The Keen & Judah Show: Liam was right about Tommy Doyle all along

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Liam Keen and Nathan Judah discuss the good and the bad following Wolves' dramatic 2-2 draw with Brighton at the AMEX.

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00:00Oh my goodness. Liam King. Wolves have doubled their tally for the season. They are off the

00:10bottom of the table. It's time to party. The Champions League is on, my friend. How's your

00:19blood pressure after that magnificent comeback on Saturday?

00:22Yeah, look, we're flying now. Out of the traps quickly.

00:26Yes, okay.

00:28I mean, look, it was a great point, wasn't it? It was a huge point. And Wolves probably deserved it

00:32with that second-half performance. Made the weekend, I'm sure, for all the Wolves fans,

00:35that made the Arjos journey to the Amex a little bit brighter. And yeah, it was a much better

00:41Sunday waking up knowing that we won't have to talk, think about, contemplate once we were back

00:48in work on Monday on a nasty loss. So we'll take a point.

00:53We will take a point. 87 minutes in and you're 2-0 down. We'll 100% take a point. And yeah,

00:57mental game. And fingers crossed, fingers crossed that can galvanize Gary Neill's men

01:02with two massive home games to come. And look, the point doesn't mean a lot if they go there

01:08and disappoint Crystal Palace on Saturday, albeit they beat Spurs on Sunday. So it's not an easy

01:12game. And we'll be previewing that throughout the week on the podcast and different and various

01:16shows. But this is Keane and Judy's show. That means we talk three up, three down,

01:20and we can relive and have the last word of the weekend on that 2-2 draw.

01:24Should we do three up in the first half, three down in the second half or should we alternate?

01:27I think we should alternate because we want to have a bit of up in the second half.

01:31Yeah, go for it. Let's do that.

01:32Okay, let's go. Let's go up first. Let's go up. Let's go to the man who

01:37replaced Andre on Saturday. And that's Mr. Tommy Doyle. We all remember. Well,

01:41didn't start great for him, did he? Missing that fantastic chance in that first half,

01:46early on in that first half. Squaring it across, Doyle in the box. That's the man you want over

01:51the ball. Top corner. Oh no, it's gone into Rosette. I couldn't believe it. And then you've

01:57got that meme all over the shop at the moment in time on social media. 4-1-1, Brighton the attack,

02:03two near look, looks like it's going to be three. And then that off to one and then that fantastic

02:07interception which leads to Cunha's equaliser. Massive moment in Wolves' season. But overall,

02:14I think we were both very impressed with Tommy Doyle's display, his first start,

02:18Premier League start of the season. Yeah, without giving too many spoilers away,

02:22albeit I'll give two away straight away. Neither of the goal scorers are going to fall into the

02:28column on this occasion, because I do think that both Aitnourian and Cunha were a little bit off

02:33it for their high standards, albeit two very important goals. And the one man who was heavily

02:39involved in that big moment, Tommy Doyle, does fall into this category and for good reason.

02:43And I was glowing a little bit after the game because I was walking around, I was

02:50I was blowing my chest out. Glowing or blowing, what did you say?

02:55Glowing. Glowing, all right. Glowing. I don't know. I was puffing my chest out,

03:00walking around saying, look, I told you all that Tommy Doyle was a player. You're doing the

03:05McGregor, weren't you? The McGregor shoulders. I was giving it the big end to everyone because

03:09I'm a big fan of Tommy Doyle. I think he's a fabulous footballer, I really do.

03:13And I was reiterating this point to a few colleagues after the game. A few people

03:18agreed with me, a few people who agreed with me, maybe reluctantly. But Tommy Doyle, I think, is

03:25easily the best player in the Wolves squad, technically, I think. The way he manipulates

03:29the ball, the way he looks after the ball, his passing, his range of passing, the weight of

03:33passing, I think it's fantastic. But there is that big negative. And it was that moment,

03:39was it, in that first half, as you've already mentioned. At nil-nil, one player on the pitch,

03:43the ball to fall to in a Wolves shirt, you want it to be Tommy Doyle. And he makes a big mess of

03:48that. And I spoke to him after the game and he said, look, I should have scored it. It was a

03:51big opportunity. But I thought he made up for that in more ways than one because he looked after the

03:57ball exceptionally well in front of the midfield. At times, I think fans can see him as a little bit

04:02negative. He does take his time going sideways and backwards with passes, but I think he has to

04:06recycle the ball in that way to get the most out of his range of passing. When eventually a moment

04:10does open up, he was finding Samedi out on the right side on several occasions. And then, as you

04:16say, has that big moment in that second half. It's a terrible pass from the Brighton player.

04:23But at the same time, look, for him to have the intelligence and the positioning to sniff out

04:29that pass and then make the pass forward to Cunha. I mean, he was looking for Geddes,

04:33wasn't he? Let's be honest. Of course he was looking for Geddes. I don't think many people

04:35mentioned that, but we will mention that. It's fine. As long as he found a Wolves man and look

04:39in the nicest possible way, you want Cunha over the ball in that situation. If it went to Geddes,

04:44I don't think we might've been talking about a potential 2-2. You never know, but I don't think

04:48so. It was, it was, it was getting that pass out there and just hitting that channel, hitting that

04:53channel, which is very important where you've got guys running onto the ball. Yeah. It might

04:56have been for Geddes, but at the same time to have the intelligence to do that. I know, you know,

05:00you're right in the end, the last few seconds, dying seconds of the game, but at the same time

05:03to recover and to get the ball out there. Fantastic. And that's only give him massive

05:07confidence and look, whether Wolves go to a two in midfield and three up top, and we'll be coming

05:11to that in the middle against Crystal in a moment against Crystal Palace or not, you know, Tommy

05:16Doyle has put himself right in that discussion now, hasn't he?

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