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Toon vs Bournemouth Review
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Nicola hosts Iain to discuss our thoughts on our performance at Bournemouth and they look ahead at our next fixtures!
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Hosts' Return and Game Reaction
00:00:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the Daily Newcastle podcast.
00:00:19
Iain
Okay.
00:00:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
That new sting by the way gets me, catches me off guard every single time I play it because it's so Americanised and I don't always expect it. Anyway it's me Nicola, I am your host, welcome back. I have been on a holiday for what feels like the last 15 days um and this is my first podcast back and I am joined by my lovely co-host Ian.
00:00:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
How are you?
00:00:43
Iain
I'm good, Nicola. It's lovely to see you back safely from the other side of the pond, you international jet setter. You probably heard everybody saying Saga every 10 minutes when you were over there.
00:00:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
soccer
00:00:55
Iain
But yes, i have I'm deliberately sitting in a place which has got the late sunlight coming through the blinds so that I've got some really good cinematography shadows working with me today.
00:01:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
me too
00:01:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
me too um it's getting ah obviously i know we're like only just on the first day of autumn by the way but it is getting darker down here a lot quicker now um so yeah i've got the last of the sunlight coming through as well um So it is just me and Ian this evening recording um and we are going to discuss, obviously we've had Michael give his immediate post-match reaction to the Bournemouth game, which was on Sunday afternoon, um but we haven't given our immediate reaction yet, um so I thought we'd
00:01:37
Iain
I think my immediate reaction is to congratulate Michael on being able to talk for 23 minutes about a game which... Was there 23 minutes of action in that game? I'm not sure there was, but he did it.
00:01:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm not
00:01:50
Iain
Fair
Starting Lineup Confusion
00:01:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
even sure there is 10 minutes worthy of action in that game, but we are going to try and make it work.
00:01:51
Iain
play to him.
00:01:55
Iain
No.
00:01:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
We are going to try and make it work.
00:01:57
Iain
We will, we will.
00:01:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay. um Right. We are post Barcelona. We are post Bournemouth. Obviously we had a tired team. So I've got to admit, I was expecting ah little change from the um Barcelona game, but I wasn't expecting seven changes.
00:02:13
Iain
No.
00:02:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:02:19
Iain
No.
00:02:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
so That start and line-up, I must admit, I was, one, very confused when I seen it. I'm confused because i just didn't know what was who was going where and what was working and how he was sort of doing what he was doing. And by him, I mean Mr Eddie Howe, obviously.
00:02:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
How did you feel, obviously, when you seen the start and line-up? Because we had the additions of Mr Willock, um Lewis Miley, um which I know you were very pleased with.
00:02:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Obviously, Lewis Hall um seems to be back to
00:02:48
Iain
I was.
00:02:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
um some sort of full fitness. So he started. um how How did you feel when you seen the starting line up?
00:03:00
Iain
ah Did it explain some of the people that were picked to start against Barcelona? Like... Big Nick Valtemada, who we're all sure would have put one of those two chances away in the first half against Barcelona.
00:03:15
Iain
um But yeah, he was rested.
00:03:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:03:16
Iain
So he did play nearly the whole game. I think Asula came on for the last five minutes for him. So I get what Eddie was doing there on his rotation. And this Bournemouth game, in the in the concert wider context of the season, the Bournemouth game is more important for us than the Barcelona
00:03:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:03:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
Game Analysis: Bournemouth vs Newcastle
00:03:34
Iain
game.
00:03:35
Iain
was surprised that we had... ah three at the back. I'm not sure that Barcelona...
00:03:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:03:42
Iain
Bournemouth aren't Barcelona. And we didn't need three at the back against Barcelona. So, I know Shah dropped out. Botman and Chau came in. And I was pleased to see Chau get a start because he was excellent when he came on against Barcelona.
00:03:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, very good.
00:03:58
Iain
I was pleased that um Tino and Lewis Hall were at wing back because I wanted to see them bombing on.
00:04:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:04:07
Iain
um
00:04:08
Iain
In the midfield, i was pleased that Lewis Miley was getting a start alongside Tonali. Surprised, though, that both Bruno and Joe Linton were rested for Willick to come in.
00:04:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:04:21
Iain
Because Willick's a little bit of a... I don't know. He didn't enhance his squad player value for me in the way that he played either.
00:04:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
no
00:04:32
Iain
I don't think he did very much at all. And he was... He was our best player for a season or two back in the Stevie Bruce days. And he just looks so far off it now. It's sad, really.
00:04:44
Iain
and
00:04:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:04:45
Iain
And then we played, what did we play? Volta Marder up front with Jacob Murphy, which was a little bit odd.
00:04:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Jacob Murphy, yeah. It was kind of like a 3-4-2-1 formation. um Yeah. But what I will say is,
00:05:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Joe Willock, I'm not going to really spend too much time on. He's a player that I feel really sorry for, like you say, because I feel like he was one of our best players for um maybe one or two seasons. And then as we've upgraded our squad in other areas, I feel like he just fell behind a little bit and maybe just isn't of the quality as the rest of our team is now, um which is a kind of a fortunate position for us to be in that we've got such great quality elsewhere. But yeah, he's, he's, um he is struggling a little bit, isn't he? um
00:05:32
Iain
I think he's got a little bit of time because he has had some nasty injuries that have knocked him back.
00:05:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I agree.
00:05:38
Iain
So perhaps he's not had the clear run. that would show the sort of improvement that, for example, Murphy has shown.
00:05:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:45
Iain
um So, ah yeah, but I think he's running out of time to show that he is having that effect because he was around for quite a lot after Christmas last year um and he's been around all of this season. So, you know, we should be he should be back to his best and he he just wasn't.
00:06:04
Iain
He's just not a threat at all.
00:06:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. No, I agree.
00:06:06
Iain
So
Defensive Strategy and Missed Opportunities
00:06:07
Iain
was surprised. that i thought it was quite a defensive line-up. I know Eddie is building this season, obviously, on being hard to score against because I think no team has conceded as few shots on target as Newcastle this season.
00:06:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:22
Iain
And in fact, what we can say is that unless you're Liverpool or Barcelona, you can't even score against us, which is interesting.
00:06:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
True.
00:06:30
Iain
um But yeah, I think think it was a bit cautious. Maybe it wouldn't have been if they had played in a way that they were asked to play, but it just seemed a little bit... You know, Lewis Hall wasn't his vibrant best.
00:06:43
Iain
First game, first start since since the Carabao Cup final, or the game before that.
00:06:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I agree.
00:06:49
Iain
um Yeah, but but, you know, the defence was good, and everybody going forward seemed as if they had their handbrake on, was my assessment of it.
00:06:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you think, um yeah, mine too. i'm I'm struggling to comment too much on the game because I feel really bad saying this. There wasn't really much to take from it. I feel like it was just a battle of two sides that were,
00:07:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
not as poor as each other, but we just didn't overall play that well.
00:07:16
Iain
was it i would i would Our big defence cancelled out Bournemouth, and Bournemouth want to play on transition, and yet we're lining up with a five-man defence.
00:07:28
Iain
They didn't have a lot of opportunity to get in behind us, which they killed us with at St. James' Park, pressed us in the middle, turned the ball over, ran up and scored four times.
00:07:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:07:37
Iain
So it was a nasty but ah banana skin of a game for us because Bournemouth were fourths. Still, it's only Liverpool that's beaten Bournemouth this year.
00:07:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Still. Yep.
00:07:47
Iain
and So it was a tough game. But ah I don't think with those two teams, you would have expected quite such a dull spectacle.
00:07:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Still.
00:07:55
Iain
That's what was surprising.
00:07:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
No. Yeah.
00:07:56
Iain
But again, the same story as as against Villa, same story as against Leeds. I'm echoing what Michael said. We just didn't seem to have much of a ah cutting edge. Although, as Michael pointed out, had the...
00:08:11
Iain
stone wall penalty being given when Voltemada had his shirt ripped off his back and we'd scored a penalty and we'd come away having won 1-0 we'd say what a fabulous at away performance that was to have rested Bruno and Joe Linton and come back with the three points which is what should have happened but you know the same way what should have happened is that Chow should have got sent off and they could have battered us for the last 10 minutes with 10 men but as it was neither of those things happened
00:08:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
I
00:08:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
i agree.
00:08:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:08:39
Iain
and we have to settle for a point.
00:08:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
we do And also, let's just point out, Bournemouth has notoriously been a really, but what's the word called, um like a bogey team for us to go to or play against um in the past. So I think coming away with a point and isn't, in hindsight, that bad.
00:08:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:08:58
Iain
No,
Frustration Over Goal Drought
00:08:59
Iain
I like it.
00:08:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
But we just need to start scoring some goals is the is the is the problem.
00:09:00
Iain
I like the point.
00:09:03
Iain
We probably would have loved the game If we'd drawn three all and had been all out attack, would have said, what a fabulous performance that was.
00:09:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Exactly.
00:09:10
Iain
But we've just ground out a goalless draw very, very safely. Pope made one save with his feet, but he just sort of side-footed it away. I don't think it was too hard for him from Tyler Adams in the first half.
00:09:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:09:24
Iain
And then he did make a really good save from a Clivet. I think it was Clivet, took the free kick right at the end, pushed it away to safety.
00:09:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:09:31
Iain
But other than that, you know, Dan Byrne, and it's like having a big wall in the box. He just heads everything away. And Bottman was, I thought, very cool. um Not sure Chau was as good as he was against Barcelona.
00:09:44
Iain
Looked a little bit clumsy. I mean, certainly looked clumsy when he was body-checking that fella running through on us. Tino was good. Lewis Hall showed flashes. I'm so pleased he's back.
00:09:57
Iain
Now he's had a game under his belt.
00:09:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Me too.
00:09:59
Iain
He'll be so much better. Yeah. Do you know what really annoys me, though? but I think Lewis Miley is an absolute talent. You know, he's in the England under-21 side and he's only 19.
00:10:11
Iain
That should give him the confidence to be playing the way that, with the sort of confidence that, I don't know, um all the other precocious 19-year-olds do where they don't seem to have any fear.
00:10:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's young.
00:10:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm?
00:10:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:10:26
Iain
And yet, he's he's good.
00:10:29
Iain
He's solid. He keeps the ball really well. But he's he doesn't try any incisive passes. It's too much of it is is sideways or backwards. And I just wish you'd have the confidence to take it on a little bit.
00:10:43
Iain
Because, i mean, Tonali needed that. He needed someone to do that. That Bruno role alongside him. um So he started to frustrate me a little bit.
00:10:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
The problem is, ah yeah, also, i think one of us said it in the chat yesterday. and Whilst I understand why players like Bruno and um Big Joe need rested, I mean, I don't know if you caught the end of the game, like when the game full-time was sort of gone.
00:11:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Bruno was actually walking on the pitch, like he was limping a little bit. don't if he'd maybe just still quite sore from the Barcelona game. So I understand these players need protected and rotation is obviously important.
00:11:13
Iain
and
00:11:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've banged on about that enough in our previous podcasts. but you really can notice the difference when, you know, you take the likes of Bruno and Joey Linton and rotate them with Mr. Willock and Lewis Miley.
00:11:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
um The quality is just completely not the same, is it?
00:11:28
Iain
yeah
00:11:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
And um yeah, I felt a bit frustrated watching, because really like Lewis Miley. Again, he's so young, and but he's so full of talent and has so much potential, particularly with the players that he's playing with.
00:11:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
And obviously under Eddie Howe can do so much with him. But I was getting a little bit frustrated yesterday. um Just go off the back of what you were saying. and I just thought, Why isn't he making these passes, all these challenges? And it was just a little bit frustrating to watch at times. um Maybe that's a bit of a confidence issue with him, though.
00:11:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because, again, he is only
00:11:59
Iain
Well, I am hoping that he turns into an Elliot Anderson rather than a Sean Longstaff. um Because he certainly looked like he was going to be better than Elliot Anderson two years ago.
00:12:11
Iain
um But now he's playing a little bit like Sean Longstaff.
00:12:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:12:14
Iain
And I don't know why that is. He should give him the confidence to have a go with it.
00:12:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:12:18
Iain
Maybe we'll see that against Bradford in the Cup on Wednesday. Because if Miley can take control of that midfield and boss the game, in a way did when we played against Bromley and he scored a fabulous goal, that's sort of confidence I want him to attempt in the Premier League instead of playing it so safe.
00:12:37
Iain
I think that's not meant to be a criticism.
00:12:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:12:40
Iain
I don't want him to be reckless. um
00:12:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:12:43
Iain
I mean, he was the one who gave the ball away when the bloke went running through that Chow body checked at the end. So we don't want to give the ball away. But, you know, let's have a little bit more ambition. And up front, up front, we just, you know, Willock was poor on the left.
00:12:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ambition. Yeah.
00:12:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
paul Yeah.
00:13:01
Iain
Murphy was okay. And then when Alanga and Barnes came on, I don't know. There's no end.
00:13:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Something's missing.
00:13:09
Iain
Alanga's got nobody to cross the ball to. We saw it against Barcelona and it and it was the same again. And Barnes, Barnes isn't far behind Willock in terms of repeatedly disappointing me.
00:13:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:22
Iain
um
00:13:23
Iain
It's a shame Wissler got injured and a shame Ramsey got injured because those two would have made a big difference as well.
00:13:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Big difference. Yeah.
00:13:29
Iain
Anyway, that's just a moan, isn't it?
00:13:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
I agree.
00:13:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is a little bit, but needs to be. It's a good point away from home, um ah but we do need to start getting some wins.
00:13:31
Iain
Good point away from home.
00:13:38
Iain
Thank you.
00:13:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
and We're going to break. We'll do the first advert. and Well, the only advert of of today's pod. um And then we'll just go into a few little more points from the game, i.e. the Stonewall penalty. And I seen a point put on um Twitter yesterday of and what is it that Newcastle are currently missing because something's not quite right.
00:13:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
um So let me break for the first ad, and then we will discuss that.
00:14:32
Iain
and
Controversial Penalty Discussion
00:14:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Lovely. Um, okay. Let's talk, um, very briefly about the penalty that was a stonewall penalty, but wasn't given, um, because we're Newcastle United and it's not that easy, is it?
00:14:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Um, so there was a shirt pull, a sustained sort of holding back, um, of, of Nick.
00:14:57
Iain
and
00:15:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Um, he got drab back, um, and he had a sort of a sustained holding, um, Clear shirt pull and no penalty was given to him.
00:15:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Well, to us, sorry. Oh, for him. um Why? Why? what I don't understand the rules.
00:15:20
Iain
You've no idea.
00:15:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
if i feel like if the ref had blown for that and given it, it wouldn't have been overturned.
00:15:24
Iain
think you're right. And I think that he's missed it because of where he was standing. Because Valtimada has got his back to the goal. So the ref's looking at Valtimada.
00:15:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:34
Iain
The guy pulling his shirt's behind him. um But that's what VAR is for. That is what VAR is for.
00:15:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:15:41
Iain
And when you look at some of the... Where was it? Give a handball for Tonali right on the edge of the box in the first half, which if he'd been standing a foot further back would have been given as a penalty.
00:15:54
Iain
Come on. I mean, I know it's a handball. It's not a shirt pull, but shirt pull. But they get booked for that in the middle of the pitch.
00:16:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
yep
00:16:03
Iain
It's a bad foul. Bad foul when it's sustained. know they kind of let a little bit of mutual grappling go because it's six of one and Harvard is another other.
00:16:14
Iain
But Valtemar was trying to control that ball and do a turn, which he's famous for, and he just got pulled.
00:16:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:16:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:16:22
Iain
Maybe he crumpled to the ground and it looked a bit overdramatic and the referee just played on. But I don't know. ah i thought when when you see the replay... um It's a penalty. and I don't think anyone could have had any complaints on the Bournemouth side if it had been given.
00:16:40
Iain
I don't know it's a short answer.
00:16:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:16:42
Iain
Just VAR.
00:16:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:44
Iain
I've not heard anything today about whether whether they're apologising and forgetting something wrong.
00:16:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Being there.
00:16:48
Iain
Which they apologised to Bournemouth last year when they got a decision wrong, which would have meant that we'd have lost that.
00:16:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
00:16:55
Iain
and So, I don't know. It's just weird. Just part of football now, isn't that
00:17:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
it is but it's things like that that can make the difference between winning a game and not um now I know we should rely on it obviously but I'm just it's it's coming to a point now where you think how many points like and I'm not just talking about Newcastle I'm talking about you know the overall Premier League teams how many points have probably been lost from really poor VAR decisions um
00:17:04
Iain
Absolutely. absolutely
00:17:14
Iain
so million crown
00:17:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
like you say, anywhere else on the pitch, that would have been a booking, but not there. So bit weird. But that was the first thing.
00:17:29
Iain
so palmman is as
00:17:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
The next thing um that I'd seen popped on social media is, well, not put on social media, it's just, as always, Newcastle fans losing the absolute will to live.
00:17:35
Iain
Yeah. Yeah.
00:17:38
Iain
um is um
00:17:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
um You know, the normal. we've like We've won one in seven games. um We're an attacking team. Why are we not setting up like that? Which I must admit, yesterday we did not set up like an attacking team. We were very, very,
00:17:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
very defensive, very defensive set up, which, you know, they've got a reason for that.
00:17:53
Iain
yeah
00:17:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
So that's fine.
00:17:57
Iain
sunny so
00:17:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
One of the questions that was posed onto social media was, Newcastle is missing something. What is it? Now,
Missing Elements in Newcastle's Strategy
00:18:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
obviously, a lot of the replies were from a load of Liverpool fans saying a certain striker is missing. That's why you're not scoring goals, which I just think is wrong.
00:18:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
What is it that Newcastle are currently missing that, it just obviously isn't clicking as to us scoring goals.
00:18:21
Iain
kind of
00:18:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't think it's for a certain striker at all. I think it's just a case of, is it a case of we've got new bodies in the team, we're all still learning how to play together. When we make changes like we did yesterday, seven changes, it's quite a lot you know from a starting lineup.
00:18:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
what What is it that we are missing?
00:18:36
Iain
like
00:18:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Or is it just a simple case of we're in a bit of a lull?
00:18:39
Iain
the all the trophy
00:18:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've started the Premier League in a bit of a lull state.
00:18:42
Iain
body
00:18:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because I can't put my finger on it.
00:18:45
Iain
so Well, I was at the Wolves game unexpectedly last week and we didn't create loads of chances either then.
00:18:56
Iain
so
00:18:57
Iain
it's a It's a tough one. We certainly are missing a striker, not a certain striker.
00:19:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes, agree.
00:19:03
Iain
A striker. You know, if Valtemar could play his number 10 role, which he wants to do, and Wisser in front of him.
00:19:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:19:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:19:12
Iain
um And I think i think we've ah think we've won nearly every game we've played, if we've got Wisser playing for us.
00:19:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Agreed, yeah.
00:19:20
Iain
Certainly goals against Barcelona. We might have been two up at half-time. And that gives a focal point. to because psychologically on our on transition we're breaking forward really fast but those guys thinking of shit i've got to do it all myself because there's nobody up front there's nobody in the middle whereas last year izak would have been there or he would have dropped dropped shorts to get the ball and turn and played them in but they know that there's not anybody there um
00:19:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm.
00:19:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm.
00:19:54
Iain
And I don't know if that's what it is, that psychologically there's a break on when they're doing their fast transitions and they feel they've got to keep the ball and control it and bring it, ah you know, ah approach them from the from the front of your life, which obviously gives them a chance to go back and reorganise themselves.
00:20:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:13
Iain
but i But I don't know.
00:20:14
Iain
I mean, certainly I certainly, I think it'll be different when they've trained together for a month instead of a fortnight and they need a,
00:20:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
i'm
00:20:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Couple of weeks.
00:20:25
Iain
They need somebody with a striker's instinct playing number nine.
00:20:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:20:28
Iain
It isn't Valtemada, I don't think. i think I think he tries to do that, and he would eat he made some great movement to score his goal against Wolves. But I think you can see what he wants to do, which is pivot the attack with his back to the goal and then choose the little layoff, the little ball to slip in other people.
00:20:48
Iain
um And he's done that a few times, and he looks good at doing that.
00:20:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:52
Iain
But we need somebody... living through, or Wiss are already there.
00:20:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:59
Iain
So, yeah, I know.
00:20:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
I am. Yeah, i We're not.
00:21:02
Iain
We're not creating chances either, that's the thing.
00:21:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Also, the other thing I seen yesterday was we hired like a not we personally as a Newcastle United. They hired a ah first set and a set piece team coach thing last year.
00:21:16
Iain
Yeah.
00:21:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
How's that working out then? Because we seem to be worse off. What's he doing?
00:21:22
Iain
Yeah. Well, I think he ah think he's just been coaching Tino into how to try and do a long throw that's not quite as good as everybody else's long throw.
00:21:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah,
00:21:31
Iain
ah um But, you know, that's that's a good job if you could get it, isn't it?
00:21:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah honestly.
00:21:35
Iain
Just throw it a bit harder, Tino.
00:21:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
at Yeah, it's...
00:21:38
Iain
We've got all the tall men.
00:21:38
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um
00:21:39
Iain
Just hopefully one of them will get their head onto it eventually. But somehow, Byrne, Valtemada and Botman waiting on the near post, they still can't get a flick on from it. Yeah.
00:21:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know, we must have the tallest players in history. Not in history, but I mean, come on.
00:21:52
Iain
Yeah, and and how ah we are not ah we're not getting ahead of every other corner on target, I don't know.
00:21:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I know.
00:21:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Our corner's off straight into Arch.
00:21:59
Iain
i don't know.
00:22:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Anyway, that's above our pay grade.
00:22:02
Iain
But we're starting we're starting to but starting to moan here, Eklund.
00:22:06
Iain
We shouldn't be moaning, you know.
00:22:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I know. No, I'm not moaning.
00:22:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm just...
00:22:08
Iain
weve vote we've only lost We've only lost rather unfairly to Liverpool and Barcelona, and nobody else has beaten us, which is which is a good, solid sign.
00:22:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Barcelona, yeah. No. No, yeah, absolutely. And I said I was happy with the point from Bournemouth because notoriously we struggle.
00:22:22
Iain
Okay. Yeah. away
00:22:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
and So, yeah, no, not moaning. I'm just was just having a social media m scroll this morning when I got went after the game.
00:22:30
Iain
yeah club okay
00:22:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Right. Bournemouth
Upcoming Fixtures and Challenges
00:22:34
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aside, um that game's done. We've come away with a clean sheet and a point, um which we've established we're happy with.
00:22:38
Iain
like and yes
00:22:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right. The next month of games. Ready? Ready? They look like Carabao Cup. We've got newke ever got Bradford at home on Wednesday.
00:22:52
Iain
Oh, sorry.
00:22:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
So the time people listen to this, tomorrow.
00:22:53
Iain
I took rain. I just wanted you to see many Wix kitchen.
00:22:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Then we've got Arsenal at home on the 28th of September.
00:22:57
Iain
It's just been installed. At Wix, our experts will support you every step of the way.
00:22:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
And the following Wednesday, USG in the Champions League.
00:23:02
Iain
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00:23:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we've got Forest at home, um which I believe is the weekend after.
00:23:06
Iain
Plus, right now, there are great savings in the Wix big kitchen event.
00:23:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then Brighton away and then Benfica in the Champions League.
00:23:10
Iain
A free design appointment will feel proud as of the economy.
00:23:13
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They are our next teams.
00:23:14
Iain
In terms of you've taken off suitcases to know quality music is.
00:23:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
um fixtures um up until the 21st of October.
00:23:20
Iain
Well, so the travel will show you to spend.
00:23:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
are we feeling?
00:23:22
Iain
Well, I'm still feeling bullish about it because I don't think that we can be so impotent in front of goal game after game after game.
00:23:34
Iain
um We created chances against Barcelona. we just We just didn't take them. and This game against Bournemouth, seven changes.
00:23:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Agreed.
00:23:44
Iain
First starts for Lewis Hall, for Lewis Miley, and for Joe Willock. Probably first start from Alec Chow and Sven Botman. I mean, that was a big changeover team.
00:23:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Big change.
00:23:55
Iain
So I think when we've got but Anthony Gordon and Bruno and Joe Linton coming back to play a big game against Arsenal, that we're not expecting to get 12 shots on our on that.
00:24:10
Iain
ah think I think, you know, we've reproduced last year's 1-0.
00:24:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Not great.
00:24:14
Iain
We'd be delighted. Yeah.
00:24:18
Iain
Don't know about Union Saint-Geroy from Belgium. USG, as we've called them. Just ah three or four on from PSG. Because they had a really good result.
00:24:29
Iain
They won at PSV 3-0.
00:24:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
they did
00:24:32
Iain
3-1. And they're they're our fellow Pot 4 team. So we've got to win that. to to
00:24:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah
00:24:39
Iain
But yeah, we're still going to be struggling, aren't we, with Anthony Gordon. Hopefully is it's going to be
00:24:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
when's he back yeah
00:24:46
Iain
scoring another Champions League goal. um But then, yeah, what looked like an awful run of fixtures actually is turning out to be not as scary as as it it was because Forrest have now got Ange in charge and they lived in they look they look dreadful.
00:24:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Agreed.
00:24:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, God, big Angela wheel.
00:25:04
Iain
So um I'm not terrified about playing Forrest at home. Similarly with Brighton who are a good team. I don't think they're too much away from home.
00:25:14
Iain
I think they've They're bit in and out, aren't they, at the moment?
00:25:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:19
Iain
and And then Benfica, that will would be hilarious. That's Jose Mourinho comes back to so boby Sir Bobby's house.
00:25:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Cannot believe.
00:25:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah
00:25:28
Iain
Can you believe he was on there? But yeah, Benfica were beaten by Carabag after being two up. Then the Kazakhstanis wherever Carabag are from, don't know, somewhere over in Eastern Europe.
00:25:44
Iain
came from 2-0 down to beat Benfica at home 3-2. So they can't be up to much, can they? Come on.
00:25:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't think so.
00:25:50
Iain
Some of the home wins. They're all 1-0 wins.
00:25:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't think
00:25:53
Iain
The thing is, nobody's going to score against us.
00:25:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, definitely not. um I'm actually really... I can't make this game, but I'm actually really looking forward to the Arsenal game.
00:26:01
Iain
and
00:26:04
Iain
yeah Yeah.
00:26:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
We seem to have really good fixtures against them, and we're home for this one as well. So, um yeah, I agree with you. What looked to be a bit of an intimidating set of fixtures when we first looked um doesn't really seem to be that intimidating now.
00:26:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:26:20
Iain
Five straight losses, that's what that is then.
00:26:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Don't say that.
00:26:23
Iain
Well done
00:26:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
LAUGHTER
Expectations for Future Matches
00:26:23
Iain
Nicolaire, you've done it.
00:26:25
Iain
am, yeah, I am.
00:26:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, have done it, haven't I?
00:26:28
Iain
Amazingly. Yes. Yeah, we started a
00:26:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
You're going to the Bradford game on Wednesday, though, aren't you?
00:26:31
Iain
way i am yeah i am
00:26:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, good Carabao Cup.
00:26:34
Iain
amazingly
00:26:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
This is our first Carabao Cup fixture.
00:26:37
Iain
yes
00:26:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is, isn't it?
00:26:40
Iain
yeah we we started a
00:26:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Because
00:26:43
Iain
ah around later this year because we're in Europe.
00:26:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
we won it as well.
00:26:48
Iain
ah that least started you give
00:26:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because we won it. um Right, that is all wanted to cover today.
00:26:53
Iain
ah true
00:26:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you have anything else you'd like to cover?
00:26:54
Iain
it's an elevator Oh, I think that's good. I think we're, I'm on with the boys tomorrow, I think, to preview the Bradford game.
00:27:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Bradford game.
00:27:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
You are.
00:27:01
Iain
Our team selection guesses will be mental on that because I don't think Bruno and Jolinton were rested against Bournemouth so they could come back against Bradford.
00:27:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Interesting.
00:27:12
Iain
I think they are
00:27:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
I agree.
00:27:14
Iain
recovering from their exertions to play against Arsenal.
00:27:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Against Barcelona.
00:27:18
Iain
So there'll be another sort of mix and match midfield.
00:27:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
agree.
00:27:22
Iain
Be nice to see Valtimada pick to play as a number 10, I think, and get Asula up front from him.
00:27:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mmm. Yeah.
00:27:30
Iain
That would be interesting.
00:27:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
We shall see.
00:27:32
Iain
But we'll have to talk about it tomorrow.
00:27:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
We shall see. Yeah, like
Closing Remarks and Listener Engagement
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Ian said, he is on with Michael and Kev um tomorrow evening recording the Bradford preview, which will be out on Wednesday before, obviously, we host at St. James Park.
00:27:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Yeah, that's all got time for today. So you have been listening to the Daily Newcastle podcast. Make sure you leave your comments and thoughts. And as always, we will speak to you all soon.
00:28:01
Iain
Thank you.