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00:02 - To hopefully back me up on that,

00:08 but maybe not be quite so downbeat.

00:11 Danny, is it worth it?

00:14 I kind of posted a few weeks ago saying,

00:18 does anyone actually enjoy Grimmly?

00:20 And I didn't do that off the back of Sheffield United.

00:23 I actually did it off the back of the furore

00:27 over the VAR at Liverpool Tottenham,

00:32 in the Liverpool Tottenham match,

00:33 because I knew that that was gonna make up

00:36 all of our football content for the next week at least.

00:41 And it was driving me mad.

00:44 However, given my following,

00:48 there was obviously quite a few Sheffield United fans

00:51 in there, and they came back to me and said,

00:55 they obviously thought I was talking about United,

00:58 but they came back to me and many of them said

01:02 a variation of the same thing,

01:04 that the journey is much more enjoyable

01:07 than the destination.

01:09 And is that something that you also agree with?

01:13 - I think that's fair.

01:16 First of all, I'm trying to think of the fleeting moments

01:18 of joy that you talked about so far this season.

01:21 I'm trying to think what they might have been.

01:23 - There was a goal against Man City.

01:24 - There was a goal, yeah.

01:25 - There was a goal against Man United,

01:27 and that's about it really, isn't it?

01:30 - Yeah, we're scraping the barrel, aren't we?

01:33 But yeah, I completely agree on the whole journey

01:37 being better than the destination sort of theme.

01:39 It's difficult to sort of, to touch on really, isn't it?

01:44 Because everyone pulls apart the 8-0 at home to Newcastle,

01:48 everyone pulls apart the 5-0 at Arsenal,

01:51 but almost as frustrating for me have been the games

01:54 when United have been in scoreline so close.

01:58 But in reality, the gap, even to teams that are on paper,

02:03 not light years ahead of Sheffield United,

02:05 to Palace on the first day of the season.

02:07 - Forrest is that one.

02:08 - Forrest, the way, yeah.

02:10 Games like that to Everton, when you think

02:13 these shouldn't be stratospheres away

02:17 from where Sheffield United are,

02:18 but just those, obviously not in terms of Everton,

02:21 but in terms of Palace and Forrest even,

02:24 those couple of years in the Premier League

02:26 and what that sort of does for you as a club

02:27 and where that takes you,

02:29 the gap was just so big in terms of the resources,

02:34 the players that, you know,

02:37 Chris Wood came off the bench and we know

02:38 what he sort of earns a week

02:40 and the numbers are absolutely frightening.

02:42 And, you know, he's a player that Forrest

02:44 were trying to actually get rid of

02:46 and he'd walk into United's team

02:48 but they just couldn't afford him.

02:49 That's the sort of reality of life in the Premier League.

02:53 And that's been the most frustrating thing for me.

02:54 You know, when promoter teams come up

02:57 being pumped by a big team like Arsenal

02:59 who were sort of chasing the Premier League

03:01 and that sort of stuff,

03:02 that's not a massive kind of shock to me.

03:05 It's the sort of games when you think

03:08 that the gap should be, you know,

03:09 a hell of a lot smaller than it really is.

03:12 And when you sort of realise what these clubs have

03:14 and what they're dealing with

03:16 and how far United look from them,

03:19 I think that's the real eye-opener to me.

03:21 You know, teams like Sheffield United and Luton and Burnley,

03:24 they're not going to be defined by losing to Arsenal

03:27 or being pumped by Newcastle

03:28 or losing to City or United or whatever.

03:31 It's that sort of mini league at the bottom

03:32 that they're sort of exclusively competing in.

03:37 And, you know, at the minute,

03:38 United look quite a way off that even.

03:40 You know, all I can say is last week,

03:42 we're in our own mini league of maybe six to eight teams,

03:45 but at the minute, the bottom of that as well.

03:48 So that's the sort of biggest thing for me

03:50 in terms of the gap between what you would describe as,

03:55 with the greatest respect, average Premier League teams.

03:59 And even they seem so far ahead of where United are

04:02 at the minute, and that's the biggest concern for me.

04:07 - Do you think, and I've been thinking about this

04:08 for a little while.

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