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La Gala! Welcome, well, worth the wait.

Welcome listeners to the X-Rinch.

My name's Wendy, and I'm joined by my sidekick and best friend Bardi. Hello, Bardi. Hello, Wendy. And our tactics guy and a man who came prepared with two potential in-focused sessions. Today is Nathan A. Clark. Hello, Nathan. Multiple choice. That's me. Yeah. I mean, we could do both. Yeah. There is the option of both. One of them. Treats the patrons.

Yeah.

Yeah, all right.

Yeah.

A little Christmas present for the patrons.

Let's do that.

Nice.

Interestingly, this is going to be a pod where contradictory views from our listeners are prevalent.

We'll come back to that. I mean, I think actually,

it's a good place to start. The Crystal Palace game. A divisive game. A very divisive game, right? Because on one hand, you have a good result. You've got an away win at a London rival who have not always been an easy team for us to play against, particularly in recent seasons.

We did particularly poorly against them last year.

A battling performance.

Definitely.

Some hard work involved from our players.

On the other hand, it was not an easy watch and we didn't see any progress, I would say, in

our in possession game. We once again relied heavily on set pieces. There was a lack of

ball progression until Odebert came on. There was a lack of excitement in the final third generally.

So a divisive performance and I'm probably, that's going to be a good summation of how this podcast is going to look, I suspect, today. Josh Emden said, if you separate this game from the context of the season, it's both a better performance and result than this fixture last year when we had a fully fit Madison, Kulosevsky, Romero, and a doggy. It was also in October last year, so Ange didn't yet have the excuse about prioritising Europa.

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