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It is the Anfield rap, it is Neil Atkinson, it's Josh Sexton.

It is Sean O'Donnell and it is Ian Ryan joining you for effectively the next 45 minutes also to talk about the mighty

boys and red up against Shrewsbury and the way in which they went about the business and

the context of it all and especially we will focus in on the younger

footballers during this one the senior lads we chat about the more than

often enough we'll also look ahead to the game against Arsenal it is all to come

the first part about it shown the manager says post-match it's so difficult setting up a team, starting training on Friday,

and then involving all these young lads. They're all really good football, as he goes out of his way to say.

But I think that was one of the things that I was sort of taken from the first 20 minutes of the game was

I was getting a little bit cross but I was thinking we could just do with being a little better here and then one of the things that

it cared to me was they might literally,

often we go, this is a team that's never played together before.

But sort of occurred to me was they might never have really trained together before,

certainly not more than one session.

Yeah, I mean, that team, that was the first time they've ever played together and the last

time they'll ever play together as a team.

So I think you know and talk about the disruption before the game and stuff I mean it's difficult

enough around Christmas January to sort of

prepare a team and put a team together think about what young she's you putting in but

when your hand is literally forced you know it must be even more difficult so

so you know you've got to sort of give them some credit for that and I think look I always do this when the team come out it was a lot stronger than I thought it would be you know particularly sort of looking at the defense we put out and you know for being in there and I was made up and you look at it and think who you know we'll

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