622: Kings of Anglia: Our BIG derby day preview

21:47He's probably played a handful of minutes against West Ham in that behind closed doors friendly. Other than that, he's really not had that opportunity for minutes. So I wouldn't be like totally flawed given Ben Johnson's form. But I do think I'd be pretty surprised if Leif Davis didn't start there, let's be honest. But I think there's a bit of a debate there still. Yeah, Greaves or Kipre is the big one for me. It's Jacob Greaves, to be honest. He's got the shirt. He's performed. And I think that's been a bit of a theme within Ipswich teams, I'd say. The big example for me, and I know it's different because it's a goalkeeper, but Alex Palmer had his injury.

22:27Christian Walton comes in. Christian Walton performs. And Christian Walton has played every single league game. Every single league minutes since then. And for me, Jacob Greaves has had that opportunity now. He's been able to deliver. I thought he was really good against Birmingham as well. And he starts here for me. There is still that opportunity to bring Cedric Kipro back in with the fact there's so many Saturday, Tuesday games, Portsmouth coming up very soon and you've got to keep people fresh going into that Borough game and then going to Charlton. It's hellish, isn't it, with this run? But yeah, I'd keep Jacob Greaves in for this one personally.

23:00Right, I'll get the casting vote then. And I'm going to go, I'm on record as saying Cedric Kipre is my favourite Shirtown player. That remains the case. But I am also a big fan of going with the hot hand. If you're playing well, you should stay in the team. So I'm sticking with Jacob Greaves. Yes, Ross? One-nil, AJ.

23:16Ross Halls:I will actually make an extra little point here. I'm actually ignoring my actual pick here. Kipre, to be fair, before he got to Spendy, wasn't in great form. So I'm now like, oh. But I don't know. I don't know. I think Kipre will be just well up for it. I don't think Grease will be, I'm sure, as well. But, yeah, Kipre wasn't in great form before that suspension, but he felt like, you know, he wants to sort of bounce back. So this one could be it. Just a side note as well on Leif Davis. The club put out a little video this morning, a link to the masters of the players, chipping onto like a Velcro golf dartboard, if you like.

23:54I noticed that Leif Davis, we know he's a big fan of flight simulators. He's actually got a plane tattoo. on his arm, just a plane. I'm assuming that's linked to his love of flight simulators. Right then, midfield. We know as all might as well, if he's fit, and Ross is guaranteed that he is fit, is going to start. Who's going to play alongside him, however, AJ? Because we've had Dan Neal, we've had Jack Taylor, and we've had Jens Kjuster, but Jens seems very much out of the picture, and McKenna actually spoke about him yesterday, didn't he? Some interesting quotes about Jens, that's probably worth reflecting on.

24:25But who would you be starting in this one? yeah I don't think it would be Jenski used to the comments kind of suggested it's been a very difficult season for him and he feels that and getting used to the championship's been difficult I think some of the wording of that you kind of have to read between the lines but doesn't speak of a long-term future at Ipswich although it's understood that there's the obligation to buy if promotion's good we'll have to end and see what all the technicalities are within that but the fact that Kieran McKenna was saying he could play for any of the top clubs in Europe, including Ipswich.

25:00Yeah, made me wonder what the future holds in the short term for Jens Kjusta. This is really difficult because for me, take Kjusta out, there's still three very viable options of who plays alongside Matasiwa. I think Dan Neal's the most obvious one. They're trying to build that partnership. He's getting up to speed quite nicely. He played 90 minutes on Monday, which was good. Would that limit him then playing 90 here? It has been almost a week, although Kieran McKenna might disagree with that. So in that sense, maybe that would probably be the one I'd lean towards if you can keep both of those fit and able to play.

25:37Jack Taylor's obviously got the Derby experience, which is a positive. He's played in, he would have played in three now, I'd imagine winning from the last championship season as well. And then the curveball would be, could you put Marcelino Nunez there, which would be a way of opening up the number 10 role maybe for an Anis Mometi or something like that. It feels a little bit too open for me. Matasiwa and Neil is the way I would play this one because they've tried to build that partnership but this is the area where there's a lot of options and a lot of kind of piecing and puzzling things together with who's going to be fit, who's going to be tired, what's the best balance.

26:14It's not an easy one. Yeah, I'm going Matasiwa and Neil. I'm sticking my... I'm nailing my colours to the mast right now. I might see with Neil for me. Nunes clearly has to play. I'd start him, but I'd start him in the 10. We'll come on to Nunes in a minute. How about you, Rossi?

26:28Ross Halls:Yeah, I think keep that partnership going because that's been working pretty well. Jack Taylor, though, I don't know. He could have a little bit of... Excuse me, you know. I've had more say in some games as well this season. And, you know, he loves his crunch and tackles. He'll be well up for the derby. but to sort of settle that midfield, I think Azor Mastu and Daniel will be perfect to start those attacks. Yeah, you do wonder because Neil obviously played a lot of minutes in there on Monday and whether or not he'll be ready to go again or whether or not I wouldn't be massively despised to be Jack Taylor, to start, to be honest.

27:05Right then, the front four, which is always the most exciting and sexy conversation. Let's start with Senor Nunes, shall we? Big hashtag narrative around this, clearly, going back to Norwich for the first time since he left them. I'm sure Norwich fans will welcome him with open arms and hugs and kisses. Methinks not. Shall we hear first of all from Kieran McKenna and Dara O'Shea about Nunes and then we can talk about this front four.

27:28Ross Halls:Does his involvement this weekend have to be managed? Do you have to have extra conversations with him about the atmosphere he can expect as an individual? He won't be the most popular player in the stadium.

27:38Kieran McKenna:No, I don't think so because it's so obvious to say, of course, when you make a move like that. it's not going to be popular with the club that you're leaving behind. But as I said at the time, I can only respect him as a person. He's come from Chile to try and make the best of his career over in England. And that means trying to get to the Premier League. And he had a couple of good seasons for Norwich. And then he made a really big step this year to a club that he felt had a better chance of achieving that goal. And it was a step he wanted to make in his career. and he's a confident but really humble guy and he wanted to make that step and take it on and I think I give him huge credit for that and I say he's made a really good fist of it so far.

28:27So he's, of course, us as a team, as a club,

28:32Kieran McKenna:him as a player, we know that he's not going to get a very warm welcome on Saturday because that's how football works, but in terms of temperament, there's not many better than Marcelino so I've no worries about him in that regard. How has Marcelino been this week? Obviously the last derby there was a lot of noise around him, the first game against Norwich after what was a very controversial transfer. This is going to be a very different situation for him going back there. How has he been? He's been fine. Marcelino is just Marcelino. He doesn't change. That boy, just fair play to him. He just cracks on.

29:01He's himself. Of course, he's going to have a bit of hatred towards him and and what not and he understands that himself like he's not stupid to think that he wouldn't and you know us as a group understand that you know a lot of the a lot of the stuff is going to be towards him and and that's that that's football this is football do you know what I mean um it's what makes the game great as well is having these the passion and the rivalries and obviously he's stepped over to the other side of the line and um he's come to us so he I think he knows himself it's going to be a big game he's going to get lots of lots of stuff and I'm sure I mean as his personality goes I don't think many things affect him in that way so I'm sure he'll be totally fine Right then I am I'll go first I'm starting Nunez in the 10 we heard a little insight there and that backs up everything I've heard about him I think he's going to absolutely love this atmosphere I think he'll relish being the pantomime villain I wouldn't be surprised if he does something special in this game then I'm going Clark on the left and I'm going Casey McAteer on the right.

30:07You know, Wes Burns can't play and Casey obviously has got a bit of a hot hand. AJ, what are you doing? The same, to be honest. Yeah, it's difficult because I think Anis Mometi is brilliant. I thought when he came on against Birmingham, he changed that game in that period, even though Town suffered with Matasir off the pitch. having Mometti playing through the 10 gave Town a different kind of dimension to their play when they turned the game around to win it. But I think he's a great option to have off the bench, and you need to have those bench options as well. And if you want to keep that solid core, that base of Matsira and Neil, then you have to be selective about who you have in front.

30:48And then when you've got players like Villagene, like Sindra, like Anis, who can come on, that's where things get pretty exciting. yeah I agree with Nunez I think that he has to start simply as people will see from my preview in the prediction I wrote I do think he'll have a big part to play in this game

31:12yeah I think that's really the only way to go about it with the comments that were made about Jadon Villagin it's going to be Jack Clark on the left most likely could there be a debate of going with Anis on the left and having that combination that works quite well with him and Leif Davis because Mimetti comes in a bit narrower, possibly. But Jack Clark is a big game player. He scored in the last derby, and I'd want to have him starting also for his penalties should that be needed. And then on the right, it's pretty simple for me, to be perfectly honest. Wes Burns is out. Cinderella again is out of favour and out of form a little bit.

31:48He's obviously still got a big part to play. He's got a hugely bright future. But Casey McAteer, I think, is finding his beat. There we go. Having done that, I think, as I said on Tuesday's pod, since the Derby game, the Derby County game, I should say, through until Monday where he got his first Ipswich goal, got better and better and better. And, yeah, he gets the opportunity here to play on the right for me. I think he's earned it. So that would be the three to play behind the striker for me. Yeah, I really like Mehmeti. but I think in this scenario, if you're going to have one of the two of them, Nunez or Mimetti coming off the bench, I'd rather it be Mimetti.

32:24I think just because he is energy, isn't he? He's kind of energy and he's got a bit of edge to him and a bit of swag. He's fired up. That's what I've noticed. I mean, you saw that with the Birmingham game. I think he was a bit annoyed to be on the bench against Birmingham because he came on and played like a man possessed. He was angry. The way he was playing, there's almost like a ferocity in the way he dribbles. I can't quite explain it, but he just plays like he hates everyone, basically. Yeah, he's got an edge. He's got a real edge about him. Yeah, he plays like a moody teenager. And it's great.

32:52I love it. And I think that is kind of what you need in a derby game. It might be the kind of thing that when you get to, and it always happens every game, kind of like a natural lull in the game. If you can add that spice onto the pitch, that is what can swing things into your favour. You won't be afraid to have a shot from range. I think he'd be the kind of player I'd want to run at tired legs. Yeah, but for me, I think that he'd definitely be one that I'd look more to having off the bench. and also when you're comparing that and Nunez, Nunez will start this one because it's Norwich as well and this means so much to him but also Ipswich start Nunez, Ipswich get a result.

33:30Seems to be the pattern and I don't know what the logic is behind that, what the maths, what the numbers is but that seems to be how these things work and for a game like this, I just can't see him being out of the firing line or being out of that kind of natural position in the number 10 role. Rossi, have you got anything to add? Would you agree with us? Clearly, you know, there's an argument. We don't know how fit Felagin is, but clearly when he plays, he's generally pretty good. Scored that classic, iconic goal in the first game. And Sindra would be another option on the right, or even, as AJ said, Mometi, perhaps on the left, if you didn't want to start Jack Clark.

34:04Has it got any kind of differing views?

34:08Ross Halls:No, I think keep it as it is, really. From the Birmingham game, those three behind the striker. Jack Clark is fantastic, isn't he? I think Jalen Filagini is the king at Portman Road, but Jack Clark's the one who's been scoring goals away from our East. He's of course scored goals at home as well. But no, start Jack Clark. Casey McAteer has read his, you know, AJ said, you've said, you know, he's the hot hand at the moment. So let him, you know, continue that form. And no, you've got to start Nunes for this one. You've got to. I think him off the bench, he'll get more, you know, more abuse I think if he came off the bench I think at least when he's on the pitch he'll get abuse anyway but at least he's already on the pitch and he doesn't really care I think a lot of players always say they block out but when you're like the announcer going and coming on for Ittrius Town, Marcelo Nunes and that will just be deafening and yeah him sitting on the bench I'm sure there'll be Norwich fans just going over the bench and there is obviously Norwich fans near the bench the literally town dugout so he would probably get a lot of a lot of bad things said about him so you've got to start him for this one because that is the biggest talking point in this starpy um it's probably the first time in a long time like andy marshall is the only other where there's been like a moment where a player has returned the carrow road like liam gibbs of course had that little thing but liam gibbs no offense to him but it you know andy marshall i remember speaking to him years ago when um for the pod about him doing that move and he's first returned to Caron and he did get a lot of stick and thankfully he got a win in that one so he had the last laugh.

35:44Ross Halls:Hopefully Nunes will have the same and yeah as you boys mentioned he will definitely have a moment in this one. I just hope his free kicks are getting better because the last few have been pretty bad. He's going to get booed every time he touches the ball isn't he? And I think he's going to love it. I think he's going to feed off it. Ross I'll stick with you then. Only position left to talk about is up top and it seems like a fairly obvious choice here because Yeah, imagine. Go with Tuba. It's going to be George Hurst though, isn't it? Ivan Azon, we know, is maybe not fully fit. It seems to me obvious that it's going to be George Hurst.

36:18Do you agree?

36:20Ross Halls:Yeah, because once again, it is one to watch, isn't it? Ivan Azon. I know Kieran McKenna was never going to show all of his cards, was he? With the Azul Matasiwa fitness update. But yeah, George Hurst, you've got to start him. We, of course, spoke on the previous podcast. last about we thought he was okay against Birmingham. And yeah, he was injured for the last derby game at Carroll Road. So I'm sure he'll be up for this one and I'm sure he'll get, he'll battle against those Norwich defenders who are better than they were when we last played them. So yeah, he's the only option really, because Tubert at Pomona would just joke about that, but he's nowhere near going to start again for Tower, I think.

37:08Ross Halls:So, yeah, George Hurst, number nine, back of the shirt. Can he have a moment as well? Yeah, it's going to be George Hurst, isn't it, AJ, up top? Yeah, I think so. I don't think there's going to be any real surprises with even Azon. I think the way that Kieran McKenna spoke about him after the game against Birmingham where he said, we need to see how he is. We're not sure for the next few games, says to me, that it's not a long-term one, but it's not going to be overly short-term either. And with the regularity of the fixtures, look, this is a massive, massive game, but you can't... If you said to me that...

37:46Controversial. If you said to me that Ipswich lose tomorrow and win the rest of their games, I would take it because they'd go and win promotion to the Premier League. And with that in mind, you also then have to think about balances of the team. You have to look ahead to Pompeii. You have to look ahead to Middlesbrough. You have to look ahead to Charlton and to West Brom and Southampton and to all of these games coming up. And with players like Azon and with Wes Burns as well, you can't push them too hard to be back for this game. And Town have good options there. Look, George Hurst has really impressed me in the last few.

38:15We had that debate on Tuesday after the Birmingham game about his performance, but I thought he was fine, was good. He got the assist for McAteer's winner. Before that, he's been chipping in with a few more goals now, getting into better positions, making more things happen. I'm happy with Tew Brackpong coming on for the final 15, 20, 10, however many minutes that he needs to play. So given the options that Town have, Azon gets more time to recover for me. Hurst starts and Tewba can fill in when he's required. Okay, that's the starting 11 done then. Before we get, I want to talk about potential heroes and X-Factors and that kind of stuff.

38:53Before we do that though, let's have a look about Norwich. You've done some key battles. When you look at the Norwich side, and Ross has already mentioned Mattson, and Almeid, who worries you about Norwich in terms of players we need to look out for?

39:12Ahmed is going to be one of them off the left. I think he is going to have a big say in this game, and we're going to need a strong old performance from Darnell Furlong because he's been, Ahmed's been really, really impressive since joining. He joined from Vancouver Whitecaps in January. you would think that coming from MLS mid-season to England, to Championship football, would be quite difficult. Four goals, three assists. He's been really impressive. And that for me is one of the key battles within this, is keeping him quiet. If you can do that, it's going to limit a lot of what Norwich can do going forward.

39:45Midfield is obviously going to be a key battle. And having Azul Matosi were fit for that will be important. Mattson's been really impressive. He was poor. I'd go as far as saying in the last derby and since then really stepped up, scored the, I think it might have been the winner no it wasn't the winner, scored the equaliser against Millwall on Easter Monday, I think he'll go alongside Kenny McLean so you've got the experience and the youth there so it's going to be really important for Azor and maybe Daniel who've kind of gone with to win that battle there, it's important that that then opens up the space for, again, assume Marcelino Nunez further ahead because Mattson is going to be tasked with sticking close to him.

40:29So that would be important. Obviously, look at the back line, improved a lot as well. Darling and Cordoba seem to be the favoured centre-back partners there. So it's going to be up for the Hurst to really battle those two, in particular Cordoba, I think has been really impressive. Only 24, 6 '2 centre-back who's placed for Panama. So he needs to really handle that side of things as well. And then the wild card as well, I think it's worth mentioning for Norwich. They've been going with Matthias Chris-Garden up top. He missed the last derby through injury. He was a big blow because he started the season really well.

41:03Came back and it's been fine. I think no more than that. But they signed a player in January, an Australian striker from Randa's FC in Denmark called Mohamed Toure, 22. And he's been out with a knock for quite a while. Came back on Good Friday against Portsmouth. and then was brought off the bench in the Millwall game. Got the assist for both of Norwich's goals. He's been in really good form since coming into the Championship. Again, four goals, three assists. He's only played six games, notched a hat-trick away at Oxford. So centre-backs are going to have to be really aware too because he, for me, is the big attacking threat if he's going to start this one.

41:42Him and Ahmed are the ones to really keep an eye on from an attacking sense, but ways for Ipswich to hurt Norwich as well, especially with the creativity in the middle of the park. Well then Rossi, I want a Derby Day hero and I want a Derby Day X Factor slash wildcard. So when I'm thinking hero, I'm thinking you're Danny Haynes, you know, Philogene from the last game, someone who makes the headlines. And when I'm talking X Factor, I'm talking maybe someone who has a key part to play but isn't necessarily the headline act, if you like. Who are you saying? There's an obvious choice clearly because there's a lot of narrative around obvious choice.

42:17What do you reckon?

42:19Ross Halls:i'm gonna start with the x-factor um and you won't probably you normally wouldn't use this player in these sort of words but i don't know why i've got this weird feeling i was thinking about this yesterday yeah don't know furlong i don't know why just he's a bit of a shit house um sorry any any families listening um and he loves to definitely away from home he has that edge to him a wind-up merchant yeah yeah very much so and i think he's gonna do that in this game. I don't know why. I have a feeling he's going to have something to say in this game. We've had white backs in the past in derbies.

42:57Ross Halls:Fabian Willness was obviously famous for scoring in a derby and also just hating Norwich. He got death threats from Norwich fans back in the day. When I've spoken to him in the past through interviews and just general chat, he always just shares his hatred of Norwich. So, Darnell Furlong, I'm going to continue that at right back. And I think he's going to have a moment in this one. Hopefully not a red card because that would not be good. I like that. I like that. That's exactly what I'm thinking with the X Factor, you know, someone that's got some kind of effect on the game that might necessarily not be being talked about at the moment and won't be the main character, but will have that impact.

43:34I like it. It's a good one.

43:36Ross Halls:And then, WWE Hero, who's going to score the winner? Do you know what? Syndra. What? off the bench I don't know if you've seen the club put out a training video I think it was maybe two minutes long and he scored a few headers in that there was a few like some of the crossing drills and he scored a really good header I was like oh I love that Syndra so maybe yeah I won't get into my prediction just yet but maybe he will be on the score sheet and he will score the winner for town with a good goal so yeah why not off the bench to really make his mark because he's really been up and down, hasn't he?

44:18Ross Halls:Still, you know, young, still got a lot of potential, as AJ mentioned earlier. So, yeah, that would be my pick. I like him. I like both of those. AJ, give us yours then. Derby Day hero and an X-Factor slash wild card.

44:33I mean, the hero, look, I've kind of already hinted as where I've gone on the record with my prediction and we'll come on to that, so I won't talk about it now. I'll give you someone a little bit different. Casey McIntyre would be my slightly different... You swine! Sorry, I'm sorry. Look, if you want him as your first goal scorer in the predictions, it's fine because I won't be having him. But for the hero... Look, for the hero slot, what a story it would be. I've still seen quite a lot of comments aimed his way, despite what for me was a man of the match display and a winning goal on Monday and really improved performances.

45:10What better way to win over a fan base than winning a derby at Carradine Road? It would be brilliant. I think that we have to start the left back for Norwich. But if it's Fisher, he's kind of a natural right sider, then you've got space to run at him. You can take him on. He's a young player. He's got the pace and the physicality. I think he's suited to a derby game. He's got the confidence. He'll have even more confidence if he's picked to start on this one. really think that he could have a big say in this one even though he's not going on to my prediction X Factor the player we're not talking about we've not said anything about him I think of the predicted line-up we didn't say a thing, Christian Walton is my X Factor pick Ipswich are going to come under the cosh in this game they are going to be under pressure, they are going to have to face shots, they are going to have to face shots on target to keep a clean sheet it's going to take a hell of a lot.

46:09Who knows what's going to happen in this game? Norwich haven't had a penalty, for example, in about 50 years. So it would be written in the stars for them to have one here. And I just think that Christian Walton's going to stand up to it. Made a couple of good saves in that game against Birmingham. He's just kind of quietly consistent. Loves a clean sheet. And for me, I think he's got something to do, let's say. In this game, he'll be busy. and I'd really back him to stand up to the test at Carradine Road. So those are my two, Casey McAteer and Christian Walton. You swine. I was convinced that at least one of you would say Nunez is the hero.

46:44He's the obvious choice. But my choice would be Casey McAteer. I think he looks like any player is a confidence player and he looks like he's really at the top of his game. He'll be absolutely buzzing for this one. He's got, as we say, he's got that physicality. He's got that pace. He's got that directness, which lends itself to a game like this. so I'm thinking he's going to end up being a bit of a hero and for my X Factor we've already talked about him but I just think off the bench I think Alice Mometi could be a real factor in this one when he comes on it's particularly if Towner you know either chasing the game or looking for a winner that kind of thing I think his extra energy and the ability to create something I think he could well be someone who unlocks something so we might too McAteer and Alice Mometi let's do predictions then friends the the final bit you've all been waiting for ifststown haven't won at carrow road since 2006 um i won't tell you how old i was because it will depress me but these boys were barely alive i'm sure um and they haven't all right piss off um and they haven't done the double over norwich for 28 years and alex definitely wasn't alive for that one and ross was barely alive uh i was alive and older than i care to admit um so i am leading the way aren't i ross however has nailed the uh the last prediction he's got two out the last three is it ross you've got right um definitely last game i don't know about there was another one you got bob on as well i'm sure was it the way i think i think there might have been another one that he had as well

48:13Ross Halls:was it the away game after what was the recent the last sheffield where so the last four have been Stoke 3-3, Shuffle Wednesday 2-0, Millwall 1-1 and the Birmingham game. I think you might have had 2-0 at Shuffle Wednesday. Yeah. Maybe. But anyway, I'm informed. So, obviously I will ask you, do you want me to go first, boys? Obviously as a leader in the clubhouse, the best man as it stands, do you want me to go first and set my stall out or do you want the opportunity to pick before I do? Have you seen my prediction? I don't know if you've read the preview. I've already had to nail my colours to the mask early doors on this one because of the fact that I have a section in the preview where I talk about my prediction I can keep quiet and let you just do your own one or I can say mine and get it out of the way so you can do so it's totally your call well I've not read the preview so why don't you boys go first you get you get your opportunity to pick first and then I'll go at the end and obviously Stu who is currently on holiday will come back for this game and then go off on holiday again um yeah we'll get his prediction as well uh go on then AJ give us your prediction thank you granddad um yes i'm going to it's a bit of a head v heart one this to be perfectly honest i have so many fears going into this game um but i don't care you know i'm probably not going to win the predictions league so let's have a bit of fun and i am going to back ipswich to win it and i am going to back ipswich to win it 1-0 and i am going to back marcelino nunez to score the winner at carrow road um i haven't written this in the preview but i'm going to say it's from a free kick why not He's going to bend one in to win the derby, and it's going to be a mirror image just flipped from the last time.

49:55It won't be one of those slightly weird dipping long-match. Have you seen his free kicks recently? Look, shut up, Ross. I'm sticking with it. Look, I know his free kicks have been poor, but if there's any time that he's been out on that training pitch, practicing, getting them in with David Button, back fit, and trying to save them on the training pitch, This is the time for Marcelino Nunez to strike. He's going to be so up for this one. Yeah, I'm going to back it. I'm going to have a mirror image, a flip of the last derby game at Carrad Road. 1-0 up switch. Marcelino Nunez to score the winner.

50:301-0 Nunez to score the winner. Rossi, as we say, you're the form man, as it were. Before I ask you for your actual score prediction, Rossi, what do you think the chances we get a red card in this one?

50:41Ross Halls:I don't know. The derbies in recent hadn't had much edge to it. The last derby at Carroll Road, they didn't turn up, did they? Yeah. That was really disappointing. It was a really flat game. But yeah, these derbies, there's only been a few little moments here and there where you're like, oh, OK, getting a bit tasty. But as I know... I feel like this one will have edge, though. Do you know what I mean? Because obviously we've got the newness thing. We've also, as you mentioned, we've got Furlong, who's a bit of a wind-up merchant. I fancy this might have a bit more edge than recent games. But I don't know.

51:14Ross Halls:The referee, who is Anthony Backhouse, he hasn't given a red card this season. There we go. Two in this game. Yeah, but he's not card-happy at all. I think he's a really good referee. Tano never lost a game under his watch. He was in charge of the Swansea 3-0 at home and also the Coventry 2-0 win at their place. So we've got a pretty good record. I don't know if that's good or bad, because that could easily change. He's like, oh, no, he's going to have a bad game now for us. So, yeah, it's been a long time since we've had a red card in the derby. I think the last one probably was the playoffs, I think, where Christoph Berra decided to be a goalkeeper.

51:54Ross Halls:He got a red card in that one. So, yeah, there's potential of a red card, definitely with the Nunes factor, because he's starting in this one, because Nunes came off the bench, didn't he, in the Hall & Road game. so yeah a little bit of bite will be nice and I just want, they need to turn up these boys, luckily there's only Davis and Taylor who played in the last derby at Carrow Road so there's a lot of new players now that are going to be experiencing the Carrow Road derby so hopefully they'll and Daro Shea of course spoke very well earlier so they'll know how important this is because yeah 20 years to win at Carrow Road yeah I was 9 I was at that game thankfully I have seen a town win at Carrow Road I was a young Roscoe I was in that away end enjoying that and didn't think I would never see a town win at Carrow Road after that which is mental and to do the double over them as well that would be nice and to get a clean sheet that isn't my prediction unfortunately we haven't kept a clean sheet since 2003 against Norwich so that would be nice But anywho, my prediction, my friend?

53:06Ross Halls:Do you want it? I want your prediction, yeah. Okay. I want to go. It's going to go with heart instead of head. Head goes running through, doesn't it? But let's go heart. Let's go for a town win. 2-1. Do the double. I do like to win 2-1 just like we did in 2006. 20 years removed from that game. Same scoreline. And it'd be funny if I say, yeah, Jimmy Guarn scored a free kick that basically deflected off the head of Norwich goal scorer because they took the lead in that game. And that was great scenes, the Frenchman scoring that free kick with so likable, low knee back then. We signed him from Monaco.

53:47Ross Halls:He was just a lovely, lovely guy he was. To make a 1-1 and then Danny Haynes with the handball goal. But no, I'm not going with that. I'm going with Darnell Furlong to score first because... Are you really? You're going Furlong? I'll take. Random, random goal. I love it. I love it. As I mentioned in X Factor earlier, he hasn't scored yet in Town Colours. So that'll be nice. Your first Town goal. I'm trying to decide how it's going to happen because he's not that often in the box, is he? Well, no. He's not up there. There has been a few times where he has roundly popped up in the box. I don't know.

54:26Ross Halls:It was a goal recently where it was like, what is double-nose furlong doing in the box? What's he doing there? But yeah, he's going to find a way to be in the box and he's going to score to open the scoring. You know what? I hate to say it. Maybe the equaliser. Norwich score. Another comeback win then. A comeback win again. Who is the hero then? Syndra. Oh, yeah, of course. So you're giving us both goal scorers, Ross. You're going 2-1. You're telling us the exact game state, equaliser from Furlong and then the winner from Sindre from a header. You've already said. Yeah. There we go. Imagine if that all comes to pass.

55:03So we've got two wins then. We've got two wins. We've got one nil and Nunes. We've got two one and Furlong for the first goal scorer. And also I like the thought of young Ross, nine years old sitting in the carry road away and with a full beard already. Back then. Yeah. You've both gone with your heart over your head. and I appreciate that because Derby days are times for heart. But unfortunately, I might have to go with my head and it makes it more fun if I do because it's different from your boys. I think it's going to be a draw. I think it's going to be 1-1. And I think who's going to score?

55:39I like George Hurst to score, actually. I think George Hurst will score. So I'll go 1-1 and George Hurst and we'll find out from Stu what he thinks. Clearly, I hope I'm wrong. The record shows that I very often am. Ask my wife. So we will see. But the boys saying wins, I'm saying a draw. Right then, friends, have we got anything else to mention? Anything else you want to talk about as we head to this Derby Day game? How would you feel about a draw? Because obviously, you know, you want Ipswich to go and win. It's a good result. Yeah. Like they're in good form. Given the form, given the Ipswich's performances, it's weird that Ipswich haven't beaten an eight because I can't really think of a time that they've played that well in the last eight, to be perfect.

56:24Lyon's at least over both halves. So, yeah, for me, if they can take something from this, that's going to be the biggest thing for me. Get a point or three from it would be really big because it is ticking off one of their hardest games to come up there with Southampton at the moment, given the two teams' forms. But it's an interesting position to be in, isn't it? and I suppose at the same time are there similarities with the one two years ago? I know that the defeat was very difficult to take back then but they managed to refocus the minds and go again. I think a win here would be transformative, wouldn't it?

57:10In terms of what it would do for confidence. Can you imagine how you feel going into the Pompey game and into Borough next Sunday as well off the back of beating one of the in-form teams in the division, your arch rivals, would be huge. But it's an interesting dynamic. And the one thing I hope that doesn't come from it as well is how often are derby games, in Ross's words, damp squids? I love saying that. Yeah, I've seen quite a few of them, and I was almost tempted to go, I haven't gone with my heart, and the Nunez winner, a 0-0 would have felt like quite a safe bet. You look at the Sheffield, the Steel City derbies, are all pretty, they're all terrible from what I've seen.

57:48And like Southampton, Portsmouth, all the hype around that for it to finish nil-nil. Hopefully it's not one of those, but I wouldn't be surprised, you know. I feel like it's going to be a good game. I really hope it is. Obviously Norwich are in good form. They've got the narrative around them. We've got the Nunes thing. There's so much spice going into it. The position that Town are in, chasing promotion, Norwich chance to put a major spanner in the works of that. It's going to be a good game. I really hope it's going to be. Rossi, what time are you picking Rossi up AJ did you say, you're picking Rossi up tomorrow are you?

58:18I am, he's in Cambridge so I'm driving to Ipswich and then up to Norwich no absolutely not he's at his dad's, which is around the corner from me, what time it wasn't half six, I was joking it's probably going to be about half eight, much better it does take about an hour and a half to get up to Norwich from mine, so So, yeah, I'll be leaving mine at about half eight tomorrow, I'd imagine. Okay. Rossi, you have the chance to take another iconic picture of a Derby day tomorrow. Obviously, you've got the really nice one of Cedric Kieper on his knees pointing at the sky in the first one, which is a cracker.

58:58What's it like for you in these games? Because as a photographer, clearly, you can't really watch the game, as it were. You have to kind of predict what's happening and get all your shots in line. Is it harder with a game like this when there's so much emotion around it? do you find yourself watching the game more a little bit switch off as it were

59:15Ross Halls:yeah once again in this one you've got to decide where to sit because where the town fans are in the way and by the way this is the worst away game of the season because it's just for fans you just get shepherded you're basically like getting like your prisoners getting escorted to the prison or Carroll Road because especially because there's no trains this weekend so there's like four options for fans to pick up tickets you know the coach I think there's collection points around Norwich and stuff. It isn't like a normal away game where you can go to a away pub. Away fans are lucky at Porn Road because they've got the pub outside the train station, which is perfect, but for town fans, they're going to have to just go to the ground and they're going to probably have to be in the ground for hours to wait for the game to start, which is just, I don't know, the atmosphere may be not as good as it would be normally.

1:00:07Ross Halls:But yeah, there'll be a lot of stick. But, yeah, it's just trying to find the right perfect spot to get that picture. Because if the players score in the first half, they may turn around and celebrate with the town fans. So I'm going to get back. So I'm debating where do I go? But no, I don't know. I could get spotted. I could get some stick from Norwich fans. I know the Itchwich boys, apparently they're going to be wearing their colours. So they're going to get a lot of stick. I know I was speaking to Richard and Harry of Richardstown and they were saying, yeah, that's just funny, you know, when you just get those stick from Norwich fans.

1:00:42Ross Halls:But, yeah, it's going to be interesting. You know, I've only taken pictures of Carrow twice, actually. This will be only my second, this will be my second derby because I obviously did the reverse a lot, you know, two years ago and that was just, there wasn't many pictures to capture because nothing happened. so I think sadly I really got a good picture of Nunes celebrating because he turned around and sort of celebrated right in front of me and I was like oh my dear hopefully I'll get reverse this time, hopefully I'll get a good one of Nunes celebrating which will be nice so yeah it's hopefully been a lovely sunny day as well is it shorts weather just yet?

1:01:23Ross Halls:No. Probably not but yeah it's going to be a good atmosphere, I'm sure I'm going to be capturing maybe different like snakes and other bits and bobs um i'm just gonna be my eyes are gonna be very much on nunez i think for most of the games i want to just see how how he is and that's the key talking point isn't it so it'd be great to see if his you know tackle is going in and all that so i just want to as you mentioned try to find the iconic picture that we'll use um for hopefully many years to come there's an interesting quote wasn't there aj from mckenna talking about nunez yesterday when uh i think one of the one of the guys said honestly do you do you want him going into this game trying to wind people up and and mckenna was like speaking honestly no i don't want him anyone to go into this game thinking they're going to wind people up essentially you know we've got to keep our heads amongst the the maelstrom of the derby day atmosphere which i thought was interesting i think so yeah you know what i'm not even that worried about um marcelino nunez winding people up i'm more worried about darnell furlong i think I feel at the end of it, maybe it'll be Darnell Furlong.

1:02:28We need to police escort out of Carrow Road. Yeah, I trust him. I trust Marcelino Nunez to kind of keep his head during the game because when games are on, he's always very much laser-focused. I think that, look, full-time, if Towne can get the job done, it might be a different story going towards that away. And we saw that, obviously, with the reverse fixture, with the Chris Reeve banner, with everything that came with that and the celebrations and the corner flags. I wouldn't rule out something like that after the game, but for however long he's on the pitch tomorrow, I'd back Marcelino Nunez to very much keep his head for sure.

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