Can a midtable team really progress?
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Jon Mackenzie is joined by Jack Elderton and Cal Goodall to explore the idea of a midtable club and the potential progress they can make through the perspective of West Ham.
Are West Ham a midtable side?
Have West Ham dropped the ball in the last few seasons?
What should or even could West Ham do to break into the elite group of Premier League teams?
What does the future look like?
This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:07.5 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:10.2 | I am John McKenzie and I'm joined as I often am, but my good pal and producer, Mike Zimmerman. |
| 0:15.1 | Mike, how are you? |
| 0:16.4 | Well, John, I am often well as I am today. |
| 0:19.4 | How are you? |
| 0:20.3 | Yeah, I'm doing fine as well, not least |
| 0:22.5 | because we've got quite a fun episode to introduce to our listeners today. We were lucky enough to |
| 0:27.6 | have Cal Goodall and Jack Elderton on the podcast. They are West Ham supporters who run a podcast |
| 0:33.2 | called the West Ham Breakdown. But we were more interested in talking about the general concepts |
| 0:37.4 | behind what a mid-table club should do in order to progress. So I think we've had all the West Ham Breakdown. But we were more interested in talking about the general concepts behind |
| 0:37.8 | what a mid-table club should do in order to progress. So I think we've had plenty of conversation |
| 0:42.8 | in that episode, which is really quite interesting. You've just listened to that conversation. |
| 0:46.8 | What did you make of it? I mean, I thought it was fantastic. I think the larger conversation |
| 0:51.1 | about mid-table teams are kind of pointing out what do they need to do |
| 0:56.3 | differently is it an ownership thing is it a manager thing and it's easy to point to teams like |
| 1:01.9 | brighton how how they operate but i think jack and cal kind of point towards maybe how astin villa |
| 1:08.7 | are kind of the model here and how West Ham can look at |
| 1:11.9 | Villa and maybe kind of copy them. And to be honest, I think the most fascinating conversation was |
| 1:17.8 | whether David Moyes is that coach to maybe break them into the in the top six teams or so. |
| 1:25.3 | Yeah, it's really fascinating because I think it's so easy to just assume that when the team |
| 1:28.9 | gets to a certain level, they should necessarily kick on. |
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