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Daily Newcastl: Newcastle vs Ipswich: Crossover Preview
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Iain is joined by Rob of the Daily Ipswich podcast to discuss Ipswich's ultimately failed return to the Premier League and look forward to Saturday afternoon's crucial battle for the three points available to aid Newcastle's Champions League push.
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Introduction and Special Crossover
00:00:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the Daily Newcastle. My name is Ian Mackay. I'm hosting tonight a special crossover edition.
Newcastle vs Ipswich: Game Implications
00:00:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm joined tonight by Rob from the Daily Ipswich to preview Saturday's game, a good old-fashioned three o'clock kickoff on a Saturday afternoon.
00:00:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't think we've got any more of them left this season. um
00:00:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
When Newcastle face Ipswich, Ipswich with a a rather unlikely route to safety, if we're honest. ah But Newcastle obviously chasing those points, desperate for any points that they can get in their quest for a Champions League place.
Ipswich's Relegation and Recovery Prospects
00:00:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Rob, thank you very much for joining. How are you?
00:00:56
Rob Binns
I'm doing good, mate. umm I'm enjoying what's left of the Premier League while I can. so and Like you say, unless we do some miracle run of results to end the season, I'm i'm just trying to take in what i can before we drop back down.
00:01:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, yeah. um
00:01:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
know it's not really a death in the family, is It's not really as important as that. But we've been relegated from the Premier League twice in my recent memory anyway. 2009, 2016, I think. around there.
00:01:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's awful. It's awful. So my commiserations on that. um
00:01:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you think... You're in a better position going back down to bounce straight back up. Can you not tell yet because of what changes there might be in the summer? and Or is it chaos?
00:01:51
Rob Binns
I think we're in a better position. I think certainly in the attacking sense, I've said this many times over the last few weeks, that there's a lot of players in our squad that, whether they've come up with us um from last year or from League One as well on the journey, or just been signed this year, there's a lot of players in there that I think have come to regular Premier League football too early.
00:02:15
Rob Binns
And I think got dropping down the Championship for a year, being able to hit some decent numbers, so have have things their own way a little bit more than they do in the Premier League. I think that little boost of confidence will do wonders for
Ipswich Squad Changes and Strategies
00:02:26
Rob Binns
them.
00:02:26
Rob Binns
And hopefully that'll be, they'll sort of fly in, we'll come back up at the first attempt, then they'll all come back up loads more confidence and also a year's worth of experience in the first time round that hopefully will stand us in better stead for a second spell.
00:02:40
Rob Binns
But I say it's all in theory at the moment because there's no guarantees on what our squad looks like at the end of the day. At the moment, especially given the two teams that have gone up,
00:02:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, that's true.
00:02:50
Rob Binns
So now Leeds and Burnley are out of the way. There's um like our squad is far and the away the best in the league when you compare it to what's in the championship already. But it's it's what you keep hold on to.
00:03:01
Rob Binns
Like I'm fairly confident not many will leave, but you never know, do you? That I can say that now and then six players might leave and that'll rip through the core of squad. You don't know. But certainly at this stage, I'm fairly confident for next season.
00:03:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah every
00:03:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, certainly you'd be able to watch how Burnley do you because they're in exactly the same position in that they've bounced straight back up.
00:03:20
Rob Binns
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:03:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
They've hung on to most of the team, if not their manager, who sometimes somehow managed to wangle a job at Bayern Munich by getting them relegated. ah McKenna might be off to Barcelona, you never know, if that logic applies.
00:03:37
Rob Binns
Mm-hmm.
00:03:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
um What's the feeling? anymore Do you think he'll hold on to the rest of the players? I'm thinking in particular of De Lapp. Obviously, it's his second year with you.
De Lapp's Performance and Transfer Options
00:03:50
Rob Binns
At first, no he said was only sung in the summer, yeah.
00:03:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because he was quite... it was Did he?
00:03:54
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:03:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
and Apologies for that. I thought he was there. um I'm getting confused with somebody else, obviously. Do you think he'd be moving on? I mean, I know there's a lot of teams after him, but he must realise he's on to a good thing at Ipswich. He's loved there.
00:04:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
He could get some great numbers, as you say, next year. enhances reputation. um And he probably knows he's too young to go chasing the money just yet. What is the feeling in Ipswich about whether you're going to hang on to him or not?
00:04:25
Rob Binns
He's going to go. there the We can try fairy tale it and say, obviously, we know he's had a good time here. We know he's enjoyed his football and he likes the way we play. he likes McKenna as a manager, but he won't be playing championship football next year.
00:04:38
Rob Binns
And from our side of things, obviously, it's a lot of money in the championship. I think i think he's got relegation clause of £30 million is what's getting reported around in the media.
00:04:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:04:49
Rob Binns
So I'm saying in the championship, that's a great deal of money to have. And it's a good deal good little bit of profit from us from the 10, 15 million we bought him for as well that can then be redistributed round everywhere. And obviously, hopefully we can stock up. we We will need a striker, definitely. that I think George Hurst will do well in the Championship. He's been a very good backup in the Premier League. He was good before his injury last time Championship as well. But we need somebody else. We can't, because he is injury prone, we can't go in with him nailed on starter and
00:05:22
Rob Binns
not have a real top quality backup option because his luck with injuries is terrible. And so I think the app's nailed on the go. that But I can say, if you get 30 million quid, you can take a third of that and get a top end championship striker for that.
00:05:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
00:05:37
Rob Binns
So if we, I think it's, it will go, but I think we can, we can redistribute it well.
00:05:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
You could have a word with that
00:05:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
could have a word with Callum Wilson on Saturday.
00:05:48
Rob Binns
Yeah, maybe, yeah.
00:05:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
He might be, I mean he's fit again, he's fit again. and And he'd be available on the free.
00:05:52
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:05:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just a thought, just because you mentioned that.
00:05:56
Rob Binns
Yeah, of course he will, yeah.
00:05:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Of course, your situation mirrors a little bit our situation, which we've lived with all the way through this season, about which team is going to sign Alexander Izak from us.
00:06:08
Rob Binns
Mm-hmm.
00:06:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I think we're on the other side in that we're sure that he's so happy at Newcastle and that we put such a high price tag on him. He's still got years of his contract left to run, but he won't be moving on.
00:06:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
But of course, if there is actually a £150 million line on the table, Who's to say that they wouldn't think, well, if we take this, we're sorted for the next five years transfer-wise, because they probably would be. um That's why it's key for us, I think, that we get into the top five and we qualify for the Champions League, because it's got no reason to move anywhere else if we can do that.
00:06:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's why this is a super important game for us too on Saturday, Rob.
Newcastle's Champions League Aspirations
00:06:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
um we were going along very nicely and moved into third, won six on the bounce and thought, oh, right, we've just got to get a draw at Villa and then we've got another run of games where we'll be cementing our place in the Champions League places.
00:07:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
But sitting through the torture of being outplayed by a Villa from, well, they took the lead after 30 seconds on Saturday, was it Saturday tea time?
00:07:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
And to be fair, they beat us 4-1, they could have but could have been 4-1 at half time. And then that was before they brought the substitutes on, which really destroyed us. um So yeah, so our confidence, I think, has taken a little bit of a knot.
00:07:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've got quite a good record of bouncing back from these setbacks though. um And I don't underestimate the challenge that Ipswich present, but I think The Newcastle crowd generally are thinking this is a gimme for us. and But I was looking at tim ah your results and it's at home where you've really, really been truly awful because the away results haven't been that bad. It's narrow defeats.
00:08:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's turned It's a great draw at Chelsea, a draw at Villa. and That's where the wins have come as well, away from home. Do you want to win at Bournemouth? which you could really teach us a thing or two about picking up points at Bournemouth or Villa, please, or Chelsea. um So, yeah, so that's why I think it's a very, very dangerous game for us on Saturday, and particularly if you've already resigned to the fact that you're going down and you relax a little bit.
Ipswich's Home vs Away Performance
00:08:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
and Yeah, I'm um' a bit concerned. Are you... But then you were truly awful against Arsenal, though, in the thinking that that is that's that's you just relaxing and enjoying the challenge.
00:08:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
um How are you feeling about Saturday?
00:08:59
Rob Binns
it's it's just a free hit basically every every game is at this point that we keep saying it on our on our pod now in the week is that at this point we're just trying to make and try and make another couple of memories before we go because if we can get another couple of wins on the board just so make the numbers look a little bit nicer than they are we've and so we've we've had six wins in all competitions to celebrate this season saying two of those against lower league teams in the FA Cup that
00:09:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:09:27
Rob Binns
We haven't had much to take from the season really after obviously getting pretty used to winning games the last couple of years when we've flown through League One and the Championship that's been a bit of a shock to the system this year to suddenly, like you say, the home form especially to... Portland Road was such a horrible place for people to come and visit in League One the Championship and we really thought that that would be our only chance, that we'd have to do well at home and then take what we can get on the road and maybe we'll just about scrape over the line.
00:09:56
Rob Binns
To win one game there has been the big shock of the year. and
00:10:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, for everyone i would have thought.
00:10:01
Rob Binns
but as' ah it's we just Hopefully we can cancel that out. yeah It's just strange that the win is against Chelsea as well. That's the thing. that I think there's so many games, like Leicester, for example, we we will we should have beat and we considered in the ninety fourth minute.
00:10:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah that
00:10:15
Rob Binns
we Bournemouth, we were 1-0 up to five minutes to go lost 2-1. There's been other games that we've been well in the game and just and somehow then randomly, yeah, Chelsea, who were doing fairly fairly good at the time, turned up and got turned over.
00:10:30
Rob Binns
Doesn't make sense to me, but hopefully we can end on more than one by the end of the year.
00:10:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Now that's, as all of the best pundits say, that's football, Rob.
00:10:39
Rob Binns
okay Yeah, yeah.
00:10:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
You can't explain it, can you? That's why we love it. i' want going to pause there, Rob, and just let Kenny Davis give us his dulcet tones about Bionique for 30 seconds or so.
00:11:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Now you see when Michael uses that Bionique advert, he's tried all sorts of things. It always just repeats. I never have that trouble. I didn't have to cut Ken off there. He just stopped after doing it the first time.
Bionique Supplements: A Lighthearted Discussion
00:11:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah right Whenever I listen to that as well, I ask whoever I'm talking to, what would your three ingredients be for your Bionique personalized supplement?
00:11:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mine's pizza, Stella Artois and ice cream. I need some tablets with that in it.
00:11:58
Rob Binns
It's a great combination. I'll steal the pizza one, definitely. Love a pizza.
00:12:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Good stuff. Well, just have triple pizza.
00:12:09
Rob Binns
Yeah, I can't complain at that, yeah.
00:12:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
It'd be easy for them. They're just but hu hotline to dominoes. This is your personalised supplement, Rob.
00:12:15
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:12:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's pepperoni with extra cheese. and Sorry, got distracted a bit there. um So, Newcastle, if I may say, were very easy to predict over the course of the last six games since the
Newcastle's Lineup Strategy
00:12:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Carabao Cup Finals.
00:12:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
and possibly because Eddie Howe has been missing for the last couple of games. and They've just played the same 11. They've started with the same 11, six games running, which is pretty unheard of in the yeah in the modern game because we're all about rotation and squads, but we've just picked the same 11 to start, which kind of came back and bit us last week with a heavy defeat.
00:12:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't think... People have tried to say we were tired on that. I don't think we were tired. I think we we were really fit, actually, to keep it at 1-1 for the hour. I thought everyone was working really, really hard, earning the luck that they got on the first half with some sterling last-ditch defending.
00:13:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
But the substitutes came on and still wound us. I think they scored three goals in six minutes to go from one all to 4-1. and So I can't just say to you, oh yeah, we'll pick the same team. I think the team will largely be unchanged.
00:13:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
um I've certainly not heard of anybody being injured at all. um
00:13:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think they'll want to try and give Anthony Gordon a run out, but I don't think they'll want to drop Harvey Barnes for that. So maybe we could see Anthony Gordon on the left and Barnes down the right, with Murphy sitting on the bench.
00:13:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
00:13:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
It'd brave manager who would leave either Bruno or Joe Linton or Tonali out of the midfield, which up until Saturday we were sure was the strongest midfield in in the Premier League.
00:14:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
One or two players itching to get on. Lewis Miley should get some minutes, I hope, in preparation for next year, if
Ipswich's Injury Challenges and Tactics
00:14:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
nothing else. Joe Willock is always much better when he plays from the start.
00:14:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I don't think we'll have very many changes at all. Obviously, Isak will start up front, even if he's on one leg. and How about Ipswich? How will Ipswich get a line-up?
00:14:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
You've lost Leif Davis, is it? Who's got a Newcastle connection. Is he from Newcastle? can't remember what the connection is.
00:14:39
Rob Binns
Yeah, he is. ah Because that was, I mean, it seems so silly when you think back now, I remember at the start the season that I was really, I thought it was like nailed on that he was going to sign him for you at the end of the year because you were still playing Dan Burner left back at the time and there wasn't much, and wasn't much known about Lewis Hall at that point.
00:14:59
Rob Binns
And obviously he'd had a fantastic year in the championship.
00:15:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
no Well,
00:15:01
Rob Binns
I thought he was going to fly into the Premier League and were going to lose him for a big fee. he'd go back to his hometown club and then turns out Lewis Hall is one of the best left-backs in the Premier League and Davis has not taken taken to the league as well as we all hoped he would.
00:15:16
Rob Binns
seems quite laughable now, the idea that we might have got 30 million quid for him.
00:15:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Lewis Hall, of course.
00:15:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
so Well, ah he's got Premier League experience now and he has been has been identified and talked about.
00:15:23
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:15:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
So he you know he's performed quite well. But he got sent off against Arsenal, so he's missing, isn't he? Oh
00:15:32
Rob Binns
Yeah, that's the that's the problem position for us because... Connor Townsend, who's the backup, and arguably, we spoke about this recently, in my opinion, been the better option in the last few weeks.
00:15:43
Rob Binns
He's injured. So, i say the solution against Arsenal was to push Jacob Greaves to left-back and play an extra centre-half.
00:15:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
dear.
00:15:50
Rob Binns
So, ah think that's what we're going to do again because I don't... think Ipswich is a hard one because McKenna and the club generally just give nothing away about injuries.
00:16:01
Rob Binns
You're like, I've i've ah tried to pick up on the old cue of what it actually means, but they say nothing. they're like You won't find out somebody's injured until they're suddenly not in the matchday squad on the Saturday. it won't It won't get brought up in the press conference or anything. It'll just suddenly be, hang on, where's he gone? And then the interview before the game, I go, yeah, oh yeah, he's done his groin in training.
00:16:20
Rob Binns
it's and It's a nightmare, but yeah, it's a quote it's a question mark if it's on Townsend.
00:16:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
It works the other way with our guys.
00:16:26
Rob Binns
Was it, yeah? Yeah.
00:16:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
it' Yeah, well, Tindall has taken a leaf out of Eddie Howe's book and he's very, he's, you know, he's been struggling. He hasn't trained with the group yet.
00:16:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
um We'll have to see how he does today and then maybe give him a late fitness test. And of course he's fit and he's in the team. So it works the other way in that they...
00:16:47
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:16:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
in that they hide who's coming back. Botman, Sven Botman, is apparently likely to take a part on Saturday. I think that might be sitting on the bench and coming on just for 10 minutes.
00:17:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
But it will be good for Newcastle if he can get some game time, because we need him match fit when we've got the last three games, we've got are Chelsea at home, Arsenal away, Everton at home. And that that is a tough run to try and get your maximum points if we are...
00:17:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
leading that. A lot of that depends on you and Brighton, of course.
00:17:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Brighton being a big bogey team for us. um So even if they're in awful form, when we go down there, they generally beat us. So yeah, so it's nerve-wracking.
00:17:25
Rob Binns
Yep.
00:17:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
So left-back's a problem position. What about up front? Because I noticed that DeLapp, despite all of those great figures he's got for the season, hasn't started either of the last two games.
00:17:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
What's the issue there?
00:17:55
Rob Binns
Well, the party line is rib injury, but Tim Forhat, GSBN Daily Ipswich theory is that there's some sort of bonus in his contract that we don't want to pay out and we know he's going to leave.
00:18:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, right.
00:18:10
Rob Binns
That's what way we think. Oh, that's what we, because a suit it was a suit. He's been playing like 80, 85 minutes every week, all season. And then suddenly as soon as like relegations nailed on, he started dropping to the bench and only playing 10 minutes here and there. So we're,
00:18:25
Rob Binns
we're theorising it's either he knows he's moving and he doesn't want to get injured and we've got nothing to play for or we we think he's getting close to an appearance or goal bonus or something so we're just being a bit cheeky and going he can on the bench for five games make sure we don't pay out and then also it's a chance to give George Hurst some minutes because he will most likely be number one next year
00:18:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
well
00:18:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
but I mean, if it's a goal bonus that you're trying to avoid paying out, you're just guaranteeing that he's going to leave, aren't you? But I guess if you're as sure that he's definitely going, maybe you've got a hell of a lot of teams circling and and that's because it was made public that he's got this £30 million release clause.
00:18:55
Rob Binns
yeah
00:19:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
But do tell him not to go to Manchester United because otherwise the rest of his current teammates will be passing him next year as they come back up. And Manu finally descend to the championship, which has got to be where they're going. They're not to have any money to spend this summer.
00:19:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
and And who can they sell to raise money and not create a massive, massive loss?
00:19:24
Rob Binns
Well, yeah, you think so.
00:19:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Anyway, that's something that we can all have a little snigger about over the summer. and That poor Amarim, I feel sorry for him. I mean, I felt really pleased when they came back and beat Leon, just because the fella deserves a break.
00:19:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
because It's crap every week for him at that that place.
00:19:44
Rob Binns
Yeah. To be fair, though, so I saw did see a very good point about him the other day, that everyone feels sorry for him and it feels and so he he hasn't got the players to fit his system, but
00:19:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Anyway.
00:19:54
Rob Binns
The Wolves manager came in later in the season, plays the same system, has worse players and has got more points.
Amarim's Tactical Struggles at Manchester United
00:20:02
Rob Binns
It's because he's he's just knuckled down, made the most of what he's got.
00:20:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah They are on a hell of a road.
00:20:06
Rob Binns
Yeah, it can't be like wolves Wolves.
00:20:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
They're on a hell of a road.
00:20:09
Rob Binns
You can't say Wolves squad is better than... Manly Knight's squad is rubbish, but it's better than Wolves' are squad. And he's managed to nail down, just adapt people into the way he wants them to play and get points.
00:20:19
Rob Binns
So there's you have to question why. As much as we all feel sorry for him, how Amarim's not done that, really, in more time as well.
00:20:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, well, he's stubborn and he's stubborn and he wants to play his system, doesn't he he? And he hasn't got the players to do that.
00:20:29
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:20:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
You're right. He's just have to play a different system. and You know, needs must. That's what everybody else would do, but it's not what he's doing. So he just brings it on himself then. All right, I'll go with that. and I'm going to pause there.
00:20:43
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That's the OG original one. It's so much better than the one that they rewrote, which misses all sorts of information out. um And I stick to that. The rest of my team don't. Never mind.
00:21:36
Rob Binns
Thank you.
00:21:37
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Part three.
George Hurst's Future Potential
00:21:39
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Part three, I ought to ask if there are any players that we've not really seen yet who we've got to keep our eye on in the Ipswich side.
00:21:53
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or if it's so bleak there's not really but anybody breaking through anybody even blooded in the Premier League in preparation for a you know a 46 game season next year in the Championship
00:22:08
Rob Binns
ah Well, someone I've mentioned already, actually, the the standout performer in the last couple of weeks has been George Hurst coming in in De Lapp's absence. he He was fantastic in League One, was fantastic in the Championship until he got a horrible injury on Boxing Day and missed basically the rest of the season.
00:22:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
right
00:22:25
Rob Binns
He just plays, like, he just, his role's slightly different to De Lapp. It's fairly similar, but, like, more it's more about getting other players involved rather than doing it all himself, but He was brilliant against Chelsea. He was brilliant, actually, against Brentford earlier in the year. The game, we lost 4-3 at their place.
00:22:42
Rob Binns
he He started that game, scored, and was brilliant. And um that bear in mind, we lost 4-0 to Arsenal and didn't have a shot on target, barely laid a glove. He gave the centre-halves really good run-around.
00:22:54
Rob Binns
he saw He was springing the offside, trapped, getting getting behind.
00:22:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:22:57
Rob Binns
He was holding them off and bringing the ball up. he had a very good game, as much as he could as a target man striker who just has to stand and watch the game happen in his own half. And take his chances as he can, he's really stepped up in the, say, this dilap, whether he's actually nursing an injury or whether there is something else going on behind the scenes. he's He's taken his chance and it's got us all very excited for seeing him back in the Championship next year because like I say, those first few months last year, he was fantastic until he got a horrible injury against Leicester.
00:23:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Someone who i had been impressed actually coming on as a sub earlier in the season, but he's injured, I think, is Philogene. Philogene's got hurt, hasn't he?
00:23:37
Rob Binns
yeah Yeah, he won't play again this year by the looks of it.
00:23:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's a shame, that. It's a shame. It's the last thing you need, really, isn't it, to have some first-teamers dropping out as well when you're up against the
00:23:47
Rob Binns
Our right-hand side is cursed.
00:23:52
Rob Binns
Hmm.
00:23:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
i will. i will say maybe you won't. expected, because you mentioned Lewis Hall and the fantastic season he'd had and up until his ankle injury in the game before, or in fact in training before the Carabao Cup final.
00:24:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Tino Livramento who has been very good, won his England cap, playing right back, has shifted across to left back and is even better down that side. Somehow, him and Harvey Barnes have completely negated the problem that Anthony Gordon had got sent off and got a three-game band and Lewis Hall had done his ankle in.
00:24:25
Rob Binns
Thank you.
00:24:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
um They've been really good. So that might not be something that you would have been too totally aware of. You would have seen it happen and work. in the Carabao Cup final.
00:24:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
and And when did we get that very early goal? Was it against Manchester United that we scored in the second minute? can't remember. They've done it two or three times already.
00:24:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it's good because often it's Anthony Gordon down the left and there's not a lot backup coming for him. A bit better now that Lewis Hall has got a little bit more confidence. But we thought that was going to be a real problem for the end of the season. And it's not.
00:25:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's strength.
Match Predictions: Newcastle vs Ipswich
00:25:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
I guess we need to think about predictions then for this game.
00:25:18
Rob Binns
Yeah, this is a dangerous bit.
00:25:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
What do you think, Rob? ah Do you think you're going to be rolling over and doing ah another Arsenal? Or in fact, will you get blitzed in the first 20 minutes like you did at home?
00:25:33
Rob Binns
Yeah, that's what I fear because there's a lot of factors coming into this. Obviously, the home game is fresh in my mind. You mentioned how irritating and it was for the game for you guys on Saturday to go 1-0 down in 30 seconds. We know that pain because you've done it to us at Portman Road.
00:25:49
Rob Binns
About 30 seconds on the clock when he's like open the scoring. But yeah, that game, so the way that game was.
00:25:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, at least we didn't have a VAR review. At least we didn't have a VAR review to sit through first.
00:25:58
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:26:00
Rob Binns
Yeah, suppose so, yeah. Yeah, that's what worries me because that game was the first time we'd really been like, we'd looked out of our depth really. ah We were competing in pretty much every game and that started a really horrible run for us that went on for a fair amount of weeks where we kept talking about every week we were talking about a podcast and we like, that Newcastle game is a turning point.
00:26:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:26:23
Rob Binns
We were doing so well until then. And like you said earlier as well, that you obviously have ah you have a loss, ah quite a bad loss to try and bounce back from and you normally do at the first at attempt. I feel there's a lot of factors sort piling up that from past meetings and sort of mindset coming into it of us having not really having anything to play for. that I feel like it's all sort of boiling up and to an absolute drumming.
00:26:51
Rob Binns
It's the fear in the back of my head, but ah i say over I hope I'm wrong, but no, I can't come on.
00:26:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Are you predicting that though?
00:26:58
Rob Binns
I can't come on here representing the podcast and say we're going to predict us to get smashed, but that's where the head's at and all in the fear and that sort dark fear in the back of their mind, but At same time, like I say, that as much as it's completely out of our hands, because West Ham just need one point in five games, but we are effectively still playing for our survival. We know that we haven't got we have to go and beat you to have even the slightest hope of survival. So I'm hoping that get us up for it. and We tend to be quite good in these big underdog games where no one expects. Like I say, it's almost like so piled on for Newcastle to nail it on and batter us that it's sort of
00:27:38
Rob Binns
that's sort of thing we kind of like in these games where we might it and just go, somehow go and nab something out.
00:27:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
You're bit counterintuitive.
00:27:44
Rob Binns
Yeah, out of the blue. I said it again, ah way back when, against Spurs.
00:27:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well...
00:27:48
Rob Binns
I said that, that was the most nailed on, like in the week, Spurs win you'd ever seen. They were flying. We, we hadn't won a game yet. I said, the only reason I think we're going to beat Spurs is because everything says we're going to lose convincingly.
00:28:02
Rob Binns
So we'll, like, football's just like that.
00:28:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:28:04
Rob Binns
We'll go and win. And that's sort of the feeling I get with this game. But, you're but You're much better than Spurs, but that's the problem.
00:28:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well...
00:28:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's sad I'm alarmed. I am alarmed having looked through that, you know, two up against Chelsea, which you hung on to get your draw.
00:28:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Draw at Villa. Win at Spurs. I think your away form is pretty good. Now, what Newcastle don't do very much of is draw.
00:28:35
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:28:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
They ah tend to, I mean, that's why we're still up there, because we've won more games than everyone bar Liverpool, and I think the same game number of games as Arsenal. We haven't drawn very many.
00:28:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
We lost quite a few as well. and So I've sat through three or four horrible home games where we've lost, thinking in west hand right full of Fulham, Bournemouth, all games where we've started reasonably brightly. Not the Bournemouth game. We were just outplayed by them. They were wonderful that afternoon. and but The other ones we started quite well.
00:29:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
And sort of lost faith, if you like, because we haven't roared into a lead. and when we When we score early, we are. We can blitz teams. Blitz Manchester United. Blitz Crystal Palace.
00:29:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know, and we're hoping that we can do the same on Saturday, of course.
00:29:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
But am I going to predict? i don't I think we'll win. I don't think it will be drubbing. I think I'm going to predict, as I do for all of these games, um I still can't see any reason to change.
00:29:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Newcastle winning 3-1. I think your George Hurst will score. Because he does look like a ready, willing runner. And the back four, Fab Shahr in particular, were looking a little bit bewildered by the end of that Aston Villa game. Two own goals we managed to score for them in that match.
00:30:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. and So... Yeah, I'm predicting us to win 3-1. I don't think it's going to be the stroll in the park that Man United or Crystal Palace gave us.
00:30:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
You're not going to put a number of goals on your prediction then.
00:30:23
Rob Binns
the i think I think it's for me, I think it's like you said there, it's ah it's about the early stages of the game because I think we're obviously going to turn up and try and like like you should in any sort of away game like this, just keep it solid, stay in the game as long as possible, try and k nick one.
00:30:40
Rob Binns
Whereas i think I think if we concede early, it could be a cricket score. But like you said, that if we can get to maybe half-time, I think there'll be that frustration element kicking in in the second half that that's our chance to go and get something. So I'm hoping, I'm going to bank on that, that we get through to half-time. And ah think I think we'll nick a goal as well. I reckon...
00:31:02
Rob Binns
I mean, the way the way we go, we we love scoring first and then not winning the game. So I'll see if we can get the half-time, nick a goal, then we'll probably concede and draw one all or something. it'll be ah Just as it looks like we're going
Conclusion and Farewell
00:31:14
Rob Binns
to... We're very good at prizing defeat from the jaws of victory.
00:31:19
Rob Binns
I'd say Cason Boyd-Bourgham at home where we were five minutes away and ended up losing 2-1.
00:31:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:31:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:31:26
Rob Binns
That's where the heart's going.
00:31:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's at home, though.
00:31:27
Rob Binns
so That's where the heart's going on the... as the representative representative of the Ipswich podcast, but say the head thinks if we can see the first 20 minutes, then I might just turn it off and not bother watching the rest
00:31:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
OK.
00:31:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, I can remember talking to the chaps when West Ham came to Newcastle and, you know, I was very bullish. I predicted we'd win 4-0 and they predicted we'd win 4-0.
00:31:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
And they won 2-0. but But, you know, we battered them and then gave a stupid goal away at a corner. And then they did exactly the same thing. And by the hour mark with them two up, we just kind of ran out of ideas, ran out willpower.
00:32:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ridiculous. Brighton did a similar thing. We were all over Brighton at home. We battered them, couldn't score. And then, of course, our nemesis, Stanley Welbeck, popped up with a goal.
00:32:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then they, yeah, they defended very well in the second half. Yeah. Don't be taking too much heart from that because I'm trusting that we get back to our lovely sequence where we'd scored one goal, two goal, three goal, four goal, five goal against Palace.
00:32:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Forget the Villa aberration. We're due six. But I don't see that. I see ah a win, but a hard-fought win. 3-1.
00:32:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Excellent. Well, commiserations for the season. I do know there's a lot of games that you've been in right through to the end and then picked up no points from in a way that Leicester or Southampton haven't. and So hopefully that bodes well for bouncing straight back next year.
00:33:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fair play to you guys for continuing the podcast, of course, because um I don't think Leicester were even going when we played them the first time but back in January. I can't remember. might be being a bit harsh there.
00:33:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
The Southampton guys are great fun. They keep going.
00:33:21
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:33:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
So um maybe that's the only thing that's kept the lights shining. Thanks very much, Rob. I hope it's a good game on Saturday.
00:33:29
Rob Binns
Thanks, mate.
00:33:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
you can You can win the last four and unfortunately still go down as far as I'm concerned.
00:33:39
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:33:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Cheers, mate. Thanks very much.
00:33:42
Rob Binns
Thank you.