Ange Postecoglou

But we lost Mickey Van Der Veen.

We lost Madison Romero, your doggy, for weeks.

And kind of our season derailed from there.

But I think it was just a...

kind of evidence that the playing group had embraced because you could look really silly and maybe in the end we did, we lost 4-1, but...

At the same time, it made an impact.

I mean, I love stuff like that.

I think, you know what, leave a footprint.

Whatever you do, just leave a footprint.

Yeah, yeah.

It's an interesting one, right?

I mean, I think...

I think we kind of had a look at it last year because, again, if I was ever going to present to the board at the end of last year, that's kind of to state my case for staying on.

That's what I would have said.

I think when we had Van de Vind and Romero playing as a pair, our results over the two years would have had us top four in both years.

Just those two alone.

Then when you add the other four, then we... But we rarely had them.

Some of it was the way we played, for sure, and the way we trained.

Some of it was, I think... I think you've even seen it this year.

The physical demands of the Premier League is so much bigger than other leagues.