In the latest episode of The Star Owls podcast Chris Holt is joined by Alex Miller and Joe Crann to look ahead to this week's match against Preston North End, following last Saturday's defeat to Hull City and the lads speak about the arrival from Paris St Germain of exciting youngster Djeidi Gassama. Plus there's another round of Starters from then!
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00:00 Right, okay, so we're going to take a bit of a look at Saturday's match.
00:04 Again, we touched on it a bit earlier on, it's just, they're just a tough team.
00:11 As I saw them in Gloucester Services last week, and they look like a tough team just walking on the bus.
00:19 I did actually see them.
00:22 Yeah, right, they're not just the analysis.
00:24 We saw them at the services, they looked tough.
00:27 They looked like they were up for it and they managed to get a point at Bristol City that day.
00:33 Fair play to them.
00:34 Yeah, there's...
00:36 So if you see them at Tape Shelf this week, they don't come that way, will they?
00:43 Yeah, I mean, like you said, they're just sort of a team that, I think they certainly have designs, don't they,
00:51 on going that next step, but they're finding it difficult and, as so many clubs do,
00:59 they have to do things a slightly different way with the lack of parachute payments and stuff.
01:03 They've become sort of one of the teams, one of the many, many teams that, as we've sort of joked about,
01:10 have been in the Championship for a long time and just very good at what they do.
01:13 Certainly last season, they had a good defensive record, I think.
01:16 Six or seven games in, they hadn't conceded a goal, but they'd only scored a couple themselves
01:22 and it was all looking a bit hard work.
01:25 It was a while as well, didn't it?
01:27 Yeah.
01:28 Kind of zero goal difference.
01:30 Yeah.
01:32 I think, were they in with half a sniff, with a few games to go and then just fell away?
01:37 No, they dropped off.
01:39 I can't remember where they finished.
01:40 I think they probably finished about 10th, but they were there or thereabouts for a while towards the end
01:45 and then just fell away a little bit.
01:48 They were really nice to Tom Cannon coming in, weren't they?
01:52 Tom Cannon came in on his own and did brilliantly for him.
01:55 There's reports in there that they may well be on the edge of signing him,
01:58 so it'll be interesting to see if that is the case,
02:01 you know, they can get it done and dusted and get him out.
02:04 I imagine they've put him straight out at Hillsborough.
02:08 Looking forward to seeing Jordan's story.
02:12 Not as a friend and confidant, but just as a player again,
02:16 because I think he was fairly outstanding, wasn't he, for Wednesday in that short time that he had there.
02:22 He's a player that's still got youth on his side and I think, you know,
02:26 with another couple of good seasons, he'd be impressed looking at what was written and said about him last season.
02:33 So, yeah, one of those players I'll sort of be watching with interest to see if he can take that next step up in his career.
02:39 They've had a couple of decent results, really good results actually so far.
02:45 I mean, a draw away at Bristol City is absurd enough to be sniffed at.
02:49 And even though we're not quite sure what to expect from Sunderland just yet,
02:56 being them is still a decent result.
03:00 And Will Keane, who I must admit, he must have left quite early to join them, did he, in the summer?
03:08 Because I completely forgot that he had moved there.
03:11 Two goals and two games and I never really saw that coming either.
03:16 Yeah, I was just checking on my phone because Ryan Lowe said they were open to get a striker in before they played Wednesday.
03:22 So I was just checking that that hadn't happened since our last look.
03:26 But Alex said about sort of designs on kicking up leagues, you know,
03:30 the idea of spending a million pounds on a loan fee for Tom Cannon is certainly an indication of that,
03:36 because that's not a cheap loan fee for a championship football club, is it?