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uk forward slash the square ball. You will find full details of the offer and the terms on the website there. Yeah, it's a 10% discount on your legal fees. On all their services, there's a link in the episode description as well. Yeah, Dan Moyland, Michael Normanson, Chris Mack with you as we round up the weekly show for the final time this season. We're not going anywhere over the summer,

but we'll just be going on to the slightly lower output, summer levels. You know how it is. Yeah, keep it bubbling along. We have something to happen. When we could come in here and talk passionately about a player we're not going to sign every day, I've not got much appetite for it, if I'm honest. No, I think with it, it's almost better now with the transfer market that the 49ers don't really say all that much. Yeah. So that, you know, it just happens. And then we can talk about it after it happens. Well, with regard to that, let's start with Paragamarata's statement that went on the website in the wake of the end of the season. this is almost to a letter, nothing added, nothing taken away,

just about exactly what I would expect from Pragmarata in terms of tone and style and what it offers. Saying not a lot, really. Exactly. And I don't mean that as, I genuinely don't mean it as a criticism at all. Don't overpromise, you know, or slightly under promise, hopefully over-deliver, that kind of thing. Give them nothing. Yep. Give them nothing to read into. You know, potentially click-bate, nothing that they can twist the knife in in six months' time if it doesn't work out. Yeah. I think, I mean, he's right to point out it's difficult to do the second and third years. Angus Kinnair and said exactly that when he was here. We certainly made it look difficult last time around, didn't we? We did. Limp into survival and then getting relegated to fuck. So he's right. And I think we're in that, we probably are in that moment. We were in after first Bielsa season. I think everything's fixed.

It's all going to be fine, isn't it?

And it's probably right to say, no, actually, there's still a lot of stuff to do here. To an extent, it's a bit of a double-edged sword for me. I kind of feel like that. I feel happy and relaxed that we've got to where we are. but as I said on one of the shows

prior to this

in the last week

or so,

it felt to me

like the first

day of next season

started after

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