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Daily Newcastle - 4-0 City Review
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Apologies but due to a technical difficulty, this recording is a lot shorter than normal, and we struggled to get this back up and running to finish the episode. However, join Nic and Jo as discuss our performance against City.
Host - Nicola Pringle-Adams
Guest - Jo Ayres
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Introduction to the Daily Newcastle Podcast
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the Daily Newcastle Podcast, um which is part of the Global Sports Podcast Network, and the only network where you will find daily content on the Premier League and women's football. um I am your host today, Nicola. I obviously sound a little bit different if you can hear. My voice is cracking because m I wish I could blame it on the football, but it generally wasn't. It's very self-inflicted. So apologies for my voice today. It's probably not the right time to be recording a podcast. um And it is just the duo today.
Nicola and Jo's Chaotic Journey
00:00:42
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It's just the girls from the Newcastle team. So I am joined by my girly-whirly who accompanied me last night on my yeah horror of a journey home. Jo, how are we, honey?
00:00:54
Jo
i'm I'm brilliant. I'm so much happy to actually see your face after having about a good hour, an hour and a half commentary of your journey home. It it was absolute comedy goal last night, so thanks for that.
Disappointing Newcastle vs. Manchester City Match
00:01:04
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You're absolutely welcome. um I was voice noting Joe in a panic, people, because I realised my train that I was supposed to get um turned into an overnight train. Let's just leave that there. um Anyway, Joe, we um are here.
00:01:15
Jo
like
00:01:17
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We're here. We are post Manchester City game, which oh um yeah it wasn't the best, let's be honest.
00:01:19
Jo
Yeah.
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um
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Now, obviously, I didn't actually watch the game on Saturday because I was celebrating a friend's birthday. um So I was heavily relying on um social media, match of the day, and you guys, and which all did help in making my opinion of the game.
00:01:27
Jo
to
00:01:44
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um So let's just, it's probably going to be a really short and sweet pod, by the way, guys, because we haven't really got much self to say.
00:01:47
Jo
but
00:01:50
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um So how are we feeling, mate, after what we've seen yeah um on Saturday from the lads? what will we What are we saying?
Post-Match Reflections and Frustrations
00:02:00
Jo
So I promised I wouldn't be completely negative because I hate to be totally negative, but that there wasn't a lot of positives to take from yesterday. um Eddie admitted that Bruno looked fuming, to put it lightly, in his post-match, but I like to see stuff like that.
00:02:12
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Yeah.
00:02:14
Jo
I want to see that kind of raw emotion from the players, especially from my captain. So it was kind of nice to see that. And no doubt there was some probably some choice words said in the dressing room, ah especially at full time as well.
00:02:24
Jo
God knows what was said at halftime because nothing much improved in the second half.
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Yeah.
00:02:27
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Nothing happened. Yeah.
00:02:28
Jo
So, um, I mean, general synopsis on it to me is we had a couple of good chances, which could have potentially had a bit of a more of an impact on the game. Let's say, um, he's like right through quite early on in the game, which I was screaming at the TV, pass it off to Gordon, I believe.
00:02:37
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Yeah.
00:02:45
Jo
ah My mind's a bit blurred on it all. I'll be honest, but I believe it was Gordon white, white spaces, took themself. Didn't do anything with it. Um,
00:02:52
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yeah
00:02:54
Jo
I think I'm clutching at scroll though because at the end of the day City had us. We didn't do anything, we didn't turn up. We didn't press them. We might offer five minutes of the 90 minutes and press them and and that was more towards the start of the game.
00:03:05
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Yeah.
00:03:09
Jo
but we gave them full control you can't give a team like that full control you just can't and as much as City have had bad runs this season we've got to remember that they're still an excellent team and one of the best in the world still regardless of the fact that they've been on a bad run so if you turn up with City like that and do what we did of course they're going to turn us over all the high hopes we had of god we didn't even score again um at the head you had we are had had all these high hopes of like winning
00:03:23
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Yeah.
00:03:37
Jo
We didn't even get the one goal, nevermind actually winning, but um madete it was just frustrating, if I'm honest, because it it is just one of those performances where there was no need for it.
00:03:47
Jo
And if I'm honest, Bruno pretty much said that in his post match as well. It was just a case of like, he acknowledged that they just absolutely didn't turn up to we' make a blunt.
00:03:57
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Well, they didn't.
00:03:57
Jo
I will go further into it in a minute, but yeah, that's my general synopsis of it.
00:03:59
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Yeah, they didn't.
00:04:01
Jo
Yeah.
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Um, and I think my frustration, um, on the whole scenario, now I'm not going to sit here and say, I expect us to win every game for the next three decades. You know what I mean?
00:04:10
Jo
Mm-hmm.
00:04:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, obviously we're not, we are obviously going to lose matches and, you know, and some matches are going to have more goals in them than some like yesterday.
00:04:11
Jo
Yeah.
00:04:19
Jo
Mm-hmm.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
And there's nothing wrong with that. But as you know, I can't really sit here and say that. on Saturday's match, the ball, even the lads didn't even look like, not like they didn't care, but it was almost like, right, we've got a cup final next month.
00:04:32
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So let's just keep that in the back of our heads.
00:04:33
Jo
Mm-hmm.
00:04:35
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Don't do anything stupid.
00:04:35
Jo
Yeah.
00:04:36
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Don't want to do this. Don't want to do it. And I get it to an extent, but I'm also like these games that we seem to be losing, um, I'm fine. We're losing them because obviously the other team's better, but put in a performance that's that we can actually sit here and defend and be like, yeah, we lost, but actually the lads played semi okay.
00:04:53
Jo
Yeah, they tried.
00:04:54
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um Whereas last yesterday, like I'm like, yeah, we lost and we absolutely deserve to lose because we just didn't, it was a really lackluster performance.
00:05:05
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It was like, there was just no desire to even want to win on the pitch. And like you say, there was obviously a couple of half chances that could have changed the game entirely. um But yeah, i I don't really have, that sounds really bad.
00:05:17
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Like I'm not trying to be negative, but like there's actually not really anything great to say about it. and
00:05:21
Jo
Listen.
00:05:21
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To be honest, it was actually quite nice to see Bruno's post-match press conference say, and it looked how fuming he was.
00:05:25
Jo
Mm-hmm.
00:05:27
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And I thought, you can't defend that performance. And we can't go into these you know next games.
00:05:30
Jo
You can't.
00:05:33
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Because obviously we all realize it, but these next games over the next month or two, they're decisions of whether we're going to if we're going to be
Impact on Future Performances and Qualifications
00:05:41
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in Europe or not. And these are also decisions that are going to affect the future of some of our team.
00:05:46
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like
00:05:46
Jo
Yeah.
00:05:48
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Bruno has said time and time and time again, he's here to play in Europe.
00:05:49
Jo
Yeah.
00:05:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
he He wants to play in Europe. Yes. Okay. He loves the club. But how far does that go when it comes down to his career? I imagine Alexander research, you know, best striker in the league at the moment, and best striker, obviously he is.
00:06:01
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But, you know, yesterday it was kept quiet.
00:06:01
Jo
Yeah.
00:06:05
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So yeah, so I think we're all feeling probably the same.
00:06:06
Jo
Very.
00:06:10
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Um, and I think we're allowed to sit here and say, we're allowed to be frustrated, if not probably more.
00:06:16
Jo
Yeah.
00:06:17
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to have a team that we know are more than capable of being better than what they were and they're just turning up when they fancy um at the minute and that's a little bit disappointing to say because obviously I love the team.
00:06:23
Jo
Yeah. You were, I mean,
00:06:30
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but
00:06:32
Jo
Obviously, um you know, we're just being honest, to be fair. We're not kicking off like some of the idiots on social media, obviously, because we've lost a Game the Idiot Brigade or back, but you know, you've got to ignore those idiots, because they are so so much of a minority though.
00:06:37
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Yep. Oh no, ridiculous.
00:06:44
Jo
In a way, I just wish we could somehow block them on social media, because they are. It's just the odd idiot that sneaks through, causes a ruckus on a post, and it's kind of what happens.
00:06:48
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Yep.
00:06:52
Jo
But it was a whole team thing, but I'll i'll be honest, and I said even halfway through the match, I still felt Dambon, our player of the season so far, was the only one that was actually looking like he gave a damn He was putting in some hard tackles.
00:07:07
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yeah
00:07:07
Jo
He was running back.
00:07:08
Jo
Like, to me, he was still playing. Problem is, you can't play against City with one man.
00:07:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah Nope.
00:07:13
Jo
You just can't. The rest of the defense was shocking. Trips made some mistakes. However, on the Trips note, by the way, this is where I really shouldn't stay off social media, but I probably just sometimes I can't help myself.
00:07:24
Jo
And then I've seen some real hatred towards Trips today, and then some real articles in the mag as well. But the mag is just another glorified social media kind of thing, isn't it now?
00:07:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it's awful.
00:07:32
Jo
um But there's been a lot of hate towards Trips, and He needs to leave and he's past his best.
00:07:33
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Yep.
00:07:37
Jo
and all Alright, he's past his best. He's 34. Course he's past his best. Stop being ridiculous.
00:07:40
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Yep.
00:07:41
Jo
And alright, a lot of us did want Tino to start because we thought he would just be better in terms of his speed and stuff like that again because trips are slowing down.
00:07:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah.
00:07:49
Jo
But there's no need for the hate. But this is where it always gets silly. You can't lose. Alright, we lost in fine fashion. It's not like we just lost. We went down with a squeak, to put it lightly.
00:07:59
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Yeah.
00:07:59
Jo
um But the whole defense was poor, apart from Danburn.
00:08:03
Jo
And our midfield, they just played through our midfield. That was, they may as well not be on the pitch half the time. So what, Tenali, and we love Tenali. Dear God, where was he?
00:08:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
What happened?
00:08:12
Jo
Like, I didn't even hear his name mentioned for quite quite a while in that game.
00:08:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:08:16
Jo
So that that speaks volumes for how he's been amazing for us in some of the games recently.
00:08:18
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Hmm.
00:08:21
Jo
Like a standout player, like some of, it's this I think this is where the frustration comes from, right? Like, how do you go from playing like you did in the last couple of matches to this?
00:08:31
Jo
It just, it baffles me. It's the same team. All right, well, it was in, but Julian wasn't, but you're right. The odd tweak, if you know what I mean.
00:08:37
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But yeah, I know what you mean. yeah Yep.
00:08:39
Jo
But it's the same team, isn't it? um You've got the same up front. They were offering nothing.
00:08:42
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Yep.
00:08:43
Jo
Gordon looked off it. Is he still feeling it from his injury? Who knows? He's like, didn't we do much? Also didn't got a lot of supply if you want to see it that way as well.
00:08:52
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Yeah.
00:08:53
Jo
Murphy didn't do much but didn't do anything wrong at the same time it was one of those that they just didn't do much they didn't do a lot wrong but because they didn't do much you can't do if you can't just not do much against man city you just can't if we play like that against forest the form they're in and if we play like that against Liverpool Liverpool will tear us a new one down there it's just it's as simple as that um so we've got a hole it's a rocket not a kick up the backside absolutely rocking up the backside after this game yeah to show that
00:08:59
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They didn't do a lot right. Yeah.
00:09:03
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No. No, they can't.
00:09:12
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Well, exactly. Yeah. It needs to be a rocket because we have, we have over the last couple of weeks, I know we've got results in other games, lucky we've got other results in other games, but I think Ian's touched on it before about not being out of third gear. And obviously this was before we got into the Carabao Cup final. And I'm a bit like, we can't just keep half turning up these and then, you know,
00:09:41
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and putting in these really poor performances and expecting a result we need to turn up and I've just come off the back of obviously we're recording on Sunday everyone so I've just watched the Liverpool game this afternoon.
00:09:47
Jo
Heh.
00:09:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Now you can sit here and say like oh yeah well Liverpool are used to you know pressure and they're used to finals and things like that yes okay yes they are but they still turned up today fighting and playing a team that are in a relegation battle by the way um and
00:10:04
Jo
yeah
00:10:05
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they didn't look like they were affected. They were still put up in a, but they put in a performance. They still put up a fight. Yeah. Okay. It was a tight result.
00:10:11
Jo
Yeah.
00:10:12
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So it's a bit like, hmm. Yeah. This is just not going to work for the next month. And it's almost, it's kind of a repeat of the last Carabao Cup Final. If you remember rightly, we seem to hit a massive dip in performance because their heads are at Wembley.
00:10:22
Jo
Yeah. Yeah.
00:10:25
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I'm totally for that. But also your head needs to be in the league as well, because otherwise you're going to fall.
00:10:28
Jo
We've got a whole month, man.
00:10:30
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ah You're going to look a whole month.
00:10:30
Jo
We have a whole month.
00:10:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
And like you say, we've got, we won't get away with that against Forrest and especially like you say, the and sorry, the form that Forest are in, and we definitely won't get away with it at a team like Liverpool, who, let's be honest, have got their sights on us in the final
00:10:37
Jo
Not down at Liverpool, man.
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So um well we'll carry on with this in um part two, because I do want to talk about one play that I did feel like put up a bit of a fight.
00:10:45
Jo
Yeah.
00:10:53
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00:11:47
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00:11:49
Jo
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00:11:51
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Yeah. Why didn't they ask us to record that?
00:11:57
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I feel a bit offended they didn't ask us to record that, to be honest. But anyway, that is our new sponsor, people. um So once um obviously this podcast has been published, there will be some show notes in the description where you can click directly on the link and check it all out. um I actually checked out last week when our um our network actually sent the link, it's pretty cool.
00:12:18
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So yeah, give it a click, have a go. um Right, second part, um still on the Manchester City game, obviously, because we have nothing else to review.
00:12:21
Jo
but
00:12:27
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You mentioned um Dan Byrne, who I agree, by the way, wholeheartedly agree with his performance.
00:12:31
Jo
Yeah.
00:12:33
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And for me, he's definitely, I'll play the season. I can't see that up, maybe Alexander Esak as well, but definitely can't see and my decision on Dan Byrne changing. I want to talk about Lewis Miley,
00:12:46
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just for a couple of minutes.
Positives Amidst Criticism
00:12:48
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um Because I didn't think I'd be saying this, but I thought um when he came on, I'm looking at my phone because I've made some notes during the day. um I thought when he came on in the second half, he was probably the only player that showed any sort of positivity. um And I know Ian's mentioned Lewis, I mentioned Miley you know a couple of times and we haven't seen much of him this season, obviously, because of how good the team's been.
00:13:16
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Um, but you know, Alan Scheer even said he'd shown a lot of bravery out of possession. Um, but I thought he showed a lot of composure, um, made the right decisions, which a lot of the senior team didn't do.
00:13:34
Jo
I mean, that's putting it lightly, yeah. That's it.
00:13:36
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Which is putting it very politely.
00:13:37
Jo
But yeah.
00:13:37
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Um, and I thought he's probably along with Dan Byrne, the only player that can maybe come off that pitch and be quite proud of the performance performance he put in.
00:13:38
Jo
yeah
00:13:46
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He probably will be because we lost 4-0, but I thought he showed quite a bit of leadership yesterday.
00:13:48
Jo
Yeah. I'm proud of myself for sure though. You did.
00:13:52
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Yeah, yeah. I don't know if you had the same opinion of Lewis Miley yesterday, but he was definitely, um yeah.
00:13:57
Jo
I do. I do. It's it's interesting and that's the two Geordie boys, isn't it? but um Because I think we've talked about this, well I don't think, we have talked about this before, and I've always been disgusted how we're not the only team that do it, how we kind of go for the jugular on our own players sometimes.
00:14:06
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Mm-hmm.
00:14:13
Jo
Like Longstaff has been beaten pretty much with a virtual stick for years. um And I'm not saying he hasn't had bad performances and deserved to be slated, sometimes he absolutely has.
00:14:19
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Yeah.
00:14:25
Jo
But for some bizarees and we seem to really hit our jolly boys worse than others. But our jolly boys were the only ones who really looked like they cared or actually had I'm not saying the others didn't care because you'd like to think they care, but they didn't show it.
00:14:36
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Yeah, of course they care.
00:14:37
Jo
They weren't putting anything
Focus on Cup Final Affecting Performance
00:14:39
Jo
into that game at all. It was just as simple as that. If it if it is the cup, sort yourselves out. We've got quite a few games to go before the cup. I'm sorry. There's a long stretch this time. You've got some big games.
00:14:48
Jo
You've got another cup game as well. You know, if we want to stay in the f FA Cup, we've got to think about that as well. All right. Keep it in your head a bit, but do not. I don't know. I kind of want to blame it on the cup and don't want to play him but on the cup because I think it would just too far away from the cup final to be letting our brains get frazzled by it.
00:15:01
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no
00:15:06
Jo
It's just, and I think if Eddie believes that, he'd be furious quite frankly. you What have we joked about many times with Eddie? It's only about the next game. It's only about the next game. So he I think he would be furious if he genuinely thought the players were kind of focused on the final, but I don't know.
00:15:21
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No.
00:15:23
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It's hard. It's hard to sit here and say I'm focused on the final and I'm not even a player, but
00:15:23
Jo
It's a strange one.