Craig Bryson

And I think the more involved he is, Chris, the better he seems to play.

I think if you look back in derbies... last 20 25 30 years we've always excelled as a team when we've had a really good holding or central deep midfielder who can do exactly that break lines and i can think of two nigel um mark pembridge was very very good at it um that we saw from luton uh and then obviously craig bryson Both fundamentally were deeper holding midfielders, but they just had that amazing, incredible knack.

And it's a skill set which people don't understand.

And like you said, Jack, it's the timing and the delay of the run.

Yeah, this is where I think at Derby's best under Eustace, it does Eustace a disservice to call him a defensive coach, because actually sometimes by sitting deep and then throwing as many forward as they do, as you say, that creates the space.

So sometimes that space is in transition.

And I think it's really important, as you say, Chris, going back to the line breaking aspect, people think about line breaking as passing so often, right? Sometimes you create the chance of yourself with that run, as a Craig Bryson did, as at the elite level, a Jude Bellingham or Scott McTominay might do.

And it's it's a skill set that really feels like after a few years of kind of just patient build up and just getting it into the perfect position for the striker.

Settle down you lot.

It's time for the Craig Bryson pub quiz.

Yes, it is, Mr. Barman.

It's the Craig Bryson pub quiz.

And this is how it works.

I'm going to give Justin six clues about a championship player, past or present, each more revealing than the last.

And, uh, we're gonna preview some big talking points.

We're gonna go through the predictions of other games, and then we'll wrap up with a little bit of a Craig Bryson pub quiz.

But let's start off today by bringing you our game of the weekend, brought to you by BoyleSports, and the game is Swansea versus West Ham.

Now, this is a big clash because this is the front-runners so far this season against the pre-season favorites.

Well, clearly.

It was a loan spell in the '90s.

If you hear me on the Craig Bryson pub quiz, you'd know that.

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Bowman.

It's time for the Craig Bryson pub quiz, and this is how it works.

I'm gonna give Justin six clues about a championship player, past or present, each more revealing than the last, and he simply has to guess who it is.

Now, the new rule is they must have over 150 championship appearances in their career.

We'll look at where they were in their career.

Uh, so like I said, Craig Bryson and obviously Chris Burke and that wouldn't have been there, but we'll see where they were in their career at that point in time.

We'll also catch up on the ladies as they played, uh, Gartcairn today.

Uh, so we'll, uh, go to Steven.

Um, obviously we talked about Stevie Murray there.

He was playing for Stenhousemuir, uh, and he played in fixtures against Ster- Stirling Albion, Albion Rovers and East Fife in the month of March whilst we were winning the cup.

And obviously we got Last one, Craig Bryson.

So he was like Chris Burke, similar sort of path in terms of like that season.