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Hello, I'm welcome to a special Christmas edition of Analyze and I'm Field your tactics and analytics podcast courtesy of the Bud-Ved channel.

I'm Josh Williams and I'm joined by David Hughes. Dave, I was going to say

how was your Christmas being mate but we're not quite there yet but everything

sort of it, okay? Well you know as is always the case, there's a little bit of running around to do on my part, but yeah, you know, give it, I think the next few hours once I've finished up with work, I'll get boxed off and then all done mate kick back a little bit and what about you?

Yeah I'm okay, running around very busy and the reason this is a special episode is because I'm supposed to be off.

But as usual, dedicated, Analyze and our field host. I thought I'd dedicate some time to the winter schedule, but we've just found out five

wins before recording haven't we that the lead game is being postponed due to the COVID cases.

So it's probably going to be all things considered a shorter episode

the normal. What's your thoughts on that by the way? Relief for

? Although I think Liverpool would have dismantled leads at the minute,

considered how, you know, how hit their side is by injuries and stuff.

I do think it could slightly benefit

Liverpool potentially consider them. We've got less than a 28th and Yaden clock

no to obviously hate that 48 hour turn around.

The only elements about that I don't like

is by the time we hit New Year's Day, says you could have a six-point lead over second place and we just

know what happens, usually when that's the case.

So have you got any thoughts or? Similar to yourself, I think, uh, it was a really good time to play Leeds, wasn't it?

Because they've been really poor, um, obviously they've had their own issues in terms of injuries and

COVID related absences. So it just felt like a good time to play them and

there's no guarantee that when that game gets rescheduled,

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