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officialgspn: Hello and welcome to the Daily Newcastle Podcast. and I am Nicola, your host for today. Sorry if you can hear me laughing. I don't know if you guys are going to pick up what Ian just said, but that's got me giggling. um And this leads me nicely into who I'm joined by today. So I am joined by the lovely Ian. How are you Ian?
Iain Mackay the Noo: I'm very well, Nicola. How are you?
officialgspn: Yes, I am very good, thank you.
Iain Mackay the Noo: Dry?
officialgspn: Dry.
Iain Mackay the Noo: Very dry. Your sense of humor, that's what I'm talking about. I'm doing great.
officialgspn: And I am also joined by the lovely Michael. How are you, Michael?
Michael: I'm very good but I do have to say after that game I'm not very dry. I'm sweating profusely.
officialgspn: we are recording straight after the Wolves game, and which we won 2 -1.
Iain Mackay the Noo: you know
officialgspn: I am honestly unsure how that happened, but we're going to get into that a little bit later because feeling is still a bit stressed, to be honest, guys. I'm not sure how yous are feeling after that game. How are we feeling?
Michael: yeah it's hard to really put into words to be honest but at the minute I'm overwhelmingly happy but about half an hour ago I was sitting there going it's going to be another one of those days isn't it so overall all very very happy but I am aware that for 70 well 85 minutes if you include uh half time I have been sitting there a little bit not moody
officialgspn: yeah
officialgspn: hu
Michael: But it ain't been great.
officialgspn: Yeah, I completely agree. and My mood's been a bit up and down as well this afternoon. What about you, Ian?
Iain Mackay the Noo: Well, ah ah yeah, I was I think I was all right. As we kicked off, I thought we started the game pretty well, but I sort of drifted into that into that. This is too slow. There's nothing happening. and Then they scored. So I did get into Michael's.
Iain Mackay the Noo: bedweckcker bedwetting depressive state of mind.
Michael: Oh that's why I'm wet.
Iain Mackay the Noo: <unk>t expect Didn't really expect us to equalise when we equalise, but yeah, I'm euphoric at the end of it after watching Barnes' goal fly into the top corner. What a goal to win a game.
officialgspn: Yeah, what a goal that was. thought we'd start by discussing the start and line up. So if we just rewind to about two hours ago, and a half hours ago where the lineup got released. Now, I have got to admit I was a little bit shocked to see long staff start ahead of Tonali. Now, I know we had a few discussions in ah our group chat before the game kicked off and we had mixed opinions, but Tonali's performances on international duty
officialgspn: I'm not too sure how he can go from playing two 90 minute games to then start on the Newcastle game on the bench. Now, I mean, I can understand it, but I also am a little bit like, what has this man got to do to start a game?
officialgspn: I don't understand. Cause I just think he's absolutely phenomenal. So how were you guys feeling about that decision? I'll go to you first, Ian.
Iain Mackay the Noo: ah ah I think, I think when we previewed it, I previewed it with the Joe and Kev, which came out on Friday.
officialgspn: Yeah.
Iain Mackay the Noo: I think collectively we thought Tenari would start on the bench because Eddie's a, he's a, he's a very, what's the word, honorable man and long stuff had actually played really well against Tottenham.
officialgspn: Yeah.
Iain Mackay the Noo: Didn't think that he was going to lose his place. And he could hide behind the fact that Tenali had had two 90 -minute games. And he's still coming back from 10 months off. So we thought that was going to be the easier option for him to start Tenali on the bench.
officialgspn: Yeah.
Iain Mackay the Noo: We we also had Hall, or I did, had Hall starting instead of Kelly.
officialgspn: Mm hmm.
Iain Mackay the Noo: So that wasn't a surprise. I think we all wanted Tino to start as well rather than Trippier.
officialgspn: Yeah.
officialgspn: Mm hmm.
Iain Mackay the Noo: That might be different for the next game.
Michael: Yeah.
Iain Mackay the Noo: What really surprised me, though, was that Harvey Barnes was on the bench and obviously scored against Tottenham, played really well.
officialgspn: Yeah.
Michael: Yeah.
Iain Mackay the Noo: I'm not really sure what he has to do to get a first -team berth, certainly when it's Murphy that's slotting him from. I think it might have just been political to let Anthony Gordon have a match where he starts on the left instead of forcing him to go down the right, which we know is not his favoured position.
Iain Mackay the Noo: So i think I think Barnes on the bench was the biggest surprise to me. Delighted though to see my my dark horse for player of the season, Joe Willick, to be back from injury.
officialgspn: Yeah, I was really happy to see that Willock was back within the squad. Fair enough, he didn't start the game, but the fact that he was on the bench was obviously a good sign because against Tottenham, he came off injured, didn't he? So that was a good sign to see. I am with you on Barnes being on the bench. Yeah, I was a little bit shocked about that. Now, I know Joe is massively in the Jacob Murphy fan club, like I think half of it are, half of it is on. But ah Yeah, I'm not really too sure what Barnes has got to do to get in that starting lineup, but I think you're probably right, Ian.
officialgspn: I think it's maybe more of a political thing of getting Anthony Gordon on the left instead of forcing him down the right -hand side, but we will touch more on Barnes a little bit later, I think.
Iain Mackay the Noo: Ahem.
officialgspn: Michael, what did you make of the first starting 11 when it was released?
Michael: Yeah, so very similar bonds for Murphy when I was going to talk about him later. But that was the main thing that shocked me. I did think he would be a little bit more defensive with Kelly and for Hall.
officialgspn: Yeah.
officialgspn: Yeah.
Michael: I'm glad he didn't because Hall was fantastic on international duty. But I thought, you know what, they've got that Strand Larson up front, big lad. So maybe he'll go for the extra sort of extra center back.
Michael: And to be honest, maybe you should have in the end thought hall had a lot of physical battles out there today and you know i'll we'll get onto it later but i don't think he covered himself in glory same with tino but to be honest i think that the lineup was pretty much as expected except from that barnes and murphy uh call
Iain Mackay the Noo: On Friday we decided that Shah would come straight in despite Kraft having probably played his best game at centre -half in the previous match.
officialgspn: Yeah.
Iain Mackay the Noo: Nobody else was surprised that Shah stepped straight back into that team.
Michael: No, not in the slightest.
Iain Mackay the Noo: now
officialgspn: No, absolutely not.
Iain Mackay the Noo: no
officialgspn: No, yeah, I totally agree. When I listened back to that pod on Friday, when you were discussing that, I kind of almost expected Shah to spit my words out, to just go back into his position. I think someone like Shah, he performs like 10 out of 10 every game, doesn't he? I'm not saying Kraft doesn't, but you yeah, you can't just, you can't give Shah that position up. he He's absolutely brilliant. I agree with you guys on that one.
officialgspn: So I think we'll end part one there and we will go to our first adverts. Please, Michael.
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officialgspn: Lovely job.
Iain Mackay the Noo: I think we can tell that Michael is stressed.
officialgspn: Thank you very much.
Iain Mackay the Noo: No hand signals. note sony No Tony the Tiger impersonation.
Michael: glued to the floor.
Iain Mackay the Noo: No Tony the Tiger impersonation. I mean, our listeners are listening for that now, Michael, when you do the Zencast one.
Michael: Hi, it's a one time treat.
Iain Mackay the Noo: Come on.
officialgspn: and yeah he dress
Michael: One time treat.
Iain Mackay the Noo: I'm disappointed.
Michael: Maybe a two time treat listening during in the week to find out.
officialgspn: and
Iain Mackay the Noo: but
officialgspn: thank you guys. at part two sorry Back in part one we covered off the start and line up and then part two I thought we'd dig a little bit deeper into the game, particularly the first half. So I'm gonna kick this one off by saying and I'm gonna get absolutely slaughtered for this opinion like I always do every week when I have an opinion on Newcastle. Apparently I don't know what I'm talking about half the time but that's totally fine. um I actually don't think we played well at all.
officialgspn: I'm going to be honest. I don't think, I think we were quite slow from the get go, really, really slow. we looked compact, don't get me wrong, but there was something just not clicking.
officialgspn: I think Michael, you mentioned it in the chat of getting the ball to Anthony Gordon, just hoping for the best.
Michael: Yeah.
officialgspn: Wasn't quite working, was it? Let's be honest. And I actually think we deserve to go 1 -0 down at points. I'm not saying Wolves played 10 out of 10 either, because I don't,
Michael: Yeah, I mean,
Iain Mackay the Noo: a Yeah.
officialgspn: Oh, that's my opinion.
Michael: Yeah.
officialgspn: I just think we played slow and not saying wolves played 10 out of 10. But when they went one, when they went one up, I wasn't surprised.
Michael: I think it was a ah tale of two poor teams in the first half. I'm not going to say the Wolves deserved it because, ah ah to be honest, first half I thought they were pretty dreadful.
officialgspn: Yeah.
Michael: The goal itself was a brilliant play Joe Gomez, the midfielder.
officialgspn: paul
officialgspn: yeah
Michael: It's the only time in the half that Stroun Lawson actually got the better of Dan Byrne. It's unfortunate they had ended.
officialgspn: so
Michael: I thought other than that, Byrne was relatively solid. but ah Their best moments came from us being poor on the ball. Our passing in the final three just wasn't quite there, which is about mad, because at the start of the game, I actually thought, oh, hang on.
officialgspn: Yeah.
Michael: We're playing with a bit of tempo here. The passing's OK. It's a bit more crisper. And then I don't know what it was, about 15th, 20th minute.
officialgspn: Get back.
Michael: Everything just seemed to slow down a little bit.
officialgspn: Yeah.
Iain Mackay the Noo: Can I, if I can offer an opinion there, Michael, I think it's complacency. I think we were clear so much, so much more superior in the first 10, 15 minutes.
officialgspn: Yeah.
Michael: You might be right.
Iain Mackay the Noo: But I don't know, maybe we're missing ah ah a real leader or two on the pitch called Kieran, who would be able to motivate the team to actually get off their ass and work as hard as they need to, to put these teams to the sword.
Iain Mackay the Noo: But I think we didn't. We took our foot off the gas. We were just coasting. We're playing at walking pace. Shah. Shah can can turn his body four or five different directions and the ball is stationary at his feet.
Iain Mackay the Noo: I mean, come on, pick it up and move it. Let's go. But yeah, I think I think we were thinking it was going to be way too easy and got a real wake up call when they scored. And of course, if everybody is playing at half speed, it's really difficult to run.
officialgspn: Yeah.
Iain Mackay the Noo: It's really difficult to pick up and go. And I think that's why Eddie straight away mixed things up at half time. three substitutions at half time. I mean, that's unheard of in the Eddie Hand manual there.
officialgspn: A lot. Yeah.
Michael: Yeah, absolutely.
officialgspn: We're going to touch more on the substitutions, more in part three, because I thought they were obviously very key when they when obviously they got brought on. But going back to the first half, by me saying, I just need to clear this up before I get absolutely hounded.
officialgspn: By us going 1 -0 down, I feel like Wolves deserved it. What I'll probably mean more by that is I feel like we deserve to go 1 -0 down because of how complacent we were looking on the pitch.
Iain Mackay the Noo: Hmm.
officialgspn: Like I think I've touched on this before, particularly in our first two games of the season.
Michael: Yeah.
officialgspn: We start, you know, like the first 10 to 15 minutes, we start well. And then I've said it before, we then just drop back and it seems to just be this really slow looking quite unmotivated at
officialgspn: And it is a little bit concerning. I'm not going to lie. Obviously, I am absolutely ecstatic that we got the win. I'm not sitting here saying that I'm annoyed or anything like that. I'm obviously so ecstatic that we got the win.
officialgspn: But the fact that we're starting to look complacent in places is is concerning. And I don't know if you guys feel like that. it is a little bit concerning.
Michael: Yeah.
officialgspn: Week in, week out, I'm watching Danburn get outpaced at the back. I'm not, that's not me saying I think Dan Byrne had a bad game today because I don't think he did, but I'm watching players like himself get outpaced week in week out. Something needs to change and I'm actually not too sure what it is or what's actually missing or if it's something deeper going on behind the scenes, like away from the pitch. How are you guys feeling in general about that? Because I don't know if it's just me being a bit of a negative Nancy, to be honest.
Iain Mackay the Noo: over to our other negative Nancy, Michael. but
Michael: Yeah, I mean, know I can start. be honest, I do agree. I think something had didn't need to change. I said in the first, I said in the chat in the first half, if he doesn't make changes at half time, this is finishing two nil wolves. And to be honest, it probably should have. But we'll go in on more into that later. up But yeah my main issue with the first half is maybe something that hasn't been picked up on. And it's not actually to do with Newcastle.
Michael: How was Nelson Samado not booked in that first half? He made four fouls. One of them was a slide tackle on Anthony Gordon when he hasn't got the ball at his feet. And then in the second half, he does that little hand movement to get the ball away and eventually gets the yellow card there. So it's one of those where the referee for me you had a poor first half second i thought he was pretty decent well i can't blame i can't blame the referee for new castle not being very good thought we were weak in midfield i thought joe linton put very poor on the ball good off it long staff
officialgspn: Yeah.
Michael: I can't just say poor all right. But I am probably going to say poor all right. He didn't have a very good game at all. But the positives were that you know every time we did sort of get the ball on that left -hand side, Hall and Gordon looked very dangerous. So I'm going to end on a positive there.
officialgspn: Yeah, I agree.
Iain Mackay the Noo: Well, I think we could we've got to acknowledge from the first half, Gordon's fantastic turn and skinning of the fullback and cutting inside and that, that lovely shot that clicked the outside of the post.
officialgspn: They did look really good.
Michael: Yeah.
Iain Mackay the Noo: That deserved a goal. But would there be more nil up then?
Michael: Yeah, smashing.
Iain Mackay the Noo: Who knows what would have happened then? But I think maybe that knocked a bit of the stuffing out of us when we hadn't taken the lead. It doesn't help that Longstaff, who's in the team for his running, isn't running.
officialgspn: Yeah.
Iain Mackay the Noo: He was anonymous.
officialgspn: No.
Michael: Yeah.
Iain Mackay the Noo: I thought Murphy, I thought Murphy was pedestrian as well. You don't agree, Michael?
Michael: Oh, no, no, I very much agree. Jacob Murphy was absolutely dreadful.
Iain Mackay the Noo: I can't believe he finished the game.
Michael: He said Jacob Murphy, so I did that. Yeah, horrendous.
Iain Mackay the Noo: I can't believe he finished the game.
officialgspn: Yeah.
Michael: i I was calling at the start of the season from the start, potentially getting the England team.
Iain Mackay the Noo: although we were
Michael: He'll be lucky if he makes it into our team in a couple of weeks, if he keeps playing like that. But I digress.
Iain Mackay the Noo: Anyway, Eddie did do the right thing at halftime, and we all called that out in the first half. We even picked the players who were substituted, and I picked the players who were coming on. Although didn't know that Isaac
officialgspn: yeah I didn't realise ESAC, could I don't know where I was looking, obviously it's got more on my mind than what I thought, but
officialgspn: Obviously, I've seen the three substitutions come on and then I noticed Isak had gone off. So I'm hoping he's not going to be out for a long time because Mbappe struggled with his nose break for quite a while, didn't he? Not like I'm comparing them to your players, by the way, but he was out, not not out for a while, but he struggled for a little bit, didn't he, during the Euros with his nose break.
Michael: Yeah.
officialgspn: So, yeah, let's hope for a quick time.
Michael: Yeah. There was also. Yeah, there's also something that I sort of noticed in the first half. You know, when we had the break where it sort of bounced off a Wolves defender, bounced towards Zzak, could have tried to play Gordon through.
officialgspn: Yeah.
Michael: If you notice at the end of that move, he's moving a little gingerly on his leg anyways, so it might not it might not be his face, which is worst case scenario.
officialgspn: Right, I don't know what's that.
Michael: hopefully it's just a precaution but the fact that he was still in the dressing room for the vast majority of the second half it probably tells us it's a face injury but there is just that sort of worry of oh he was moving a little gingerly anyways so we'll see
officialgspn: Yeah.
officialgspn: Yeah. Yeah.
officialgspn: Let's hope for a quick recovery then, if it is hopefully just a face injury. Just to sum that whole part up, we're going to go with, we thought we were not at our best, not our worst, but not our our best. We'll take the positives from the left hand side of Anthony Gordon and Hall looking at very, very strong. And we did go one nil down, but we're not even going to touch on that because m we won the game, so it's fine.
officialgspn: We will end part two there and we will end that with a lovely advert from Ian. Thank you.
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officialgspn: Thank you, Ian.
Iain Mackay the Noo: Back to you, Joe.
Iain Mackay the Noo: sorry, Nicola.
officialgspn: oh Thank you.
Iain Mackay the Noo: I can't resist it now.
Michael: I might just leave now.
officialgspn: And welcome honestly, welcome back to part three of the Daily Newcastle podcast. So I thought in this part, we could discuss the substitutions that Eddie made at halftime.
officialgspn: Now, I think we've all touched on before, whether it was us three or, you know, whoever, maybe it was all of us, we've Some of us have said that we sometimes believe that Eddie makes substitutions way too late into the game, normally around the 70 minute mark, and which for me is sometimes just a little bit too late. And I was always wondering like why he was taking so long to acknowledge the fact that the game needed a bit of a change. But today, I felt like he's spotted this he's spotted that the game needs something different, a change straight away. And we've seen three substitutions at half time.
officialgspn: which we all said they all need to come on. So we had Tenali, Willock, and who was everyone?
Michael: You know,
Iain Mackay the Noo: Bombs.
Michael: bonds.
officialgspn: That's it.
Iain Mackay the Noo: Bombs.
officialgspn: Oh my God. and We see them all come out on that 45 minutes. Now, i I think Kev said this in our group just before, just as the second half was kicking off in the first 10 minutes.
officialgspn: I didn't think they made the impact that we all probably thought they would straight away. But as that second half went on, you see, and how much impact they eventually had on the game. And I've got to be honest, Barnes for me just has to be starting the games going forward. I don't understand why he's not.
Iain Mackay the Noo: I think, if you don't mind me saying, you've missed a critical ah ah critical step out there, because let's be honest, those three guys were the three guys who we were calling for. They came on. I wasn't sure Tenali hadn't gone straight back off again, because he didn't see him in the first 15 minutes.
officialgspn: Yeah Yeah Yeah
Iain Mackay the Noo: I actually said, Eddie's got to make more changes, and I hope he does it before we go too down. And just at that point was when he put Kieran Trippier on 65th minute, or whatever it was, 13 -0.
Iain Mackay the Noo: That was the critical substitution. When Trippia came on, everything everybody looked a little bit more relaxed. We actually started finding our mojo again.
Iain Mackay the Noo: We started finding some some good crosses into the box. Harvard Barnes has been found out wide in space.
officialgspn: Hmm.
Iain Mackay the Noo: I think Trippia coming on was the was the critical substitution that was made. Because ultimately, those substitutes that came on in the first half were the ones that won us the game, was Willick, who set
officialgspn: Yeah.
Iain Mackay the Noo: barns up and Tenali could have made it three not long after.
officialgspn: Mm hmm.
Iain Mackay the Noo: So they did ultimately change the game for us but I think it needed the magic key of Kieran Trippier's calmness and leadership at the back for to actually to start to gel into the team that we know that they can be.
Iain Mackay the Noo: What do you think?
officialgspn: Yeah.
officialgspn: I've said before that Kieran Trippier is a very natural leader, and he's actually one of my favourite ever players to wear a Newcastle shirt, so I will always stand by that.
Michael: I think...
officialgspn: And the fact that you've pointed that out has actually made me think, are our players more comfortable when Kieran is on the pitch? Does he just have that natural ability to calm the play right down?
officialgspn: Maybe he does, maybe maybe you're right, because you are right when he comes on, things just change ever so slightly, don't they? do you think to that, Michael? Sorry, I cut you off then.
Iain Mackay the Noo: Now.
Michael: It's alright, don't worry. I think, to be honest, and I probably am going to sound a little and negative here, but I don't think it was even so much as Trippier coming on, but Tino going off, and I i love Tino Livrimendo, but he had his worst game in a Newcastle shirt by a country mile, and that happens to players. They're allowed to have a bad game, but You do find that when trivia has a bad game he still got that little bit of quality on the ball that still makes them valuable to the team. I mean they had one corner that was absolutely dreadful but for the most of the time calm on the ball as you said in that he's a very calm and presence and I think Tino's a little erratic.
Michael: he he He comes in for 50 -50s, misses it, and then the Wolves go on a break. That happened a couple of times, and let's be honest, when Dan Burns, your centre -back, I know it's he's on the other side, but Fabian Scherer ain't blessed with pace either.
Michael: You know, when you've got our two centre -backs, if you're the fullback and you cut you're going into that 50 -50, you've got to win it.
Iain Mackay the Noo: And.
Michael: And, yeah, Trippie doesn't always do that either, but I think there was more Tino coming off.
officialgspn: Yeah.
Michael: than trivia being sort of the main man that came on and but you know i don't think any change you make in the world probably doesn't equate for Fabian Cher kicking it off Dawson's head let's just say it was it wasn't a lucky deflection it was a brilliantly aimed shot off Dawson's head into the top corner and yeah you can't predict that but we were getting better up until that point so now who knows what would have happened
Iain Mackay the Noo: I accept Tino didn't have brilliant game. However, I still think he played, he he contributed more than Murphy did.
Iain Mackay the Noo: I was screaming for a trip here to come on to replace Murphy.
Michael: so Yeah.
officialgspn: yeah you did yeah
Iain Mackay the Noo: Push Livromento further up on the right. But if he wants to go into midfield, let's push him up there and see what he can do further up the pitch. But anyway, ultimately,
Iain Mackay the Noo: it worked and when Hall went down crocked at the end we did have somebody who could slot in at at ah left wing back because Murphy was still on the pitch.
Michael: Yeah.
officialgspn: yeah Yeah, I just want to spend a couple of minutes just focusing on the two goals because I feel like they deserve both deserve massive shout outs. I kind of want to end the podcast on a massive positive to be honest.
officialgspn: so that's shaw goal. He, I mean, he's come back from a three match band.
Iain Mackay the Noo: yeah
Michael: Yeah.
officialgspn: He's hit that beautifully. beautifully. dason Um, of dawkin said sorry. So he's hit that and it's gone, it's gone into the goal. And I sat there and I was talking to my husband and I was saying,
officialgspn: He just knows how and when to strike a ball. And they always seem to come from absolutely nothing.
Michael: Yeah.
officialgspn: Nothing.
Michael: yeah
officialgspn: And obviously that made the game 1 -1. And I feel like that pinnacle moment of the game changed the game for Newcastle. I think that's when they thought, right, we're going out and we're going to win it. And that's when I saw the Newcastle change.
officialgspn: I saw the Newcastle change when the Shargar went in and from when Trippia came on. i will I will give him that. When Trippia came on, I did see the difference in in our side.
Michael: 100%.
officialgspn: And I just want to talk about the Barnes goal as well, because what an absolutely stunning, stunning strike. And I said it three times now, I think, on this podcast, but I'm going to call it, for me, Harvey Barnes has to start against Fulham. Has to start against Fulham. That's him scored against Wolves and against Tottenham now, and he has to start. I don't know if you guys agree. I don't know what you think of that, but I just think He deserves his start and spot now. What that does for Anthony Gordon, obviously I presume that'll push him over to the right maybe. Who knows? so But what do you guys think of that? And the goals, obviously your opinion on the goals.
Iain Mackay the Noo: I think flip the Fabian Shaw one is if he had just driven that into the goal instead of having the curl on it
officialgspn: Hmm.
Iain Mackay the Noo: I think it hits Dawson and flies over the bar. But because it's got that little bit of finesse on it, it's sort of a glancing blow off the top of his head.
Michael: Yeah.
Iain Mackay the Noo: Yeah, it deviates it up so that Goldie's got no chance of getting to it. But I think that was that was a great strike. The Harvey Barnes one is ah ah is a piece of art and very Gordon -like, very Gordon -like in the way that he takes it away from two defenders and then kills it in at the far post.
officialgspn: Yeah.
officialgspn: Mm hmm.
officialgspn: Yeah.
Iain Mackay the Noo: Anthony Gordon must have stood and watched that from his lonely centre -forward position and thought, I could have done that. Not when you're playing centre -forward, you can't. um I think Harvey Barnes is in great form, but the glimpses we've seen, pre -season, he's been in great form all the time. He's got to start. We've just got to hope that Anthony Gordon's okay playing down the right, although if Isaac is injured, Gordon might start as the false centre -forward.
officialgspn: Yeah.
Iain Mackay the Noo: and Murphy will keep his place.
Michael: Oh, no.
officialgspn: Oh God, it's not what we needed, is it?
Michael: oh
Iain Mackay the Noo: Sorry, but you wanted to finish on a high, didn't you? No, Isaac will be fit for Fulham, Gordon will be down the right, Barnes will be down the left, and all the other Premier League teams that watched match of the day tonight will be terrified of how lethal that from three will look when they're playing together.
Michael: Absolutely.
officialgspn: I agree.
Michael: absolutely
officialgspn: Michael, what are you saying?
Michael: I thought you wanted to end on a positive.
officialgspn: Unbeaten.
Michael: This isn't a good one. No, I actually, to be honest, the remaining points I do have are very positive. I think when you look at it, Await and Molyneux, we very rarely win. We have done.
Michael: but three We're three, we played both Wolves and Beaumoth last season, and exactly the same games. We were three points better off from those two games alone. So we're third in the table.
Michael: We've got our best start since 1994 -95. So yeah, I know we've not played very well. But we have been excellent on paper. So for that, we're slow starters. We always get better. If things are getting better, we're winning the bloody league.
Iain Mackay the Noo: We are, I tell you what, two two games it'll take, Michael.
officialgspn: coming.
Iain Mackay the Noo: We win at Fulham and assume Manchester City win their game as well. But then City come to St James's Park, only two points ahead of us. So when we beat City at St James's Park, we go top of the league.
Michael: Yeah.
Iain Mackay the Noo: Simple as.
Michael: Convincing 4 -0 win over City. Here we go. Top of the league Mags.
officialgspn: and
Michael: There you have it.
officialgspn: And I'm just going to also just end this podcast and by saying the fact that we're sitting third, we're unbeaten in the league and we are above Liverpool in the league right now is giving me pure joy because my husband supports Liverpool and it's just looking nice and pretty sitting above them.
Iain Mackay the Noo: yeah yes
Iain Mackay the Noo: Is your husband Tyler?
officialgspn: Yes.
Iain Mackay the Noo: Or is that the dog? Where's Tyler?
Michael: Stop the talk!
Iain Mackay the Noo: Stick the pen in your pipe and smoke it Tyler.
officialgspn: Yeah, that's him. so I think that's a good place to end the podcast. So we overall, we're happy that we got the two one win a little bit stressed to begin with, but as the game went on, we're happy for the win. We are unbeaten in the league and we are sitting third in the table. So overall, not a bad start to our premier league campaign. So I would like to thank you both for joining me today on the podcast and thank you everyone for listening and we will be back tomorrow with a brand new episode.
