Uh, Michael, I think you're on artifact aren't you this week?

Yeah.

Um, thought long and hard about this.

Um, I'm gonna put in a set of framed Tony Cole prints into the museum.

Um, Tony Cole, for me, is an absolute genius at what he does.

Um, to capture the images that he does in the way he does, m-meaning that anyone round this table who wanted to take a picture, we'd, we'd look at it through a thing.

Tony didn't do that most of the time.

Uh, give us an update on the, on the fanzine.

What do you know about the Blue Eagles?

I know that WS Neal is going to be very well coached.

Coach Mike Sims does a fantastic job over there.

He's done a great job with that program.

They're going to be really physical and really sound on defense, so we're going to have to do a great job offensively moving and trying to gain some, gain some keys from their defense.

Try and get them to not trust their, their coaching points and do a good job kind of spreading the love around with the ball.

And then defensively, we're going to have to do a great job of lining up.

I know you are proud of what they've been able to accomplish this year.

What are you looking for?

So we open up region play tonight with Wilcox.

And again, we're excited to be at home, our home opener.

It'll be our youth night.

We'll get to invite all our youth parents and players and coaches and cheerleaders and get to honor them before the game.

They'll run out with the players.

So I'm really excited about that.

What are you seeing out of them so far?

Coach, uh, uh, this past Friday night you guys go to Linden, and the outcome was not what we expected, but talk about that game for us.

You know, we played a really physical, uh, Linden team.

They're, they're very athletic.

You know, they, they, they're a lot like us.

They don't have ...

Numbers aren't what they used to be, but they're very, very physical, very well-coached.

Coach does a heck of a job over there turning that program around.

We'll do better next time." Would you agree with that?

And if he'd have had another game there with Watford, which we'd have probably likelihood have got beat, but it gave him a longer time on the training pitch to get those ideas across.

Yeah, absolutely.

I think it was a blessing in disguise, losing the game, because it did give him that 10 days extra on the field.

I would assume they would have less days off, maybe, or give him the weekend off and then the comeback fresher on the Monday.

I'm not sure how it works.

But I just felt that a poor pre-season, I'll be honest with you, I think even with Stuart Maynard, only for the fact that they didn't seem to have enough minutes in them, they were a bit leggy, they were a bit tired.

It wasn't the York City that we're used to.

You know, local derby, plenty of us there and a performance as well on another day gets us all three points.

Michael, what's your morning been like? How's the day going, and how was last night?

It's been what a wonderful trip.

It's been a fantastic trip.

Everybody's having a really good time.

Everybody's in disbelief as well.

That's the biggest feeling that nobody could believe.

We're all here on the continent for a York City game.

Michael, what are your thoughts?

Michael, how are we feeling? How did you get here? How's it going?

I got here by an aeroplane from Leeds Bradford Airport this morning.

I've arrived in Benidorm.

It's stickier than a Martin Grey tie.

bit warm um but we're having a good time

lovely and uh so far what are your thoughts on tomorrow this is an event like for york city like is it something that should happen yearly do you reckon or what what we're going for what's the vibe

yeah absolutely i think Now we've done it once, we're going to be doing it every year.

So I think people give people a bit of time now to save up and prepare a bit more for next year.