Nathan Blake

what are the standards? As in the personal standards of how you conduct yourself around the club perhaps maybe

I don't know what it was like at that level yeah it was Conference South so obviously timings fines came in no flip flops in the shower if you're late for a game it's a big fine suits and that or not no we didn't we had track suits in the Conference South going up to Cardiff which was the next move that was a real change yeah But you had lads coming towards the end of their career, Julian Allsopp, Nathan Blake, Jason Bowen, that were great pros, but they were a little bit more chill.

But standards on the pitch and what they expected was still there, absolutely, absolutely.

Yeah,

Um, I said to the players at half-time, "Look, we got two choices.

We go out and entertain, or we just go out and bore the arse off everybody." And only one player said go out and entertain, and that was Nathan Blake, and he got shot down.

Oh.

[laughs]

Men's international break anyway, anyway, 'cause there's a, there's a women's international break starting at the end of the week, which we'll touch on later.

Uh, Nathan Blake and Nia Jones here.

Um, Craig Bellamy talked last night about his players being tired.

I think you-

[laughs]

...

Nathan Blake rules himself-

Come and get me

I have got three former Wales strikers here.

Ewan Roberts and Sam Vokes reunited on the pod, not in Wales... teams you've never played together did you nathan blake is here as well sam it's lovely to see you i see you on all the time uh you had quite a journey getting here tonight didn't you evening mate i did yes

yes i was coming from my uh newly appointed job in wickham wonders yeah as i've got back congratulations you're meant to be retired what are you doing

there

Yeah.

Anyway, there we are.

Well, thanks to Michael, Wynne and Alexander, a.k.a. Nathan Blake, Sam Vokes and Ewan Roberts.

We'll all see you Sunday.

We might move on to that, actually.

There was a nice story with him and Nathan Blake that I may or may not have included in this.

I'll tell you what, Mark, let's push back the hot potato that's coming up.

Let's talk about that very briefly first.

But anyway, his commentator was not feeling so clever.

They were obviously facing a journey on the way back.

And with Nathan Blake say so, he got John McGinley to say, hey, look, this guy's not feeling so clever.

Can we get him to see Dr. Dave? And yeah.

And the whistle has only just gone on what was another really tough night in the Nations League for Wales.

And helping digest the scoreline of Denmark 2, Wales 0, three former Wales internationals, Nia Jones, Ewan Roberts, and Nathan Blake.

How are we all after that?

Little tired, a little worn out, a little, uh-

Uh, you can listen to this on the BBC Sounds app.

But, uh, yeah, from Copenhagen, it's on to the next and to Norway.

But from Nia Jones, from Iwan Roberts, Nathan Blake, and myself, Simon Davis, thank you for listening, and it's goodbye.

[gentle music]

And I, I, I love you and Roberts.

Good, good pal of mine, and I played with Nathan Blake.

I d- I think that they're lucky, 'cause had I been Welsh, I mean, they, they probably never would've played for Wales.

Would die [laughing] in my-

It finished one-nil and a losing start for Craig Bellamy's team, uh, in their return to the top tier of the Nations League.

And helping us dissect that game, three former Wales internationals, Iwan Roberts, Nia Jones, and Nathan Blake.

How are we? And a- actually, I...

The first question I should ask is-

The podcast of the team that are currently top of the championship, not joint top anymore as we've been told a few times.

Although I did listen to the BBC Wales phone in the other day and Nathan Blake said that, you know, being top at this stage doesn't matter.

But I mean...

You know, if you're a Cardiff fan, maybe you would say that.