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NUWFC special with Newcastle Fans TV
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Jo hosts her namesake & fellow NUWFC fan, Joe, who is part of the wonderful team behind Newcastle Fans TV
Todays episode covers all things Newcastle United Women... discussing a variety of subjects, including how we feel after losing 12 of our first team squad, who we would like to see join us in the summer and who we think will be our star players in 25/26
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Transcript
Introducing the Guests
00:00:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to a very special episode today, tonight, whenever you are listening to it. It is me, Jo, which you'll have heard my dulcet tones all of last season. However, mind blown, I have another Jo on the pod with me today.
00:00:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is of the male variety. It is from Newcastle Fans TV. It's the infamous Jo, aka Kenja. How you doing, dude?
00:00:31
Joe Kenja NFTV
Are you? Yes, I'm very, very, very, very good this evening. I'm feeling excited to get this done. Been a while since we've been talking about getting this done as well, Joe, and it's going to be mad for the listeners when they're trying to type back.
00:00:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Definitely.
00:00:43
Joe Kenja NFTV
So just make it easy for you, you can just say J-O-E for me and J-O for your Joe, G-S-P-N Joe. and G-S-P-N Joe and NFTV Joe. Either way, there you go in the comments and whatnot.
00:00:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
There we're going, man. We'll do that.
00:00:54
Joe Kenja NFTV
You know, just can talk about it. But no, it's it's it's good. it's it's It's good right now. I...
00:00:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Happy days.
Focus on Newcastle Women's Football
00:01:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:01:00
Joe Kenja NFTV
aye
00:01:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
i mean, what we're going to be covering tonight, obviously, we are going to touch on something at the start, just so you guys know, but just the layout for tonight is going to be we're talking everything Newcastle women. All right. So buckle up, people. We're not talking about the men for a change.
00:01:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Not a single talk will be of them. We might mention St. James's Park, but that's as close as we're going to get the men. um Otherwise, i am going exactly, plenty of that tonight,
00:01:19
Joe Kenja NFTV
Are we the lasses?
Tribute to Curtis Coppin
00:01:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
mind.
00:01:22
Joe Kenja NFTV
All right.
00:01:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
um But I will hand it over to Joe because he has got a special message for, unfortunately, very sad loss that we've had in the North East in the football and world recently. Joe, you can take it away with that one.
00:01:34
Joe Kenja NFTV
Aye, so am ah anyone who follows Northern League football will probably have heard of the news that's just happened. and On Sunday, a very, very, very well-known and beloved defender at North Shields Football Club. And would definitely say a friend of mine. and He was the first player I interviewed down at North Shields Football Club.
00:01:53
Joe Kenja NFTV
He sadly lost his life on Sunday, and Curtis Coppin. 30 years old, very, very young age, still in a great position in his career. um And it was it's it's been ah hard few days for the whole North Shields community and the whole Northern League community. He's played it various different various different clubs, Ashington, Blythe, Blue Star.
00:02:13
Joe Kenja NFTV
and he's one of those who you'll never ever find a bad word about him and I just want to take a minute to send a little bit of love out to him out to the whole Northern League community and anyone who's been affected by this death and given the month that it is as well and with some of the circumstances i implore Not just men, I implore everybody out there. If you are struggling with your mental health, if you are struggling with yourself, please, please, please go out there and seek some help, whether it's a friend, whether it's a stranger, or whether it's some of the official services that you can find anywhere.
00:02:44
Joe Kenja NFTV
It is imperative to do that. Thank you very much, June. Thank you very much to the SPN for letting us get that one out.
00:02:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
No problem at all. It's an important message after you say, Jo, you know, it's the the month that would people are talking about it anyway. But yeah, it's been a big loss for the Northeast community. And there's been a lot of social media talk and media
Dedication to Newcastle Women's Team
00:03:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
talk about it.
00:03:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
So it's nice for to be able to do that. um So thank you.
00:03:03
Joe Kenja NFTV
Thank
00:03:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Anyway. um Right. On to the lasses, right? Because this is going to be good. Like, I seem to be the only one, unfortunately, on the GSPN team who does watch the lasses, which is fair enough, because we've talked about a million times, the lasses game is just not at the level the men's game is, and that's fine. We appreciate that.
00:03:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
However, me and Joe... Love the lasses. We've been going to watch them for years now. Season ticket holders. We'll travel up and down the country following them, which has been some fantastic days. But we'll rattle on about that throughout the pod, I think.
00:03:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, he's flashing it. He's flashing his card, people.
00:03:36
Joe Kenja NFTV
miss I miss the physical season ticket, you know, like, there's ah there's a beautiful memory there in this little case. I've got one for me and one for Emmy as well, and I'm just like, oh, God, they, they, oh, they're so beautiful.
00:03:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:03:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:03:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
They are no more.
00:03:46
Joe Kenja NFTV
I miss them.
00:03:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah know.
00:03:47
Joe Kenja NFTV
I miss them. All digital.
00:03:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
I keep a hold of mine and Nicole's little membership cards as well from just like, just in general, like, cause everything's digital, man.
00:03:51
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yes.
00:03:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah I'm old school, man. Give me some paper.
00:03:56
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah.
00:03:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Give me some card. Give me something I want to, but nevermind.
00:03:57
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah. Definitely. You want hold it and pin it up on the wall, man?
00:03:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
00:04:00
Joe Kenja NFTV
Come on.
00:04:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Exactly. That is this.
00:04:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like you keep it as a collection, don't you? Like there's no more scrapbooks anymore, but hey, nevermind. Hold it from the conversation, that one. um Right.
00:04:02
Joe Kenja NFTV
You do.
Season Expectations and Player Releases
00:04:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I suppose what we'll start with is how we feeling ahead of the new m season? Look, but we appreciate we've just released,
00:04:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
12 players. um i know. It was huge. There were some players in there which we'll all agree were not expecting at all. Some obviously we did expect, whether it be end of loan deals, whether it be that we just didn't think that unfortunately the kind of peak that reached their level, look, it happens in every sport at every level.
00:04:36
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah.
00:04:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
People just reach their level. That's fine. However, there was some that a couple in particular it was a massive shock. So, I'll move on to that bit in a second, but Joe, how you feeling generally about the new season? Apart from the fact that we're desperate for it to start because we're missing football massively.
00:04:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
um What's your kind of general thoughts at the minute? We've got no one in though, so I get this is could be quite a short segment really.
00:04:57
Joe Kenja NFTV
it's it's it's hard to judge right now before we've before we've signed anyone. We've been quite used to the last couple of seasons making and saying at least one signing quite quick. and And we haven't had it this season. And whether that's a matter of we're holding all the eggs in a basket and we're waiting to reveal a few, and or whether it's a matter of that, we just need to get them over the door and over the line.
00:05:16
Joe Kenja NFTV
um
00:05:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:05:17
Joe Kenja NFTV
I think for the season, taking transfers out of it and and thinking about the squad that we've got there and you know it's going to fill up and you're trusting the process that Becky and Sue and everyone have... I think it's going to be another good season.
00:05:28
Joe Kenja NFTV
I do. And I think we're goingnna we're going to impress again. I'm predicting a top five finish. But I think we're going to struggle a little bit just because of the way we've released certain players. I think I often talk about the core players.
00:05:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:05:41
Joe Kenja NFTV
I mean, the season before last, when we came up from the 4-0, we lost and another good chunk of players. And everyone thought, wow, you've you've let go of too much of the core. And there was still a big core group there who had all gelled that whole squad who felt that...
00:05:54
Joe Kenja NFTV
That final winning squad was so well gelled.
00:05:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:58
Joe Kenja NFTV
But now we've lost so much of a court. I think it's going to take a bit of time to gel back in into of the season.
00:06:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:04
Joe Kenja NFTV
I think we might have a little bit of a rough start to begin with and and and it'll be a bit of a struggle like we did last season
Impact of Core Players' Departure
00:06:10
Joe Kenja NFTV
and we'll fall into what won't towards the back end of the season again. So I don't know.
00:06:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:14
Joe Kenja NFTV
I'm feeling good and I'm feeling excited just to just to get back into it and be known that we're competing in the top two leagues.
00:06:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:06:19
Joe Kenja NFTV
And in my eyes, for the past few years, The championship has been... Sorry, but I will not call it WSL2 yet. Not all.
00:06:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
I was about to touch on that by the way, because i'm with you. so don't worry.
00:06:27
Joe Kenja NFTV
Not championship. Anyways, the championship was ah has been a better league the past couple of seasons.
00:06:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah
00:06:31
Joe Kenja NFTV
You know, you used to say in Chelsea, really win the Super League.
00:06:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:34
Joe Kenja NFTV
Like, it's boring, the Super League, to me now.
00:06:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. yeah
00:06:36
Joe Kenja NFTV
I used to love it. Championship is a better league, and it's it's it's exciting to be there.
00:06:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:42
Joe Kenja NFTV
So, it does.
00:06:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Feels more competitive, doesn't it really? So yeah.
00:06:44
Joe Kenja NFTV
it does And there's more to fight for this season as well. So... it's just, I'm looking forward to all these new aspects and all these new things to fight for. There's so much good going on and when you look outside of the release list.
00:06:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
there's
00:06:55
Joe Kenja NFTV
It's it's it's a really, really exciting time to be a Newcastle Lassers fan, I think. You too, right?
00:07:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is. know. There's going to be a lot more people, let's call it latching on, but latch away as far as I'm concerned because the more people support them, the better.
00:07:05
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah.
00:07:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, you've obviously got us lot, which are like the core, if you want to call it, of the ones have been going for many years.
00:07:07
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yep.
00:07:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
You've got people who have been going longer than us as well, so I'm not going to claim to be one of the ones that have been going forever because I haven't.
00:07:14
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yes.
00:07:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
um But... I don't know, to see it grow, it's it's fantastic. It's great for the lasses, man, to see their faces when they come out and they can see that whole stand pretty much full sometimes. And it must be unreal, man, the noise that we'll make.
00:07:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know that we're right in the middle of it anyway because we are the nutters with the horns and the drums, you know. yeah How we're not deaf. and ah We've got all of that to come next season. It's going be fantastic, man.
00:07:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
um But yeah, how we're not deaf, I'm not entirely sure. But that that'll happen as well, right? We'll lose our hearing at some point, man.
00:07:44
Joe Kenja NFTV
going like that's it if not I'll just feel the vibrations while I'm deaf you know what I mean like it's a bush
00:07:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'll I know it will be one to those. You can feel it through the seat, right?
00:07:51
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah, yeah. Big class, bud.
00:07:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, brilliant, man.
00:07:53
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah.
00:07:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Brilliant. um I suppose, right, well won the subject, right? Yeah, the players that were lost.
Potential Signings and Dream Players
00:08:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right. So to me, there were some obvious ones.
00:08:01
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah,
00:08:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I'm going to name a couple of the obvious ones for me. So Katie Barker, as much as I was sad about, it was an obvious one because Katie Barker is one of those ones that I touched on about reaching your level.
00:08:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay.
00:08:14
Joe Kenja NFTV
yeah.
00:08:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
So she would never survive in the WSL season.
00:08:14
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah,
00:08:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Not one, just the WSL. um That we're going to call her, you see.
00:08:20
Joe Kenja NFTV
yeah, yeah.
00:08:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Because she's just, she she's not big enough.
00:08:22
Joe Kenja NFTV
Agreed.
00:08:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
She's not strong enough. She's just a slight, she's a brilliant footballer. She's an old school footballer in that sense. I love her style. I really do. But again, to me, she peaked. And that's that's fine, all right? And if we're trying to push on and we're trying to go beyond the championship, then fair enough, if you know what I mean.
00:08:38
Joe Kenja NFTV
think. Ernie.
00:08:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Fernie, well, no, she was retiring anyway.
00:08:38
Joe Kenja NFTV
I had
00:08:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
She hadn't quite announced it at that point, but come on. She's 38. Have I got that right? She's 38, right?
00:08:46
Joe Kenja NFTV
him.
00:08:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ooh, I've just aged her. Sorry, Fernie.
00:08:49
Joe Kenja NFTV
ernie
00:08:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm a bad, bad ginger.
00:08:50
Joe Kenja NFTV
i had
00:08:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
She's a fellow ginger.
00:08:52
Joe Kenja NFTV
ah
00:08:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
She's cool. She'll understand. But, I mean, I'm not going to be on my own. And I know not my own because social media. that My favourite player, who I know some things about, which I can't say on the pod. Might talk bit separately about this, Jo.
00:09:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
About Stobzy, man. don't know. ah I'm a grown woman man, I nearly cried when I saw Adelie, like come on man. Like I looked at the list and you know you need to take like a double take and I'm like nah nah.
00:09:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I'm looking back and like, I'm back Keegan Stobbs, gone.
00:09:20
Joe Kenja NFTV
It is?
00:09:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, so yeah, like to say I and so many other people are devastated about her is like a massive understatement. To me she was her best player, she was her captain, she's so crucial in that midfield that I just, there's obviously things we don't know right, we're not stupid, we're not privy to all information.
00:09:30
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yep. Yep.
00:09:38
Joe Kenja NFTV
yeah
00:09:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
But what the
Team Structure Concerns
00:09:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
heck do we not know that Stobbs isn't getting a new contract?
00:09:43
Joe Kenja NFTV
this This is what bugs me so much, right? Because you look at it, right? And Stobbs, for the last two seasons now, has been a massive, massive impact on that pitch, off that pitch. Wherever she is, she's been phenomenal.
00:09:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:09:54
Joe Kenja NFTV
And she didn't look by the end of the season when we've seen her and such, and she didn't look in any way uncomfortable, unsettled. She looked like she was secure in her position.
00:10:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
No?
00:10:02
Joe Kenja NFTV
And when you watch her on the pitch, you think she's secure in her position. I am... I've spoken a lot about this in the Newcastle United Women's Group and Causey put it in a very, very good way. in In a way for me, that helped me deal with the loss, to be fair.
00:10:15
Joe Kenja NFTV
But Causey said along the lines of, we don't quite know what goes on behind the scenes and we don't know if there's been something, some sort of a hindrance where Amber's going to maybe miss some time and it's been decided that...
00:10:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I get that.
00:10:27
Joe Kenja NFTV
she's going to have to go. and She's not simply not going to get back into match fitness, such and such. And he went on to say, as much as you would love to keep Stobzy for years to come, which we would, sometimes times have to move and sometimes you have to make way for some people who still fit the squad and who still do a job for other people who can come in and and make a big, big, big difference.
00:10:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:10:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh.
00:10:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah oh she is our general yeah absolutely
00:10:49
Joe Kenja NFTV
And it still doesn't sit well with us. i don't want Stobzy to leave. Stobzy, to me, she's the capitan. Do you know? She deserves... She is, like and and she deserves to be here every step of the way. And for me, I can't really see bringing anyone else in who's going to play for the Bargemo.
00:11:07
Joe Kenja NFTV
And I think right now that's something very important for Newcastle.
00:11:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
this is what i need man we're not We're not that big yet. We haven't quite achieved what we're aiming to achieve. ah don't, and this is why I don't understand it. So if I almost want them to come out and justify some things. I know they never will because they don't.
00:11:21
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah.
00:11:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
But it's almost like, I know I said I wasn't going to talk about the men, by the way, but I'm just going to compare it to something quickly. But you know how we've kept LaSalle's on? Come on, man.
00:11:28
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yes.
00:11:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
The bloke's never hardly played.
00:11:28
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah.
00:11:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
But how important is he, like what you've just said, so much more than just on the pitch? To me, that's Stobbs for the women.
00:11:35
Joe Kenja NFTV
ah yeah Bang.
00:11:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, Joe? There we go.
00:11:39
Joe Kenja NFTV
Bang.
00:11:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
I knew you'd agree.
00:11:41
Joe Kenja NFTV
Exactly. It is though, but you look at Stobbs and she's commanded so much respect and authority, not just from the players, not just from the fans, but from every single person in Newcastle.
00:11:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:50
Joe Kenja NFTV
You know, you've had some of the men's players mention her and love will working alongside her. It's the pride she's got in the badge.
00:11:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:11:57
Joe Kenja NFTV
It's the pride she's got in the city.
00:11:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:59
Joe Kenja NFTV
Like, you don't get that easy and it just, that alone is the big reason why I'm so baffled. And then you add our ability to,
00:12:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh no, honestly. Like, Joe, I know I could literally smash my head against the wall and still not come out any better.
00:12:10
Joe Kenja NFTV
We're never going to know
00:12:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, not that that would achieve anything like, but never mind.
00:12:17
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah. Yeah. But, you know.
00:12:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Um, I know. I mean, I'm going to probably touch on someone which will set you off as well, but like, the player behind you there? Jodie?
00:12:26
Joe Kenja NFTV
Judy Ball. Judy.
00:12:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, oh man.
00:12:29
Joe Kenja NFTV
It's... You don't... We're doing...
00:12:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know, again, know I don't know anything. I'm just saying the people I'm overly sad about, I suppose, is like the
00:12:34
Joe Kenja NFTV
This...
00:12:37
Joe Kenja NFTV
it's It's hard with Jodie. I speak to Jodie quite a bit and like...
00:12:42
Joe Kenja NFTV
I knew a while ago and I was one of the people who was trying to tell people to stop speculating because you don't know what's going on in player's life and I don't know what's going on, you know, and you don't know what's going on between her, the club, anything.
00:12:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:12:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
True.
00:12:55
Joe Kenja NFTV
You don't know how it is. our injury has should be been able recover from it. You know, there's the worry about match fitness.
00:12:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
True.
00:13:01
Joe Kenja NFTV
and But Jodie's the one for me who... his ah She's just such a character. she such a She's such a stalwart for bringing everyone together.
00:13:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
She has
00:13:11
Joe Kenja NFTV
She's a phenomenal, phenomenal soul and an an amazing, amazing player as well.
00:13:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Cheers.
00:13:17
Joe Kenja NFTV
And we didn't get to see a hell of a lot of her, but I know of her time at Celtic and she was phenomenal there and she'd done a brilliant job there.
00:13:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Unfortunately.
00:13:23
Joe Kenja NFTV
And I just wish we got so much more Jodie Bartle, but yeah, thank you very much for what she's done.
00:13:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
agree.
00:13:28
Joe Kenja NFTV
And the same goes to Stobbsy as well. Thank you so very much for what they've done.
00:13:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, God, yeah.
00:13:32
Joe Kenja NFTV
They've hit with all.
00:13:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
We can thank them all be to some degree, can't we? It's just who we're more upset about and at the end of the day. But, um yeah, like, Jodie to me is probably like battler on the field type of thing. Again, I just like her style of play.
00:13:44
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah. Agreed.
00:13:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
um I loved Fernie's style of play. We knew Fernie was ever going to stay because, again, age-wise, we're lucky to kind of have her. I'm honest for that season.
00:13:51
Joe Kenja NFTV
ah great
00:13:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
But she's exactly what I like to watch in a footballer. I like across any of the sexes, by the way. It's nothing to male or female. Just a proper battler, old-school footballer, gets in for tackles, just plays the damn game, doesn't mess about, doesn't, you know what i mean?
00:14:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, man, it's just...
00:14:04
Joe Kenja NFTV
With Fernie, right? He has one, and and it'll get you got in trouble with Fernie earlier for ageing her here, I'll get in trouble here, right?
00:14:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:14:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Go on then.
00:14:11
Joe Kenja NFTV
But at her age, at the levels that she's played, do you think she, like, everyone underestimated her in this league this season?
00:14:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:14:19
Joe Kenja NFTV
Did she play above station a bit? Like, aye.
00:14:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
I reckon she did for 37.
00:14:23
Joe Kenja NFTV
Aye.
00:14:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'll correct myself again.
00:14:25
Joe Kenja NFTV
For a 37-year-old.
00:14:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
But you know what I mean. So we're talking mid to late 30s here, man.
00:14:28
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah.
00:14:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
She was a battle axe man. She had a brilliant season for us.
00:14:31
Joe Kenja NFTV
Oh. Love that.
00:14:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
She's played for the international team as well, so it's not even like she was even dropped out of there. ah She's just, as I say, I wish we'd had her for many more years, is all I can say. um But again, she's finished on a high.
00:14:42
Joe Kenja NFTV
Agreed. Agreed.
00:14:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
She went out at the right time. She said it, and she had did a very emotional interview. It's it's been lovely to kind of see her go in that sense. But
00:14:51
Joe Kenja NFTV
Fernie's been a beast. Absolute beast.
00:14:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
sure that's yeah no other way of dressing that one up um before we come off this subject is there anyone else you want to kind of pick out from the list that you want to talk about live good shout you do
00:14:55
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah.
00:15:01
Joe Kenja NFTV
Olivia Watt. ah I sing Liv's praises time and time and time and time again. And for me, it is one way. I get it right now. She isn't a world beater, but she's 21 years old.
00:15:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
yep so much to learn so much to
00:15:15
Joe Kenja NFTV
And she's exactly, and she, the way, I've noticed something on that pitch when someone ever says something for Liv to do, Liv looks, nods, pops her hair down, gets her head down and gets on.
00:15:27
Joe Kenja NFTV
And she just all of a sudden does something that someone suggested.
00:15:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah,
00:15:30
Joe Kenja NFTV
She's like, Ari, I might not agree, but I'm going to give it a shot.
00:15:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah.
00:15:33
Joe Kenja NFTV
Let's see if it changes something. She's such a sponge for knowledge. And I think that's someone who, and I've said if
00:15:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
Enhancing Match Atmosphere
00:15:39
Joe Kenja NFTV
it for ages that I've seen Liv in the WSL with us.
00:15:41
Joe Kenja NFTV
And hopefully one day she comes back.
00:15:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:44
Joe Kenja NFTV
I would love to see that because she deserves to be playing in black and white and playing in the WSL.
00:15:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know. She might, I know.
00:15:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
I agree, man.
00:15:49
Joe Kenja NFTV
Without doubt.
00:15:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
I agree. agree. Proper team players, isn't you?
00:15:51
Joe Kenja NFTV
Aye, without doubt.
00:15:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Exactly. you That's it. No, great shout-on-liv, I'll be honest. um But yes, I see. it Look, it's it's been really sad, and we'd probably go on about it so much, which there's no point in going on and on about it. The only thing that we hope at this point...
00:16:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
which kind of does lead us on to exactly what I was going to ask next is, is more about who we'll bring in to replace them. I can partially forgive them because obviously they care about what I think anyway. I can partially forgive them if they bring the right players in for letting what I think are some of the right players to stay with us in the first place go.
00:16:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
So before we do move on to this, I am just going to put out the um advert for Bionique, who are our sponsors. I will play that very briefly and then we'll come back to you.
00:17:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Awesome. Thank you very much to Ken, our director with his dulcet tones, who he could probably read a nice bedtime story and you'd fall asleep quite happily. um So that's cool.
00:17:14
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah.
00:17:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
So again, going back to what we're talking
Fan Organization and Club Support
00:17:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
about now, I'll be honest, I've kept up with some of the rumours in the WSL, not in the championship slash WSL 2, if that's what people really want to call it.
00:17:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
um But yeah, I haven't seen anyone linked to us. haven't seen anything at all. um So really, Joe, have you or is there anyone you are interested in or kind of almost like a bit of a dream sign perhaps for us?
00:17:38
Joe Kenja NFTV
So, for me, it was a dream signing. It was. But then Barcelona decided to put out a little list of players that they're willing to listen to office for. and And I just can't get over the fact of that.
00:17:53
Joe Kenja NFTV
Using our plans, going ahead, using our ambition and using our cheddar cheese that Newcastle has certainly got access to. I don't see why we should not be going after a player like Paroiello from Barcelona.
00:18:10
Joe Kenja NFTV
She's a winger and she is phenomenal. and I think she would fit in into our unit brilliantly.
00:18:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've heard about, but that would be beautiful.
00:18:16
Joe Kenja NFTV
My dream signing is Pina from from Barcelona, but Pina's not coming anywhere near Newcastle, and then Pina's not coming.
00:18:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, no, that is a dream, but fair play to you.
00:18:22
Joe Kenja NFTV
yeah I don't even think she would. She's a total Super League star material. So, other than them, players that I've been looking at, one is I do believe we need a new energetic forward.
00:18:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:18:33
Joe Kenja NFTV
and Someone who...
00:18:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:18:35
Joe Kenja NFTV
not spur Shania Hales on as such, but to be able to make a shift, Shania's a bit of a s slower creep player, you know, she sneaks in from the back line, you know, and comes out with nowhere and scores a screamer, we need someone who's quick, impact, bash, bash, bash, straight into the box from, you know, across comes in, she's able to get from like 40 yards out into the box within seconds, you know, someone quick on that sense, I have been looking at Abby Larkin,
00:18:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
She is.
00:18:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:18:59
Joe Kenja NFTV
from Crystal Palace. Now, Crystal Palace have just come down.
00:19:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right.
00:19:02
Joe Kenja NFTV
It's going to be a couple of players who maybe want to switch around teams. Abbey's only 20 years old. I think, personally, for me, Abbey Larkin would be a really good show for us.
00:19:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
That would be.
00:19:12
Joe Kenja NFTV
and um Our only goal last season in the championship was actually against us as well. So, typical.
00:19:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
thought I didn't even rung a bell, I'll be honest. I'm not going to lie. Never mind.
00:19:21
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yep. She is a player I've been looking at for about a week or so now, and I've thought, yeah, why not? We should give it a shot.
00:19:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:26
Joe Kenja NFTV
and And then another one is a defender, and she's from Liverpool. She's 27 years old, um and that is Grace Fisk. um She's quite a small and nimble defender, and I feel like that's something our defence maybe is missing a little bit.
00:19:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right.
00:19:41
Joe Kenja NFTV
You know, we've got what body has, Charlotte Potts.
00:19:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely.
00:19:44
Joe Kenja NFTV
You've got your... sorry not Hannah Greenwood anymore you've got your Demi Stokes you've got your Diana Cooper even Lewis Joel the more players who when they play in defence the body has Lia Cataldo is a very quick defender that attacking sort of defender and I think Grace Fisk would fit quite well in with that whether it's a like for like substitution or whether it's someone who sits on the other side and substitutes for Demi or even comes into a centre-back role she's quite a versatile defender in that time and
00:19:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
She is.
00:20:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:20:11
Joe Kenja NFTV
And then other than that, another midfielder who I've been looking at from Bristol City, and I can never pronounce her first name. I heard it loads last season, and for me, I just can't help but see you silly.
00:20:21
Joe Kenja NFTV
But Struck from Bristol City. um She's a midfielder, and she's someone who I would like to see will have a crack at, but I don't feel like we would be able to pull her from Bristol City at the moment.
00:20:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right.
00:20:31
Joe Kenja NFTV
and But that's pretty much my little list at the minute. I've got a few others that I'm looking at that I don't think are worthy shouting out because I don't think there's much chance we're getting them. m
00:20:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:40
Joe Kenja NFTV
There has been a recent sighting at the weekend in Time Health Market of Staniforth. and
00:20:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Or really?
00:20:47
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yes, indeed. And there's a lot of talk on Jordan Nobbs as well, which I have very many opinions about signing those two players. But look, I trust the process. I trust the club and I trust what we're going to do.
00:20:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've got it at the minute haven't we? yeah
00:21:00
Joe Kenja NFTV
So bring it on.
00:21:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:02
Joe Kenja NFTV
You know, like, like, I'm just excited to get some names over the board and and get some announcements going on.
00:21:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know.
00:21:07
Joe Kenja NFTV
I'm, As much as I said I don't want agent players, in a sense, I'm wanting Staniforth to be the player who maybe gets shouted out soon, you know, but I just think she's too old for her now.
00:21:17
Joe Kenja NFTV
We need younger talent and it is, it's hard, it's hard.
00:21:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, a tough one isn't it?
00:21:21
Joe Kenja NFTV
Is there anyone that you've been looking at or that you want, Ryan?
00:21:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
As I say, that's that's the thing. I haven't, is I've been looking at some of the transfer rumours, but it's more been around the WSL side of things. So it's not really been linked to us or like you say, just so unrealistic that I haven't even bothered jotting it down as like a thing, I'll be honest.
00:21:36
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah.
00:21:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I think my my kind of perspective of just looking at the whole team is now we are obviously paper thin. We've let so many go. We'll literally have, we're starting 11th. plus not even a full subs bench let's get real and that's everyone out everyone fit that's everyone sitting there so obviously i'm not going to include any devs there or anything i'm just talking about like the first team sort of thing but um i'm bang on with you by the way about like that kind of almost competition or something different for up front um with shan but um she to me again i'm going to compare it the men promised i wouldn't mention them didn't i'm doing a great job of that um
00:21:49
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yep, yep.
00:22:02
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yep, we need it.
00:22:10
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah, comparison is all good.
00:22:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I'm comparing. exactly It's good. She's like a Wilson for me. Again, more of a goal poaching centre forward. She's not an Isaac. know what I mean? So i'm like I'm trying to think of who we've at the minute who she's similar to.
00:22:20
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yes.
00:22:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
appreciate Wilson's probably leaving as well. So that's in the release on the men, but never mind. and But you know what I mean? She's that type of player because she can course score some unreal goals and she makes movements a lot like Wilson. That's what I mean. And this is her style of play.
00:22:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
So yeah, to have a different style of centre forward, up with her whether to play offer pay as a substitution i don't know but yeah we definitely did that kind of thing going on um the defense though that was that was a great kind of shout on that i'll be honest because we need just some i don't know she's maybe not a change up because like you say potty and that i would i would never drop at all and then that would have been that would have been hell on i think if she'd been released
00:22:59
Joe Kenja NFTV
Oh, ffff.
00:22:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
and Can you imagine?
00:23:02
Joe Kenja NFTV
Backlash. We riot, I guarantee it.
00:23:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
i think Oda had an entire pod purely about that.
00:23:06
Joe Kenja NFTV
Oh, we'll be mental.
00:23:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
um But yeah, like to add in just a bit of differentials into there, because Stokes, let's get real, man.
00:23:12
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah, yeah.
00:23:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Again, she's aging. And I know she's an ex-lioness and all this sort of stuff.
00:23:15
Joe Kenja NFTV
Mm-hmm.
00:23:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
But again, we've got people who love her and hate her. Simple as that. There's no way of dressing under I'm not saying hate now.
00:23:21
Joe Kenja NFTV
It is true.
00:23:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's a bit extreme. But you know what i mean?
00:23:24
Joe Kenja NFTV
They're not keen on us.
00:23:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know what Like in dislike, we'll use those words because it's not hate, is it really?
00:23:25
Joe Kenja NFTV
To be honest, I was...
00:23:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, it's just, yeah.
00:23:30
Joe Kenja NFTV
I was against her at first when she first came along and I said it to her face. I remember Lainey Patterson turned around like I looked at Lainey and Joe, you can't say that to a lioness.
00:23:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Brutal. yeah
00:23:38
Joe Kenja NFTV
I was like, yeah, because it was admitted. Sorry, I admitted to her like, look, I didn't rate you at first, but she's coming to her own and she's done a really good job.
00:23:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
no and
00:23:45
Joe Kenja NFTV
And the question is, and it's simply age, how long can she do that job for? you know what i mean?
00:23:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's the problem, isn't it? Yeah.
00:23:50
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah, yeah. And it's a risk we're taking.
00:23:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's not the fastest.
00:23:52
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah.
00:23:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Never going to be now.
00:23:53
Joe Kenja NFTV
she's not She's got better.
00:23:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
so
00:23:54
Joe Kenja NFTV
She's got faster as the season went on.
00:23:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:56
Joe Kenja NFTV
now appreciate what she's done and the work she's done. I'm grateful. She's good. But how long does that keep up?
00:23:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
hmm.
00:24:01
Joe Kenja NFTV
She has got an amazing regime.
00:24:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
I can't.
00:24:02
Joe Kenja NFTV
ah I see Demi quite often on and Instagram. She's got a great regime.
00:24:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm hmm.
00:24:06
Joe Kenja NFTV
She's doing a lot to to stay fit. and Well done to her.
00:24:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Good.
00:24:10
Joe Kenja NFTV
But yeah, i just agree. I just think we need a little bit of Savon flair if you wouldn't defend someone who's going to come out and in be able to dribble the ball about a little bit.
00:24:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:18
Joe Kenja NFTV
We'll see Pottsy likes her runs, but I feel ah feel worried.
00:24:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:22
Joe Kenja NFTV
If Potty goes too far forward, because she's, to me, my last lane of defence.
00:24:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
I want her back covering.
00:24:28
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah, yeah.
00:24:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I'm with you all the way.
00:24:29
Joe Kenja NFTV
She's my last lane. She's my final boss before you get to the keeper.
00:24:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
She's our solid... Yeah, I got you.
00:24:34
Joe Kenja NFTV
Bye.
00:24:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I'm with you all the way. So if we can have people to play off the likes of Potsy, maybe a allow Potsy to go.
00:24:37
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah.
00:24:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
if she If someone else is going to cover her, brilliant.
00:24:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
But they've got to cover it to the degree Potsy would normally do the covering, if you know what i mean. So yeah. But again, like you say, I trust the process, isn't it? And see who they bring in.
00:24:41
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah, let Potty run.
00:24:48
Joe Kenja NFTV
right.
00:24:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
But they've they've got to bring in a lot. We can't possibly let 12 players go and us now not bring in. almost that amount so surely at some point this ball is going to get rolling and it's going to almost to like boom boom boom is going to be like the men are waiting for like end of june beginning july is there something happening with the finances on the women's side i don't know as much you hear about all this psr crap which is just a load as i've just said a load crap um but anyway um not a fan is it like most people aren't let's get real um but i'll wait for that sort of time frame as well who knows we'll know in a couple of weeks won't we so
00:24:56
Joe Kenja NFTV
That has to be. That has to be.
00:25:08
Joe Kenja NFTV
Strange, isn't it?
00:25:15
Joe Kenja NFTV
Well done.
00:25:23
Joe Kenja NFTV
Wait and see, isn't it? It's it's it's hard waiting though, isn't it?
00:25:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'll tell you what pans out. I've
00:25:25
Joe Kenja NFTV
Like, as Newcastle fans, I've seen a meme there, when was it? Yesterday, about...
00:25:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
got no patience, man.
00:25:29
Joe Kenja NFTV
And it was it was, like, it was about how we'd just seen... at a m it's It's someone who got announced as a signing when it was, I think it was a Langer.
00:25:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, ah saw it on Facebook.
00:25:36
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah, and it was like, whoa, yes! Boys, get the cards, get the cards, we'll put bid in!
00:25:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just because my butt had been in.
00:25:42
Joe Kenja NFTV
We'll put bid in! All right, come on! I was like, yes, I know!
00:25:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was so true, though.
00:25:46
Joe Kenja NFTV
It is, it was literally, I was like, yes, we'll put a bid in, what?
00:25:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
There's something legit on Sky Sports. Everyone freaks out, honestly, man.
00:25:52
Joe Kenja NFTV
It was like, whoa, can't believe it.
00:25:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's But you know what it is, though? Is it not because... but we' All right, we're not the only football team to go through it, but so many rumours, man. Year in, year out. It's been even worse since the takeover. Let's get real.
00:26:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
We are linked with everyone and their mother.
00:26:03
Joe Kenja NFTV
I know. Yeah.
00:26:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then every single one of our players, pretty much, who's worth their salt, is linked with a move away from us as well. So it's just been constant. And think it's probably because of that. We're just sick of hearing.
00:26:13
Joe Kenja NFTV
It is.
00:26:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's just... people and oh i love a bit of this on on facebook and a bit of that on like tiktok and you know what mean and everyone's in the know everyone's in the know man nobody knows anything man get in
00:26:18
Joe Kenja NFTV
Every Tom, Dick and Harry thinking that they know the exact strategy to get Alexander Isak out of Newcastle. No. It's not happening. No one does. all clueless.
00:26:29
Joe Kenja NFTV
We're all just guessing, man.
00:26:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
like
00:26:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
all
00:26:30
Joe Kenja NFTV
We've all got like whiteboards and things up, yeah, man.
00:26:32
Joe Kenja NFTV
Just pinning things together, figuring out who's going away and who's following who on Instagram, man. I swear to God, man. I even went down to Bruno's favourite ice cream shop at the weekend just so I could sniff where he'd been to find out who's talking to him.
00:26:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
get in
00:26:45
Joe Kenja NFTV
I swear to God.
00:26:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was a literal sniff of a rumour.
00:26:48
Joe Kenja NFTV
I know.
00:26:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
I love that. Oh, Heyman. um Right. As much as I can probably ramble on about the transfers all day as well.
00:26:53
Joe Kenja NFTV
Right, alright. Transfers.
00:26:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
eye Transfers, we'll move on from them.
00:26:57
Joe Kenja NFTV
signing no one.
00:26:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll sign a new one, right? We've got about 15 people to work with and we'll just manage. We'll be fine.
00:27:03
Joe Kenja NFTV
Sweet man.
00:27:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
we're go to be in the We'll be in the WSL as well by the end of the season because that's all we need.
00:27:06
Joe Kenja NFTV
Sue Cummins is going to hire Bruton Man and get playing. Aaron Hamilton's coming back, I swear to God.
00:27:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
one imagine imagine becky will step on the field it'll be uh it's me chaos can you imagine back paul's headerman
00:27:10
Joe Kenja NFTV
What?
00:27:14
Joe Kenja NFTV
Scores a screen man in the last day just to win with a title. by Dan Burns style.
00:27:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
can you imagine oh tell me we've lost the plot without telling me we've lost the plot uh it's gone wrong it's gone wrong joe
00:27:22
Joe Kenja NFTV
She's not from Blythe!
00:27:27
Joe Kenja NFTV
I know, it's it's over the edge now. This is it. This is it. You're like we shouldn't put them together, but you know, it's happened.
00:27:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll be fine, man. um
00:27:35
Joe Kenja NFTV
oh
00:27:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, I will ask you based on the smaller squad we've got, who do you want to or think will smash it next season? who are you kind of looking forward to? Or, because I did touch on it earlier, now that we've lost our favourite, potentially, I mean, I know I have, um who's your new favourite going to be?
00:27:54
Joe Kenja NFTV
Oh, oh, hold on a moment. I just need to grab the lyrics a little second. Hold on.
00:28:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Love a good song, then.
00:28:05
Joe Kenja NFTV
She was Emily Murphy, place for Republic Island. She took the ball and scored us one down at the Kingston Park goal. Emily Murphy, she is, I, she's she's going to nail it.
00:28:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Get in. Yeah, I've got her down as well.
00:28:18
Joe Kenja NFTV
I think her and Beth Lumsden, shout out Matt Walby, her and Beth Lumsden are going to absolutely tear it apart next season and going to be two of the top players in the whole league.
00:28:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Cheers.
00:28:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:28:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:28:29
Joe Kenja NFTV
Without doubt, no doubt.
00:28:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep. Again, going back to what I said, proper players, proper ballers. They're just... Oh, man, I just love watching them play, man. And we're talking Beth as well now, so I'm lumping them both in.
00:28:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Always love Beth anyway, but Murphy's so exciting to watch, man. She was...
00:28:44
Joe Kenja NFTV
Oh, God, is she?
00:28:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
She's just tough. She's just good. She's good. She's skillful. So it's not that she's just hard. So it's not like she is just running at people and bulldozing. She is, by the way, and I love that aspect of it. But the skill aspect behind it, man, ah absolutely.
00:28:56
Joe Kenja NFTV
Tag us?
00:28:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Some of those runs and dribbles she did and shots, like, no, i'm I'm very, very excited about Murphy.
00:28:58
Joe Kenja NFTV
Tag us?
00:29:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've got to be honest, very.
00:29:02
Joe Kenja NFTV
She's phenomenal.
00:29:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
um And then, yeah.
00:29:04
Joe Kenja NFTV
How mad is it to have two in four Murphys on both the men and the women's team, though?
00:29:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know. And Murphy's my favourite off the men as well, because I've even got on the back of my, well, last season shirt.
00:29:09
Joe Kenja NFTV
one ah you You would have hated my video then, did you?
00:29:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, yeah. Oh, man, they're just... The Murphy's all around, man. Oh, don't know.
00:29:19
Joe Kenja NFTV
I was like, sell Murphy. right
00:29:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know. well We don't need to talk about the men, remember. but
00:29:24
Joe Kenja NFTV
ah Yes, sorry.
00:29:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
We don't need a fallout joke.
00:29:26
Joe Kenja NFTV
And transfers, that was two strikes in one.
00:29:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Come on, man. We're having fun here. Absolutely.
00:29:28
Joe Kenja NFTV
but But I know, Emily Murphy, Beth Lumsden, absolutely stellar seasons coming.
00:29:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
absolutely
00:29:33
Joe Kenja NFTV
I'm guessing from what you've said, that's kind of the same people you've got, is it?
00:29:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is, yeah. I've got my Murphy written down.
00:29:38
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah.
00:29:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've always been a Beth fan anyway. So Murphy was me.
00:29:40
Joe Kenja NFTV
hey
00:29:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Me one that picked out as being my absolute one who's going to be my player of the season, I'm going to call it now.
00:29:47
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah.
00:29:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
um So yeah, don't get injured, Pitt. That's the only thing that's going to stop you because otherwise, because no nobody else is stopping you like.
00:29:55
Joe Kenja NFTV
Emily, get plenty watermelon walkhead.
00:29:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:29:57
Joe Kenja NFTV
Read.
00:29:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
See?
00:29:58
Joe Kenja NFTV
I'll bring the watermelon, read. It'll be sweet, man. Don't worry.
00:30:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
You sit by your side where you chopped watermelon.
00:30:02
Joe Kenja NFTV
I got my watermelon!
00:30:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
It'll like, you know, when you're on the beach abroad and they come around with big watermelon and they sell you the slices and that. That's going to be you on the side of the pitch.
00:30:08
Joe Kenja NFTV
Me on the side, just before she's going on as a son, maybe. Yeah, Emily, yeah, Emily, Emily, yeah, get a piece of watermelon down your mum.
00:30:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know where to get shots of that, man.
00:30:16
Joe Kenja NFTV
Mum, chew it.
00:30:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:30:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know it's got to be done now. ah
00:30:18
Joe Kenja NFTV
So, mum.
00:30:19
Joe Kenja NFTV
All right. We're going on with a gum shield, um, one of these.
00:30:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, Joe, man.
00:30:23
Joe Kenja NFTV
Oh, yeah, I'm going to, I'm...
00:30:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm getting all sorts of mad ideas now, man.
00:30:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll bounce...
00:30:29
Joe Kenja NFTV
Do I next season try and give Emily Murphy a watermelon?
00:30:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that's the new challenge. And then when she does it, right, she'll just cry laughing. She'll run on the field with this massive watermelon sticking out face, man.
00:30:38
Joe Kenja NFTV
I can't watch this bro!
00:30:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
That would be amazing.
00:30:42
Joe Kenja NFTV
How evil would you look man?
00:30:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, I wouldn't mess with her, like. But I wouldn't mess with her without the gum shields.
00:30:46
Joe Kenja NFTV
No.
00:30:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Never mind.
00:30:48
Joe Kenja NFTV
A
00:30:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah i'm I'm not that daft. I do kickboxing, but, you know, I'm not asking for trouble over here. You know what I mean? That's just daft that.
00:30:55
Joe Kenja NFTV
pint of Guinness is like Mike Tyson man.
00:30:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
like Exactly.
00:30:58
Joe Kenja NFTV
Sorry god.
00:31:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
I love it. um I think, to be fair, we've cut off everything I plan to do. The only thing I wanted to ask you about, because it will happen again next season, we are going to play some matches at St. James' Park.
00:31:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
The Mac and Match is an absolute given, and I don't mind that, because if I'm honest, the Mac and Match does pull that extra crowd, which I love for the last, because if we're going to do it there, get the people in.
00:31:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Don't just pull a random game would be my next kind of point on that one. I going to ask give you about the atmosphere because to me, Joe, I wish there was a way that us, where we are in Kingston Park with our kind of little crew, if you want to call it that, bringing the noise and just bringing the atmosphere.
00:31:20
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yep.
00:31:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
I just wish there was a way of being able to take that and kind of have it. in St. James's Park. it's It's so hard because we're all kind of log on. I know us season ticket holders get like first access to it.
00:31:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
But the problem is there is like boy is there about a thousand season ticket holders now and not all of us make noise.
00:31:52
Joe Kenja NFTV
ah
00:31:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
There's kind of our group and there's already there's little other ones but the vast majority aren't and there was...
00:31:52
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yep.
00:31:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
I was really disappointed because, you know, when you want to make the noise or you want to sing, or I could see you down one end, or then I could see Bernie down the other, but you were just that far enough away. No, you didn't seem that far.
00:32:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's too big a stadium. Noise doesn't carry.
00:32:11
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yep.
00:32:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
I couldn't hear you at all.
00:32:11
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yep.
00:32:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
I could, I could just hear Bernie, but she didn't drum because God forbid she's allowed a drum in.
00:32:15
Joe Kenja NFTV
We're just saying something.
00:32:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know what i mean?
00:32:17
Joe Kenja NFTV
aye I hate that.
00:32:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah had my horn and I was just getting looks off the people in front of us because again, God forbid you blow a horn, but like I
00:32:22
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yep.
00:32:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know. so what's what's your thoughts? Because to me, apart from the match, I almost feel like we shouldn't play any more St James' Park. I think all the rest of them should just stay at Kingston Park where we can bring the noise and bring the atmosphere.
00:32:33
Joe Kenja NFTV
to
00:32:35
Joe Kenja NFTV
For me, I get why we're playing St. James' Park. and And, like, it's a thing of, like, I've said a couple of times about the St.
00:32:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:32:41
Joe Kenja NFTV
James' Park matches, why don't we all organise where we want to sit? Now, the issue with that is, like, a lot of people want to sit in the strawberry corner. Like, me and Emi usually want to sit in the strawberry corner. Emi loves it there.
00:32:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:32:51
Joe Kenja NFTV
I love it there. It's...
00:32:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that's great.
00:32:53
Joe Kenja NFTV
Most fans do. You've got Bernie and a lot other people who like to sit centre field so they can see the action and get stuck into it with the ref, you know?
00:32:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Oh, I get that.
00:33:01
Joe Kenja NFTV
So, but, like, it would be nice if we could all...
00:33:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Not Bernie, not the ref, man, surely.
00:33:05
Joe Kenja NFTV
but venue with the f ma It would be nice next season, you know the stand between the strawberry corner and the middle?
00:33:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Aye. Yeah.
00:33:10
Joe Kenja NFTV
I always mix up the stands, I it's east, isn't it?
00:33:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
East end.
00:33:14
Joe Kenja NFTV
So the east stand right next to the Gallagher corner, if we could take over that stand next season, I think it would change and we would be able to get and majority of the stadium singing because I think half the time as well is when people hear we're chanting, they're like, wait, what are they chanting?
00:33:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:33:27
Joe Kenja NFTV
Like, hey Katie Barker.
00:33:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know.
00:33:29
Joe Kenja NFTV
What? Score that goal. Also, it's the same for Callum Wilson.
00:33:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know.
00:33:32
Joe Kenja NFTV
That's an easy one. Then we're going to start doing the others.
00:33:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:33:35
Joe Kenja NFTV
I agree with I would love to see them all at Kingston Park, but then without something big on the line, Kingston Park doesn't sell out yet. Yet, it's getting closer and closer.
00:33:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, no. Yeah, yeah.
00:33:44
Joe Kenja NFTV
Don't get us wrong, and I expect that to keep rising.
00:33:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:33:47
Joe Kenja NFTV
But I think the big reason for St. James' Park is because when we play at St. James' Park, we are put on the map in a big way.
00:33:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, no.
00:33:55
Joe Kenja NFTV
All the media talks about it.
00:33:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:33:56
Joe Kenja NFTV
So... For that side of it, I'm like, yeah, it's good. Commercially, it's great. Like, that's what we need. But then at the same time for the fans, it's hard.
00:34:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
He
00:34:04
Joe Kenja NFTV
Personally, what I think the club should do is turn around and recognise who these long-term, like, this circle of people who've always been coming, you know, and the ones who chant the most and go, right, chant us. Come with us.
00:34:15
Joe Kenja NFTV
You're going in the black seats.
00:34:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
has a block for you. Yeah.
00:34:17
Joe Kenja NFTV
Aye? There's the black seats for all yous.
00:34:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
He has a block for you. Book there.
00:34:20
Joe Kenja NFTV
Can't sit there, get everyone chanting for you, you know? Bosh. Wicked. Happy days.
00:34:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:34:24
Joe Kenja NFTV
Like, that'd be amazing.
00:34:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Should be able to be done, man.
00:34:25
Joe Kenja NFTV
and I know it's a dream, but...
00:34:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Surely, man. Come on.
00:34:27
Joe Kenja NFTV
Do you know what?
00:34:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Technology now, man.
00:34:28
Joe Kenja NFTV
I'm...
00:34:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
You can do it.
00:34:29
Joe Kenja NFTV
Let the ego out. We deserve it. Bernie.
00:34:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know.
00:34:31
Joe Kenja NFTV
Mary. Joe. Paula. Jamie.
00:34:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
There's just so many women.
00:34:35
Joe Kenja NFTV
Matt. Alan.
00:34:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, love it, man.
00:34:37
Joe Kenja NFTV
Who's ball?!
00:34:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
who wow
00:34:40
Joe Kenja NFTV
I'll be with Alan Roberts. There's so many people I've missed, so many names out, but all of them just, we are the ones who who bring that atmosphere and always have.
00:34:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that's what mean. and I want us all together. that There is a lot of us, but when we're too spread out, we're just calmed and it's just too big a stadium, even if we're trying.
00:34:48
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah.
00:34:51
Joe Kenja NFTV
It's hard.
00:34:54
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah.
00:34:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
it just The noise does not carry and it's it's it's fine and I get that and I totally understand why we're at St James' Park, by the way.
00:35:00
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah. We'd get walkie-talkies in.
00:35:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Come on.
00:35:03
Joe Kenja NFTV
Because if we're, like, I, don't know.
00:35:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, um I was going to take one of those, what is it, like a megaphone type of thing, but you know what would we be allowed to take it? They're probably going to take Nothman.
00:35:10
Joe Kenja NFTV
You'd probably take a mini one, but then that doesn't travel. I reckon if we can take walkie-talkies in, right, like, have have four key, like, people, Bernie one, me one, like, you one, all in separate areas and be like, read N and in an E in five, four, three, two, one.
00:35:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:35:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:35:26
Joe Kenja NFTV
N and an E in a, what will you say?
00:35:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Well, we'll have to... look we'll We'll work it out, right?
00:35:30
Joe Kenja NFTV
Operations.
00:35:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll give it a go.
00:35:31
Joe Kenja NFTV
Operations.
00:35:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
i've got I've got some... I'm sure I've got some walkie-talkies I've bought Nicole over the years that should obviously use this route two days straight, and then they'll be just lying around perfectly new.
00:35:36
Joe Kenja NFTV
See?
00:35:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, that's it. Joe, you say it's another one to a list? We've got loads stuff, man.
00:35:42
Joe Kenja NFTV
But I'll go in with Paw Patrol.
00:35:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Can you imagine?
00:35:45
Joe Kenja NFTV
um me told Paw Patrol. ah
00:35:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
A couple of them definitely pink, mind you. I'm getting one of the pink ones.
00:35:50
Joe Kenja NFTV
Come on. We'll have it any other way.
00:35:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Emmy will love it, man. and Exactly.
00:35:53
Joe Kenja NFTV
Oh. Yeah, well, that'll be unbelievable, man. Yes.
00:35:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Brilliant stuff, man.
00:35:55
Joe Kenja NFTV
But aye, we need to sort something from the atmosphere. say James is our greats.
00:35:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
We do.
00:35:58
Joe Kenja NFTV
We need to be more powerful.
00:35:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because they are going to happen. The match will be won and they usually always pick at least one other, don't we?
00:36:02
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yeah. Yeah.
00:36:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, brilliant. It's just, yeah, it's just a fight. I suppose maybe it's just for us to sort. Maybe the club going to sort it. Maybe us fans can just try and sort it and see what happens.
00:36:12
Joe Kenja NFTV
Agreed. Agreed. But it would be nice with how much they turn around and talk about, especially lately, they use how the fans are the one of the most important reasons of why we're here.
00:36:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:36:21
Joe Kenja NFTV
It would be nice for them to go, okay, fans, yeah. Come with us.
00:36:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:36:24
Joe Kenja NFTV
We've got a section here.
00:36:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll help you out, man. Yeah.
00:36:25
Joe Kenja NFTV
But we're dream. We're dream.
00:36:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
what i was about to say we can dream, Jo. It's fine.
00:36:29
Joe Kenja NFTV
I can't.
00:36:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
We do nothing but dream with Geordie's, man. That's what it is.
00:36:31
Joe Kenja NFTV
That's what we're doing, man. We're dreamers.
00:36:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
We are living the dream, though, right now, man.
00:36:35
Joe Kenja NFTV
And life.
00:36:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Honestly, man, I'm so happy. I know there's nothing going on with the transfer news on the men or the women, but you know what? I don't know.
00:36:42
Joe Kenja NFTV
Got time.
00:36:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Can we just end summer, though? I miss a football, man.
00:36:45
Joe Kenja NFTV
Joe, right, he has one thing i always talk about in like, how old's he on a call?
00:36:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
I miss a football.
00:36:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Go on, then. She's nine. She's about turning ten next month.
00:36:51
Joe Kenja NFTV
Right. So, Emmy's seven, right? So, yeah, we're going, right?
00:36:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:36:54
Joe Kenja NFTV
So, you've got a seven and a nine-year-old, right? And what do they know of Newcastle United? Newcastle women have won at least three trophies since they've been following them.
00:36:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh yeah.
00:37:03
Joe Kenja NFTV
The men have won the Carabao Cup, been in the Champions League, been in the two finals, being at the top of the Champions League, being at the top of the Premiership.
00:37:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:37:09
Joe Kenja NFTV
What do they know about Newcastle's pain? They know nothing. They do not deserve this.
00:37:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
the not Oh, don't get me wrong. I've definitely been one of those little, like, um I haven't even waited until I'm old and grumpy.
00:37:16
Joe Kenja NFTV
You've been a whole late.
00:37:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've already turned around to Nicole. i was like, you've got no idea. You've got no idea what I've been through in my life. And she just looks as if to say, all right, ma'am.
00:37:26
Joe Kenja NFTV
you
00:37:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah Like, know what I mean?
00:37:29
Joe Kenja NFTV
All you've done was get born, and you just you think you deserve this?
00:37:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, hello. You're so spoiled, y'all.
00:37:33
Joe Kenja NFTV
You're not the chosen one.
00:37:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Kids these days are bloody spoiled, y'all.
00:37:37
Joe Kenja NFTV
You know, honour, honour, getting trophies and that. Was of that in my day.
00:37:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's just another thing. exactly none of that we'll grow up with scrimpings we did
00:37:47
Joe Kenja NFTV
I remember the Intertoto!
00:37:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
oh the good old into toto that was something to celebrate that that was desperate a dear god honestly but yeah like no i mean they'll never ever be on more level again it's as simple as that
00:37:52
Joe Kenja NFTV
Hey, man. Crazed buzzard. Oh, I hate it.
00:37:58
Joe Kenja NFTV
One more than the Magnums.
00:38:04
Joe Kenja NFTV
It's true. It's true.
00:38:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
And now overtaking the women, man. How funny is that?
00:38:06
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yes, man.
00:38:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because the Macklin women have always really been ahead them, haven't they?
00:38:10
Joe Kenja NFTV
The have.
00:38:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I appreciate that.
00:38:10
Joe Kenja NFTV
The have.
00:38:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fair play at them.
00:38:11
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yep.
00:38:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's the most I'm ever going to say, because don't say a lot of things when nice things about Macklin, as people know. But I'll say fair play that they've always been.
00:38:16
Joe Kenja NFTV
Now, Toto's on top.
00:38:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
But we're ahead now, and they're never getting back ahead. Something that. Right.
00:38:21
Joe Kenja NFTV
simple love that yeah
00:38:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
On that sweet note, Jo, it has been an absolute pleasure having you. Thank you so much for coming across. I'm a huge Newcastle fans, TV fan. Anyway, you know that. um Love you guys.
00:38:32
Joe Kenja NFTV
love love back goes back and forth like I've said for a little while I want to bridge these gaps between we're all and like bring we're together we're a community especially where the women's concerned so couldn't have done it anyone better Joe couldn't have done it with anyone better yes
00:38:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
But
00:38:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, man.
00:38:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Definitely. Champion. Well, what we'll do is, I think, we're again, touching on before the pod, maybe halfway through the season, a bit of review, know the women always have a massive like kind of winter break, so it might be good to cover it off, see how it's going.
00:38:53
Joe Kenja NFTV
Damn straight.
00:38:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Review almost back what we've just talked about now as well, and see how of our, yeah, yeah, it'll be interesting, wouldn't it?
00:38:57
Joe Kenja NFTV
Grief ourselves.
00:39:00
Joe Kenja NFTV
And I'll be able to sit there and go, See what did sign, Paroelo, Atolius, Atolius.
00:39:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Cool. In that case... See, hope you're right.
00:39:06
Joe Kenja NFTV
ah
00:39:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
I hope you're right, man. i want I want to celebrate with you in December.
00:39:09
Joe Kenja NFTV
Buzzing.
00:39:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, no, honestly, as I say, it's been a pleasure.
00:39:11
Joe Kenja NFTV
Buzzing.
00:39:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
I look forward to seeing you properly, obviously, back at Kingston Park and that.
00:39:16
Joe Kenja NFTV
Yep.
00:39:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then, yeah, we'll we'll set up another one.
00:39:19
Joe Kenja NFTV
um We'll get you over on AFTV as well. We'll get you over on the podcast now.
00:39:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, any time, man.
00:39:22
Joe Kenja NFTV
That'd be great, man. Be good, crack.
00:39:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Give us a shout. Give us a shout.
00:39:24
Joe Kenja NFTV
Let Lee try and calm her down.
00:39:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah Good luck, Lee. Sorry, in advance.
00:39:28
Joe Kenja NFTV
Indeed.
00:39:30
Joe Kenja NFTV
but oh
00:39:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Cool. I'll see later, Jo.
00:39:32
Joe Kenja NFTV
Cheers. See you.
00:39:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Bye.