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Toon v Villa Match Review
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Jo & Nic share their thoughts on Saturday's match at Villa Park
Was it a point secured or 2 points dropped... After the chaos of the past month and as such, going into this match as the underdogs, we actually dominated the majority of it and should consider this a good start and a valuable point at a tough ground to play at
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Introduction and Episode Context
00:00:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the Newcastle United podcast with GSPN. It is the girls only today. The girls, it's the girls.
00:00:15
Nicola Pringle-Adams
The ghouls.
00:00:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'll try and at least speak properly. I'm fresh from a festival, people, so yeah, please forgive me if anything goes wrong because it's probably going to. But as I said, yeah, it's just me and Nick, so we are feeling super healthy, the pair of us.
00:00:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Not. um So again, you can forgive both of us, but the boys ditched us. Boo.
00:00:32
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Boo.
00:00:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, just messing, kind of.
00:00:33
Nicola Pringle-Adams
We ditched them.
00:00:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
oh Yeah,
Review of the Villa Game
00:00:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
exactly. like um But yeah, so we're going to review the Villa game. So hi, Nick, by the way, because um you see, I'm going to start rambling already. Here I go.
00:00:44
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Hey, yeah, all good.
00:00:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Happy days. Right. um i mean, we'll just concentrate into it. Yeah, this is the review for Villa. We'll obviously talk a bit about the actual match, kind of what happened around before and after and stuff like that.
00:00:52
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Mm-hmm.
00:00:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
But um general consensus of the match, personally, i think it was a strong start. It was probably stronger than anyone expected because we were the underdogs going into it. I see the underdogs going into it, but it's mad really.
00:01:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
We really were the only underdogs because of what's been going on recently, isn't it? It's because of the whole Ezek saga.
00:01:12
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yep.
00:01:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's the only going to mention his name, hopefully, on this pod. I'm just sick of talking about him, man.
00:01:17
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I probably won't.
00:01:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Yeah. So, in reality, we shouldn't have been the underdogs, but I think there's just been so much kind of negativity and everything going on towards us that they thought, oh, Villa's going to smash them.
00:01:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
And let's get real. You know, in recent seasons, Villa have consistently smashed us down there, bar one, I believe, out the last five.
00:01:38
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yep. Mm-hmm.
00:01:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just like we smashed Emmits and James' and it's become a bit of a running joke that, even between the fan bases that that's what happens now so for a nil nil draw to play out i don't think anyone saw that coming um i appreciate they went down to 10 men which we can cover again obviously later on the pod but still it was more towards the end of the match so it's not like it was a full game of 10 men but to me as i say i'll be i'll i'll be honest i was really happy with a um really strong first half but you saw the fact that we were missing in the firepower um up front They had no chances, not a single shot even in mind on target. So that's kind of the disappointing part of the first half. And I'm sure like Eddie Howe and anyone else would agree with that. right
00:02:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
When you are on top like that, you need to kind of take some of your chances. And i kind of felt bad for Alanga because Alanga's chance really on the game that he just kind of took one too many touches for and then just ended up almost scuffing the shot, which was then easily saved, let's say.
00:02:29
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yep.
00:02:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think it kind of... had a bit of a negative effect on him. He then almost felt like he was trying to catch up with himself. He was he kind overhyped a bit. There was in misplaced passes. There was just miscontrolled balls.
00:02:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
There kind of all sorts of the fact that i was... by half time like really calling for murphy to come on i think a lot of people were to be fair and the pub i was in before the festival where there was quite a few people were like oh bring murphy on but it was probably it wasn't nothing against the langer because again it it just probably got news had a bit wasn't it um but i think we just need that stability that murphy brought us last season and you know all jokes aside i know he's not going to be the chosen one on the right anymore but he knows how we play he kind of knows our kind of style and game and all right he doesn't have exact in the middle of past two
00:03:01
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Cool. Yeah.
00:03:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
but there was other options as well, but you know, that didn't happen.
00:03:17
Nicola Pringle-Adams
go yeah
00:03:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
So it's fine. m What's your kind of take on that from the first half? You got anything to add on that or.
00:03:24
Nicola Pringle-Adams
um Other than the fact there was obviously mixed up opinions about the Alanga shout of him starting and um Murphy obviously on the
Player Performance Analysis
00:03:33
Nicola Pringle-Adams
bench. Now, I don't know if it was a case of, we're not in training, so we don't know what Eddie Howe's seeing, obviously.
00:03:38
Nicola Pringle-Adams
And we can appreciate before everyone then comes to me and Joe and say, gives us their normal comments, can appreciate that we're probably, Murphy probably isn't our first pick at the minute.
00:03:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:03:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:03:48
Nicola Pringle-Adams
However, I was quite surprised to see Alanga picked over Murphy. and more so because um first Premier League game it's let's not underestimate it's very hard ground to go to for us notoriously um we seem to either have a great game or very poor um and obviously like you say Murphy knows obviously not saying Alanga doesn't but obviously Murphy knows our style of play um so oh yeah so I was quite surprised to see that however I do feel like Alanga I feel like for
00:03:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
who
00:04:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:04:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Of course, yeah, natural.
00:04:19
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I guess his debut, I mean, I know he did and pre-season, but I'll just talk from a Premier League stance for Newcastle, his Newcastle Premier League debut. um I didn't think he had a poor game, but I do agree. I don't know if maybe the occasion just got to him a little bit and felt like he had a bit of a point to prove, um um which is to be expected. Nerves are to be expected. We've seen it time and time and time again with new players, um not just for Newcastle, for every team, do you know what TK doesn't seem to have that problem though, does he?
00:04:46
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah. But yeah, yeah we have we we we've seen it time and time again. i will be honest, and I thought the one player that, i don't know if you're going to go into this, so please tell me if you if you are, but the one player that I did, which I really feel bad saying in this, i did think had a bit of a poor game, was Tino.
00:04:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
right, go for it.
00:05:06
Nicola Pringle-Adams
i thought I thought of all the wingers that Tino's had in his back pocket, I thought John McGinn had him a little bit on ice yesterday, ah on Saturday, sorry, and which again, I don't know if it was first game
00:05:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Unfortunately.
00:05:18
Nicola Pringle-Adams
nerves or dust off I don't know what it was but I did think Tino had a bit of a poor game um compared to most so yeah but not a terrible game yeah no I agree
00:05:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. He wasn't as good as he can be. no, no. I'm with you. um I am with you there. because we're not going to say none of them had terrible games. I think as a whole, we actually played really well. And like I say, it's a real shame to the point where Before the game, if you'd asked us if I would have took a point, would have been like, yeah.
00:05:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Again, after the amount of smash-ins we've had down there, yeah, I would have been happy with a point, especially with what's going on. But for how the game played out, it almost felt like we'd actually dropped two points. So and it is a tough one, yeah.
00:05:46
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah
00:05:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Look, some players were stronger than us It's as simple as that. But that's kind of how every game goes, isn't it?
00:05:53
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yep.
00:05:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think, if I'm honest, and the main change I would have made right at the start would have been... Barnes in the middle and Gordon on the left and I know before anyone again wants to come at us and say things like oh Will Barnes isn't a striker Yeah, but also Gordon is not an in and out striker, you know what i mean?
00:06:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Gordon all right played well as a striker for the under twenty one Yes, it worked brilliantly, right?
00:06:09
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yep.
00:06:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
But it really hasn't ever as a striker for us and that's kind of the point because for me Gordon is more effective on the left than Barnes is and Barnes is actually a generally better striker the ball than Gordon
00:06:22
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Agreed.
00:06:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I would have loved to have seen that switch up And if I'm honest I was kind of When I saw the line was like yeah yeah alright expected Bonds on the left go But I was hoping he was kind of going to let them switch about And mix up and I didn't see any evidence that I'll be honest but
00:06:25
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Agreed.
00:06:32
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Agreed.
00:06:39
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I wonder if we're going to see that, obviously, I'm trying not to mention him too much, but it's what people are listening for at the minute, is the Isak saga.
Strategic Discussions and Player Positions
00:06:45
Nicola Pringle-Adams
The more this goes on, um for however long it goes on, um but the more this goes on, I wonder if Eddie Howe just
00:06:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah Hmm
00:06:52
Nicola Pringle-Adams
tri He's got really no other option unless we get someone in um over the next couple of weeks. um I wonder if we will see him play play around with the formation.
00:06:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:01
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I wonder if we will see it because he doesn't know what's going to work, does he?
00:07:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:07:05
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I mean, we i mean our only striker, well, not our only striker, but our number one striker is refusing to play. So um I wonder if we will see him make some change like that or if we will just see him stick with the formation that he did on Saturday.
00:07:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Brilliant.
00:07:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:20
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Who knows? Only he knows.
00:07:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Look, it's a tough one, Because I think the whole Visser situation is apparently going to be sealed the next couple of days. And this now might be like a moot point, so to speak. Because if he comes in, yes, he's going to have to be integrated very quickly.
00:07:30
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yep
00:07:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
But if he comes in the next couple of days, I would absolutely expect him to start against Liverpool. It's as simple as that. Because he will be match fit. He has trained. All right, he hasn't. trained a lot because we all know that he's kind of stepped aside from Brentford training and stuff like that so he hasn't been doing, he's been naughty as well we've all acknowledged this alright people before anyone it's not cool, it's not cool on the other side and we've already said this so it's fine but yeah like we need him, it's as simple as that and that's why Newcastle fans are kind of saying well yeah actually bring him in regardless because we need a strike, it's as simple as that and yes if he comes in by say Tuesday ish, we don't play Liverpool Monday it's time to get him kind of
00:07:49
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Not cool. Yep.
00:08:12
Nicola Pringle-Adams
sort of embedded yeah
00:08:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know. It's quick enough though, isn't it? Because I don't know. I can't see how playing Barnes in the middle against Liverpool.
00:08:21
Nicola Pringle-Adams
um no I think yeah I think with and I'm going to call it an occasion with the Liverpool game because tensions are um quite high with but I think and I think it yeah burning
00:08:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think the Villa game would have been the one to do it against, you know what I mean? If we were still in that situation of having no Visser, no whatever, you know what
00:08:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
mean? Oh, it will be. Burning. Burning.
00:08:41
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I think Anthony Gordon um discussed that yesterday after ah after after the match about how the tension may be, or I can't remember what he said, but he said there's going to be definitely high tensions um at the Liverpool game.
00:08:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
that's
00:08:51
Nicola Pringle-Adams
um I think Howe will only be picking, not the plays that he thinks he can handle the occasion, because let's be honest, they're all professionals, they should be able to handle it um in their own way.
00:09:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well.
00:09:01
Nicola Pringle-Adams
But I think he'll be picking his, I don't actually know, know what trying to say, because I'm just thinking without a striker, who knows what we're doing?
00:09:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know what you're saying. He'll pick, he'll realistically pick the team that's just played. He will.
00:09:12
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Mm, yeah.
00:09:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, I'm not, again, being rude to a longer. I would start Murphy against Liverpool.
00:09:17
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Mm-hmm.
00:09:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
I really would. Because, again, goes back what we're saying he knows his style i'm not saying he's going to be on number one moving forward he's not but if we've looked at the history of how and you made a great point there how you were surprised that he started because really what we're expecting and what we're used to from how is he integrates people in and he takes forever i mean dear god bruno took forever to get in and he was like chomping at the bit man you know i wasn't he that's what i mean but it's like months and months and then eventually they're kind of embedded in for a lang at the start it was a surprise based on that alone i'll be honest yeah
00:09:21
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Well, he started the final.
00:09:24
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:09:36
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah, Lewis Hall. Took a year. Yeah. Well...
00:09:46
Nicola Pringle-Adams
You look at plays he's embedded in, and I know people are going to be like, well, it's not exactly a comparison. But look at Ossula. i mean, I'm not saying he should have started yesterday. have no right saying that he should have started.
00:09:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:09:58
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Look how long it's taken him to embed into the team and get minutes on the thing.
00:09:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know.
00:10:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:10:02
Nicola Pringle-Adams
and That's a striker we have on the bench, by the way. And he's still not starting.
00:10:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know.
00:10:07
Nicola Pringle-Adams
um
00:10:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mad, isn't it?
00:10:09
Nicola Pringle-Adams
So there's obviously something not quite, not right, but there's obviously still...
00:10:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
He doesn't quite trust
00:10:14
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:10:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Asula right, just yet, does he? Not enough. i'm saying It sounds hard to say he doesn't trust him, doesn't it?
00:10:17
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Not enough.
00:10:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, doesn't trust him to handle that kind of starting position and seeing out at least a good 70 minutes of the match because how does like to tend to leave his subs a bit too late? Because
Second Half Dynamics and Controversies
00:10:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
again, I'm not going to lie, this was something I was kind of shouting out for.
00:10:28
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Too late.
00:10:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
I was i can imagine so many other people were um not only at the half-time subs, but even... when it got into the second half and especially because we didn't really start so strong we're really yelling out for the kind of subs to happen before like the 75th minute or I think or whatever it was um but I'll tell you what I'll pause right now because I know we've got an ad to play but we'll come back we'll talk about the second half and just a bit more about kind of what happened after the match and stuff like that all right cool
00:10:39
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:10:44
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Hmm.
00:10:49
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yep.
00:10:54
Nicola Pringle-Adams
cool
00:11:34
Nicola Pringle-Adams
feel like I'm plane when that plays.
00:11:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm not going to lie, right? That's like being kind of floaty, um isn't it?
00:11:39
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I know, yeah. It really is.
00:11:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
So that's Ken's Dorset Tones with some added jingle. So, um ah yeah, I think that's the first time we've heard that one. So I don't know who's put that mix in. But ironically, it is called the Bionique ad mix final.
00:11:52
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Oh, remix.
00:11:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
So someone has been messing about with the ad. Yeah, exactly. It's a Bionique remix. We're delivering the same message. It's cool. Right. Anyway, back the football. That's what we're here for, right? um
00:12:02
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Oh, wait.
00:12:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, yes, second half, Nick. m As predicted and as again I'm probably load of people said exactly what we did when we because I was sitting the pub with me mate for the festival and i was like it's one of those that you've had that great first half you haven't wrapped it up you know fine well Villa are going to come out fighting because that's always what happens and I've had that pep talk that I've had that kind of we need to push harder like this situation at half time.
00:12:20
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yep.
00:12:25
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Mm-hmm.
00:12:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
And look what happened. They did. They came out stronger in the second half. It's simple as that. I think we came back and started dominating again, by the way, like the second half of the second half, if you want to call it that. Let's call it the fourth quarter for the American listeners.
00:12:35
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Mm-hmm.
00:12:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
um So, but you see, and that's where the worry came. Because I think they had a shot, their first shot. And man, if it wasn't for Pope's position, Like, I was in. it was ah It was a decent shot. It was. great it was Like, fair play to them.
00:12:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
But that when all of a sudden then you're on edge your seat you're thinking, hang on, this is where that first half of not wrapping anything up is going to come back and bite with. Thank God didn't, right? And look, they got a very deserved red card, by the way.
00:13:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
i was in a pub, by the way. I'm just going lay this out in Middlesbrough. Well, Stockton, Sedgefield type of area.
00:13:09
Nicola Pringle-Adams
oh
00:13:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
So it was like very much a Middlesbrough type of pub. Fair play to them. The majority of people in there were Geordie's. But there was the odd mackerel in that and... Me and Matt was doing mixed well, especially when there's a drink around.
00:13:20
Nicola Pringle-Adams
well especially not yesterday when they've just thrashed West Ham 3-0 oh yep
00:13:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
But they hadn't won yet. And he was still cocky as hell. And i was like, dude, don't start.
00:13:26
Nicola Pringle-Adams
oh
00:13:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like he was just giving it all that.
00:13:28
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah
00:13:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then when the guy got a red card, And it was a red card. It was the last man. It was funny because he was with his mate who was a Jodie and the proper started arguing over it because he was like going, that's hardly a red card.
00:13:38
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Oh, God.
00:13:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's soft. That he's like, his mate was going, give over, man. It's the last man. So all of us started going, ah, it's the last man. The whole pub's like, and this, this magma, he wouldn't give up.
00:13:47
Nicola Pringle-Adams
It wasn't a red card. I don't know why
00:13:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, honestly, I was like, oh, I felt like saying, stop being so damn biased, man.
00:13:50
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah
00:13:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Last man. It's the rules. It was a red card. Simple as that. Right.
00:13:56
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Also, even Condor, who got sent off, was waiting for the red card, and um like to be confirmed.
00:14:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
He knew.
00:14:01
Nicola Pringle-Adams
and I thought, dude, it's definitely a red card.
00:14:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
He did purpose.
00:14:05
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Why are you waiting? Get off.
00:14:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know. I know. it's It's almost like a take one of for the team moment, wasn't it? Because Gordon was through.
00:14:11
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah, course it was.
00:14:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Gordon had a great chance. All right. It's not guaranteed that he was going to do it. He could have fluffed his lines and sent it into the stands.
00:14:18
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Don't know that though.
00:14:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
But it was a high chance of him scoring as well.
00:14:20
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:14:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, yeah. So, it almost was. We've seen it happen before in football of did he almost do it on purpose? But that's where it is a red card. It's as simple as that. You know, you cannot take someone down as a last man.
00:14:28
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Simple as
00:14:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Simple. So, It's done, but I've always said, right, when teams get a red card, and it's happened for us as well, sometimes you band together more at that point, and it's harder i sometimes to play against 10 men because the formation shift.
00:14:40
Nicola Pringle-Adams
that. Agreed.
00:14:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
They will sit behind the ball a lot more. And there we go. that To me, actually, that ironically was our kind of not a chance gone to score because that's a bit ridiculous to say that, but I think it actually made it harder because Villa did start a shift and they had to.
00:14:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
You have to adapt when you lose a man.
00:14:56
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah, of course it is.
00:14:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's as simple as that, so...
00:14:59
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah, I completely agree. um i always we've said i think all of us on this pod have said sometimes it's harder to well, it is harder to play, excuse me, sorry, against 10 men than it is 11 men.
00:15:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:08
Nicola Pringle-Adams
um Because you're right, everything changes. They become more defensive. They sit behind the ball. They don't attack as much. And you're trying to give and give and give and give. Yeah.
00:15:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
ye
00:15:17
Nicola Pringle-Adams
ah To be honest, I don't think much changed from the first half to the second half. i don't I think you're right. I think we took a while to get into the game the second half. God knows what happened there. But I do think we um ah do think we but took a while.
00:15:29
Nicola Pringle-Adams
um And I'm just stating the obvious. Yesterday was just... I felt sorry because for the team because it's not as if they didn't try. they Every single one of them tried.
00:15:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
I am.
00:15:38
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I know I criticised Tino saying that I thought you had a poor game just because I thought he did. But...
00:15:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just not as good as you can be, yeah, that's all I was.
00:15:43
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Just not at his best, yeah.
00:15:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:45
Nicola Pringle-Adams
He didn't have having an abysmal performance, but he just wasn't at his best.
00:15:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:48
Nicola Pringle-Adams
But as a collective, the team tried. They all turned up and they played as a team. It was just... it yeah Yesterday, sorry, Saturday, the time people listened to this. Saturday's game was just a clear view of what we're missing.
00:16:02
Nicola Pringle-Adams
um
00:16:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:16:03
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I'm not sitting here saying that if Isak played that game, we would have won 1-2-3-0. But what could have been if he just, you know, turned up?
00:16:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
To have a target man.
00:16:12
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I mean, I think I've just been watching the mate yeah i think afterve just been watching the Chelsea and Crystal Palace game and I'm sure Eze
00:16:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
But to have a striker full stop. Yeah.
Financial Constraints and Transfer Talks
00:16:21
Nicola Pringle-Adams
wants to leave, but he's still on that pitch performing for Crystal Palace.
00:16:24
Nicola Pringle-Adams
And I'm just a bit like, hmm, look what happens when you actually communicate with your club and your fans and your players and you actually can still play whilst respecting.
00:16:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's. Yep.
00:16:34
Nicola Pringle-Adams
And i just a bit I'm just a bit disappointed. I feel more disappointed now for the team than anything because I'm like, you guys have gone
00:16:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:16:39
Nicola Pringle-Adams
down to Villa Park with, you know, 10,000 fans following you down there and with what could have been with a performance striker, you know.
00:16:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:50
Nicola Pringle-Adams
and But like I say, I'm not disappointed with the point at Villa Park.
00:16:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:55
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Very hard place to go to on a good day, um on a bad day and a good day.
00:16:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, no. Mm-hmm.
00:16:59
Nicola Pringle-Adams
So, yeah, it could have been worse, could have been better.
00:17:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
00:17:03
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:17:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think just Villa were poor, especially in the first half.
00:17:06
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah, they were.
00:17:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
So that's where we should have wrapped it. Look, we didn't, right? We can see it a million times. We didn't wrap it up. It's it's as similar as that. But again, we've established pretty much why we think we didn't wrap it up as well. 100%.
00:17:16
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Villa, it's hard, isn't it? Because like, I don't know, I'm just now going off off off pitch sort of vibes here. Like Villa are really kind of in the same position as us when it comes to, you know, the Premier League rules and the PSR and all that sort of stuff.
00:17:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah hundred some
00:17:29
Nicola Pringle-Adams
And I feel quite bad for ever actually slating Villa on this pod. and Maybe not the team, more so their fan base because they've become a bit unbearable online. But I'm now starting to look at a different light. I'm thinking we're actually all in the same boat because
00:17:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, we are.
00:17:43
Nicola Pringle-Adams
as two teams that ah should be on the rise and are on the rise, it's become very evident on the pitch. And I'll talk about Villa and Newcastle and also the likes of West Ham.
00:17:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:54
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Very clear that they're struggling with the rules because they can't spend a single thing, um which is shocking.
00:17:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, wow. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:17:59
Nicola Pringle-Adams
And it's actually a bit like, we sure should be united a little bit because we're, you know, Villa are a good side and they're obviously, they're having to sell and sell and sell to stay in line with the regulations and can't buy.
00:18:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know.
00:18:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:18:11
Nicola Pringle-Adams
It's it's becoming a bit of a sad state of affairs to watch play out really.
00:18:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:18:15
Nicola Pringle-Adams
And you've got the likes of Liverpool obviously spending, well they spent in this window, 200 million or something.
00:18:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:18:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
think it's more than that now, I think, yeah.
00:18:22
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Chelsea have spent an absolute fortune and that they've just put on and the worst performance I've ever seen.
00:18:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
It'll be, yeah. They're untrackable at this point.
00:18:27
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah, they are. Yeah, they are untrackable. um
00:18:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
that
00:18:30
Nicola Pringle-Adams
You know, and what they've just put out on the pitch this afternoon
00:18:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know, I watched it.
00:18:34
Nicola Pringle-Adams
it
00:18:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
I watched the second half, yeah.
00:18:36
Nicola Pringle-Adams
awful um you know it's just just a bit sad really i've gone off off off um off track here but yeah
00:18:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:18:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, it's fair it's it's relevant, man. It is relevant. so It kind of all links together, isn't it? And this is where all these problems are to coming in and, you know, people are saying, well, if you sell Ezek, it solves your PSR problems. mean, it doesn't solve them fully. We'll never still be able to do exactly what Liverpool and Chelsea are doing. But dear God, 150 million would be huge for us yes because you're talking about multiple windows worth of spending and stuff like that so i do agree it is huge for us but it doesn't fully solve it because it'll never go away because eventually that money runs and back almost but almost back to square one aren't you um
00:19:12
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I agree. No.
00:19:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I mean, um we all agree that he needs to go regardless. So let's just see what plays out with the Vista thing. The thing is, we said we wanted two strikers before he goes. So the whole Vista thing, regardless, it doesn't actually solve that solution for him.
00:19:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Not that I really want to solve it for him at all, as we've already established. um But that kind of leads on what you're saying there about the fans and how loyal we've been and stuff like that to then what was saying at the end of the game.
00:19:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, I ah can't sing it because we're not allowed to swear on this podcast, but anyone that's seen any clips will know exactly what the entire Away fans sang.
00:19:42
Nicola Pringle-Adams
and allowed
00:19:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
And you know what?
Managerial Decisions and Player Dynamics
00:19:50
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Fair play.
00:19:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
You can understand it, man. And I love that Mr.
00:19:52
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:19:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Cool Eddie came out with his... what was it? going to have to pull it back up because my brain is not functioning today, man.
00:20:00
Nicola Pringle-Adams
um He said, yeah um let me see if I can get it.
00:20:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Did I send on the main group, didn't I? Because then it was interpreted as something.
00:20:04
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Oh,
00:20:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
He came out and said like the super like sensible thing.
00:20:08
Nicola Pringle-Adams
ah so here he goes. He says,
00:20:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then.
00:20:10
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Whatever happens with Isak, our supporters acted really well today because they supported the team when we were playing. They've always done that unbelievably well. If they want to say something afterwards, they are then free to do that. um So in other words, I completely agree.
00:20:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
JT would have been in the crowd shouting it with them. That's the difference. that's like ah Honestly, and this is why he'd probably never be interviewed.
00:20:29
Nicola Pringle-Adams
j t was in the crowd.
00:20:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's why they don't ask him. the thing Nobody has asked Tindall how he feels about it.
00:20:34
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Brilliant.
00:20:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's like, yeah. um But this is where you've got to hand it to Howlman. He just handles everything perfectly. And you've even got people now who love to rip the piece out of Howl, or rip us for having Howl.
00:20:45
Nicola Pringle-Adams
know
00:20:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
And he's still not one of the world's best. He is, by the way, but never mind. um even they're now starting to say the grace that he's shown. You just don't see it. and You don't. It's a rare quality in a human, never mind a football manager. so
00:21:00
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah he's really keeping his cool
00:21:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've admitted I wouldn't be that way. yeah yeah. I'd be over-emotional. Probably people would hate us.
00:21:05
Nicola Pringle-Adams
same I can't imagine he's keeping his cool behind the scenes um when he's maybe him and
00:21:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
like Because, yeah.
00:21:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
No. Yeah.
00:21:13
Nicola Pringle-Adams
the hierarchy dealing with that situation. I imagine he's, he's got to let out somewhere.
00:21:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's got to let it out somewhere. Yeah.
00:21:18
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah. and I imagine he's quite raging. But I imagine he's obviously letting that off in, you know, his own way.
00:21:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:21:25
Nicola Pringle-Adams
and You know, and he said yesterday when someone asked him about it, he said, there's people dealing with that behind the scenes. My focus is the team. And I thought, do you know what? That is a, that's a very, that's a very true and also a very good way to answer the question.
00:21:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's true, though. Mm-hmm. It is.
00:21:36
Nicola Pringle-Adams
He's probably, what else can he say?
00:21:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:21:39
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Because he knows he's been, yeah, he's he's obviously sick of it.
00:21:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
He must be sick. Like, being asked.
00:21:42
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah. but he's also like, in a way, probably feels very disrespected.
00:21:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:21:46
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Um, you know, and just while I'm on this, actually, while talking about this, um, there's a video that's been uploaded of me and Kev, two videos on TikTok talking about the Isak situation.
00:21:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:56
Nicola Pringle-Adams
And I'm just coming for everyone that's been in the comments and it's been unbearable listening to some people's comments um and reading them.
00:21:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:01
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Listen to the full podcasts before you comment on things because we comment on things.
00:22:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's TikTok. Oh, no. They don't.
00:22:07
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Um, but I'm just going to sit here and say, um and I've said this and I've read it down in a comment on TikTok somewhere to someone that was being unbearable. Isak would be nothing without Newcastle United and Eddie Howe, the fans, his players, his teammates, nothing.
00:22:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:22
Nicola Pringle-Adams
and Likewise, Newcastle United have done as well without Isak. So I'm just giving both sides of the story here.
00:22:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, of course.
00:22:27
Nicola Pringle-Adams
um
00:22:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:22:28
Nicola Pringle-Adams
But yeah, I imagine he's probably feeling very disrespected, very to the end of his tether with it. And he won't ever say this until maybe it does happen, but he probably just doesn't want him here anymore. He's probably just a bit like, just go.
00:22:41
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Just go.
00:22:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
He won't want the poison in the squad. He loves that he's got a United squad, hasn't he? And the rest of the team have come out and said, and you said this before, about how the players post-match and stuff. They were like, it was almost saying it without saying it about how they're feeling.
00:22:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because you can imagine the players must be sick as well. There's no way they can all support him.
00:22:58
Nicola Pringle-Adams
ah see if I can get the damn burn one up.
00:23:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. He will have... um some friends in the squad he will and it's natural so you will have some people that might stick up for him on a personal level but you've got to think that the vast majority of the squad we've joked about Joel Linton wanting kill him guaranteed Bruno wanting to likes of Big Dan Burn or like the Geordie lads but like I think the majority of the squad because can you imagine just in ah in a workplace because let's get real that's what these guys and we've joked about all the time it's their job can you imagine us going into work i don't know there's say 20 of us on your team right and you're causing the havoc
00:23:15
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Absolutely. Mm-hmm.
00:23:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
They are. and then But you expect all the rest of your team to still love you and think like you're great. and It's fine, man. Joe, Nick, yeah, they're fine to do that. they Yeah, we'll stay. We'll work hard. But yeah, you go do you. You get all your money and you stay at home and you chill.
00:23:46
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah, whilst getting paid £120,000 a week, bearing in mind.
00:23:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll support you. No way. No, exactly. So that's...
00:23:51
Nicola Pringle-Adams
is If anything of this situation, and you know it will happen again in the future, not hopefully not to us, but hopefully to another club,
00:23:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:01
Nicola Pringle-Adams
it just does ghost to it goes to show now how much power players actually have. Because with all the mix of comments coming in about this situation, no one knows the true story. So no one knows if Amanda Amirdad offered him whatever no one knows that bar them three on his agent no one knows if he was promised a new contract no one knows if he was asked for a new contract towards end up no one flipping knows anything other than the people that are involved there's always I guess three sides to the story their side our side and the truth um no one knows that ah so it's just it's becoming a little bit of of a thing but no matter what Newcastle now will do in this situation and it's you know sod's law we're going to be seen as the bad guys because we either keep him and we're
00:24:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:24:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:24:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
true
00:24:42
Nicola Pringle-Adams
apparently we're being accused of holding him hostage but well he's not um he's holding himself hostage at this point um
00:24:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
can you imagine holding hostage a person that's getting paid 120 grand i would be that prisoner please lock me up with 120 grand a week damn right torture me for 120 grand a week like it is ridiculous to say someone's being held hostage like
00:24:53
Nicola Pringle-Adams
i would i would have home he bought it for 50 grand a week come on exactly so no it's ridiculous i had to reply to someone on tiktok and be like held hostage really like he's not been held hostage he's been a brat he's actually been a brat yeah yeah literally
00:25:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, literal gun to his head.
00:25:10
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I mean, probably shouldn't joke about that with our owners, but yeah.
00:25:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Sorry, yeah, sorry.
00:25:13
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Because you know how that's seen.
00:25:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oops. Yeah.
00:25:16
Nicola Pringle-Adams
But um yeah, he, you know, no matter what Newcastle do now, they're going to be seen as the bad guys.
00:25:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
this
00:25:21
Nicola Pringle-Adams
We either keep him at the club and then he doesn't perform very well, which is obviously inevitably going to happen. um
00:25:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:25:26
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Or we sell him and we sell him for less than what he's worth. And then that send sets a message into the future of the player wants to leave the club. They can just do exactly that. What do Newcastle do?
00:25:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely.
00:25:37
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Hmm. Because no matter what we do or what we suggest, it's ah it's it's ah it's the worst situation.
00:25:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's such a hard situation, isn't it? think it's no-win situation, isn't it?
00:25:43
Nicola Pringle-Adams
It's a no-win situation.
00:25:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:44
Nicola Pringle-Adams
And we'll be laughed at regardless. So, yeah.
00:25:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
oh yeah.
00:25:48
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Get Whitter the line.
00:25:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
People love that, though.
00:25:49
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Come on.
00:25:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, exactly. We'll be fine, man.
00:25:52
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I know we said the exact same thing, guys.
00:25:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, you know what it is? It does derive from it.
00:25:53
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I'm not disagreeing with that.
00:25:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, it's true, though, but this whole EZAC situation does derive from the the fact that actually this window isn't turned out to be too bad. All right, it's happening quite late, but you know what it is? How many times is this happening?
00:26:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
It happens was in January.
00:26:06
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I know.
00:26:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
will tend to happen towards the the month in January. All of a sudden, everyone's like scraping together in the last couple of days. There's a reason people sit and watch Sky Sports News until the actual deadline, literal minute, in the hope that your team flashes up because it always happens, doesn't it?
00:26:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
There's always someone doing literally last second deals.
00:26:22
Nicola Pringle-Adams
100%.
00:26:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
People jumping in cars, people jumping on airplanes.
00:26:24
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yep.
00:26:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's like literally about two hours left. They're up there for the medical and it's like, everyone's getting excited. But that's how transfer windows go. So there's going lot more movement, not just in our club before the end of the window.
00:26:37
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Oh, yeah.
00:26:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:26:37
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Hmm?
00:26:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I think in general, I'm happy with who we've brought in. Alanga is absolutely brilliant. Over the moon with that. I'm happy with Jacob Ramsey. It's an upgrade for us in midfield there. and Ramsdale. In reality, I know we've said mixed things about Ramsdale, but it is an upgrade on Jabravka, isn't it really?
00:26:52
Nicola Pringle-Adams
It's enough.
00:26:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know i mean?
00:26:53
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yep.
00:26:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Malik Chow looks kind of tasty as well.
00:26:57
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Mm-hmm.
00:26:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Trying to just watch as many highlights as possible now to get some real info on the guy. Because, again, not going to lie, I only knew a little bit about him before he came.
00:27:03
Nicola Pringle-Adams
No, same. Yeah, me too.
00:27:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
so But he this is all upgraded. When you're looking at like what we're doing, that was kind of the whole point. At the start of the window, we all sat down and said, we needed a right winger. We got a right winger. We wanted a central defender.
00:27:14
Nicola Pringle-Adams
And a back.
00:27:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
We got one.
00:27:15
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah
00:27:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Midfield, got one. Mint. It's the whole striker situation that's really messed this up. That it's it's just taking away any of the goodness. So there is some goodness there.
00:27:23
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:27:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
And that's what we need to remember.
00:27:24
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Very sour taste.
00:27:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. And yeah. And then the goodness will have to just shine
Liverpool Game Preview and Conclusions
00:27:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
through on Monday. Because dear God. Is that going to be one hell of a hostile atmosphere.
00:27:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm sitting up near their fans. And I'm not going to lie.
00:27:39
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Oh, I'm jealous you were there.
00:27:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like.
00:27:39
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I couldn't get a ticket.
00:27:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Girl. Like.
00:27:42
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Enjoy, babe.
00:27:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
pray for me that I don't get arrested but I mean I'm saying I'm joking but I'm partially joking oh man can you imagine how hostile it's going to be though they'll be winding us up we'll be going wild oh my lord um oh god yeah it'll be so much worse if it was down there and I I know but by the way please play like you did against Bournemouth I mean obviously not the four goals but in terms of their quality I watched i watched that game and I was thinking hang on a second Bournemouth were the better team for the most of the game you know
00:27:45
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Well, please don't.
00:27:49
Nicola Pringle-Adams
it's goingnna It's bank holiday as well. It's going to be hostile.
00:27:53
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah, I'm glad it's at home.
00:27:57
Nicola Pringle-Adams
um oh Yeah, awful.
00:28:09
Nicola Pringle-Adams
um um Also, I'm just going out on a whim here and people are going to say, Isak does not fit into that Liverpool squad. Hands down. I watched that game because my partner's obviously, my husband's is ah is a Liverpool fan.
00:28:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
I feel for Ekotika, you know, if he goes.
00:28:23
Nicola Pringle-Adams
And, oh, me too. Yeah, me too. um Isak does not fit Liverpool's style of play. People can agree or disagree, but this is my opinion. he doesn't I watched that game and I thought, ain't no way that he fits into that style of play.
00:28:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:28:34
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I know a manager is a manager for a reason and they embed people in.
00:28:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, doesn't it?
00:28:37
Nicola Pringle-Adams
i get it.
00:28:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Blah, blah, blah, I don't know.
00:28:38
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I am telling you now, Isak, they don't even want him.
00:28:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. I
00:28:41
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Well, I don't know. they Obviously they do. But yeah, I'm just like, he does not fit into that style of play. So he's, yeah.
00:28:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
don't know. It's a shame because how we play is perfect for it.
00:28:50
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Perfect.
00:28:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hence the reason he scored as many as he has in the last two seasons. But, oh, look, we' not we've given more air time than we promised. So there we go.
00:28:58
Nicola Pringle-Adams
There'll be a new story about it tomorrow, I'm assuming.
00:28:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think the problem is it will. No doubt. So we can make false promises tomorrow too.
00:29:03
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:29:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's fine.
00:29:05
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Woohoo!
00:29:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Woohoo. Anyway, I think we've covered everything. Is there anything else you've also got to say about the game? I think I've said everything I can, I'll be honest.
00:29:11
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Nope. Yeah, all good, babe.
00:29:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
We're good.
00:29:13
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah, I'm all good.
00:29:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Happy days. And we pray again for next week. but We've got quite a few pods in between then and now, so we'll not really talk about Liverpool too much.
00:29:19
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah, we've got about six.
00:29:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fine. We're all good. Happy days.
00:29:22
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Bye!
00:29:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
See you later, chick.