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Before delving into the best way of roasting some white-breasted London cockroles, we close out our favorite 11th section with the man we want to manage our sights. We'll also be talking to your friend at the show, Lionel Nade aka Red Abbey 1 on Twitter. About some travel tips, as many of us consider treating ourselves as taking in a match in the new year. As usual, we'll finish the pod with another round of your questions and the chaos that normally ensues. Over the last few weeks, we've been selecting our dream sights for Liverpool all time 11. Who's managing these dream teams? Shanti is out for all of us at last, as we never saw his sights. Who do you have in your dog out James Owens? Well, I suppose I'm one of the Rafa generations, so if we're keeping it to people under whom we watch the team, it's got to be Rafa. Dara, ask you just a vacation for that briefly. I was very much a rapper, loyalist, really. I think he just did a very, very good job. At a time, really, when the Premier League was stronger than it has ever been, it was stronger than it was now. There are more decent teams at the top end now with the top four or five teams off his time. We're very, very good, and I think with the resources he had, yes, he spent a fair bit of money with the teams that were around, he over performed basically, and that's just domestically. I think in Europe, he was absolutely outstanding. Rafa, for you James. Yes, thank you very much, Phil. I'd love to be able to pick Bob Hazy, but I'm not old enough yet. I think I'll go with Kenny Leish. Again, as I said right away through this, my introduction to Liverpool at FC was around the 80s, the mid 80s, into the late 80s, and we haven't had a better Liverpool Football Club since then. Rafa's team came close in terms of what they were capable to achieve. Possibly, as James says, anyone that missed that dream team of the late 80s, Rafa's would be the best to have, but you wouldn't have touched it. That team, that John Barran's team, that John Barran's sport team, with all of the John Berdsley and the rest, they were definitely the best in Europe. If only for the Hauser band would have been amazing to see that AC Milan Liverpool match up to see who the true rate was. For sure. Damien Flodger, the idea of your manager for an all-time 11, who do you think? I think I have to agree with Phil on this one that Kenny Leish from A LA Long, but I'm going to go with a close second, say Roy Evans, because there's a lot of managers who come out after a bit more success than Roy, but Roy plays some fantastic football when he was there for Kenny Leish from A LA Long, for me. Kenny for you. Steven Brown. I'm going to agree with James and I'm going to go with Rafa. Start the success up until 2001 with the treble with Olivier. We never really kicked on with Olivier, but he just came in and transformed the club from top to bottom, and what he had to deal with, with the info that went down behind the scenes and so on. I think we had to press the point in order manager to have to deal with anything like Rafa had to deal with in any club at that time, and if he gave us this handball. Yeah, well it's hard to argue with that. I don't want to let it with my shed. I am old enough to have seen Bob Paisley's teams. I think the 81 club final was my first, a European club final was my first game, but I know it's still remembered, but I'm going to go with Kenny as well as player and manager, because frankly that got against Chelsea, the one that led on to the double as my all-time favourite memory, so it's Kenny from me. Okay, let's move straight into our review of the Liverpool, Norwich and West Ham games. It was fun. Louis Suarez made a lot of the absence of a strike partner, he fired a Santa sack full of goals past Norwich and West Ham, so how was it for you? Did the earth move? Well, let's look at some of the outstanding features of the two games. With start off, I think Steven Brown wants to talk about the attack and Suarez in particular, where else would you start, Steven? The last two games, the Norwich and West Ham game Suarez just showed the world how good he is. All you have never seen a Liverpool player put in a performance as good as the 90 minutes, near 90 minutes Suarez got against Norwich, you don't know. The four goals, you just can't, like the third goal was my favourite. The first goal was ridiculous, the second goal was a great bit of improvisation, and the fourth goal is a 30 year free cake that's starting to look standard. You're expecting it, like that's the level that he is at now. We've all watched Ronaldo and Messi and so on, and Messi beat four players and tops the ball to keep his legs, and it's standard. We're expecting now, we're going out every game and Suarez is going to do something special. It's just a joy to behold at the moment. And one of the things that seems to have been massively underrated was his assist for Sterling's goal as well. People seem to have forgotten all about that. The difference with Suarez and other players is Suarez rolls up a sleeve and works his arse off. He's not this fancy player that stands there, doesn't do anything until the ball comes anywhere near him. A one stage on Saturday in the West Ham game in the second half Suarez was in the right back position, tackling the army, because all he wants to do. People say he's just starting to do it, whatever, the stupid bands and all. The man just wants to win full ball game. Steve, quick question for you. I was just doing a bit of writing on this during the week, and one of the topics that keeps coming up again is how much do you let yourself love this fella? If there's distinct possibilities going away, where do you stand on that? I mean, how much have you committed in terms of where are you and your Suarez love? I got burned badly with Ronaldo, Suarez. Badly. I think everyone did. I think Suarez is possibly the most harmful baller I've seen play for Liverpool. Do you remember you said we had struggled to score with storage out of the team? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I did. I just had a reminder that. It's always nice to have fella around to remember these things. Damien, can I bring you in here, just on this particular question, as to where you stand on Suarez and your feelings towards him in terms of being a Liverpool fan, seeing how bloody brilliant he is, but how much do you commit to the kid at this stage? I think it's very hard. Lick's day is well, or you struggle a little bit when Torres left or you absolutely dispose of the ground he was on for months, couldn't stand until he was on the television album, but with Suarez the way he is at the moment, he just got to enjoy what we have. That's the way I look at it, just enjoy it and take it as it comes. He may go, he may not. Like, I remember people born in Stephen Durais, Jersey outside the ground. He's still with the club. And what we want to say is, maybe Suarez, there's a whole field where that and he might stick around long time. Hopefully, that's what happens anyway. I don't think it's a bit of money with Suarez. I just don't see him as, he doesn't come across as a money driven player. I think a lot of it's down to family and personal happiness and how well the team is doing. Like, we all know the answer if we finish outside the top four, you know, how Suarez isn't there next season. Regardless, he can sign a contract for $400 a week. He's not staying if we don't get top four or four, but he's a player that deserves to be on the Champions League stage. Suarez could play for Barcelona, he could play for Ramadres, pick any side in the world Suarez could play for him. That's how good he is. The one thing I would say about Suarez to kind of pay his, every striker that's left Liverpool has never been in the success when you've left the United States. They've all failed. Yeah, that's how she goes. Someone should get that word then. And they have all failed. Every single one of them, Kagan to rush. What do you mean, I'm embarrassed? Yeah, he was a success. That's true. That's true. He was a success. He was a success. Okay, Phil, I'm going to come to you for your chosen topic next. And you have, you have noted down here that you want to speak about partnerships, what ones work and don't work. You've noted here, particularly Sacco and Skirtle, Alan Jarrett, Johnson and Skirtle. Interesting. Okay, give us your thoughts, please. Yeah, I suppose I haven't talked for weeks about midfield and the issues with the Lucas Gerard partnership and the ongoing fact that they aren't a partnership and they can't function together. It was, again, delightful to see Joe Allen regain his form from when he saw him for the club. And blossom again, and free Gerard to push on and be more effective in the top half of the pitch. The one more and I have around it is that we tend to do it in any way at home. And Gerard has put it in an awful lot of good performances in home matches, being free to push on again. And when Lucas came on then on Saturday, there was, I know, I was talking with Amy there about it, and he said, "Watch this drop deep." And I said, "I know we won't, Joe Allen's going to stay there." And Lucas is going to play in that sort of more aggressive push down midfield. But it was really, it was about two minutes after Lucas came on, Lucas and Allen switched positions. And I talked to the detriment of Allen's game on the day as well, because he was really controlling the tempo from the back of the actual midfield. He was getting off the centrehouse. He kept this noise in high-decentrehouse, pushed out with him. He pulled the team up, and as soon as Lucas came on, Lucas dropped in between the centrehouse and Skirtle almost reacted immediately by dropping that little bit deeper and Sacco held position. And when you looked across, it was almost an off-centre line, and that Skirtle was the forwardest man back with Lucas next. And then Sacco. And that sort of put the back four slightly out of sync. And for me, I thought, because Lucas was so deep that it became a gap midfield that hadn't been there beforehand, and Allen was pushed on probably behind a bit too high, which left that gap. And that was the gap that West Ham's heart exploited then, when after Girard had gone off. Now, just before I jump in, I think Allen and Girard functions as a partnership. I really do, and I'm delighted to see that. I don't know if the Allen/ Girard partnership is the answer. I think Allen will blossom. He's such a good footballer, and he's the player that we need, because he can control the tempo of a game, which we've sort of been missing for a good while now. But I also still think we need that hard bastard in the centre of the park as well. We need somebody that's harder and stronger and Lucas, and we need somebody who's got more legs and more pace and more power through 90 minutes. The Girard injury, and I don't think anybody will disagree with us, he's played too much football. For a man his age, it was inevitable he was going to pick up something eventually. And it's just such a shame that we're going to potentially miss them for four weeks over the Christmas period. Just before we get in, I have the Scarlet Johnson partnership down, because of a pen me fucking arse without diagonal floaty ball to the back post that Johnson can't defend and Scarlet gets caught out on. And it's taken away from Scarlet was relatively good form outside of these stupid lapses that goes on. And the stupid lapses tend to happen when Johnson can't deal with a floaty cross to the back post. It's not hard. John Flanagan, who's limited in his all round game, can defend a floaty ball to the back post. And if you notice, we haven't done anything stupid on the left hand side since Flanagan has been in there. Yet we're still conceding the same goal. It's like a goal in repeat. The sack of Scarlet will be, I'll come back to later on when we're doing the actual preview. I know James, you wanted to, I was talking to you previously as well. He wanted to talk about Joe Allen's sort of reviving into the actual team, didn't you? Yeah, it was just a general point really on just, I mean, I know it links him with something I think you want to say about ASEAD and Moses, I think, didn't it after ASEAD scored at the weekend, which was just a point about just fickleness. And it's not, I'm not being something the most about. I'm as guilty as anyone. But, you know, I think it was the last time I was on, which was two or three weeks ago, I think it happened after the Derby, so I think it was a fortnight ago, wasn't it? We had a question about, you know, sort of, when, when, you know, how long has Joe Allen got a Liverpool and I'm not one of the lads answered and kind of said, you know, it's somewhere at the latest, you know, possibly before, you know, it'd be gone. Of course, now he's had a couple of good games and it's all turned around. Likewise, Sterling, you know, people were very much on Sterling's back and he's, he's turned into a couple of good performances in the last two games. So it was just more a point really about kind of how, how quickly things changed now, I think, or we can be really, I was basically, yeah. Yeah, and what, what, what were your thoughts on, on Allen, in terms of positionally, the way things changed when Lucas came on and Allen did see him as Phil was saying to Gold more forward. And that said, he wasn't involved in a lovely move or I think he hit two paths in the space of about 30 seconds. One little dink ball forward and then a lovely square ball across the, the face of, of, of Gold as well. I mean, he's clearly very, very adept and technically capable. It seems to be, does it, James, a confidence issue completely? I mean, I think, I think in that role, he's a bit more of a, he's a slightly more progressive player than Lucas. I mean, I think one of the things with Lucas, when he kind of drops deep to pick up the ball now, was he's, he's very, very slow on the turn and I think it's possibly the knee. I mean, he was never especially mobile. I mean, to be honest, Joe Allen, when he's played there before, when this had started happening to, happening to have a lot around October, November last season, he is vulnerable to being pressed there, being possessed, you know, picking the ball up and turning. But I think, I think the thing you've got to remember with Allen is that we haven't actually seen a great deal of him and I was critical of him the last time I was on. But we, we haven't seen, you know, we were all sort of dismayed at the miss against Anderson. We haven't seen a lot of Allen in his preferred role. Well, it was his preferred role at Swansea without playing without injury at Liverpool. And since he's been a regular in the team, because obviously he put over that shoulder injury for a long time, and since he's been a regular in the team, which is going by the last time he was a regular, it was January, February, the team has changed a lot with the introduction of storage and continue. Obviously, storage is out at the moment, but we've become, our emphasis has changed a lot. We've deep yet a lot from what was probably Rogers' initial idea for how he would play. Funnily enough, I mean, Allen's looked probably best in the last couple of games, playing as the deepest midfielder, isn't he? That's where he's played, not. So, yeah. Fair enough. Phil, to just round out what you were saying about one of your partnerships that you mentioned there, included SACO, is there something that, specifically you mentioned about him there before we move on away from this? No, I'll be dealing with the one that gets to the preview of the game. Just to give it, it was the right choice against West Ham. Like, you're looking at SACO and Skirtland, I still think like West Ham provided very, very little of a stretch. I've heard other people comment on that SACO had a poor start now to his Liverpool career, which is crazy. He played very well up until the time he was left out of the team. For most of the stuff that I've listened to and read since then, really everyone's been caught up for his inclusion because he is so aerially strong when we're actually playing the game. It's taken him this long to get back into the team. We have Brendan saying that he's taken his chance and he's in there. What does that mean for Agar? Again, the SACO partnership is good to a point, but you always have that feeling with Skirtland. And it's probably unfortunate, but there's always that feeling because he has one season good and one season bad, that he's going to do something incredibly daft. And like, was anyone really surprised at the og and how it happened? Because he doesn't, again, it's a hapless kick. You know what I mean? He goes to try clear, but he's so hype extended in terms of getting to the ball that he can't actually control where the ball was going and it goes into the actual net. Now it's just, again, it's that type of thing and that happens with such regularity like that he falls over or something or remember, he piled into, for what you remember, against Newcastle, he dives into the back of Torrei. Yeah, and like Torrei missed his header from the back of it. You just wonder at times what's going on in his head. Do you know what I mean? And so if you're saying long term is Skirtland, SACO a good partnership, I don't think there's a single person here that wouldn't think that at some stage Skirtland is going to do something incredibly stupid and it's going to result in a goal, whereas I never get that feeling from SACO. He just seems imperious in the sense of that defense. I know everyone talks about the actual agriting and two left footers and you don't because they wouldn't be used to playing on the left hand side and the whole lot. But I'd still, I'd love to see a SACO lager combination of some form. I don't think you're alone there. And as you say, we will come to that in the preview of the other games and we'll be having a look at the shape of the team. Just before I let you away there, we'll just bring you in quickly to start and you just give me a sentence or two minutes and I'll bring in the other chaps. One of the things I wanted to speak about was Moses and his impact or lack of it. Where do you stand Phil on the idea of getting allowed in and alone and maybe dispensing with that loan as quickly as possible? What were you thoughts? I was, it comes back to the Nurey Sahin day last year when Roger's brought Sahin in and didn't play him in the position that he made his name for. And I'm looking at Moses and we brought him in and we played him initially I think for one game in the position that we saw in him for then played him. He was brilliant against ones. Yeah, then we played him as a 10 then and his confidence seemed to drain as he was completely out of the actual games and making no real talent Mark. Then he gets dropped, then he comes in but there's no excuse for the attitude he appeared to show on the actual pitch on Saturday. At that pass, the pass when he, he's got space and there's nobody even pressing him. He just basically just kicked the ball. It didn't even, it didn't look like it was going to anyone. He just kicked the ball. I just kicked it and then nobody, even the West Ham defender was just stoned. Like what's going on? I just step up and take care. I failed sorry in a way from him but in this instance, if we cancel the loan I don't think anybody would be crying over it. To be honest with you, I could, staring at it was having a really good game against West Ham and when he came off we also lost up in a pace in power. Off-run event. Tell me, would you agree with that? Definitely, yeah, but I think in terms of cutting a loan short, why not co-seals with loan? When on bike, exactly. Because at the moment we don't think unless you can get agreement of on Mario because it's a non-domestic loan it's like Sahin Steel had to be agreed right on Madrid and to court last year to send them back. We weren't able to court it unless Ray on Madrid. He's doing well, he's their star man so it's like he's flying. You fit in perfectly where we're playing at the moment with the courage and stuff. Absolutely, absolutely. I agree with you. It's quite frustrating, isn't it? Especially because Brendan seemed to have faith in him before and when you see now the assist record he has in the league it's pretty bloody impressive. I do think he says I need a game though. I think I don't think he would have got the games because we didn't have your whole belief for bothers here. I don't think he would have got the same number of games that he got last season. The suits all around it make sense and it makes sense from the state I'm in the area until the season's finished. There's a possibility it gets 34 games into one of those styles. Yeah, James, where are you in the whole Moses situation? That's of a shit loan and a shit permanent transfer basically. You look across the park in Everton. Everton look absolutely devastating with Lukaku and Dilafayu and Barry. Two of those, at least, are going to be gone in a year and they're going to replace life with light which should be very difficult for him. I was at a hole and he was just absolutely abject. My reaction at the time was he's playing like a lad who can't be asked here. Again, you talked about what we saw from him on Saturday and it was... As I said, it's better to take a punt on a loan player. At the end of the day, he's the lad we bought in because we had 25 million pounds roughly to spend on a really good attacking player and we just couldn't get one in charge. He joined the club, so he just got Victor Moses into making the numbers and he's barely done that really. He obviously scored that goal against Swansea on his debut. I do feel from a little bit and then he was played in a role that doesn't suit him. He won't continue as out. We played three, four, one, two. He was played behind the strike and there's not really his role because he's inclined to hold on to the ball and run with it at times when he should just release it, whether that's back to the midfield or whether it's on the turn trying to play strikers or fallbacks into space. You wouldn't be that surprised if we were to terminate it in January, particularly with the fact that Sterling's had a couple of encouraging games and looks like he kind of gets it and was a big contributor to some of the best football we played under Rodgers in spells on Saturday. We weren't loan sterling and if we did bring in another attacking player, it would be Moses that got the pass and goes back to Chelsea. So basically, I know how I'm done. It was a punt and it maybe won't work out. Speaking about the negative switch, we seem to be getting towards because we like them all on here. One of the things I've put down is a separate issue, but let's just put it into the whole negative soup here. What I've written down is "Meany lays wonky feet" and there's probably fewer bigger fans of the kids since he's come in than me. I think he's a tremendous keeper. It really is in terms of shots stopping all the rest of it, but what is going on with his kicking? I do not understand. He constantly looks under pressure. Now, I've had a little bit of a chat with Phil before where he came on all condescending and goalkeeper-y, so I'd be very interested to hear what Phil has to say about this in terms of his distribution. In fairness, we were talking about pressure-y situations and releasing them all under pressure. So, have you anything to add to that? Yeah, it's feet are too big. It's feet are too big. Yeah, I can't control him. He's like crusted a clown. I mean, he can't play a piece of pass. Now, listen, the best thing I thought about Saturday, and on January, I mean this, is that troll that he played in the fourth half, like it was the fourth time I was seeing an improvement in his distribution. Seeing the pass early delivery was quick. I was going to say the goal, the third goal of Sunderland, the way he released the ball there was very much like rain, and we broke quickly. So, there's something he can do. Yeah, sorry, carry on. Yeah, no, no, and that for me was like to see it, and just the fact that he saw it quickly and executed it quickly, because I think, and I said this to you, right, the issue for me is his accuracy is offset purely because he has to, he doesn't, he's a reactive goalkeeper when the ball comes to his feet. He's not proactive. He hasn't seen the pass before it comes, right? So, when the ball comes into him, he then looks to see where he's going to play. Whereas the likes of Rayna and, and, and goalkeepers who are going to feet have already assessed where the ball, where they want to put the ball, and they're ready to execute that pass when the ball arrives at their feet. Watch him the next time. The ball comes in, he takes a touch, looks, and then plays it, right? And then watch somebody even, even Chasney, I, I think the best exponent of at the moment is Valdez, a Barcelona, because he, he plays it that way. The ball will come into him, and he just, it's just given and it's gone. He knows where his next pass is, in the same way a midfielder has an awareness of where the players are. He doesn't stop shots though. Well, his trophy cabinet would, would say that he does. Yeah, yeah. Before we move away then from, from, from negatives in general, was writing us any more to have more on a bit. No? Can I, can I say a small, a small negative, right? I don't know, be but can disagree before. I think continue was trying to force the true ball a bit too much. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just, I think, and it's, it's, it's maybe not going a bit of his forward. Like one last year it was natural. He was more likely to play a short quick pass, get the ball back and then find a gap in place. Sometimes I just feel that he's trying to force that ball a bit too quickly. And we were, we're, we're starting to give him a possession when we don't necessarily need to it. Now at home against the likes of Norwich and West Ham, who were fucking abject in possession, right? That it doesn't really make a difference because he's going to get the ball back quickly and he's going to have more chances. The more times he gets the ball, the more times he's going to play the ball, right? But when we go to somewhere like Tottenham, like City, let's say, or, or somewhere like Everton, even where they retain the ball much better, he has less time on the ball. And if he gives the ball away, we're probably, he's probably just trying to force a bit too much because there is enough a lot of expectation for him to deliver. He needs to be in these, quoting inside and shooting from Turdiardo. It just seems like he has six shots a game that does trick away. But again, that's probably directly from the manager too because as we read during the week, he's speaking to Felipe, his big buddy Felipe and keeping him in the loop. Felipe's, well, Brent, Brent and Colin Felipe, and he's keeping him in the loop a bit, a Brazilian boy, so that's very interesting, Lucas and the rest of it. Okay, I think that's quite enough more than that's anyone else's anything particular to ask. That's one question of Fel, actually. Please do. Yeah, from a goal-keeping point of view. I mean, what do you think, Phil, with regard to, well, what do you think, you know, I mean, minulators, what, 25, 26, you know, what do you think the goal-keeping coaches, what do you think their prospects are, are actually kind of helping menulators just to just improve and possession of the ball? I mean, he likes a Croy turn, and you know, he's shown he can kind of release it quickly when it comes to sort of throwing it forward on the counter. But what do you think, you know, how do you think they are to be able to just improve, you know, improve the accuracy in the selection of his passing? I think they can work fairly well in terms of improving the actual accuracy of distribution, because that's a training, and that's just repetitively continuing to practice and sharp passes and long passes and stuff to build up the accuracy. And we've worked on that ourselves at the club, but the problem we have is that go keepers tend to fall into reactive or proactive in terms of distribution, and that would be something right the way through, where you may become a very accurate passer, but you're not necessarily going to be a quick releaser. And I think it's a complete change of mindset in terms of a chap when he plays the game, he has to see the pass before he gets it. Now, I don't know if he can, I don't know how better he can be come, but if we could get him even 50% better, James, I think at the moment he's had a brilliant start, and at the same time I don't want to go over the top, but the guy has been a huge difference to us this year in terms of the shots that he's stuck for us and the points that he's won for us, right? But obviously if you can go to the next level again, then maybe he'll even have a chance of challenging Courtwall for the Belgian No. 1, because if you actually look at Courtwall, he has everything that Minuli has, but he's also got that quick distribution as well. We get a 50% improvement, we're going to have a really, really top goal keeper in our hands. Okay, right, it's time for our second installment of our look at the nebulous world of rumor and supposition as we turn left onto Phil and Stee's magic rumor around a bit. Now, what lovely stories have you got for us this week? Going away from our rumor mill here, but supposedly Sidney Sam is moving from labor coos into Shalka for two and a half million euros. Oh, you're saying that? That's a ridiculous deal. Yeah, like, and that's because he had a boy or a clause, you know, that type of player has the scale and the ability to play in the premiership. There's real value there, the problem you have with the Bundesliga, though, and any links that we're going to have with players from the Bundesliga is German clubs rarely sell in the January transfer window. They don't need this at all. Well, but they rarely do. They normally do their business in the summertime, so I prefer us to go shopping there, but if we aren't going shopping there, let's make sure that we're getting the right players. Who would be here? Who are you looking at this week? Well, on the smaller start of the rumor, Boston, because, oh, okay, Martin and Trey's agents are allegedly in Italy, talking with the Bolton happily in Italy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He hasn't torn up yet and Liverpool won, so I'm not sure. Yeah, he's going to come off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so the Montagua one's a bit sketchy. And, David, the annual one's surrounded, so that the section of the person. Well, there's the annual, or six months, annually linked to Christian Tello, which I just can't see happen above. But it's there constantly linked, like it's like, I don't have to worry. We have to have a tour, has no replacement. Yeah, all right, tour, tour, tour, tour, tour, tour, tour, tour and it's kind of getting phased out now. So yeah, okay, right. Unless anyone has any other, has any other ludicrous sheds standing there? No, there was one going on there. Oh, yeah, there was one going on earlier on, Mohammed Salah. Mohammed Salah, yeah, he's been linked a few times before. Yeah, his representatives were at the game on Saturday, apparently. Yeah, that's the kid who scored a cracker in the, you know, that's a big room where from today, it's supposed to be a deal to be struck. And apparently, MV is causing us, come out. He's coming out, yeah, he's coming out. Excellent, excellent. We're posting rumors all over the shop. Right, let's move on then. If we could to the preview of Spurs vs Liverpool, this one is most of us a little bit nervous for various reasons. We've got, again, a couple of different areas that we'd like to talk about. So we'll start off. I know a few people have opinions on this. James Owens, what do we do with our midfield? The way things are looking. And again, today there are further rumors and I stress rumors about Jordan Henderson limping around to place one of those funny foot supports on him. What do we do with our midfield minus charts, James? You know, what's new to me about Henderson? Yeah, well, like I say, it could be completely scattered nonsense, but anyway. You would hope so, because I mean, we're in a situation where if Gerald was out and we got storage available, you'd maybe look at there being a case for playing both storage and Suarez and adopting a sort of a counter-attacking approach and trying to get Spurs with two strikers on the counter. But for all that they've had a bit of a slow start, Spurs, that would be asked a lot with the way, would have been hyperdactically asking a lot with the way that they keep the ball and what have you. And with the midfielders, they've got but, you know, if they're all fit, you know, you just pick all three, you know, you pick Lucas Island Henderson. I think, you know, for me, we're always in the field of light going into this season, you know, four central midfielders when you're often going to be playing with three, isn't enough? Because we're not going to have any one on the bench. That's, we're not going to have a central midfielder on the bench. So, you know, you'd assume just some kind of some variation of a four, three, three, if Henderson is fitting, it's obviously going to be Lucas Island Henderson. We're at that stage with a few injuries where the team picks itself, because, you know, you just put the players out who are fit, and it's just, there's an obvious, you think Sterling Coutinho and either side of Suarez and then the back four, the center of our parent is part of the area for the biggest of bikes. We've got a shitload of centerbacks and we've, we've not had a lot of continuity there, but yeah, you would think those three, if they're all fit, but I mean, it seems that even that's up in the air. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. A demo, where would you go in the field? We only have to trade to pick from. Those talkers around and people saying maybe Alberto in there, more biggest fear coming into this game with sports is the power they have in the middle of the park with Dembele, Paleno, which it is, the big, powerful units, and they can get at us. On top of that, they've also got a lot of quality out with Town's End and the pace that they have out with, and we haven't got the quickest fullbacks in the world. I'm actually pretty worried about this game. I am pretty worried about it. I think we didn't grasp midfield against any of the top four teams. We don't get a grasp on the midfield at all. And as it lines up currently, you're seeing them definitely having the edge in that central area. Without a doubt. Yeah, okay. Stay on your thoughts. Watching Spurs the past couple of weeks, they seem, AVV, seems to be playing Paleno as a number 10, for some reason, when he was signed as primarily the main central midfielder. The Paleno starts as a number 10, like he is, as the last said, he's a big, strong unit. But easy in number 10, I don't think so. Then Belly doesn't pass the ball, unless he has to. I've seen him so many times. And in fairness, he does look a very, very good player, like watching against annoyed at any boss to midfield, because he's annoyed that they don't have a midfield, or it didn't that day. I don't know, it's... So you're supposed to be a good toy, but you're seeing some hope there, basically. Yeah, definitely. I can see if Henderson is fit, they obviously hold their rumours. But Henderson can pressure then Belly into room down, blowing dallies. And you'll need to do it. Yeah. Filled, if you want to come in in the midfield, otherwise you want to start introducing the idea at the back. No, the only thing I'd say about my field is if Henderson is out, I think we may go with the two of Lucas and Alan and potentially continue playing at the 10. And then you'll have Moses and Sterling either, so with Suarez up top. I think, and personally, if Henderson is out, I just see Moses coming into the team. That's the only change that I'd see being made similar to Gerard's out as well. So I can see it going on either way. I'd like to see Alberto come in into a more... And we play an actual 4-3 tree and have Coutinho on sort of the left of Suarez, and Sterling on the right-hand side of Suarez. That's what I'd like to see. But I don't see it. I see Lucas coming in, and I see Moses coming in, because Moses did come on again on Saturday when he had a chance to bring Alberto on, even though Alberto came on against Noor as well, but that's just the way I see it. What about that show that you're alluding to there, and Damon mentioned as well, about Alberto coming in. I'll tell you what, if I had the show, I want them in. Because as you say, the obvious choice is if Hando is out, and it is supposition at this stage. Christ alive. You bring in Moses there and now, and his confidence is locked into a car cart. I mean, what do we do with that kid? I just say, look, the thing about Alberto is he looks a really good player. He looks a little bit slow in comparison to the attacking players that are in use in the premiership at this moment in time. And he was an attacking, frontry player at Barca B last year, and Simra when he was at Seville. So he's learning, if we're going to be playing him as a central midfield, or as the most advanced part of his two, and his one, or his one, and his two, right? He's learning a new position, which is why I think he might be getting eased into the force team with 10 minutes here and 15 minutes there in a different position to where he would have played up to now, right? I don't see Brandon doing anything really strange on this one, to be honest with you. I think you'll go safety force, and I think every time we've gone and set up, we've actually set up the player in the counter attack, and I don't see any change when we go to Spores. I think we let them have possession to think about Spores and James. You can jump in here if you think I'm wrong on this one as well. Spores have been a very slow team in comparison to the Spores team of last year. More happy to retain the ball, but they're not making that many chances. And I think we're very comfortable with a team, having the ball in front of us, as Everton did against us, in go to some park. I don't, I could see, there's hope for us, even with the injuries we have, there's plenty of hope there for us with the injuries that we have. But there's always that concern that suddenly Spores could click on the day, a recent record in where our lane has been shite, basically. Yeah. Do you want to come in there? Yeah, well, I think, you know, last season, and it was something we saw against Everton, actually, is we had, we were really vulnerable when the ball turned over. And I talked about it last time I was on, we saw it against Everton. It was a real problem early on on the ranches. Yeah, I mean, you know, Tottenham really, you know, the Tottenham of last season were kind of like crypt tonight to us because they basically relied heavily on just basically bail on the counter. I mean, I remember, then if anyone's ever a whole comfortable manager, well, when Hawke was gone on for one as a bit of a digression there, but it was like, it was like, stop it, it was like having a cheat code because you could just counter attack so well. And bail last season was like that. Tottenham have changed a lot, and I think there were a lot of us in the summer looking at Tottenham and thinking, right, you know, they're going to do really, really well out of selling bail because, you know, they'll lose one really good player and bring in five or six really good ones because of the, you know, the money that Real Madrid are going to pay for him now, that may still turn out to be true, but they've not, they've not found they've, you know, there's also a pickup of it since they obviously had a horrible, horrible resort at City, but things of, you know, they still, they still don't look convincing, you know, they've got an appalling kind of shot accuracy. They're shooting loads from distance, and they've got a really, really kind of poor accuracy rate, which, which, funnily enough, tends to go a shoot from distance, you know, bail last season was an exception, but, you know, they've not, they are a lot more, they are a lot more ponderous. Whether or not, you know, that you would think is something we would be able to cope with on the one hand, but then it's one of the, you know, one of the largest pointed out, they're really powerful sort of players in the Centralaries for Tottenham, and we've not really got that, we can't match up to that, but the one thing, the one sort of, the one positive that might, there might be about Jarrod not being there, we'll miss a set piece of everything else is that, is work right off the ball is quite poor, and is just a general defensive awareness and, you know, and diligence in terms of tracking people is poor. Now, the midfielders will have in there, whichever combination it is, should be a bit more responsible in that regard, so maybe that's one way in which Jarrod being out can work forwards, I mean, it's bad news, obviously, but, yeah, we just have to wait and see. Yeah, absolutely. Damien, can I come to you on your idea of who you'd like to see, first of all, line up at the back, and then I'll come to see on this as well, just speak to the two of you guys in this, who you'd like to see at the back, as opposed to who you probably think will see at the back. What I'd like to see at the back, for starters, it's Kelly Atri back, Lucy Torreis on the half a solid cycle, and at the left back, Johnson. Okay, yeah. I know me, I felt a lot of conversation about this a few weeks ago, and he was going left back, and you were saying Johnson was a terrible tendency to come up in and saw it, but, so was Flanagan, Flanagan's doing it all day long, and every pass he does comes back with it, at least when Johnson gets far out of the left, it's a tight mind that he tries to go, and he also hooks in, so it needs direct. Flanagan just puts up the line, cuts back, and plays backwards. Everything just does with that at the moment. That's what I'd like to see. What I do think it'll be Johnson, skeletal, psycho, and Flanagan. I don't see any change. Yeah, you think it's going pretty much there. Stay with you way in behind that. I think it's going to be the same for Sally, and I think psycho has done an orphan Saturday to keep his place. I think it'd be a crazy move now to drop him, especially after all was set after much. I think Flanagan will start left back, which would be interesting to see who actually starts ahead of Flanagan as well, because coil walker, as we all say, Glenn Johnson knows attacking, but can't defend, coil walker is exactly the same, possibly a little worse. You'd be more extreme, yeah. The whole left side kind of conundrum is a massive deal, because obviously they have towns in that'll start on the right cutting inside, and he'll then allow walker to come outside him, makes the attack on Flanagan one on one. All you wouldn't have any fears were Flanagan playing left back, because we've seen for the past three games how solid he's been. He's came in, and I remember the asking game where everyone kind of went, so fuck for shit, like this is a disaster, and he hasn't put a foot wrong. So realistically do you see the same back four? That's the same, my person is the same back four, yeah. Phil, I know I'm rolling behind the idea of Aka being reintroduced along, so it's psycho. Again, realistically I don't think it's going to happen. I think the two fold backs stay the same. Again, sadly, where do you come on this in terms of realistically what you see happening? For every reason, I want the John Flanagan to play against West Ham, so he could mortar Stuart Downing. He sent him into his back pocket after three minutes, but then as some others pointed out, he ripped the leg off Stuart Down and Stuart had to go to hospital to get stitches. He was able to play for half though, but he was able to stand there and hide behind players as he did. He went to the Royal Bank. For every reason that Flanagan wanted him to play there last week, I want Aka to play left fold this week. I think against Town's End, he's gone a quote inside, and I think Aka will be more comfortable shifting. He can cover in for sack or sack or comb and attack Town's End if he goes to go inside, and Aka can push in around the side and become a centre back. I think there's a level of fluidity in terms of playing Aka there and having, say, sack out and scared, so you're not changing that centre central partnership because Brendan's going to feel and rightfully so that they deserve another game, whether I think they should or not, that's a different story. And then Johnson has gone to be played at right fold regardless of what it is because we're not going to drop them, right? So I would like to see Aka come in at left back, and it also sort the issue in terms of which are gone, who's gone to captain to side, so I'd say I'll be saying like that, you put your voice captain back in, and there's your leader on the actual pitch, for what is a fundamental pivotal game in our season. We win this game and we've overturned our abysmal away record that we have this season, and we've picked up three points against the direct rival, where we would have started out, started the season if we wanted to go for fourth, and we're leaving ourselves in a really good position as we run into these Christmas features. Because if you look at the next four games, if we picked up six points out of the next twelve with three games against Spores, Chelsea, and City, you'll be saying that isn't a bad return, and so I think if we can beat Spores, and I'd be delighted with that, and I'll definitely play Aka at left back. With that line up in mind, who are those back four facing up top? We've spoken about this version of Field at some length there, who is it that's going to be up top? Is it the four who's in favour now, or what would the one do? I've been feeling out of the arm, I even start this game. Because if you look at the skill set, if you can actually motivate him, he's the type of centre forward, who gives skeletal all types of problems. At a different level, again, the problem is getting them out of the way, or I think skeletal will be able to handle a saldaro, and I definitely think saco can handle a saldaro. But if you can get out of the way, or, and you know, out of the way is going to have a sniff, because it's almost transfer window time, he might get a nice move away. And, you know, this could be the game that this game is going to be on television, it's going to be everywhere, so Adebior has an audience in front of him, and it's the type of game that he could turn it on, and be a real handful for skeletal at the back. We've seen it a number of times, but Adebior, when he was with Arsenal, I'm with Spurs, and he has had, I hear his arm, I had scared his number, where he has gone out and destroyed him. I don't think, I think they went and they've chopped him during the summer, and Bob, X-men, and failures, but forgot the boy to send the four they need. Obviously, they got Saldaro, who is not what Spurs need. Saldaro, I think, with an empty was a very good player, hasn't really gone well from since he came to the primary ship. I disagree with yours. I think Saldaro, in sports team last year, could have potentially got to the boards since the top two. Well, that's what I mean, he just hasn't worked, because he's not the toy. So, fundamentally, they signed the player, they- They needed last year, not this season. Yeah, but again, obviously he was lined up for oil, and we know the deal was on the table, and for those talk of the sports, Saldaro, the other way true. Now, what happens is, they don't do a like-for-like boy in terms of bail. You possibly can get, but you don't get similar players or three or four similar players. They look to change the way their actual game was playing, and potentially, you'd imagine with the creative players they have, there would be enough of them to make the type of passes, and the type of chances that Saldaro will feed off of. It hasn't happened. It's like Mariente's when he came to Liverpool. We all imagined he was going to be a hit. Saldaro just hasn't hit the lights with sports. I was listening to the sports fans last Saturday, giving out yards about AVB, and the particular thing that he alluded to was, there's no crosses coming in from the void areas, and Saldaro at them filled and drank all day long when he was in Spain. That's what he lived of, is from crosses, from void areas, getting onto the end of things. They don't come any crosses at all, sports at all. That's their own fans that were saying this, and they're really, really irritating them. I think I've heard a lot of irritation from sports fans in regards to towns, and maybe because he does shoot too much, rather than getting crosses in which, what you're on the mic there, they might kind of get an idea from you about how you think this game might finish up. What my worry is with Rogers, and I've seen it in certain games in particular, sometimes a little bit of tactic, no use from him. I think he'll go to the void heart line, and instead of going like, I just, like, raffle would have went, I said, we're happy with the point, and we'll see what we can get from it. He'll go, and if he balls out, he'll go mad for the three points. I think that's just going to open the game up brilliantly for sports, and that's what my worry is, because we've all known it was, sports like to keep possession of the ball, it's a low build up, but if there's four against three in the middle of the park, they're going to pop it around all day, and they're going to move it a lot quicker, it's just space. So I'm sensing that you're predicting as far as when then? It'll be a draw, a draw. Okay. James, could I get an idea of a prediction or a few, please? I'm not too optimistic, I'll be honest. I mean, as I said before, and I know Spurs haven't clicked, but even without the kind of counter attack that I met there last year, they looked like a team that we would struggle against. Obviously, I said there may be some positives that are not being available, but you would rather have him there. We haven't got a storage, obviously, and there's this rumor about Anderson, so we'll have to see what happens with that. But I'd be delighted, and really, if we got away with the point, to be honest, I mean, this would be a more difficult game for Flanagan than he's had so far. You'd expect your start to laugh back again, and I think Townsend, if he plays there, he's a bit of a one trick pony. Well, no, there's kind of two-wheeler to go down the line very quickly or cutting and shoot, but I think either could be a problem for Flanagan, because he is very quick, and Flanagan, you know, will have to be very, very alert to not be sort of done, you know, struggling to turn and keep up with him, basically. And I think it'll be tough game for us generally, so I think we might struggle. Right, okay. I think I'd agree with most of what you're saying there, and I think I'd probably put my way behind the potential draw there as well, except Louis Suarez. Stephen Brown. That's exactly what he showed to have. I think that we can win this game. Are you, for some reason, just how this taught that we can stay in the game for 60, 65 minutes, and Suarez does something magic, because that's what's far as it goes. That's exactly the point that we can stay in the game, because that we could potentially be overrun there in the middle. Phil, Casey, your prediction. I'm going to disappoint an awful lot of people. This is going to be realistic, isn't it? Do you know what, right? I think we're nailed on to get to three points. Oh, Christ. I don't know why, right? I haven't been this bullish about a match all season. Can I ask you watching this in the pub? Because if you are, we're screwed. Because you are a proper jone, you know that. I know. My dad goes to the game. The first time he's going, I'll be like, they're going to win for one. We haven't seen him win in five years, like, even watching games at home, we haven't seen him win. So we have to stop watching matches together. I had to send him to a different county in the country, because there's a whole bit area card thing going on. It's desperate man, too. But honestly, I don't know why. I think we're going to win this game. And I think we're going to win purely because we have this sense of invincibility building in us. I'm really bothered about this. When I think we're going to Tottenham Hotspot, we haven't won in White Heart Lane in a good word. I think we're going to win. And I think Suarez will be too much for the Spurs defence. And I'm balled out and I'm saying we're going to win 3-1. Oh dear god. Okay, right. We need to... It's an air shocker in the room, isn't it? Yeah, particularly because Phil's got his balls out, but anyway. Right, let's move on to our listeners questions. We have a few champs here and I'm going to fire them around some people here. So I'm going to fill the question one. Phil, I can't drop them. I can't drop them and ask, what 5 items would you have in a fry-up? Eggs? Yeah. No. 2 eggs, 4 sausages, 3 rashers, many way on to now. That's too many. No, that's... Oh yeah, mushrooms. I'll have to have a few mushrooms. Yeah, yeah, and hash browns. Oh man, lovely. Okay, we're ready. What do we have to put? You've made a mess of that, yeah. You said you said for it. You gave your for it. Marco Lopez, at fully marcole, he asks and I'm going to come to Steve Brown on this. Which two Premier League teams would you like to see most having a massive old-school brawl or fistfight and who wins? Like a Royal Rumble kind of thing. That's exactly what I've been thinking about this. I'd like to see Stoke and Manuel in it just to put more pity on David Moyes. Just the stand on the end a little bit more. I take it halfway and every time I press. Okay, perfect. Daymond, welcome to you on this one. And I'm going to go to Carol again, Carol Trotman. He asks, which is the best Christmas movie? His show is Home Alone. What would you ask me? I nearly have to agree with him on that. You can't be at Home Alone, but you have to throw in doi head. You have to have doi head. Doi head 2 is the Christmas one, is it? Oh yeah. That's a Christmas for them. Let's just go around and get a few shout outs after Steve. Oh you had to just debate with Carol last night on Twitter and it was actually me that said Home Alone and it was he that said Doi head. James, best Christmas movie. Do you know my mind is absolutely blank on that question. I'm not a big one for watching films at Christmas. I'm going to have to pass. All right, that's the lovely miserable Chris. All right, Bill, Chris. Yeah, Chris, yeah. My main Chris, go ahead. That's very apt. Santa Claus, the movie. Oh yeah. It's the best Christmas movie of all time, and it is. It still brings it to my other times. Which one? The one with Dolby Moore. Not the one with Tim Allen. No. Santa Claus. That's the Santa Claus. Fucking hell man. Do you know any Santa movies? Santa Claus, the movie. I have it on Blu-ray, I have it on DVD, I have it on Netflix, I have the works. Every time. You're all wrong, it's planes and trains and automobiles. It's no homolog. You've totally missed it. Santa Claus has Santa Claus. Has Santa Claus. What is Chris? How long has Joe Pesci? It has Santa Claus. Joe Pesci has some good feathers. No, if I want to see Christmas in the morning. Neil Pooh, who's that Pooh, Neil on Twitter? He asks what a point it's for us to be a good time or an opportunity missed. A point it's for us. A good point or an opportunity missed. Well, actually, I think we've probably a few of us have answered this. Steve, as a man who's optimistic, I'll come to you on this one. Opportunity missed. Opportunity missed. Okay, we'll actually leave it at that. John Milburn, he asks, "We've got the best chance of top four post-hakes in July. We need investment, so make your pitch to John Henry. Who and how much?" James. I was really happy when you were asking me this question. Yeah, I just keep an eye on you, kid. I'm putting names out of the, they're in terms of players. I know what positions I like is to buy for. You'd certainly want to fall back in January. It'd be greedy to want a wide attack on a striker, but I think we could do it both really. Yeah, it's Christmas. It's certainly the midfielder, so I don't know, but that's a lot of money to buy players of real quality. Sure. Phil, share with me the you'd want. I'll go for one that we're linked with, so Mavilla. John, get his Mavilla, please. Okay, Noel Tracy, he's that tiger Tracy, and he says, "Does one feel comfortable having a full-blown conversation whilst on the crapper?" That's a pretty philosophical question. Stephen Brand, have you engaged in full conversations whilst on the crapper? It depends who's on the other end of the line. Oh, it's a phone conversation immediately. If it's a phone conversation, like I've had conversations through the bathroom door, obviously, but it depends on the phone, but I mean, you just have to hide the squeezes. Yeah, James, I'm going to come to you with this one. This from Warren Haley, he's at Warsaw, and he asks, "Who's better than all these feels and horses?" Uncle Albert, our granddad. Uncle Albert, by country mile. I can do quite a good impression of Uncle Albert as well. I can do voice here a little bit, but I mean, Uncle Albert particularly as well. Why don't you explain to us via Uncle Albert why he's better and granddad? It's just funny. Bus America was just fucking dead funny. I can't really convey this over a podcast, but that really kind of funny thing where he kind of, "I'm doing it now," which I used to add a little bit. Is it the thing with his chin? It's head, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. I sort of attempt to do that if I ever do an impression of him, but just the beard and everything was funny, and the whole during the war, I think that was funny as well. It was just funnier, and I mean, one of my favorite bits, I mean, the Christmas trilogy from '96 of anyone, you know, for those who've seen it, you remember the scene where Rodney ends up applying for his own job, and he's reading out the job advert and saying it sounds like the ideal job for him. He doesn't realise it's his job, but that was how it's for, and he's reading out to Albert, and he's saying, "Well?" My Nicholas Lendhurst is crap, I've got to say. No? Which may you be? Isn't it? Yes! I've got experience with the computers. Yeah, we never got one to work yet, have ya? Have you walked into a minority red song, didn't you see it? Yes, no. You've given us some talking, it's very impressive. Okay, next one up is from @nebhamu, and @nebaskes, if you had a choice between having Jared Studgy going or Enrique's brain, Deimo, which one would you go for? Uh, Jared Studgy going. Why is that a Deimo? Because he probably has more brains down there than Enrique. Perfect, perfect. Again, another one for the whole group. "What's your favourite Christmas song?" asks Gray, he was on earlier, I agree, not David. "What's your favourite Christmas song?" And he does stipulate that he can't pick the pogs if you are thinking of picking the pogs. Now, I know James will to come back in on this but we'll go around to everyone fail your favorite Christmas song. Oh hang on I know what it's all right. Oh, oh, diggity diggity diggity diggity diggity diggity. You're currently a Christmas dog. You're singing a la la la la la la la la la la la la la la. That's my nose. That's it. I'm just I'm talking that. Hey Steve Brown favorite Christmas song. Oh Lord. It was a tussle between um war is over and Kurtman's oh holy no. Oh, Kurtman's holy no. Yeah, excellent. Okay. Yeah, demo. Yeah, Chris Rea, driven home for Christmas. Oh, demo, demo. Every one of you has listened to that in the way at home and sing everyone. I'm a little tear in the eye. I want you to give it a shout about Lucas. Excellent. Hey James. Last Christmas by one. It's just a genuinely thing. It's just a beautiful song just you know just a beautiful song of um of heartbreak and rejection and betrayal. This is Christ. I genuinely think it's I think it's a wonderful I think it's a wonderful thing. I'm going to do love fairytale in New York and I like Slade and Wizard and all that but and driving home for Christmas is a good show actually. But no, I mean definitely definitely last Christmas by well and also Andrew Rijley when he was young I'm going to look a bit like Alvaro Obeloe. It is a shout and I was saying all the time Obeloe was playing for us so yeah. Was he as nasty as Obeloe? He probably wasn't as cynical. Obeloe was brilliant in that way wasn't he? It was like a bit of a wouldn't melt but he was an absolute shit. He was a dirty bastard. We were really good in that respect at that time. You got Masquerano as well but Obeloe was just so much more kind of subversive about it and sneaky brilliant. Right okay we'll finish out with this one from Kevin Boyle who says who does the quest that we're wrapping in your house and how would you approach wrapping something that's round? There's a technical question here is I don't even got any shirts on this one. The rounding is easy right? You get all sort of tape you're covered around thing and double-sided tape and just stick it on top of the paper and just roll it around really quickly. Don't. Well you've made shit at the round present. Wouldn't that open it doesn't it? I'm sorry that's going to be down for a minute. The realistic hands like pulling in a box. Pulling in a box and then right ah you're okay. The two boys actually. This is what they do on the shelf for your boy the present. Ah excellent for the record. Deimo is not in the way there as well so the boys have it up. Okay let's wrap it up. As usual I want to mention our lovely house here at Astro Park. This is the spot in Dublin for all your five-side needs. You can learn more about this excellent facility at www.astropark.ie. Now we have another thing to plug for them as well. They've got a Christmas bubble football club blitz. It's on the 28th of December at 3 p.m. The cost is 40 euro per team, 4 players per team, minimum of 3 bubble football games per team. And the winners get six months of subscription on Sotanta Sports package which is hell of a price. You can call them on 014599822 or email infotala@astropark.ie. Also don't forget to rate and review the pod and night tunes to spread the good word of the day trippers far and wide. Follow us on Twitter @thedaytrippers1. A massive thanks as ever goes to Johnny Rep whose won't you agree is our brilliant team. You're a day trippers tonight where James Owens, Phil Casey, Damien Flood, Stephen Brand and myself tripped down. You stay classy. They're recording you? Okay let's go again. Try to get, try to come in. I'm donkey, hang on, let's go. Let's start again. Try to come in, how about it? This thing's longer than the front of the pod. Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. Right, try diving on the lala lala. Right, is that after the second donkey? Yeah, yep, second donkey. All this week on NBC4, new products to new technology. Susan Hogan is showing you how local restaurants are changing the way we dine in and take out in this new world tonight at 6. A new twist on outdoor eating. A lot of it is creating flexibility. How one local restaurant is making their outdoor space mobile giving you plenty of sunshine and social distance for a stress free meal. It's all part of restaurant revitalization. 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Episode 12 lands during the festive period. Lots of festive cheer with a sing song thrown in.We review those games and ask is it safe to fall in love again? We run through the rumours, preview the weekend and finish up with a festive runaround a quality street tin of listeners questions.Dont forget to sign up to the Last Man Standing competition in aide of Our Ladys Hospital Crumlin & Alder Hey in Liverpool. www.runlastman.com/competitions/50-irishkop.com-irishkop-forum-charity-competitionAlso check out the bubble ball competition at www.astro.ie taking place on 28th December. Gas Craic altogether.lastly come on and abuse us @thedaytrippers1
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