590: Kings of Anglia: Is this lift-off?

27:47Let's focus on this. It's still something that we've sat here and looked at both sides of the debate, haven't we? So if there is another side of the argument, then it's a debatable point whether he should have been sent off or not or how the referee would have seen it. And for me, it's not like commentary about a goal disallowed or multiple things have gone against them. They just missed the opportunity to play 10 v 11. And 11 v 11, Ipswich had the better of it, especially after that first incident with Hurst. And I think the Walton one came soon after that. Maybe that getting into Coventry heads frustrated them, wound them up a little bit, and Ipswich were able to strike.

28:34Ross Halls:Yes, they were. And this was always going to be the crucial, wasn't it, moment. First goal was always going to be key. And the Norwegian wonder kid, Sindra Wale-Agelli, scores his second goal. I'm happy with that. 11 games, he had to wait to get his first town goal. He's now got two and two, AJ. London Bucs is a beautiful goal. Let's praise him because the last two games he scored and he's looking very good. Yeah, I mean, in general, he's improved week on week. He looked a little bit lost at Oxford, but you can kind of excuse that because he's 19 years old. God damn it. And he's just come over to England.

29:19I was a little bit confused, and I know it's a minority. I've seen a bit of criticism coming for Cinder, and I think it's probably because of the goal output. In general, I think his performance has been really good. And for me, he's quite comfortably the best option to have on that right side. We've spoken about his goal at Blackburn, where the composure he showed was really, really good. And this move came kind of as Town swung the momentum in their favour. It wasn't a bolt from the blue. It wasn't the same as Blackburn, where they struck a little bit against the run of play, weren't banging the door down.

29:52They had opportunities to go and get that first goal before they did. They have the corner. It's cleared out and recycled through to Filagene. He cuts it back to, who would you expect in the box, but Cedric Kipre, of all people. The defender, I think it might have been Kitching. You'll see the Kitching on Thomas. I can't remember off the top of my head. Just gets that little touch on it to take it away from Kipre. Ball goes to roll over to Davis. He's ready to make the run, but O'Shea takes it off him, and it's a really nice little bit where, by doing that, it takes all of the pressure and all of the eyes off of Davis in his run.

30:26So that means that O'Shea is able to recycle it to Valarageli. He then spots the run of Davis down the right for some reason. I don't know why he's there. Fair enough. Davis is cross heavy back out to Jadon Filagene, who's able to pick it up and then the cut back to Sindra Valarageli on the edge of the area just opens up, pardon me, the space for him to shoot. the way he curls it's really good the way that he makes the ball dip just in front of rushworth um to make it so so difficult to save um this is the quality that he has on the ball if you afford him space and championship teams in general haven't given him a great deal to work with um if you afford him space and you afford him opportunities he can punish you he has that quality on the ball and he showed that um that should we talk about the celebration as well I know you've lined it up.

31:20Ross Halls:Yes. Yes, indeed. Joe Duggett, who is now our Australian correspondent, a KOA listener, he's recently moved to Australia for some work, and he just basically went, on the next pod, please rate this knee slide out of 10. Yes, Indre, of course. I'm just watching it back now. So smooth. Look at that. Boom. And just how he just sort of like, he's just gliding. Yeah, that's the bit for me. G'day, Joe. Hope you're good for whatever time you're listening to this. The big thing for me, there's two parts of it. One, the way he glides on the pitch, as you mentioned it. Times it really, really well. So smooth, isn't it, the way that he does it.

32:03And the big bit for me, and the bit that raises it from an 8 out of 10 knee slide to a 9 out of 10 knee slide, is the way that he manages to turn his body as his teammates are coming. It's so good. if you go find Joe's Twitter he's posted the clip of the celebration there, it's a lovely knee slide, it was one of those, a lot of the time when we're up in the press box it's like goal, okay great, celebrate type it, put it in the report, whatever, this is one of those times where I actually saw him go and celebrate it, I kind of just saw it in the little bit in the corner of my eye and you could see it was a really good celebration there was more to it, of course he did the Haaland celebration which he did with Marcelino Nunez.

32:47There's a really nice interview on ITV where Sindra Balerageli reveals that Marcelino Nunez just calls him Haaland now, which is great. And Sindra actually said, I'm not sure if Nunez knows my name. He just calls me Haaland. But yeah, I thought that was really good and kind of summed up Nunez a little bit as well. for all the talks of maybe

33:15personality issues, potentially differences from, from the group that we've seen kind of previous iterations, Ipswich town. We had those discussions around Blackburn. This shows as well, what, what the bonds are like in, in the changing room, in the dressing room. And I was really happy to see that. And so happy to see that everyone was delighted for Syndra. Yes,

33:37Ross Halls:indeed what makes a 10 out of 10 knee slide then what's uh what else was needed oh you know what i think that it's difficult because you're looking at you need like wet conditions for me really really good if it's chucking it down you can have like a real muddy lengthy knee slide the length of it is really important can you take it down to the corner corner flag um but he's nailed the rest of it he's nailed the turn he's nailed how smooth it looks um let's be honest as well if it's like a last minute winner or something like that that almost makes it feel a little bit better um i feel like i'm too harsh on cindra here cindra your goal was your goal was brilliant but there is a better knee slides come from you i'm sure of it i'm sure of it yes indeed um and lee evans is up there for me i don't think you're all covering town then it was league one he scored a hatchery doncaster but it was unbelievable because it was right in front of me as well he's like basically knees slide right in front of me and i just was like oh that's beautiful and of course george hirton knee slide in this game as well when he scored.

34:36Ross Halls:So it's not as good though. It wasn't as good. But my normal cliche question, AJ, half-time is 1-0 up. Yeah, I think we're not sort of confident that it's only one, you know, it's won the game, but it was just good at half-time, 1-0 up. Let's see what happens in the second half. The goal was crucial, but the response was going to be more important. I was quite worried that Ipswich would go right, we've got the goal. let's not push on that much. We have to be wary of the threat of the commentary pose, be a little bit more protective of it. And really what Ipswich needed to go do was to push, to kill it off.

35:21And just based on what I'd seen and kind of some of the back-to-basics stuff that we've seen from Ipswich, which I can understand because, you know, you've had things like the results against Middlesbrough and Charlton in recent weeks, and you're coming into this game off the back of a poor defeat at Oxford and the draw against Blackburn where they were appalling. It would be so easy for McKenna to say, right, we've got this lead, let's sit on this, let's try and be patient on the ball, frustrate them and then strike when we find the spaces without trying to force the spaces ourselves. That worried me because I thought a team of Coventry's quality would be able to kill Ipswich in that sense.

36:00And thankfully, Ipswich from the off in that second half went for it and that was what really impressed me was that they didn't sit off at all in the start of the second half they really showed the intensity and the energy to to run at commentary to create chances to stretch the pitch to force people out of position um and throughout to be perfectly honest that second half but particularly in well as well in the early stages let's say it really always felt that Town were the more likely to go and get a second rather than Coventry getting back into the game

36:37Ross Halls:Very much so and Town of course did score their second goal and George Hurst loved playing against Bobby Thomas and Liam Kitching because he of course played against them when they were at Barnsley, that unbelievable night at Oakwell of course also played against them in the FA Cup at the start of the year as well scored in that one as well So let's talk about his goal because he had to show some bottles in the AJ after missing the same sort of similar chance early in the game. But he goes to Mexico, New York, sick goal of the season. Talk us through this goal because it was Cedric Kipre again showing some great, you know, sliding in.

37:17And then, yeah, it was beautiful. Yeah. So the first chance, I'm trying to remember exactly when this was. I think it was quite soon before. I think it might be around the 52nd minute, comes from Kipre. He's really surprisingly good at these. On the ball, spotting the space, and rolling a through ball up to George Hurst for Hurst to run through. The first one was difficult because the defender catches up to him quickly, forces him under pressure, kind of pushes him quite near to the goalkeeper. But the shot is so power to puff. It's really poor, to be perfectly honest. I don't want to jump on a George Hurst hate wagon because it might be an unpopular opinion.

38:00I think he's quite good, but this was a really poor effort from him. He needed something to lift him and lift the fan sentiment around him. It comes from Marcelino Nunez. There were some bits in this game, some passages, some passes from him that was so good with Marcelino Nunez. This probably, given it's an assist, has to be my favourite. There's another one where he has this kind of cross-field pass. And from the press box, we got a shot kind of almost like behind it. You could see the swerve on it. Brilliant. Thought he was excellent in this game. And he gets the assist, breaks into a bit of space, sees the run, a little dink over the top.

38:45Hurst carries it through. My heart was in my mouth at this point because I thought, oh god we've seen him fluff his lines once is he going to do it again um takes this one really well bends it into the bottom corner knee slide not quite as good sorry george there's work for you to be done as well um but yeah he needed that so desperately he hadn't scored since the qpr brace um it's been quite a while since he's he's had regular chances to feed off and having missed the first one, needed a second opportunity for him to bury, gets this one, and at 2-0, it never felt like it was done, because you've seen Coventry score 50 goals before this one, but I was pretty confident that it should be able to see it out with that second.

39:31Ross Halls:Definitely, I've just had a little look. Hurst, of course, is suspended for Stoke, so he can't continue that confidence boost to a scoring, so he'll miss the game because of that first half booking. so if he got sent off it would have been suspended anyway I don't know what the rules would be with that that would be a bit weird if you picked up two would you get a two game bound? I don't know I don't know, it doesn't matter anyway he's going to miss the game against Stoke we'll obviously come on and preview that one in a bit it is a shame for him but hopefully we'll keep him fresh and fit and firing heading into what for him will be a big game on a personal level against Leicester on Saturday.

40:11Ross Halls:Yes, yes, indeed. But thankfully, the man who's going to likely replace him has got confidence because he scores his first town goal at Portman Road. Of course, he scored at Swansea, his first ever town goal, but he finally scores that goal, AJ, at home. The silver win. Ivan Azon, the Spanish striker. Ole, ole, ole. Azon or Ivan, however you want to sing it. Ivan. Ivan, yes, love that. But yeah, commentary, they were trying to push to get back in the game, but just town out too much and they make it 3-0. Yeah, one big chance for commentary for me in the second half, which again, brilliant, brilliant work from Christian Walton, where I think it's a corner that gets cleared out to Rudoni and he strikes it left-footed really, really well, really low, really powerful.

41:02And Walton again gets down to save it. If it's 2-1, that's a totally different game and a totally different finale to it. It becomes such a nervy Portland road if that happens. But it doesn't. And from there, Town, I thought, up until stoppage time, had, again, the better chances in the game. They didn't necessarily have any big ones that tested the goalkeeper. There were a handful that caused problems, some long shots as well. I know earlier in the game, Taylor had one. uh philagine fired wide nunez fired wide i think philagine fired wide again there were opportunities for ipswich to kill it off beforehand but 2-0 going into stoppage time it felt like this was done um and then the subs have obviously come on we've seen it was only four that came on in this game which was a bit of a surprise but yeah he used to uh as on and clark coming on as a triple sub and smonics coming on at the end it's um clark who's involved in this one with a really nice through ball from deep picked up by Azon who has been so desperate for this Portland road goal and for me he almost what he deserves the most credit for is he gets played into the final third and in his shoes with that desperation celebrate front of home fans no one would have blamed him for shooting and he didn't he went with a low pass to try and find Smoddix instead it's cut out by I think it was Kitching on that side and then it comes back out to Azon, this time the space is opened up for him and he rolls it it's a lovely little curling shot he's slotted in, brilliant finish wraps up the game 3-0 it feels like a pretty emphatic win in those circumstances but the big feeling from that third one of course is delight for Azon because everyone bloody loves him rightfully so, it's been pretty tough going for him since that goal.

42:55Swansea, hopefully that will give him, we spoke about confidence booster for George Hurst, hopefully that will give him the same boost as well, because I think there's a pretty decent chance he'll be in the starting line-up against Stoke on Wednesday night.

43:10Ross Halls:Yeah, very likely indeed. Although, Chewbacca on number nine again. Guess not do that. Didn't even get on the pitch. It's an interesting point as well, where we talk about rotation, subs, and subs combining for that third goal. you're looking at um two brackpond former golden boot winner and case mcatea didn't even get on the pitch in this game kim became happy with his four subs and happy with where the game game was at so there's probably a further debate to be had somewhere down the line potentially coming into january about where some of those players are at but um good to have the options that can come off the bench and change games as we always say i thought it's which had the stronger bench in this game jack clark playing a part as on with the goal um great to see sam smoddick's back as well after a kind of mid-level injury layoff with his knee.

43:55It just feels like a happier camp at the moment, doesn't it?

43:58Ross Halls:Yeah, it does. Yeah, it's a timely boost, really, for Richard Town. You know, after, you know, a week can be long in football. You know, Bickle world of, you know, football world, you know, town fans, you know, were not happy, which is fair enough. I weren't happy as well as a town fan. You know, it was a frustrating sort of period. Oxford and Blackburn but okay this wasn't, it doesn't feel like a 3-0 sort of match was it? I think Contra, you know Stu said he got a few comments from Contra fans saying well beaten but you've got to take credit because Town, you know, got the win, big three points clean sheet at home against the league leaders AJ, do do we have lift off?

44:44Ross Halls:We don't want to get 2k away, it's only one game We've got to sort of back us up against Stoke. But do you feel this is a big moment in the season for town? Going back to that kind of first point, I mean, commentary were second best in this game. Let's be honest. They were. I'm not saying that Ipswich blew them away, but they were. Ipswich were the better team in this match and ends up with a convincing scoreline. Is it lift-off? We've had false thorns before, and that's why I'm going to say I don't know at this point, because we had that little run around September. So we had a tough start, of course.

45:19Winless up until beating Sheffield United 5-0. Then it's like, wow, you've beaten Sheffield United 5-0. It's that lift-off. You beat Portsmouth. The draw at Bristol City wasn't great. Then obviously follow that up with the win in the derby against Norwich. But then it's two steps back. Big blow at Borough. Even bigger blow against Charlton. then you have that kind of six-game unbeaten run where you win four of them, some big wins on the road, but then you're set back with Oxford and with Blackburn. So I don't think anyone can say for sure that it is. For me, it has to be. If it's just going to be in the mix for a top-two finish, this has to now be the moment in my eyes because if you haven't had the confidence from a 3-0 win against the league leaders, if that hasn't given you enough to work off to kick on now, what will?

46:12What's going to do it? This has to be, for me, the turning point. If Ipswich are going to be successful, that isn't to guarantee that they are. Let's be honest. And it's also not necessarily going to be the case that they're going to have a perfect season from now on. There will be setbacks. They will lose games. They will be frustrated. They will play low blocks and find it hard to get through. They will come out on the wrong end of games where they've been second best, things like that. But this is now the point where we have to see a bit of consistency on the pitch, in the starting line-up, and keeping themselves in and around that kind of conversation towards the top of the table.

46:52So yeah, that's kind of given you a bit of an airy-fairy answer. I appreciate that. Hart says yes this is the moment that Ipswich will lift off and they can get a positive result at Stoke and capitalise on Leicester in a bit of a shaky position going into Sheffield Wednesday but my gut knows that we've been stung with this before so let's see I think we'll have a clearer picture probably at the end of this week as to where we're at

47:22Ross Halls:Very much so but yeah let us know ladies gentlemen your thoughts and feelings on this. But yeah, Town, of course, moving up to fourth on the table, as you mentioned, AJ, which is looking pretty good. But let's talk, AJ, about other players that stood out in this game. I want to have a little discussion about Daro Shea because he's obviously taken the captain's arm band from, you know, Sam Morsey and he's been getting a bit of criticism because of bad results this year. But for me, in this game, he just showed so much leadership and obviously he just doesn't care about getting hit in the head because there's times where he's on the floor and he's still hitting the ball.

47:55Ross Halls:But for me, he's showing really good leadership and you hear good things behind the scenes that he does as well with the foundation. But yeah, he's proven to be a really good leader at Itchristown, isn't he? Yeah, I think we've heard a lot of good stories about Dara O'Shea and the person that he is. I think that players can be difficult to deal with and be around. And I think that every single story I've heard about dar o'shea and the thing that's been said about dar o'shea has been overwhelmingly positive so there's there's elements of how you are as a player and a captain but also how you are as a person as a captain i've heard good things and obviously it's different as well because it's used to having a very intense captain and and the kind of person that would you know if you do something wrong or in in a good way potentially would be the kind of person to grab you by the scruff of your neck and throw you in the right direction if that makes sense with sam and the intensity that he has and in a lot of senses that works quite well and when you don't have a captain like that then there's almost an element of well where's your passion for the badge where's that kind of thing oshay is a very different leader in that sense and there's no right or wrong or any element like that um but i've seen a lot of traits from from oshay that i really liked obviously it it becomes harder when it's kind of when the chips are down and fans are frustrated you want to see someone digging into his teammates saying come on let's get together and and turn this around and O'Shea is more the kind of person that will sit people down quietly I think and and have a word and try and dig deeper to the root of issues I'm sure he has been I'm sure there have been plenty of inquests after a tough run um but let's be honest he has the respect of the dressing room he's shown on and off the pitch what he's about and I think we can be really happy with where he is as a captain and marshalling a back line in this game that I thought was excellent I thought he was really good I thought Furlong not spectacular but solid in that right back role Davis limited in what he could do going forward but handled himself well against Coventry's right side and for me that the standout man in that back line Cedric Kipre so close to the man of the match for me.

50:15Brilliant performance. Really, really good. Showing what he's capable of, both off the ball in terms of winning duels. Won the most duels of anyone on the pitch in this game and on the ball. Should have had an assist. Created. Opened up space. Really good player when he's on it, when he's at his best. He's a joy to watch at times.

50:39Ross Halls:Yes, indeed. But yeah, I felt like it was a team performance. you know sometimes we've seen wins this season it's just been individual quality you know Jalen Fielder doing goals at Porton Road but this one felt for the first time this season really was a team performance and yeah beating the league leaders for me it's a statement because I know I think Kieran McKenna was asked that by Stu in the press conference we haven't got that clip to play but he said it's not really a statement but for me I think it is it's a big three points for town going into Stoke AJ but any other business from the the commentary city game anything else you want to mention these players have rightfully come under a lot of fire and a lot of criticism for their performances um especially of course against oxford and in particular against blackburn but even potentially you have to look at the way they played against hull and not being able to break down wrexham and things like that they have come under fire and I've thought it's been harsh at times but definitely recently when you look at what happened up at Blackburn I think they deserved every inch every ounce of criticism that they faced and I think that in return for that as well they deserve huge credit for a performance like this I know that they had things that went in their favor I know it wasn't a perfect performance but you have to show some hellish mental strength and character to come away from that game against Blackburn where you've been panned by everyone, by us.

52:09We've sat here and talked about how rubbish they were on that night. Fans have done it. The manager's done it. To come back with a matter of days to prepare for the league leaders at home and to put in such an improved performance, I think deserves credit. So credit to everyone who was involved. Credit to Kieran McKenna. Credit to the starters, those who came on, those who supported from the bench and and didn't come on. All of them deserve a lot of praise for the mental strength. I think they've shown this is going to be an even bigger test now. Can they carry it on?

52:42Ross Halls:Yes, that's the big thing. You've got to back it up now, Itchwich Town. But it felt like it was very nice at the end, full-time scenes. It felt like the fans and the players were together celebrating that. And then, yeah, we've got a quick turnaround because we had support on road on a Wednesday night against Stoke City, AJ, who, in a way, have come out of nowhere really with under Mark Robbins. They're sick from the table. They will be wounded animals because they did get beaten. Is it 4-0? Yeah. Last time out against Jeffwood United or White Bromelain. So they're sort of coming up again, aren't they now, under Chris Wilder, Jeffwood United.

53:17Ross Halls:But yeah, Stoke, we're going to do a massive more big preview on them for the boot room. So if you're a subscriber, that is our preview show. So check it out when that is out. But yeah, you'll just snap thoughts on Stoke because yeah, doing pretty well. They're 6th in the table. Yeah, they've had some... Actually, I'm looking at their results recently. It's not a great one-winning five. So, yeah. This is probably an interesting point now with Stoke. I think I said around the time that Ipswich played Hull that Hull are going to tumble. I did a bit actually looking at the teams that Ipswich had to track down, and I said, I looked at Stoke and thought, you know what, I'd be surprised if they fell out of the top set.

53:57I think they've got enough in them to stick it out. and the dynamic can shift incredibly quickly because right now I think all of the smaller teams potentially bar Millwall, and I'm keeping Burrow as well in the bigger mix because I think they'll be in the mix, of course, and I expect Millwall will as well, but I think Preston will fall off and I think Stoke, looking at it as well, will dip down the table. They've got a really solid squad when you look at it and good players in there, managed by a manager, Mark Robbins, who's achieved great success at Coventry City and a really good pickup for Stoke.

54:34And he's taken a bit of time to get them going, but they look good. Their recruitment's been sharp. You look at midfield, they've got Thomas Rigo, who's linked with the move to Ipswich before, has stepped up well. Devine Mbama, who was linked to the move to Ipswich, has been really good, really impressed by him. Silber Thomas, in particular, for me, someone who's been pretty average for a lot of his career, to be perfectly honest, is now starting to show seven goals, five assists. Good player. Millian Manhooth as well, someone I've kind of eyed up as a potential lip-switch target in the past, showing his quality on the flanks as well.

55:09So a good team, a well-balanced team, but a team that I think are losing some momentum quite badly. And from their perspective, maybe this could be a good thing. But looking at it right now, I think this is a nightmare fixture for them. Coming off the back of four defeats in five, their only win coming against Charlton. they've lost to Hull, they've lost to Sheffield United, beaten by Coventry and Leicester before then, you're now coming into Portman Road. That's going to be a tough one for them. So yeah, we'll break that one down in more detail. Definitely not a team to be underestimated with the quality that they've got.

55:40But again, given the form that they're in and what they're coming off the back of, I think that this is one that they'll look at as a difficult game, Stoke.

55:51Ross Halls:Yes, indeed. Yeah, check out the boot room when that drops. That is available for subscribers. so check out obviously our subscription to watch that. AJ, I think also quickly look at the leaderboard. I think you are leading the way. Obviously, you've got the 1-1 draw bang on against Blackburn, which I'm sure you weren't that happy about really deep down. That was my full-time celebrations. Has that stayed the same? Because obviously, Mark predicted a win against Coventry and Stu got Cinder Valarageli as first goal scorer I had a 2-1 defeat and George Hurst which came close with Hurst let's be honest but yeah does that keep me top?

56:37Ross Halls:Yeah just have a quick look so yeah 19 points AJ you've got Hefe's got 17 points Stu's on 15 and on bottom alright for now on 14 so yeah you are sort of closing the gap on me you know you have 5 points your bottom yeah I'm bottom 14 still more than Norwich have yeah there we go beautiful we'll obviously share our predictions probably tomorrow or Wednesday on the day of the game and hopefully I can finally get some bloody points because I've had a bit of a I'm predicting positive results although I predicted a draw against commentary but then yeah you obviously predicted a defeat he didn't get any points, but Pifi obviously got a point.

57:25Ross Halls:And yeah, as you mentioned, Stu picked Sindra to score the first goal. He got two lovely points. But yes, my friend, as we record this, people maybe listen to this when the FA Cup draw has been announced, but that is tonight. How do we ball 18? Who would you like, my friend? There's some non-league teams still in it, but this is when the Premier League and Championship teams come in. I actually did put a message in our group chat the posse chat so I'm going to go through that very shortly but who would you like an EFA Cup third round draw my friend if it's going to be a championship or league one or probably even a league two team let's have it at Portman Road if we're going to be away from home and it's one of the big boys again that would be alright going up to Liverpool it's not even from a personal perspective I think the narrative around Cinder Bala-Rigeli playing at Anfield's great.

58:20So if you had to give me, I'll give you three that I like the look of. Everton for the new stadium would be one to tick that one off because, annoyingly, that's the only ground in the Premier League I've not done and will be the same for a lot of Ipswich fans. Of course, I have to say Cambridge in League 2, away from home would be nice because that would be quite a short commute for me. That would be 15 minutes up the road, that would do. and I'll throw in a rogue one and I feel like you would hate this Ross to be honest, if we're going to go on the road how about a bit of Western Supermare down a little bit further below Bristol it's a little way down they're National League South, they're the second lowest ranked team in the division same division or same level as Macclesfield so they are also in the mix as well.

59:16I like the sound of that. I feel like it's the kind of game that would see Epswich getting knocked out.

59:21Ross Halls:Give me a bit of Western Supermare. Why not? I don't hate it. There's worse ones on this list I'm looking at. Someone said Blackburn. Steve Lewis. No, we don't want to go Blackburn for the third year. Please kick him out of your KOA. Right now, Steve, you'll listen. I'm kicking you out of the group because that was just a horrible take. But then Peachy went Wigan. I actually swore at him in our group shot. I actually just went FU because I was like, no, we don't want that. I know there's a few people who live up north and I think Harvey the Sweetbush Prince were saying, I don't mind anything northern to be fair.

59:57Ross Halls:And he's there so it would be good. But then Steve went, I want a new ground. So Macclesfield, Western Supermare as you mentioned, Forumwood, Salford, Mansfield, Blackpool. I've been Blackpool again. Or Exeter. Been Exeter. Don't want to go there again either. Grinsbury Town away, Mark Jubster said. I've not been to Grinsbury, so that'd be a new ground. Good food. Good food. Yeah, fair. Edmonton away, Callum. Good old Callum. Yeah, Callum will be good. Bainsey, I know, lives near Newport. He said Newport away. God, are they in the straw? Yeah, they're in the draw. They're doing really bad. They're doing really bad, aren't they?

1:00:36They are. Do you know who they're managed by? No. Christian Fuchs, who won the Premier League with Leicester City. That's amazing. I love that. From West Ham will be obviously another one, given relationship links there. You know what? This will be unpopular. But A, it should take a lot of fans. B, it's not that far. And C, I'm sure that Sophie, my girlfriend, would like to combine it with a shopping day over the weekend. Milton Keynes, Dons would be quite good. Let's be honest. I mean, imagine as well, because there's a certain amount of allocation that goes to away fans. I remember watching West Ham, Bristol City at the London Stadium.

1:01:20I was there, and Bristol City, I think, had about half the stadium. Can you imagine having like 12 ,000-odd Ipswich fans in the away? That would be great.

1:01:31Ross Halls:In League One, I think it was the promotion season. I think we had like 7 ,000 there. I'd say 17 ,000. No, we didn't have 17 ,000. We're still a thousand there, which has looked amazing. They would outnumber the MK Dons fans. Really, that would be awesome. Did you see that that actually has happened this weekend? Sorry for going off on a tangent. Luton managed to outnumber Fleetwood Town fans in the FA Cup, which I thought was also very, very funny, even though Luton then ended up going out of the game. Well, there we go then. Awkward. The thing is, wow, it's which can be at home. So anybody at home is fine.

1:02:09Anyone at home is fine. If it's going to be at home and it's like a League One championship team, I think we'd be happy with that.

1:02:16Ross Halls:Yeah, pretty much. So we shall see. But you could be listening to this driving and you've already seen the draw. So tell us. Who is it? Shout at us right now. Right now. We've got this team away. And I'm like, oh, no. But we shall see. Ball number 18 in the draw. but AJ, a two-man pod in the books. Final thoughts, another week ahead of games. We've, of course, got Leicester on Saturday. So, yeah, it just never stops. No, it doesn't. At least there's less travel. Let's go and get some strepsils and some tissues and a few bits like that. Patch ourselves up. Go again. We've got a busy day ahead. I need you on X-Blues monitor stuff.

1:03:01and yes it's definitely going to be a jam-packed week two big exciting interesting games coming up stay tuned with us of course ladies and gents for all our coverage of them yes indeed

1:03:14Ross Halls:and yeah hey Drizzy Aaron Dryden Heathie's boy scored a perfect hat-trick for Swindon so that could be another narrative if we get Swindon that would just be Aaron Dryden talk for that game so can't we get him on the pod yes Swindon at home Aaron Dryden's return of Porton Road. We're going to try that. If it's Swindon against Zipswich Town, we will ask the question of the Swindon Town Media team. Will you let Aaron Dryden come on our podcast? That'd be brilliant. Yeah, Heathie's got a signed shirt. Maybe he can get a signed Swindon shirt. The narrative there. Love that. Hopefully it's Swindon at home at Porton Road.

1:03:54Ross Halls:Sort us out, Andy Warren. Yes, indeed. But thanks, everyone, for listening to another Kings of Anglia podcast. of course sponsored by Molecule. We'll give you that. We'll give you that. Of course use KOA10 to get all your lovely cleaning stuff for your car. And also Stardust Spirits use the code KOA to get 20 % off your Christmas spirits for this period to celebrate Christmas. So two local companies supporting the podcast. Of course follow us on all our socials. the Kings of Anglia. Check out everything online as well and we'll speak to you next time. Bye for now.

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