Joshua Key

Your absolute favourite was Alex Hartridge by a mile.

And Josh Key.

Yeah, yeah.

You're

right about Josh Key.

Yeah.

So where are they now?

So Josh Key is playing for Swansea in the Championship.

Mentioned him during transfer factories in this month.

Josh Key is out with a hamstring.

Esquiro is out with a shoulder but could be back.

And then their right back, Lissa, is suspended after accumulating the big five yellow cards.

Like Matt for that first half of that League One season had Sam Nambe, Javanni Brown, uh, Jay Stansfield.

Like he had, he, Josh Key.

Josh Key.

So did they go halfway through the season then?

They went either halfway through or at the end of that season.

Oh, so Gary played with some of them then?

Yeah.

Gary, Gary had like, uh, Jamal Blackman, Josh Key.

Yeah, and I think the answer to your question is selling players like Charlie and Ed James, to begin with, selling your good young players, supplementing that with maybe a couple of... seasons of mid-table League 2 football, hopefully, and then eventually doing what we did on the mat last time, which is being in a position where we don't have to sell those young players academy players.

They can go in and play like Josh Key and Harry Kite and Jack Sparks and Archie Collins and John Randall.

Sorry, John, being dumb here.

As I was going to ask that, how did you keep that collective of players together? Why did you not need to sell them?

Players like Ollie Watkins, Matt Grimes, Jay Stanfield went for some money.

So people

did want approach for Josh Key and you just went no?

Yeah, well, we were able to offer him a competitive enough salary to go stay here and we'll get promoted as well as supplementing that team with good uh football league players are ready like giovanni brown like sam on bay like tim deang like cam dawson

What was I going to say? Yeah, I really like...

that patterns of play when you've got the fullback uh sort of in sync with the winger and how they have they've built up that telepathy because it can be really difficult to keep a player guessing if you're able to see both sides of it like the wing is staying wide and the fullback invert um underlapping as it were or the winger inverting and the uh the fullback overlapping um there could be a really nice synergy and i think you've got fullbacks in josh key and in uh josh time and obviously lisa in the mix as well uh that can do that

I was going to go on to Josh Key next, actually, because he's a player that you raved about to me before we signed him or when we just signed him.

And we've seen great things from Josh Key over his time.

I think last season had a very much of a rollercoaster season.

Had a really bad patch in the middle.

And he started the season really well.

I think Matos has been very... vocal about how good he started the season unfortunately seems to have picked up a little bit of a lengthy injury which we're not sure how long that's going to be for but we're expecting him to be out for a little bit um but yeah do you want to talk about your thoughts because you've seen him progress through through the league system from from a young age you know and obviously i think there's a lot of fans who thought his time was up a swan zero on christmas yeah but he's managed to find his way back in and he is out of contract next summer but i'm wondering if he is maybe played his way into perhaps getting an extension.