The Pot Shot Podcast

Towells, Collings & Seb welcome Lorcan Rees (@LxWrites1) to the show to go in-depth on the reasons behind our recent struggles and any potential solutions we could use against Manchester City.Timeline:Intro: 0:00Southampton: 01:16-28:04General Overview: 01:16-10:37How Saliba's absence affects our ability to build out from the back: 10:37-19:50Fabio Viera & why he played ahead of Smith-Rowe: 19:50-28:04Why have we gotten worse at defending post-World Cup?: 28:04-34:24What are reasonable alternatives to playing Holding at centre back? 34:24-44:29Manchester City Preview: 44:40-1:10:44Towells' Trivia Book & Outro: 1:10:44-1:14:09Please subscribe to the pod to never miss an episode - you can find us on the vast majority of good podcast platforms. I'll never say "all" in case we're missing one somehow. If you want to know exactly what podcast platforms we can be found on, you can do so at https://podfollow.com/the-pot-shot-podcast/viewWe have a twitter account! Follow us @potshotpod to hear about all the latest episodes, and feel free to ping us a DM (or an email via potshotpod@gmail.com) if you have any questions!You can also find Towells and Seb on twitter - @alextowells and @Eulenberg_ respectively.All music included in the podcast is made by James Blake. He's on all sensible music platforms as JWBlake - you can find his Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3XQQbNzsMSiESzHz0qA4r8?si=koS6oXNfSL6SJn3oIR1cxA Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Towells is joined by the podcast's first new permanent member, Seb Hund, to discuss a second game in a row where Arsenal go 2-0 up early in the first half, only to concede once just before half time and then an equalizer in the second half. We discuss how our injury issues have led to our struggles to control games, how we then made that worse through silly mistakes, and if there's anything we can do to avoid repeating these issues in the weeks to come.Timeline:Intro: 0:00-1:36West Ham 2-2 Arsenal: 1:36-31:16First half: 1:36-23:34Second half: 23:34-31:16How do we address our control issues against Southampton and Man City? 31:16-41:48Towells' Trivia Book & Outro: 41:48-43:39Jack Elterton's short Twitter thread on our first goal: https://twitter.com/jackelderton/status/1647918717945126917?s=20Please subscribe to the pod to never miss an episode - you can find us on the vast majority of good podcast platforms. I'll never say "all" in case we're missing one somehow. If you want to know exactly what podcast platforms we can be found on, you can do so at https://podfollow.com/the-pot-shot-podcast/viewWe have a twitter account! Follow us @potshotpod to hear about all the latest episodes, and feel free to ping us a DM (or an email via potshotpod@gmail.com) if you have any questions!You can also find Towells and Seb on twitter - @alextowells and @Eulenberg_ respectively.All music included in the podcast is made by James Blake. He's on all sensible music platforms as JWBlake - you can find his Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3XQQbNzsMSiESzHz0qA4r8?si=koS6oXNfSL6SJn3oIR1cxA Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Towells and Collings once again welcome Seb Hund to the show to discuss our 2-2 draw with Liverpool - a result we definitely would have taken before the game, but leaves a bitter taste in the mouth afterwards. Topics include The Xhaka (non-)Incident, how we ceded control to Liverpool in the second half, and why bringing on an extra centre back seemed to make us less defensively solid, not more.Timeline:Intro: 0:00Liverpool 2-2 Arsenal: 1:01 - 38-07When & why did we lose control of the game? 1:01 - 9:02Individual performances (Partey, Holding, Martinelli, Saka, Odegaard): 9:02 - 28:40How the substitutions affected the game: 28:43-38:07Does this result change our outlook on the remaining games?: 38:07-50:27Towells' Trivia Book & Outro: 50:27-52:16Thanks to Seb for joining us! You can find him on twitter @Eulenberg_, or on the Jogo Bonito podcast - here's their most recent episode, discussing Chelsea's struggles this season: https://pod.fo/e/16ca38Please subscribe to the pod to never miss an episode - you can find us on the vast majority of good podcast platforms. I'll never say "all" in case we're missing one somehow. If you want to know exactly what podcast platforms we can be found on, you can do so at https://podfollow.com/the-pot-shot-podcast/viewWe have a twitter account! Follow us @potshotpod to hear about all the latest episodes, and feel free to ping us a DM (or an email via potshotpod@gmail.com) if you have any questions!You can also find Towells and Collings on twitter - @alextowells and @alexfrco respectively.All music included in the podcast is made by James Blake. He's on all sensible music platforms as JWBlake - you can find his Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3XQQbNzsMSiESzHz0qA4r8?si=koS6oXNfSL6SJn3oIR1cxA Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In their first podcast together for quite a while, after absences & the international break, Towells & Collings briefly discuss the Leeds game & how the changes from our ideal lineup affected how we played, before answering some of your questions ahead of the end of the season. If you have any questions for our next Q&A (or whenever), send them to us on twitter - you can find us @potshotpod!Timestamps:Intro: 0:00Leeds Section: 1:41-20:00Trossard on the right 1:41-12:10Holding in for Saliba 12:10-20:00Q&A Section: 20:00-1:06:00Q1 (20:00-28:36): "Eddie is great, can he become more Jesus analogous over time? Does he need to? Is it hard for him to feature regularly if not?"Q2 (28:36-37:44): "balogun and nketiah who do we keep"Q3&4 (37:44-47:02): "Do you think there's any way we move away from Partey in the summer. Injury and other reasons to do so, maybe replace with Rice and one other? (Lavia pls)" & "With Rice likely to come in the summer, what role do we see him take up? Replacing #5 with him being sold due to unreliability injury wise and keep Jorginho as back-up or will he be seen more as an option for both 6 and 8 with the rest of the personnel remaining?"Q5 (47:02-50:16): "What would you do with Tomiyasu next season? Keep him as a high-end back up in multiple positions or something else?"Q6 (50:16-59:05): "What is a realistic expectation for arsenal for next season, given how this one is panning out?"Q7&Q8 (59:12-1:06:00): "Lineup for Liverpool away?" & "Saliba no spine, what do we do?"Towells' Trivia Book & Outro: 1:06:00Towells couldn't find that tweet Collings said we'd link. Sorry.Please subscribe to the pod to never miss an episode - you can find us on the vast majority of good podcast platforms. I'll never say "all" in case we're missing one somehow. If you want to know exactly what podcast platforms we can be found on, you can do so at https://podfollow.com/the-pot-shot-podcast/viewWe have a twitter account! Follow us @potshotpod to hear about all the latest episodes, and feel free to ping us a DM (or an email via potshotpod@gmail.com) if you have any questions!You can also find Towells and Collings on twitter - @alextowells and @alexfrco respectively.All music included in the podcast is made by James Blake. He's on all sensible music platforms as JWBlake - you can find his Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3XQQbNzsMSiESzHz0qA4r8?si=koS6oXNfSL6SJn3oIR1cxA Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Towells is joined by Seb (@Eulenberg_), not Collings, for a chat about the loss to Sporting and the win against Palace and, with just 10 games between now and the end of the season, we take a look at the journey ahead & identify potential pitfalls.Timestamps:0:00 - Intro1:06 - Sporting & Europa League Exit14:28 - Crystal Palace34:20 - The Run-In54:57 - Towells' Trivia Book & OutroThanks to Seb for joining us! You can find him on twitter @Eulenberg_, or on the Jogo Bonito podcast - here's their most recent episode, discussing Chelsea's struggles this season: https://pod.fo/e/16ca38The transcription of Arteta's press conference which Towells quoted in the episode: https://www.arsenal.com/news/arteta-win-saka-and-injuriesThere's no Pot Shot next week, because of the international break - see you all in two weeks' time!Please subscribe to the pod to never miss an episode - you can find us on the vast majority of good podcast platforms. I'll never say "all" in case we're missing one somehow. If you want to know exactly what podcast platforms we can be found on, you can do so at https://podfollow.com/the-pot-shot-podcast/viewWe have a twitter account! Follow us @potshotpod to hear about all the latest episodes, and feel free to ping us a DM (or an email via potshotpod@gmail.com) if you have any questions!You can also find Towells and Collings on twitter - @alextowells and @alexfrco respectively.All music included in the podcast is made by James Blake. He's on all sensible music platforms as JWBlake - you can find his Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3XQQbNzsMSiESzHz0qA4r8?si=koS6oXNfSL6SJn3oIR1cxA Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

No Towells on this episode of Pot Shot, as Collings is joined by the wonderful Sebastian Hund (@Eulenberg_) to discuss our dismantling of Fulham, the wealth of options now available in our forward line & what we've learned from the first leg against Sporting.Timestamps:0:00 - Intro1:16 - Fulham18:49 - Our forward options42:02- Have we gotten worse defensively since the World Cup?49:09 - Sporting Review57:54 - Sporting Preview1:05:42 - OutroThanks to Seb for joining us! You can find him on twitter @Eulenberg_, or on the Jogo Bonito podcast - here's their recent episode on the concepts of Positionism and Relationism that Collings mentioned in the outro: https://pod.fo/e/16ca39Towells isn't in this episode, so there's no trivia book question. Oh well!Please subscribe to the pod to never miss an episode - you can find us on the vast majority of good podcast platforms. I'll never say "all" in case we're missing one somehow. If you want to know exactly what podcast platforms we can be found on, you can do so at https://podfollow.com/the-pot-shot-podcast/viewWe have a twitter account! Follow us @potshotpod to hear about all the latest episodes, and feel free to ping us a DM (or an email via potshotpod@gmail.com) if you have any questions!You can also find Towells and Collings on twitter - @alextowells and @alexfrco respectively.All music included in the podcast is made by James Blake. He's on all sensible music platforms as JWBlake - you can find his Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3XQQbNzsMSiESzHz0qA4r8?si=koS6oXNfSL6SJn3oIR1cxA Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we talk about how the premier league scriptwriters have put the Arsenal at the centre of the narrative, and how much fun it is to have all of the best players in the world coming through Hale End. Also, the Bournemouth and Everton results, and a discussion of how much we should rest players (if at all) against Sporting in midweek.Timestamps:0:00 - Intro1:55 - Bournemouth16:51 - Trossard, Smith-Rowe & Nelson22:50 - Should we be worried about how we keep going behind?26:44 - Everton32:05 - Sporting40:47 - Towells' Trivia Book & OutroThe scores for Towells' Trivia Book going into this episode were: Collings 7, Guest 1, Book 1.Please subscribe to the pod to never miss an episode - you can find us on the vast majority of good podcast platforms. I'll never say "all" in case we're missing one somehow. If you want to know exactly what podcast platforms we can be found on, you can do so at https://podfollow.com/the-pot-shot-podcast/viewWe have a twitter account! Follow us @potshotpod to hear about all the latest episodes, and feel free to ping us a DM (or an email via potshotpod@gmail.com) if you have any questions!You can also find Towells and Collings on twitter - @alextowells and @alexfrco respectively.All music included in the podcast is made by James Blake. He's on all sensible music platforms as JWBlake - you can find his Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3XQQbNzsMSiESzHz0qA4r8?si=koS6oXNfSL6SJn3oIR1cxA Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

NOTE: Towells couldn't use his usual mic this episode, so his audio sounds rubbish. We tried to fix it in the edit, but we couldn't. Sorry about that.Towells & Collings discuss the most 1-0 game of all time in Arsenal v Leicester. We discuss why we struggled to break down Leicester, how playing Trossard through the middle affected our attacking line, and why the Jorginho playing for us seems so unrecognisable when compared to the Jorginho who Chelsea fans moaned about non-stop.Timestamps:0:00 - Intro1:02 - Leicester's midblock3:05 - Trossard at striker12:12 - Martinelli & opposition doubling up on our wingers24:51 - Rest Defence & Rest Attack31:34 - Jorginho Appreciation Segment35:54 - Everton & Bournemouth39:00 - Towells' Trivia Book & OutroThe scores for Towells' Trivia Book going into this episode were: Collings 6, Guest 1, Book 1.Please subscribe to the pod to never miss an episode - you can find us on the vast majority of good podcast platforms. I'll never say "all" in case we're missing one somehow. If you want to know exactly what podcast platforms we can be found on, you can do so at https://podfollow.com/the-pot-shot-podcast/viewWe have a twitter account! Follow us @potshotpod to hear about all the latest episodes, and feel free to ping us a DM (or an email via potshotpod@gmail.com) if you have any questions!You can also find Towells and Collings on twitter - @alextowells and @alexfrco respectively.All music included in the podcast is made by James Blake. He's on all sensible music platforms as JWBlake - you can find his Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3XQQbNzsMSiESzHz0qA4r8?si=koS6oXNfSL6SJn3oIR1cxA Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Arsenal's title charge has taken a stumble over the last week and a bit, with just one point from three games against Everton, Manchester City & Brentford. However, we showed some signs of getting back on track with a 4-2 win over Aston Villa at the weekend. Towells and Collings discuss if Arsenal are becoming too predictable in how they play and compare the merits & deficiencies of Jorginho and Thomas Partey.Timestamps:0:00 - Intro1:08 - Are We Becoming Too Predictable?29:35 - Jorginho v Partey 46:38 - Quickfire Round: William Saliba48:36 - Towells' Trivia Book & OutroThe scores for Towells' Trivia Book going into this episode were: Collings 5, Guest 1, Book 1.Please subscribe to the pod to never miss an episode - you can find us on the vast majority of good podcast platforms. I'll never say "all" in case we're missing one somehow. If you want to know exactly what podcast platforms we can be found on, you can do so at https://podfollow.com/the-pot-shot-podcast/viewWe have a twitter account! Follow us @potshotpod to hear about all the latest episodes, and feel free to ping us a DM (or an email via potshotpod@gmail.com) if you have any questions!You can also find Towells and Collings on twitter - @alextowells and @alexfrco respectively.All music included in the podcast is made by James Blake. He's on all sensible music platforms as JWBlake - you can find his Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3XQQbNzsMSiESzHz0qA4r8?si=koS6oXNfSL6SJn3oIR1cxA Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The inevitable happened, as Arsenal lost 1-0 away to Everton in classic "new manager bounce" fashion. Towells & Collings take some time to appreciate just how well Dyche has the Toffees playing in just over a week as well as discussing what we could have improved about our own performance. We then have a quick discussion of the Brentford and Manchester City games, which somehow seem to have become even more important given recent results...Timestamps:0:00 - Intro1:08 - Sean Dyche Appreciation Segment13:20 - What could we have done better?24:51 - How did we react to going behind? Jorginho first impressions33:20 - Brentford39:51 - Manchester City41:57 - Predictions43:13 - Towells' Trivia Book & OutroThe scores for Towells' Trivia Book going into this episode were: Collings 4, Guest 1, Book 1.Please subscribe to the pod to never miss an episode - you can find us on the vast majority of good podcast platforms. I'll never say "all" in case we're missing one somehow. If you want to know exactly what podcast platforms we can be found on, you can do so at https://podfollow.com/the-pot-shot-podcast/viewWe have a twitter account! Follow us @potshotpod to hear about all the latest episodes, and feel free to ping us a DM (or an email via potshotpod@gmail.com) if you have any questions!You can also find Towells and Collings on twitter - @alextowells and @alexfrco respectively.All music included in the podcast is made by James Blake. He's on all sensible music platforms as JWBlake - you can find his Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3XQQbNzsMSiESzHz0qA4r8?si=koS6oXNfSL6SJn3oIR1cxA Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.