point better off than we were time last season so clearly clearly we're g to win um do have we learned
40:16
much about the side or any particular players I mean you can take a pick if you want to say anything we've learned or was it as as you expected Alex I'm
40:23
gonna go first for you because you kind of pulled the on to no face yeah did we learn much I don't know that we did
40:31
because you know once the first couple of goals go in and it's a romp away in the sunshine everyone plays really well
40:38
they're full of confidence it's all going swimmingly fantastic that's and that's great and I think the points that we've made about them continuing the the
40:45
fitness and and pressing to the end of the match even despite being so many goals ahead on a hot day is it's really
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good and that that can only bu well and I think that speaks to a mindset that Steve has instilled within them which is
40:57
a really positive thing have we learned much about individual players yet I don't know that we have I mean there are
41:03
a few well most of them I think you could walk away saying yeah he played well he played well yesterday y he was good you know and all that kind of stuff
41:09
and there's obviously couple I mean just a couple that um stood out for me I thought um simper in the Midfield was
41:15
excellent thought he looked really really good on the ball his touch and cross for the fifth goal fantastic and I thought Nana on the on the wing looks
41:22
really exciting um but as I say you could talk about Harris you could talk about Davis you could talk about Sig you could talk about the center backs a lot
41:29
of them on a day on a day that goes as well as yesterday did you could you could talk about most of them so I think
41:36
uh I don't think my I know much has changed about how I feel about the squad and the players yet other than it's it's
41:41
going the right direction perfect sorry bit bit of a diplomatic answer that's fine that's
41:48
fine I'd say there's a lot more footballing skill throughout the entire
41:55
Squad we've got more play players are two-footed um players are much more
42:02
comfortable on the comfortable on the ball and uh I think there is we thought
42:09
we'd got depth in the squad last season I think actually we've got genuinely
42:16
more depth in the squad this you know this year when they're playing well but as I said
42:22
because of their youth and relative inexperience they're going to have more bad games in them so I think
42:29
consistency will be harder to achieve with this squad at the at the moment but
42:35
yeah overall I'm impressed I think there's they're far better collection of players than we perhaps dared um hopeful
42:45
yeah I think we need to see a bad things going bad before we can actually learn
42:50
much about them because then when if it goes bad you'll learn more about how they react to it and um how how they
42:56
cope with things going against them let's let's see him let's see him one nil down at home and the fans are
43:01
getting frustrated his moans and groins that let's see how it the the week the two foot point is an interesting one
43:06
because I think the first the first three goals so Josh and Jaden and will all scored with their week Foot Right
43:12
was it they that's a good point you raising it I think that is you know promising more two footed players can
43:18
only be a good thing absolutely right we're gonna almost finish with this um game um but there's a Good The Bad and
43:26
The Funny
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um I got copyrighted flagged for that one last I got away with the ab one copyrighted for that
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really um but so what was it's going to be nice quick
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one what was good from yesterday Neil we'll start with you what
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what was good from yesterday um I think the fifth goal was a thing of beauty it
44:09
was perfect off the uh off the training ground out from the back down the
44:15
channel simple a perfect cross and Ashley that was a fabulous goal it was
44:21
it it was the perfect goal perfect I mean was that the
44:27
did simpa do some amazing footwork for that cross or was it for a cross just before it he cushioned it on his right
44:34
foot then came back and whipped it left stunning no it was a different one
44:39
um Alex what was good for you I decided to pick something that was not during the game because they would I couldn't
44:46
decide um CW's fist pumps in front of the new home end at the end that was the
44:52
thing that brought the biggest smile to my face probably because it was just sort of that recognition that we've got a home end the reception they gave the
44:59
players at the end of the match was fantastic and him doing the fist pumps I could I could get used to that I did
45:05
think when he did it I was like oh you set yourself up now it's gonna be every time he could quickly be a fan favorite
45:11
that boy yeah oh yeah I think he already is I mean he's got at least one stalker is he Jen Jenny sponsored him it's just
45:19
like um but um what was bad match they experience just anything what was bad
45:27
travel Works trains whatever you like well I've already said it the A3
45:33
road work B you know I'm afraid you know that was the only downside in the entire
45:39
or apart from the fact you forgot to bring me my shirt but you you forgot to remind
45:46
me my memory for me it was the the the fact
45:52
that I always predict 40 and they won 5 nil for seeing the curve at empty I get
45:58
it it was was it was quite funny when when will scored and ran over C over there
46:06
just no one there oh and I gotta tell I got introduce um Paul to to Josh because
46:14
Josh Josh when he scores he seems to run in the opposite direction to where Paul is so all these pictures that Paul get
46:19
of his great goals and his great celebrations so you [ __ ] the back the one he got um this week was a good one but he's like Josh you know where he is
46:26
run to him um what was what was funny Alex
46:31
start with you um my dad recreating jayen Harris's celebration in the you
46:38
know the sort of I don't know I think is it called The gridy Dread to think if I'm pronouncing that right or if I've got it right but
46:44
it's something with your feet and then the head goes back and forward and the hands sort of come up like this and my dad started recreating it and that was
46:51
fantastic oh that's a Tik Tock one Neil was what was funny for you I've
46:56
got a funny peculiar and a funny haha whichever you want so the funny peculia
47:01
was watching the game from the opposite side of the ground because that was that
47:07
was just odd it just just seem discombobulating I think the word definitely the word and with all the
47:14
thing on the social media about altering and all that sort of thing not only with them making Al the abbreviation for
47:21
altringham they actually spell altringham with a G for when theyve had the score line down at the botom on
47:27
National League TV so basically even when the football supposed experts get
47:32
something as badly wrong as that it just made me laugh yeah that that wasn't our lot maybe they're just buying into our
47:39
social media campaign I can't tell you how many times I've written ringham with the G yeah like why' they call it aling
47:46
ham he aling Cham um for me oh there was loads um I
47:52
did have well there was one that could have been funny should have been funny but it got ruined which is probably
47:58
funny um so the Jacksons all decided to have a picture on the giant dead chair
48:04
and I kind of said they're a pain to get out of and I was taking the picture for him and I said I'm going to take a video
48:09
of you getting out of it and Lynn was not overly impressed with it was her phone so it wasn't I was going to do
48:15
anything with it she wasn't impressed and got out of it straight away with no fuss whatsoever and I was like [ __ ]
48:20
sake got some content here but yeah the the all the little stuff they did in the fan Zone was
48:26
really great um I know it's going to take people a bit of time to get get on board with it but there was ice cream
48:32
yesterday I'm sure you noticed um and all sorts and the cues weren't too bad it was got bad closer to kickoff but um
48:39
it was really good so but yeah the funny thing was it's a funny that should have been right um we're going to do the free
48:47
free Q preview and we spoke to Paul who is um a host of stones cast and he's
48:54
actually the commentator for tomorrow night so if anyone's watching on TV you'll hear his voice um so I'm going to
48:59
try and get this right this one went on for a little bit longer than I had expected so um please bear with but
49:06
we'll just listen to what Paul has to
49:12
say we are back for our fre Q preview we're going to get insights of our upcoming o opponents fans and we are
49:19
joined by Paul and he supports wistone and um we're just going to hear a little
49:25
bit more of what he has to say um but before we start tell us a little bit about yourself and your worldstone
49:31
history and why you support them and whatnot yeah a bit of a funny one really
49:38
Mike I this is my eighth season falling worldstone um I I played a bit of non-
49:44
League flower league non- league football um sort of in my 20s and then 30s and I started to want to watch
49:51
football again and my little boy was uh Keen to go along so I took him to watch
49:57
chesham United which is our local side as well and wistone and at the time my dad my dad
50:03
was a wistone player in the 70s so they did a feature of him in the program invited him along and uh my little lad
50:10
was a little bit impressed that everyone knew my who Granddad was you know from school and football and they treated us
50:16
well so we we gave him a decision we sort of said to him who do you want to go and watch he said could we go and watch wistone and from that point on
50:22
we've we sort of chose them and started to watch them home and away and I've got two other children they come my sister
50:29
and her family comes so it's a real family Fair my my mom's from wistone originally he worked at the old low mid
50:35
ground when they had that in the 70s and 80s when she was a sort of teenager and young adult so and her dad was a bus bus
50:42
driver for the amateur Cup Final in the 60s so there's a little bit of a family connection so it's sort of resonated
50:48
with us and we've thoroughly enjoyed it they great football club they're very welcome in you know we we we go as much
50:54
as we can and um yeah we we're in the National League for for a bit of fun
50:59
it's it's a good it's a good ride isn't it it's uh there's lots of ups and downs but we enjoy it and he's a good family
51:06
thing to do that's excellent I mean when you said we went along to watch chesham and they
51:11
were playing weldstone um I was like yeah you've always got to be really careful with this first match because
51:17
one of my mates brought his his his son to um Tottenham Manchester United and
51:22
his whole family's Port Tottenham and man united battered them and M's man united fan well you should have gone
51:29
local mate no yeah it was a similar thing I went to I think we went to Hitchin away and it was one all in a
51:35
really cold December night and then we took him to a beckons field away game
51:40
and chesham got beat about six nil I think the manager got sat there soon after and obviously they've done very
51:45
well since chesham you know got into National League South and at the same time we went and watch wildstone and he
51:50
S I think he his mind was made up because chesh had got batted six n wield Stone I think one and we're very well in
51:56
so so we'll go back and watch wi St so no you're right first games do count do count and matter right
52:02
absolutely um never take them to a Premier League game um so you are host
52:09
or co-host of the stones cast podcast yeah there's there's a there's a whole group of us that contribute and I I sort
52:15
of share the hosting with two or three others and um I I actually do the
52:21
commentary as well for National League TV on behalf of wistone so I will be behind the microphone on Tuesday night
52:26
night for sat that is my the designated match because there's three of us that do it so we swap so that we get to
52:32
obviously watch the game with friends and family rather than being behind the microphone every home so yeah so I'll be
52:38
there on uh Tuesday night um commentating against Satan so uh please
52:43
be kind to me if you're watching and listening have to tell you how to say all the names no please do
52:50
yeah so what what were your expectations coming in into this season
52:58
and how kind of has it gone so far compared so I know it's only two games
53:03
in but how was preseason compared to expectations as well C BL see you know what Mike it was a really difficult one
53:09
because I don't know if you know but we we lost you at Main AR Nots County in January February time last year and
53:16
David Noble came in from St Aubin and it really didn't go too well and the the chairman and board out to make a
53:22
decision to get rid of him and let Sam Cox take the Reigns till the end of the season so we really were sort of up
53:29
against it right up until the back end and and we did survive and you know I never feared we were going to go down
53:34
but there was a lot of fear of that and then in the preseason we've had Matt Taylor com in the ex Wala manager the ex
53:40
Premier League footballer for the liks of West Ham and and Bolton and Portsmouth so a bit of an unknown at
53:46
this level hasn't done too brilliantly at League one League two wherever it is he's managed before so it was a it was a
53:52
a bit of a summer of transition we've gone from part-time choosing Thursday nights so two mornings a week and one
53:58
evening a full-time manager full-time strength and conditioning coach you know so there's Little Steps off the field
54:04
that the club are trying to make to to stabilize and and do well in the National League but clearly on the field
54:11
it's a different Challenge and I think this season with the with the league as it is you know the liks of you guys
54:16
coming in with forest green who are a stable set of football clubs rather than a bit of a basket case along with the
54:22
likes of maybe oldum and Barnet and South End getting there together everyone sees this opportunity because
54:28
there isn't a notot county a rexam a Stockport a Chesterfield to sort of run away with the league if you like so our
54:35
expectations realistically Mike is just to stay in the league you know after the scare of last year with the new manager
54:41
we had to have a turnover in our Squad we've just got to stay in the league we've got a really good future looking
54:47
if we get a new ground and investment but that can only really happen I guess if we stay in the National League so the
54:53
pressure is on that said so fifth from bottom is is what we would want you know
54:59
and I think there's a lot of fear that we're going to be relegation candidates relegation favorites how it started bit indiff
55:07
really no wins out of two we're in the game in both games you know it wasn't like we've been battered um dagging them
55:15
I think we gave their goals away too easily and we've missed a guilt chance at at one all and you know that again
55:21
that would flip the flip the game and do we go on and win yesterday similar thing you know that their their Center half or
55:28
the fullback has made an unbelievable tackle at nil nil we've not scored they've gone down the other end and in
55:34
my view they've got a bit of a Jammy goal and they've you know they've walked away from the veil with a one- nil win and that's what good big teams do in the
55:41
National League and if you want aspirations are getting promoted you've got to take those results so the problem I sort of fear is where
55:50
do we get our next points from you guys are coming on Tuesday night after off the back of a good win then go to
55:56
heartley Paul away the next two games an example you know you're looking four games in one month in no points on the
56:01
ball potentially and it can be quite damaging because previously with wistone we've always got points on the board
56:07
early and built that basis to try and almost get to Christmas and not fumble your way between Christmas and the end
56:14
of season but it helps right the pressure is off so that's where we're at
56:19
I gotta be honest I'm not looking forward to having you guys come down on Tuesday after yesterday's result but we'll see how it goes listen we always
56:25
put the lads put shifting there's 100% effort there is quality in the team no doubt about that I think we just got to
56:32
be a bit more clinical and and you know we will get those wins we will get those draws but it's got to come quickly yeah
56:39
so again early days but how how are you seeing the strengths and weaknesses at the moment at this point in the season
56:45
um what do we need to look out for what could we possibly exploit I would suggest the middle of the Midfield I
56:51
mean I know he both care about the Miss of Craig Eastman and you know don't want to disappoint any certain fans who like
56:57
Craig but I don't think he'll be playing Tuesday night from from what I understand I could be wrong and he may
57:02
have make an appearance but he hasn't played since I think this the second from last game of preseason so the
57:09
center of the Midfield is where we probably lack a little bit Mike you know in terms of strength and and presence we
57:16
got a lot of young Lads in there suggest lightweight you know I'm not no disrespect to them but you know they're
57:21
not your six foot two strapping rugby league looking Center Midfield players so yeah maybe that you know we've got Alex
57:28
dyr know he's done very well but can he last he last 65 70 minutes we lost
57:34
Christian Scott yesterday to a red card on his debut so he won't be available so I think just that that lack of
57:40
creativity and presence in Midfield is really is somewhere I think that we will struggle and against old him yesterday
57:47
you know where that matchup was was a little bit imbalance the rest of the side you know our back Fall's good has
57:53
been you got Georgio at left back and um you know cook are a Dependable Center
57:58
half with Adrian Mara's been a really good signing for us and I mean there's a little bit worry over the goalkeeper
58:04
I've not seen anything too much to worry about him in terms of his goalkeeping his his passing and distribution I think
58:11
you know me and you could be better stood on The Terraces Mike but as for another day so um yeah listen that
58:18
willstone will put sat under a lot of pressure they did with old it's just having that bit of quality
58:23
in both boxes we just need that bit more okay and um you mentioned Craig and said
58:30
if any Su fans like him that is every Su fan will like him but um you've also got
58:36
one of our ex another old boy um enzio um yeah how's he been how's he playing
58:42
he's he's another great guy love him yeah and again he's I think he's part of that experience three or four that Matt
58:48
Taylor's tried or the club of tried to recruit with Eastman maraa Enzo um you
58:53
know we need that a little bit of knowhow with such a young Squad that we have um I mean he's not pulled up any
59:01
trees of him on his M but you know I don't think any of them have you know you won't look at the team now and say
59:06
enzio's the man to give the ball to him and he'll do a bit you last year we had Taran alakia who's gone on to
59:12
Rochdale we missing that sort of creative spot that's something that will just get the crowd going but you know
59:18
he's a Dependable hard workking good footballer and and that's what we need at willstone we know we need we need a
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constant squat a squad that's constantly the same sort of level whatever level
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that is and um enio definitely fits into that and I would imagine his his
59:34
experience is invaluable to that to that team in that dressing room and not on training Etc as well so yeah he's he's a
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good guy to have in won't like this but he's a great player to have um in the in the team on the on the bench because he
59:47
can kind of switch around different positions um and uh he's played left back right back left wing right wing and
59:55
I think Center mid for us as well so um he's definitely a player that you would like to have in the team oh yeah without
1:00:01
a doubt I mean he's been starting the last two games on the left hand right hand side rather so you know if he's if
1:00:08
he can play in inside if he can play as fullback that's going to help the squad because it's not the biggest and most experienced so I I hopefully you know
1:00:15
that that's one of the reasons they probably signed him yeah um so as for
1:00:21
the game itself how do you see the match going um and and what can we kind of
1:00:27
expect from your your players manager a a definitely a hard working
1:00:34
sort of site um performance rather you yesterday against oldum who are one of the bigger teams in the league which Su
1:00:40
will be seen as just putting them under a bit of pressure Mike you know just not making them play you know I don't I
1:00:46
don't know how Sutton play how Sutton set up it'd be interesting to see that especially with their sort of turnover
1:00:51
Squad and and a relatively new manager so you know I think
1:00:56
he favors like a a four almost like a 442 I would suggest is probably what he
1:01:02
favors slightly more direct than what we've been used to under Stuart mayard where Stuart played through the thirds
1:01:07
if you like and you know was a bull a bull retention team whereas it it feels
1:01:13
with Taylor that he can be slightly more direct um and they do press whereas with
1:01:20
Stew's team sometimes they dropped a little bit so that there is a there is more of a press in the team um and
1:01:26
they're fit enough to do that which is a really good thing to do it's just can we create a bit of quality to get some
1:01:32
chances away I think you know we created one or two yesterday maybe the same at dagenham so you know you guys got five
1:01:38
at altering them which is you know he unheard of you should you shouldn't be scoring five at Aly you know that's the sort of team that don't let those sorts
1:01:44
of goals in so my fear is that you're good going forward you're a good attacking Sider and and I guess from
1:01:50
what I read on the on Twitter feeds Etc was that something were quite clinical and something that we're not so you know
1:01:57
I think if something turn up on our clinical then we could be in for a long evening finally the one that everyone
1:02:03
always loves um what's your score prediction uh I'd love to say that willstone will
1:02:09
win and I'm gonna say that Sut will win so hopefully wistone win off the back of that but I think Sut will probably win
1:02:16
3-1 um yeah like I said it's the first time seeing them so it's it's a a purely
1:02:22
sort of a finger in the air going on what you've done before you know Tamworth away is always going to be
1:02:28
difficult when new team in the league they're going to be up for it it's going to be a bit like a cup final but you know to go to go to alham away and score
1:02:34
five is unbelievable it was at home aling was at home he still five
1:02:40
but yeah yeah I mean get to get a draw in
1:02:45
the first League game you that's no disgrace you know get yourself settled down and then to to bag five at home sry
1:02:51
I thought it was way just to yeah I'm I'm a little bit fearful m I'm a little
1:02:56
bit fearful so yeah if you hear that in my voice on the commentary on Tuesday night please don't laugh but you never
1:03:01
know you know willstone will put a shift in I can guarantee that that's that's that's a given you know that they they
1:03:07
won't be well I'd like think they're not going to be out class they won't be outplayed they won't be out fought you
1:03:12
know they'll be in the game it's just whether we can take our chances if we create them and be you know more better
1:03:20
in the Box to not let these goals in but uh we'll see how we go lovely well thank
1:03:26
you very much Paul um I'm sure lots of us will enjoy listening to you on Tuesday night because um if it been a
1:03:32
midweek we can watch it um so um take care and good luck for most of the
1:03:37
Season obviously yeah no thank you m thanks for having me on and uh safe journey to everyone on Tuesday night enjoy your visit to the veil and uh May
1:03:44
the best team
1:03:50
win right it puts us on the M stra away um I yeah he seemed very
1:03:57
impressed what we did which is always good um I think my big mistake there and it
1:04:05
lasted a quite a long time was asking about ex players I don't think I'll do that with other teams because took the
1:04:11
conversation off track a little bit um but um Alex what what did you what did
1:04:17
you think of what they had to say was it something you expecting or um how do you see anything going from what you heard
1:04:24
there yeah I think it's interesting think the um fact that he said they were in both games and despite stting two
1:04:29
losses very much in the games which is good from their perspective I think don't want to be too confident but
1:04:38
his main point really was how much of a shift they will put in you know he was talking about that being guarantee you
1:04:44
know the effort and everything as we've touched on our fitness is looking really good and the shift is was put in
1:04:51
yesterday it was putting away to Tamworth with the goal in the last minute there as well you know that is something we should be able to match
1:04:57
them at if not better than at and therefore if we do that with better players and the confidence that we've
1:05:02
got what could possibly go wrong that was uh one of buby things
1:05:09
fournil fournil he used to tell his players youve all they've got is strength and
1:05:15
stamina and if you can match them in that then that's it won the game um Neil
1:05:20
what was your thoughts I mean you seem to have gone dark on us so we may not see you I don't know
1:05:26
but I'm still here I can I can see you're still there and Alex is frowning at me so maybe he can still see you but
1:05:32
excellent um so what what what did you think of what Paul had to say and anything you picked up from there he he
1:05:39
seemed a bit downbeat so he's he's not over overwhelmed with the optimism so
1:05:45
that that seems to me that That's a classic Sutton banana skin isn't it so if if anybody's gonna slip over on
1:05:54
the team that's low in confidence haven't got any players and and all that sort of thing it will be us because I'm
1:06:00
sure we can find a way you know that is that is Sutton United that's old Sutton
1:06:07
um I mean it's gonna be interesting uh that it might be a completely different game because um he's mentioned as the
1:06:14
center mid being the point that they're worried about and I would imagine before
1:06:19
watching this Steve would have done some research and probably would find less similar and he may well decided we're
1:06:25
going to not attack the flanks at all and just attack through the middle um so um I mean it's going to lead us on to
1:06:32
the the nice part of it everyone loves this um the prediction League um Alex
1:06:38
may have already given away his thoughts um code is on the screen I've actually made this a bit smaller because I
1:06:44
realized I was watching a couple back last year my my beautiful face was covering some of the code so um you
1:06:50
should now to be it on screen and also tell me if these things happen so I can actually fix them um it's still covering
1:06:56
part of it Mike no I can see it it's
1:07:03
not sake right I'll have another look at that um but the prediction League uh
1:07:08
last week we didn't have any maximums um which is going to be actually really difficult to get this year um but the
1:07:14
closest we got was a team called Richardsons who got the correct outcome
1:07:20
the correct altringham goals and the correct first goal scorer so they got six out of the eight points and the leag
1:07:25
table has gone into the invite list um on your calendars so um Neil I think
1:07:32
you're actually second um yeah uh hang on yeah you're second on nine points out
1:07:39
of the two games and pessimistic PC I wonder who that could be Chas um with 10
1:07:46
points out of two games so um but it's lots to play for everyone should join into this it's lots of fun um but what
1:07:54
is your actual um prediction uh Alex go on 40 four I'm
1:08:02
sorry it is it you know it would be regardless because I predict what I want to happen but it is after what we've
1:08:08
just heard about Wilston and after the performance yesterday yeah 4-nil Jaden Harris first goal scorer for
1:08:14
me excellent oh no okay yeah haven't been saying which goal score I want um
1:08:20
actually going for Josh both times anyway um but uh Neil oh you're now back on my screen that's amazing um who
1:08:27
what's your prediction by way you can obviously change it yeah before you enter don't worry I'm sort of fascilla a bit you
1:08:34
know and I've got to try and put charms off the uh off the scent but I'm thinking I think it might be a 2-1 to us
1:08:41
and I'm still sticking with Lewis's Lewis simper is gonna get our first goal okay I've got really bad news for
1:08:48
you no you're not doing two1 two no no
1:08:53
57 in a row wrong now but 2-1 and I'm going with Josh for the first goal because um he's telling me
1:09:00
when I I was like oh you're top goal scorer and he come back with I want it right fair enough so yeah I'm going with
1:09:07
Josh again for first goal change I give you I give you four nil
1:09:15
nil I give it to you take it use it but we are going to wrap up this
1:09:21
episode which I've kept you way longer and it's a much longer episode than it should have been but never mind you will
1:09:26
love it it's an AAL and and visual treat um as always we appreciate your
1:09:32
attention and feedback um there's lots of questions for you to get involved in what does your normal match day look like or and how does that differ this
1:09:38
season what's your good bad and the funny for um the the the match day that just went on um follow like share this
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I've mixed that up and um leave us aw if you want we I I get a little bit of dopamine when I get all the the likes
1:09:59
and the thumbs up and whatnot we will be back on Wednesday with Jenny and another
1:10:05
Neil not this Neil because he's panicked and I wasn't down for Wednesday um but we are with Jenny and Neil and they're
1:10:12
gonna talk about the worlds done away Neil's making his debut which would be a good one because obviously it's with Jenny so you won't need to actually talk
1:10:18
much um but get the questions sent in um and um we will um get them on on the
1:10:24
podcast thanks always to our sponsors Lucky Star Jin big thank you to today's power Alex and Neil and obviously Paul
1:10:30
as well thanks to your listeners hope you've enjoyed this episode podcast and take care and we will catch up soon
1:10:35
thank you bye-bye
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