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Episode 142 - Crossover Thursday with Daily Newcastle!
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On this week's Crossover Thursday Rob joins up with Iain from Daily Newcastle to preview Town's trip to St James Park on Saturday. The lads discuss how Ipswich will fare next season, look into team news and share their predictions for the game.
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Introduction and Crossover Preview
00:00:02
Speaker
Every club. Every day. The Global Sports Podcast Network. Hello and welcome to the Daily Newcastle.
00:00:13
Speaker
My name is Ian Mackay. I'm hosting tonight a special crossover edition. I'm joined tonight by Rob from the Daily Ipswich to preview Saturday's game, a good old-fashioned three o'clock kickoff on a Saturday afternoon.
00:00:30
Speaker
I don't think we've got any more of
Newcastle vs Ipswich: Stakes and Strategies
00:00:31
Speaker
them left this season. When Newcastle face Ipswich, Ipswich with a rather unlikely route to safety, if we're honest.
00:00:44
Speaker
But Newcastle obviously chasing those points, desperate for any points that they can get in their quest for a Champions League place. Rob, thank you very much for joining. How are you?
00:00:55
Speaker
I'm doing good, mate. I'm enjoying what's left of the Premier League while I can. So and like you say, unless we do some miracle rock, run of results to end the season. i'm I'm just trying to take in what I can before we drop back down.
00:01:08
Speaker
Well, yeah. I know it's not really death in the family, is It's not really as important as that. But we've been relegated from the Premier League twice in my recent memory anyway, 2009, 2016, I think, somewhere around there.
00:01:26
Speaker
It's awful. It's awful. So my commiserations on that. Do you think you're in a better position going back down to bounce straight back up?
00:01:40
Speaker
Can you not tell yet because of what changes there might be in the summer? Or is it chaos?
00:01:48
Speaker
I think we're in a better position. I think... Certainly in the attacking sense, I've said this many times over the last few weeks, that there's a lot of players in our squad that, whether they've come up with us from last year or from League One as well on the journey, or just been signed this year, there's a lot of players in there that I think have come to regular Premier League football too early.
00:02:12
Speaker
And I think got dropping down the Championship for a year, being able to hit some decent numbers, so have have things their own way a little bit more than they do in the Premier League, I think... that little boost of confidence will do wonders for them. And hopefully that'll be, they'll sort of fly in. We'll come back up at the first attempt they'll all come back up loads more confidence and also a year's worth of experience in the first time around that hopefully will stand us in better stead for a second spell. But I say it's all in theory at the moment because there's no guarantees on what a squad looks like at the end of the day at the moment, especially given the two teams that have gone up.
00:02:47
Speaker
So now Leeds and Burnley are out of the way. there's like Our squad is far and away the best in the league when you compare it to what's in the championship already, but it's it's what you keep hold on to. like I'm fairly confident not many will leave, but you never know, do you? that I can say that now, and then six players might leave and that'll rip through the core of the squad, you don't know. But certainly at this stage, I'm fairly confident for next season.
Ipswich's Challenges and Future Strategy
00:03:13
Speaker
Well, certainly you'd be able to watch how Burnley do because they're in exactly the same position in that they've bounced straight back up. They've come on to most of the team, if not their manager, who sometimes somehow managed to wangle a job at Bayern Munich by getting them relegated.
00:03:30
Speaker
McKenna might be off to Barcelona. You never know if that logic applies. Yeah.
00:03:37
Speaker
What's the feeling? Do you think he'll hold on to the rest of the players? I'm thinking in particular of De Lapp. Obviously, it's was it his second year with you? First, no, he's in his own in the summer, yeah.
00:03:50
Speaker
Did he? Yeah. Apologies for that. I thought he was there. I'm getting confused with somebody else, obviously. Do you think he'd be moving on?
00:04:00
Speaker
I mean, I know there's a lot of teams after him, but but he must realise he's on to a good thing at Ipswich. He's loved there. He could get some great numbers, as you say, next year. enhances reputation. And he probably knows he's too young to go chasing the money just yet.
00:04:16
Speaker
What is the feeling in Hipswich about whether you're going hang on to him or not? He's going to go. there the We can try and fairy Taylor and say, obviously, we know he's had a good time here. We know he's enjoyed his football and he likes the way we play. He likes McKenna as a manager, but he won't be playing championship football next year. And From our side of things, obviously, it's a lot of money in the championship. I think i think he's got relegation clause of £30 million is what's getting reported around in the media. So I'm saying in the championship, that's a great deal of money to have.
00:04:50
Speaker
And it's a good deal good little bit of profit from us from the ten fifteen million we bought him for as well that can then be redistributed around everywhere. And obviously, hopefully, we can stock up. will need a striker, definitely, that...
00:05:03
Speaker
I think George Hurst will do well in the Championship. He's been a very good backup in the Premier League. He was good before his injury last time Championship as well. But we need somebody else. We can't, because he is injury prone, we can't go in with him nailed on starter and not have a real top quality backup option because his luck with
Team Form and Performance Comparisons
00:05:22
Speaker
injuries is terrible. And so I think the lap's nailed on the go. that But still, I can say, if you get 30 million quid, you can take a third of that and get a top-end Championship striker for that. So...
00:05:33
Speaker
if we I think he will go, but I think we can redistribute it well. could have a word with Callum Wilson on Saturday. Yeah, maybe, yeah. I mean, he's fit again. He's fit again.
00:05:47
Speaker
and And he'd be available on a free... Just a thought. course, he will. Just because you mentioned that. Of course, your situation mirrors a little bit our situation, which we've lived with all the way through this season, about which team is going to sign alex Alexander Izak from us.
00:06:04
Speaker
But I think we're on the other side in that we're sure that he's so happy at Newcastle and that we put such a high price tag on him. He's still got years of his contract left to run, but he won't be moving on.
00:06:17
Speaker
But of course... If there is actually a 150 million line on the table, who's to say that they wouldn't think, well, if we take this, we're sorted for the next five years transfer-wise, because they probably would be. That's why it's key for us, I think, that we get into the top five and we qualify for the Champions League, because it's got no reason to move anywhere else if we can do that.
00:06:42
Speaker
That's why this is a super important game for us too on Saturday, Rob. we were going along very nicely and moved into third, won six on the bounce and thought, oh, right, we've just got to get a draw at Villa and then we've got another run of games where we'll be cementing our place in the Champions League places.
00:07:03
Speaker
But sitting through the torture of being outplayed by Villa from, well, they took the lead after 30 seconds on Saturday. Was it Saturday tea time?
00:07:15
Speaker
And to be fair, they beat us 4-1. They could but could have been 4-1 at half-time. and And that was before they brought the substitutes on, which really destroyed us. and So, yeah. So our confidence, I think, has taken a little bit of a knot.
00:07:31
Speaker
We've got quite a good record of bouncing back from these setbacks, though. And I don't underestimate the challenge that Ipswich present.
00:07:42
Speaker
But I think... The Newcastle crowd generally are thinking this is a gimme for us. and But I was looking at tim but your results and it's at home where you've really, really been truly awful because the away results haven't been that bad. It's narrow defeats.
00:08:02
Speaker
it's It's a great draw at Chelsea, a draw at Villa. and That's where the wins have come as well, away from home. Do you want to win at Bournemouth? which you could really teach us a thing or two about picking up points at Bournemouth or Villa, please, or Chelsea. So, yeah, so that's why I think it's very, very dangerous game for us on Saturday, particularly if you've already resigned to the fact that you're going down and you relax a little bit. and
00:08:34
Speaker
Yeah, I'm um'm a bit concerned. Are you... But then you were truly awful against Arsenal, though, in the thinking that that is that's that's you just relaxing and and enjoying the challenge.
00:08:49
Speaker
and How are you feeling about Saturday? it's It's just a free hit, basically. Every every game is at this point. that We keep saying it on our on our pod now in the week is that at this point, we're just trying to make and try to make another couple of memories before we go because if we can get another couple of wins on the board, just...
00:09:08
Speaker
so all make the numbers look a little bit nicer than they are. we've and sove We've had six wins in all competitions to celebrate this season, saying two of those against lower league teams in the FA Cup.
00:09:20
Speaker
We haven't had much to take from the season really after obviously getting pretty used to winning games the last couple of years when we've flown through League One the Championship that's been a bit of a shock to the system this year to suddenly, like you say, the home form especially to Portland Road was such a horrible place for people to come and visit in League One and the Championship. And we really thought that that would be our only chance, that we we'd have to do well at home and then take what we can get on the road and maybe we'll just about scrape over the line.
00:09:49
Speaker
To win one game there has been the big shock of the year. and Yeah, that' it's for everyone. Just hopefully we can cancel that out. Yeah, it's just strange that the win is against Chelsea as well. That's the thing that I think so many games, like Leicester, for example, we...
00:10:05
Speaker
we We should have beat and we conceded the 94th minute. we Bournemouth were 1-0 up to five minutes to go lost two one There's been other games that we've been well in the game and just and somehow then randomly, yeah, Chelsea, who were doing fairly fairly good at the time, turned up and got turned over. It doesn't make sense to me, but hopefully we can end on more than one by the end of the year.
00:10:28
Speaker
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00:11:36
Speaker
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00:11:46
Speaker
Mine's pizza, Stella Artois, and ice cream. I need some tablets with that in it. It's great combination. I'll steal the pizza one, definitely. Love a pizza. Good stuff.
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Speaker
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00:12:12
Speaker
and Sorry, got distracted a bit there. So, Newcastle, if I may say it, were very easy to predict over the course of the last six games since the Carabao Cup final, possibly because Eddie Howe has been missing for the last couple of games.
00:12:30
Speaker
and They've just... played the same 11. They've started with the same 11, six games running, which is pretty unheard of in the yeah in the modern game because we're all about rotation and squads, but we've just picked the same 11 to start, which kind of came back and bit us last week with a heavy defeat.
00:12:50
Speaker
I don't think people have tried to say we were tired on that. I don't think we were tired. I think we we were really fit, actually, to keep it at 1-1 for the hour. I thought everyone was working really, really hard, earning the luck that they got on the first half with some sterling last-ditch defending.
Lineup Consistency and Injury Updates
00:13:12
Speaker
But the substitutes came on and still overwhelmed us. I think they scored three goals in six minutes to go from 1-1 to 4-1. So I can't just say to you, oh, yeah, we'll pick the same team. I think the team will largely be unchanged.
00:13:27
Speaker
I've certainly not heard of anybody being injured at all. i think they'll want to try and give Anthony Gordon a run out, but I don't think they'll want to drop Harvey Barnes for that. So maybe we could see Anthony Gordon on the left and Barnes down the right with Murphy sitting on the bench. It'd be a brave manager who would leave either Bruno or Joe Linton or Tonali out of the midfield, which up until Saturday, we were sure was the strongest midfield in in the Premier League.
00:13:59
Speaker
and One or two players itching to get on. Lewis Miley should get some minutes, I hope, in preparation for next year, if nothing else. Joe Willock is always much better when he plays from the start.
00:14:13
Speaker
But i don't think I don't think we'll have very many changes at all. Obviously, Isaac will start up front, even if he's on one leg. and How about Ipswich? How about Ipswich get a line-up? You've lost Leif Davis, is it?
00:14:27
Speaker
who's got a Newcastle connection. Is he from Newcastle? can't remember what the connection is. Yeah, Because that was, I mean, it seems so silly when you think back now, but I remember at the start the season that I was really, I thought it was like nailed on that he was going sign for you at the end of the year because you were still playing Dan Byrne at left back at the time and there wasn't much, and wasn't much known about Lewis Hall at that point. And obviously he'd had a fantastic year in the championship. thought he was going to fly into the Premier League and,
00:14:55
Speaker
we're going lose him for a big fee. He'd go back to his hometown club and then turns out Lewis Hall is one of the best left-backs in the Premier League and Davis has not taken tas to the league as well as we all hoped he would.
00:15:07
Speaker
It seems quite laughable now, the idea that we might have £30 million quid for him. but Well, he's got Premier League experience now and he has been identified and talked about. So he you know he's performed quite well, but he got sent off against Arsenal, so he's missing, isn't he?
00:15:23
Speaker
Yeah, that's the that's the problem position for us because... Connor Townsend, who's the backup, and arguably, we spoke about this recently, in my opinion, been the better option in the last few weeks, is injured.
00:15:36
Speaker
So, I say, the solution against Arsenal was to push Jacob Greaves to left-back and play an extra centre-half. So, think that's what we're going to do again because I don't... think Ipswich is a hard one because McKenna and the club generally just give nothing away about injuries. You're like,
00:15:54
Speaker
I've tried to pick up on the old cue of what it actually means, but they say nothing. they're like You won't find out somebody's injured until they're suddenly not in the matchday squad on the Saturday. it won't It won't get brought up in the press conference or anything. It'll just suddenly be, hang on, where's he gone? And then the interview before the game will go, yeah, oh yeah, he's done his groin in training.
00:16:11
Speaker
it's and It's a nightmare. But yeah, it's a question mark. on Townsend. yeah except yeah well Tindall has taken a leaf out of Eddie Howe's book and and it's very you know he's been struggling. he hasn't trained He hasn't trained with the group yet.
00:16:32
Speaker
and We'll have to see how he does today and then maybe give him a late fitness test. And of course he's fit and he's in the team. So it works the other way in that they hide who's coming back.
00:16:44
Speaker
and Botman, Sven Botman is apparently likely to take a part on Saturday. I think that might be sitting on the bench and coming on just for 10 minutes.
00:16:56
Speaker
But it will be good for Newcastle if he can get some game time because we need him match fit when we've got the last three games. We've got are Chelsea at home, Arsenal away, Everton at home. And that that is a tough run to try and get your maximum points if we are needing that.
00:17:13
Speaker
and A lot of that depends on you and Brighton, of course. Right. And being a big bogey team for us. and So even if they're in awful form, when we go down there, they generally beat us.
00:17:25
Speaker
So, yeah. So it is. it It's nerve wracking. It's nerve wracking. So left back's a problem position. What about up front? Because I noticed that DeLapp, despite all of those great figures he's got for the season, hasn't started either of the last two games.
00:17:43
Speaker
what's What's the issue there? Well, the party line is rib injury. But Tim Forhat, GSBN Daily Ipswich theory, is that there's some sort of bonus in his contract that we don't want to pay out and we know he's going to leave.
00:18:00
Speaker
Oh, right. That's what way we think. oh that's all if because a suit it was a suit He's been playing like 80, 85 minutes every week all season. And then suddenly as soon as like relegation's nailed on, he started dropping to the bench and only playing 10 minutes here and there. So we're theorising it's either he knows he's moving and he doesn't want to get injured and we've got nothing to play for, or we we think he's getting close to an appearance or goal bonus or something. So we're just being a bit cheeky and going, he can go on the bench for five games.
00:18:31
Speaker
make sure we don't pay out. And then also it's a chance to give George Hurst some minutes because he will most likely be number one next year. but I mean, if it's a goal bonus that you're trying to avoid paying out, you're just guaranteeing that he's going to leave, aren't you?
00:18:46
Speaker
But I guess if you're as sure that he's definitely going, maybe you've got a hell of a lot of teams circling and and and that's because it was made public that he's got this £30 million release clause.
00:18:58
Speaker
But do tell him not to go to Manchester United because otherwise the rest of his current teammates will be passing him next year as they come back up. And then you finally descend to the championship, which has got to be where they're going. They're not going to have any money to spend this summer.
00:19:15
Speaker
And who can they sell to raise money and not create a massive, massive loss? Anyway. That's something that we can all have a little snigger about over the summer. and That poor Amarillo, I feel sorry for him.
00:19:28
Speaker
I mean, I felt really pleased when they came back and beat Lyon, just because the fella deserves a break. because It's crap every week for him at that place. To be fair, so I saw did say a very good point about him the other day, that everyone feels sorry for him and it feels and so he he hasn't got the players to fit his system. But the Wolves manager came in with,
00:19:48
Speaker
later in the season, plays the same system, has worse players and has got more points. east because he's He's just knuckled down and made the most of what he's got. yeah He ruless wolves you can't say Wolves' squad is better than may not squad is rubbish but it's better than Wolves' are squad. and He's managed to nail down and just adapt people into the way he wants them to play and get points. You have to question why As much as we all feel sorry for him, how Amorim's not done that, really, in more time. as Well, dubborn and he's stubborn and he wants to play his system, doesn't he? he know And he hasn't got the players to do that. You're right. He's just have to play a different system.
00:20:24
Speaker
and You know, needs, must. That's what everybody else would do, but it's not what he's doing. So he just brings it on himself then. All right, I'll go with that. and I'm going to pause there, end of part two. This is the Zencast round as read by me.
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00:21:25
Speaker
The rest of my team don't. Never mind. Part three. Part three, I ought to ask if there are any players that we've not really seen yet who we've got to keep our eye on in the Ipswich side.
Player Highlights and Future Prospects
00:21:41
Speaker
and or if it's so bleak there's not really but anybody breaking through anybody even blooded in the Premier League in preparation for a you know a 46 game season next year in the Championship well someone mentioned already actually the the standout performer in the last couple of weeks has been George Hurst coming in in the laps absence he he was fantastic in League 1 was fantastic in the championship until he got a horrible injury on Boxing Day and missed basically the rest of the season.
00:22:16
Speaker
He just plays, like, he just, his role's slightly different to the lap. It's fairly similar, but, like, more it's more about getting other players involved rather than doing it all himself. But he was brilliant against Chelsea. He was brilliant, actually, against Brentford earlier in the year. The game we lost 4-3 at their place.
00:22:34
Speaker
he He started that game, scored, and was brilliant. And, I barely mind we lost 4-0 to Arsenal and who didn't have a shot on target, barely laying a glove. He gave the centre-halves a really good run around.
00:22:46
Speaker
he saw He was springing the offside, trapped, getting getting behind. He was holding them off and bringing the ball up. He had a very good game, as much as he could as a target man striker who just has to stand and watch the game happen in his own half and take his chances as he can.
00:23:00
Speaker
He's really stepped up in the, say, this delay, whether he's actually nursing an injury or... whether there is something else going on behind the scenes. he's He's taken his chance and it's got us all very excited for seeing him back in the Championship next year because, like I say, those first few months last year, he was fantastic until he got a horrible injury against Leicester.
00:23:20
Speaker
Someone who had been impressed actually coming on as a sub earlier in the season, but he's injured, I think, is Philogene. Philogene's got hurt, hasn't he? Yeah, yeah. He won't play again this year by the looks of it.
00:23:32
Speaker
That's a shame, man. It's a shame. It's last thing you need really, isn't it, to have some first-teamers dropping as well. Oh, right outside is cursed. When you're up against the world. I will say maybe you won't expect it because you've mentioned Lewis Hall and the fantastic season he'd had up until his ankle injury in the game before, or in fact in training before the Carabao Cup final.
00:23:59
Speaker
Tino Livramento, who has been very good, won his England cap, playing right back, has shifted across to left back and is even better down that side. Somehow, him and Harvey Barnes have completely negated the problem that Anthony Gordon had got sent off and got a three-game band and Lewis Hall had done his ankle in. They've been really good.
00:24:22
Speaker
So that might not be something that you would have been to totally aware of. He would have seen it happen and work in the Carabao Cup final.
00:24:35
Speaker
And when did we get that very early goal? Was it against Manchester United that we scored in the second minute? remember. they've They've done it two or three times already.
00:24:48
Speaker
And it's good because often it's Anthony Gordon down the left and there's not a lot of backup coming for him. A bit better now that Lewis Hall has got a little bit more confidence. But we thought that was going to be a real problem for the end of the season. And it's not.
00:25:01
Speaker
a strength. and
Game Predictions and Analysis
00:25:05
Speaker
I guess we need to think about predictions then for this game. Yeah, this is a dangerous bit.
00:25:11
Speaker
What do you think, Rob? Do you think you're going to be rolling over and doing another Arsenal? Or in fact, will you get blitzed in the first 20 minutes like you did at home? Yeah, that's what I fear because there's a lot of factors coming into this. Obviously, the home game is fresh in my mind. You mentioned how irritating and it was for the game for you guys on Saturday to go 1-0 down in 30 seconds. We know that, Payne, because you've done it to at Portman Road.
00:25:38
Speaker
About 30 seconds on the clock when he's out going to score. and the yeah At least we didn't have VAR review. At least we didn't have a VAR review to sit through first.
00:25:49
Speaker
Yeah, suppose so, yeah. Yeah, that's what worries me because that game was the first time we'd really been like, we'd looked out of our depth really. We were competing in pretty much every game and that started a really horrible run for us that went on for a fair amount of weeks where we kept talking about every week we were talking about a podcast were like, that Newcastle game is a turning point. We were doing so well until then.
00:26:15
Speaker
And like you said earlier as well, that you obviously have you have a loss, quite a bad loss to try and bounce back from, and you normally do at the first attempt. I feel there's a lot of factors sort piling up the fake from past meetings and sort mindset coming into it of us not really having anything to play for. that I feel like it's all sort of boiling up into an absolute drumming.
00:26:40
Speaker
It's the fear in the back of my head, but I hope I'm right. Are you predicting that, though? i can't come on I can't come on here representing the podcast and say we're going to predict us to get smashed. for that's That's where the head's at and all in the fear and that sort dark fear in the back of their mind. for At the same time, like I say, that as much as it's completely out of our hands because West Ham just need one point in five games, but we are effectively still playing for our survival. We know that we haven't got we have to go and beat you to have even the slightest hope of survival. I'm hoping that will get us up for it. and
00:27:15
Speaker
we tend to be quite good in these big underdog games where no one expects. Like I say, it's almost like so piled on for Newcastle to nail it on and batter us. They're sort of, that's sort of thing we kind of like in these games where we might do it and just go somehow go and have something out.
00:27:32
Speaker
Yeah. Out of the blue. I said it again well way back when against Spurs, I said that that was the most nailed on like in the week Spurs win you'd ever seen. They were flying. We, we hadn't won a game yet. I said,
00:27:43
Speaker
The only reason I think we're going to beat Spurs is because everything says we're going to lose convincingly. So football is just like that. We'll go and win. And that's sort of the feeling I get with this game, but your but you're much better than Spurs. Well, that's the problem. it's I'm alarmed. I am alarmed having looked through that, you know, two up against Chelsea, and which you hung on to get your draw.
00:28:10
Speaker
Yeah. draw at Villa, win at Spurs, I think your away form is pretty good. Now, what Newcastle don't do very much of is draw.
00:28:23
Speaker
They tend to, I mean, that's why we're still up there because we've won more games than everyone but Liverpool and I think the same game number of games as Arsenal. We haven't drawn very many. We lost quite a few as well.
00:28:35
Speaker
and So I've sat through three or four horrible home games where we've lost, thinking of West Ham, Brighton, Fulham, Bournemouth, all games where we've started reasonably brightly. Not the Bournemouth game. We were just outplayed by them. They were wonderful that afternoon.
00:28:56
Speaker
But the other ones we started quite well and sort of lost faith, if you like, because we haven't roared into a lead. when we When we score early, we are. We can blitz teams. Blitz Manchester United.
00:29:10
Speaker
Blitz Crystal Palace. You know, and we're hoping that we can do the same on Saturday, of course. But what am I going to predict?
00:29:21
Speaker
i don't I think we'll win. I don't think it will be drubbing. I think I'm going to predict, as I do for all of these games, I still can't see any reason to change.
00:29:32
Speaker
Newcastle winning 3-1. i think I think your George Hurst will score because he does look like a ready, willing runner. And the back four, Fab Sharr in particular, were looking a little bit bewildered by the end of that Aston Villa game. Two own goals we managed to score for them in that match.
00:29:56
Speaker
Yeah. and So... Yeah, I'm predicting us to win 3-1. I don't think it's going to be the stroll in the park that Man United or Crystal Palace gave us. You're not going to put a number of goals on your prediction then.
00:30:10
Speaker
the I think it's for me, I think it's like you said there, it's it's about the early stages of the game because I think we're obviously going to turn up and try like you should in any sort of away game like this, just keep it solid, stay in the game as long as possible, try and k nick one.
00:30:27
Speaker
Whereas i think I think if we concede early, it could be a cricket score. But like you said, that if we can get to maybe half-time, I think there'll be that frustration element kicking in in the second half that that's our chance to go and get something. So I'm hoping, I'm going to bank on that, that we get through to half-time. And think I think we'll nick a goal as well. I reckon, I mean, the way the way we go, we we love scoring first and then not winning the game. So yeah.
00:30:54
Speaker
I'll see if we can get the half-time, nick a goal, and we'll probably concede and draw one all or something. it'll be Just as it looks like we're going to... We're very good at prizing defeat from the jaws of victory.
00:31:05
Speaker
I'd say Cates and Bob Bournemouth at home where we were five minutes away and ended up losing 2-1. like that's that's where That's where the heart's going. so That's where the heart's going. on the As a representative of the Ipswich podcast, was say the head thinks if we can see the first 20 minutes, then I might just turn it off.
00:31:24
Speaker
and not bother watching the rest. Well, I can remember talking to the chaps when West Ham came to Newcastle and, you know, I was very bullish. I predicted we'd win 4-0 and they predicted we'd win 4-0 and they won 2-0.
00:31:40
Speaker
but But, you know, we battered them and then gave a stupid goal away at a corner and then they did exactly the same thing. And by the hour mark with them two up, we just kind of ran out of ideas, ran out of willpower.
00:31:51
Speaker
Ridiculous. Brighton did a similar thing. We were all over Brighton at home. We battered them, couldn't score. And then, of course, our nemesis, Stanley Welbeck, popped up with a goal.
00:32:02
Speaker
And then they, yeah, they defended very well in the second half. Don't be taking too much heart from that because I'm trusting that we get back to our lovely sequence where we'd scored one goal, two goal, three goal, four goal, five goal against Palace.
00:32:19
Speaker
Forget the Villa aberration. We're due six.
00:32:23
Speaker
i don't I don't see that. I see a win, but a hard-fought win, 3-1. Excellent. Well, commiserations for but the season.
00:32:34
Speaker
and do know there's a lot of games that you've been in right through to the end and then picked up no points from in a way that Leicester or Southampton haven't. and So hopefully that bodes well for bouncing straight back next year.
00:32:49
Speaker
Fair play to you guys for continuing the podcast, of course, because I don't think we've, I don't think lesser were even going when we played them the first time back in January. I can't remember. might be being a bit harsh there. and The Southampton guys are great fun.
00:33:04
Speaker
They keep going. Yeah. So maybe that's the only thing that's kept the lights shining. Thanks very much, Rob. Thanks, mate. Hope it's a good game on Saturday.
00:33:15
Speaker
You can, uh, You can win the last four and and and unfortunately still go down as far as I'm concerned. Cheers, mate. Thanks very much.
00:33:33
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