Welcome to the latest episode of Sutton United Talk Time on Podcast, where we celebrate Sutton United's rollercoaster journey, brought to you by LuckystarGin. This week, host Mike welcomes panelists Claire and Joe to dissect Sutton’s thrilling FA Trophy clash against Ebbsfleet. From nail-biting penalties to passionate discussions on the future of Sutton’s fan base, this episode is packed with insight, humour, and heart.
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Sutton Podcast: Hello and welcome to another episode of Sutton United Talk Time on podcast. It's the Sutton podcast in association with LuckystarGin. I'm your host Mike and today we have on the panel Joe and Claire. We're going to be covering the draw against Ibsfleet and progressing via penalties and then look forward to an expected match at Halifax But from the little raised eyebrow I got from Claire there, we may discuss whether a penalty shootout counts as a win or if it counts as a draw. We love hearing from you. Join the conversation, that engagement. I love it. You
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Sutton Podcast: know that. Get the thumbs up and all the rest of it and join, join in, share, retweet and talk to me. Don't jump in. So Claire, apart from some hair washing and half a job of nail painting and jukebox fixing with future proofing the equipment, How have you been since about 2 weeks ago?
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Claire: Yeah, not bad, thank you. You know, just same old, same old work and lots of football related bits and pieces, but not too bad. Yeah, Thanks.
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Sutton Podcast: Good, good. And are you pleased with our future proofing of the jukebox for generations to come?
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Claire: I mean, we did some wonderful work with a magic marker, basically, didn't we?
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Sutton Podcast: A pink magic marker as well.
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Claire: But that's what everyone should everybody be travelling with, really, because that's all I'm equipped with at home, is a pink sharpie.
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Sutton Podcast: We vote on the plugs because every week, Joe, people get in and go, which one's the jukebox? And it's like, that's it on there.
01:45 - 01:51
Joe: I was more prepared this time and yet still I couldn't walk for about 2 minutes afterwards after I got up from the commentary box.
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Claire: So
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Joe: yeah, it was cold yesterday. I cannot lie to you.
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Claire: You need to get heated insoles in your shoes. They're a game changer.
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Sutton Podcast: It will heat up your sleeve.
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Claire: On a game day this time of the year.
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Sutton Podcast: Also Joe, how have you been this week?
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Joe: I have been very busy. Very busy? I have been very busy. I've got a very important big tomorrow.
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Sutton Podcast: Anything you want to share with the group, Joe? What do you want me to say?
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Joe: You can say it but I can feel like you want to give it the big reveal. No, no, no, no, I'm quite
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Sutton Podcast: happy for you to say it, it's your news not mine.
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Joe: No, no, go on, give it a big, sad, podcast reveal.
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Sutton Podcast: Joe has been accepted into a fairly, fairly big university.
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Joe: Well, well, not accepted. I've got
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Sutton Podcast: an interview. An interview.
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Joe: That's different. That's a reveal and a half.
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Sutton Podcast: So Joe is going to be accepted to a big college, university after his interview.
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Joe: Hopefully. Yeah, I've got an interview with Cambridge tomorrow, which I spent a lot of today and the last week getting ready for. I'm quite tired, but luckily I don't have to go to school tomorrow morning. I can because it's online. I get to have a nice relaxing morning and then have to face off against some very academic people.
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Sutton Podcast: Show them this podcast. Exactly.
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Joe: I showed them all the work.
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Sutton Podcast: Show them this and go look how good I am.
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Joe: I do think though, I do think I looked into their interest and I think if you look my name up this will come up and other football stuff and then will come up to the interviewers who are interviewing me I have a really big interest in football in their respective fields So I think they've picked 2 people, 1 of them has got an interest in like religion in football and the other ones like football behaviour and how it influences stuff like that. Now, I don't know if that could be an entire coincidence, but it just seems
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Joe: quite odd that you'd have 2 football fans who mention it on their like academia page ish to a very football mad and football like journalist oriented potential candidate so I don't know that could be a benefit
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Sutton Podcast: yeah good good good big and oh very best of luck I preempted it saying well done but
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Joe: we'll see. I'm confident.
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Sutton Podcast: Yeah right we're going to jump into the knowing me knowing you segment and this is quite a fun 1 for you too because not much typical days. But the question you guys have is what does a typical day look like for you, a typical match day sorry. Claire we'll start with you, give us your typical day.
04:30 - 05:04
Claire: It's busy, I'll put it that way. I normally get to the ground about 12, half 12-ish for a home game. Go to the office, see what's going on, what people need doing. And then I think I basically spend the next 2 and a half, nearly 3 hours just walking around talking to people and trying to problem solve if anything's going wrong or just talk to people and explain things or just have a bit of a natter, make sure everyone's okay. I definitely get in my, I do about 10, 000 steps just going around around the ground
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Claire: which is insane. But yeah, she's just queen of the app really, that's what I do on match day. And then if anything needs doing in particular for anyone behind the scenes with its kind of ticket related or events related or helping Tim or anyone then yeah that's kind of what I'm doing.
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Sutton Podcast: And then you have to kind of oversee the Strikers of Key.
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Claire: Yeah that's my post-match activity. I do all the admin for Strikers of Key. So whilst AB is very much the face of it, I do all the behind the scenes bits and pieces on that and keep that ticking along nicely. So yeah, that's some... Once you've got to Strikers of Key, like that, the day nicely kind of done and wrapped up so like I kind of enjoy that bit whereas sometimes the rest of it is a bit chaotic and you're running around and trying to sort stuff out so I don't feel like I watch as much
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Claire: as the game as I perhaps did prior to doing this role but yeah it just depends on the day.
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Sutton Podcast: Yeah. Great. Can say when you podcast talk about football. So AB is the head of it and you're unlike in a, what's that film? The Greek wedding where you're the neck, the mother, The father controls the head and the mother controls the neck and tells it which way to go.
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Claire: I like to think of him more as the face and me as admin. I feel that.
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Sutton Podcast: Joe, what does a typical game day look like for you?
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Joe: I get to the ground around 1.45 per ish. Then depending, well, this now that I'm doing media, normally I go get the match pass, go to the media office, say hello to everyone, say hello to Tony, say hello to James, say hello to all those lot. And then depending on where I am, either, I normally, if I'm on the gantry, I don't actually get food at the ground because I know that I don't particularly, I don't know, I just, whenever I'm on the gantry, I always seem to go to get go to Greg's if I'm in
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Joe: the main stand I'll get something at roses so that'll be that'll be that and then depending on where I am what I'm doing do watch the game from either of those places, then over to the post-match interview, Saliton, you normally might, then I watched the post-match interview, then go to the the press, the media office, and just sit down for a bit and then wait and then normally a few of us get the train and home by about 7. So that's quite good. But what we did realise yesterday is I think my 18th is on a
07:44 - 07:56
Joe: home game day. So the media team said you can, we will treat you to a drink on Mr. Mr. Jack Daly is very kind of that so
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Claire: I'm sure you need to be rinsing Jack Daly's wallet that day I'm afraid not just 1 drink
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Sutton Podcast: yeah he
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Claire: needs to be buying you multiple drinks
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Sutton Podcast: yeah I drink so far yeah yeah and media page they Wow. Right. Last week I brilliantly mixed up Maidstone and Maidenhead again while saying we're about Russia 1-1 and said it's going to help us with the promotion running. No-one called me out on it, I only realised about 20 minutes ago, so fuck. Ladies Match has called off and they have got a very nice game lined up in a couple of months with Guernsey in early February.
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Claire: I'm absolutely gutted that I'm away for my birthday then, or I would definitely be going to that.
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Sutton Podcast: But yeah, it's on a Wednesday so it's a bit of a midweek but it could be a very fun, messing 1. And yeah, see anyone there. Button to the match very quickly. Let's go Joe.
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Claire: You missed the biggest announcement of the day there you talked about all the things that are coming up but you didn't talk about the big the big reveal for what's happening in May we come to that later
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Sutton Podcast: no I forgot it oh I didn't forget it's in my calendar already, but gone. Oh, remind me,
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Claire: that is testimonial.
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Sutton Podcast: I'm those testimony testimony of a legend.
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Claire: And they get to make that in your calendars.
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Sutton Podcast: 21 of May
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Claire: 25th
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Sutton Podcast: was it? If I force it,
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Claire: you know, it's a Sunday. Something excellent. So bank holiday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, so
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Sutton Podcast: we can have football and drinks. It won't mess with the playoffs, even if we get to the final, because even if we get to the final, we're not going to win it.
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Joe: That's terrible for me, Mike.
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Claire: No, I don't know. We don't
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Sutton Podcast: do this. I'll go to Wembley. But
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Claire: just get over yourself. Yeah, if we get to Wembley, it's happening. Just strap in and enjoy. I think it will.
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Joe: If we get to Webley it will happen.
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Sutton Podcast: 90th time lucky. Right. Okay.
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Claire: Anyway,
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Sutton Podcast: right, Joe line up and expectations. What was your thoughts of this game? I mean, bottom of the table, It's just really nice little rubber stamp. We just had to turn up in way
10:21 - 10:46
Joe: Yes, and no, I mean they had no expectations to be honest Which is a little slightly odd when you go into a game because they were understood, you know We've beaten before it wasn't convincing. We're a better team now and their bottom them and no 1 likes their manager No 1 likes their players. They're Very few were going to turn up from their away end. It was all for playing conditions and we were on our home pitch. And that combination of things, it kind of is a part of it, which they turn up with if, you
10:46 - 11:15
Joe: know, let's go into it with an open mind, see what we can do. But it's the trophy, I think if we get into the, you know, sharp end of the trophy this year, it's another competition we can have a go at because you might maybe think the bigger teams in the division, maybe the Gatesheads who won it last year, the Frost Greens, the Oldham's, the Yorks who might be pushing for autos might take that competition as a bit of a back seat and depending on where we are we might actually start to prioritise it a bit
11:15 - 11:43
Joe: like Gateshead did last year because they were on the back end of the playoffs and didn't really think they were going to get in. They snicked in but obviously they had the whole stadium thing. So I think it's a competition. I thought we might rotate a little bit more than we did. I wasn't sure if we'd have... We played quite a similar team. Like the Ransoms, the Coleys of this world who kind of played a bit on Tuesday night, but I thought we might have Colies starting, I thought we might have French starting, Mullers, you know,
11:43 - 12:22
Joe: Steve Morrison loves Hayden Muller, so I thought we might just have him starting. Thought the map dark rod was starting. But the next 232 weeks are dead hectic. Like Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday. So 5 games in 2 weeks is a lot. And there's no easy games in there at all and you've got to make calls maybe against a slightly weaker absolute side can even field a full suspense so line-up was good I didn't really do a prediction. Shout out to Aaron who put Jack Waddle on the team sheet twice. Jack Daly would want me to
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Joe: say that so that was class.
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Claire: I don't think Jack would want you to bring it up actually.
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Joe: I'm allowed to say it. But yeah, it was, yeah, I was happy with the line up.
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Sutton Podcast: Good stuff. Claire, what was your sort of thoughts, expectations ahead of the game and line up?
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Claire: I feel quite weird going into it actually. I think it's possibly, I don't know, there was just, I just had a bad vibe yesterday morning when I got up and it wasn't, I don't know, just came from nowhere. So my expectations were massively high. Some kind of pessimism snuck into me. We know that I'm the eternal pessimist. Most of the time I find myself being quite optimistic about stuff that's going on at the moment, but yesterday I felt a bit Like 1 of those weird ones of where everybody expects it to go a certain way because
13:20 - 13:48
Claire: of how other people are playing and you kind of think What's up? Oh Like is that is that what's gonna play out here and you don't really know and I think also like in those conditions Like I just think anything could have happened. It's not just to say that like ability obviously doesn't massively come into it. But like, that weather was just horrific. And the wind was awful. And more than anything, and I just thought like, I wouldn't want to be out there. So you just kind of, it's a, it's a strange 1.
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Sutton Podcast: Yeah, it was 1 of those that you're like oh she's been this easily comfortable oh hang on a minute just it's stuff all that because I mean I've written this down for later but but a club is struggling A cup competition can be a nice distraction because suddenly it takes
14:05 - 14:30
Claire: off. Absolutely, because you kind of go, okay cool, we're not going to do very well in the league so we might as well focus on this and actually get something out of our season. And I think there is always that kind of that attitude isn't there? And you know if you are doing well in your league, then sometimes you kind of go, okay, well, actually, do we want to focus on this? Do we need these extra games? Do we need the distraction from the thing that we should be doing? So it's, it's a strange 1, kind
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Claire: of psychologically as to where you go from it but like I think I know full well that our attitude is to go out there and win games like regardless of whether they're legal, cup or whatever so like that wasn't kind of what was playing in my mind it was just more I don't know banana weird feeling yeah
14:47 - 15:18
Sutton Podcast: yeah there was a a little brief discussion, people around me, talking about our lack of striker options and why we let rush grow and grow and go and did we need to bring someone else in and then 25 minutes later, we'll have to go on, which kind of brought it into a lot sharper focus. Josh then came on, did really, really well. Then took a very hefty challenge, which the referee gave us a lovely throw on for.
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Claire: I mean that was outrageous.
15:20 - 15:43
Sutton Podcast: Yeah, he did say, I saw a message, it looked quite painful and I got a response back, Jesus was it. So yeah, not sure how that's going to go. But I mean, what do you think about our sort of strike options? Do you think we're gonna get someone back in? We're gonna call people back from loan? Or just see how it is? I think it was his lip someone said.
15:44 - 16:16
Claire: Yeah I think he has some stitches in his lip. Yeah. I think you'll see how we'd see how he is to be honest and then kind of go from there. Like I'm no expert in that kind of field whether or not we're going to decide that this is the best time to add to kind of our roster as it were because we adapted I think ultimately so there are options whilst they might not be the most obvious of ones so it's just what is it what you do is it do you do what you do can
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Claire: do with what you've got? I don't know. I don't want to call it to be honest.
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Sutton Podcast: This is kind of where I was going to go with it. It's like, well, if we get someone else in, what happens in a few weeks when we get Jayden back? I don't know how long Will, I don't think he got concussed or anything so I think he should be able to come back. But Joe, what do you think? Do you think it's a for a short term or make people sort of step up and just play different ways. I mean, Nana didn't do too bad, did he?
16:49 - 17:23
Joe: No, he didn't. I don't think we'll be out for long. I think it'll be back next week by all accounts, obviously. Nadas didn't play FNAN, should be fit for Halifax on Tuesday. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a dip into the low market only because Matt Rush isn't the striker like Davies or Nadas and he's up top. He doesn't have the physicality which we need. He's a very good striker and he's scored the goal for his debut for Maidstone. And he's good coming off the bench and maybe we might see a return for that. But
17:23 - 17:55
Joe: I wouldn't be surprised maybe in January if we saw a come a more powerful, bigger striker coming on loan. Like obviously we've made a lot of reinforcements defensively and we've got the loan of Waller coming to an end. I wouldn't be surprised if you saw him go back to MK considering we've got Clark, French, Muller all back fit now with Topolodge as well being added. It feels like we've got pretty stacked offence. Jaden's out for the rest of the season but as he feels on it feels pretty good. Nana is starting to find his feet a
17:55 - 18:32
Joe: bit more. He's not, as much as Josh did well yesterday, he's just not that, like, There was a difference between when Will and Ashley play there and when Josh now inducted into those roles. Just the imprint you have on those centre backs. And, you know, Will was, it wasn't remarkable in those first 25 minutes, but you really saw how vital he is for when we play that long ball forward because Josh couldn't win those headers and Niamh Kandana or Jess. So I would be surprised if we saw a move perhaps maybe using me all connections again
18:32 - 18:55
Joe: for Steve but I don't think it's something massively to worry about because it's not like we play with 2 strikers. I think if we're playing with 2 strikers, it might be more of a concern, but playing with 1, having 2 very strong wingers and knowing that Nadda's and Will can play there, that makes it slightly more okay. But I wouldn't be surprised if we if we saw a move for a striker main the next month
19:00 - 19:31
Sutton Podcast: and you're looking for that loan would you want to come to something where someone's played basically every minute of every game? Because you're like, I'm going to shift him and if you're the club, so if you're Millwall again, if you're Millwall you're going to go, well what's the point of sending this player there to come off the bench for 10, 15, 20 minutes. So there's a lot to go there because obviously we've got Nadiz I didn't mention and he's doing a right score and a few goals. A couple of nice assists. Someone did mention in 1
19:31 - 19:49
Sutton Podcast: of the comments for last week I think that he Gillingham aren't obviously keen on him coming back so I don't know what his situation is whether he's got another year or he's out at the end of the season so we need to make him feel very very welcomed. We all love him.
19:51 - 20:02
Joe: I saw someone yesterday saying how did we let Harry Smith go? Because he let Scored Free for Swindon yesterday and I was like, well There's a thing there called relegation.
20:03 - 20:36
Claire: Yeah, but there's also, I mean, it's not even just that, is it? Like we talked about this last time I was on, like, would you, would you want Larry Smith in the squad? Because I like, I wouldn't. And I just think like, bluntly, and I know there's a lot of factors in play, but his behaviour and his, from a on the pitch perspective, like, and the cards and the way that he dealt with, you know, the red card and ultimately then ended up with kind of that ridiculously long ban is something you could potentially really pin
20:36 - 20:55
Claire: on us having been relegated in the first place. So like, I'm not saying it's solely his responsibility, but you've been a massive part in that. And I personally wouldn't want him in the squad. So when people say it, I'm like, no, thanks. Like, yeah, it's a massive Alan Partridge gift moment for me.
20:56 - 21:22
Sutton Podcast: Well, that's what Alex did. Jumped on me last week. I said, do you think he regrets it? I wouldn't have him back. I wasn't actually the question. Yeah, you're right. I mean, was it 9 games in the end he was banned for? And had I mean, against Barrow, we were winning at the point. Had we got those extra few points from those 9 games could we possibly have stayed? I mean there's lots of ifs but some maybe.
21:22 - 21:26
Claire: There's lots of ifs but like that to me is a contributing factor.
21:28 - 22:00
Sutton Podcast: But good news from yesterday Simba got through another nice 45 minutes. Nanna scored a goal at the perfect time, great goal as well. I was a little bit concerned because people did celebrate a little bit early because I was like that hasn't actually hit the net, if that suddenly swerves wide now we're gonna look and really stupid then it hit the net and I was like fused 2 comments at halftime steve said to the players this could be as easy as you want it or as hard as you want it and they chose the hard path
22:00 - 22:56
Sutton Podcast: which he was laughing at I'm not sure he would have been laughing had we lost on my noise but he was laughing saying it and Neil of this show mentioned we've not conceded the goal for over 400 minutes 20 minutes later we're 3 goals down and I meant to use this joke of my little video thing we were blown There were grumbles about how we're playing and we're playing awful. Let's just remember, going into this game, 4 straight wins, 0 goals conceded.
22:58 - 23:30
Claire: This is the thing that really frustrates me is that, so like in the second half, there was a couple of people stood near me who you would have thought that we hadn't won a game all year. They had nothing positive to say oh we're so weak, we're so this, we're so that and it's like, hang on, like, how many games have we went on the bounce now? Like, how much can you see this squad developing? How much can you see, like, what they're doing? Like, what are you watching? And if you're not enjoying it at all,
23:30 - 24:02
Claire: because by the sounds of it, you're not in any way, shape or form, and you didn't applaud when we scored or when we scored any of our penalties or at the end why are you here like that's really blunt and quite horrible but like if you're not getting anything from it and all you're doing exactly if you've literally got nothing nice to say like what is that like I don't understand don't get me wrong when bad things happen I understand being frustrated by them but I just I think We gave the ball away to them softly
24:02 - 24:18
Claire: a few times and they took advantage of it and we punished us for it and the rest of the time we were battling in some pretty horrific conditions and we put ourselves back to walk away with it, never in doubt in my mind.
24:19 - 24:51
Sutton Podcast: I had a quick, very quick snap conversation with Jack, well actually I said a couple of comments and he just laughed. Mr Sims, I did kind of say, you do want to keep us on the toes, I mean I don't think he was ever in doubt, he's just like, listen live and this shit up a little bit shall we but joe what I mean free 1 down even even the most die hard must be sitting there thinking yeah we've got home now will we and that was like 64 65 minutes I think it was
24:52 - 25:20
Joe: I was I was a bit taken aback on commentary I just kind of got quieter and quieter I was just like I was like and then it turned it around Harriet Harry Watling got on my nerves I mean yeah they came back from 3 1 down but you know the celebrations of the South you would have thought you won the Europa League. It was a lot. It was a lot. It was the third round of the FA Trophy tile in Storm Darrow. I get it, he hasn't won anything in like 10 games, but yeah, we were
25:20 - 25:47
Joe: all right. There was someone who made a comment when we were free 1 down in the in the crowd just in front of me where I was commentating and I had to pause because he said something I can't remember what it was Steve turned around and it was just, I think it was just after the Barber at goal. Steve turned around and almost gave a little, didn't look, just looked generally towards but like the front of the main stand as if that's what you get for saying that. It was a bit like, you remember, I think
25:47 - 26:11
Joe: it was someone in his first game of 2 hours, you promised us changes. And it was something along those lines. And it was a bit very much like, now listen to me now, this is we'll go on to get something from this. That was interesting. But, you know, I thought, throw you 1 down. I was, it was a part of me. I thought we could do it. There was optimism in my thoughts, but I never, I thought about 70 minutes, we needed the goal. Without the goal, without that chance, we wouldn't have got anywhere, obviously. But
26:11 - 26:14
Joe: you know, it sounds silly to say,
26:14 - 26:14
Sutton Podcast: but
26:15 - 26:41
Joe: We weren't good before the goal. The goal came out of nowhere, it was a bit of a really good strike and a lucky bouncing ball. After the goal, we were the best we played for all that. Before that, it wasn't like the pressure was building, like we were knocking on the door. We were nowhere. Like we weren't playing it. We looked like a team who were being 3, beating 3, 1. And yeah, I feel it was a bit of karma for everything as well I said it on commentary I said Callum Harriot so he made his
26:41 - 27:06
Joe: debut signed him with day or something I said to him I didn't say I said about the message the amount of times I come over here was like 3 and 2 players went down holding their faces to stop the play and then their physio I thought this was really cheeky so the carrier comes off he's fine he gets up completely fine just to stop the play referee has to stop his touch his face so then he doesn't come on he's completely fine as Sutton are attacking, as for Epsilear on the counter, like 3-4 v 3, he
27:06 - 27:28
Joe: comes on, on the pitch and it's completely a mark, because he wasn't there on the pitch before, and then all of a sudden, I think it was Harry Ransom, he started counting the referee saying you can't let him on at that point, or you can't allow them to let them on at that point. Because when they're coming forward, if you've got 3 v 3, it then becomes a 4 v 3 with a man sparing the back post with a ball, and then you can't mark it. So I thought that was on the... I said when Sid
27:28 - 27:57
Joe: scored, I said, I don't wish to sound, I said, this is a, this is a, this is a partisan broadcast. So, so apologies to any Ebb Fleet fans who are listening, but I said, that is Carver for, for, for that, for that goal, because, because there were people complaining about Jaco's having a foul throw and that not being a penalty and stuff like that. I was like, well, that's karma because you twisted it and your players took the piss of it and that's fair. So when we came back to 3-3, it was, I don't think it
27:57 - 28:20
Joe: was particularly deserved. I think they were affected with their 3 chances, but you know, it wasn't like it had been coming to them for ages they just had a really good 15 minutes and then since we scored we had an even better 15 minutes so you know I thought I didn't love the way they played that game and they they could have been a lot better about it and I think what ended up happening to them the way they only just held on to get to 90 minutes was was reflected for the fact that as a
28:20 - 28:31
Joe: team, they're not they have to resort to the kind of dirty tricks to get the get the game going. And, you know, if needs be, I don't think we'd be like that. But, you know, that's how we want to run a team.
28:32 - 29:01
Claire: I agree with you that For me, there should be more consequences to things like that. Like if you go down holding your head, you should have to go off for a prolonged period of time or like longer than just you standing over there because of the severity of what you're actually suggesting has happened to you. Like there was 1 point where 1 of them went down clutching their head as if they'd been kicked in the head. And I turned to Dave next to me and was like, that wasn't a head height. He put his head down
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Claire: as close as physically possible to our man to make it look like that is what's happened and then he's rolled around on the floor a bit like it's pathetic and it's really quiet like I just think there should be more more control over stuff like that personally.
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Sutton Podcast: It could have caused more because obviously if the referees catching it out of the peripheral sees the foot, the head and the kick in the head, they can be
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Joe: like right that's a card there,
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Claire: that's a red card. Absolutely, it's not right but you're right like that goal did change everything and you saw it there was almost that moment of like like we ran back to the center and you could see like like those shoulders went up and there was a step change in in kind of the attitude of like this is actually this is in our grasp now and yeah we can make it as hard as we want to make it and we have but let's keep going and they were very very lucky not to you know lose in
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Claire: full time because there were a couple of moments at the end there where it was hearts in mouth stuff, wasn't it? Quite frankly,
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Joe: if anyone, if anyone wants a really good piece of commentary, my voice crack when Finley Barbrook hits the bar is absolute quality. I think it's just it's it was it was after Coley had the follow up from Sivy or someone the ball was getting I was like, Sivy, Coley and then I think it all kind of become way too much and I think, because I just watched the ball slowly slide in and I was like, Barbrook from this, Barbrook! And people started turning around and I was like, this is a regained by composure there, because about
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Joe: 4 things have happened in 30 seconds. I'm trying not to show the fact that I'm trying to support this team from winning, but Finley Barber has almost just scored another stunner to put us 4
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Sutton Podcast: for real.
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Joe: I was like, it was chaos. That last 5 minutes was mad. I don't know how the ball didn't go in the net but their keeper made some very good saves and you know didn't have the best shootout but you know fair play to him.
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Sutton Podcast: Yeah I mean I did describe that hitting the bar and I said to his he said he was in the bar as well I said to him with his mum and dad, and I think his brother was there. There's great golfing, great fun. I'll let you not discuss the miss with him on the way home because technically you hit the bar, it's a miss. It's not on target,
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Claire: is it? Such an arse.
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Joe: Yeah, 20 yards out, it's always perfect.
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Sutton Podcast: But his first goal, did it or did it not seem like he was quite angry? The way he latched at that ball, it was like, Oh, someone's pissed him off. The keeper of
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Joe: the 3. The referee, the referee that he was, he got a long shot, so Chinacoli had to come over. And Barbrook was to every foul. There were multiple times where we just made good tackles and the referee would give a foul. Ref wasn't good in that second half. I often don't like to criticize refs. Ref wasn't good. He was he was he was giving even for both sides giving fouls and weren't fouls. He let the playing carry on. But Barber after every 1 like coming on at half time try it or not coming up he came
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Joe: on half time trying to inject some pace into the side was always in his ear. And it's when he got yellow carded, that foul wasn't a yellow card, but it was because of the accumulation of just every time being in the air and a cone. It reminded me of all the World Cups where Kane had to come over. Even though Kane had done nothing wrong. And it was always someone like Bellingham just always been the referee's here. But it was like, yeah, just stop talking now, mate. Cause it was always like straight over in the referee's
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Joe: house I was like Finney you gotta be careful if they threw 1 down That's when you need to red card and lose the 5 on Thursday So, you know, he was a man who when he came onto the pitch, you know When you're 1 nil up at halftime coming on a pretty good situation and the next 20 minutes you've seen bitch laced You know, I think he's got a right to be angry because the only thing that's changed is his entrance to the pitch so I don't think I'm not I'm not saying I'm not saying I'm
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Joe: just saying I'm not saying listen but did I the best go but you know I'm just you know I I think it was a bit of a pent up, pent up strike.
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Sutton Podcast: 1 of the worries is, so he was limping around for quite a while and he was like, Oh, is he going to go off? Who's going to come on for him? And then we get a penalty and he shuffles forward, smashed it. Great, great penalty.
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Claire: It was a wonderful penalty. Really, really wonderful.
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Joe: But I'm right, like bottom, bottom, right. Like keeper is 6 foot 4 foot 4 5, if I'm not wrong. And he got it like as close as you can to Missy.
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Sutton Podcast: Yeah. But Claire, a comeback, a great comeback, I mean, has anything ever happened like that collapsed at Ebslie before to lose to Sutton eventually? It might be in a league, I don't know.
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Claire: Maybe, I don't know. You're asking me to remember things and you know what my memory is like.
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Sutton Podcast: It was on your balcony for a while, wasn't it?
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Claire: Yeah, that was nice, wasn't it? That last little sign. 26 points
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Sutton Podcast: or something it was.
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Claire: We borrowed that but we had to take it back.
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Joe: Yeah, Absolutely. I think the funniest thing
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Claire: was when we were walking through Sutton with that championship sign that was huge that we borrowed from the club in a drunken moment and me, Dan and Nick being stopped by the police because they were like, where did you get that? And we were like, we found it, but we're taking it back in the morning. I was like whoops.
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Sutton Podcast: But yeah I mean the resilience and everything shown yes there was a little collapse and yes it's okay to laugh about it because we won. But how is this going to stand the team? Because they're going to get this feeling of we're not going to be beaten And that's going to carry us forward a little bit, isn't it?
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Claire: I think that's really, really important. And I think it's like, it's a lesson, isn't it? Like, you know, what you're saying is that at halftime, Steve said, you can make this as easy as you want to make it or as hard as you want to make it. And the case that they chose the latter, which probably isn't the best way to do things. But they went on and they got the job done. Whether that is how we would have liked them to have got the job done is irrelevant. They did it. They saw, you know, the
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Claire: potential pitfall and they avoided it and actually I think that things like that do help to boost you going forward and to build confidence in the kind of stuff of like we work together, we can, you know, overcome these obstacles and I think ultimately, yeah, it will be it's a narrow escape, isn't it, in some respects but job done.
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Sutton Podcast: Yeah absolutely as many people have said never in doubt.
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Claire: It wasn't in doubt, never in doubt.
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Sutton Podcast: Joe what do you think how do you think that's gonna stand the place in good stead going forward? Yeah. And the team, the squad in general?
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Joe: Well this run, we haven't really had a comeback win yet, if this season. I can think of Southend, but you know, it was only 1-0 down, and it was a bit of a nightmare for Schamane. Other than that, it shows the metal of the side which is definitely improving. It will give the momentum that's saying, you know, last few games, Maidenhead filed, arguably EBSFLEET. This is, The games we've had previously, they're a harder position, definitely. And people will be saying, look, we've just had easier games, that's why we get the results. We had, on paper, easier
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Joe: position, we were 3-1 down. Most, I reckon the team which started August, September, we fell 4-1, it was a 3-1 ending, like that, or we don't really have a comeback. That's the sound of a team getting closer and more tight-knit and really understanding you know what, how do we build that momentum back up. So I reckon it already helped us give us momentum going into the game. Halifax who knocked out, got knocked out the FA Trophy themselves yesterday. So, you know, we're going in a high, they're going in on a low, I've won it 3, knocked
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Joe: out the player position in the league. And then you go to Altrincham, who will obviously be looking for something back after we slapped them around the place when they came to us. And then for the National League Cup, which was a break. So, and then Tamworth again, which, you know, we didn't have a great performance last time and it's crazy to think we're playing a team for the second time in a season because it's flown by but I reckon if we'd had a loss against EBS Fleet, 2 away games up north, far away, less support, they're
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Joe: much harder whereas now you've got you know come back win not conceding 4 before that I'm beating in 5 is it now that is a very different team atmosphere as if you'd just been you know lost to the team that haven't won in 10 so it might it might it might be it could be very very beneficial to the to the to the to the pools that we see over the rest of the month.
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Sutton Podcast: Okay, well you mentioned something there at the start of that conversation And is a win on penalties a win? I'm putting it as a draw.
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Joe: I'm here as a win.
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Claire: Same as a win or loss. So we win. Otherwise, we wouldn't be going further, would we, mate?
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Sutton Podcast: Think about it. The game is a draw and we progressed on penalties.
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Claire: Oh life is a game, the whole thing is a win. There we go chalk it up as a win. Thank you very
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Joe: much. Euro 2020 final, who won?
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Sutton Podcast: Hang on but winning the match and winning the tie could be considered different things.
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Claire: No, just don't be done with it.
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Joe: We won the game on penalties, Italy won the game on penalties.
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Claire: You're an idiot.
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Joe: Move on.
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Sutton Podcast: I said it was a draw. You're not
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Claire: the authority on everything, you know.
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Joe: Oh, well, Claire, you might have a
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Sutton Podcast: reason to have lost Claire.
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Claire: This is my last appearance on the podcast, guys.
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Joe: Claire's been banned.
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Claire: Sorry, I'll get his media pass revoked.
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Joe: We can do a joint effort Claire.
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Claire: Exactly.
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Sutton Podcast: 1 other thing that come up and it's probably quite a large conversation but I'll take your quick thought on it. Tim's talking to different people on the forum and there was some question raised about the Parkside Terrace because obviously it should be the home terrace. I'm delighted if it changes that that's the way terrorists and we get the cover back, but that's a whole different story. But obviously we've had such a ridiculous weather yesterday. You're not going to go, Hey, you can't go there. Stand on the cover. But people are saying, well, hang on, when's that
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Sutton Podcast: going to be changing back? And he was saying things like, well, we need the money to do this this and this and basically his his point was we need bodies in and spending money and how are we gonna do that that wasn't an attractive game yesterday under any circumstances same division opponents it's fleet yeah yeah anyway the weather was just horrendous people have to pay because it's not a season ticket, but how can you get more than a thousand in to spend their money, even in the bars beforehand, clear afterwards, it was kind of dead. What
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Sutton Podcast: can we do? I mean, 1 person was saying a completely different thing of how great it was the other week when players and the management came for that supporters club thing. And you can't do that every week. But could you possibly have a rotor of someone coming in to just have a chat after a win? I mean, this is kind of your...
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Claire: There are people in there though, like this is the thing. So like, I appreciate like, you can't do that every week. And, and I know that that is what used to happen and that used to be something that everybody really, really loved and I get it and I understand being disappointed that that isn't how things are anymore but like that's going back to pre-COVID times when we weren't a professional football club, they weren't full-time footballers. These people are full-time footballers, they you know they some of them might not even drink right they don't want to be
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Claire: in the bar afterwards because that's not their environment or you know also is the fact that like a lot of those people don't live locally gone are the days where you know you've got half a squad that live 5 minutes down the road and they're all going to end up in a nightclub and starting on saturday night anyway because they don't train 5 days a week, they only come into the club on a Thursday night and whatever and they drink after that as well. Like times are very, very different but there are people around. I mean
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Claire: like a lot of my mates were texting last night to say that Meanie was in the bath for a fair few hours afterwards, you know, holding court and talking to people. Like there are people around who want to have a chat and do those things and they're approachable. It's just it's not going to happen on a weekly basis because people bluntly like they have lives and they want to go off and do other things and that's just not how things are anymore but those kind of which should make those special occasions like the supporters club evening
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Claire: last month and you know that won't be the 1 off that will happen again this season and other big occasions I mean if we find ourselves in some ridiculous trophy run or whatever then those kind of moments are synonymous with Sun United celebrations. You know if you look at what happened after we didn't win at Enverley and the party that then ensued like Those things are what make us special and those things will always happen. It just might not be that you get to drink with those people week in week out, unfortunately. I understand it's disappointing,
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Claire: but Yeah, times have just changed a little bit, unfortunately.
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Sutton Podcast: It is and the player culture has also changed. Some of those players, they're all, every time I've ever spoken to anyone, great guys, but I just get the feeling some of them are a little bit more reserved and shyer than players we've had
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Claire: on the pitch. That's totally fine and I'm like you have to remember how young our squad is as well like they don't they probably aren't comfortable in those situations and they probably don't want to hang out with with all of the fans and that's totally fine And I get that it's something that made us very unique, because you wouldn't get it at any other football club, kind of at our level, but it's, you know, it's just, it's 1 of those things. But there's, if there are things that people want to see before the game or after
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Claire: the game, that would entice them to come and drink more or, you know, be there, hang out, whatever. I like, then I'm open to all of those suggestions because, you know, we're trying lots of different things. We had bands on Tuesday night and a guitarist yesterday, there'll be another band before the next National League Cup game as well. If you want to see stuff just drop us an email and we'll see what I can do.
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Sutton Podcast: Yeah, especially if you've got any good ideas. Joe, what would you say is a good way of getting people, I mean you mentioned obviously when you're up in the country you probably haven't got time to queue up for the food and whatnot but how would we get more people going, right we're coming in we're getting a drink, we're buying something from the shop, not just rock up watch the football and go home again?
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Joe: I think you've got 1 thing which is gonna come in your favour and this is for a younger fans perspective. You've got a lot of fans who are 16, 17, who over the next 2 years will turn 18 and will come to that bar. You've got a lot of fans who maybe who maybe I haven't got whole families who in previous years You'll have a lot of young lads who are my mates for people my age who start to come to those events And obviously that's an influx of fans since pre-covid and that's actually probably
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Sutton Podcast: the more
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Joe: vote, maybe not on our forums, but on Twitter, on actual match days, they're the vocal lot, they're the lot who you hear and the ones who are away days and all that. They're the lot who in the next 2, 3 seasons who will be including myself in that, who will be the catering group because we'll be the ones who will be representing non-social media and you know, getting in, you know, representing the certain firms, stuff like that. So I would say we like, like, speaking on behalf of the younger fan base, love it when players come
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Joe: over and do the free cheers at the end, when me and you does it. We live for those moments where the players come over for a game, players clap after a game even if we lose an away game. I think stuff like the day at training is a good 1 because people love that. You know, after I'm trying to think what people like just, you know, saying especially to much younger fans, players with autographs, signing shirts, just even that, just like if 3 or 4 come out after a game or 3 or 4 just wait behind,
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Joe: if you just say yeah, they'll be available to do it and it's monitored. Or you buy this for 5 pounds, get 3 players to sign at the end. I know stuff like that. You'll get a much wider thing, but I think, you know, maybe not right now because actually we're not old enough, but next season, season after that, you'll have a lot of people who will be, I know who are drinking already, but will want to come to the club bar. This club is, you know, NASA part of their lives as it is mine. So you
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Joe: will see it come up. It just might take some time because, you know, you've got at least 500, 600 of people that age over the next few years who will join that and that's all because of the rise we've had over the last few years so it's coming just let us grow.
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Sutton Podcast: That's a very valid point I mean We might need to somewhat some of them to be coming back. So this is what we want now And yes, it may well change in 2 3 years time. But yeah, if there's anything for the now I'm sure Claire
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Claire: will be absolutely delighted. Yeah, like tell I mean I'm excited for what a future of the fan base looks like in that respect because like it is so nice to have that younger voice and and to have that kind of growth. And you're right, like they are just got to allow you to be legally old enough to go to the bar. And then you I'm sure you will all be in there, which is great. But if there are things that you want to see or do now, then like tell me or, you know, all come and
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Claire: have a chat with me or whatever. And we'll make that happen. I do want to do something that's like that. We obviously did that in the other week with Meanie and Salas that obviously was of an evening, but it'd be really nice to do something that's more targeted to our younger fans that takes place, whether that's during like, I don't know, the week when you guys are on college holidays or school holidays or whatever, so that like actually you can come in and meet people and talk to them and like we can hear your voice as
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Claire: well because as you say like you're the future which is very exciting.
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Joe: The 1 thing I would say is the first thing that comes to mind is watch alongs with players and stuff. Like England games, England friendlies, like realistically, I know maybe there's some of them more reserved, I can guarantee you. But they might all be at home with their families, but an evening where you're like pay 5, or you might all pay a 10-0 and you get a drink and maybe some chips or something. You get numbers if Steve Morris is gonna be there or John Mayne, Sij and Edwina are gonna be down there, you can sit
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Joe: with them and watch an England game or watch, I don't know, Super Sunday. Women aren't playing there this year, but if women had 1 game here, you know, watch the women's game and afterwards bunch of the bunch of displaying squad we watch in under Arsenal, Arsenal, City on the telly, so that might be the kind of thing where our age group would come along if there was the opportunity to meet these players and just have like a it doesn't have to be as meet and greet and actually like asking questions just be really relaxed because even
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Joe: some people just to be around them be in that kind of group atmosphere and it might be more comfortable for more players who have attracted it because obviously I think people have been going to the bar have different expectations of what comes for it if you've got people who have never been to the bar and actually much younger and maybe a bit like right these actions of playing a bit nervous and you might actually be rather just you know sit watching with your mates and they say hello and that be and that be enough for your
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Joe: day then that wouldn't be a bad idea.
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Sutton Podcast: Yeah. Nice little FIFA tournament going
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Joe: that that would come straight down for that.
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Claire: I mean, we do have an Xbox.
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Joe: It has
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Claire: to be said. Yeah.
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Sutton Podcast: Do get that going. Get that. I mean, yeah, I'm available for an evening of dad jokes. Just just going to chop that out there. No 1 wants
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Joe: that loss. Not profit, Mike.
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Sutton Podcast: Right. Well, thank God. Right. Very quickly.
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Claire: This is mine and joe's last podcast it seems
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Joe: You will not see us again when filming a Splinter podcast arrival Mike.
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Sutton Podcast: You may not see them at all.
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Claire: Oh we could do that, that was so funny.
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Joe: Tales of the Saturn podcast.
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Claire: Not the
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Sutton Podcast: Saturn podcast, thank god.
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Claire: This is not the Saturn United podcast.
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Joe: Was it the opposite? Yeah.
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Sutton Podcast: I was gonna ask Tim, Tim Vine if he wouldn't mind doing a little outro for me to go well you've listened to the nonsense that Mike has brought up let him know what went wrong.
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Claire: Like that YouTube typo I noticed the other week.
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Sutton Podcast: No, I'm sure she knows. Let's not bring that up because people just look for it. We're gonna bring up the good, the bad and the funny. Joe, what was good yesterday?
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Joe: Commentating on my first penalty shootout. Not many people get to do that in you know some people might not even get to do that even if they're like proper commentators because you know you might be doing league games you don't get that in the league so to do that it's got to be love on a win it's pretty cool with a comeback so yeah I really enjoyed that despite the fact that I looked like an Eskimo on that gantry. I had a hat, 2 hoods up, was putting half my coat in front of it, it was
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Joe: like a windshield, because the mic was blowing all over the shop. It was an interesting ride, but it was dead fun. So yeah, I really got that
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Sutton Podcast: 2 things that that was Neil's first ever live penalty shootout because he didn't get to Wigan and some of the other games He was away for so it was his first ever live penalty shootout and also not sure the wires and wherefores I didn't read the whole thing but Eskimo can't be said now. They don't like the term, it was a derogatory term that people took back and everyone just used it and it was something else. So it's going to take a good few years to get that out of our normal conversation but apparently it's not.
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Sutton Podcast: Claire what was good for you?
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Claire: For me I'm going to say the good was the penalty shootout. I loved watching, I mean it's always nice being like hindsight know that you've won it but like I do love a penalty shootout and that kind of the moments of kind of sheer joy just proving that I'm not completely dead inside so yeah just being
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Joe: honest Just
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Claire: being honest.
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Sutton Podcast: Love the drama, Mick. Love the drama.
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Claire: Keeping it light, Claire. Keeping it light. Yeah.
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Sutton Podcast: Claire, what was bad? I'm dead inside.
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Claire: I mean, the bad was the weather, right? Like, it was so cold. I actually went home at like 02:00 and put extra extra socks on and little heat pads in my in my shoes which is the joy of only living 5 minutes away but yeah and it was really cold really really cold they go that's the bad yeah
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Sutton Podcast: you did say to everyone that you ran home
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Claire: I didn't run home. No, let's be honest about it. It's been a couple of years since I've ran anywhere but yeah
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Sutton Podcast: Okay, joe, what was bad for you?
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Joe: The cold
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Sutton Podcast: I know it's the cold.
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Joe: No, actually it was somewhat character building. So I'm actually going for the cold. I always had to end up trying to transport whenever it's the good, the bad, funny, but I'm gonna go for it. On the way back home, I stepped in a puddle on a platform. Well, it's kind of linked to the cold then, but then for the entirety of my train journey, I had my wet socks, which is really, really awkward because every time I walked, I had a squelch behind me. So that was not fun for like 25 minutes, but you know It
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Joe: was now I do enjoy the cold at the end. It was actually quite nice felt felt like and what I felt like I deserved
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Sutton Podcast: a little middle
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Joe: like yeah, I felt like I'd earned the The spot of being the only person only commentator for Sutton that day no national league tv I felt like by braving the cold, I felt like I deserved that.
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Sutton Podcast: Yeah, you get a drink. What was... Hang on, we were right on. Oh hang on, what was funny
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Joe: Joe? Oh yes, my well in control.
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Claire: Go on,
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Sutton Podcast: what was funny Joe?
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Joe: What was funny? I found the inability of the Ebsfellit players to handle the fact they've been tackled quite funny just because their strikers in the second half just started to really get on my nerves. I had to bite my lip multiple times. I was 1 point which was I think I created the joke. Oh, I think Cindy Barbara got found. It was a perfectly good tackle. But he started rolling around. I said, well, Cindy Barbara's got a drug, some of the water that's down at Ebs fleet is now rolling on the ground for some nondescript reason.
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Joe: He scored about 2 minutes later. I don't know why it just sounds like I'm slating Findy Barbrook in this episode. I really like Findy Barbrook. He's wonderful. If you're listening, which I hope you are then. You're a great player but yesterday is a bit too much.
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Sutton Podcast: What was funny for you?
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Claire: I guess your overwhelming concern for my inability to stand on a chair, like you were very concerned that I shouldn't be standing on a chair and it was quite amusing and then anyone that walked past while I was stood on said chair trying to do stuff like above my head looked really worried as well so I just thought that was quite I mean it was chivalrous on 1 hand I'm sure but it was just quite funny.
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Sutton Podcast: No those chairs are not designed to be stood on and the backs are tilted so what you're automatically doing is your leg kind of goes all I'll just lean against the chair for stability and if you do that that whole chair is going to tip over it wasn't because you were on the chair okay it was don't feel too good it was anyone I would have been.
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Claire: Oh so you didn't It wasn't that you necessarily cared about me. Okay, so I misinterpreted that entirely. I thought that you gave it down. Yeah. Cool. Well, no,
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Sutton Podcast: I just didn't want the club being sued by someone else.
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Claire: I mean, if you're the kind of person that's a fan that sues the club, then you're a bit of a dick, aren't you?
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Sutton Podcast: Yeah, yeah. But you could have been the last you were working. Anyway, taking abuse all day here. I didn't do the free Q preview specifically for this 1, but Sammy was so good. I'm going to chuck it back in for the 1 we did a couple of weeks ago anyway, because it's the same match. It's going to get called off again. So, once just use the
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Claire: same thing.
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Sutton Podcast: Fair play to anyone. Making that journey by the way, because, the roads are going to be a nightmare. There's no coach, so anyone doing that, absolutely fair play. Yeah, just brilliant. And I've got 2 people apparently. So, I mean, what do you guys think of the game, assuming it goes ahead? Claire, how do you see it going? A couple weeks ago, it was a bit of a like, oh, I'm not sure about that 1. And now as Joe said earlier, full of confidence, they may not be full of confidence.
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Claire: No, and I think Joe encapsulated it pretty well earlier, actually, by kind of saying kind of where we are and how things have shifted and we're going into it kind of on the front foot whereas they're slightly on the back foot. I do think that it will be an interesting, like if you look at the table, it's a bit of an interesting a couple of games, not just Tuesday but also Saturday, like position-wise and points-wise, they're going to be tougher, tougher ones to crack as it were, But I think that confidence and that kind of the
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Claire: ability to bounce back, having been, you know, 3 1 down will definitely stand us in good stead to go into it and do something positive, I think.
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Sutton Podcast: Excellent. What's your prediction?
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Claire: Oh, I'm going to go for a 1 win.
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Joe: Oh, wow.
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Claire: Yeah, that's right.
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Sutton Podcast: This is
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Claire: just, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm backing it big time.
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Sutton Podcast: Yeah. Good stuff. Okay. Joe, before you fall asleep, I can see you just struggling there mate, you really are.
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Joe: I'm so tired man but I was so cold all day yesterday I'm like a 6 lead Victorian child. Right, the game if it goes ahead it's going to be ahead of the struggle just because that pitch is awful. I've seen a picture of it and it just looks awful. So if it goes ahead, it's going to be hard to play a nice passing, which we like to see. I'd like a 1-0 win, and I think it will come from a corner in like the 83rd minute, and it will be like most scrappy National League goal and
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Joe: it just rolls over the net caught on a fleck of mud off Hayden Muller I'm calling that and if I get it right you have to promote me to co-host of the certain podcast Mike Well
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Sutton Podcast: you could, You may not be around for a couple years, man Thing for you
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Claire: for tomorrow
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Sutton Podcast: So I'm gonna go with a 2-0 to us, obviously. And I don't know who we've got left who hasn't scored yet. It seems like we're going through the whole squad. Harry is Harry scored ransom? Yeah. Oh, doesn't count. Does it?
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Joe: It's a, it's a, it's
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Claire: a, it's a game. It's count.
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Sutton Podcast: All right. I've just said his name. I'm going to go with Harry, Harry slash Matthew ransom score in a 2 Norton.
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Joe: Right. That's a discord. Actually
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Sutton Podcast: that's not a good thing. I have not time to do that right now. And you'll be asleep.
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Claire: I'm hungry. Cause I haven't had dinner yet.
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Joe: So come on.
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Sutton Podcast: Well, luckily enough, we wrapped up this episode of Sutton podcast as always. We appreciate your attention and feedback and get involved in knowing me knowing you segment what is your typical match day look like I bet it's not as busy as these guides. Follow, like, share this episode on Sutton Podcast on all your social medias. Subscribe, give us the thumbs up and all the rest of it and we are back hopefully on Wednesday after Halifax victory with the thoughts of Andy Kay and Rory. So I've got 2 people, see? And as always, thank you for our
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Sutton Podcast: sponsors, Lucky Star Gin. Big thank you to the panel today, Joe and Claire. And thank you to the listeners. Hope you enjoyed this episode of Something Podcast. Take care. Goodbye. And we'll catch up soon. Bye bye.
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