Speaker 1: Yeah, we're back in the studio this week. If you could,
Speaker 1: you could tell if you're watching on YouTube, I believe
Speaker 1: the studio is working. We are getting people coming around
Speaker 1: after this to actually fix it. I don't know what
Speaker 1: that means. Like a blast furnace in here, though, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah we last week about one hundred layers on outside.
Speaker 1: But you're both in T shirts really already.
Speaker 2: I've got to be back.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: There's yeah, no EFL grounds that would accept us this week,
Speaker 1: so we've just gone back to our half working studio. Jimmy,
Speaker 1: before you came on, you said, I can't believe the
Speaker 1: one week I was not here you went to a
Speaker 1: football ground. Sorry about that. Where were you?
Speaker 2: Spain? Fish?
Speaker 1: Do you have a nice time?
Speaker 2: They were nice?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's caught many Spanish fish.
Speaker 2: A few Spanish fish.
Speaker 1: Sh oh, yeah, we created we created, uh dom the producers.
Speaker 1: Weren't you in Portugal? You do you? No?
Speaker 3: I described it to him as it was two and
Speaker 3: off I was inland from Portugal Spain Extremador.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's in Spain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Spain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as Spain briefly a Laiga team in the days
Speaker 1: of Spanish Eye on soccer AM and Revista de la
Speaker 1: Liga were watching it in the off maybe you We
Speaker 1: were watching this in the office on Friday, just old
Speaker 1: soccer am clips based on someone wh keeps tweeting about
Speaker 1: can't go away with it nowadays. Last week then we
Speaker 1: built fivefold, which was eleven to one. It was three wins,
Speaker 1: two draws, so frustrating on the draws as well. It
Speaker 1: was bitterly close, wasn't it. I was really moaning about
Speaker 1: it last Saturday that the two games that cost us
Speaker 1: there was a stoppage time equalizer to cost us for
Speaker 1: one of them, and then the other draw. Then Sam
Speaker 1: Greenwood had a shot tip around the post in injury
Speaker 1: time and then the last act of the game hit
Speaker 1: the post. So that's the way the cookie crumble, isn't it.
Speaker 1: But then midweek we keep saying midweek ACAS on the
Speaker 1: website because I've time to a podcasts for people that one.
Speaker 1: Would you like to talk about the winner? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 1: That is two three winners in the space of twenty
Speaker 1: one days, maybe even less about about twenty one days.
Speaker 1: Yes from you, thank you, Yes, tell us to talk
Speaker 1: us through it. Yeah, so that one one, that one
Speaker 1: did win, And now I'm gonna have to try to
Speaker 1: remember off the top of my head. It was earlyfl
Speaker 1: wasn't it, And then to one to one and it
Speaker 1: was clinched by Charlton in the eighty ninth minute. Header
Speaker 1: I believe from a corner I will get the teams.
Speaker 1: I'm just having to take a less of my sporting
Speaker 1: life account. What an easy process that was, how quick
Speaker 1: to get in Really looked like we're going to be
Speaker 1: denied by Peterborough who had fought back from being a
Speaker 1: man and a goal down to get an equalizer. But
Speaker 1: then Charlton won it in the eighty ninth minute, So
Speaker 1: it was Charlton Birmingham breezed to an easy win and
Speaker 1: that I'm suggesting that you ought to do this, But
Speaker 1: anyone who may have backed the ACA also elsewhere on
Speaker 1: two up then you were kind of sailing your weigh
Speaker 1: in until that last one came. So the first three
Speaker 1: were all easily and because the teams raced into big
Speaker 1: leads and it was just that charm One Leighton Orient Birmingham.
Speaker 1: Really testing my metal here, Tom, because I got it
Speaker 1: up on my screen. Portsmouth to Smithy, Portsmouth went tuner
Speaker 1: up and then conceded away yep. So that one was
Speaker 1: a bit of a squeaky bum one if you've taken
Speaker 1: the enhanced price and Skybit as well. But they got
Speaker 1: there in the end. Portsmouth continuing to just be brilliant
Speaker 1: at home and rank bad away from home. So another
Speaker 1: winner and the fifty to one. I was going to say,
Speaker 1: can you remember the teams that were in that one? Yes,
Speaker 1: the additional ones were. It started to do this, haven't
Speaker 1: we where we have the normal one and then we
Speaker 1: had kind of extra teams that we talk about to
Speaker 1: make a bigger one if you want that, and that
Speaker 1: came and that was ridiculously close. U Ventus. That was
Speaker 1: a cracking game in the Champions League, one of the
Speaker 1: best ones if anybody had any time to watch it.
Speaker 1: So you vent Us against PSV was really end in
Speaker 1: the closing stages and you Ventus scored has come through
Speaker 1: the speaker their George. So that's a night. And see
Speaker 1: we do have producers. So if there's actually any issues
Speaker 1: with the podcast, not our fault. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: George is just speaking to us. Oh this micromagement voice
Speaker 1: of God, I think you call that. So you' Ventus
Speaker 1: scored in I think the eighty first eighty second minute
Speaker 1: to beat PSV. So we got that one in the
Speaker 1: bag and then what was the next one that won
Speaker 1: Bradford City? Are you going to get that one? Bradford
Speaker 1: winning for an eighth straight game?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 1: In League two? And then denied in stoppage time Stockport
Speaker 1: one lil up away at Bristol Rovers conceded an equalized
Speaker 1: in the ninety second minute to draw at Bristol Rovers
Speaker 1: to deny a fifty to one winner in there. Who
Speaker 1: wanted Stockport?
Speaker 2: We did?
Speaker 1: One did want Stockport? Who? No?
Speaker 2: Who?
Speaker 1: It wasn't me?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, I've got a conversation here my extra Stockport equal
Speaker 1: red hot one five straight Bristol Rovers picked up a
Speaker 1: little against sides, not a Stocky level, of which Joe
Speaker 1: Townsend said, Bristol Rovers, I know you hate, but would
Speaker 1: be hesitant on that. They outplayed us when we won
Speaker 1: four in a row. They won their next home match
Speaker 1: three to one as well, and we played Stockport the
Speaker 1: weeknd of match them but for a stupid few minutes
Speaker 1: later in the first half, even with changing formatia for
Speaker 1: the first time in three seasons. There you go, so
Speaker 1: who won't call anyone out? But think logically, Jimmy, we're here.
Speaker 2: You didn't. I didn't. You didn't. You didn't.
Speaker 1: I wasn't on our slack you were. So there we go, Jake,
Speaker 1: Jake got it. There you go. That's why he's not
Speaker 1: allowed on the episode. He's going to hate listening back
Speaker 1: to this.
Speaker 2: Is he all right?
Speaker 1: Does he listen back to it? I don't, So I'm
Speaker 1: away next week as well, so you can deal with
Speaker 1: the Fallout Boys. I wanted to out boys, fall Out Boys.
Speaker 1: There you go, and either the band or the radioactive
Speaker 1: man side. Yeah, there you go. How's this? I wanted
Speaker 1: to bring this up for AKA Crusher and the wed
Speaker 1: say how hard it is to build ackers and stuff
Speaker 1: like that and get winning ones? I know the answer
Speaker 1: already is a yes. How often are we betting on
Speaker 1: the Bulgarian top flight.
Speaker 2: Regularly?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, regularly twice a week. It's called the PA Liga.
Speaker 1: It returned this weekend from I think now winter break.
Speaker 1: It also carried on to Monday, but I didn't go
Speaker 1: back and then calculate it. But across Saturday and Sunday,
Speaker 1: no favorites one what none of the favorites won. If
Speaker 1: you had a pound accumulator on the results, not even
Speaker 1: the correct scores. The results of the seven games, you'd
Speaker 1: have won around thirty six thousand pounds no way, four wins,
Speaker 1: three draw draws. Particular highlights Slavia Sofia at nine to
Speaker 1: two against CSKA Sofia Big game they won one nil.
Speaker 1: Locomotive Plovdiv beat Schuren no more two to one, a
Speaker 1: six to one outsiders. So a pound accumulator would have
Speaker 1: returned at thirty six thousand pounds on the seven results,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to bring them up. That is questionable. Look,
Speaker 1: superior knowledge is why he had five hundred pounds on it.
Speaker 1: Welcome Bulgaria to the European USA. Welcome, Actually we're not
Speaker 1: in it anymore? Are we are going to be the
Speaker 1: newest member state?
Speaker 2: I believe.
Speaker 1: I think that was on the quiz I did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there you go. I nothing.
Speaker 1: This is familiar.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The reason why it's so familiar to me is because
Speaker 1: I plagiarized Tom's Christmas Quiz two or three times to
Speaker 1: different audiences over Christmas. And I'll be honest, they weren't
Speaker 1: impressed because it was too hard. Well, lots of people
Speaker 1: were saying, this is yeah, they're hanging out with thick people.
Speaker 1: They're good questions, but how on earth could we know
Speaker 1: all these answers? What this? Who was this man who
Speaker 1: stayed on a boat in the sea? What?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: I was like, Yeah, well get on the internet on
Speaker 1: this quiz four times so I know the answer. It's fine.
Speaker 1: I feel like I was gonna say, oh yeah, if
Speaker 1: you if we have any Bulgarian listeners I don't know,
Speaker 1: please get in touch and explain what the hell's going
Speaker 1: on there? Because that is wild. And I'll be keeping
Speaker 1: an eye that this weekend. Are we going to the
Speaker 1: Pavely for this week's Sokka and we're talking what about
Speaker 1: talking about last night's football? Oh my god, yes, oh god, yes?
Speaker 1: How good was that?
Speaker 3: It was football? Simple?
Speaker 1: Everton Liverpool are presum we're all on about. Absolutely was amazing.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 1: We had a ninety eighth minute, well in ninety plus
Speaker 1: eight technicality minute equalized it from a center back vulleying
Speaker 1: it into the top corner. We then had pitch invasions,
Speaker 1: people all over the pitch running around, someone starting to
Speaker 1: nick the corner flag, which I particularly enjoy, give that back.
Speaker 1: And then we had full time whistle. We had both
Speaker 1: at the full time the full time whistle, which was
Speaker 1: a nice treat. Shout out to both Abdolai Decorey and
Speaker 1: Curtis Jones for both behaving in correct manner. Decore celebrating
Speaker 1: in front of the Liverpool fans, Jones then kicking off
Speaker 1: because they were celebrating in front of the Liverpool fans.
Speaker 1: They both got sent off on a slot sarcastic remark
Speaker 1: to the referee. We don't know what he said. He
Speaker 1: was then sent off. What brilliant entertainment and what evidence
Speaker 1: that we have got our game back. Tried to take
Speaker 1: it away fishing. One of the best couple of hours
Speaker 1: spent this season watching football.
Speaker 2: Thing.
Speaker 1: He really was testament to David moy is that all
Speaker 1: the unfair criticism he's had over the last few years
Speaker 1: is the best way to play against a good opponent
Speaker 1: is to get under the skin so that they'll lose it.
Speaker 1: Just put two big lads up from boot it and
Speaker 1: then he started playing center backs up front towards the end.
Speaker 1: I got excited when they said on commentary Michael Bean's
Speaker 1: getting like he's coming on as a striker. Oh god, yeah.
Speaker 1: Got three enormous defenders in the back, four as well,
Speaker 1: so that every time just and it wasn't you know,
Speaker 1: aimless football. They just they were playing these long balls
Speaker 1: down the channel and then getting in a scrap with Vandyke.
Speaker 1: He's hating it. It's causing other Pool players to make
Speaker 1: ridiculous petty fowls. And I know it was a derby,
Speaker 1: but I really do wonder whether other teams are going
Speaker 1: to try this now and think why haven't we just
Speaker 1: thought it's simple, don't try to play football against Liverpool.
Speaker 1: Just put some big lads up from start booting it
Speaker 1: and then try and have a scrap with them because
Speaker 1: it was fabulously entertaining. Yeah, that's the Premier League and
Speaker 1: it really good. It's a shame because they have changed it.
Speaker 1: But this was a win for well or a loss
Speaker 1: for automated commentary streams. Have you seen this? Obviously a
Speaker 1: lot of if you go on apps and you have
Speaker 1: the commentary stream, it will literally just be an automated
Speaker 1: thing says this and you know this is what happened,
Speaker 1: and obviously doesn't really have the facility for managers, which
Speaker 1: they have now changed to unsporting conduct. But I think
Speaker 1: it was flash score went with Arna Slott goes in
Speaker 1: with a reckless challenge on it show Straight Red, which
Speaker 1: I particularly enjoyed. What else happened last night? A lot
Speaker 1: All four at the top of the championship won again?
Speaker 1: Sheeffield tonight. Actually I think last night played well. Would
Speaker 1: that be fair to say because we spoke before that
Speaker 1: Liliam actually played well. He's not commenting much because's probably
Speaker 1: watching the Shift game when yes, I was, Yeah, the
Speaker 1: best game of the seasons.
Speaker 2: It said dark afterwards, isn't it?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've scored five, they've scored five. They are Joe
Speaker 1: what they are now? Twenty third a point a point,
Speaker 1: one point behind safety John Eustace's Derby now as well,
Speaker 1: Luton Town are bottom of the championship. What the hell
Speaker 1: is going on there? Effect notice they drop off there
Speaker 1: needs to be studied. Because we had it in our
Speaker 1: preseason accumulator. A lot of people will have them in
Speaker 1: their preseason accumulator because the whole point was they're going
Speaker 1: to build a decent team for the championship? Are you
Speaker 1: going to have to get going and arrived? Our preseason
Speaker 1: accumulator is going to land looting?
Speaker 2: Are really going to have to start?
Speaker 1: They?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they'll pick up any.
Speaker 1: Day, they only need twenty twenty points. They need to
Speaker 1: close the gap to twenty points to West bromin sixth,
Speaker 1: so it's very very achievable. Darby mentioned there as well.
Speaker 1: John Eustace, I think we should mention this before we
Speaker 1: actually get into the weekend's action as well, because Derby
Speaker 1: played QPR this weekend. John Eustace's thoughts on it good bad.
Speaker 1: What we're thinking me bizarre if anything.
Speaker 3: I just think it's a damnine endowment and how bad
Speaker 3: the Yankis are really in it?
Speaker 1: So Blackburn for context of fifth in the division, well
Speaker 1: they were, they won last night, they were well in
Speaker 1: the playoff mix anyway, Darby just out of relegation on
Speaker 1: goal difference.
Speaker 2: It's been free for though.
Speaker 1: It's a hell of a scalp. Scalp do you say
Speaker 1: that about when you're hiring someone. But it's a hell
Speaker 1: of a move to make and basically coop that's the
Speaker 1: word I'm looking for. The they've effectively kind of whoever's
Speaker 1: pointed this out at Derby and said, well he's got
Speaker 1: connections to the club, we think you want to come.
Speaker 1: There's a release clause. He's not too happy there. They've
Speaker 1: played a blinder because we spoke before an episode about
Speaker 1: the relegation battle and Derby were the one we were
Speaker 1: pointing towards going down. No, not so sure.
Speaker 2: I ain't got a clue who goes down? I ain't
Speaker 2: going clue.
Speaker 1: No, it's a real bumb really down there now, isn't it.
Speaker 1: The I mean, his record stacks up, doesn't it. So
Speaker 1: you'd have to back him to keep them up because
Speaker 1: he did a great job at Blackburn last year where
Speaker 1: they looked like they were going to be in serious
Speaker 1: trouble and he quickly got them together. I mean at
Speaker 1: Birmingham did the same the season before. So it's very
Speaker 1: logical what Derby have done. The guy who's gone into
Speaker 1: two previous clubs the last two seasons and kept them
Speaker 1: up when they were in dire straits. Plus the fact
Speaker 1: that he was a well liked player when he was
Speaker 1: at Derby, then it's a very very sensible appointment.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean I know the.
Speaker 1: Blackburn fans will know a hell of a lot more
Speaker 1: than any of any of us do in terms of
Speaker 1: investment in the club. I mean Blackburn. You look at
Speaker 1: the size of size of them as a club and
Speaker 1: the fan base that they've got the crowds that they're
Speaker 1: getting where they are in the league is they're doing
Speaker 1: very well. It's a different time to when they were
Speaker 1: winning the Premier League in the nineteen ninety and when
Speaker 1: they had that sustained period of over investment. When they're
Speaker 1: in the Premier League, so that's the level they are.
Speaker 1: Derby's ceiling is much higher than Blackburn's because as soon
Speaker 1: as they start to do even slightly well, they're getting
Speaker 1: like thirty thousand plus crowds every week. Blackburn was struggling
Speaker 1: to break twenty thousand at times when they had Graham
Speaker 1: soon as as manager in the Premier League doing well.
Speaker 1: So the Derby are a significantly bigger club and Blackburn are.
Speaker 1: It's just a reality. It's just the truth.
Speaker 2: That's why he actually went.
Speaker 1: That's why he's going to go because it is a
Speaker 1: long term, much bigger opportunity and people always go to
Speaker 1: these bigger clubs thinking I can be the one to
Speaker 1: turn them around, even if it's a small drop down
Speaker 1: doesn't mean and it'll work out and Blackburn might get
Speaker 1: to the Premier League and be more like a Borne
Speaker 1: Meth or whatever, you know, a smaller club that does
Speaker 1: brilliantly because it's not all about fan bases. But he's
Speaker 1: looking at the project, isn't he who's bigger? Blackburn or
Speaker 1: Derby depends good diplomatic and I mean Derby won the
Speaker 1: European Club twice. I mean I mean won the European Cup once. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I've lost my head now now I'm going to get hammered.
Speaker 1: Boris one. It's wise Harby won the title. Sorry, Yes,
Speaker 1: it's in the damn United where he made it this
Speaker 1: bit out. Nope, that's staying in. He doesn't rotate and
Speaker 1: it gets bolder. The owner. Derby will not feature in
Speaker 1: this week's because they're playing for Friday Night against QPR,
Speaker 1: which takes us nicely on where do we want to
Speaker 1: start with strongest possible fancies? Or did I open up
Speaker 1: by suggesting from the Premier League we take aston Villa
Speaker 1: to be Ipswich. Yes, that was easy. Anyone else got
Speaker 1: anything to say? It's one roughly around one to two,
Speaker 1: two to five ish on this one. But in terms
Speaker 1: of the slate of the weekend fixtures, this one probably
Speaker 1: jumps out, especially in the Premier League, because you're not
Speaker 1: getting too much else I don't think elsewhere too many.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you guys like it, I don't mind it.
Speaker 2: I didn't have it.
Speaker 1: Down anything else that we could possibly have. I do
Speaker 1: you want to mean, well, it's Aston Villa who were
Speaker 1: significantly better at football than Ipswich. I mean Ipswich. That
Speaker 1: the Southampton result the other week kind of.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't think, oh, they'd definitely be okay, but I
Speaker 1: kind of had it in my head that Southampton Leicster
Speaker 1: doomed Ipswich half a chance, half a chance he of
Speaker 1: staying up And now that result really kind of puts
Speaker 1: the doubt in the mind now that they've dropped down
Speaker 1: just on a run a form as well. Obviously beat
Speaker 1: Coventry in the FA Cup, didn't they It was four
Speaker 1: losses before that, okay, yes, Liverpool, Man City, Brighten, but
Speaker 1: then to lose at Southampton at home was particularly worrying.
Speaker 1: And it's just a Villa side who we spoke about
Speaker 1: Champions League. Don't have to worry about that. They are
Speaker 1: a top eight side at home, just been strong, consistently
Speaker 1: strong as well. Eleven. I think it is now unbeaten
Speaker 1: at home across all competitions and fundamentally he is once
Speaker 1: two two to five. I don't think I should really
Speaker 1: need to explain much more than that. The price just
Speaker 1: seems correct on it, and in a way I'm slightly
Speaker 1: surprised that it's not short on a you'll be sure team, yeah,
Speaker 1: a current time, a team who are in the knockout
Speaker 1: stages of the Champions League as a top eight side
Speaker 1: in that European competition at home to a team who
Speaker 1: are struggling, have recently lost a relegation rival and are
Speaker 1: in trouble. It just doesn't make a great deal of sense.
Speaker 1: All the cards are in Villa's favor. The we can't
Speaker 1: dress it up in anyway we like. The home form
Speaker 1: is worth just slightly touching on more that you alluded
Speaker 1: to there, because this of this season they've only lost
Speaker 1: twice at home to arsenal right the beginning of the year.
Speaker 1: It might have even been their first home game in
Speaker 1: the league, but they played really well, lost too and
Speaker 1: elt and then the other one was against Palace in
Speaker 1: the Carabino Cup where they played changed eleven again really early.
Speaker 1: So two out of nineteen home matches in all competitions.
Speaker 1: But their home forms since an Iamory took over has
Speaker 1: been phenomenally good. We're talking, you know, for three seasons now.
Speaker 1: So not only are they one of the best teams
Speaker 1: in the country and they're in the last sixteen of
Speaker 1: the Champions League. They're a phenomenally good team who have
Speaker 1: strengthened in January. They're especially good at home, and they
Speaker 1: are playing one of the worst teams in the Premier League.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a simple argument through the reverse the
Speaker 1: reverse early that was fairly early season, wasn't it, And
Speaker 1: it I switched like the argument that Tom's made lost
Speaker 1: the last four conceded eighteen goals, and I know that
Speaker 1: that that Southampton game might be the one that's like
Speaker 1: flipped Tom's mind. The one that flipped it for me
Speaker 1: was I watched that game ips which against Brighton that
Speaker 1: started the losing run, and they could not get near
Speaker 1: Brighton and Brighton were on a really bad run themselves
Speaker 1: that either not wonning seven or like one winning seven matches,
Speaker 1: and Brighton and mid table this season, they just couldn't
Speaker 1: get anywhere near them. They're completely outclassed by a mid
Speaker 1: table Premier League team. I was thinking watching that they
Speaker 1: are banging trouble here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because he goes for about four at home in
Speaker 3: some of these games, and it just it's just stupid.
Speaker 2: It's suicide.
Speaker 3: But away from him, he usually goes for a back
Speaker 3: five and they're a bit tight.
Speaker 2: But those own record I like it. Get them in.
Speaker 1: Should we do it?
Speaker 2: Then? First pick?
Speaker 1: Then off this week's acker. It's a short priced one,
Speaker 1: but I imagine one that'll be in a lot of people's
Speaker 1: accumulators this weekend. It is aston Villa for a home
Speaker 1: win over it switch. Where do we want to go to?
Speaker 3: Now? Stay in the prem Come stay in the prem Yes,
Speaker 3: a short price bornouth a Southampton?
Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1: I want to know what Tom was on his phone there,
Speaker 1: whether he was ordering his moon pit card for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2: You celebrate Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1: I've done order that order where you order multiple ones?
Speaker 2: Shrewd? How many? How many birds have you got?
Speaker 1: Let's carry on foremost Southampton? Sorry, what do you want?
Speaker 1: You were so excited about it? Which is going to
Speaker 1: make is going to crush me to say no to it?
Speaker 3: I just kept yawning in the first bit, so I
Speaker 3: was just trying to sight myself up a bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, usually the energy one and you've been a bit
Speaker 1: you too relaxed after your fishing trip. What happened on
Speaker 1: that fishing trip? Yeah, I imagine on the topic of
Speaker 1: fishing trips from television based things, imagine a like Bob Watermow.
Speaker 1: You just fall over randomly. Yeah, yeah's clumsy.
Speaker 2: Quite nimble, quick off the mark.
Speaker 1: Don't wind?
Speaker 2: What don't fucking wind?
Speaker 1: What do you fish for? In Spain we went.
Speaker 2: Barble, Prince of the river bottom feeder.
Speaker 3: In the UK they grow to about twenty pounds, but
Speaker 3: in Spain they grow twice as big. A few variants
Speaker 3: you got Gypsy, comoso, small head, and then a breed
Speaker 3: of them all. Well, yeah, cracking fighters, that's what we
Speaker 3: go for.
Speaker 1: Give a reasoned explanation for aston villa. But get this
Speaker 1: man talking about fish the most I've heard him ever,
Speaker 1: talking with such confidence and conviction as well names the
Speaker 1: punt Cantrell. Welcome to mastermind specialist subject fish.
Speaker 2: Doom. That's mastermind, isn't it. I'm not sure that's law
Speaker 2: in order?
Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, what did you say?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: What give us some some of the names?
Speaker 2: Marble?
Speaker 3: You got Gypsy was in the gipsy, small head, Commeso
Speaker 3: which is co m o is z o. I think
Speaker 3: m co m I z o small head of the
Speaker 3: best fighters, but they're the rarest.
Speaker 1: It's brilliant as well. Have google types of barble fish
Speaker 1: and of representative species of the sixteen that Google have
Speaker 1: thrown up to be none of those they mentioned.
Speaker 2: These are specific.
Speaker 1: In Spain. There you go, there you go, come out comeso. Yep, yeah,
Speaker 1: small head, yep, yeah, you've you've got it right, Yeah, cute.
Speaker 3: I like to I like to get my fingers dirty
Speaker 3: when I'm going on the day. You don't really learn
Speaker 3: the culture everything you eat the fish that you catch.
Speaker 2: No, God, no, that's like cannibal do that?
Speaker 1: Can you go to the locals? It's only cannibalism if
Speaker 1: you're a fish. Doesn't He doesn't feel like it.
Speaker 2: That's how it touched down.
Speaker 1: He strolls into a local restaurant and holds it up
Speaker 1: three euros, paying three euros ala.
Speaker 2: He leaves Alla comistan. What was it?
Speaker 1: I got to do the rest of this in Spanish
Speaker 1: as your.
Speaker 3: Every time you've got a beer, you got a little
Speaker 3: player tapas you know, the.
Speaker 1: Pig's legs ham on dobly salty.
Speaker 2: Sure, it's so crisps.
Speaker 1: Jesus just that dry out your mouth conveniently this and
Speaker 1: you'll buy more. This is Jimmy's explanation for born Southampton
Speaker 1: would not care less about. Don't overthink it, babe, kiss.
Speaker 2: Keep it's simple stupid. We go.
Speaker 3: Best advice I ever received from who it's just an
Speaker 3: office quote. Mh well it would be from Michael Scott.
Speaker 3: He'd be simple stupid through west office. Yeah, obviously the better,
Speaker 3: the better one lesser office, way better.
Speaker 1: Do you want to give us any more about Southampton, Bob,
Speaker 1: with any statistical analysis or Southampton?
Speaker 3: It were only the other week we debating if they
Speaker 3: can beat Darby's lowest point record in the Premier League. Right,
Speaker 3: so they are crap by some distance.
Speaker 2: Yep, Russell manager Russell is not the manager anymore.
Speaker 3: I thought it was for a second, but he's not.
Speaker 3: Who is the manager, manager McGee.
Speaker 1: That's the one Mark McGee.
Speaker 2: And then they're against the manager.
Speaker 3: Statistically one of the best sides in the Premier League.
Speaker 1: I mean statistically they are the seventh best team if.
Speaker 3: You look at the points table, the actual one underlying data.
Speaker 2: Jake Jesus top three, the top three.
Speaker 1: I like bet but now I'm really un convid the
Speaker 1: staff that I'm more on convid now that will be
Speaker 1: started No.
Speaker 3: The top three underlying data. They've only lost one since
Speaker 3: the end of November and that came against Liverpool. Fourteen games,
Speaker 3: nine to wins. You might think the price is short
Speaker 3: for an away team, and that's what I thought at first,
Speaker 3: but then you look at the Cherries. They've gone off
Speaker 3: odds on five times this season. They've won five of
Speaker 3: those and the aggregate score has been seventeen goals four
Speaker 3: four against, so it's like convincing wins. The last two
Speaker 3: odds on games was five to one winning West Brom
Speaker 3: in the Cup and another five miller. I can't quite
Speaker 3: remember who that was against. But this is a team
Speaker 3: at the top of their game. Although we have already
Speaker 3: got a short price winning, but I thought everyone would
Speaker 3: be on with this.
Speaker 1: Are unbeaten in the last seven away games as well,
Speaker 1: five believable wings. The wins have come at Wolves, Ipswich,
Speaker 1: crucially Man United whether one three nil, beat Newcastle four
Speaker 1: to one, and of course Everton Bournemouth that Cup game
Speaker 1: we spoke about last week. Particularly I catch them on
Speaker 1: that as well because Bournemouth compared to an Everton side
Speaker 1: who basically had their first eleven out Bournemouth's relative rotation
Speaker 1: in the forward areas as well, a pretty strong line
Speaker 1: up otherwise, but to go there and win two nil,
Speaker 1: it's Jimmy said, it's a side banging form. And yes
Speaker 1: we spoke about Ipswich and that result against Southampton recently,
Speaker 1: but around that it's just been absolutely atrocious. Under Ivan Yurich,
Speaker 1: it's got even worse than it was under Russell Martin.
Speaker 1: They had the win over Swansea in the FA Cup
Speaker 1: and then that win, but it's just losses every other week.
Speaker 1: And it's convincing some of these losses as well in
Speaker 1: terms of the amount of goals that they are conceding.
Speaker 1: You know, I just wonder that they then lost to
Speaker 1: burn Only from the Championship, who are fucking boring, but
Speaker 1: they are solid. They kept another clean sheet and it
Speaker 1: was a second string Burnley eleven as well. Scott Parker
Speaker 1: tries his best to get out of the fat and
Speaker 1: yet they're still in it. And of course Southampton made
Speaker 1: their own changes as well, naturally, but I mean, for
Speaker 1: God's say, you need the Cup, don't you just to
Speaker 1: build some momentum and try and get the good times
Speaker 1: back and they couldn't even do that at the moment.
Speaker 1: And it is a short price. But again, much like Philly,
Speaker 1: you think a lot of people are just gonna go
Speaker 1: bomb us to beat Southampton. Yeah, and it seems to
Speaker 1: keep it simple studios approach.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't overthink it. This is we literally say, about
Speaker 3: one of the worst Premier League teams in history. The
Speaker 3: other thing is about your itch is he's coming and
Speaker 3: he's made him run. I've heard from a very reliable
Speaker 3: source that the players are just not having him. He's
Speaker 3: told them they're not fit enough, they're not good enough.
Speaker 3: He made him run constantly in training in the place
Speaker 3: for the talent and say we're not doing that anymore.
Speaker 3: Next result five nil home loss against Brentford, notoriously bad
Speaker 3: travelers this season.
Speaker 1: Come on now, it's a very it's good reliable source.
Speaker 2: I can't reveal my source.
Speaker 1: You're on about going he went out for that drinkle
Speaker 1: Russell Martin the other night, If he's if he's all right, Joe,
Speaker 1: you wanted to.
Speaker 2: Know who is Barbara is?
Speaker 1: Who's Barbara Russell Martin? You like his hair? Who look
Speaker 1: a bit like him?
Speaker 2: Who doesn't like his hair?
Speaker 3: I think that's why he's gets so many managerial jobs.
Speaker 3: He just charms the looks good. He yeah, same with Parker,
Speaker 3: Steve Cooper way better manager.
Speaker 2: Where's he nowhere?
Speaker 1: He's Scott Park's going in going, you know, four thousand
Speaker 1: pounds Cardigan here, Sergio GEORGINI helped. Yeah, that's exactly it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly it. Joe's were very quite joining this and Hi
Speaker 1: bit It's just.
Speaker 3: I didn't think this is need this much convincing and
Speaker 3: it's such a short price. It was six to ten
Speaker 3: when I did my notes at the start of the week.
Speaker 3: As they always do. It's crumbled a little bit. So
Speaker 3: if you've got any doubts, I'm happy to leave it out.
Speaker 3: But I thought it'd be a stapleceptionally sure. That's not
Speaker 3: exceptionally sure.
Speaker 1: One to two about Bournemouth, one of the best teams.
Speaker 1: While i'm while I'm having a look at now is
Speaker 1: previous prices because so that I'm not being biased against Bournemouth,
Speaker 1: you know, because the Bournemouth and they're not heard Newcastle.
Speaker 1: The question is Newcastle went off across the board eleven
Speaker 1: to twenty five according to this, which is totally real pricing.
Speaker 1: So even shorter than one to two. The questions would
Speaker 1: you have you know, Bournemouth alongside? So that is absolutely foul.
Speaker 1: I think that's got it.
Speaker 2: Oh my.
Speaker 3: From I please don't please, don't judge the chances of
Speaker 3: these bet on whatever you you please, my god.
Speaker 1: I was making a point about Newcastle being a similar
Speaker 1: price west Ham worlds against Tottenham went there when they
Speaker 1: won five, Yes, previous management and there's no way that
Speaker 1: Newcastle were as short as this on the Thursday.
Speaker 2: All right, let's say.
Speaker 1: That's the That is just the concern that I would have,
Speaker 1: and also having already put in because this is the
Speaker 1: this is the same price as Villa to win at
Speaker 1: home against Tips, which there's just I can't be having
Speaker 1: that the there's the the same value and it would
Speaker 1: box us into we're really really struggling to make this
Speaker 1: a fourfold if we have these two in, you know,
Speaker 1: to begin with, there's our two selections. It's really not
Speaker 1: an absolute hard no, I'm really I don't like the
Speaker 1: price though.
Speaker 3: All right, well I'll do one more from the prem
Speaker 3: bigger price. I know what you're my friend, special price.
Speaker 1: I know what you're going to say, very good. I
Speaker 1: know the team you're going to say as well, well
Speaker 1: you're going to put forward were taking Newcastle to win at.
Speaker 2: The Yes, can I shock you west Ham? Oh? Newcastle?
Speaker 1: Oh, I could maybe see that.
Speaker 3: Keep it short because that was a long debate. Twelve
Speaker 3: wins last fourteen games Newcastle. There was three to one yesterday.
Speaker 3: I don't know why I did it back and know
Speaker 3: it a bit short and around three point six ish generally.
Speaker 3: But we'll get that nice lovely Skybet boost which will
Speaker 3: pump them up a bit. And that's what you got
Speaker 3: to think about. Well, it's just man City crap for
Speaker 3: a while. Terrible over Winter led Tuesday night three two down.
Speaker 3: They got the return leg next Wednesday after UCL games
Speaker 3: Champions League. That is, they've lost half of their eight,
Speaker 3: only won three and you look at the two games
Speaker 3: they've won. They've had a tough schedule. They played Arsenal
Speaker 3: twice after Champions League games Liverpool as well Manchester Derby,
Speaker 3: but they also played Southampton they were one to ten
Speaker 3: on they only won one nil. They also played Fulham
Speaker 3: one to four on one three two, but Fulham should
Speaker 3: have won that. They should have definitely got something like
Speaker 3: that game. So against shite they labor into victory and
Speaker 3: they haven't won the rest of the games. And this
Speaker 3: is not a shite Newcastle team. This is very good,
Speaker 3: very nice, very good price.
Speaker 2: You like it a lot.
Speaker 1: It's a big old price, isn't it. It's just the
Speaker 1: hesitancy of everything I know about Man City just going ah,
Speaker 1: even though every logic thing says they're it is a
Speaker 1: big old price and that.
Speaker 4: I don't get it, to be honest, because it's the
Speaker 4: factor of that the wedged in between two Champions League games,
Speaker 4: Like you say, there the fundamentally the importance for man
Speaker 4: City and the nature of losing that that Edison just
Speaker 4: going for some reason, we're winning with ten minutes to go.
Speaker 1: Watch this, let me do something. I mean, yeah, you
Speaker 1: look at recent results. There are only win across the
Speaker 1: last three Layton Orient, of which there went one nil
Speaker 1: down thanks that wonder goal, you.
Speaker 2: Know, just quickly. I just thought of this, right.
Speaker 3: So man City went off odds against against Chelsea, same
Speaker 3: situation in between Champions League and they won three one.
Speaker 3: But there was a bigger persson and I'm not sure
Speaker 3: irank Newcastle that much worse than Chelsea. I say, they're
Speaker 3: probably on a part of particularly Newcastle's current form. It's
Speaker 3: like there was an over not an overreaction, but there
Speaker 3: was a significant reaction to men cities crap form. But
Speaker 3: now they're going back to like odds on prices again
Speaker 3: and I don't really know what's changed.
Speaker 1: I just don't think we can go near man City
Speaker 1: in Okay. They're so unpredictable. Even the match that you've
Speaker 1: quoted the Chelsea's they were going into that in almost
Speaker 1: exactly the same circumstances they played on Wednesday. Rather the
Speaker 1: Tuesday against PSG they showed encouraging signs for spells and
Speaker 1: then capitulated to lose four too rather than to lose
Speaker 1: three to two. And then against Chelsea they started terribly
Speaker 1: and they actually played excellently. They deserve to win that
Speaker 1: game three to one. Completely bossed Chelsea in that match
Speaker 1: because the way that they're playing at the moment, they
Speaker 1: are just horrendously unpredictable. That's the fact of the matter.
Speaker 1: We need something, we need more picks. I like it,
Speaker 1: but it is that I would not be surprised if
Speaker 1: this like a one one drawer or something stupid and
Speaker 1: how just frustrates the hell them.
Speaker 2: It's already in check that out on life dot com.
Speaker 1: Maybe we need teams, we need teams who get in
Speaker 1: nowherey the only one we've got is two to five.
Speaker 1: I think there's I think there's a few good ones
Speaker 1: in the fl Let's go like a good handful of
Speaker 1: picks in the FL. So the first one it won
Speaker 1: for us in midweek Leighton Orient, Yes, Lincoln getting somewhere
Speaker 1: talking of Man City, I mean Latin Orient went close
Speaker 1: to shocking them in the f A Cup last weekend.
Speaker 1: We'll all that was the incredible he's done it. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a special trait seeing this he does it. He's
Speaker 1: people kept sharing it from the the top of them
Speaker 1: academy when they're tweeted out and he's done it multiple times.
Speaker 1: Imagine your special trait being twatting it in from halfway.
Speaker 1: I mean, that could be the end of Orient getting
Speaker 1: any of those Tottenham Academy players. After Richie Wellens is
Speaker 1: slagging off and postera cogloo. Yeah really, it must be
Speaker 1: really awkward for him having to listen to it. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know dad and your stepdad fighting take yeah, and
Speaker 1: the club obviously pulled doing like you have to do
Speaker 1: another interview yeah, you really really kiss and postera cog
Speaker 1: lose urs because we've got a lone link. We've forgotten
Speaker 1: about that. Oh god, yeah, sorry?
Speaker 2: And did he do that?
Speaker 1: He did? I said he'd embarrassed himself and all this
Speaker 1: and he just don't even know. He just lost didn't
Speaker 1: realize what he said until someone told him afterwards, because
Speaker 1: you know that happens, doesn't it. Apparently? Anyway, Leteron Orient
Speaker 1: doing really well one eleven drawn three, lost two across
Speaker 1: the last fifteen League One games. Is only Birmingham that
Speaker 1: are similar points per game across the last fifteen. That
Speaker 1: absolutely charging the way up League One against Lincoln, who
Speaker 1: were just an average team in League One this year.
Speaker 1: They didn't even beat Cambridge at home last weekend two
Speaker 1: wins in eleven and away from home they're really poor
Speaker 1: as well, so they've won four games away from home
Speaker 1: this season. Burton stevenage that Stephen's right. At the beginning
Speaker 1: of the season when they were poor as well Cambridge
Speaker 1: and Northampton they won their first two away games of
Speaker 1: the season, so their only win away from home has
Speaker 1: been at Northampton since September, so they're very poor away
Speaker 1: as well as just been middling. Full stop takes care
Speaker 1: of itself and the price as well. It's only it's
Speaker 1: a shade shorter than even money. I think nineteen to
Speaker 1: twenties even money showing on my I got it down
Speaker 1: at even money. Yeah, so it feels like an excellent
Speaker 1: bit of value.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: I like it. I think I have a perfect ten
Speaker 1: ten record as well across thirty games. Very satisfying, isn't it.
Speaker 1: That's quite a nice thing to look at.
Speaker 3: Yes, they've been crap since Christmas, absolutely terrible. I don't
Speaker 3: know what they did at Christmas Day, but it must
Speaker 3: have been epic. They played eleven only one two into
Speaker 3: this one.
Speaker 1: In Laton Orient did the cliche thing, didn't they as well?
Speaker 1: After the mansic go wow, we're all focused on the
Speaker 1: Mansfield game on Tuesday. That's a far bigger game shut
Speaker 1: up for the man's city in town, do you tell me?
Speaker 1: Or a more focused on Mansfield?
Speaker 2: Great free past him? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. Well to be fair, it did work so
Speaker 1: well done the focus on that one. We're all in
Speaker 1: agreement on this, yes, right, second pick then of this week,
Speaker 1: soacha we finally got there, joining aston Villa to beat
Speaker 1: Ips which comes from sky Betts League One. It is
Speaker 1: Laighton Orient two beat Lincoln.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: We waffle on a lot, so we need to get
Speaker 1: get going the double at the moment around seven to
Speaker 1: four ish, so not a bad spot really for a fourfold.
Speaker 1: Where else do you want to look around the league's yep,
Speaker 1: your turner reckon? Only just me and Jimmy No fucking
Speaker 1: and shit, wasn't it that last Sea.
Speaker 3: It's one of the stinky burpers that really put everyone off,
Speaker 3: happening to just breed through my mouth.
Speaker 1: There are a few that kind of John Powe, I
Speaker 1: mean Birmingham again another successful team and the other playing
Speaker 1: Charlton at home eight to thirteen to would just keep
Speaker 1: backing Birmingham at home. The one I did, I did
Speaker 1: want to mention and I'm going to contract myself because
Speaker 1: in the column, the notebook column on Monday and I
Speaker 1: thought this after the weekend game, I said, I just
Speaker 1: I'm slightly hesitant on including them. But then they won
Speaker 1: in midweek and played well in midweek for the first
Speaker 1: time I think in a while, and they're a big price.
Speaker 1: Sheffield United at Luton seven to five for a team
Speaker 1: who was second against the team who were bottom as
Speaker 1: we spoke about earlier. I don't know if it's just
Speaker 1: a value play just to keep backing Sheffield United, because
Speaker 1: maybe the sign is you're going well. They haven't been
Speaker 1: playing well, but they're still second in the league. And
Speaker 1: there's the fact that next week is it they play
Speaker 1: Leads at bram Olane. They need to make sure that
Speaker 1: they're still within the touching distance of their and being
Speaker 1: at a point where they can then win that game
Speaker 1: to overtake them. They can't then go into that game knowing, shit,
Speaker 1: if we don't win this then that is it. They're
Speaker 1: too far clear here. We can't we can't really touch them.
Speaker 1: It's just a big price playing. This Lowton turnaround isn't happening.
Speaker 1: It's just not happening. We keep saying it was going
Speaker 1: to happen. It's not happened. I know everyone within football
Speaker 1: thought it was going to happen. You know, saw various
Speaker 1: kind of interviews with chief executives and stuff at the
Speaker 1: start of the season where they were saying at the
Speaker 1: state of the championship, well, Looton will turn it round. Obviously,
Speaker 1: as we expect, it's not happened. They are bottom of
Speaker 1: the league. They are struggling Sheffield United, who I honestly
Speaker 1: don't know where to rank them amongst the four. I
Speaker 1: think we know who seconds. Well, yes, it took the
Speaker 1: league table, the league in terms of kind of you
Speaker 1: know what you're looking at.
Speaker 3: Me the joint best NNUS points deduction.
Speaker 1: Well, get your finances in order then the it's just
Speaker 1: the pricing. It's just for me, Like I say, is
Speaker 1: it just worth of just keep including them? When we
Speaker 1: keep getting prices like this, I think it's top. It's
Speaker 1: the whole thing, Tom, because if you for me because
Speaker 1: I've got down a massive price, I think the price
Speaker 1: gets it in because it's a ridiculous price when you
Speaker 1: look at the comparative matchups across the leagues this weekend.
Speaker 1: Because so that I've got this alongside Wickham at Crawley,
Speaker 1: that Wickham second in the league going to a team
Speaker 1: that third bottom and Wickham a seventeen to twenty and
Speaker 1: Sheffield United are a fair fair bit of odds against.
Speaker 1: So they keep fluctuating between being eleven to eight and
Speaker 1: like a little bit short, a little bit longer. That's
Speaker 1: just crazy. Chef United thirty one points away from home
Speaker 1: this season. Only Burnley thirty two have taken more. It's
Speaker 1: nine wins, four draws, two defeats. Lutwin haven't won any
Speaker 1: of the last ten and lost eight of those matches.
Speaker 1: No uptick under Bloomfield at all. The price is just crazy.
Speaker 1: So every n I had won six of the last seven,
Speaker 1: had that odd performance at home to Hold that they lost,
Speaker 1: but then just came straight back and won the rest
Speaker 1: of the league games. The price is insane. If this
Speaker 1: was a team, do you know that sixth in the
Speaker 1: league at that price is where I think your point
Speaker 1: about it's just the price, but the second in the league.
Speaker 1: It's the team. If this was way shorter, then I
Speaker 1: think we should be looking at getting it in. But
Speaker 1: with the price as well, I think we'd be crazy
Speaker 1: to not include it earlier. A shorter price to beat
Speaker 1: Preston and we spoke last week. Preston han't lost since
Speaker 1: I think the second and November at home ten games.
Speaker 1: I think it is now I'm beating at Home and
Speaker 1: Burnley were shorter price to go there and win. I
Speaker 1: just can't Yeah, I can't really write my head around it,
Speaker 1: to be honest, it just feels like are we're just
Speaker 1: being stupid by just ignoring them and leaving them out.
Speaker 1: I would definitely haven't it for one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Elective gym Rood No. So I was tricky when
Speaker 3: you're trying to assess your own team. We were crap
Speaker 3: against Portsmouth, were crap at home against We struggled at
Speaker 3: home against Darby, were a.
Speaker 2: Crap at home against Plymouth.
Speaker 3: But I was just looking at our away record against
Speaker 3: the crap teams and it's pretty good. And I guess
Speaker 3: it's just because the onus is on them a little
Speaker 3: bit more to come out and players, and we've got
Speaker 3: the quality to beat them. The only slight niggling doubt
Speaker 3: is the brilliant performance was revolved around Hamer.
Speaker 2: On Wednesday.
Speaker 3: He tweaked his hamstrings somewhere around the fortieth minute and
Speaker 3: coincidentally we just sort of it turned into a bit
Speaker 3: of a slug our slog after that. I doubt it'd
Speaker 3: be risked for this game, and I don't know how.
Speaker 3: I don't know how important he is to the team.
Speaker 3: I don't know how much it hinges on him because
Speaker 3: we've got so much quality in January now, so I
Speaker 3: don't know that would be my only doubt. But price wise,
Speaker 3: I think with my head, you've got to get it in,
Speaker 3: aren't you. You've got it bottom of the league, absolutely
Speaker 3: down and out, lost like ten of the last twelve.
Speaker 3: Did you say eight of the last ten two draws. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think just get it in because at least we
Speaker 3: can hold our heads up by then. And if they do,
Speaker 3: Joe say, well the price was brilliant.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got the way, We've got the value, win moral,
Speaker 1: win the treble five and a half to one. I
Speaker 1: think one more team does it. Yeah, just to recap,
Speaker 1: we've got Aston Villa to beat Ipswich, Sheffield United to
Speaker 1: beat Luton as we said there and then later in writing,
Speaker 1: to beat Lincoln. One more team and I think we've
Speaker 1: got a nice fourfold here. Where who do you want
Speaker 1: to include?
Speaker 2: Where do you want to go?
Speaker 1: Can I say Wickham coming? I've already said them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm uncertain, but go for it. So Wickham are away
Speaker 1: from home, so I know, like, ah, we're like no
Speaker 1: away teams ever apart from that last one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So they're away at Crawley and yeah Crawley they try
Speaker 1: the best, but they are poor and they'll get the
Speaker 1: odd result. But they're a poor team and they might
Speaker 1: make it difficult for Wickham, but Wickham should win this
Speaker 1: game and they're not like a really really short price.
Speaker 1: Only Burton have taken fewer points than Crawley at home
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of dredging out the same old stats
Speaker 1: and that I have done whenever going against Crawley in
Speaker 1: this podcast. Crawley started the season very well, won the
Speaker 1: first couple of games, which then just puts you puts
Speaker 1: a bit more perspective on just how few points they've
Speaker 1: picked up since then. Wickham have lost three of the
Speaker 1: last thirty six matches in all competitions. They're the best
Speaker 1: away team in League One one nine draw four, lost two,
Speaker 1: so even better than Birmingham in terms of the points
Speaker 1: that they've taken away from home. Again similar to the
Speaker 1: Sheffield United one at Luton then just feels like second
Speaker 1: going to third bottom a team that's in really strong
Speaker 1: form against a team that is just poor. We're in
Speaker 1: danger of overthinking this as a selection. If it was
Speaker 1: one to two'd be like, oh, it's a bit short
Speaker 1: this one, but it's I've got it down from looking
Speaker 1: this morning as seventeen to twenty and I'm not looking
Speaker 1: at that thinking that's way too short. I'm thinking it's
Speaker 1: probably going to tend its way closer to one to
Speaker 1: two by kickoff. Mike Dodds's first game in charge was
Speaker 1: that technically nil nil draw at Preston in the FA
Speaker 1: Cup over nineteen minutes, which spoke there about Preston's superb
Speaker 1: home form that offers encouragement and I think I'm probably
Speaker 1: the same Jimmy. I'm leaning towards it's a big enough
Speaker 1: price just to take that little bit of a risk
Speaker 1: on it that we're still relatively unknown with the new manager,
Speaker 1: haven't we. But after Bloomfield's left they've still kept up
Speaker 1: the pace relatively of what they were doing anyway. It's
Speaker 1: not that they've had a massive drop off and suddenly
Speaker 1: it's all gone wrong. And like Warsaw, with losing Nathan
Speaker 1: Lowe up front, their results have dropped off significantly.
Speaker 2: The parents, aren't they?
Speaker 1: Yeah that is awful. We just opposed them. But it's
Speaker 1: a big enough price against a poor enough team. Athough,
Speaker 1: it feels like every time we said the poor Crawley though,
Speaker 1: they pull out a result to include it. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it is case.
Speaker 3: I everythink we hear some other options, because I've just
Speaker 3: got some I can't justify it because when I did
Speaker 3: my notes, I've got kone to get goals this weekend.
Speaker 3: And Crawley against the big boys, they're crazy shootouts. They
Speaker 3: were actually decent attacking and they have these batshit crazy games.
Speaker 2: I was just looking.
Speaker 3: They've scored scored free against Stevenage. They scored three at Bolton,
Speaker 3: desperately unlucky not to get a result. They were that
Speaker 3: really weird quick free kick, weren't they. And I think
Speaker 3: he's a cracking bet and a cracking price, and I
Speaker 3: know I'm doing the exact thing of overthinking it. I
Speaker 3: just like to hear the other options because I'm sort
Speaker 3: of like sixty percent in.
Speaker 1: Before then what the other option? Get your cash out
Speaker 1: up on a cone? Because I saw that at the
Speaker 1: start of the post, and then we got a lot
Speaker 1: of it off track. I don't know whether he was
Speaker 1: humming an RN, but.
Speaker 2: No, I weren't. I weren't. I just I was just
Speaker 2: checking what it was because they ain't been offering it.
Speaker 1: Me, what what other options?
Speaker 2: A ton of it? Oh?
Speaker 1: So just look at this first Richard Cone eight one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty one top goal scorer League one. Jimmy
Speaker 1: put twenty quid on that start of the season pound
Speaker 1: each way chess eighteen hundred quid. But he's being offered
Speaker 1: six thirty cash out. It's like a game show. This
Speaker 1: isn't it. You've got six thirty that's yours? Do you
Speaker 1: want to take it?
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 3: It just reminded me Betfred I also had ronand Curtis.
Speaker 3: He was two hundred to one because I thought, dropping
Speaker 3: down in level is going to play left wing for
Speaker 3: one of the top sides. I won't be surprised if
Speaker 3: you at fifteen, I might get some each way each
Speaker 3: way money. Betford meant to clip him from two hundred
Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty two one hundred.
Speaker 2: He hasn't scored.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's scored a goal yet, but
Speaker 3: instead of clipping him to one hundred, they clicked himTo
Speaker 3: ten by accident. Offered me like one hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: cash out, so I took it.
Speaker 1: Jimmy admitting on the podcast that he has technically stolen money.
Speaker 2: No, no seller, beware, what is it?
Speaker 1: Whire beware? What does that need to get to for
Speaker 1: you to take the cash out?
Speaker 2: I'm not taking it at all.
Speaker 1: So never if he's gonna get my ladies and gentlemen
Speaker 1: in the autumn sixteen hundred quid and there's like two
Speaker 1: games to go in the season and he's level with someone,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't take it. Possibly, Yeah, if he does his
Speaker 1: knee like in Leman and Die last night, that was devastating.
Speaker 1: Was devastating when you have tips and.
Speaker 2: To score now.
Speaker 3: Crying crying's crying, Yeah, Fox a lot about doing that.
Speaker 2: Stop making a walk on it, comyack.
Speaker 1: It's a week. Every step is a week longer on
Speaker 1: the sideline. Peace, for the love of God, carry him off.
Speaker 1: I still want to hear these other I still want
Speaker 1: to hear these other sorry about it?
Speaker 3: Right, So I've got two serious ones and I've got
Speaker 3: two with no notes, just more than ivy ones. Stop
Speaker 3: put fight for Wigghim was a little bit uneasy how
Speaker 3: they do after Louis Barry's departure. But there's an argument
Speaker 3: to be made that they've got a more cohesive attack
Speaker 3: of unit without Barry, slightly one dimensional. Now they've got
Speaker 3: all the boys really light bait alongside Norward.
Speaker 2: They're pulling the strings.
Speaker 3: I'd be surprised if we can got a kick at all,
Speaker 3: to be honest with them to a midfield, wigging, patchy team.
Speaker 3: But I looked at the record against the big boys.
Speaker 3: You can get Stockport five to four. They've played for,
Speaker 3: they've lost for, they've scored none. They conceeded seven, which
Speaker 3: is pretty terrible. Stagport two nil team as well?
Speaker 2: My word? Can they win too?
Speaker 1: And ill Ons to nil across that road? But yes,
Speaker 1: but what a two nil? That crawling as well?
Speaker 3: Other serious option Swindon at Harrogate seven to five. Swindon
Speaker 3: are just a good team now and the Holloway does
Speaker 3: that happened? Nineteen games, twenty seven points. They've only lost
Speaker 3: six times across their last eight. Only Bradford have taken
Speaker 3: more points. They're absolutely flying and their only defeat across
Speaker 3: the last eleven game at nuts count your way obviously brilliant,
Speaker 3: brilliantly two sides.
Speaker 2: They won for the last five.
Speaker 3: Only issue is you're like this Holloway won the manager
Speaker 3: of the month last season? Did he last month dead?
Speaker 3: And don't they usually have a curse after their that?
Speaker 1: I looked at this ages ago and it's just a
Speaker 1: complete myth. But I was based on data from a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. I've not revisited it since then.
Speaker 1: Everyone just usually wins after it because you're doing very
Speaker 1: well and that just continues.
Speaker 3: Oh and I've also got Harrogate have lost in the
Speaker 3: last five. It's being a pretty brutal schedule. But based
Speaker 3: on Swindon recently, they're one of the top sides in his.
Speaker 1: It just screams Draw bizarrely, for I can't logically work
Speaker 1: out why Swindon are so good. They don't make any sense,
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense based on when he was arguing
Speaker 1: with the fans that it was that Bradford. I think
Speaker 1: it was Bradford away he was arguing with the fans.
Speaker 1: So I have absolutely no idea where the hell this
Speaker 1: turnaround has come from. We thought they were absolutely doomed,
Speaker 1: but they managed to sort themselves out. Vibe ones, I
Speaker 1: want the Vibe ones please.
Speaker 3: Stoke home to Swansea, living to eight.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe that it just feels Draw had meant to
Speaker 1: be better.
Speaker 3: The other vibe is Shrewsbury thirty five.
Speaker 1: I love Street. Just keep just keep refusing to lie down,
Speaker 1: get relegated, just go down, get and they go. No,
Speaker 1: absolutely not. They Drew didn't they reading in midweek Shrewsbury
Speaker 1: are now three games unbeaten in the.
Speaker 2: Equal eyes as well. It's such a guy with gold
Speaker 2: what happened?
Speaker 1: Massive massive punt up the field? They're just not in
Speaker 1: the game. Or a couple of flick ons that just
Speaker 1: scrambling defense bag in from about four yards out.
Speaker 2: Do we want to go against Schumacher's wonderers?
Speaker 1: Though when you dick at three or down that was
Speaker 1: a bit lucky to turn it around. The only one
Speaker 1: there I could probably get on border would be Stockport
Speaker 1: at Wigan. I think in terms of price plays there's
Speaker 1: not as much uncertainty on it for me as there
Speaker 1: is at Wickham and we spoke about Laton audience, great
Speaker 1: form and how good they were, or Stockport with a
Speaker 1: team that turned up and beat them very recently. So
Speaker 1: to go to a Wigan team now at five to
Speaker 1: four certainly an eye catching price of those ones would
Speaker 1: be the ones the one I would say, so shrews
Speaker 1: shall we just what? Would have five four? Have Stockport
Speaker 1: and Shrewsbury. I'd be similar that we're going to be
Speaker 1: the only the only one I'd be close to it.
Speaker 1: I just I think that that thing back to them
Speaker 1: at home games is just freaking just long one now
Speaker 1: and they're absolutely shit at home. Four four six is
Speaker 1: their record across forty stopport. I like they were on
Speaker 1: a good run. I mean they're still are on a
Speaker 1: very good run. And obviously it was only stoppage time
Speaker 1: equalized that stopped them winning the midweek. But I like
Speaker 1: Wigan have done all season. Don't really like going against them,
Speaker 1: and if you did go against them, you'd have won
Speaker 1: a grand total of twelve times games. So the recent
Speaker 1: results just looking at them. So the Wigan Fulham game,
Speaker 1: I listened to that one because it was the main
Speaker 1: game on five Live at the weekend and I was
Speaker 1: driving and they played really well against Fulham. Made a
Speaker 1: really good fist of that game. I noticed the FA
Speaker 1: Cup you have like the one off game. Watch them
Speaker 1: live against Barnsy this season they were really good. I
Speaker 1: think they are a good team, so they're very capable
Speaker 1: of upsetting a good opponent. And then because the record
Speaker 1: against the top six is so the couple of matches
Speaker 1: before gets it's a drawing a defeat, and then you
Speaker 1: look at the matches before that, they won three the
Speaker 1: previous four and I know against against the top six.
Speaker 1: If we're just being really specific, I think in League One,
Speaker 1: not dissimilar to when we've talked about League Two in
Speaker 1: the last two or three weeks. If we're just saying
Speaker 1: the top six, I think we just got to be
Speaker 1: careful that because one one team a team that's in
Speaker 1: the top six now compared to the teams that were
Speaker 1: in the top six when they played them, and if
Speaker 1: we're going back do top.
Speaker 2: Four instead then because there's a bit of a cut off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it also argued well Reading they lost to they
Speaker 1: lost away Reading early season Reading, we're a top six
Speaker 1: team until Seller's obviously departed. If we go just back
Speaker 1: into into December and they get picking up pretty consistent
Speaker 1: results or making a fist of it. Burming they're a
Speaker 1: class apart. They lost three Hill at home to them,
Speaker 1: Wrexham squed a late winner to beat them to one.
Speaker 1: They won one lot Rotherham and that was the last
Speaker 1: time that Rotherham lost before they picked up They won
Speaker 1: two Nill at Bolton. They're a good team who were
Speaker 1: well capable of making a fist of it. The price,
Speaker 1: I would very much agree five to four is an
Speaker 1: inviting price, So I'm absolutely not saying that, Yeah that
Speaker 1: it's not a it's not a good price. The only
Speaker 1: other one that I had on my list was Stevenage
Speaker 1: to win at home to Peterborough. And it's a tricky one,
Speaker 1: the Stevenage because Ellen e r Line Darby a big time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the train chat just odds against and they may
Speaker 1: have lost their last two they won the previous four,
Speaker 1: but they're a strong home team, only lost one of
Speaker 1: the last seven at home. And it's how bad Peterborough
Speaker 1: are away from home. So they've taken two points from
Speaker 1: the last twelve away matches. And it's I mean, Stevenage
Speaker 1: don't fall into that bracket of being as strong as
Speaker 1: a Stockport or a Wickham. So you're taking on that.
Speaker 1: It's whether there is enough there to get against Peterborough.
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't I know, it's not helpful. I think
Speaker 1: I'd have more confidence backing a good team over I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be an average team to be a bad team
Speaker 1: sort of thing. Won't be massive, massively fussed with any
Speaker 1: of these, any of these three. The Stockport prices is
Speaker 1: very good. I think that the them, they and Wickham
Speaker 1: will win. She would take Stockport Lear. If it's a
Speaker 1: bigger price and they put them both in, that's insane, Jimmy,
Speaker 1: well just.
Speaker 2: Out of interest. What would both of them be?
Speaker 1: Both of them, I'm going to tell you because it'd
Speaker 1: be twenty six is luckily on Sporting Life at twelve
Speaker 1: o'clock tomorrow. That will be the option for the bigger acker.
Speaker 1: We can have the actual acher Stockport and we can
Speaker 1: have Shrewsbury in the bit it's bankrupt sky, I think
Speaker 1: we should settle on Stockport as a fourfold What does
Speaker 1: that give us that if we have the following aca
Speaker 1: of Aston Villa to beat Ipswich, Sheffield United to beat Luton,
Speaker 1: Lighton Orient to beat Lincoln and Stockport to beat Wigan,
Speaker 1: the acha is above fourteen to one.
Speaker 2: Love it. It's nice since a nice.
Speaker 1: Tasty little price. Turn that as our four teams then
Speaker 1: to win on this week's Acher. As we said there,
Speaker 1: we are taking Aston Villa, Sheffield United, Leighton, Orient and Stockport.
Speaker 1: Remember to keep it fun. Never met Moike, go forward
Speaker 1: and please gamble responsibly as Joe T's their head. Over
Speaker 1: sporting life dot com fortash Football midday on Friday, you'll
Speaker 1: be able to find the link to back that at
Speaker 1: enhanced price. Will also have the longer shot as well,
Speaker 1: which I'm pretty confident, which will feature at least Wickham
Speaker 1: talking back to I'm pretty confident we'll win pretty good well.
Speaker 1: As we said, you know, the midweeker we had the
Speaker 1: ten to one winner. The fifty to one was it
Speaker 1: denied by a very very late equalizer, So make sure
Speaker 1: you check those out to see what teams are including
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