In this episode of Sutton United Talk Time on Podcast, Mike Dowling is joined by regular guest Dan, who finally breaks his "bad luck" streak of appearing only after losses. Following a difficult run of seven games without a win, we dive into the grit and determination shown in the recent victory away at Tamworth. From tactical shifts to individual heroics, we’re breaking down what this result means for the rest of the Sutton United season.
Mike Dowling
Hello and welcome to another episode of Sutton United Talk Time on podcast. It's the Sutton podcast in association with Lucky Star Gin. If you are a regular listener, thank you very much and sorry to drone on again. If you're a new listener, I've got a very exciting voice.
Mike Dowling
You're gonna really enjoy this. I hope you stick with us. Everyone's very welcome, especially after a bit of a break. Dan, how are you?
Mike Dowling
It's not great for all of you.
Dan
Not bad. Excellent. I was waving there just for those who don't have the video. I was waving.
Dan
Yeah, not bad. Not bad, mate. Excellent. Just a lot going on, change jobs, all that sort of stuff.
Dan
Absolutely.
Mike Dowling
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Mike Dowling
Dan, changed jobs, still following something up and down the country, and I've got you on after a win. This is quite amazing for a podcast because I think of all the times you've been on, I think there's only about three wins you've been involved in.
Dan
It has been a while, I think. A, since I've been on, and B, since I've actually been on after a win. I genuinely can't remember the last time I was on after a win.
Mike Dowling
There was a glorious one where we slagged off the referee, but we'd won the game and I'm like, yeah, go for it, I don't care. If we win, if we win the game, we can slag off refs as much as we like.
Dan
But yeah, it's not very often.
Mike Dowling
And recently, not very often we've had a win. I think I counted up earlier, it's seven, which I think is probably Aggie's worst run of his career. So yay Sutton.
Dan
Dragging people down to our level once again.
Mike Dowling
Absolutely marvellous, isn't it? But yeah, after a fantastic November, we've had a bit of a dodgy month and a half. What do you put down the change to win? Do you reckon it's just a, oh, we're turning a corner or we got lucky here?
Mike Dowling
Is it the tactics or is it the opponents we got lucky against?
Dan
little bit of everything I think I know I think the slump sort of we seem to be that the pinnacle seemed to be sort of the Shrewsbury Cup game and it just and after that we kind of a I think ran out of And by I say ran out of legs, I think we just kind of had been going full chat, we hadn't been able to rotate massively. So we got a few injuries, we obviously had like three or four red cards in quick succession as well, which really, you know, was a bit of a took away players who'd been a big part of kicking on guys like Junior missing three games really as I think. Nader's giving us an hour against Shrewsbury and kind of aggravating his injury and him being out a month probably then you know that just yeah we were just a bit light on bodies and I think yeah it's just been we got back to And I think Aggie's been
Dan
quite open with saying that there's players there that aren't going to take us forward. And it was, yeah, it was very September-esque in a couple of the games since then. But I don't put that down to anything we were doing. It's just, yeah, we'd lost kind of that call the newer guys or the guys that the mix that Aggie had found that was kicking us on a little bit and had given us a bit of success when we'd started winning games.
Dan
So, so yeah, he's starting to get those bodies back now. So I think, I think yesterday was, yesterday wasn't great, but job done.
Mike Dowling
Yeah, but it's a bit like when you're working for constant, constant, constant, constant work, you're always going, going, going, and then you suddenly get the Christmas break and you collapse and you're knackered and ill and you're like, whoa, that's not fair.
Dan
That's not fair. When you suddenly stop and you get a cold or something. Yeah.
Mike Dowling
So you said the word slump. Does this end the slump or do we need to see a couple of back to backs?
Dan
Um, yeah, I think you need to throw a couple more results together. Um, I think Aggie said we needed like seven or eight more wins. Um, so that's one of those. Uh, we've got another one if the, if the weather lets us and we get the game on, on the weekend, we've got Brackley, which is another winnable one.
Dan
Um, or at least you've got to be looking to win it cause they're in the bottom half. Um, so yeah, if you can maybe put a couple of results together, then again, you, You should be, I think we'll be okay this year. I'm not quite as confident as I was going into the Screwsbury game about that. I think it's going to be closer than a lot of people want it to be, but I think we'll be OK, because he sounds like he still wants to maybe bring one or two more in.
Dan
Yeah. To kind of push us on. So we'll see. But yeah, I think slump's the right word.
Dan
I'm going to be positive there and hope that this is a slight return to form.
Mike Dowling
Form? To be fair, this season, what's form? Awful. Awful.
Mike Dowling
Good. That's not fair. That's not fair. Some of the games recently hasn't been awful.
Mike Dowling
It's been. Oh, that's just gutting. Unlucky. I mean, it's horrible to say that.
Dan
Yeah. You look at the I mean, you look at the York game. We're really good. That's been out.
Dan
Actually, I've been saying this to a few people recently. We've looked like we've had 45 minutes in us. Again, because of injuries and bodies available and things like that. York, first off, were excellent.
Dan
And then second off, didn't quite reach the same levels. If we had have done, I think we'd have got at least a point out of them. uh forest green i thought we were decent and competitive first half crap penalty and i think we probably just about deserve the point there but again if we'd had a little bit more about us we could have nicked something there um so yeah i don't think the performances have been i mean walton was terrible um and there's been a couple of others that haven't been great but the last couple haven't been like you say haven't been
Mike Dowling
terrible they've been you know it's just a bit yeah people was people were saying definitely we've played better than yesterday and lost oh god yeah absolutely fairly recently so um i mean fairly new look back line and the sats come back to us since we spoke um we've got callum in on loan um How much do you think these guys added to the, to the clean sheet yesterday, or are we laying it all on Jack Sims door?
Dan
Um, there's this definitely, uh, a good addition. We all saw that with him last season. He's a decent player. Um, he gets up and down the line.
Dan
He's got good energy. He's, you know, so that's definitely helped balances out because you've got him and Junior, either side. Yeah, Callum, I think, needs time to settle. He's got hoiked twice at halftime now, two games in a row.
Dan
So, Yeah, I think he's still fine, but he's still a young, young man, young lad. He's 18, 19. So I don't know. You know, it doesn't look like he's had a massive amount of senior football.
Dan
So he's the right size because he's come from a pro academy. He's going to be used to having the ball at his feet because that's how they all coach everybody these days. So, yeah, I think he's a wait and see.
Mike Dowling
Yeah, I mean he He was around their first team Apparently for last four seasons. So that's that's ridiculously young. Um, but a lot of their fans have been saying he's not a central defender He's a central midfielder.
Dan
So it's like oh, um, we're definitely choosing to play with central defense, but that's a very that's that's a wonderfully sunny night. It's signing isn't it?
Mike Dowling
Well, I think it's how Aggie was placed. He said when he gets the ball, his feet, he's going to be comfortable driving forward. Same as Jack Taylor.
Dan
Yeah. I mean, yeah. I mean, maybe, I don't know. Cause we're in the January window at the moment, maybe the stuff going on with around Jack, maybe we've had an offer.
Dan
I don't, I don't know, but maybe that's why he's brought Callum in to sort of be. He's young and he's comfortable, you know, he's not. worried, not scared of coming, carrying the ball. Yeah.
Dan
So maybe that's what he's, we've got him to the end of the season, I believe, Callum. So yeah, maybe he's one who's just going to, he's going to bed in over the next few weeks and he might be there to fill a gap or he might be just there to get, give experience and give us some fresh legs.
Mike Dowling
Yeah.
Dan
Bodies and fresh legs because he's young. So, so we'll see, but yeah, he's, yeah, he looked a bit, a little bit off the pace last week and He improved slightly this week. But again, yeah, we'll see.
Mike Dowling
Yeah, I mean, unfairly, last week there were quite a few people going, oh, that's the worst Sutton debut I've ever seen. I'm like, OK, you've not you've not been watching us very long.
Dan
Two words there, Cameron Abassi. If you never saw Cameron Abassi's hour of chaos at home, I forget who it was against. but yeah no nowhere near i mean it wasn't a great debut but no not even top 10 i don't think so you made it all the way up there did you go the night before or did you go on the morning no we just did a day trip because it's nice and quick out of houston it's only less than sort of less than an hour more just over an hour i think we did it on the slow line dirt cheap as well it's like less than i think everybody paid less than 20 quid return so
Dan
yeah we did the train usual got there for 11 got there for 11 i was gonna say good good traditions don't you maintained um you got to the ground kickoff
Mike Dowling
Yeah, about five, six minutes to spare. OK, excellent. So you weren't late. And I mean, you know, you must have thought that he's pretty much just going out there and they've done all the tactics.
Mike Dowling
Just keep it tight for the first five minutes. How was that first five, 10 minutes?
Dan
Yeah, it was. We were very slow out of the blocks. They I mean, we knew and he said it in his postmatch as well. We know now what Tamworth are about.
Dan
They put you under pressure, they work hard, you know, they're a unit, they're a proper old school non-league, national league or as old farts would use the word conference team. That's what they are. That's not me digging them out. They play to their strengths, they know what their strengths are.
Dan
So yeah, they put us under the cosh a bit, pressed us and as we all know, we're insisting on being football from the back and I still don't think anyone's really adjusted to that. you know we're two seasons into it and everyone's still like hands over their eyes at times going don't do that don't do that get rid of it um so yeah that causes a bit of discomfort early on um so yeah and your your view on the jack's save in the first five um i did i knew he'd pulled off a decent stop purely because of the way everyone, because I had sort of had the crossbar in my way a bit. So I saw the guy get in behind and stick the ball in low and I could see there was a bloke on his own in the middle.
Dan
And I was just waiting for the net to move at the other end. And then there was just that, ooh, from the other end and everyone sort of went up and went from this to the arms out, like how the, so I knew he'd managed to scramble back and make at least a decent save. And having watched it back this morning, I was just bloody hell.
Mike Dowling
Oh, I'm going to be honest and no offense meant to the social media team where they go, Oh, what a fantastic save. I bet he's just basically bounced and he's landed on it or something. And it's nice and routine. Oh, I must take that back.
Mike Dowling
That was a very, very good save. Yeah.
Dan
Yeah, it was. Yeah, we realized it was even from my viewpoint, I knew it was a he'd at least got back to claw it or make a block on the line, practically. But like I said, I didn't have a proxy crossbar on the way because where I was still on the terrace at the other end, it's a bit raised. So, yeah, I knew it was a reasonable stop, but having watched it on the video this morning, I was like, fucking hell, that's actually quite good.
Mike Dowling
So, you mentioned the clash of styles, if you like. I mean, I'm definitely not one of these people that moans about how other teams play football because there are so many ways to win a game.
Dan
Every methodology is valid.
Mike Dowling
Yeah, the only thing that matters at the end of it is who got more results. So, did we adapt well to it or was it just a case of one team had to come out on top and it was us?
Dan
um i think yeah we we got through that sort of first 15 jack made the good save i think around that spell as well they probably had a i haven't actually watched that back yet uh the whole highlights so i don't know if their first their pen shout is on there i think it was david ogbonna in the back of the lad I'll be honest, from a hundred yards away, I was just waiting for the whistle and penalty number 376 of the season. And a ref waved it away. He's like, okay, maybe dodge the bullet there.
Dan
So yeah, once we saw out that sort of 15, 20 minutes or so at the start, I think we slowed the game down a little bit and we're just a bit more deliberate in what we're doing. And I think they may be, they'd gone out as for 20 minutes solid and then took their foot off a bit for a breather maybe. And yeah, we just kind of, once we got on top, but we came into the game a lot more. Brandon had a, it was a, having watched, sort of thought, thinking back on it, it was probably a better chance than it looked where he, if he'd have got maybe a decent contact with his head from Simpa's ball in, and actually got some power on it, he probably
Dan
would have caused the keeper a lot more problems since they've been flopping on it. So yeah, we had a couple of moments there. Keeper made a really good save from Simpa as well. Junior heading a cross back for him and he's turned it on and the keepers flipped it over the bar from close range.
Dan
That was a good save as well. So yeah, we weren't completely out of it. So yeah, I think we just they probably went for, I thought that maybe they thought if they get at us early, because we do, we have a record of conceding early goals this season, they probably thought get at us, really get at us for 20 minutes and see what happens.
Dan
And because we managed to, you know, however, you know, you want to, we stayed level, we stayed in the game and that kind of maybe made them have a rethink and we grew more into the contest after that second half. was a bit more even. I don't really think they caused us any real problems. Second half, I think the only nervy moments we had were in injury time.
Mike Dowling
So, obviously, I can't watch it. It's Saturday for a club. Were they quite physical? Did we deal with the physicalities well, better than we have been previously?
Dan
Again, this is something I think where Tamworth probably will from other sides will probably cop an unfair rap of all the big ugly and physical. I wouldn't say they were unduly physical. I mean, Jake Taylor got a few lumps kicked out of him by the guy, his oppo. But I think that's just simply because he's a he was a bet.
Dan
He was I mean, he ran that midfield yesterday. You know, he deservedly got mad at the match. He was superb. But yeah, he got lumps kicked out of him.
Dan
But that's just because he was He was bossing the bloke and the bloke thought, well, I've got to keep letting him know I'm here. Yeah. So apart from that, I wouldn't say the kick lump, you know, that they were physically physical.
Mike Dowling
Yeah, I don't mean overly. I just know that we have struggled in the past, maybe whether it's mentally or not. We're against teams who are physical because it's quite a young team. But you don't think that was the case.
Dan
No, I think we coped fairly well with sort of the competing in that respect. Yeah.
Mike Dowling
Excellent. We then scored. 70th-ish minute, David. That would have been at your end then, was it?
Mike Dowling
No, far end. It was the far end.
Dan
No, we had the joys of watching us defend for the second four or five, which is never my favourite position.
Mike Dowling
Fair enough. Um, but did that goal feel like it was coming? Um, when he came on, he hasn't struggled, but he's taken a little bit of time to adapt to full time football, which is what he said to me a few weeks ago. But were you expecting it from that quarter or was the goal just out of the blue?
Mike Dowling
Um,
Dan
I think we we've not long made the change to bring on matters and David. I think at the point of the subs, I think the game is meandering to a nil nil. That, like I say, they didn't really they didn't really cause us any problems for the vast majority of the second half. They kind of seem to have just run out of ideas a little bit.
Dan
So, yeah, I think it was probably on a course for a a board draw and then we made the change and as Aggie said in his post match, you know, just change shape a little bit. He likes his two up front and I think that just gave us a little bit more of an outlook going forward. I wouldn't say the goal was coming but I if you were going to say if anyone was likely to win it from that point, it was probably us because we were just in and around there half a bit more with the ball. And yeah, I'd say it's probably out.
Dan
It was out. one of about two or three real bits of quality from us on the day. We just, again, we were quite patient with the ball, moved it around, got it, moved forward when we could. And yeah, decent ball from Will Tisdale in behind for Simms to make the run.
Dan
And yeah, and as soon as the ball, the little threaded ball was made, you could see Davide's run. And it was, you know, it was begging to be tucked away and he took his chance well. I think he's been a bit unlucky actually when he came in. If he'd have come in, a month before he did.
Dan
Yeah. I think we might have seen a bit more of him before now because when we were on that little run. Yeah. He came in just as we kind of like that post.
Dan
That post Shrewsbury kind of stumble. And he's coming to the side and going, what have I signed up for here?
Mike Dowling
We're not blaming you, David. No, it's all right. It's not your fault. It's just your signings coincided with us.
Dan
Yeah, I don't. People have been saying when we've talked about him sort of in the pub and the bar afterwards, just saying, hey, and I'm like, yeah, but to be fair, what have we given him chances wise? Not a lot. um and he and when we brought him in aggie said he was a decent finisher and i was like we'll give the lad a chance to finish yeah i mean so obviously it's at a lower level but i think he's i've read and i'm pretty sure on this
Dan
it was like 86 appearances 43 goals um which is pretty damn good um one in two as a striker at any level's good yeah but even even if he then steps up and does one in three that's yeah bloody good that's still decent
Mike Dowling
but he's not going to be a player who tracks back, wins the ball, beat 16 players, and then scores. He's going to be the one that sticks out his big toe, his backside or knee, and it goes in. And we haven't had, we're not used to that kind of player.
Dan
I think he's going to be a bit of a Will Davies. He's going to be, when you give him the chances, he'll be a finisher and he'll probably have little spurts and bursts here and there where he will score you goals. And there's just going to be other games that don't suit him, but. I haven't seen any.
Dan
I mean, there's a lot of signings we've made for this season that I wouldn't just go, yeah, not interested. Whereas with him, yeah, I want to see him. Like I say, if it arrived in that little purple patch pre Shrewsbury, I think we'd have seen a couple more goals from him. We'd have seen a couple of goals from him already.
Mike Dowling
Yeah. However, he did kind of, I mean, Aggie said he's going to get a fine, which I'm with Aggie on this. I mean, what did you see? What did you think of the absolute awful celebrations at the end of the match where he ran up to do the fist bump and then the sue?
Mike Dowling
I mean, what's that about?
Dan
I know some of this stuff will work with him. Yeah, it's a little flamboyant.
Mike Dowling
I mean, the Greeks said, well, we'll have a whip around and pay the fine. I'm not joining in that. No, no, no, young man, you made your choices.
Dan
No, there was only one yellow card yesterday. One fine I'd have paid yesterday. And that's if Jack Sims had got booked for time wasting while we were pissing around with a ball in the crowd. He was stood there facing us going, with his arms out, as if to say, you know, give me the ball back.
Dan
But he's going to us, I don't want the ball. Don't give me the ball. And we all just stood there going, what, you think we're giving you the ball? Did they not have other balls?
Dan
I mean, that's on them. Yeah, Nick was there with his crutch trying to play fumbling disabled man in background. Oh, it's all right. I've got a crutch.
Dan
I'm struggling. I'll get him the ball in a second. And we're like, if you give him the ball back, I'm going to punch you.
Mike Dowling
Chucked out for punching Nick.
Dan
Yeah, sorry. It's all right, Jack. This isn't our first radio. We are dickheads.
Dan
We're holding on to that ball for about the next three weeks.
Mike Dowling
Did he go down when we scored? Because that was missing a couple of weeks ago.
Dan
Yes, we immediately had the trainer on for Jackson sitting down. Yeah, his injuries.
Mike Dowling
Those ankles. Outrageous. It's just the excitement. I think he gets so excited when we score.
Mike Dowling
It's just the adrenaline runs through his ankles and he's just like, oh.
Dan
I mean, I feel a bit woozy when we score a goal.
Mike Dowling
And what was, I don't know how many made the trip yesterday. I don't know if you heard, but just over a hundred, I think was it a hundred and it was over a hundred.
Dan
I think it was like 105. They announced it for a member correctly. I might be wrong.
Mike Dowling
And how was, how was the sort of atmosphere? I know you're all having great fun holding the ball there, but how was the atmosphere in general? Was it, was it lots of noise getting us through the last few minutes?
Dan
Yeah. Yeah. Everyone's sort of, you know, up the noise. I mean, we went there, obviously we went there opening day of last season.
Dan
And yeah, it was probably about a third as many people there. So yeah, there wasn't much from the home crowd until sort of, it was a bit during the second half, but yeah, the guys, you know, the lads kept them, made a fair bit of noise, kept them, just let the team know that we're there and we want them to try and get over the line. So, but yeah, when the board went up and it was nine minutes, it was a bit more of, through your fingers and then immediately straight afterwards the bloke toe pokes one across the box and Jack's oh is that going what is that oh no it's going to nick
Dan
off the inside of the post and flick past him it was like oh god don't do this please
Mike Dowling
So last week Robbie Savage said we were in a false position. I know you kind of looked at that after Trowsby. I was really excited. Now I'm like, ooh, not sure.
Mike Dowling
Do you agree? Do you think we're in a false position? I mean, you're old enough, the same as me and a lot of other people, of Nottingham Forest all those years ago. Too good to go down, play lovely football.
Mike Dowling
But where do you sort of see we are at the moment?
Dan
Um, yeah, I mean, that I am. I both agree and disagree with that too good to go down thing. Yeah, you can have a collection of players if you look at them and go, why are they where they are? Like our team that went down from League Two, that on paper, probably the best squad we allegedly have ever had.
Dan
And they have not being existent for six months. So you can have a good side, but if you ain't putting the rubber to the asphalt, you aren't out there winning games. As you said earlier, performances at the end of the day are outweighed by results. If you aren't getting results, you know, your results determine where you should be in the league.
Dan
So yeah, it's a bit of A, bit of B. You looked at the squad and thought, oh, they should be all right. They should be a bare minimum. Same as last year.
Dan
And yeah, so I can see why Robbie Savage said that, because. we were more than competitive against his side. So, you know, we didn't look anything like out of our depth. They absolutely destroyed us at their place.
Dan
I didn't get to see that game, but everyone said they were just streets ahead of us. So, yeah, his statement's probably correct, but the results are where we are. So, I think, as I said earlier, I think we'll, I think we'll stay up. I'm confident we will stay up, but it will be closer than a lot of people would like it to be.
Dan
It's not going to be, we're going to win five or six in a row now and not be looking over our shoulders. I think there's still going to be stuff to play for the last month, six weeks of the season, maybe.
Mike Dowling
Well, I was looking at the table and if we were to win the next seven games in a row and no one above us won, we'd be in the playoffs.
Dan
Yeah. Don't start that bollocks. someone someone someone on the train home who shall remain nameless did state as we were pulling out of town uh just after we'd left Tamworth oh we're 20 points off the playoffs i'm gonna be honest that man had been drinking so i'll just say that but yeah
Mike Dowling
I'll be honest, in November, I was like, we are only 18 points off. I know it sounds silly, but in November, it's like, we're only 18 points off. Annoyingly, all the way through, we stayed only 18 points off. And I'm like, we're not picking any of these up at the moment.
Mike Dowling
That's really frustrating. If we had been, Christ, I would have been very excited. But I mean, do you think we're going to be lower bottom half or higher bottom half? Do you sort of let's let's go with the bottom eight?
Mike Dowling
Do you reckon we're going to be out of that or in that bottom eight?
Dan
I'd say I'd say kind of around where we are at the minute, 16th to around 18th, I think. I'd prefer us to be 15th, 16th, just because you can say, well, OK, you've not really been in too much trouble there. And it gives you something to build on next year. But yeah, I don't know.
Dan
I'd be surprised if we pushed on much more, just basically because there is a little gap there now between that, that, that bottom eight, as you say, I think there's, that's very close. And then there's like a five, six point jump. Yeah. Um, so yeah.
Mike Dowling
Would you, would you think that Aggie would think That's a good job. That's acceptable. Or would you think, oh, I should have done more? I mean, we know that Claire's going to be in office and cry because he said the playoffs are a possibility.
Mike Dowling
And if we don't get there, she'll cry. So he has that to deal with in a few months. But what can we do? But do you think he'll, you know, write in cheques?
Mike Dowling
Yeah.
Dan
Cheques you can't cash.
Mike Dowling
Don't promise things like that. Exactly. But do you think he'll see this as something to build on based on where we were when he came in?
Dan
I mean, when he came in, he was obviously very upbeat. You know, you're going to be because he was coming into a team that was basically bottom, second bottom or wherever we were. We'd won one game. So he's going to come in and be upbeat and positive.
Dan
And that's fine. You know, I get and he does seem to be that sort of guy. I think the last few weeks we've seen a little bit more of his actual kind of thinking and his viewpoints, where he's been a little bit more, realistic's probably not the right word, but he's been a bit more honest, shall we say, about where the squad is, where we are.
Dan
So yeah, I mean, I'm sure he'll be disappointed if we say finish 17th. On the one hand, it's like, well, look, I came in and my job was to keep us up. you know, just stay in the division. But I think he'll be probably a little bit disappointed that he wasn't able to, uh, get a tune a little bit quicker out of the squad and also maybe, um, win a few more.
Dan
There'll certainly be points where he'll be disappointed with, but as long as we stay up just this year and then he, at least he can really put his stamp on it for over the summer.
Mike Dowling
And then when he's expressing this disappointment in the part in the season, what will you say?
Dan
I'd drink up. Yeah. Isn't it your round again? I'd agree with him, you know, because he's clearly an ambitious young coach, a young manager, and he wants and he does see this as he sees it as a big job, you know, worthy.
Dan
He came from a club that's been doing well the last few years, worthy. You know, they're not exactly chopped liver of late. You know, they've been up that top part of the National South challenging for a few years now. So, yeah, I think he'll, like I say, he'll have personal disappointments or regrets or whatever.
Dan
But at the end of the day, as long as we're in the division next year, then you've got you've got a platform to build on and move forward.
Mike Dowling
And do you see another turnover of players in the summer?
Dan
Um, the third year in a row, there's obviously going to be a number of departures. Um, I don't think a lot of them are going to be a surprise because as Aggie said himself, I'm sending the guys that have gone out on loan are the ones I don't think can push us forward. Um, and I think by and large, I think he's right there. Um, so yeah, there's just gonna be a few guys who just don't get deals next year.
Dan
Um, it's, I think what he's also trying to do is if he can bring in replacements now, so they're in the building ready for next season. So he doesn't have to go through a bloody preseason with a brand, a totally brand new squad, then great. But yeah, there's going to be other changes, I think. And there'll be other new faces in, in the, in the summer.
Mike Dowling
I've just realized we're talking about the end of the season. It's like, no, that's no, this can't come this soon. So next match is Brackley at home. How do we back up?
Mike Dowling
um again back up the result at the weekend uh do we have to kind of try and blow them away do we be patient would you keep the same starting 11 or change a few players with people coming back i mean i know nadis and pruti kind of have another week under their belt Mm-hmm.
Dan
Yeah, pretty yeah pretty was available. We didn't feature yesterday. So I don't know. I think he'll largely stay with the same side With nadas having done.
Dan
What was it? 25 30 minutes yesterday. I Guess it's down to whether he thinks he's got enough in the tank to do an hour and maybe bring Brandon on and or You know Rodari or Or does he go with Brandon again? But yeah, bottom line is, get the win.
Dan
Just get a win. I know this is something, a drum I keep banging, you gotta win your home games. If you don't win those, you're in the shit. We have two away wins this year.
Dan
You've got nothing to fall back on there at the moment. So you've got to win your home games. And especially in sides in, that bottom half of the table and when they're in that sort of bottom seven or eight. Yeah, that lump.
Dan
We've got, I think someone said we've got home games against Brackley. We've got Braintree to come at home, Wheelston to come at home. We've got to play Truro at home. There's one, at least one more as well.
Dan
I think we've got to play Altea at home. All sides are arning great form on any real form all season. And, you know, I'm not slagging people off nor are we really, but when you look at it, they're the games they've all got to come to us. You've got to win those.
Dan
Yeah. If you can win, I think we said there was six, so you can win five of them plus yesterday. That's six of your seven or eight he wants. Yeah.
Dan
So you've then just got to go and pick a couple of elsewhere.
Mike Dowling
Exactly. Um, prediction. I know you don't do the prediction league but AI has gone for 2-0 with simps to score first. I'm going to go with 3-1 with David O'Connor to score.
Dan
What would you say? I'd like to see another clean sheet. That would be good and I think it's achievable because they don't score a lot of goals. Which I knew that before I said 3-1, but OK.
Dan
Yeah, they haven't scored a lot of goals this season. So, yeah, I'd say, with our defensive record of late, I'd say it's more likely to be a 2-1. Maybe, maybe, uh, maybe, uh, lead to Neil concede with five to go and then spend the remaining five plus whatever the, it's to add on with us shitting ourselves. But, um, yeah, hopefully we can get a win, but yeah, I'd say it won't be a comfortable one.
Dan
It probably two one. Perfect.
Mike Dowling
Okay, well, thank you very much, Dan. We're going to wrap up this episode of Sutton Podcast. As always, we appreciate everyone's attention and feedback. Follow, like, share, thumbs up on all the, well, YouTube's mostly, but everywhere.
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Mike Dowling
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