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Well, you can't get a running back delivered, but you can get baby back ribs delivered. A strong defense? No. A strong deodorant? Yes. The six pack of abs? Nope. Six pack of beer? Yes. Get almost, almost anything for game day delivered with Uber Eats. Official on-demand food delivery partner of the NFL. Order now. Alcohol 21+ and in select cities. Product availability varies by region. See app for details. Whoo! Good morning, everybody. I mean, it's morning for me. It's 7.30 in the morning for me, but good afternoon for those of you over in Europe and wherever you're joining us from, welcome to the Talking Cop. It is full-time match reaction. I'm your host, Matt. I'm joined by Kebo Sullivan. I'm joined by Ashley. I got those mixed all up because everything's mirrored on the computer here. It is finished at where were we? Sellers Park today. Crystal Palace Nill, Liverpool won. Ashley, that is a lovely way to start a weekend, isn't it? I told you, whenever we win early in the morning, it's a great way to start the weekend. It was nerdy toward the end, but yeah, overall, great way to start the weekend. Yeah. And Keb, like real talk says there, you're in early with the comments, top of the league. And now we get to sit back and watch all the others try to keep pace. Isn't that the best thing about a 12-30 kickoff win? In fact, you can sit back and enjoy it. Enjoy the rest of the football. You can enjoy the fixtures that are happening today, choose to watch them, don't, whatever. But it doesn't make a blind bit of difference towards top of the league. And in fairness, a block of fixtures that you look to take maximum points out of. We've done really well. We needed to see that one off. And, you know, not ideal, you know, there was some loads of stuff happening in that game, but look, three points, good solid win in fairness. I know our record there is really good. And a lot of people of a vintage have PTSD about Crystal Palace and certain results. But in general, we normally do really well there. And, but it is always a stiff test there as well. You know, you've got to play well. And we did. We did. We played well. We deserved the win. Yeah, it's, uh, Sellers Park is one of those funny places that people think we have a terrible record at. But we actually, it comes up every time we play there that we actually have quite a good record. I'll tell you one thing, right? If I was born in London and lived in London, Crystal Palace is the team I would support. I just, it just, I like the club. I like the fan, I like the fan base, but I like Sellers Park. I love the atmosphere they create. And when it's going, it's absolutely brilliant. And I think for the majority of the game, we did really well to shut them off. But they were always going to have a moment. They were always going to have a period of the game. And it was about us managing that. And, you know, all positives for us. Yes. Well, not, not all positives. Yeah. As we'll get into it as we go through it, the lineups dropped and we get four changes, I believe it is from the last game. I mean, I think we were expecting changes. Um, I think the surprise is to actually see those changes happen. Um, it's a lot you never really know. Um, but he obviously seemed to have prioritized Volonia as the slightly more difficult of the two fixtures this week. So it seems like we got a little bit more rotation for Palace than, you know, whenever, whenever you get a win, you're like, Oh, that was brilliant. That was a, that was a great call. Um, so I think that that's probably the takeaway today was, you know, the rotation was good. But if the results had been different, I think our conversation would have been different about that starting lineup. Yeah, it's funny how results change the narrative after the fact. Uh, I mean, Kelleher is, uh, six. So he's not involved in the match day squad, which I don't think anybody when the game was kicking off thought that that was going to factor into our feelings about the game at all. And it turns out that it definitely, definitely did. Uh, so I'll be side apparently with a slight knock on the bench. Kiaza not in the squad at all. Uh, it was Trend Alexander Ronald's birthday today, too, which is always nice. And then, um, is that also true for you? Is that it's tomorrow? Okay. Well, happy early birthday to you then. Happy early birthday, Machu. Machu, happy early birthday, Machu. Oh, thank you, Kevin. Thank you. And I will say it is very strange seeing cheerleaders at a Premier League game. I, yeah. It's just weird. It's so American looking seeing cheerleaders there with their pom-pom stance. They've done it for years though. They've done it for years there. It feels like the Ted Lasso kind of like coming into Selvar's party. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's just strange. But I mean, it doesn't take us long kev to get into the talking points because 22 seconds in and the ball is in the back of our net and Eddie and Ketchia well offside, well offside. But another early fright. Well offside, really good finish, really good move. And they just compressed that area to pitch. The ball, it was a scatter for the ball. They come out with it and some really good passing. Nice cross by Sar and in Ketchia finished it. It was a lovely finish. But you could, you could see straight away, um, warning sign. But it was my biggest, biggest fear. I put it in the, in the WhatsApp group before the, when the lineups dropped, my biggest, biggest fear was Ishmaela Sar. Picking out the ball, or the ball coming to Sar and cost us, lunging out quite a win at getting, missing us and giving Sar open space to run in behind. Credit where it's due, didn't happen. For the vast majority of that game, Ishmaela Sar was kept really quiet and in fairness against us, bar his performance for Watford, where Sadio Mani was like, this is my little brother. We were like, Oh my God, it's Sadio Mani and reincarnate. He's been relatively quiet against us. He's an absolute speed demon. But yeah, he's, uh, he's quality is in ball. He's in product. Isn't really there. You know, but yeah, it was like, uh, hello, you're in a game. Yeah, wacky, wacky, wacky. It's, uh, that's one way to get the weekend started with an absolute jolt. Uh, Sony here saying four start from Semicas, but played well after that. SLJ 758 says cost us played well to be fair. And I mean, Ashley, that brings us on to the goal because I think you got to give a lot of credit for cost of Semicas because he plays a lovely ball into gakpo. And then a first time cross for gakpo and the Ojo Jada, that is credit Oreo. Yeah, I mean, it was a great ball, like right across the box. Um, so the whole setup was, was ideal, but yeah, you need to be there. You need to be in the position to finish off that goal. And he was there. And, and that's the do go Jada that we know and love. Like that absolute killer right, right in front of the goal. Um, and it's great to see. And I think slot actually made a comment like right before. I don't know if it was in this pretty much, but he made a comment about how we want to see more goals from our number nines. And it was like on cue. There was the goal from our number nine. So it was great to see. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, ball paddock saying goal was very nice teamwork. You feel that that's, that's one of the goals, camp that the coaching staff are like, yep. Yeah. I mean, the coaching staff were purring over that. I was like salivating over it because the football that we played in periods of that first half were typified by that goal. The passing, the Christmas of the passing, the accuracy of it, the movement off the ball, the making spit, making options for the player who were on the, who was on the ball, they were always had options. There was two or three options all the time. But the series of passes that led up to the goal and then the cross and then the lay it run into the box. I mean, not a single palace player got anywhere near that ball. And I mean, not even a sniff, not even close. There is nothing the palace could have done differently in that goal, but what they did, they tried to mark off the space as much as they could. We just play between the space, play between the lines, and it was scintillating football. That was Arnes Lott football typified in a goal. That was it. And we will see that goal again and again and again repeated over the rest of the season at different grounds, because that's how he wants to play. You see, and you can see it right the way through the half with how we were playing, but I'm telling you, that takes a serious amount of length and a serious amount of stamina and mental strength, mental awareness to stay switched on all the time, because you make a mistake in the midfield and lose it in a certain position. Palace are in when they're in with an easy 2v2, a 3v2, a 3v1, or a 1v3, whatever. It's really dangerous, it's really high risk, but when it pays off, you get a goal like that. Yeah, absolutely delightful football. Yeah, it's lovely to see the little deer, Maclynci here, backing up the talk about Sellers Park being a bogey ground with 10 wins in a row at Palace, despite us not liking that away day, we usually end up with the win, just not always a comfortable win. And that's kind of the big takeaway from it is, it shouldn't be easy to go to a consistent Premier League team away and get a comfortable win. But 10 wins in a row is 10 wins in a row. I mean, Kev, you mentioned there about winning the battles in midfield, and Ashley, I thought that was something that, especially the first half, I thought we absolutely dominated, dominated the midfield. We had the numbers in there, but all the calls in the summertime to just pay Crystal Palace, whatever they wanted for Adam Wharton, and he was not the 80 million pound midfielder because he was invisible. Yeah, I mean, I think the numbers really showed there. I know a few of us were trying to be realistic with Wharton over the summer saying, you know, there's really just not enough, like, of a pool of evidence for him in terms of games played to warrant any sort of fee that's even remotely close to that. And that's not to say that he won't get there, but I do think that you're seeing kind of like the peaks and troughs that come with a young player playing in the Premier League for probably their first entire season. But yeah, I think I think our pressing was really, really good. And I think I was impressed with Jones coming in because normally, Saba's lie is such a big part of that press. And I think Jones actually did a really capable job today. Yeah, it's, I always liked sharing a comment when somebody agrees with me so mad as a mug. No, no, no, no, that's not the one I wanted. I was red armchair supporter. Wasn't impressed by any of the Palace players we're linked with today. I mean, Kev, one, one name from Palace that was bandied about in terms of a transfer was Mark Gahey. And I have to say, he really likes to go to ground. Yeah, he does. So easy. He does. And he does it for England as well. He's very rash in the tackle. And it's something you can't do in at a top level. Because you're playing against players for quick feet and quick minds that will not only have been well prepared that this is coming, but they'll play for it and they'll make sure that you're going to catch them. And yeah, I thought Maxine La Croix today was very good. The, the other set of acts, the one they brought in this this summer, I was real fan of his two years ago, when he was at Walsburg. I really like him. I think he's a really, really good player. And they got him for a great tackle at the very end, but he made where ideas was were two on one. Yeah, I think, and the thing, he's rapid. He's probably quicker than canate it. You know, he's, he is a really good player. But the thing, go back to the midfield a bit sick. And it's, it's a bit harsh on the Palace midfield because of the way they, they lined up after ball in a ratty 541. There are pure rats with it. But it was the central two in midfield. And we just created a box around the midfield. And we were always outnumber them. There was either 3v2, 4v2 at some point. It was, it was really a tactical masterclass in that first half of how to set up against the 541 that you box the middle of the park, you draw players out, you pull them, you literally have them on strings where you pull them around. And that's what we did. It was just, they got the set up wrong. And we really exploited it in a big way. And all in all, a lot of people will be really happy with that first 45. We did an awful lot right. The only thing that we didn't do was create significant chances. And you know, meaningful chances Henderson had to make a couple of saves, but there are saves he'd expect to make. But yeah, we really dominated that first half. It was a really good, solid performance. Can't contain that at all. Yeah. Yeah. The one, the one complaint that we could have Ashley would probably be that, like Bob Patix's, Jada had three sitters, at least one ended in the net. That was the goal. But on 33 minutes, I mean, it's incredibly intricate play on the right wing. Grabberch and Mo Salah playing a little one, two in the balls crossed in. And it somehow finds Jada and he's got a score. Like he just fluffed his lines. And it was a clear opportunity, but he just fluffed his lines. And I feel like, I feel like he does that sometimes. I feel like there's, he's kind of like Mo where like he's not in the game. And then he has a couple chances. And then like one of those couple chances will end up in the net. And the rest of them are have you pulling your hair out. But you know, he was at least in the positions. I don't think it was his greatest game ever. But you know, at least he was there to potentially put the ball in the back of the net, which is half the battle, I suppose. Yeah, that's a there's always a silver lining. There's always a silver line. And we do my best here. Yeah, we had an absolute onslaught of corners in the first half. We had seven by my count. And I think the seventh one was the only one that actually got to a Liverpool head. Kev, were you surprised to see that we weren't crowding the keeper as we have been in past games? Because I was kind of expecting that to happen, especially with Semicass on, because he does have a very good delivery with the left foot. I was too. But maybe it's a thing that they went a different way because Palace had the three. You've got the three centre backs, all good in the air. You've got Lermot as well, who normally played he's been playing as a centreback from midfield. And Wharton is a big lad as well. So, you know, you've got five good, big, tall, strong headers of a ball. So, I think we've tried to be a bit different. The amount of corners that we're looking for from post flick-ons and stuff like that. I think it's the one thing I wish we probably tried once or twice was maybe a good short routine. And at least that would pull Palace players out and they wouldn't be expecting it. And then you can maybe put a cross in. But look, yeah, on another day, it works out. But set pieces and set pieces. Unless you're Arsenal, you're not really likely to create an exceptional chance from a set piece every year, whereas they kind of tended it. It's probably the most valuable member of a backroom staff in the country. Far known. Yeah, they have an incredible ability to score from corners. And I mean, I would listen to something that's talking about how they start their players past the far post and they're running onto it. So, the defender can't keep an eye on the ball and the man at the same time. Well, the attacking defenders, the Gabrielle rushing in, gets to keep his eyes on the ball while the ball's coming in. And it seems so obvious. And the delivery is always on point. The delivery is always really good. You got to give second credit. He does do that quite well. Right towards the end of the half, there was two really good pieces of defending. First was from Simekast on Ismailis Tsar, just shielding him off, letting the ball roll out for a goal kick. And then Tsar stays on side just before the halftime whistles blown, gets a good shot off. Allison with an extremely strong hand getting down to block it. And then Kanate blocking up. I think it was Eddie and Ketchia that was rushing in to get for the rebound. But not what we saw against, was that a game? Well, I don't know. That was against West Ham where Kanate was kind of caught in between two minds of what to do and didn't block off Strand Larson. Yeah, West Ham. No, that would have been wolves. But just to allow Allison to collect the ball, but that was that was Palis's first shot on goal was seconds before the half. But I mean, Ashley, we get into the half. And like Kev said, some people were delighted with that half. I certainly was. I thought that was an excellent first half for us. Yeah, I think we were talking about in the Bologna game, how there was about 35 minutes of solid control at the very beginning of the game. I think we extended that in this game to the whole entire first half. And I think that was about as controlled as I've seen us look. And I think part of that was, you know, Crystal Palace really kind of didn't really feel like they had the energy that some of the other teams that we've played had. But in general, I left that half feeling really confident. And I didn't expect, I didn't expect the kind of drop off that we saw in the second half because there was a little bit of a drop off. Yeah. And I mean that Sony here's saying the complete lack of control when Sabos like came on, Jones moved back next to grabbing birds when McAllister goes off his alarming and kev, that's the big talking point at halftime is that Alexis McAllister is substituted for Dominic Sabos like you're not chirp, it's rotation or not. And then they report immediately as the half starts that he's got ice on his thigh. And hopefully that's one of those. Oh, we're about to go into an international break. Looks like you've picked up a little 10 day injury. Yeah, fingers crossed. They're doing no harm. And they're doing Sabos like no harm either. Look, Palace were always, look, you're not, I mean, the sass from the first half, we had 73% possession away from home in a tight ground against a side and a crowd that if someone sneezes, they get up for it. So that's impressive. They were always going to come out and have a go combine that with the changes that were made. And people, you know, you can read into whatever you like. But ultimately, there's a little bit of palace coming out and having a go and doing a few different things and changing a few things actively to us having to readjust to how we were playing. It's not big seesaws. It's a little bit of this little bit of that. And in a Premier League with the players of Palace have, and let's not, you know, make kid ourselves, they have some very good players. You know, there is a reason why Newcastle were going for a great, for a big money. There is a reason why Eze is so highly rated. Matetta Whitty came on, is a handful, an absolute real rocker of a handful. And Kettie has experienced knows his game and Sarah is a speed dealer. So they were always going to have moments and things in the game. But generally, it was a case of us trying to find a rhythm again. And that's, that's all about carrying on what we were doing, keeping the good things that we were doing going. And we kept trying to do that. But, you know, it's football. It's never going to be playing sailing. And they had moments in the second half. But truly, that's all they really were. It was moments. Yeah. Yeah, and Thor to just like to polyglot saying that Palace has three weeks too. So, you know, they had, they had the legs there. I think some of the changes that they made actually really helped them settle into the game. We got through the halftime. We make our substitution. Obviously, this is a point where I tell everybody that we're still on our charity drive. So if you can, please donate to our two charities, fans supporting food banks and Liverpool, the Lighthouse Cafe in Dublin. Take the link, which you'll find in any of the show podcast descriptions on YouTube, whatever, shared into your social media account. Please help us hit our fundraising target so that we can move on to the next one. But until then, we'll just keep on, keep on mentioning it. I mean, Ashley, we get through both the first 15 minutes of the second half. And I don't have a heck of a lot. I mean, Hooper actually called a foul against them, which was kind of nice to see. And then the change, the change has come in. Mattetta comes on for Mitchell, and Hughes comes on for Wharton. And I feel that the Hughes for Wharton change was actually quite a big one because he was buzzing around the pitch. Yeah, yeah, he made a difference. My commentator made some sort of comment about, what's his name? Why am I blanking all of a sudden? The guy that Hughes came on for? Wharton? Yes, thank you. Sorry, brain fart. He made a comment about him having some sort of lingering injury concern. And I don't know if that's why we didn't see him at all in this game, because he really was kind of invisible. But the minute that Hughes came on, he added that little bit of grit. And he always kind of does. I remember there was a period of time where we were actually looking at him. And he's always kind of had that, I don't know, like just grab the game by the fervor, the neck and the midfield kind of attitude. And so yeah, he definitely made a difference. I think Mattetta was probably a little bit of a nod to the Nuno tactics where he brought in Hudson to Joy at that 60-minute mark really to just rush at our goal and kind of try to make that last gas effort toward an equalizer or a winner. And I mean, it definitely improved them. I mean, I think they went up a year and I think some of that was desperation to try to get anything out of the game just because of where they are in the table. But overall, yeah, it definitely presented more of a challenge for us. Yeah, they're in a strange position because they're 18th, 19th, something like that. They're not having a great start. But like you said, they've got good players. Their attacking talent is strong. They've got strong players in midfield. Gahey is a talent. I think the thing is losing Michael Alise and the year before losing both is a blow. Yeah, I hope this tale, but because the thing is we've seen good sides go down before and momentum and football is everything. I mean, the thing is just before the subs, if you remember, remember that little cross the Van Dyke played a little chip tomorrow. That would have been a beauty, you know, and that just before Palace were starting to make their changes to know it's done. It's over because the forty-five to then, you know, we had a couple of shots. We were keeping the momentum. We were keeping the ball pretty well. Nothing major happened at all up until that period of play. Graven Burch had a shot, came out, Virds had got the ball, Dinked the ball. If that had gone in, you're talking a different game altogether. But the subs came on and they decided to have go for it. Will Hughes, when he was coming through the ranks, I think it was Darby. Someone might, you know, correct me, but he was about 2021 and he's very similar to how Wharton was perceived, not as a player, but as a rating, you know, how is he ceiling? He was like coming at a time in his career when Lampard and Gerard were just becoming faded kind of going and he was a young English central midfielder who was getting into the box scoring goals. He was going to be the next one on the wrong and it just never quite happened for him. He finally got to move into the Premier League and it never really it never really came for him. But he was physical and that got the Palace fans up and then turned that got the players going. Yeah, it was, I think his bombing around in midfield really helped spark spark sellers in the light because it was on my feet, at least you could pretty much only hear the traveling pop in the first half. It was surprisingly quiet. And at one point, the commentators even kind of mentioned how subdued the atmosphere was, but we didn't give them anything to cheer about. But I mean, Cavill, stick with you on it because we have Diogo Jada's second sitter that he misses. And I mean, it's a lovely floated cross from Trent from a nice dangerous position for a free kick to come from. And he's, I'm certain he was on side. They didn't really show up. Yeah, he was on side. Those are the positions that you want your striker to get into. And that's another one. He just has to score. They're the ones you want him in. Yeah, above anyone else, he's the one you want there. And he was just having one of those days. I think that with that one, you didn't know what to do. If it's one that I'm thinking, he wouldn't know whether to go with his head, wait, and do what he did. It's football season, and you can now get almost anything you need for game day delivered with Uber Eats. What do we mean by almost? Well, you can't get a running back delivered, but you can get baby back ribs delivered. A strong defense? No. A strong deodorant? Yes. The six pack of abs? Nope. Six pack of beer? Yes. Get almost, almost anything for game day delivered with Uber Eats. Official on-demand food delivery partner of the NFL. Order now. Alcohol 21 Plus and in select cities. Product availability varies by region. See app for details. Forging ahead together drives Colorado's pioneering spirit. 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But when it doesn't, it's like I'm glad he's getting the chances because he will put them away as the season goes on. So, yeah, not really necessary for people worried. Nice five year old super chat here from Derek McCormick, which is absolutely lovely. Thank you. Thank you very much. Derek, 80% of that will go right into the charities after YouTube takes their cut. We're now going to have a little bit of guest analysis here from a local expert just to let us say, Oh, wow, look at that. Hello, everybody. I thought I'd do a subslower just coming at half time and just help out. Well, you're just going to kind of run around the pitch and take shots when you shouldn't and pass when you shoot. That's pretty much it. If you say one bad word about the Greek god, we mean you're falling out. Because I thought he was going to die. That was all he came on here for. That's all okay. Well, is it wrong? I was celebrating. He got knocked out. No, I thought he was honestly. He was very good today. I mean, I thought he was very good. I thought he broke his back to be fair when he was horrendous, wasn't that? Oh, yeah. I think he landed higher on his shoulders because that was a sore one. Did he get booked for that? Yeah, he did. Yeah. Right. I want to ask you guys, all of you know, because and Chris, good at yours as well, the referee today. I mean, lost control. He did, didn't he? We were lucky really that Palace never, Palace aren't that kind of nasty side that are going to throw nasty tackles in and stuff for that. But I didn't think that game warranted. The way I played it, it didn't warrant the cards. But what do you got? I mean, the yellows he gave because so I saw the last 10 minutes of the first half, I saw the whole of a second half, just got him from my daughter's football. But I thought he was very consistent with his yellow. So, you know, but Palace gets the yellow for pulling back. I'd say perfectly fine. That's a standard yellow card. Same incident happens in the second half. He doesn't book. You're like, oh, yeah. So yeah, yeah, he was a bit average. By the way, Brentford have scored us to two minutes just to out. That must be a wreck. Yeah, two minutes they've scored. That must be a wreck of that. Yeah, it was last game. That's you're on like a four game streak or something? Bongage streak of scoring within the first two minutes. That's mad. Two more again. It was, I will tell you, Collins, Nathan Collins, whoever is there like kickoff coach, whoever's in charge of that. I don't let's get in. He's good. Yeah, let's get him. Pick up the guy from Arsenal at the service station. Yeah, a little set piece army on our number. That's okay. Grown-a-mark is still involved with the setup, isn't he? Or did we move on? No, he's gone there. That's why I'm showing. I'll surf her or something now, isn't he? I don't know. Yeah, that's why we don't have very good throw-ins anymore. Before we get on to the flurry of yellow card, I was absolutely perplexed. The, I saw one of the strangest advertising in a stadium I've ever seen, which was a tourism advertisement for the state of Illinois. That one just absolutely baffled me that the state of Illinois is advertising themselves in Sellers Park, but that's maybe that's just me. I found that a little bit strange. Was the corner that Allison punches clear? Was that the moment that the entire world thinks that Palace should have gotten a penalty? Because I didn't even write that down in my notes because I didn't think it was a big deal. It was a short corner at 70 minutes. Yeah, okay. And yeah, the ball comes back in and Allison isn't clear. I think he's got all of his wrists. But as he got older, he's just long enough. I don't know maybe, but I don't think he's getting to it. He doesn't have all of it. I think that's the reason it's not given. If they thought it was a chance, he could have got to it. The penalty would have been given, which is why West I didn't get one against Chelsea a few weeks ago. Yeah. I mean, Ashley, you put this quote from Arna Slide here. He says, that's always with Barr. If he has given it, he wouldn't have changed it. For me, it was not a penalty because he was never going to get to that ball. And like, obviously, the Palace fans and Arsenal fans and the five or six man city fans in the world will think that that was an absolute stone wall that they were denied because it's all. Flextered. Flextered TNC, he thought it was. He spent the rest of the game talking about it. Oh, was that the turning point that they were gonna all of a sudden win the game on? He does love a turning point, doesn't it? There's no consistency, you know, you need to explain it. I'm torn on it. I'm torn on it because I want to see that given as a penalty. I mean, I think that like holds onto him a little bit too long. I think he does. So I think he's I think Virgil is asking for it. I think Virgil is asking for trouble. He realizes the danger. He knows where there is that game. I feel like there was way more holding in that ballonia game that didn't get called. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's a biggest bug bear I have in football. I go back to the Russia World Cup in 2018. The referee said at the start of the tournament, we're clamping down and holding in the box. And they did and they booked players and they gave penalties and it stopped. And what you found was defenders actually had to defend their space properly and tried to win headers and forwards had a chance to score goals. And then we saw more goals. I want to see referees come down and holding in the box full stop across the board because we watch football to be entertained. We watch football for goals. And it's literally it's worse than UFC with like the holding that's going on in the box at the minute. It's it's ridiculous. Genuinely. You see the I mean, Canadian Virgil are manhandled game on game. Salah's been handled outside the box every game, but that's just because they hate Salah. But do you matter holding and we're as guilty of it because we do it as well. I wish referees at the start of the season will come together as look, that's it. It's not a case that it's not a context for if you want to shoulder someone or go up to try to compete to win the ball. Fine. But you can't be grabbing pairs around the shoulders saying no, you can't get the ball or you are not allowed to jump. It's got to stop. It's getting low. On that point though, like if you look at what happens to Salah on the sideline when he's trying to run down the sideline and the amount of players that just wrap their arms around him and he gets nothing. Yeah, like there is some consistency there. I don't think it's correct consistency, but like I think Jada had one today where he was absolutely manhandled right in front of slot and slot actually lost it and I've never seen him lose it. That's the first time I think we've seen that kind of emotion come out of him on the halfway line and I mean he was he screamed Simon Cooper, which we all scream at Simon Hooper whenever he referees. But yeah, you're seeing you're seeing it all over the pitch. It's not just in the box. The one thing I've realised though is having a fellow Baldi, having a Baldi as a manager isn't helpful to referees. I kind of thought it'd be all Baldis together, but no, that's not helping. That theory's got out the window then. Well, as Red Steve says though, it balances out over the season and as long as like I'm okay if they let the, you know, the shirt pulling and pulling on arms and stuff like that from corners, as long as players are getting yellow-carded for putting their hands out and having somebody slap them away, as long as that's cut out of the game because that's behavior we don't want to see. That because I wasn't on for the Baldi on your match. That was some of the silliest yellow card I've ever seen. Yeah, that was nonsense, wasn't it? I still don't get I still don't get when referees stop core as to say to players. Stop pulling each other, I'll give the penalty. Why are you telling them? They all know the rules. Just give the penalty or give them a kick. And when they say like, what's that for? You pulled it. You didn't warn me. I don't eat it. I don't know. You got two foots. It's amazing to have something like that over, if you do that early in the game, it all stops. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Those players will play their game according to how the referee referees game. Yeah. If you're going to allow niggly fouls, players will get will foul all game. I think that's also why Bertie probably held on to because I think he realized he wasn't going to do that. He wasn't going to get pulled up for it. And he probably knew about the West Ham one because there is what football is saying is what we do. He got away. That's the truth. Well, that's why we'll play higher analysts. I'm sure the analyze referees go with certain referees go. He never gives this type of foul. So, take it, do it. Whereas it's about he's really picky. So, don't give him an excuse. So, don't kick the ball away. You know, all the usual stuff. You know, we all know which reps do that. You know. Yeah, Michael Oliver. They're all kind of equally horrible. Yeah. I mean, Brian O'Halloran says, the bald community have no solidarity. It seems the Baldurhood doesn't exist. Very good. It's a little early in the morning for that much cheese, but I guess we're here for it. Oh, I'm going to go on a few. It's a little, little early, a little early. Yeah, I've got a full day. Can I, can I go? I was up at five in the morning to watch this. Give me, give me a break. Give me a break. As RCTV pointed out, the three o'clock kickoffs are a flurry of goals already. It's 1-1 West Ham. It's with Ipswich, 1-1 Brinford and Wolves after eight minutes. I think they're in a 10th to 12th minute now. We get a flurry of yellow cards, though. And then actually, we come on to what I think the big talking point of the game outside of the result is in the 76 minute, we're kind of dicking around with the ball at the back. Trent plays it back to Allison and poops it out for a throw in and immediately goes down. And within about three seconds, you can tell that he's coming off. Yeah, he knew. He knew a minute it happened that it was another hamstring injury, probably the same hamstring, probably the same leg. And he had just recovered. And, you know, for all that we love him, he does have very, very sensitive hamstrings. Yeah, I think he was injured before that passback came to him, because the way he cleared it, he clears it with his wrong foot. That wasn't the most natural way to kick a ball clear. So I don't know if it was like the previous core or something or the previous goal kick, but he could tell us as the ball went back to thought he injured already before he even kicks it. So, yeah, that I saw actually his message there. I think we were saying in the chats, I'll be amazed he's there before, after the exit international break. He needed help getting from the dugout into the locker room, which to me is always a really bad sign. If I go straight down, I mean, I guess you can't go straight down the tunnel because you enter in the corner of the fucking pitch. So maybe that's why he stayed on the bench. I think it's just a minimal movement, but luckily we've got Kelleher. It's like God, we can't be seriously tested during this run of games. Well, I mean, we have an expert here, a fellow corkman and Kev, Maglinci again, says probably hope now Kelleher doesn't get injured for Ireland, but Giles was so composed when he came on. It's we've got after this silly international break, which is completely unnecessary. We've got an extremely tough run of fixtures coming up. And I've got, I've got faith in with being Kelleher because he's shown pretty much every time he's come into the team that we can rely on him. And this is another big opportunity for him. And the reason why we didn't ship him off for peanuts in a Matt Turner in the summer, isn't it? Oh, yeah. Can you imagine if we had Matt Turner in this scenario? No, we've been saying, I'll be perfectly honest. If we had Matt Turner as a backup, I wouldn't be doing postmaster to Lawson's back. I just flat out and say, no, we won't be playing Yarrows. Yarrows is a very good keeper. We saw it. We all watched preseason. Most of the people who are in the chat watched almost all of preseason. So we all know that Yarrows is a very capable keeper. He's not the he's capable. He's competent with the ball at his feet. His distribution, medium and long is very good. He's positioning even today with, we'll get onto their chance later, very good. He's, I honestly think he's better than the third-choice keeper. He just is. He went in one of the league last season when he was on loan with the side who are in Europe this season and doing okay. So look, can he be the heir to Kalahan? It depends on how he sees his role with the club going forward, but I wouldn't be surprised if the club wants to keep it. I think he qualifies this one as club, not maybe club club, the home club. I think he's been there eight, something. He's been there a long time. Seven years they said he's been today to you. That's not grown homegrown, but not only that, I think he's a very competent keeper. I've always raised, I think he's a good keeper. Kalahar, look, we know what creeping Kalahar is. We know what he offers. We know that he's excellent with the ball at his feet. He probably suits this style of play better than all of them, better than Alison, better than Niaras. But he is capable of the odd brain fact and he's not a number one at a top four club for a reason because he is capable of having the odd mistake and he's got the odd mistake in it. But in general, if he comes in, he'll be tested. He'll do absolutely fine. I hope it's just the illness because it'll be good for him. That's what they said it was. Get the games, Ryan, because it's the one thing we're absolutely draws and he will be very busy over the next two games and get them a bit sharp. It'll get him a bit sharp. It'll get him a bit aware, but the only thing is we will not be playing out from the back. So his long distribution will be dialed in by the time he comes back. Yeah, I think in Doyle, the echo was saying it was just illness. Yeah, I'm worried about Alison's injury though because we've seen, no, we've seen hamstring injuries in the past. That looks like a really bad one. We've seen hamstring injuries where they walk off, the limp a bit, they know they've hurt it. If it's high up, that one looks. It's out by his reaction. So you can see the frustration with the gloves off and all that. He looked really crassballed over that, which is the shame. I think that shows where we are with Alison though. I think we were all kind of hoping maybe this will be the year that we don't necessarily need tell her or maybe this will be the year that he gets a string of games. He's not that keeper. I don't think he's ever going to be that keeper now that he's had this string of hamstring injuries because those tend to happen over and over and over again. And if we do keep Alison beyond this season and I have no idea what their plan is, but I do think some of these shouts for a little bit more rotation might have to come into play in order to kind of, which is weird. It's crazy to say that for a keeper, but I feel like he's not, he's not like an ordinary keeper. He's so good that it's like, it's worth kind of like nursing him. Yeah. I don't, I don't, I think it would have been next to impossible to keep him next season as a number one or a number two because he has a value. You know, the club will look for a business point of view. We cannot have someone earning that much money and a sale level asset at the club on the bench. We spent the money for Mamadas Vili and he's ripping it up in the league again this season to come in. And you're not going to put him on the bench. So I think this is Alison's last season at the club, but where he goes from here, maybe he goes to Barcelona, maybe he goes to Madrid, you know, maybe he goes back to Brazil. Wherever he goes, he, you know, he's a phenomenal goalkeeper. He's the best keeper in the world. But for the way we play out from the back, his hamstrings are going to be severely tested every single game because it's not just good enough to be able to pass it long or whip the one or two passes out short here and there. You're actively involved all the time. So his hamstrings or any goalkeeper's hamstrings, a place for us now, are going to be, you know, need to be on their ailment because it's going to be, it's a physical position going forward for us, as well as one who have to be technically good on the ball. Yeah, it's, uh, it's unfortunate for Alison. And I mean, like Scalzo Pete was asking if we think that he's kind of done as a starter for us. And it's, it's starting to feel like the writing's on the wall with that. We start picking up injuries like that and can't be relied upon because it came out when he missed that last little stint there, the last couple of games before Wolves, when he came back, that he had missed like what 30 or something more matches since, you know, in the last five years out of all the other goalkeepers in the league. Like, yeah, he's, he's above. The only one that's next to him is Nick Pope. And Nick Pope was out with like the dislocated. Yeah. Not, not good. So, but it was nice to see Yarrows. I mean, they listed off the teams that he went on loan to. And it is not a glittering, uh, collection of teams, you know, St. Pat's and Stockport, even Sturmgras, but I think it's, I think it's just, um, well, but I think the, I think the keepers are, I think they do tend to go to lower league size because it's to keep you wanting to be busy. If you know what I mean, you actually don't, I've had probably his last loan where he won the league was worthy, wanted to be a concentration role. So I suppose it's, it's, it's bit more of a weird development needed for keepers. Yeah. That, I mean, that would explain, uh, Aaron Ramsdale's three years of consecutive relegations or something like that. He's just, he's just over hyped. Yeah. That's a very good keeper. But I mean, Chris, the, the one big chance that Palace had to even it up came in the 84th minute. We, uh, we turned the ball over dangerously when I got a strange how forward we were getting. And then we turned the ball over and it's 3v1 going the other way as, as breezy as I should do better, but it's a solid save from, from Yarrows. Yeah. I think Kevin was putting the chat. It was a, it's the risk reward of how we play is high risk pass, but if it doesn't go off, it, it will catch you out and Trent's inverted and gets caught on the ball. And there's just no way Karate can get across. Um, I think what helps is, I think Yarrows's position is pretty decent. And although he doesn't get too close to him, Karate is over enough to make him take it wide. I don't think he gets fully hold of it. But listen, it's good for, it's good for Yarrows because he gets, he gets a save under his belt. And I think a bit later he comes out and spreads himself and, you know, again, Alice and S just takes the ball. So, you know, that'll do him the world of good, but that was there probably then most of their chances to be on his second half came from a bit of slopiness from us and some, and one being a bizarre non-freak icon, graphic birch where he's kicked, can't believe the way, and they break it as four and three, and you start to go, yeah, but that's not a lack of structure, my little, that's a play being kicked, not a free kick given, but... Yeah, that was immediately after the substitutions. I couldn't understand how that wasn't a foul, with the way that he had been repping the game up to that point, it seemed like a nailed-on foul that he would blow off. I think so. Why are the kids getting there? Being the bear some, maybe good news here, just saw a clip about some walking unaided on his own to the bus outside of the park says he does not know how serious his injury is, but probably won't be going away with Brazil. How about that? I'll bring that probably to definitely won't be going away with Brazil. On the flip side, it looks like Darwin's going to go away with Gortaguai, which is good. I actually think this is one of the times where you go and like, actually that'll do good because he tends to come back from your Gortaguai games when he's not fighting in the crowd, revitalised because he, you know, he's the big, big guy there, yeah, Bielza gets, gets tuned out of there and I just thinks it makes good. And like you said, it's, you know, I think that could actually do us the world of good because then it gets a bit more sharpness in his game, which kind of work. My only frustration today was I just thought we were really, really sloppy in the tack and given the way, given too many soft balls away, which is generally what led to Palace's chances, which that was, that's probably the thing that's only frustrated me this game and a little bit. Okay. Blondie was, I just think an attack, we've been a little bit sloppy. I mean, Kevin, after the as a chance on 84, there's a couple more changes come out of Kamazan for Chalibo didn't have a great game for them. Endo comes on for Jones. Oh, what a tackle. I said kind of gift, just like a high five going, I love tackles like that. It was, I'm getting everything ball man. Well, I forget ball as a bonus, it was a proper old school. Nothing's getting past me. I love that. I love stuff like that. That's where endo coming on is perfect. That's his game, which you love to bring with the last seven is just to kick everyone. I'm fine with that. It was nice to see Diaz come on on the right. It was nice to see him wander and end up on the left at times. He, he literally followed the play where he wanted to be active. But yeah, that tackle by endo, I was sat there. It was like, I went up for that as much as I went up for Yaros save. Now, not his save, him coming out and collecting the ball on the edge of his, on the edge of his box. I love that. It's little things in games that I really love. Sharp tackle like endo just is brilliant. But keepers being on the ball and on the line. Sorry, off the line and looking to make an effect on the ball. It was brilliant. And I thought we shut the game off really well. Took it into the corners when it was needed, but always trying to get a second goal to kill the game. You know, it was, you have to carry that threat and they have to believe you have that threat because it means that they have to bring more players back. If we're just going into the corner, then, you know, eventually they know that the referee for the linesman will give them the ball back some way shape or four. And they've got five or six already on the pitch. You know, so if they think you're going to try and threaten and score a second, they're right-made, they're left-wing, they're attacking midfielder, all have to track back, all have to try to win the ball back. So, and it makes it easier to defend in the long one. I thought we managed that really, really well. Yeah, a bit nervy, obviously, because look, won the lead, or won the lead. But yeah, delighted with the three points. Yeah, I mean, it was a fact that we almost got the second goal in what would have been a lovely way for Vidiaros with his long punt up the field and Jada just absolutely spins gay. But he couldn't quite square the ball across the DS, who I really needed to score for my fantasy because I forgot to set my line up this week. But the final, the final 10 minutes of the game, after that, as a shot at Jadaos, I don't know if they really threatened our goal again. Jadaos came out and collected one in 93 minutes. But like Kev said, like, we just, we took control of the game, we kept the ball and saw it out, and that was enjoyable. Yeah, there was a lot, there was a lot of good game management there. And I, I really liked, like, Endo was in the corner of the pitch, and he like handballed so that they didn't get a goal kick. And so the most obvious handball you will ever see. It felt like James Milner's shithouse in the corner there. So I really enjoyed his little cameo today. And it was just good to see him on the pitch. Like, you know, that's what he's there for. And it was good to see out the game with like a level of maturity that I think that we may have been lacking in maybe like the last season, season and a half. And yeah, I mean, it was, I guess coming away from it, like, I have mixed feelings since it was such a game of two halves. Like, it wasn't really truly a hard-fought one-mill victory. Like, I feel like there was a lot of control, especially in that first half, where that really should have been, the score line should have reflected the dominance that we had in the first half, and it didn't. And I feel like there was just a lot more nerves than were necessary for the game overall. You know, and it is what it is. But we're talking at the table, so I'm not complaining. I think we're seeing this league that away games are becoming tougher and tough to get results. You know, I think it was only the top three who are consistently getting, you know, good point told away from home. Below that, it's very inconsistent. Update on McAllister from Ian Doyle, part of the slot has revealed he was substituted for complaining with a problem in his groin area. LePaul now assessed him just to see if he joins up Argentina or not. So it'll be a bit of a job for him. For one time, I get a bit of reason. No, you rock up late. You're shopping your ear out, but as I say, no, I'm sure I'll sit down and be quiet and let Ashley do her role, please. I'm even sending away from the bottom. As you say, it could be worse, Kevin. You could have actually read in the comments and then you turn it off halfway through. It's also good. But, yes, he came on to me. The sob is live replacement. Remember, he's meant to be like, you know, shooting off all over, missing the goal. It's very good. Not contributed in a positive way. Yeah, let's see. Let's see you do some running around there, Chris. Cover the ground that solver slide does. Let's see if you're in as good as you see is. Oh, I wish I was. I'll be made up with that. Yeah, well, let's buzz through some of these post match quotes and then we'll come on to man of the match from everybody, Van Dyke. We want to compete. We want to be there until the final date kind of goes without saying. On Ali's injury, Virgil says, doesn't look good. Looks like a hamstring, which was already bothering him and from which he recovered, clearly not. Arna Slaud on us being top of the league. I think my wife is happy now. She gets someone home who is happy, not unhappy. That goes the same with my wife. Arna continues. If they only remember me because of this, there hasn't this hasn't been the most special era. I hope to do more special things than winning nine out of 10. We got the chance from Mo. We got the chance from Diogo. We should have finished them, which is very, very correct. I don't think Crystal Palace fans can be unhappy with the referee. It took us 55 minutes to get a free kick. And somebody else pointed out there that they had 12 free kicks with 28% possession, which is just absolutely outrageous. On the upcoming game, Slaud says, unfortunately, Ali will not be with us after seeing them walk off the pitch. And he says, after the game, I'm hoping to do special things. I mean, nine wins out of 10 is pretty special. Slaud says, they brought on a long and tall striker. They got a few easy free kicks from the referee, in my opinion. That helps bring them momentum. When asked, what is the key to your brilliant start? He says brilliant would have been nine wins out of nine. And he also says a clear penalty on the foul on Mark Gay. He, all of her glass near believes Crystal Palace should have been awarded a penalty against Liverpool. But just going back to this one here, like, Ashley, I'm loving Arna Slaud's post match content. Like, he's a he's a real straight shooter. Like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He knows no punches. He knows no punches. And he, I don't think it's like Hollywood comments. I think he just genuinely wants perfection. Like, he seems like he's a perfectionist. He seems like he's like a real hard data analyst. And when those data points aren't met, he's pissed off. And I'm, it's good to see. Like, he's not resting on his laurels. He's, he's not letting the team rest on their laurels. And he's not afraid to call out a player, which is kind of refreshing. It's, I feel like so often, like a lot of coaches will kind of like tiptoe around it. And they won't want to, they don't want to call a player out. I feel like he's, he's pretty blunt. And maybe that's sort of his Dutch nature, just kind of being a straight shooter, saying it like it is. But it is refreshing. Like, it's not the same as Klopp. And I do miss Klopp. I miss, I miss like that energy, but I don't know. He has his own sort of charm. It's growing on me. Yeah. It gives me a raffle vibes. And I think when a fresh cuz I think he's gonna have some spiky raffa raffa-esque moments, which I'll be honest, I think will be quite fun to watch. Yeah, grumpy Kev. You were grumpy pre-season. Let's be fair. I was like grumpy Kev. Yeah, it was not as good forest kev was very, not as good forest kev was very grumpy. Those were grumpy reds. That wasn't grumpy. I was tame compared to what was in the chat that day. That's for sure. But I mean, I've noticed Kev that there's not nearly as much Jurgen Klopp talk as I was expecting or as there was in the first couple matches of the season. And it feels like Sloch has really taken the mantle over. Look, I mean, at the end of the day, a couple of results go a different way and you're having this conversation again. It's a long, long shadow that Jurgen Klopp is going to wield at this club for a long time. And Ernest Lott has done everything after that. He's adjusted the way the players play. We are more defensively solid. That's all they gave us that in the game on TNT. I think we've got more points to be at this time last season, but only one, I think. But we scored three more goals than we had at this point last season, and we've conceded three goals last. It doesn't sound a lot, and they were making the point that with your eyes, and it's true, the eye tests, we are different. We're building out different. We're much more solid. We're still not giving up good, really great chances. Palace at home at the next season, like 5.0.57, 5.0, no.0.57, which is... A different show with 5.0 again. Oh, yeah. Do you see Grumpy Kevin a whole new level? But exactly. And that's the thing. We look like we're back to keeping clean sheets. If we concede, it's like, "Oh, my God, wow." And when we're building up through... The more we play together, the more the group plays, and it's nice to see the changes that we made today didn't affect the way the patterns of play and how we played. When Yarrows came in, even the last 15 minutes of the game, we still played out from the back for about five minutes, and then when it got to 18 minutes, it's like, "No, fine, no, we've gone long now." But that's what you'd expect. That's normal. It didn't affect or change how we played the game. So all in all, absolutely delighted. Can't complain. Yeah. I mean, Chris, John O says, "I just like winning. If we win with this style, I don't care, but the thing that jumped off, I was just looking at the table after the match finished, and before we came on live here, because it's so nice to look at the table when you're sitting with a big one beside your team's name." But even before Wolves played this week, they conceded two goals a game more than us. We conceded two goals after seven games, and that is defense wins championships. It's a cliche, but it's a cliche for a reason. Yeah. It's just a different style, but I think people, I think we're just getting used to that slightly different style, because club style would have just been to be more attacking, and go for it more. You know, slot is a bit more defensive possession based, which is, look, it's fine. I think we're also getting used to it, because I mean, we all loved you over the club, but after nine years, you're kind of used to his style of play, so it is also getting used to what he does, how he does it. But I guess right, I mean, at this point last season after seven games were two points better off, and if we compare this, the games we played to the same games as last season were a point worse off. And last year, we got up to third and playing some decent stuff, so we're still in and around that sort of fall while still trying to transition to a new style of play. So look, it's not perfect, but it's going in the right direction, and that's all you can. It would have been quite easy for us to be sat here, seven games in 10, 10, 12 points going, it's going to take time, listen, yeah, the big test is going to be after this international break, because it's a fun fictionalist between now the next international break, but it's fun. That's what you want. Just to make you feel about it, if you tripled evidence points to tell them you still still be angles, which is always good fun to remind them of that. That's lovely. That's absolutely lovely. And I mean, hey, you got to play every team twice, but if we can come out of that next block of fixtures with another string of good results, probably a little bit too high in the sky to say if we win them all, but if you can go and pick up results against Chelsea, who look actually quite good this season, the double header against Brighton in the league and in the cup, big European matches and stuff like that. So I'm certainly looking forward to it. It's just unfortunate that we have to have a ridiculous two-week international break before coming back, and then taking another. Why do we need breaks in September, October, and November? It doesn't make... I mean, to be honest, this two weeks could have come out a good time for us. You've got a niggle with subs live. It's two weeks of no Alice in that. We don't cost us games, if you know what I mean. So the break's probably come out the right time. Listen, if we get to the next international break, still in the league cup and in and around top, you know, happy days, because that's a real tough period you've gone through. I think that's the aim, is to get to this international break in and around top, and hopefully, you know, at least sort of a four points for Champions League. If we get four points for next to Champions League games, you've probably three-quarters of the way there from getting to a top eight position. Yeah, exactly. And Ashley shows here, Chelsea home, Leipzig away, Arsenal away, Brighton away, in the cup, Brighton at home in the league, Leverkusen at home, and Villa at home. That is absolutely juicy, because as Jono says, I can't wait for this run after the international break, because when we win these tough games, we won't have to hear, yeah, but you haven't played anybody yet. So, to the perspective? Exactly. I mean, you got to beat everybody if you want to have a chance to win in the league. Ashley, who do you like from out of the match? I'm going to switch it up. I'm going to give it to Virgil. I think that the way that he kind of held that back line together, especially toward the end of the game, and really just locked it down, I don't know. Again, I kind of wish I could give it to Kanate and Virgil at the same time, but the way that they're locking down the defense, I think it hasn't really been spoken about enough, because the clean sheets, they were such a rarity last year. And to get those back, I don't know. I mean, that gives me a great level of confidence with this team going forward. Yeah. To have SLJ 758 agrees with Virgil for Man of the Match. Shkows or pizzas, Curtis Man of the Match, what about you, Kev Olselman? I could have got put up for me. He's a big bloody wall. Sorry. You're not even supposed to be here. Kev knows I was going to give my other rights. He's just all around work after ball. On the ball, he was his typical normal self, created a couple of half chances for himself, some good deliveries into the box, all in all. His work after ball was tremendous. Defensively, he was really good, clearing headers, winning good balls in the air, covering what cost us, doing the donkey work, doing the horrible work that you need him to do to make sure that you're in the game. Yeah. Virgil was very good, but for me, my man in the match would be Cody Gacko. Honorable mentioned, because John's passing was ridiculous today. Some like 96, 95% passing success rates for a guy who's making, he doesn't start that often. His defensive work was solid when he was asked to change shape. He was busy, he was energetic, he was always in and around the ball. Did add another, had a really good game, but yeah. For me, Cody and Curtis Honorable mentioned. Yeah. Chris RCTV says, "Alice and man of the match. Otherwise, we could have lost that game." He did. He came up with some timely interventions when he needed to. Thor would give it to Sloth for his touchline rant or for Yarrows. But who do you like now that you can't have Gacko? We'll go triple Dutch. I'll just take the open goal that Kevin ever takes. I'll go Grafenbuch. He's just ridiculously good. Especially the first half I got in the first half. Some of his play was just outrageous. I love the way he shields the ball in turns. Like he just burns a player and there's so it's so nice to see. It's Gina when Alden vibes like that. That turn he does and sticks his ass out, which is what Gina was the expert at. He's definitely learning how to say the answer. All three Dutch likes were great. Kevin Wright with the shout for the Coach Jones, I thought he was good. But I was pleased for Gacko because he's very unlucky not to start more games than he has. He's just unfortunate that the guy who also plays that Diaz is also on really good form. But this competition is great because it breeds those sort of performances. Now Diaz is looking going, "Well, I start my next game because Gacko played really well. There's no reason not to start it. So it's good. So I'll give it to Ryan Grafenbuch because he was excellent. I would have given it to Gacko but Kev stole the answer. Yeah, you can't do that. Red armchair supporter says Ryan Silkenberg, which is very nice, which is very nice. I mean, Avo the third coming in with just brilliant, brilliant analysis. Not wanting to sound like Michael Owen, but if you don't concede, you don't lose. That is John Madden levels of analysis there from Avo. But that dovetail's in nicely with who I would give man of the match to. I think it would be Ibu Kanate. I Kanate's had such a good start to the season. You look at some of his numbers for his, the duels won and stuff like that. And he's pretty much the top defender in the league. And it's such a shame that he had that little fucking brain fart against Wolves to concede the goal because I think he would have gotten man of the match deservedly so in that game. But he's just between him and Virgil. They are losing no aerial battles at all. This has to be the most he started back to back in the league. Surely. Probably. If it's not, it's close. Because that's six league games back to back, and he's done both Champions League games, which let's be honest, none of us thought he'd do that. And he'd have to be wrapped and caught one a little bit more than he has been. But you know, it's great to see because he's an excellent defender. He's just keeping him fit. Yeah. Scales repeat is really on it today. He had his turner and pooch joke earlier, but he says, "Gravenberg drops the shoulder and leaves people in his wake. His swivel hips are prime Elvis." There you go. That's that's one for the kids there. But I mean, yeah, that's such a lovely way to start the weekend. It's the birthday this weekend. So I get to enjoy the rest of the weekend. You get absolutely hammered today. It's going to be great. I'm going to have a nap because it's only 20 to 9. But it looks like the action is really dried up. Red Sea pointing out there hasn't been a goal in these three o'clock games for over five minutes. This is an absolute farmer's league. But last I looked, there was breath of holes. Breath of holes looked great. It probably would turn it on at halftime and then no more goals. Yeah, it's usually happens. I'm perfectly fine if there's no more goals in any of the five games that are going because yeah, we've got 3-2 against Wolves, Leicester's up, 1-0 against Bournemouth, West Ham and Ipswich are tied 1-1. So those are the games don't really matter. And then the games that matter, Fulham and Man City are tied at 1 apiece and Arsenal in Southampton are tied at 0 goals apiece. So yeah, I think we can all shuffle off and go enjoy the three o'clocks and the rest of our afternoons before we go. Ashley, anything else? No, happy early birthday. Enjoy your weekend. Yes, yes, yes. 50. Kev, anything else? No, that's it. Don't forget the charities. Thanks to the people who did actually copy and paste it and link it and share it in my have you. It's like less than I have. No, I'm really happy. I'm really good today. I'm going to enjoy actually enjoy some boxing tonight. So, looking forward to that. Is Anthony Josh, we're going to get his head popped off again? No, that's going to happen in a couple of months. How could he ever fight again? Big money. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, right, right, right. And later rival, last words, Chris Brack. Happy 50th, mate. Fingers crossed the win. We have another win. Great hair for 50, Matt. Yeah, yeah, that is true. That's why he cut it short because he can't have long hair 50. It's just wrong. I'm going to prove you're wrong. I'll see you in 10 years. I have a long hair. Well, if you got roundy birthday tomorrow. What's that? We call them over here a roundy birthday. Where do you go to the next number? No, or it finishes on a zero. Yeah, that's what I mean. Nice, even number. Nice. How about that? Congratulations. A little bit of life. Yeah, you surprised? Well done. Looking younger than Wayne Rooney. Well done, Bobby. You're cutting there. There we are. All right. Yes. Thank you, everybody, for joining us. If you're in here, thank you. Thank you again, everybody that always joins us for our post match shows. 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