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Tom Chappell

Oct 12, 2026

27:47
What did you make of that change and certainly a bold move and a big game for John?
27:52
yeah i think he was i mean reading between the lines again again john massino's not here to defend himself but i would imagine the uh abu coming inside i wonder if he's just got a little bit more or had a little bit more confidence and faith in brian kavuma mcqueen's ability to track his runner back in in as much of a defensive sense as he does in an attacking and i know that's maybe something that abu kamara's gamers have aided him so far he's certainly not quite as good at it as ryan kavuma queen has kind of demonstrated to be um having said that i i didn't think it works i think it was a risk that didn't quite come off playing abu in the 10 he's quite clearly not a natural 10 he's always played his best football at this football club and during his young professional career as a whole really as a right winger in my opinion okay he's done a job on the left hand side for us on the odd occasion but as a right winger I've always felt like we get the best out of Abu Kamara so when that team news dropped and we're all contained in and around the St Mary's away and at that point as we were there hideously early as everybody knows everyone sort of getting it through and trying to work out exactly what he's doing.
29:04
Were we going to play shade in the 10 behind Bishop? Was he going for the two up top? What was he actually going to do? So there was a lot of confusion there.
29:10
And then when it did come out, then obviously we could see it with our own eyes that Abby was playing in the 10.
29:16
I just, yeah, I felt like it was not something that worked particularly well.
29:22
I don't know if I've got the license to go on and talk about the other players in terms of the changes.
29:26
I know not necessarily a change, but in terms of Ryan Kavuma McQueen's withdrawal at halftime, the sort of people around me coming out of the game saying, oh, that would have been fantastic.

11 MINS LATER

40:09
Should we not get anything or much from these seven games before the next international break? As much as John's got a lot of credit in the bank, certainly from my point of view, he's going to be under a lot of pressure.

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