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Ladies and gentlemen, it is showtime. Please welcome the team of the Fulamish podcast.

It's the Fulamish podcast, or independent voice of Fulham FC. My name is Sammy James. Welcome to the show. Today, it's the Thursday Club looking ahead to our game against Topham away on Saturday. We'll also look back on Saturday's victory over Sunderland. And I'm joined on the show today by Jack Collins. Hello. Hello, Sammy. How you doing? Good, thank you. I feel like after a lot of weeks of having different guests, and it's been really fun, we're back to basics today. Sammy and Jack chewing the fat. Back to the old guard for a week or two. It's nice that we've had such brilliant guests on over the last couple of weeks. Sometimes it's just nice nice to sit back and be like right okay we can just dissect it in a little bit more detail get some

emails done you know the admin corner if you will on on the thursday club exactly and um

hugh grant um cancelled at late notice yeah i mean look i wasn't going to mention it but fair enough

bit of nine no i'm joking uh one day one day day, HG will appear on the Thursday club. Jack, let's discuss Sondland, first of all, from Saturday. Let's have the final word. Obviously, we discussed it a lot. If you want to listen for the full analysis, go back and check out the podcast with myself, Sarah, Dom and Drew. And also,

there's the Jack and Joe show, which was brilliant. And you can watch that on YouTube and also

listen to it on the podcast feed. But yeah, be nice to just get your kind of final word from the

game on Saturday. I feel like I've spoken about it a lot. Did the Quick take and the pod.

I mean, I think ultimately you've got to look at it pretty positively. This is a good Sunderland team that are playing really well in the league this year. And we won and we won convincingly. Yeah, it's always good. Well, we won convincingly in terms of it was a convincing performance. It wasn't a convincing scoreline. Yeah. I mean, look, it's always good to knock off a title challenge at home, I think. I think you can put the title challenge to bed after Saturday. We finished off titles there, Sunland's title challenge. And look, you can't take those kind of things lightly. No, but in terms of, I watched this game from Portugal, which was a bit of strange one. it's obviously a little bit easier to watch the 3pm kickoffs when you were abroad. And it meant I could just sort of sit down and actually watch it as opposed to being quite wrapped up in it. And there was a lot of hyperbole being thrown around after the game, I thought, about, you know, where Fulham were and how things were working. I thought we were fine, if I'm being honest. I didn't think it was a brilliant performance. I thought it was a little bit loose at times. I thought we looked so much improved on what, what we saw at Everton, obviously, that it's easy to kind of make the comparison and be like, we were really good. I don't think Fulham hit loads of heights in the game. I think that obviously whilst there were opportunities and we should have done better with a couple of them, that Kevin opportunity in the first half, which actually, I mean, I think in the ground would have looked like he fluffed it a little bit. It is a really good save for Robin Roofs to get down low to that strike. It was also further out than I realised. Yeah. I mean, look, there's the Harry Wilson chance in the second half, which I think is more difficult than the one he gets in the first half, but he's in a kind of better shooting position, if you will. We came close a number of times. I thought that Sondland were abysmal, and part of that was the fact that they just didn't seem to show up. The fight of the back didn't really work for them. Granite Shaq was anonymous in the middle of the park.

And part of that is that Fulham didn't really allow them to get into their stride or execute any sort of game plan, which has been difficult for pretty much everyone against Sunderland over the course of this season. So it's worth giving credit, I think, for the way that Marco set up, the way that he tried to stifle them, and the way that we looked to

pick apart Sunderland's defensive shape on the wings in particular, with the two wingers

drifting off. I thought that Sess was excellent in both elements of this game. I thought in

terms of going forward beforehand, when it was Kevin there, the way that he overlapped on that

left-hand side. And then, you know, once Samich-K he overlapped on that left-hand side.

And then, you know, once Samichuweiser came out to that left-hand side, you know, picking up those underlapping runs as a brilliant piece on the Fulamish website by Dan Cook about the way that Sessonionion has evolved and adapted his game. But I did pick that out in the game and thinking, okay, what we're seeing there is the two different sides of Ryan Sesson that he can you know both take it around the outside and

find those little pockets on the insiders okay, what we're seeing there is the two different sides of Ryan Sesson that he can, you know,

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