Welcome to another episode of Poetry in Motion Podcast from the Liverpool Echo.

As usual I'm joined by two experts in the fields, otherwise I'll just be talking nonsense on my own but have nothing to back it up.

Neil Jones isn't here this week he's he's off to see Berlin and I'm presuming it to the

country not the 80s power ballad.

I know he's a massive top gun.

Yeah, that's it, yeah.

So, James Pierce is going to sit in,

a bit of common sense for change.

Thank you, Mr. Pierce.

I can't guarantee that.

Yeah, well, you didn't go in company anyway.

And Joe Rimmer is here as well, of course, as usual. Let's get

cracking straight away then fellas. On the way in here in the car, just heard the latest news bulletin saying that the Southampton Chairman has basically said

Virgil Van Dyke is not going anywhere and more than that story itself was

really I started thinking about the whole transfer saga as a whole.

James I'll come to you first.

There's no other way of looking at this is it.

It's been an absolute thus far, not long at this, it's been an absolute thus far.

There's not long to go, it's been an absolute cock up, isn't it?

It has it as it stands at the moment, yeah.

If the window was shut in today, you'd have to reflect on a massively disappointing window for the club obviously you go back to May

and that victory in Middlesbrough and I remember you know writing and speaking then about how

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