A summary of life after Gareth Bale’s retirement from a Wales football perspective. A tough adjustment after the world class, history making mark that he left on the nations football team, as the wait goes on for another superstar to take the reins.
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00:00 We can pull it together now for the playoffs.
00:04 Yeah, you mentioned Gareth Bale there. I mean, he did sort of drank you there.
00:09 Those are the facts, whether you face them or not, that Gareth Bale was that player that just got everyone up for these games in a Welsh shirt and achieved such incredible things for the nation.
00:24 What's life been like after Gareth Bale? And we touch on when we speak about rugby, the Welsh rugby side, they're a young bunch.
00:32 There are a lot of potential for the future. Is it the same sort of situation with the football or is it very different now that Gareth Bale has retired?
00:42 Yeah, there's young players coming through. It's not like we've got this crop of 22, 23-year-olds who are all in the first team now.
00:53 That's not quite the case. Harry Wilson's mid-20s, Danny James in his mid-20s. They're players who should be in their primes now.
01:01 They're very decent players. We've got some young players coming through. Don't get me wrong, absolutely.
01:06 There's Charlie Savage, Robbie Savage's son is coming up through. He's in the Wales team this time round.
01:13 Liverpool's got a few players we've been having, some young players who are coming through.
01:18 Our main striker is Keith Fomore, who's in his 30s. We're not some young, young team who are on the up.
01:27 We've got good players who should be in their prime. Harry Wilson, I would say, is really playing out of his skin at the moment for Fulham.
01:33 You've got these players who are doing well. Obviously, Brennan Johnson is playing really well. He's got the big money move to Spurs.
01:40 He's a young player, so we do have those young players. It's not an ageing squad.
01:44 It's different to the rugby. The rugby has been loss after loss, performance after performance, of these players that six months ago people wouldn't have heard of.
01:59 It is a very, very young, inexperienced squad. Wales is different. That's not the case.
02:04 You've got players like Ethan Amputee and Danny James. They're both going to be making their 50th cap this time round.
02:10 There's a few young players who aren't young players anymore. Who do we all look at like young players?
02:19 Danny James, I just feel like he should be in his early 20s. He's not. He's 26.
02:25 You've got to say that there's a lot of positive signs. Players are filling those gaps.
02:34 Brennan Johnson has got to be out of bail at the moment.
02:41 We're relying on players like Aaron Ramsey, who's injured every week, who's into his 30s now, who's not a player he was, but he's still a phenomenal player.
02:51 It's not easy, but there's signs of life in the future moving forward for Welsh football.
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