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Crossover Thursday: Newcastle vs Nottingham Forest
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Iain hosts Stuart from Daily Forest to preview Sunday's pivotal top-of-the-table clash.
Which Newcastle will turn up? The Arsenal Slayers or the Etihad's Sacrificial Lambs? And will it be the 7 past Brighton Forest that comes to St James or the shellshocked Bournemouth victims?
We'll see on Sunday
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Preview: Newcastle vs Nottingham Forest
00:00:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the Daily Newcastle podcast. It is Crossover Thursday and I'm joined by Stuart from the Daily... Is it the Daily Forest or Daily Nottingham Forest?
00:00:22
Stuart
did Daily Forest, so anything but Daily Mops Forest, we're okay.
00:00:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
The Daily Forest. Welcome Stuart. Thank you very much a indeed for joining me to to preview. It does seem a way off actually, but it being Wednesday when we're recording this.
00:00:36
Stuart
Yes, Sun Sunday, isn't it, yeah.
00:00:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
But we're previewing the match on Sunday afternoon, Newcastle at home for Nottingham Forest. And it's a big, big game for both of us. but so Although we had a very disappointing result on the weekend that knocked us from hopefully going third or fourth down to seventh, we didn't lose any ground on you in third because you had an unfortunate result away at Fulham as
Nottingham Forest's Unexpected Success
00:01:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
well. so It's another six-pointer, and I guess with it being so tight at the top of the Premier League, um these are going to come thick and fast now.
00:01:13
Stuart
Yeah, definitely. So, I mean, the season is... flying by it somehow, even though it's certainly been very, very cold here today. It is still, there is only 13 matches left of the season. We're almost and into the home straight. And and you're right, we both have had reasonably similar um records in in the in the last few games.
00:01:36
Stuart
But yeah, we do remain remain just those six points ahead of Newcastle, but that is four spots. So there's a lot of um change, a lot of potential for change going forward.
00:01:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
um i I'd say generally at the start, I mean, be honest with me, when we when it kicked off back in August, did you see Forrest getting off to a good start, taking a position up in the top four and holding it all of this time?
00:02:04
Stuart
No, I mean...
00:02:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
When when when did you start to develop that belief? Because I know you're looking forward to Champions League football next year now.
00:02:12
Stuart
No, are. um I mean, I'm going to... Even though the we've had two disappointing results in in the last three, or three in the last four, if it includes include Exeter, I am now sitting here saying that I do you still think Forest will get the top five, which will be Champions League.
00:02:29
Stuart
But to answer the question, and when we first started thinking that... Champions League, minus the rear possibility, was the win against Aston Villa early December. ah Not sure if this is the game you you watched or maybe caught on match of the day. It's actually our only win this season where we came from behind to win.
00:02:48
Stuart
We're really good at taking the lead and holding onto the lead
00:02:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right.
00:02:52
Stuart
But it's still a game in December. Not only did we and go 1-0 down with 20 minutes to go, but then a few minutes later, our first equaliser was ruled out for the tightest of the AR calls.
00:03:04
Stuart
So the fact that we showed the belief and the desire to... a fight past the double setback of going one down and having an equaliser disallowed. That was the moment for me. Villa are a decent side where Champions League started to become a possibility. Before then, when this has been a good start territory after that game, it was, hmm, there's actually something brewing here.
00:03:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, and and I mean, to be fair, it's no fluke, is it? I'm sitting just before we talk, jotting down which players to talk about because they're a real
Squad Depth Concerns for Nottingham Forest
00:03:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
danger. And I actually think I've written down nearly 11 players here because what a great team you have.
00:03:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
um And how much of that is the individual players? How much of it is the tactics that Nuno's put together for them? but these teams have really switched on managers this year.
00:03:57
Stuart
Yeah, so it's an intro. I know you wanted to ask me later on in the episode, Ian, who is going under the radar? um Or you've mentioned 11. You said you've written down 11 names.
00:04:08
Stuart
That's it.
00:04:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ah, mate.
00:04:09
Stuart
um So one thing got to worry about is there isn't really any any squad depth. So we've got that we've got that good first 11, a strong first 11, and that's really it.
00:04:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
my
00:04:20
Stuart
then we'll come to to any Unknown Gems later, although might be a short part of the episode.
Key Performances and Tactics
00:04:27
Stuart
um So I think it's definitely a a bit of both from from your question.
00:04:31
Stuart
Yes, all, most of that first 11 are having the season of their lives so far. Ilanga getting a hat-trick of assists in one game. Elliot Anderson controlling the show.
00:04:43
Stuart
Murillo and Milenkovic up there for the best central defensive partnership in in the league. But they can only be the best central defensive partnership in the league of their and allowed to play to their strengths if they've got let's goes to this that traditional Moreno is better on the ball, Milenkovic is better in the air type partnership.
00:05:02
Stuart
And yeah, those wingers and of course, Chris Wood, we are playing well and truly to his strengths as well. So yeah, although the players are playing out of their skin most weeks, not every week as we've seen, but most weeks they are being given tactics and the platform to thrive and to develop together.
00:05:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah. they are
00:05:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
They are very good and I guess you've probably only had one or two disappointing results, and one of which I'm sure was your early exit from the Carabao top.
00:05:33
Stuart
Hmm.
00:05:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
The other being a win for Newcastle away from home right at the time when we weren't really winning very much at all. That was out of the blue for us. And I think we we're a little bit like you in that respect and in that we've got a very, very good first team. Yeah.
00:05:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
We do have a little bit of strength and depth, but then when the when they sell two of those in the January without replacing anybody, and there are a couple of injuries to some key players, then, yeah, we're looking at a bench that hasn't got a lot to bring on and try and change the game as well. m
00:06:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Before we get into actually looking at this that game on Sunday in part two onwards, Is there any reason why results seem to have dipped a little bit? I mean, think that game against Fulham, we know Fulham are a good team. They won at St. James' Park two games to ago.
00:06:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
and No shame in losing 2-1 to them. but And Bournemouth beat us as well. We know they're a good team. But that was a heavy defeat at Bournemouth. with That's a good one of results as well. Was there any reason for that?
00:06:46
Stuart
Yeah, I mean, it's interesting. You mentioned both Bournemouth and Fulham. um So ourselves, Bournemouth and Fulham are the class of 2022. And the three teams all got promoted together.
00:06:58
Stuart
And therefore, amongst the fans of the three teams, we've been benchmarking ourselves against each other ever since. So it could well be that all three of those teams, of course, the last promoted teams to survive, all the promoted teams got relegated last year and it will probably happen this year as well.
00:07:17
Stuart
Those three teams, Forest, Bournemouth and Fulham, could all make Europe together this season.
00:07:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:07:22
Stuart
And for whatever reason, they are our bogey teams. We've lost, I think, all every single game against Bournemouth. um I guess we've been in a couple of draws, but main mainly losses.
00:07:33
Stuart
Fulham, we've beaten once, lost to all the other times. So yeah, for whatever reason, I mean, i'm hopeful and that's why next run of games, Newcastle away, Arsenal at home, City at home, will be fascinating because if we are it could be just one-off that we always lose to Bournemouth or Fulham or it could be, unfortunately, the start of the downward trend and signs that we were in a false position after all that, which would, of course, be disappointing and you've seen how well we played against Liverpool and Chelsea and other of the
00:07:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:08:06
Stuart
bigger teams as such, I don't think we'll get no points from these upcoming three games. Four would be very good, even three would be okay. No, it's um specific to the Fulham and Bournemouth, I think we'll only find out whether they were one-offs or part of a long-term trend once we all also compare them to these upcoming three results as well.
Challenges Posed by 'Bogey Teams'
00:08:27
Stuart
Because, of course, in in between those two losses through our old friends, Bournemouth and Fulham, there was that 7-0 against Brighton. So, at the moment, all three of those results, possibly, potentially freak results that you can't really yet draw any trends or conclusions from.
00:08:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I hope the Brighton game was a freak result. I don't want you turning up in the sort of mood you can put seven past Brighton. Because they looked fantastic last week against Chelsea.
00:08:51
Stuart
yeah
00:08:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know what happened for them. ah heard the yeah that the Brighton manager, was it the Brighton manager who just set fire to his tactics in front of his team? Or am I getting that mixed mixed up?
00:09:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
One of the managers got the tactical plan and just set fire to it in front of the team.
00:09:06
Stuart
You mean mean literally?
00:09:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
I let him know that he was taking responsibility.
00:09:08
Stuart
Okay.
00:09:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if it was the Brighton guys after you or if it was the Bournemouth manager who did it. I can't remember. Anyway, that is there sending a message where you're going to take this responsibility for having lined up incorrectly, isn't it? and We had a problem against Manchester City where Eddie Howe had some great tactics. We just had a whole bunch of players who were just lazy all day and couldn't put them into practice. That was our problem.
00:09:34
Stuart
but la Lazy, sorry, I just interrupted you there before you get to the advert.
00:09:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, look, I'll...
00:09:39
Stuart
Lazy because they were tired, do you think? know we can come to that later, but or I think it was just, from your point of view, ah a one-off off day.
00:09:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
um thank I don't think they've got any excuse to be tired. the The previous week, we we had nine changes, and they'd had a week's rest, but we had nine changes to play the FA Cup game at Birmingham, which they got through.
00:10:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
And that was a week later, I think, or was it but was it on after the asster after the Arsenal match? But to be fair, yeah, emotionally and at the start, There was a lot of effort going in to knock Arsenal off their stride, which we did at their place as well.
00:10:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
But we coasted it for the last half an hour. You know, Arsenal had nothing. They were 4-0 down and, ah you know, they battered it out. was a great performance. But I don't think team has an excuse to actually be physically tired playing against the Manchester City.
00:10:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's like they... i don't know. I'm wondering if there's so many of them that have played there so often and got hammered so often. way back in the Rafa days and the Steve Bruce days, psychologically they're unable to do anything other than almost conditioned into giving Man City a three-goal start, which course is what they did.
00:10:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Anyway, we decided on Monday that that match never happened. We're not paying any attention to it whatsoever. um and We are focused very much on this coming Sunday, and we'll talk about that after I've done our first sponsor, which is the lovely Bjorni.
00:11:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
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Newcastle's Injury Woes
00:12:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Anyway, welcome back to part two.
00:12:03
Stuart
As he's calling.
00:12:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Welcome back to part two. I'm with Stuart from the Daily Forest. We are about to preview our game on Sunday, two o'clock kickoff at St. James' Park. um One of the main reasons that it can't possibly be the only reason, but one of the reasons we probably did struggle at city with that midfield roed go lincolnton the our very own Tasmanian Devil,
00:12:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
He was out injured. He's picked up but an injury and he's out until the middle of March. So we are not going to have him to play against themselves. um
00:12:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Lewis Miley came on at half time, actually, and replaced a very ineffective Joe Willett, who had had a man of the match performance against Birmingham. I'm hoping Lewis Miley gets a start against you as a third man in midfield.
00:12:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Presumably... Gemara Shintzunali will actually be motivated to play in front of the home crowd and will put a bit more of a shift in that he did.
00:13:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
and Our other big injury doubt is at 10th half where we were hoping Sven Botman newly back from his cruciate ligament injury and manner of the match performance away at Arsenal would would make that left-sided centre-back position his own.
00:13:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
However, he sat out the Birmingham game. He got a hit ah kick on the wrong knee or the other knee to what he had his ACL on. He missed the City game and was not at training today.
00:13:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
So maybe there's something a little bit more long-lasting on that, in which case we'll be back soon.
00:13:43
Stuart
Yes. who who Who would that be? And in what would it be? Cher and Dan Byrne would be your central defensive duo after that?
00:13:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
It would be Cher and Dan Byrne, who've done very well this year. Dan Byrne, player of the season for us on the podcast. Just Mr. Consistent.
00:14:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
And probably was the best the best man in the back four against Manchester City as well. um He was carrying a little bit of a groin injury from the Birmingham game because he was one of the two that was retained.
00:14:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
So he was at training today. So hopefully he'll be okay. Otherwise, because we sold Lloyd Kelly and we've got two young lads that we sent out on loan, we're really short at centre-half. It would be Cher and Kraft.
00:14:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
And that's it.
00:14:28
Stuart
right
00:14:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
If anyone gets hurt, there's nobody else to come on. So yeah,
00:14:32
Stuart
Jamal Lestel is out for the season or what's up with him? or I know he had an ACL,
Defensive Strategies Amid Absences
00:14:36
Stuart
but I don don't know. haven't heard his name mentioned all season.
00:14:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, he's done he's he got his ACL a week or two after Bottman and he's always been a week or two behind Bottman in coming back. So I think at the moment on the Premier League website, he's due back at the start of March, mid-March.
00:14:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
So hopefully he'll be coming back into it. I think the fact that they show Lloyd Kelly is assuming that he will be able to come back into the squad and play when he's needed to play.
00:15:05
Stuart
And contribute, yeah.
00:15:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, so um that's the downside for the Newcastle team. We're probably missing Joe Linton, or definitely missing Joe Linton, probably Botman. On the plus side, Callum Wilson's still fit, even though he's played two bells of football in the last two games.
00:15:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
and the Harvey Barnes was on the bench ah away at City as well so that's some of the strength in depth coming back to be available to come on Harvey Barnes has got a little bit of a thing about playing against Forrest I seem to remember as well he got that last he came on as Dublin got the last goal at your place I believe so yeah yeah
00:15:43
Stuart
Oh, and then that 3-1. 3-1 in the end it was, wasn't it? I think it was unfortunately, as we said um earlier, it was the Villa game that was our moment where we thought, yeah, we can really challenge.
00:15:55
Stuart
I think the Newcastle game was the week before for that. So that was, again, at the beginning of us worrying in November time, okay, this has been a good start and a good start only.
00:16:05
Stuart
And again, it's the way we responded from the Newcastle loss to then get the Villa win that led us to
00:16:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah,
00:16:12
Stuart
begin to begin to dream dream again and yeah keep up that form for seven wins in a row it was up until the Liverpool draw ended the run and then we still remain third and we will be third even if we we lose on the weekend we've still got a bit of um ah bit of a gap so yeah
00:16:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah you've got a bit of a buffer. bit of a buffer there, which is good. and It means that a draw at Newcastle is probably a good result.
00:16:38
Stuart
yeah I think so I mean
00:16:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
You can do that. wouldn't Whereas for us, we're playing catch-up. We don't really want to be drawing anywhere. would have been nice to get one at City, of course, after that. But we went there thinking we'd got a chance of winning.
00:16:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
it He was deluded now when he was getting through that game. So, our Forest shaping up after their they match on the weekend.
00:17:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Any doubt coming through worldwide?
00:17:06
Stuart
um not Not really. um So, as as we mentioned earlier, it's been a very consistent 11, really. um Or consistent 12 or 13, though starting in central midfield is probably where the most changes.
00:17:21
Stuart
um But no, Callum Hudson-Odoi came back from three games out off the bench last weekend, so we'd expect him to start, which means that the early injuries are Taro Aouni, our backup striker, who got a broken nose in the FA Cup game and a concussion. I think due to the, because he was a concussion substitute, it meant he wasn't allowed to play at Fulham.
00:17:45
Stuart
I think it's 12 days after the concussion, you're not allowed to play. So think our new our game together is maybe day 13 or 14 out of that. So maybe they'll Risk him on the bench, maybe not.
00:17:57
Stuart
And then our backup keeper, Carlos Miguel, got an injury also next to games, meaning our keeper on the bench will be, can you name our backup, got our third choice keeper the bench?
00:17:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:18:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, it's not Odysseus anymore, is it?
00:18:10
Stuart
It's not, ay no it's
00:18:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ah,
00:18:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
all right. OK. In fact, if I stopped the thought, I might have been able to to get that. Because, of course, your first-life goalkeeper, a bit of a failure at Newcastle, Rafa bought him, played him about
00:18:26
Stuart
Yeah, completely.
00:18:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
15 times, and then he lost his place, and then he moved on. So he didn't obviously start very well. That was in the championship as well. Obviously, I think he's the keeper with the most green seats this
Goalkeeping Shifts: Nottingham and Newcastle
00:18:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
season, is he not?
00:18:43
Stuart
Yeah, I think so.
00:18:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Something like that.
00:18:45
Stuart
I mean, I think Well, those stats are sort of slightly skewed by, if you look at Liverpool, Alisson and Keller Heller have played about half the games each. So if Liverpool had had just just one goalkeeper all season, then that goalkeeper would be top.
00:18:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ah, yes, that's true.
00:18:59
Stuart
So Liverpool as a team have had the most clean sheets, but then because their goalkeepers have changed a bit, sells as the goalkeepers had the most clean sheets. But you know, you're right, um when we signed him deadline day, January 2024, we all remember remembered that he'd been dropped for Carl Darlow at Newcastle in your most recent championship season.
00:19:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:19:19
Stuart
So that was what the thoughts we we we had. We'd had such a bad year for goalkeepers last year with Matt Turner and Odiseos Flacodomos being...
00:19:30
Stuart
completely not up to the job. So, sales was brought in because his name wasn't Matt Turner or I'd say it's like, I don't must. He wasn't, his ability is just because he was somebody else and he did okay. Um, in the second half of last season, we stayed up just, but throughout the summer, the assumption was we would sign Aaron Ramsdale or or Sam Johnston or or someone like that goalkeepers who were available. Um, but we didn't, um, we said signed Carlos Miguel, a young player.
00:19:57
Stuart
Keeper from Brazil, played against Uri in that Carabao Cup game, of course, back in August. But Salles has just kept the jersey and he's grown in confidence, grown in strength. And he is now one of the league's mostly outstanding keepers, always up for save of the month.
00:20:13
Stuart
Sometime in some games has his own save of the month competition, it seems. So we're now very, very happy with Matt Salles, despite that slow start.
00:20:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:20:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
thank you uh i think martin dubrakka has won the january save of the month um so yeah i get what you mean come in and then suddenly start performing like that uh dubrak is a little bit of a forgotten man with nick pope and played so many games um
00:20:39
Stuart
Yeah, but Dubravka seems to, Pope is fit. I seem to i think Pope play in the Cup, but Dubravka is now the league number one as well, or this is just Dubravka getting a reward for a good performance and expect you expect Pope to play in Carabao Cup final, for example.
00:20:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
No,
00:20:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think Dubravka was lined up to go to Saudi Arabia in January and had to step in because Hope didn't come back.
00:21:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
And he's played really, really well. He still hasn't thrown in a typical Dubravka bad performance to get himself dropped. He couldn't blame him for any of the goals that were let in, really, really in against Manchester City.
00:21:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
And he was in goal throughout the nine-game winning run. Some games he didn't have a lot of shots to stop. There always are shots to stop on target, and he stopped them. So, yeah, we're all big Dubs fans now. I think he'll be he'll be the number one until he has a howler.
00:21:41
Stuart
Okay.
00:21:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
But Pope was there ready, and and Pope made one of three really good saves in the Birmingham match. Pope scares everybody, though, with a ball of deceit. His distribution is awful. We've noticed when De Gravica came back in, his distribution is probably just adequate, but it's so much better than Pope's. And and the way we attack, the transitional play, the quick turnaround,
00:22:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's who we need in gold, someone who can get the ball out accurately and quickly. So I guess for that reason that he's still in there. Look, I am going to pause just there, Stuart, because I've been looking at the time and realizing that the Zenchester guys will be wondering where they're at, and here it is, coming along right now.
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00:22:56
Stuart
Mm-hm.
00:22:58
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And we're back for part three. Here we go. are there any players Are there any players who you fear on the Newcastle side might have something they're not in for us to worry about?
Newcastle's Standout Players
00:23:16
Stuart
um i mean yeah I was surprised um earlier in the episode where he said Dan Byrne was your player of the season because of how good Alexander Izek has it been. um and so yeah, I'm just certainly very interested to hear whether Dan Byrne is a cult figure or or maybe whether he is genuinely the top player of your team.
00:23:36
Stuart
Because surely from the outside looking in, It's got to be Izak, Izak who, in our first season back, so 22-23, Izak did he score both goals in the game?
00:23:48
Stuart
It was March of that season. I think it Izak's first game back from injury or something, and he scored one one or two, and that was the first game.
00:23:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
but He scored one weird volley off his chin mid-air, didn't he? Which was actually a really well-taken goal, the way he'd adjusted in the mid-air.
00:23:59
Stuart
Yeah. Yeah.
00:24:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he scored that one. He got a penalty when we lost 3-1 at St James' is last year as well. That second goal against you, was that him? I remember in even the season before, was it not him that scored the last minute?
00:24:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Was that the last minute penalty for us to win 2-1?
00:24:20
Stuart
Yeah, yeah. So when Moussini Akate gave away with a handball.
00:24:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. yeah
00:24:23
Stuart
So that was when from i thought Izak at 60 million was certainly a very steep steep price tag. And I don't think he had injuries at the start, but he's just got better and better and in my eyes.
00:24:34
Stuart
And he certainly... know PSR is a curious topic, but I think it's going to benefit you guys almost because you're not going to sell him anywhere less than 100 million.
00:24:47
Stuart
And because of other clubs, PSR... constraints no one out there has 100 million who would realistically go to so it's it's good that he's going to hopefully be in that black and white shirt of Newcastle for some time to come and you can build a team around him if you haven't already or would you say Bruno or Tonali even are more crucial to the way you actually play than Isaac himself
00:25:09
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No, Izak is the cutting edge, definitely. um Such a good player. And he can come across and play on the left. It's got in almost a telepathic understanding on the games when they're firing with both Murphy on the right and Gordon on the left.
00:25:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
um To be fair, Gumarish now is a little bit further forward. His first instinct on the transition is to look up and see where Izak is to play him through.
00:25:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's got a wonderful goal against Liverpool with a quick ball, quick release ball from Bruno where he put just made Virgil van Dijk look like Stevie Wonder as he went round him and put in the top corner.
00:25:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
um He's actually an important player and there are some real superstars to be in that team now. But I wouldn't say they all put it in every single week and I think that's what has been most impressive by by Dan Byrne.
00:26:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Dan Byrne is, everybody he knows he's a limited player. And I think he is a little bit of a cult hero because he's a Geordie and he's lost his finger. And we love him. He's a freak, isn't he? Six foot eight or whatever it is.
00:26:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
But we just really, really appreciate the effort um and and the the effort that he makes to make the very best of his limited talent, I guess.
00:26:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
And still be able to hold his own in a team full of those superstars. Call them superstars. No doubt they'll turn in another performance like the Bournemouth one or the Fulham one sometime soon, so we don't think they're superstars.
00:26:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, I think it's just down to his effort and his attitude. And he's a funny guy as well. So yeah, so you've got Ezek. Anybody else?
00:26:58
Stuart
Yeah, I think it's been sort of quietly impressed by how well Tonali has um come back from from that ban. who of course, his comeback game was our Carabao meeting together in August.
00:27:10
Stuart
But because Tonali was so new at the club anyway, new and new to England, hadn't really settled in, to be honest, it's a small surprise that I'm not following it too closely that he didn't just go straight back to
Midfield Dynamics: Tonali and Anderson
00:27:22
Stuart
Italy. He didn't sort of write off his England career and thought, okay, I've come here, I've got band, let's just go back to Milan and get on with playing there. So I think it is impressive that he has been able to come back from that band as a stronger player, even furthermore.
00:27:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, Hamid got spoiled, really, um by the Newcastle fans, you know, and the team, and the squad. He trained with them all the way through last year, although he couldn't play any matches.
00:27:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
And the fans had all the songs and were singing them all through last year when he wasn't playing. So I think that he's got the form for us because he owes us.
00:28:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
And he does. But, fortunately, Hamid, as to the in and out performances of the first few games, when Howe finally decided Tonali was his sixth and it wasn't Bruno.
00:28:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
And Bruno trusted him to then play further up as the eighth. That's when we went on that run of nine straight wins. And they do look very, very good because I'm saying Tonali's the sixth and Bruno is the eighth.
00:28:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just when you're least expecting it, you'll suddenly find that they've swapped and it's Tonali that's bursting through, as you saw there. the third goal that they scored against Southampton, it's Tonali that suddenly is broken through and is 15 yards ahead of any defender bearing down on the goalkeeper.
00:28:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
So they're quite good at swapping over when you're not expecting it, and I think that's quite a useful weapon. But yeah, Tonali is super. On your side, i mean, be most impressed.
00:28:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't think it's just by it. Most impressed this season by how well Elliot Anderson has settled in.
00:29:04
Stuart
Yeah, it was very interesting that he was signed to provide cover on the wings. um That was where he played in in pre-season, and we thought he'd just be another option um yeah to on the wings. But instead... um announced today England will be playing Senegal at the City ground in the summer and we're now fully expecting Elliot Anderson to be starting in that midfield for England in the sense midfield he's been that good that that impressive in making position um his own with his his work rate his energy his his passing not yet with his goal scoring just got the one for us so far and we're hoping that will increase as the season
00:29:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
He
00:29:46
Stuart
Progressive, yeah, we are, I said, certainly got the absolute best bargain of the season, getting him for just £15 million, pounds once you consider that you got that. Allegedly, we received £20 million in return from the Codemaster. Yeah, I mean, modern football, it's a shame that these things have to happen. I mean, and but we can do a whole other episode on on PSR, but in this deal, we certainly lucked out
00:30:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, i think you would I think you scored there. But then maybe we owed you because you did take John Joe Shelby up by hand. And at the time, we thought, oh, look, they've taken Chris Wood and given us nearly all of our money back. But, I mean, he's been a superbite.
00:30:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
He was only 15 million as well, wasn't he?
00:30:32
Stuart
Yeah, that certainly is a... um big part of, yeah, how you you never can tell how well a football transfer works. um Yeah, I was happy happier with jo Andres el Shelby than I was with Chris Wood that 1st January, um only two years ago now, feels like a lot longer ago.
00:30:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:30:54
Stuart
But ah with Shelby, it was the proven Premier League central midfielder, a bit of creativity, a bit of Work grade in Chris Wood, as we said, he'd barely do anything for you.
00:31:05
Stuart
but Newcastle, we didn't play long ball football. So, yeah, um it was, yeah, we, I mean, if you look at them together, think we paid 15 for Chris Wood and got Jojo Shelby on a free. If you average it out to 7.5 a signing, then it makes Chris Wood even more good value.
00:31:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, good value, good value. and Right. Let's move on to our predictions for the game series. It'll be interesting, either of us, trying to guess what on earth either of our teams are going to perform like.
00:31:31
Stuart
Yeah, that's
00:31:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
I guess you've got even more variations. You've to consider whether it's a 7-0 winning performance or a 5-0 defeat performance coming up. um I've got a 4-1 against...
00:31:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
um almost and 4-0 against 50 to weigh up against 2-0 at home to arsenal so who knows how it's going to go ah but you tell me how do you think that game's going go
00:31:58
Stuart
yeah that's Yeah, I mean, that's true. um So if you think Newcastle will win, then I'll take that as a compliment that you think we are as good as Arsenal, or we're only a place below them in the table, so maybe we are as good as Arsenal.
00:32:13
Stuart
I don't know, should we agree on ah on on a score draw based on how unpredictable our teams have been in the last few games? Or do we need to put our heads on the line and really we really um say something? i'm goingnna um yeah well I'm going to say we're alternating. We lost to Fulham, so we're going to beat you and then and then lou lose to Arsenal the following week. So I'm going to say two one to Forrest.
00:32:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay. Interesting. I won't go for the score draw.
00:32:41
Stuart
great
00:32:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
I would never go for the score draw. Anybody, any regular listeners of the Daily Newcastle know that every single one of my predictions, which I can back up, by the way, with logic, but I always predict that Newcastle are going to win 3-1.
00:32:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
And that's paid out three or four times in the last two months. So, you know, from whether I was a away at Nottingham Forest was a payout, I believe, at 3-1,
Predictions and Closing Remarks
00:33:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
and at home to Bromley was a payout at 3-1.
00:33:03
Stuart
Dr. Ramey.
00:33:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Away at Southampton, was a pair I'm going to go for 3-1. I think Isaac will score, probably Gordon again, but i I would like to see one of the midfielders that doesn't normally score come through. Maybe we get a Lewis Miley goal, the second goal.
00:33:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, but then, to be fair, if we are if we're struggling, if we're playing like we were playing against Fulham, we'd take a draw now.
00:33:34
Stuart
Yeah, if we played like we played against Fulham, we'd take a draw now.
00:33:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's still unpredictable.
00:33:37
Stuart
That's what Fulham done to us.
00:33:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:33:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know, they're awful. Anyway, look, good. We've both predicted wins for our teams, which is what our listeners want to hear, isn't it?
00:33:48
Stuart
Definitely.
00:33:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
um We'll have to see how it goes on Sunday. Thank you very much indeed, Stuart, for joining me to preview that game. I've boppled on a little bit to go up over the half an hour.
00:33:56
Stuart
Yeah, thank you very much.
00:33:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Thanks very much, everybody, for listening. We will be back. probably when are we going to be back? This is Crossover Thursday, so we'll be back tomorrow with our own preview of the game.
00:34:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm not sure who the line-up is there, but it'll be more than me on my own, anyway. See you soon.
00:34:25
Stuart
Thank you.