Dean Holden
speaker
991 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 24 Aug
Dean Holden’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, I think these are the situations now that, you know, we've all had a little bit of time to digest what happens.
There's so much sort of hype surrounding the playoffs anyway, even more so in their case with obviously Spygate this season.
I just feel you have to go back to that sort of little stretch where they were out, you know, Hayden Hackney, who's clearly one of the best players in the league, if not the best player.
We saw that when he came onto the pitch, not even, you know, fit, you know, how many games he's missed and to come on and still look pretty much a cut above Hayden.
Everybody else and, you know, Morgan Whitaker out for that similar period of time in that run of games where they just couldn't quite find those wins despite dominating games.
And that, for me, is where they'd look back on the season and sort of feel that that was the opportunity missed.
Then you go and get Tommy Conway injured, who's been a real ever present, his energies, enthusiasm.
throughout this season and it gives them a different dimension they're such a good technical team players that want to come and link you know playing little pockets combined he's the one that will always try and stretch and i think missing him on the day um was a huge huge blow for them as well so a lot to unpack you know he's done a brilliant job overall but i think some clear direction is where they need to go to make sure they go one step further next year
do they lack an Ollie McBurney in that side?
Because again, do they look someone just different, like someone who can change things up, you can throw him in and hope for the best?
Exactly that.
A little bit of a plan B to what they normally do.
And Ollie McBurney would have been that, that sort of player.
And just speaking to Dean off-air there, the way they got Ollie McBurney was genius, in my opinion, to get him into Hull.
And that's the difference.
The one thing I would say, which I sort of thought about,
It must have been difficult for them, you know, with the way they come into the final.
We've all went on with Spygate.
And I just wonder whether they kind of as a group of players probably had a little bit of imposter syndrome and a little bit of embarrassment, but just felt we don't really deserve to be here with the way it's come about.
And that must have been tough for them as a football club and as a group of players for me.
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