Simon Grayson

Maybe, yep And Decky had heard earlier in the week he was going to the game and do you know, do you know? Yeah.

Decky said on the pod, I think he's, uh, was adamant he'd be at the Cross on Friday night and [sighs] you're- What's the craic with, um, Simon Grayson? He's, like, triple jobbing around now.

He didn't do, um- But he's only, he's only a consultant, to be fair to him.

He gets a lot of flack for he's just a consultant.

Like, fair play to him.

He's good craic though, to be fair.

Like, like, ah, no, but Simon Grayson's here too then because of his strong affinity to Cork and he wants to grow the rebel army into the ...

Oh.

So do we think then that actually India would be better off without Bumrah? If the, if the stats say that India are, are, are more effective when he's not playing, even though he's a great bowler, then would it be better, uh, for them to leave him out? I mean, it seems an extraordinary thing, uh, to say.

I was actually listening to another podcast, uh, today where, uh, Simon Grayson, who's a, a football manager, used to manage at Leeds and l- lots of other clubs as well, he went out to manage in India.

And they, they had a player in his team Who was like a s- kind of a superstar in Indian football.

And he, he was something like the third most, uh, successful goal scorer in the world behind Messi and Ronaldo in, in terms of d- you know, domestic goals.

But we've got a bit to talk about today and we'll start off with Daniel Farke's contract.

So former Leeds United manager Simon Grayson believes that an announcement on Daniel Farke's new contract is just around the corner and could come within the next couple of weeks.

We have all been quietly sitting around.

waiting to hear about what the situation is around a new contract for Daniel Farka.

Seems like both parties are on the same page.

Both seem to want to have a future.

at Leeds United so likely moving forward but Simon Grayson was speaking to Leeds Live about this and he thinks that Daniel Farke's future is still going to be at Leeds United I'm very confident that this deal will get done and announced very soon and thinks that Leeds good form so far this season will have likely sped things up rather than stalling them and speaking to Leeds Live Simon Grayson said this.

Obviously, Simon Grayson is giving his personal opinion.

He was there in Hermes Cross Tuesday for the early Kazakhstan game, so you just hope that the recruitment can be done, can get done, but I mean, it's It's all about just how much trust you really have in this ownership, considering the past two Premier Division campaigns.

But you hope with Simon Grayson as advisor to the board, Liam Carney as director of football, you just hope, you have a bit of faith that maybe they can get it right.

But sure, we'll see.

Yeah, Stephen Kenny was supposedly at that game as well in Galway, but I didn't see him.

LAUGHTER So Leeds approached Blackpool and Kyle declined any sort of permission which he's always going to do he's going to want as much money for compensation but the big thing was we're doing a signing session at Bloomfield Road for the kids because it's just before Christmas I think it's about 22nd 23rd and we're all this like rectangle area players signing all the stuff and Sky Sports are on all the tellies and it comes on the bottom.

Blackpool denied permission from Leeds United for their manager, Simon Grayson.

All of a sudden that's come up and all the lads are going, oh, really? unfortunately had to resign to get to make sure

it's a shame

2008.

Not Grayson, was it?

No, sadly not.

Oh.

Never mind.

Um-

Spoke to Grayson last week actually.

Yeah?

Well, actually, you know, we talked about when we did get relegated.

It was that season in the championship with Simon Grayson to start with, then Chris Coleman later on that season.

The whole year was, of course, pretty disastrous, getting relegated to League One.

And we'll get on to your debut on the final day, which we'll come on to.