Mark Singleton chats to Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall about current topics in the world of Yorkshire sport.
Barnsley who fell to a 2-1 defeat when they hosted Mansfield Town at Oakwell, to Hull City who were able to salvage a point in their 1-1 draw with Bristol City thanks to a 91st minute equaliser from Oscar Estupinan. They discuss Leeds United who played out a dramatic 3-3 draw withPortsmouth when Brendan Aaronson scored a 95th minute equaliser. Their focus turns to Sheffield Wednesday who claimed a thumping 4-0 victory over newly promoted Plymouth Argyle, and moving on to Sheffield United who played out a 4-2 comeback victory when they hosted Wrexham in the EFL Cup. the conversation then moves to Huddersfield Town who claimed all three points in their 2-0 win against Peterborough United to kick off their season.
Finally Mark asks Stuart for his first Team of the week this season before looking to Leon for his Player of the week.
Barnsley who fell to a 2-1 defeat when they hosted Mansfield Town at Oakwell, to Hull City who were able to salvage a point in their 1-1 draw with Bristol City thanks to a 91st minute equaliser from Oscar Estupinan. They discuss Leeds United who played out a dramatic 3-3 draw withPortsmouth when Brendan Aaronson scored a 95th minute equaliser. Their focus turns to Sheffield Wednesday who claimed a thumping 4-0 victory over newly promoted Plymouth Argyle, and moving on to Sheffield United who played out a 4-2 comeback victory when they hosted Wrexham in the EFL Cup. the conversation then moves to Huddersfield Town who claimed all three points in their 2-0 win against Peterborough United to kick off their season.
Finally Mark asks Stuart for his first Team of the week this season before looking to Leon for his Player of the week.
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01:02nationalworld.com as mentioned earlier in the intro this week we're joined by chief football
01:10writer for the yorkshire post stuart rainer and football writer for the yorkshire post leon
01:14wobbshaw good morning guys morning hello morning right uh this week we saw the start of the new
01:22campaign for all of our yorkshire teams and these are some of the results from the first week of
01:26fixtures shelby united claimed a winning start to their return to the championship with a 2-0
01:31win over preston north end they'll be featured more later on in the show middlesbrough claimed
01:37all three points in their 1-0 win over swansea city in league one huddersfield town came away
01:43with a 2-0 victory over peterborough united and we will be covering them a little bit more
01:48later on in the program as well rotherham united fell to a frustrating 1-0 defeat at the hands of
01:53exeter city in league two bradford city got their season off to the best possible start with a 2-1
01:59victory over mk dons don casserole was produced a blistering 4-1 victory over acton stanley
02:05and harrogate town fell 2-0 to visiting bromley however let's get things started by looking at
02:12barnsley who fell to a 200 feet when they hosted mansfield town at oakwell um now based on the
02:18performance that barnsley put together especially in the second half do you feel that they'll be
02:24frustrated with the result leon um yeah there were some good aspects of the play um i think
02:31the main thing i took away from it from looking at the teams and the performances of individuals
02:36um luca connell who's obviously he was named as the the new permanent captain uh last week
02:43obviously a big contrast to this time last year wasn't it when he was out with
02:48um with this with this serious and debilitating illness he was he was sat on the couch on the
02:53opening day so great to see him um back on board and being an influential player for barnsley but
02:58he was he played in an unfamiliar role and i thought it really suited him i mean he's
03:03sort of made his name a little bit you know more of a deep line player but with
03:07with matthew craig there and when when clark changed the system and brought
03:12john muslin as well he gave uh connell the license to get forward and he got his goal and
03:18he was almost like a man on the mission really at times especially in the in the second half
03:22he came off later on so clark was faithfully might be cramping up a little bit but lots of
03:29shots on goal and drive and that was the interesting aspect and main takeaway i thought
03:35getting connell further forward and it showed to me that he can be a big offensive player for
03:40the barnsley along with just sort of pulling the strings a little bit further back but yeah i mean
03:45the myself and stewart have seen them towards the tail end of last season and the start of this one
03:52some of the familiar problems remaining in terms of being clinical and ruthless up front and they've
03:58obviously lost um john mccarty who's um obviously went back to looting and has gone to to bold and
04:04i think that's a terrific signing uh for them by the way and um devante cole as well i know he i
04:10know he tried up in the you know the last third of last season but another option with with goals
04:17in his locker at his best so yeah they cosco he put himself about he had a he had a good battle
04:23with aiden flint had a couple of chances and and skied them and max was said a big chance in the
04:28second half so you know it's easy to see where bars his priorities will lie in the remainder of
04:34the window in terms of bringing players in they need i would say they probably need a couple of
04:38forwards to really harden the credentials but you know in terms of it was a rusty start the first
04:4620 minutes i thought mansfield were good they look like a side who got promoted on the bit of
04:51a crest of a wave there were a big big following from mansfield to a club who've got the mojo and
04:59i think it was the first season in the sorry the first game in the in the in the third tier for
05:04about 20 years so yeah it was a good day for them they won the game in the first 20 minutes it was a
05:08good response on from barnsley along with you know seeing seeing connell flower in that advanced
05:17position i think a few ticks as well to daryl clark in that he changed it he went obviously
05:23went in with a three five two he changed it to um it was a bit unlucky on young jen on his debut
05:28he came off and was sacrificed they went to a four and they pulled the goal back and apart
05:34from the result it actually worked i thought barnsley looked better in a four disappointing
05:39not to get obviously your new manager um first game of the season you know in front of the
05:45supporters disappointing not to win but there were some positive aspects in terms of performance
05:51connell especially but you know at least they've got they've got off the board haven't they this
05:56week they they've got through to the second round of the uh efl cup obviously the new signing from
06:03from chelsea he was the hero saving a couple of saves in the penalty shootout by all accounts
06:08bars they should have won it in in 90 minutes but good for clarker wins a win and uh you know
06:15it's lifted it hasn't it going into a tough looking game at lincoln and and to get that
06:20league cup win of course and jewell shefford united at home in the next round put a few more
06:25pounds in the coffer as well which is not to be ignored the price is sensibly it should be a
06:30decent crowd that shouldn't it yeah exactly yeah i think it's frustrating for for all the teams
06:35that we're going to talk about not just bouncy that you have this transfer window on the 30th
06:40of august when teams have four or five games in and you know some teams a lot of teams just
06:46aren't ready for it and you know managers always say they like to get their business done early
06:50but the reality is if you're if you're a club of you know bars these resources you are you are back
06:57in the queue waiting for other people to make to make decisions and other other deals to happen
07:02and of course you know you've got some clubs uh they're lucky for you who think everything's
07:06all sorted and fine and then somebody gets whisked away at the last minute but um yeah for
07:11barnsley as leon's outlined you know they clearly do need a bit more firepower up front um but
07:18hopefully um you know you can do all the work you like in pre-season trying to work things out and
07:26find out things but it's only really in the crucible of competitive football where where
07:31you find things out and yeah hopefully that you know tactical tweak and a few things learned on
07:36the first day stand them in good stead going forward and it's always difficult playing a new
07:41newly promoted team on the first day harrogate found that as well um at home to bromley and
07:47yeah it's it's good that they've they've come away from this first week with with some some
07:54positives to work on and i think for for any team that's that's lost in the opening week or so
08:00obviously it doesn't seem to have applied at preston north end but you you can't overreact
08:05to uh one defeat one one bad result i think forwards are the the ones that everybody wants
08:11to attack i mean you look at huddersfield town they look pretty well catered for but they need
08:17a couple of forwards in it in as well and uh yeah you know it could be that you know at that level
08:22there's a few teams that will find for the similar sort of player so and it is as you rightly say it
08:28is a bit of a game of game of poker and you're sort of really waiting into what happens at the
08:32top aren't you really once they yes get their business crystallized and it'll drop down in
08:36the championship and um clubs know where they're at and then see the the bigger league league one
08:44clubs then then come into play so yeah there's still enough time for barnesley and uh huddersfield
08:49but you know from from our point from our point of view a yorkshire perspective i think they both
08:55need a a couple of a couple of things don't be in the striking front if they're going to harden
08:59that um the resolving what looks a very competitive division this year yes definitely and it is going
09:06to be a really tough division i mean we're talking about last week and they they started with a
09:12defeat there's going to be lots of lots of those results because it is we seem to say every every
09:17season at the moment is a really really tough league one when it comes to that division i think
09:23what you said last week as well i mean you can there's part of judging them after the after the
09:27first international even almost a second really isn't it yeah yeah well i mean you look at the
09:33league tables after the first dozen games really that's when you should have a better example than
09:39barnesley's first day last season you know yeah they didn't have a terrible season but they certainly
09:44didn't keep up the standards of that 7-0 win yeah um you know anything anything can happen
09:50the first few weeks when things are sorting themselves out yeah exactly and next we turn
09:55to hull city who are able to salvage a point in their one-all draw with bristol city thanks to a
10:0091st minute equalizer from oscar estupanon now based on the performance that the tigers put up
10:06what can you boss tim walter take from this game stewart well more than any of our clubs
10:12the whole city are the the biggest work in progress and the and the furthest back in
10:18terms of in terms of their development um not just not just saturday's game but by all accounts
10:24the the league cup tie against sheffield wednesday showed that and you know the team
10:31sheet on the first day really really rammed it home to me i remember on the first day of
10:36uh last premier league season i was at sheffield united and you looked at the team sheet there and
10:41you thought this team is far weaker than the one that was in the championship last season
10:46you look at hill hall cities on saturday they had seven starters who were on the books last
10:52season and couldn't get in the last team of the season either because they've been loaned out
10:57or they were on the fringes or whatever so that shows you there's a lot of work to do i mean
11:02as we talk now we think they're on the verge of making three more signings and i wouldn't be
11:07surprised given their record of making late signings in august under this regime if they
11:13weren't up to strength numbers wise by the end of august the you know the point i made last see
11:19on last week's podcast they're trying to play a very unusual style of play and not someone
11:26not one that someone can arrive on august the 31st and be able to play by august sorry august
11:32the 30th and be able to play by the 31st when they when they play leeds united it's going to
11:37take time on the training ground and i mean even then i'm a bit skeptical as to whether it will
11:43work because they're they're really taking a lot of risks playing the ball out from the back
11:49and you know it's it's it's a it's a style of football that can work there's no style of
11:54football that can't really but it needs high quality players it needs defenders who are good
12:00on the ball and good defenders and let's be frank players with those qualities are going to be in
12:07the premier league yeah you know or at the very best you know in the likes hopefully of the likes
12:13of finley burns they're at a premier league club and they get loaned to hull city to learn the game
12:20you know so there were lots of times again i mean bristol city were were very poor in terms of
12:27capitalizing on the mistakes that hull city made a better team would have put hull to bed before
12:32they got the chance to to to make that stoppage time equalizer because time after time you know
12:37the ball was being played around near hull's corner flags and and just being given away and and i do
12:44worry if the a if this style of football is going to be effective in the championship and b how long
12:50it's going to take to gel together if it is because we all know and we all understand why fans are
12:57impatient and owners are impatient too uh for results in the championship i've already mentioned
13:01preston north end you know yeah walter's gonna need to buy himself a lot of time for this for
13:07this style of play uh to come through so i i do worry about them in in that respect that there
13:13were there were definite positives and they were much better after an hour when valter brought on
13:19two out and out wingers liam miller a player they'd signed earlier that week so that that was
13:24a tick in that box and will jarvis a young lad who they brought back from loan at shelburne so
13:29you know you sort of saw both sides of how a club could improve themselves in the summer window so
13:34all's not lost but it's going it's going to test the patience and i do worry uh if the manage
13:41if the manager is going to get the time to to see this job through because it's a big job he's
13:46trying to pull off because another problem that he's got is that if he continues with this style
13:53of play for long enough all the opposition are going to suss that out the team and then he's
13:59going to have to read rejig his whole system which means he's going to have to um have the players
14:05bond to that playing style again and who knows how that's going to well i mean it is defense
14:12most people know how manchester city are going to play but they can't stop it the point is you've
14:16got to be very good at that style of play or you've got to be flexible i think it's something the
14:21owners obviously that's what he wants isn't it really that's yeah that's what's drawn him
14:25drawn into to getting valves winning in the first place this whatever they call it heart attack
14:30type football but it's it's very idealistic it's very bold if it if it comes off all credit to
14:37them but the championship is it's a it's a pragmatic hard um division you know we we talk
14:44about it being early season this and that one thing early but the the little you know the part
14:49of my uh the cynical i ten i looks at that game against plymouth and even though it's just the
14:54second game of the season it looks it looks a big game for both sides you know and i actually
15:01it's i did the climac hall game at the end of last season so um climac's first whole game at
15:07homely game of the new season against hall that's how it works sometimes so you know
15:11all of i think there's about six or seven players who were in that lineup um when they were
15:15obviously i still had a little bit of a sniff at the playoff they've gone and obviously the
15:20climac got a got a good hiding at sheffield wednesday hall you know very much a work in
15:26progress i just think psychologically even though it's it is very early season you don't want to
15:31lose that game do you the lose you've got it you've got a free well you've got a clear run to
15:36the next game but there's going to be a lot of noise if there is a loser in that game even though
15:42we're two games in so yeah obviously hold the whole it's the same that they can it's not going
15:48going to be them but uh yeah i've just i just think it's even though it's so early in the season
15:54it's it's a key game for hall and the and the opponents on saturday yeah i mean it's ridiculous
15:59but it's the way it is you can feel in the press room at hillsborough the pressure that way maroon
16:03he was under yeah one game one competitive game as manager and let's be honest it's because he's
16:08what it's way he's way rooney but yeah whether you agree with it or you don't agree with it
16:13as leon says it's pragmatism is reality this is what it is and you know if you're if you're a team
16:20that just missed out on the playoffs last season you don't want to be giving other teams a month
16:25six weeks two months heads up it is it's a daft it's a it's a daft strong and it's an unforgiving
16:31division isn't it and there's obviously not as much focus on on the championship as the
16:37premier league but it's still a pretty high profile division with with teams and high profile
16:43individuals so um yeah that you know he obviously won't be both of the game on on saturday but it'll
16:50be it'll be an interesting one to sort of observe what what happens there but you know as leon says
16:56it will be brilliant to watch if it works so fingers crossed fingers crossed that it does
17:00and i say it is what it is what the chairman is working towards but as leon says i think
17:05there's idealism and there's reality and you've just got to balance the two a bit more delicately
17:09than they are doing so far i think it's one of those is just quickly they could go there to
17:13plymouth play them off the park yeah multiball could you know it could look sensational they
17:18could win three or four nil but equally they could get spanked three or four nil so that's
17:24really football and i think that's the beauty of this particular game it's just one that
17:28i don't know about you i just can't call this one no and i think there'll be a lot of games
17:33like that for us this year in the coming weeks won't there where we could see we could see a few
17:37big wins when things click and a few big beatings as well so yeah buckle up yeah and now let's turn
17:44to leeds united who played out a dramatic three-all draw with portsmouth when brendan aronson scored
17:49a 95th minute equalizer he had the chance to secure all three points in the dying moments
17:54of the match however he saw his shot go agonizingly wide um this was then followed up by a three nil
18:00defeat at the hands of middlesbrough which saw them exit the efl cup now what can we all take
18:06from that entertaining draw and the league cup game ahead of their game against west Bromwich
18:09albion leon it's been a worrying start to the to the season i mean obviously stewart did the game
18:16on on on wednesday i sort of watched it a little bit from far and uh i wasn't the middlesbrough
18:24winning wasn't that big of a as a surprise i did the two games last season and they were pretty
18:28unlucky in both of those games they pushed leads all the way and two brilliant football matches
18:33first of all they lost 3-2 at ellen road and then there was the thriller at the riverside
18:39for free so it wasn't necessarily that surprising that that borough won maybe they were perhaps due
18:44one but just so worrying from a from a league perspective you know it's early in the season
18:48they just look like they've got issues all over the place you know defensively you know six because
18:54there's six goals in two two home games you know some of the big players from last season rode on
19:00he looked he looked off colour and um you know i don't think they conceded three home home league
19:06goals in a in a league game at ellen road all season that got trashed on the first on the first
19:11day against paul paul's so for a manager who just likes to you know you look at parker he likes his
19:18chest pieces all being in certain positions and he likes to control the game and you know two games
19:23where there's just been a lot a lot of disorder a lot of disorder and they just looked so incoherent
19:28defensively and they just looked like they went to pieces in in the second half and obviously
19:32factoring the news about um gino rutter as well it was just one of those horrible days that i'm
19:38afraid you do sporadically get from time to time with leeds united you know regardless of manager
19:45regardless of of um ownership as well just a horrible day yeah the worry for me is it just
19:52looked like they're they're sort of regressing a little bit obviously lost a couple of players
19:57a couple of huge players probably going to lose another one in rutter as well they've got pro
20:02look like they've got problems in midfield certainly defensively some of the performances
20:07of one or two of the players were um were frankly a disgrace i thought i'm not going to go into names
20:13but two or three of those those players should uh you know there should be a shame with that
20:17performance particularly in the second half and you sort of looked at middles but they looked at
20:21a side who were progressing on the move um capable of having a a really um bright and encouraging
20:31season and he's just not so sure with leads at the minute they desperately need some if lots of
20:35us to go they desperately need some some frontline top players and even though it's early in the
20:40season you sort of think this final few weeks of the window could have a huge bearing on how
20:46the season goes i mean if rutter goes they've got money they'll need about three or four serious
20:51players you know to um to to really sort of give themselves a chance of automatic promotion this
21:00year so yeah it's it's such a huge time for leads and to the end of the window i think they've got
21:06to get serious and get with it because if you know if they have a they've had a difficult window
21:13so far if it ends in a similar fashion you're sort of really worried for them a bit and the
21:18pressure will start to crank up on on daniel farker you know he's done some admirable work
21:23there but they've got some you know some tough examinations coming up before the end of the month
21:29we hope for his sake they can pull out a result of two obviously got west brom they've got a
21:34very hard-looking game at hillsborough as well so yeah they it's been a worrying uh first week
21:41of the season for leeds united and um and uh the pressure is ramping up a little yeah i mean it was
21:48it was a let's say an interesting exercise watching a game on on wednesday having read leon's match
21:53report on saturday because that that report of leon's signposted everything that happened
21:59in in the game you know even with it even with a much changed team exactly the same issues you
22:06know and and when things were bad last season you could rely on at least they won't concede
22:11goals you know at least they're rock solid defensively at least they've got your road on
22:14one of the best defenders in the league you know as as leon says he's not played like that in the
22:19first couple of games only a couple of games same caveat as everyone else um but yeah the difference
22:23obviously between the portsmouth and the middlesbrough game was the quality of middlesbrough
22:28i mean we you know we we mustn't underplay that middlesbrough played really well you know
22:35kept their composure in the first half when leads had had more of the ball really effective and
22:40incisive on the counter-attack and and they look like the sort of standard that that lead should
22:45be aiming for um you know that looks like they're close to signing another striker there they're
22:51getting stronger at a time when when leads need to be and and frankly aren't right now and you know
22:58the demoralizing thing from elise point of view is that you know we kicked off the summer i'm
23:02gonna be talking to paramount the chairman at the start of the summer and it was all about
23:08um we gave everyone a head start uh last summer we're not going to do this this time all our
23:14ducks are in a row you know we're gonna we're gonna hit the ground running um you know obviously
23:20the player final helped things up but relative to last season nowhere near even you know actually
23:26great was obviously a huge psychological blow a huge footballing blow but even the fact that
23:30that was done early you know things were clear you know the financial fair play thing was basically
23:36sorted out and they were ready to move forward and they as leon says they've actually moved
23:41backwards so far um the fact that they did give give everyone a head start last season
23:46and catch it up is a straw to cling to but um you know just falling short this season won't
23:55won't wash you know and and the i i think i think wrongly but you know the manager is
24:03under real scrutiny from from sections of the fan base now um the mid to me the midfield looks
24:12the dynamic of the midfield doesn't look to have changed um joe rothwell looks a good player in
24:17that in that game against middlesbrough you know he's done well in the championship in the past
24:21but he doesn't look that different to ilia grove in terms of the way he plays the game
24:25i think they need they need someone more to break the lines and you know they need something at
24:30center forward and as as as as leon's alluded to it looks like they've got a few winners they're
24:35going to need to replace as well so you know there should be there'll be money in the bank to do it
24:39but not much time and a lot of pressure on them and that suddenly makes you know again we're saying
24:45it again that suddenly makes that west brom game you know a really big game carlos cobran for all
24:50the problems that west and west brom have had carlos cobran looming around the corner ready to
24:55you know ready to cause pro problems for his old club um it's it's a tough time for them um and
25:02it's uh yeah they need to they need to make some signings in the next couple of weeks that are not
25:08just good signings but signings that really give some optimism to the league to find you know
25:14obviously good signings rather than some signings that sort of you only realize down the line
25:20yeah they don't need uh with respect they don't need stocking fillers do they which
25:24no you know in a way no disrespect to rothwell he's sort of one of those really is that you
25:29know i mean they lose somerville they've lost uh gray you know russians well that's the three not
25:34three best players in the least in the whole division you've got to replace to give yourself
25:39a chance of going one better to see you they've got to be replaced with with with that sort of
25:47right caliber of quality but you know that's not easy i think i think the thing that's maybe stick
25:52to be farker with as well is that the way they tailed off last season as well i mean you think
25:58obviously the the game the second leg against norwich was a bit of an outlier wasn't it i mean
26:04you know they hammered them and played played pretty well but you know form going into the
26:08end of the season was was pretty poor wasn't it really it must i'd imagine what two wins in about
26:1310 or 11 it must be something in in that so yeah the the patience of lead supporters is starting to
26:21starting to wear a little and um yeah they're gonna have to dig out a result or two from
26:26someone before the end of the month and just as critically probably even more important is what
26:31they do um in the window they need some they need some serious big big hitters coming in to uh
26:38to sort of calm everything down and um and help farker as well because um now in a worry i mean
26:44leeds did make don't get me wrong leeds made changes against middlesbrough but so did middlesbrough i
26:47think what there was lee's made about eight changes and i think borough made about it was about the
26:52same so yeah they were playing the middles beside they didn't have lati last starting there was
26:58people like mccree didn't start and and as as vanderburg so they mixed it up as well and even
27:05with portsmouth as well portsmouth only had one recognized centre half they had about
27:10eight or nine out as well so that was um a worrying aspect as well so yeah some some
27:15big football matches for leeds in the next week or two yeah don't get me wrong there's definitely
27:20valid scrutiny you know valid questions to be asked of daniel farcroft just not not yet personally
27:26reached the conclusion that it is i agree with you yeah yeah yeah he needs some help doesn't
27:33he does yeah that's the uh that's the bottom line yeah and next our focus turns to shuffle
27:39wednesday who claimed a thumping four nil victory over newly promoted plymouth argyle
27:44the owls seemed to make their presence known early on having dominated the first half before scoring
27:48their first goal 10 minutes before the break and they never really looked like stopping as the
27:53match went on um what was your assessment of the match and could we see a similar performance in
27:58their game against sunderland stewart um my assessment is that sheffield wednesday were
28:04excellent but as we've already touched on plymouth weren't you know and much the same as as sheffield
28:11united beating preston it'll probably take a couple of games just to put things in context
28:16and work out how much of that was sheffield wednesday's excellence how much was plymouth
28:21ineptitude from a plymouth perspective as well as the sheffield wednesday one sheffield wednesday
28:25followed it up with a much changed team against holland by all accounts played very well then
28:29but you know sunderland and leeds on the horizon that's a different level of uh test for them you
28:36know for all the problems we've talked about with leeds it still leads it's still a yorkshire derby
28:42that brings its pressures you know regardless of of how the opposition are faring and i i think
28:47i'll be at the stadium of lights on sunday and i'll be really interested to see how they fare
28:51and i'm really looking forward to it because the quality of the football they played
28:55um against plymouth was excellent um some of the signings they made they've made over the summer
29:01inglesom was was brilliant in midfield uh playing central midfield helping overloads on the right
29:08um they look to have made some really shrewd signings uh you know fullbacks as well were
29:13very good and they just they just look like a team that have had it i've done a lot of good
29:19work in pre-season and it was paying off you know it was it was really exciting to watch
29:24helping was really bouncing you know the fans were as you would be watching football like that
29:30you know really behind it really excited by it i'm really i'm really looking forward to seeing
29:36how sheffield wednesday developed this season but in the same way as we've said about the teams that
29:41lose it applies equally to the teams that won you know you don't win the league on the back of one
29:46good game two good games but for the likes of sheffield wednesday and for huddersfield it's
29:50great that they've got up to the start to have don castor as well but you know it's it's a long
29:56slog um there's a lot still to be achieved and as i say i think after some london leads i think
30:02we'll have a better idea of just how good chef the wednesday were on the opening day of the season
30:08yeah yeah i mean i'd echo all that i think it is um obviously very early days but you know you
30:14look at the you know the psychology of it the start of last season i did sheffield wednesday's
30:19first um two home games sorry first two games on the moon as they they were well beaten against
30:27southampton i mean it was a tough first game that said they were well they were well beaten
30:31by southampton and then they they went to hull um in the league and lost 4-2 and i think i must
30:37mention something in my match report where it wasn't necessarily the fact that lost the first
30:41two games but you just didn't see any style you saw no coherence you saw no idea of what
30:47munos was all about his teams um his football and ethos and you sort of fast forward it um 12 months
30:54now you know everything about um you know danny rolled his his teams are very well well organized
31:01in terms of the precedent structure that it looks at a coherence about them and an excitement as
31:07well and i think what i would say as well you know the benefits of bringing players in the early
31:13part of of um the window you can't you can't sort of discount the importance in that you know you
31:21will get a lot of team not just in in the championship efl but premier league as well
31:25there'll be that that mad scramble around you'll have you'll have the gym white with his tie on
31:30on the on deadline day everyone getting excited news reports everywhere which you know the football
31:37finding people do lap up but i think the serious operators and managers which which
31:42ron certainly is you know he much much prefers to get them in get them assimilated
31:48not just into it how that what he wants from them get them assimilated into the club as well so
31:53i think that's probably part of it at sheffield wednesday they got a few players on board
31:57pretty early and he's and he's worked with him for a decent amount of of time already
32:03you know it's very sensible isn't it but it's common sense isn't it really as well so i think
32:08the benefit from that obviously the the excellent work that he did last season the way to finish
32:14the season so yeah he's got a book just a week in the season it's very early days but
32:20extremely encouraging for wednesday and uh and the supporters given where they were you know this time
32:27you know this time 12 months ago i think the narrative already was well as long as we stay up
32:32and you know get 50 points and um he's definitely raised the bar a bit since
32:38and one one person who has has had and deserved a lot of criticism for years now is the chairman
32:46deserves huge credit for the fact for facilitating the things that that leon's talked about you know
32:51obviously danny roll's driven it but it's needed it's needed somebody to actually sign the checks
32:56and do the work that needs doing so um i say he's had more than his fair share of criticism but he
33:02definitely deserves praise for for uh this good start to the season and i think they've done
33:06quickly a lot of work behind the scenes haven't they by all accounts the training ground getting
33:11things in order this time and the other and i think that's that's important as well as
33:16signings really yeah yeah and let's now turn to shuffled united who played out a 4-2 comeback
33:23victory when they hosted rexham in the fl cup however before that the blades started their
33:28league campaign with a comfortable 2-0 victory over preston north end now what can chris wilder
33:33take from those two performances so far stewart i think things are starting to come together quite
33:39courageously for sheffield united um you know even even a couple of weeks well you know i covered
33:44them at huddersfield in their final pre-season game and you know i wrote at the time they just
33:49didn't look ready at all they were so light on numbers you know blah blah blah but you know
33:54there's been a real impetus in the transfer market the last couple of weeks harry suitor alfred
34:00gilchrist michael cooper um i'm i'm missing i'm missing some there um yeah this this influx of
34:09influx of the players they needed you know a week or two later than they needed them as leon said
34:14you want them in for pre-season but nevertheless they're coming um that rexham game was encouraging
34:20because again lots of changes but cpec in particular but all the players really um really
34:26showed that they can be they can be valuable members of this squad um you know cooper was in
34:32the stands as was the uh young crystal palace winger who at the time we're speaking now hasn't
34:37signed but we're fully expecting him to sign on loan so so pieces of pieces are falling into place
34:43as i alluded to earlier um you know it'll probably take a bit of time to to sort of weigh up just how
34:51much that preston game was taking tweaks from a baby but nevertheless there was a real cohesion
34:56to the way sheffield united played um it looked a good performance i said followed up against rexham
35:03with a performance that you know it was almost the best you'll get from young players in the
35:10sense that they scored four goals they played really well because he did a couple of naive
35:15goals but that that's part of the deal when you when you've got a young team you can you can
35:19certainly accept that against a you know a rexham team who had a few miles on the clock and are in
35:26it in a good way at the moment so yeah it it feels like things things are turning in the right
35:32direction for sheffield united again for you know one week blah blah blah but um the mood is lifted
35:40you know and and a lot of what we're talking about at the moment is the mood around these
35:44these clubs positive or negative and it does feel to be uh turning in the right direction at last
35:50for sheffield united yeah yeah i totally agree i mean it looks looks encouraging doesn't it was a
35:56you know especially the first half of the summer in the window you know the constant backdrop was
36:01all the talk about the takeover uncertainty and um everything seemed to be in a bit of
36:06bit of limbo but you know in a pretty reasonably short space of time they've obviously got the
36:12green light for some deals and you know some of the quite a lot of the transfers are they look
36:17good ones for this level don't they i think we mentioned sweden the calamo hairs of this world
36:22that harry suiters uh michael coop has done well at um at uh plymouth keith keith for more you know
36:29they look players who wants to assimilate it and they could make an impact at this level and
36:33hopefully at the at the top end of the of the table so yeah a good start for sheffield united
36:38they really they need you sense they really needed it for everyone connected with the club
36:42the manager the players the staff especially the supporters so you've got a home game against um
36:49qpr on saturday and um yeah they can finish it a pretty good start to the season with an uplift
36:55in result performance in front of a of a big uh a crowd at bramall lane that'll be another
37:03um one to tick off and um and cause for optimism and adding to a bit of a feel-good factor and you
37:10know probably doing some more work as well i dare say before the end of the window because
37:15they'll probably need to they're still yeah you know you look at them and their their first 11
37:20is probably as it you know it stand up against probably anybody's in the division but when you
37:26and you look at it at the bench you know that's at some point in the season that you know with
37:31the injury suspensions thing you know the hard slog that's where your squad comes into play and
37:36i know you did the was it the huddersfield friendly steward yeah you know the names on
37:40the bed it just proved how how thin they were so there's got to be some um things to to address
37:48there but i think in a pretty short space of time he's he's starting to uh to turn things
37:55chris wilder but you know let's hope they can finish up with a victory on saturday yeah i mean
37:59the job's certainly not done in the transfer market now they do need more particularly up
38:03front um you know they've added a comment from miss tyree's campbell off the list but yes yeah
38:08they've added him he'll obviously bring something but you always worry about free agent sign late
38:14in the window about how their pre-season has been yeah you know we know unfortunately for
38:19in person it's been a really difficult time with the death of his father don't know why in part
38:22that's how they just need more bodies uh they just need more bodies up front um and and in
38:28other positions as well but when the when the feeling's good around the place it's that much
38:33easier to attract those players in the last weeks of the season and that's the key for them yeah
38:39the balance looks good quickly doesn't it i mean they've got the r blasters and brooks they've got
38:42some really promising top class kids and the other academy they're producing some damn good
38:47players they're over years at sheffield united but they've got that seems to have got that hard
38:51and championship you know edges well in that you know the likes of of more and you know oh hair so
38:58people like that so it looks a decent um balance but still a fair bit to do as well
39:04our focus now shifts to huddersfield town who claimed all three points in their 2-0 win against
39:09peterborough united to kick off their season which was then followed up by completing a convincing
39:153-0 victory over morcum in the efl cup now what were some of the points that stood out for you
39:20in the terriers performances leon yeah well i mean the result and um performance wise pretty
39:27picture perfect really especially for a you know a team that had been relegated and
39:32it had a miserable end well it was a miserable season all told but particularly the end to
39:37the season when you know there was not just talk of bad performances but there was talk of it being
39:42a an unhappy ship and players being divisive so duff's had all that to contend with all that sort
39:48of background noise you know in terms of getting things together getting huddersfield you know
39:55ship shape prepared um for the new season so yeah he'll he'll be he'll be he'll be pretty happy he's
40:01not the one who'll be jumping through hoops and giving everybody high fives he's only interested
40:05in what's happening next you know he made a point of that after the after the uh the victory over
40:11morcum but i think that the big thing for me is that you know already he's got some he's got some
40:16decisions there hasn't he really the he meant he made quite a lot of changes from the peterborough
40:21game you know an excellent um uh win there and and clean sheet now give the chance you know herbie
40:28kane got a got a got a start various others as well the young lad from west ham marshall who's
40:35coming on the season long loan he got his first start danny ward as well so you know already
40:40people are pushing each other there you know obviously kane was didn't start the first league
40:47game but you know he's pushing ward's pushing um marshall jaheim headley was was excellent as well
40:55so there's some there's some good battles there they're already and um you know everybody's you
41:01know the players have spoken well about the input of michael duff in getting everybody um together
41:06and he's there's no mixed messages there so yeah good starts the season all the field i think you
41:12know duff's made no secret the fact that he still wants to get a strike of a two and uh but yeah it
41:18was pretty much chef united a little bit of expectation already after a difficult um campaign
41:24pretty much the same at huddersfield now and they they've got two home games they've got
41:28stevenage on saturday and and i think it is it shrewsbury the week after so they'll be um
41:35interesting in testing themselves i mean that i dare say both of those sides you know they'll
41:41probably be inspired and go to the john smith stadium they'll it'll be a low block they'll
41:44pack they'll be packed at the defence and they'll say break us down and that's that's going to be
41:50the task for huddersfield they found it quite hard for for much of that um last season in that
41:56regard but uh yeah the fans will turn up that obviously been it wasn't a particularly big
42:00crowd in the week but there's plenty of positive noises from from the um the cup feature against
42:06morcambe even though they weren't the best opponents morcambe but huddersfield did a pretty
42:11good job and they scored a couple of cracking goals to uh to boot so yeah a bit like sheffield
42:17united can they finish off a pretty positive week in the right fashion yeah i think i think
42:24huddersfield probably haven't done as much transfer business as you might expect for a
42:28relegated team you know probably probably still a bit still to do but i think they're getting the
42:34benefit of what leon referred to with regards to sheffield wednesday they look like time's been
42:39well spent on the training grounds and you know michael duff is is is the sort of character who
42:46who just likes that contact with players and has some very clear ideas and it's it's quite clear in
42:51getting them across and uh yeah it's it seems like they're they're a team that know where they're
42:57going you know and it's gonna as we've already said it's going to be a really tough league one
43:03but at least if you if you know what you are and how you're going to go about it that that is a
43:09head start on some clubs at this stage yeah yeah i think two clean sheets especially the i saw quite
43:16a bit of the game of peterborough and they didn't really conceive much at all in terms of chances
43:21it looked really solid and in his time at barnes they were excellent away from home defensively
43:27weren't they and they had an absolutely formidable record so early days but the portents look well
43:32in that regard you just hope that it can touch wood it can keep that backline together you know
43:38it's the people like hella you only feed my attract interest spencer as well so as much as
43:43puttersfield they do need at least one striker and then kill another big tick in the box as if
43:49they can keep you know the likes of of helic and spencer by the time that the window shuts
43:54that'll be pretty significant as well and and lee nichols as well because he's yes he's a he's a very
44:00good goalkeeper yeah yeah and uh finally for this week i will turn to stewart for his first team of
44:06the week this season before looking to leon for his player player of the week so stewart which
44:12team stood out for you this week um well i've already praised chef here wednesday to high heaven
44:16so i think it's probably only fair that i look at don castor over instead um excellent excellent
44:23start to the season for them they're another club it just feels really positive you know while some
44:28clubs have had overhauls they've recognized they just need to do a bit of tinkering um
44:34look well you know again look well drilled look like they all understand what each other's doing
44:40lost a few you know lost a big player in in in matthew craig going back from his loan but
44:45recruited some really good ones um lots of good attacking options lots of good organization
44:52uh and now um a league trip to uh to goodison park to look forward to so i think i think things
44:58are really really positive uh but don castor should also mention bradford a great win for
45:05them at milton keynes don's and to to do it inside the first five minutes for a team that
45:10has really struggled for or really did struggle for early goals last season our colleague simon
45:15parker was pointing out um it's been a good start for them but but yes uh i think uh i think don
45:22my team this week okay and uh leon yeah quite a quite a few um candidates you look around
45:31obviously sheffield wednesday um stewart soar engelson and by all accounts he looks he looks
45:35a terrific buy already and he really fitted in straight away so that's i think that's the
45:39wetted the appetite of wednesday i was in particular ollie r blaster he's had a obviously
45:44it's been a rough rough sort of last season for sheffield united in getting relegated but
45:50you know he's had a real year to save hasn't he's you know he's ticked off all sorts of
45:53milestones and uh so he'd lead in the sight of victory in the opening game at preston
45:58and scoring a goal he's going to be a big big player for the sheffield united i think
46:02suzer as well he took a bit of a bit of stick last season and by all accounts he was he was
46:07excellent as well at um at deepdale so they're probably worthy of a mention aiden morris at
46:13middlesbrough he played well at leeds on wednesday night in the cup and he was he was pretty good in
46:19his opener against swansea obviously coming decent transfer fee u.s international he's
46:24made a good start and uh lassie sorensen as well there's been a few at um
46:30buttersfield to start the season well he started both games and he looks a real
46:35crowd favorite already he was involved in two of the goals against against morcambe and you know
46:40he's a real road runner gets up and down the pitch and loves to tackle high energy and he really
46:46looks like he'll he'll be a crowd favorite but and stewart's told me thunder a little bit with
46:51don castor rose he did that he did that a few times last season it's in my little black book
46:57and i i didn't i didn't mention any players deliberately no no if you team me up then i'll
47:04let you off i've got to say you've got to say look mollen you haven't i mean he was he signed his
47:08his um new deal in the summer that was obviously interesting him ended the season you know like
47:14a train scored some some cracking eye-catching goals so he's um he's carried on where he's left
47:19off really hasn't he obviously he's scored in both the games already this season showed that
47:25he can be a you know a hell of a force for for don castor this season and um yeah i mean i think
47:32they you know they obviously had that bitter disappointment against crew on penalties but
47:37just important there wasn't any any hangover there shouldn't have been really because what
47:40they did at the end of that season was was bonkers wasn't it winning was he 10 and 11
47:44games on the track and uh now they've kicked off with another two so i'm gonna say luke
47:51it's just nice that it's such a difficult uh difficult time yes yes yeah there was probably
47:57others as well yeah well you know a couple of big milestones with billy sharpe's 253 goal and
48:02you know emmanuel latila um equally a goal from the ground close anyone who does that that's
48:07pretty special yeah well you could go on for ages with with play of the week which is fantastic
48:12to say now but you're right it's just right to say i mean it has been you know a bit of
48:18a bit of drama with lees but all i think all i wanted to all things in the round it's been a
48:23it's been a fair old star hasn't it yeah yeah yorkshirepost.co.uk
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