Chris Sutton

Nice.

Nice.Chris Sutton

Very good.

That's number seven

Andy Cole.

Yeah.

Alan Shearer, Chris Sutton, Matt Le Tissier-

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Rory, do you think people should get worried? I'm a bit torn.

I talk- We did, uh, I did the radio on, on Monday with, with Chris Sutton and Conor Coady, now England under 21 coach, and we talked about United, and I, I've got to admit, I was at Hull for that first game, and I did think they were really bad.

It was a much harder game than people would have considered on paper, and I think if, if United go to Hull in November or March, they probably beat them, and they beat them relatively comfortably.

But on the opening day of the season, against a newly promoted side with nothing to lose, point to prove, all that stuff, I think that is a, that is a really, really nasty fixture.

Carrick said that beforehand.

He said it afterwards.

I said it to Chris Sutton.

Chris Sutton said, "Well, they should've been ready for that." And that is the, the sort of typical Chris Sutton response to everything.

Anyway, I always remember I went up to...

And Chris Sutton was standing behind me, and, um, I ordered an orange juice.

Mm.

Thinking, "Yeah, no one's gonna drink.

Yeah.

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And Chris Sutton looked at me, he said, "What are you doing?"

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who played ironically for hamilton

there are a few actually there you know you've got stephen island you who couldn't make his debut against the republic island alan brazil chris sutton sadly chris sutton didn't make his debut against sutton united there's two villas there's ricky bealy and there's david villa from spain as well so and obviously

Seeing as you have mentioned, we've mentioned this before and it's a pretty well-known thing, but it's a similar thing, but Peter Hartley and James Poole scoring the two goals for Hartlepool in the same game.

So Hartlepool beat, that's County 2-1 and Peter Hartley and James Poole scored the goals.

If they're going to make a decision after four or five games, there was no point in bringing Russell in because that's not the sort of manager he is.

I also remember, Chris mentioned there about results kind of from previously, I also remember when they went up in the playoffs in the Championship with Southampton, I'm sure right at the start of that season, they conceded five against Sunderland, they conceded four against that Leicester team at St Mary's.

It was conceding goals and they still ended up going up in the playoffs.

Now, I'm not saying it's the right way to go or the wrong way to go, but I go back to what I was saying about it being a process with Russell Mann.

That'll do it.

I think the whole recruitment got lost and it's been wandering through the woods for the last two, three seasons.

You mentioned there we've kind of come full circle back to Connor Cody and there was a discussion that there was a snippet of it in the clip that we played, but it was a wider discussion with Mark Chapman and Chris Sutton, etc.

on that panel on the Monday Night Club that Leicester City really...

It's a long time.

I've got to ask you about Toby Stewart, because the press, particularly north of the border, seems to be full, or Chris Sutton as well, no less, on, I think, Talk Sport.

Yeah.

had his attention drawn to him and he said, this guy, he could go all the way.

I think a lot of people were wondering whether he might come back here to compete for the number one jersey here with Schmidt this summer Pompey made it quite clear early on in the summer I think that wasn't going to happen but he was going to go back to St. Johnson see how he did in their top flight in the Scottish top flight And now he's had a great start there too.

It almost kept out Celtic, didn't he? 1-0 defeat, I think it was, for the Saints.

Man of the match, praised by the manager afterwards, praised by a lot of their fans again on social media, as he was all last season, praised by Chris Sutton and the Sky team.

There will be Pompey fans who think that maybe he is... currently he either is or is close to be Pompey's being Pompey's best goalkeeper yeah because I don't think I don't think he's far off staking a claim to our to our number one jersey if we had some sort of crisis and had to bring him back and were able to bring back I'm not sure we can actually now until January I don't know the ins and outs of the loan deal But if he was suddenly sort of jettisoned in as Pompey's goalkeeper in the English Championship, I don't think people would have too many worries about that.