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Thank you. Hello, hello, and welcome to the total soccer Show. My name is Taylor Rockwell. My hands are still in the air just to make Joe Lowry happy. Today we're looking back at the January camp to see whose stock is up, whose stock is down. We'll answer some listener questions as well. Ryan Bailey has threatened to force a transfer

to Bayern Munich if we make him talk about the national team again. So instead, I'm joined by two friends today. Up first, a man who knows there's more than one way to spell Paxton. It's Joe Lowry. Hi, Joe. There is. There's more than one way you can go O, you can go E. Maybe. Can you go A. I've never seen it before, but I feel like both A and I are both completely workable here in our new Paxton world. Taylor, you can cut this, you can cut this orange however you want to cut it, man. Does it have to be an X every time, though? Could you go like P-A-C-S-T-O-N, or is that too ridiculous? No, I mean, frankly, I don't think there's any too ridiculous way to spell the name

Paxton. So you could go C-T, you could go X-T, you could go C-X-T, I mean, you could toss a K in there. I am super open to any of these possibilities. He's an open-minded man, Joe Lowry. Joining us is a hero who took a break from recording yesterday

to watch the Serbia and Croatia games multiple times on repeat. It's Graham Ruffin. Hi, Graham. Hello, Taylor Rockwell. No, what actually happened was, as you suggested, on the weekend review, I needed some recovery time after the thrill of seeing Billy Gilmore andy Robertson and the same pitch together, but also the prospect of spending an hour talking about a non-F FIFA January training camp involving none of the USM&T's main players was too tantalizing to turn down. These are the games that we live for, so I am back today. Will you pleased to see Billy Gilmore, though? Let's talk about that for like 20 minutes. I'm always pleased to see Billy Gilmore.'s he's kind of got my facial hair at the moment which is to say he's got terrible facial hair at the moment but uh wait what have you got going on yeah grim none of it we cannot see your fear facial hair this is actually not too too bad but yeah it's just it's almost like an unintentional goatee is essentially what it's just it's just Graham clean-shaven. That's all we can see

over the computer. We cannot see any. It's also hard because Graham's covering his chin with his hand. So that's making this a little more difficult. He still looks clean-shaven. I've done my double chins. You can see it there. There we go. Double chins say. Nice. I like that. It's also a strange one on the video because Graham has the pillow fort happening, the blanket behind him.

To keep the sound in, we appreciate professionalism.

But in another way, it does also look like Graham is just laying on his back in bed with a mic sort of in front of his face, which would be the ideal way to record now that I think about it.

Yes, the John and Yoko method of podcasting.

Thankfully, you have more clothes on, so that's very much appreciated. We are here not to talk

about Naked John Lennon. We're here to talk about the January camp. We're going to do some

stock up, stock down, reviewing. Again, this is a camp that we're not going to put too much stock in.

These were games that were sort of fun to watch casually, fun to talk about casually,

but we're not looking at these guys as they're the next big thing for sure. Some of them

might be. Some of them might not be. But let's go to Graham, since Graham was not with us

yesterday. Graham, who's one player who you feel like their stock is up or down, whichever one you want to go with? So I'm going to take the gimmie, first, straight off the bat, first. I'm going to go definitely stock up for Brandon Vasquez, in that he's an American number nine who actually scored a goal. I know. What a novelty. We can have those. I didn't know we could have this. Apparently so. Yeah, apparently there's a number of them around World Software, just none of them American. I jest, sort of. But watching the way he scored that goal against Serbia, it just made me think how little we saw of that sort of movement or even that sort of attack at the World Cup.

And I do regret that.

And I'm not saying I want the US to become David Moise's Manchester United, where they just play cross after cross after cross.

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