Do you think Berhold has brought that extra branch in, being able to find that forward pass to be able to, I suppose, open teams up like he did with the second goal? Do you think it's added a bit more to the game? And the fact that we've got a proper target man up front now where everyone around him knows, if you get the ball to him, you know, let's say one and two, he's probably going to hit the net.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I think Magritte the last couple of games has also been more forward thinking and being able to sort of drive us forward.

But yeah, he's an attacking midfielder.

He's not... defensively minded as such, like Morris is, of breaking up the play and then passing the ball on, moving the ball on.

And when you've got Will Langshear up top in the current form that he's in, you've always got a chance.

I mean, I changed my seats on Saturday.

The week coming, we've got a trip to North Wales and a trip to just north of North London so not a north but the first big one JD is Wrexham who their manager is under a lot of pressure I mean a lot of pressure a lot of people say that he's took Wrexham as far as they can go is it one of them games where firstly we've just got to stick to what we're doing and secondly if we get into them early it could turn their crowd a little bit too quick for them

bring you in on this one john i'm interested to get your thoughts on what you thought about the the team um that was announced because i mean timmy's come back on it again he's mentioned about conor barron not getting into his kim says he's melanda's not a midfielder but he's quite insistent at times of him just drifting in the midfield Are we missing a trick here? Is there an obvious reason why Connor Barron's not coming in? Obviously, we don't see him enough during the week, but surely he's earned a chance to show that he's able to get into the team and have a go.

Again, yeah, it seems obvious to us, doesn't it? If we want a defensive midfielder, then we've got him from Rangers to perform that role.

See, come Saturday, I didn't think that the team that started the game was... not good enough.

I thought that team would be okay.

However, certain players didn't perform at all in the first half.

We were slack for both of their goals.

To me, it was a poor performance and it wasn't down to the formation.

But do you think the gap is bigger or do you think the gap is less?

But how hard was it and how much did it show that as a collective we can all get together and pull something off as huge as what it was?

Yeah, that's exactly what it was.

It was a collective effort.

If I can give some background.

We, when I say we, reps from the 12th Man, reps from Red Faction and representatives from South Stand NFC met with club representatives to organise a special day for the Wolves game.

We threw ideas about and, you know, we quickly came to the decision, you know, that a full stadium display was required, you know, because it's such a monumental occasion.

So, yeah, like I say, through various meetings, it was decided, you know, what message was going in what stand, and obviously the lads from the Red Faction were concentrating on their stand.

I think the club just really did something really well and put it all together really well, didn't they?

was just

going to say, the move itself was from the heart of our defence.

You know, Melander and Alston sort of interchange passes.

And I think it was Melander who put the diagonal ball in, saw that Bozer-Dubry was in a bit of space.

And then he progresses into the box.

and it looks like he's virtually on his knees as he's trying to keep control of the ball, but he manages to do so and Afton has run half the length of the pitch to get into the box and he just accepts the pass, stops the ball and then passes it with the other foot.

Great goal.

yeah that's true so what would you give it out of 10 then seven seven seven okay john same question

Does it just give you a bit of an insight into what kind of things you need to look at when you're, when you're spending, as I say, just to try and bridge that gap to make it m- more competitive for yourself?

Yeah.

I, I don't think...

Like yeah, I don't think Coventry have, have been, um, one of the top spenders, uh, in, in the Premier League.

So, so maybe their position is, is, is evident, um, regarding the lack of spending.

Um, but you know, but when, when you look at us versus Palace, it was, it was neither our strongest 11, but I thought we equipped ourselves really well.

I thought we, uh, we, we, we kept the ball.

It shows what Helberg says today, we've had a very, very strong start.

He just kind of, like, left his man, snuck around the back post and was there to tap it in.

Yeah, I mean...

We wouldn't have scored that goal last season.

That would have been one of those cross-cum shots that just flies across the goal.

But like I say, we spoke about it last week.

Lancashire finds himself in these positions all the time and it's just a natural instinct that he's got, a striker's instinct to find himself some time, to find himself some space and to be able to come up with them sort of goals.

It's what we've been crying out for.

What have you made? You might say I've not really seen Crystal Palace this year, but what do you think of the test that's going to come on tomorrow night at Selhurst Park?

It was like Helberg had had a word and done a few changes and a bit of a plan B came about and we got about a bit more.

Yeah, we did, yeah.

Second half was our better half, yeah.

The goal was great, and not only Lancashire's sort of anticipation, because you could see he was on line, his feet were on line, but he was leaning forward, he was anticipating either the keeper parrying it and pushing it into a danger area, but he was there for the outcome, and if I'm honest, I I'd have been upset if an opposition goal stood with their forward in the same position as Lanchi was.

So, yeah, we got away with that, I suppose.

But it just showed you something about...

His anticipation, he's on the front foot at all times.

But again, that's one of those where the look of the bounce has really gone for us and we've got the final touch and the ball's ended up in the back of the net and it's finished the game.

But both goals were so, so poor.

Yeah, I mean, against Lincoln, we showed signs in the first half that we struggled aerially in our box.

And that will have been something, no doubt, Mowbray picked up on.

And the chance that they had first half that Ayling cleared off the line, that was from what should have been a routine header out of the box.

But he misjudged it and we missed the header and it fell to the Blackburn player to put the volley in.

And we were lucky that...

Ayling managed to get it before across the line so I think that was something that Mowbray identified against Lincoln and in the second half they were putting more balls more aerial balls into the box and for some reason we've got players who are big enough to be able to defend but we didn't you know the If you watch the first goal again, it's virtually a free header.

That's exactly what it is.

Have you ever talked to anybody else who's been struck by lightning?

Um, no.

But a kind of connection was my, um, my dad's client and one of his close friends back home, it wasn't lightning but he, uh, was on an electrical pole doing some sort of work and got hit with a bunch of volts.

Um, so when me and him were able to talk about it, it kind of was helpful 'cause, um, one of the weird parts right after it happened was I emotionally, I'm not afraid to cry or, you know, I don't care if I cry about stuff, but I couldn't even get two-thirds of the way of the story or even, you know, halfway through the story I would just start, you know, breaking down and, and I couldn't figure it out.

Um, I didn't really talk to anybody about it, and then when I was back home for like a little family reunion probably two or so months after, he brought it up to me.

And then that was super helpful because it kind of made me feel like it was normal and it wasn't just like a me thing.

So no, it would be-

... covering it up?

Just talk us through what we were doing on Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon.

Yeah, well, obviously, this season is a massive season for the Borough, celebrating their 150th year anniversary.

And the designated match for the full celebration, closest to the date when the club were formed, was the Wolves game on October 10th.

So a few fan groups have got together.

We've decided to make a real debut.

We've seen in the past, not least against Southampton in the play-off game, where we've had the north stand and the south stand both put in fantastic displays out there, looking good, hopefully getting the fans up for the games.

But we're going to do it on our four stands for the Wolves game, and that's going to incur quite a cost.

I'm not saying we were brilliant, but I thought they were very good in the first half and they probably did deserve a first-half lead.

Where do you find them? How do they come? How are they received? How do you segue into the conversation?

Yeah, I think that almost everybody who sits on a board has become accustomed to sourcing ideas.

And the one that may get you to roll your eyes is the one where everything comes from history.

And I think the comment you made about Pete being about present and future, the last thing you want is a group of historians trying to help the company with the idea that history always repeats itself.

Because context always changes.

And, you know, we never... we roll through the same colors, but fashion never looks the same.

There's always something different.

What do you plan to do with it?

It's been fantastic to get back together again.

You know, it's fortuitous, Shane, that my daughter had an interest in agriculture, regenerative agriculture.

I was at the University of California, Davis, and we were out in the field and they were telling us all this advanced work they were doing with And the problem was that these darn drones, it costs so much money and they only hang in the air for 20 minutes.

And so I was literally up at UC Davis and I get a call from Brian and I drove back to Brian's office to visit him.

And so you talk about serendipity, like that was the craziest thing ever.

So I knew the use case on agriculture walking in his front door.

And when he said, I have this high endurance thing, I said, perfect.

And so as we start getting more and more suppliers at the piece part level, we can transition over more and more of what we make into pure U.S. parts.

Right.

And the mechanisms will get closer and closer to our body in more and more real time.

And that sort of levels the playing field in a way that's super fun and amazing.

And you don't have to build the machine to use the machine.

And this is the part that I just don't want anybody to opt out of AI.

And I'll tell you how you... my version of how I think this unfolds.

Every new technology, the designers of the technology want you to believe that it's theirs.

So if I was a younger person, maybe coming out of college like Foxy, or if I was a new CEO or an entrepreneur, somebody younger embarking on the kind of future of their career, if you will, what advice would you give me?