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gspnnewcastle: Welcome to the Daily Newcastle podcast with GSPN. I'm your host, I'm Jo, and I am joined first of all by my female companion, podcaster extraordinaire, Nick.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: That was a good one! Hello!
gspnnewcastle: sp total off the cuff, sorry.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: it's like
gspnnewcastle: Went in with that one. And also we are joined by the man I like to call our stat man. He has all the information you need and more. It's Mr. Michael Grameslaw.
Michael: Hello, thank you very much. No pressure there, although that's a fantastic intro. I can't wait to get about every stat wrong this one. and Now you've said that, but thank you very much.
gspnnewcastle: ah to be fair you just are you i don't know it's uh it's i like to think it's your talent you've got you are the step man whether you want to be or not all right oh there you go come to me i'll i'll give you gifts um i mean we're being pretty cheery and i would like to keep it that we way but it's going to be pretty hard let's get real um we all know why we're on tonight's pod or this morning's pod whenever we're listening here it's obviously to review the full match um
Michael: ah It's the first time anyone said I've got talent.
Michael: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Ugh.
gspnnewcastle: it's it's It's really hard to know where to start. I'm going to do a tiny little bit that I'm totally passing over to you guys, because at least I think the full -on anger of the initial feeling of post -match from yesterday has kind of disappeared a little bit due to, you know, life happening between now and then.
gspnnewcastle: um But the first half in particular, we were beyond abysmal is the only way I can describe that that game.
Michael: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: yeah
gspnnewcastle: I think there was a stat put up I want to say, and this is where you might be able to help me out, Michael, um half an hour, even 35 minutes in, where they'd had about nine shots or something and we'd had zero. And I just looked at my dad and I was like, well, that just says it all. I was like, this something has to change. And not just something like a lot. Not only did they need their backsides kicked at halftime, they needed to be changes. They needed to be all sorts. We know that did happen. And all right. Well, came out and what looked like and a very good start of the second half, didn't it?
gspnnewcastle: But then it fizzled out again. So I think, again, Plasmid Strows, that was probably the only highlight the game for me was the start of that m second half. But as I say, i'm i'm it's hard.
Michael: Thank you.
gspnnewcastle: But I'm going to pass it over to you guys. Go on, Michael. Give us a little bit of insight how you're feeling.
Michael: ah I said yesterday, usually in these sort of scenarios I'm angry and I'm like, oh we did we didn't you know we didn't do enough here, we didn't do enough there, but it was just complete dejection and it feels like a real, I'm over exaggerating about our first loss of the season but It's very rare you can say Newcastle United, under Eddie Howe, didn't try.
Michael: And it's, you know, you can maybe look at the running statistics and go, oh well, you know, Newcastle went didn't actually run that much less, but it was just, let's be honest, follow more running rings around us.
gspnnewcastle: Yeah.
gspnnewcastle: OK.
Michael: We didn't see, it it looked like an 11 that had never played together. And I know there was a lot of changes, obviously Kelly, Trippia, Willock being the the main ones, but all three were,
Michael: Pretty abysmal. I thought Kelly was out of position more often than ah Lewis Hall would be if he was trying to take a shot on goal. It was it was ridiculous. but Yeah, it's it's it's hard to say exactly how I feel now because I've calmed down quite a lot and I'm a little cheerier.
Michael: But overall, it was probably the worst I've seen us and where we haven't had an excuse. You can say last season there was a lot of excuses for injuries and stuff like that while Fulham were just, and to be honest, I think I may be being a little harsh on Fulham, Fulham were excellent.
gspnnewcastle: Yeah.
Michael: We were just, we looked like knots County.
gspnnewcastle: That's good analysis, I'll be honest. Fulham tore us apart through the middle, I think, especially um and way more clinical at the end. um They deserved everything they got and so did we. We deserved absolutely nothing from that game and so what we got.
gspnnewcastle: So, um Nick, what's your thoughts there?
Michael: There.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I want to start off just by saying that I thought Fulham played excellent football yesterday. um Probably one of the best pieces of well but games of football well that I've seen Fulham play for a long time, particularly against us.
Michael: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: um However, we had a chance yesterday to go top of the Premier League to remain unbeaten and they put in a performance like that. And I've got to be honest, I thought it was awful. I thought it was, we looked like we hadn't played together before. Like Michael just said, there was no intensity. There was certainly no spirit or passion. There was no effort.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Um, and I'm going to touch on a few players here and it's going to be unpopular, but I think, I think it needs to be addressed. Bruno Joey, Linton, uh, Anthony Gordon, particularly yesterday frustrated me a lot.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: And Eva Alexander Isaac, I thought probably had one of the worst games I've seen for a long time.
Michael: Yeah. Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: And I think it's about time now that we addressed why, what has happened to these players behind the scenes.
gspnnewcastle: Yeah.
gspnnewcastle: Yeah. Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: or on the pitch in training, ah what what was going on.
gspnnewcastle: Hmm.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: to It looks like these players haven't even touched a ball before. um Like yesterday, I don't know what happened yesterday under Eddie Hall. I've never seen Newcastle play like that.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: um And again, without, I know he's new to the team and particularly the star in 11, but Lloyd Kelly didn't look interested yesterday.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: He was pulled out of position.
gspnnewcastle: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: um And actually, I'm going to just back that point up by saying I'm not even talking about yesterday's game. is He's not looked with it at all. um And I was touched on him at the beginning of the season. that I was quite excited to see him um sort of make his mark into Newcastle. And I've got to be honest, I'm really not impressed. Not impressed.
gspnnewcastle: I'm wondering with Kelly, I'll be honest, because I am with you, Nick, um but I'm wondering, is he more comfortable?
Nicola Pringle_Adams: ah
gspnnewcastle: Will he be happier and thus play better in central defence and notice a left back?
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah.
gspnnewcastle: You know, so I don't know.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah.
gspnnewcastle: So we won't know until we see it happen. and But then at the same time, are we going to see much of that happen? Because as Botman comes back and stuff, he's going to be needed less and less in the in the middle. You know what I mean?
gspnnewcastle: But but on the flip side, Hall came on. and a Hall was disastrous as well. we I'd love to have said, oh yeah Kelly was disastrous, he went off, Hall came on, he made his mark, at least he said.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah.
Michael: yeah
Michael: Yeah.
gspnnewcastle: If I was Eddie for the next game I wouldn't know who to start a left back as neither of them is what I'm saying. I'd almost be tempted, and this is controversial, well it's not really, but I'd almost be tempted to stick burn back out there.
Michael: I was just a about to say, bring back Dan Burnet, laugh back.
gspnnewcastle: But seriously, because look at all right, you know, you got slated and left back, but he did a job man at times. No, right. He made some errors. But dear God, what Kelly and Hall did, especially in that last game, I wouldn't want to start either.
Michael: Yeah.
gspnnewcastle: And someone has to play there.
Michael: Yeah, they had a very tough job but looking after Adam Atroyori. And to be honest, that's one of the first times I've seen Adam Atroyori actually have an end product.
gspnnewcastle: Yeah.
Michael: I thought he was, ah for example, excellent yesterday. It was like watching him against four wolves against Man City again. But I think one of the main things for us was, I think we've, you know, Joe, you touched, sorry, Nicola, you touched on it a little bit, actually.
Michael: um I couldn't remember who'd say what there. But we lost the ball so many times. in midfield and it was almost like well when are we actually going to get the foot on the ball and start trying to play a football it was like every time Bruno got the ball he lost it every time Gordon lost the ball he had his hands up in the air asking where anybody he was well there was a five -yard pass on he just did decided not to take
gspnnewcastle: Yeah.
Michael: And I thought I'd just end with ah fitting for the start, man. But a little start of Fulham were dispossessed twice in the entire game, both times by him and us.
Michael: Newcastle were dispossessed on the ball 14 times.
gspnnewcastle: I'm
Michael: So it's just not quick enough.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Wow.
Michael: and i'll
gspnnewcastle: not surprised at all.
Michael: I don't know exactly when each one of those was, but I would hazard a guess. A lot of them were in the first half where we just thought we had so much more time than what we did. It was almost like watching our pressing game against us.
gspnnewcastle: Yeah.
Michael: And well, we haven't seen our pressing game for about a year.
gspnnewcastle: Yeah.
gspnnewcastle: Well it was non -existent in that game. I think we tried it a couple of times in the second half but nothing in the first half at all.
Michael: Yeah.
gspnnewcastle: If I'm honest it's almost like the first half I'd like to shut out my brain that had even happened it was it was that poor but what I'll do is instead instead of doing that we'll ah finish up on the first part and we will move on to our first sponsor which I believe is gonna be read out by Nick
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gspnnewcastle: How very professional, unlike our men.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: so
gspnnewcastle: Anyway, sorry.
Michael: What you mean? There was no Tony to take our references, there was no harm gestures all over the place.
gspnnewcastle: No, no, sorry.
gspnnewcastle: but
Michael: It's almost as if you should be doing this instead of me.
gspnnewcastle: Perfecto.
gspnnewcastle: I love it. um That wasn't a dig to our men on the pod, by the way. It was absolutely aimed at the team.
Michael: Yes it was.
gspnnewcastle: It wasn't. I was aimed at the team. I've got nothing wrong with you guys. You guys haven't annoyed me like the team did yesterday. You're all good. um But yeah, we'll carry on the cheeriness, that is this wonderful pod. And we'll kind of move back to Bruno, because obviously Nick did bring up Bruno in part one. But what I want to say about Bruno, and I've read a lot of people online talking about this, and me and Tressen see how we feel.
gspnnewcastle: A lot of people are saying now is, is Bruno the right person for the captaincy? Now, you can see that in many different ways, right? People are going to be seeing it just because he's had a bad game or he's had a bad few games and like, oh, he shouldn't be captain and people are being ridiculous. But actually, when you think about it,
gspnnewcastle: Is he right to be captain? In my eyes and I said it at the time by the way it was a tactical genius move from Eddie because it could be something that could keep him at the club. He'd want to be the club captain, and he wants to go down in history, he talks about it all the time, fantastic, love that about him right and if Eddie's given the captaincy that yes he can be a leader but Is he now putting too much focus on being a leader than just actually playing his game, playing his beautiful game that we all know he can play? is it Is this kind of capacity deriving from, I don't know, his his natural flow, I don't know what you want to call it, um and if so,
gspnnewcastle: Who would we give the captaincy to? Because I think it is a tough one. um I don't necessarily say we should strip it off Bruno, by the way. I just think it is very good kind of topic to kind of debate on. um Nick, what do you reckon? so I know we we did have a bit of a chat before the pardon. It is a tough one, but how do you kind of feel about that?
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Look, I think Bruno is, as we all know, as Newcastle fans and we watch the, you know, weekly, Bruno's special. He is special to the club and he has got that passion and love there for the club and its history, the fans and the and and the game and what Newcastle is all about. You can see he genuinely, genuinely admires it and loves it. um However,
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I just, before, um, we started the pod, um, I'm going to be honest and I don't think Bruno's had a good game or season. Um, I really, really don't think he's had a good game or season. and There's been times where he's been good off the ball. I will, I will give him that. There has been times where I've seen him in pockets of space and he's been great on the ball, man, on man marking, you know, all that stuff that he does really great. But his, you know,
Nicola Pringle_Adams: What he's like on the ball, particularly last season, I haven't seen it all this season in any game that he's played. um And that to me is a massive concern. What is going on in that poor lad's head where his on the ball game is just not the same as what it was, what we've previously seen. um I'm not saying that we should maybe strip Bruno of the captaincy because i I couldn't even tell you who would give it to other than Kieran Trippier, obviously.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: um because I think Kieran Trippian is every right, is a natural leader and I've said before, very common presence on the pitch.
gspnnewcastle: Mmhmm.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: um He would be my next one to give it to. I know he's already been it, but you know what I mean. um
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah, I'm not too sure what's going on with Paul Bruno. Michael, take over.
Michael: As you wish. um Yeah, I think, to be honest, I do agree. i don't think Bruno's had probably the worst spell of games we've seen from him. I do agree. um And I think it's it's hard to say whether it is the captaincy or not um to return to the sort of original question of, you who well, secondary question of who would possibly replace him. I don't think we have any anyone. Because you said Trippia there.
Michael: and the thing trivia has been most known for for the last year I don't really want to talk about because it's that bad so it's you look at it who the other potential candidates are and you go and maybe Dan Byrne Fabian Cher i would I would maybe think but Cher got sent off for a earlier this season um so it's one of those and I think
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah, true.
gspnnewcastle: ah
Michael: One of the things that was maybe overlooked at the start of the season is Bruno has that passion, but how often does he fly off the handle during a game? Now he held it together when he was on nine yellow cards last season and he thought, oh okay, maybe he's, you know, toning down that aggression.
gspnnewcastle: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah.
Michael: But let's be honest, there's there's probably three or four times over the last year or so where he could have been red carded for lashing out the one against Arsenal in particular, where he just runs up behind him, elbows him in the back of the head. ah You wouldn't see an elbow but better than that in MMA. So it's it's one of those where, you know, it's really hard to say, but I don't think there's a proper, proper leader in that squad.
gspnnewcastle: That's my concern.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: That's it, yeah.
gspnnewcastle: I'll be honest, when I kind of wrote that down, it's something to bring up. It's an interesting subject for what to talk about, just because, you know, everyone is talking about that at the minute, so... and like but you say Like you say, looking at the back, I mean, Dan Byrne could be an obvious one, and he is in the leadership group that they call it.
gspnnewcastle: share unfortunately as much as we worship the man, well certain of us do anyway, ah but yeah he's not really, he does make some very weird choices let's call it, but I find um Bruno's temperament to be very much like Big Joe's, I don't know if it's a Brazilian thing or something, but they're very kind of
Michael: Yeah. Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah.
gspnnewcastle: Emotional let's I want to say um and can you have an over emotional?
Michael: Yes.
gspnnewcastle: Captain effective captain. I don't know I don't because Eddie's not gonna take it off him I really doubt he will because it caused too much upset. He's not gonna kind of want to rock the boat He's gonna give Bruno his chance with Bruno.
Michael: Yeah.
gspnnewcastle: I think actually really has to prove himself I don't think he is a God -given natural talent at captain in my eyes personally That's all I would say on it.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: No.
gspnnewcastle: um I don't think you should have it taken off him. I just think it's something, a role that he actually needs to grow into, but grow into in an effective way that it doesn't affect his game. Which it may or may not be.
gspnnewcastle: Something is. Is it that? Is it something else? I don't know. but But... Something i else I was gonna do on... Yeah, we'll do it in part two. Why not?
gspnnewcastle: um What my concern was as well, but moving on from Bruno a bit, the players in general, they just don't look as united. This whole thing that we've had in the last couple of seasons, right? That have looked very much this group that Eddie brought together and they all learned about each other. They know about each other's families and they literally did look like a group of brothers and our best friends and all that sort of thing. And they have genuinely looked like that. They do a bit in some of the training videos. Don't get us wrong. It's not like I don't think any of them speak to each other or anything, but there is something wrong.
gspnnewcastle: Is it? Is there? I don't know. Like, is it us being over the top? Surely we can't be, because we're not the only people that think this way. And is it because certain players' heads have been turned as well? Which I think is a major concern. So it's something like that, and it's kind of got this unrest in the team. It's kind of rippling through the squad. Do you guys, are you guys with me on that? what What do you kind of think? Michael, what's your your thoughts there?
Michael: Yeah, I do agree there is something wrong, but I actually would maybe put it down to expectations. um This season we finished fourth, we were' we were doing a lot better than expected, and the crowd were behind the team every single game.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah.
Michael: Even the boring nil -nils against Crystal Palace, the 1 -1 against Bournemouth early on in the season, and we did so much better than anyone expected. And we were sitting there going, oh, well you know what?
Michael: actually we could push for european then last season we had the vibe of the champions league everyone was you know up for it well during the champions season and then you know we got all the injuries so it's like all the world's against new castle once again and we all know what new castle united is like when the world it feels like the world's against us you know we're almost unbeatable in that when in that sort of scenario um but this season It's almost as if the expectation is there and there's nothing really that we've been too excited about.
Michael: There's nothing that much for the fans to get not up and roar about. So I think a lot of it maybe comes from expectations and I don't want to put down to the fans atmosphere.
gspnnewcastle: Ha.
Michael: ah to be honest, I felt it's been a little flat um recently.
gspnnewcastle: Ha.
Michael: um So well, I'd say recently this season, but at the same time, you know, Southampton was fantastic. I can't forget that. But other than that, again, it's a scenario where in the world's against Newcastle. um But it it sort of feels like They just need something to get behind.
Michael: And it's just not there at the minute.
gspnnewcastle: Yeah.
Michael: And that's on that if that is the case, that's on anyhow, not being able to get them up for the average game.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: yeah.
Michael: But we haven't looked interested in games until we're back, spin against the wall.
gspnnewcastle: True. Yeah. Yeah, which that you can only imagine they would have got their backsides kicked to put it lightly at half time.
Michael: Yeah.
gspnnewcastle: And we came out and look what happened. I mean, Barnes took up again so calmly. I mean, he's on fire at the minute. He's one of the only positives I would say from yesterday's game, him and Jacob.
Michael: yeah 100
gspnnewcastle: I know we all know I love Jacob, but I think we have to agree. He came on and he made a difference. um But
Michael: % yeah yeah
Nicola Pringle_Adams: yeah
gspnnewcastle: oh I don't know, I think you are a bit bang on, I'll be honest, um with the way the crowd are and stuff. But then then again, I think that kind of petered off a bit towards the end of last season. I won every single game last season. And I saw the kind of kind of degeneration or whatever you want to call it of the kind of atmosphere there. I think the away atmosphere is always brilliant with our fans, so I can never ever blame the atmosphere on a away games, because we're always outstanding, we always sound outstanding on TV.
Michael: Yeah. Yeah.
gspnnewcastle: um But at home, it needs to pick up.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah.
gspnnewcastle: And if that's having a knock on effect, it's on, yes, us as fans, but obviously, like you said, Eddie, to rile up the team and get them kind of pumped up for any type of game, not just the so called big games, you know, um Nick, do you what's your thoughts on that?
Michael: yeah
gspnnewcastle: Do you agree or?
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah, I do agree with what you've both just said, to be fair. I did touch on, I don't know if it was the last pod or the pod before, whenever, you know, I held my hands up and sort of said, actually, maybe our expectations are just too high from that 22 to 23 season, because obviously that was just an unbelievable and no one expected it, did they?
Michael: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: um And then obviously, like you say, last year we had the excitement of the Champions League. Yes, we got the grip of death, but we wouldn't have had it any other way, being back in the Champions League again after so long out of it.
gspnnewcastle: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: um Now, I feel really bad saying this because I obviously love him, ah but Eddie Howe does kind of have to hold his hands up a little bit and sort of say, yeah, I'm making some bad decisions.
gspnnewcastle: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Like, because for me yesterday, it was a no brainer. Tenali really had to start, I think. I think he really had to start and he didn't. And I do think he made, that was a poor decision that he made. And then on the back of that, just to be sort of more in the Eddie Howe corner, I, for me, there was something definitely going on behind the scenes where he's not supported as much as what he has been in the past. and He wasn't entirely backed this summer. We spent three weeks with a really public transfer news on Gay He that just pillar to post and it went nowhere.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: um So I do think it's a little bit unfair for us all to be expecting miracles from him um when he's not really entirely been back to the whole transfer window.
gspnnewcastle: Mm hmm.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: um But that doesn't take away from the fact that we are you know lacking intensity, passion. We pretty much stand still in games.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: um So it doesn't take away that. So it's one of these where I'm a bit like, I'm torn. There is something definitely for me going on behind the scenes and off the pitch that just obviously isn't coming to light.
gspnnewcastle: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: And I do feel for Eddie slightly, because I think he's in a bit of a corner of where he doesn't really know what to do.
gspnnewcastle: Hmm.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: um But there is times where I do think he does make some poor decisions. um And I'm a bit worried about it. I won't lie. i I'm not saying he's been managed out.
gspnnewcastle: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I don't think he is, but it's given me that kind of sort of vibe a little bit.
gspnnewcastle: oh No, no.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: And I'm just a bit
gspnnewcastle: Hmm.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: It makes me sad. and It does make me sad because this is not the Newcastle that I like to see.
gspnnewcastle: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I don't like to see a disjointed team on the pitch. I don't like to see a disjointed team off of it.
gspnnewcastle: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: um So it does just make me a bit sad for everyone involved.
gspnnewcastle: Well, it's not what we're used to after the last two seasons at all, is it?
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Do you know what I mean?
gspnnewcastle: Like, going back to what we said at the start, the pod, we're so used to them being kind of united and all is one. um But I will end part two now, because I was going to touch on Eddie in the behind the scenes thing anyway, um in part three.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Oh, sorry.
gspnnewcastle: So, ah, you're fine. I mean, let's do what we want anyway.
gspnnewcastle: We're going to go rogue. But anyway, before we go rogue, I'm going to go over to Michael goal for our second sponsor, please.
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gspnnewcastle: beautiful Michael you see I told you I wasn't thinking it was bad and the men on the pod again you're very professional I'm not I would never say it not trust me you are our professional step man that's the other party a little title that I can give you on another pod but yeah I mean I don't really want to draw on too much about Eddie in the behind -the -scenes things we'll talk about it quickly but we'll wrap up after that anyway but I I think there's obviously something going on, right?
Michael: Yeah, I can be professional as well. there I'm usually not.
Michael: ah
gspnnewcastle: We'll never know what because we're not actually really privy to that information. And to a degree, I don't think we should be privy to all information that happens behind the scenes. I think they need to be able to get on with their jobs.
gspnnewcastle: They need to be able to do it. But our just general concern is, is this having a knock on effect? And is it literally going down all the way through to the players or whatever? it again it's all a speculation isn't it but this was exactly what we're discussing now was exactly my worry the second I heard Stavely and um Gadasi were leaving um I just it's not that we thought I think we knew it was gonna have an impact it has had an impact we don't know really the on what scale it's had an impact but it has had an impact I refuse to kind of accept anyone saying that it hasn't so
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah.
gspnnewcastle: debate away people if you're listening but um all I would like to discuss is the level of the impact because it has had an impact. um We don't have the positive face to the club anymore. um Mitchell is by the looks of social media not liked a lot.
gspnnewcastle: I would like to say we'll have to give him a chance. I'm not saying I'm going to sit on the fence until I know more about the guy. But there's a lot of negativity around him. Eels is just an out and out business one, bless them.
gspnnewcastle: That's trying to almost be a bit like Amanda and my dad. But what Amanda and my dad was just so natural, wasn't it?
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Hmm.
Michael: Yeah.
gspnnewcastle: It's like they are business people, but they're kind of they just ooze that persona, don't they?
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Mm hmm.
gspnnewcastle: And the other guys don't. But, you know, not ever a club has an Amanda and my dad. And unfortunately, neither do we. So, again, I'm so sad on it.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: but
gspnnewcastle: Yeah, God, shoot me now. um Would anyone like to kind of say anything more? Because it's ah it's a tough one. I don't really want to drone on too much. But how do we feel about the kind of behind the scenes? Pallava, let's call it. Michael, go on. We'll go to you first.
Michael: OK, Mr. Negativity first again. i ah To be honest, I actually want to rain on something that um I saw on Twitter or X or whatever you want to call it this morning. I haven't had too much of a chance to look too deep into it, but I do know it's relatively true.
Michael: Paul Mitchell has a history of getting rid of managers quite early on.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Oh,
Michael: Pochettino came in, Spurs, he also had Southampton, and at Monaco they had four different managers during his spell.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: great.
Michael: So it's one of those, i um I don't know about Leipzig, I haven't actually looked into that bit yet, but it's one of those where it seems like this is a common thing. Now what I will say in Mitchell's defence, he's made every single one of those clubs better.
Michael: when he's been there and obviously when he's chief scout at Southampton he's probably not in charge of sacking the manager but he's going to be sort of in the ear and stuff that and you know there is going to be disagreements so maybe this is something that we you know i'm not saying we should expect that he leaves soon i certainly hope he doesn't um purely because The manager market out there is absolutely terrible. You know, maybe that's something we can talk about in a different pod who would be potential replacement. But yeah, it's one of those where it doesn't bode well. Fairie Howe, Mitchell's history. And well, it certainly doesn't look like it bodes well before I start the season. What are you Nick? What do you think?
Nicola Pringle_Adams: ah Right, let's just start by saying, you know, the start of the season, we have played not our best football, right? We've not played particularly well, but we've now, what we've done, we've lost one, one, two, drew two, or we won one, lost one, drew two.
Michael: a One, three.
gspnnewcastle: Drew one.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: oh
gspnnewcastle: Drew one, one three.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Sorry guys, I'm just putting myself off!
gspnnewcastle: Nicholas lost. but you Just listen, she's just knocked our computers flying.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Jesus! It's okay, anyway, anyway, right.
gspnnewcastle: back on
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I knocked myself out! um So yeah, so, you know, that it's not been the most terrible start to the season results wise performance wise. Yeah. Um, it's been awful. And this is what people like Paul Mitchell and eels will be looking at. So it does not build well for Eddie. How I am going to sit here and say, it does not build well for him because this is the kind of thing that they will be looking at and thinking, what can they do? And the first person that they're going to look at is Mr. Eddie how himself now.
Michael: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I feel for Eddie how I really, really do because I feel like he's in a corner because he's lost Amanda and my dad who were kind of more like they were very much his, you know, in his corner, they were always on show that they were always visible.
gspnnewcastle: I like his main fan club sort of thing which is what you want, yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: They really were. Yeah. And you could see you could see he had the back in, you know, he would say, I need this, this and this.
Michael: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: And they were like, okay, well, let's try and do this. And, you know, it would it would it would portray and they would they would deliver. Um, the fact that they left almost kind of out of nowhere for me, I'm going to be honest, that was just it. They were here, then they were gone. That to me, doesn't sit well with me, which makes me believe that something behind the scenes has gone on to make them be like, Hmm, yeah, we're going to have to, we're going to have to step back. We're going to have to not get involved anymore. I don't get a good feeling from Paul Mitchell. I'll make that decision. I know whether or not it's a bit too much of a, I've made in my opinion too early maybe.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I don't get a good feeling from him and I certainly don't get a good feeling from Darren Eales either.
Michael: There.
gspnnewcastle: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I think he's trying too hard. I think he's trying to be like Amanda and Mayor Dad and it's just a little bit embarrassing to be honest. They are very much, look, football's a business to them.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: It's a business. Whereas Amanda and Mayor Dad, yes, it was a business, but it was also a passion and you could see that.
gspnnewcastle: yeah
gspnnewcastle: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Whereas to these two, it's obviously very much a business and that is how they're going to treat it.
gspnnewcastle: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: And I kind of agree with Michael. I do think, I do think if it, you know, the next maybe month or two, the Eddie's results don't go the way that we want them to, obviously, I think he'd be gone. I do think he'd be gone. And that makes me really sad. It makes me so sad um because he's not been backed in the way that he's been backed previously. And this is what annoys me about modern football. I just don't think managers.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: don't They don't get the backing that they need and people like Paul Mitchell are quick to get rid of people when they get too bad results. um And that makes me worried for Newcastle, to be honest. I feel like I'm being really negative. Jesus, maybe don't upload this podcast.
gspnnewcastle: I mean, come on, it's it's the we warned people at the start, but come on, it was a review on yesterdays game initially and um it was going to be a hard push at making this one a positive one, wasn't it guys?
Nicola Pringle_Adams: True.
gspnnewcastle: But um I'll be honest, maybe we should stop there because we probably could go on
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah.
gspnnewcastle: on and on and on and really bore people. um But I do want to finish on a positive because I want to watch the women today. It was their first home game. They're in the championship now for those who don't know. We played a little way to the London City Lionesses and got a draw in our first game. This was our second game, first game at home. We're playing Sheffield United won 2 -0, but not only was it a win, which has actually become very expectant of watching the women, by the way, because I've been watching them for the last two seasons, but they're in the championship now or against opposition, which is a much higher, and like nothing against the teams we've played, if you know what I mean, but they are a lot stronger, put it that way.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Mm hmm.
gspnnewcastle: But it was such a dominant performance, man. The lasses were just they were fantastic. The passion that they had today, if we could have just had an ounce of that in the Fulham game, it would have rubbed off. And before anyone wants to quibble, you know, men's and women's games, I don't want to have that conversation. I purely want to talk about how brilliant the girls were today.
gspnnewcastle: If anyone that hasn't seen it, by the way, get onto social media and watch Beth Lumsden's goal. Beautifully taken on the volley, by the way. Just saying. And Shania Hales, our new striker as well, got the second one.
Michael: or not.
gspnnewcastle: um we could We could add more, and but there, I did pull off a few really good sales. Saved, sorry. But yeah, as I say, I just want to give them a massive shout out because just hugely proud of them.
gspnnewcastle: It was a brilliant day out. The women's matches always are. It's a massive family kind of feel about it. But that atmosphere there, it was beautiful.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah.
gspnnewcastle: It was great to see anyway. I reckon if you don't go already, get yourselves along with the women's game. I'm not just pushing it because I'm a woman. Trust me, man, these girls are ballers, man, when they want to be. So there we go. That's my shout out to the girls.
gspnnewcastle: Go on.
Michael: I was actually just going to say it. It's not too long till our Derby week, is it? Newcastle played Durham and Sunderland in the space like seven days.
gspnnewcastle: yes well we're at home to Durham one weekend and then we're away at the stadium of in the following weekend um beep um so we're talking about at the match today and um there's a lot of excitement going on ready for the Darby's that's for sure the the home Darby which is going to be at St James's Park is next March so again build that stadium yes you are and yes you're coming up so yes the pod team are going to be out
Michael: Delight.
Michael: Oh.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: On my bestie weekend. can Absolutely, yes.
Michael: off.
Michael: Daily Newcastle at that Derby.
gspnnewcastle: Probably out, like out out as people say.
Michael: Get me there.
gspnnewcastle: Out out.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Let's go.
gspnnewcastle: So yeah, on that note, we've ended on a positive, so that's all we need. um It's been an absolute pleasure speaking with you two, and I think I might be on more one of these tomorrow. We'll check it out though.
Michael: Yeah.
gspnnewcastle: All right, see you laters.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Hmm.
Michael: Bye.
