Thursday Club: The Willian Plan

Fulhamish

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4.9 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

After a quiet transfer deadline day evening, Sammy and Jack debate whether there perhaps should have been a bit more action from Fulham. Should the club really be re-signing a 36-year-old Willian and should we be seeing the entrance of the right-back that Silva asked for?

The Premier League takes a break this weekend to make way for the FA Cup fourth round and Fulham make the trip to the north-west to face Wigan. It's not the most cheery of stadiums to visit as Wigan are in the promotion places for the 'most miserable' fans in League One, despite their pie fame. Sammy and Jack consider whether there should be some rotation of key players, especially Robinson and Iwobi who are facing relentless game time. It should be a fun tie at the Brick Community Stadium that hopefully sees Fulham begin a 2025 FA Cup run.

In part two, they answer your listener questions. Is the fan base a little too grumpy at present and is some perspective needed? Have Fulham finally broken their third shirt curse and exited the slump? And Scott Parker rears his ugly defensive head again as Burnley eye-up the EFL record for most clean sheets in a season, but is he really that bad?

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, it is Showtime. Please welcome the team of the Fulhamish podcast.
0:12.5	It's the Fulhamish podcast, your independent voice of Fulham FC. My name is Sammy James. Welcome to the show.
0:18.3	Today we're looking ahead to Fulham's Fulham's FAA Cup fourth round match
0:22.3	against Wigan Athletic. Is this the game where we officially go from we're in the cup to
0:29.2	we're on a cup run? Also, we'll look back at Fulham's transfer deadline day. Not a lot to discuss.
0:36.5	We might be signing Willion. It's not done yet. We'll get into
0:40.7	all of that on the podcast. We'll also have a few words to say about our brilliant win up in Newcastle,
0:46.9	I'm sure as well. Jack Collins, hello. Hello, Sammy. How you doing? Yeah, all right. Thank you.
0:53.0	Although we did have some very sad news,
0:57.1	um, brought to us yesterday. Um, you might remember Chris Frank from Cottage Analytic. Uh,
1:03.9	he was on the podcast several times. He also contributed to the Fulamish website, but he was best
1:09.8	known, uh, for his Twitter account at Cottage Analytic.
1:15.2	We received some awful news yesterday from his wife, Joe, that Chris died on January the 18th from lymphoma.
1:24.3	Chris absolutely loved making all these brilliant stats and reports about the club.
1:30.1	He was extremely popular, particularly on Twitter.
1:33.8	So many of the Fulham fan base appreciated his work, as did we here on Fulamish.
1:38.8	We were so blessed to have Chris contribute to the podcast.
1:42.2	He was also part of our Fulamish community on Telegram.
1:46.4	I spoke to him fairly regularly as well, just generally about all things about the club.
1:51.4	He absolutely loved Fulham and devastated to hear the news that he died back in January.
1:57.9	He's going to be part of the celebration and memorial match against Nottingham
2:02.3	Forest on February the 15th. And Chris's wife, Joe, got in touch of us just to ask if we could
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