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officialgspn: Welcome to the Daily Newcastle Podcast with GSPN. In a weekend that started with you constantly checking every electronic device you had in your household, little by little, being desperate, not to look back in anger.
officialgspn: Some might say Newcastle United have made a great start of the season whilst others will be expecting us to slide away. In a where Newcastle had to roll with it, they made sure his Spurs weren't supersonic and James Madison is still crying his heart out on the journey home.
Jo: Yes.
officialgspn: Yes, this is Matchday Review. Today, I am joined by two fantastic guests. and If you follow the first guest we've got on socials, you'll know that she is known as the human highlight reel. It's Joe. How are you doing, Joe?
Jo: I'm absolutely fantastic. Thank you. I love that. Thanks.
officialgspn: How do you feel about being a human highlight reel?
Jo: I mean, it's a new one, but I'll take it.
officialgspn: I'm going to try and give you a new one every time I'm hosting. So it's a good challenge for me.
Jo: I like it. It's cool.
officialgspn: and And I'm also accompanied by the lady who could bench everyone on our team, which is why she's known as the Glamazon. So it's Nicola, obviously. Are you okay, Nicola?
Jo: Unreal.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I'm good, although you have just reeled off about 19 different Oasis songs and I'm still bitter at the fact that I didn't get to it. Thanks a lot, Kev. Really appreciate that, yep.
officialgspn: We've got to keep it current. We've got to keep it current.
Jo: Wow.
officialgspn: I'm really sorry. Please don't bench us, but I did play the Glamazon. So. You know, that's a really nice thing to say to somebody because yeah, you're glam and you're built like an ram Amazonian.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: It's too soon. Yeah, it's too soon.
officialgspn: So but that's a good compliment.
Jo: while
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Keep digging.
officialgspn: Right, so obviously today today is the Monday match review. Nukasi and I had beaten Spurs 2 -1 in a very interesting and stressful watch.
Jo: Yeah, Mom.
officialgspn: So I kind of want to start this episode with the very beginning obviously. I mean that's where most things start, the very beginning. and But I'd like to specifically look at team selection.
officialgspn: So we obviously had which I found quite interesting. Barnes and Gordon started together, Kelly kept his place, Tenali was back on the bench and Tino still gets ahead of Trippier after his England call up.
officialgspn: So I'll come to Nicola first because I feel like I might have annoyed her a little bit with Oasis tags. So we'll see what Nicola thinks of our team selection.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: ah
officialgspn: Were you surprised? Was it what you expected? Were you happy with it?
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I think I was surprised to see Tenali dropped, you know, because I thought on Wednesday he played, um well, he was a key part in the build up to the goal for one. And I thought he had a really strong um first half when he came on. So I was surprised to see him benched for the start. um Again, like you said, Barnes and Gordon starting together, wasn't sure how that was going to pan out to be honest.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: um But I've got to be honest, they complement each other so well. And yeah, so was I was quite surprised to see that. And um'm ah I wasn't surprised that Tino was starting due to his England call up and obviously following the back of Kieran Trippier's international retirement.
officialgspn: in
Nicola Pringle_Adams: um I wasn't surprised that we were going to see Tino start at all. I thought he had a very good game just to put that out there.
officialgspn: Yeah, so do I. We'll come to that in just a second. Joe, what are you feeling about them kind of three main talking points?
Jo: Yeah I mean the starting and like the front three I should say it's what we want to see isn't it so I'm I was more than happy to see those three start. Tino again just like Nick said wasn't surprised to see him starting like I've said from the beginning of this to a season sorry I do expect Teeno to be our starting right back, so again, it it was kind of a moot point for me sort of thing.
Jo: um The left back thing was so -so. I wouldn't have wanted to put any bets on what he was going to do there, because it could have been Hall or Kelly for me.
officialgspn: Yeah.
Jo: um So when I saw Kelly, I was like, all right, cool. and See how he gets on, be fair. He didn't have a bad game, so it was all right. But I like to see Hall come on at the same time. So, um no, it wasn't overly surprising.
Jo: We know how kind of how, like, the setup doesn't, you know what I mean, in general. Tenali, yes, we would have wanted to see him start, but I've got to be honest, didn't overly expect him to start. Again, I don't know how, look how he edged Bruno in and stuff like that. I don't know if he's going to do that with Tenali coming back or not. I might be wrong, but anyway, he didn't start, did he? So, but he came on. So it's all good. Cool.
officialgspn: Yeah. I mean, as you said, they came on. I thought it was actually a great lift when he came on, like the the roof almost came off when Tanali come on.
Jo: Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
officialgspn: m My brother, who was at the match, I think was away. He was either a bit of a toilet or getting a snack or something. And and he thought we'd scored when Tanali came running back out. And I was like, wait. So it was shows what an impact that had on the on the game and the crowd and giving them players an extra.
officialgspn: So that could have been a bit of a mastermind by how I think the best place to start really is probably going to be the first 10, 15 minutes.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Okay.
officialgspn: Again, we spoke about it a lot on Matchday Reviews on this podcast because we normally seem to start quite well in every game. I think Forest we started well, Bournemouth we started well in Southampton. We probably didn't start how we wanted to, but there was a couple of half chances there where you thought, oh, we could get someone from here.
officialgspn: Yeah, I kind of want to start with the, with the beginning, the first 15 minutes of the game. Um, just quickly before we do move on, I think bonds and going starting together is probably going to be the way we go for the rest of the season until January. Cause obviously no right -winger was signed and with transfer window. Um, but yeah, the first 15 minutes, I thought we started very well. We actually went man for man. I don't know if anybody else noticed it. Cause again, some people watch on sky, some people watch in like live, um,
officialgspn: So again, we went man for man, Tino, when a doggy where Tottenham left back was coming into a certain midfield, Tino was like in central midfield, just sticking with him.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Hmm.
officialgspn: And then Longstaff was like right back, sticking with, I think it was Kuleszewski who was drifting wide or might've been Madison. And I was thinking, Oh my God, we all just go man for man.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: ah yeah.
officialgspn: We're going to try and do it again. and I felt our press was really good, but again, when we played through us, it's almost like we have an insurance policy now.
Jo: Yeah.
officialgspn: We'll press, we'll beat the press sometimes, and when we do, we'll just sit deep and be like, you can't get past us.
Jo: yeah
officialgspn: um So Joe, how you feeling about our kind of new hybrid half press, half okay, you've beat the press, but now you've got a break us down type style and the first 15 minutes really, what were your thoughts?
Jo: Yeah, it was a tough one. like I was with the my mate at the match this season who was at the 6 -1 game, thankfully, so it's just a bit of a lucky charm with Spurs. And our last game was last season against Spurs.
officialgspn: You've got loads of lucky charms.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I know.
Jo: Oh, I've got plenty of lucky charm to my back pocket, man. I just keep whipping them out for the matches, that's cool. um
officialgspn: can we just can we just fit i mean but but That part there could be clipped to be really bad, so I'm not going to do that here. But can we just like fund all of Joe's friends to just fill the stadium?
officialgspn: Because we'll never lose.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Just get one season ticket for each friend.
Jo: I mean, who's gonna love us, right?
officialgspn: Yeah.
Jo: I'll be the most popular person in Newcastle, man.
Jo: But yeah, like, our last game, we we were talking about it afterwards, are we're having more drinks just to top off the pre -drinks. And we're just discussing how our last match actually came with us was the Spurs game in April.
Jo: So, you know, again. Not a bad record, does she? But yeah, going back to it quickly, like the first 15 minutes were brilliant. um We joked that the 17th minute randomness, because obviously when you're in the stadium, nobody tells you what's going on, then all of a sudden the game stopped.
Jo: Referee's got his ball under his arm, and he's just walking across the pitch. And I'm looking around the pitch thinking, well, not a single person's down. What's going on? Why can't there just be a bit more like rugby, for example, and just say it stopped because the lines minute it turned out?
Jo: So we were waiting for replacement lines when he took a good three minutes.
Jo: but the game started again and and that was it. That was the turning point for us. So I'm not saying that was the cause of it, by the way, but I'm just saying it was almost identical to what we did in the last game.
officialgspn: You made a good point, actually, because the whole linesman thing, we were doing, I felt like we were playing really well. I mean, that just sucked what I thought of the crowd.
Jo: Yeah.
officialgspn: It seemed to suck what I thought of the game.
Jo: yeah
officialgspn: and I was a bit like, hmm, what a weird thing that just like stopped me momentum. Nicola, what were your thoughts on the first 15 minutes?
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I completely agree with everything that you guys have said. We actually missed, a I don't know if it was just me, but we actually missed the linesman thing on the, on the TV. I was watching on TV today.
officialgspn: Oh.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: ah So it was like, it might just be me not paying attention, probably more the case, but it was like the game was started and all that happened. And then it just stopped. And I was just like, what on earth is going on here?
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Then you see the referees and linesmen dilly -dallying about and you're like, great. So this has just stopped the whole momentum of the game. I thought we started really well. Um, which I think we do against every opponent.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I'm not going to say her and say we don't do that. I think we thought really well. We then dipped out a little bit and we were lucky not to concede a couple of times. I'm going to be honest. Um, start the second half pour and then we finished strong.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I'm just going to bring it back to a point that I raised, um, like six, seven, eight pods ago when Newcastle go one, no luck start strong. We sit back and everyone's like, no, we don't do that.
Jo: They've been doing that, yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: No, we don't do that. We never do that. We've been doing that the last four games.
Jo: Unfortunately, yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: And we're four games in into season, however, not to be negative. Wasn't the prettiest performance, but we've got the three points. We got the win. And that's all that matters at the end of the day. You know, yes, we're not our strongest at all.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: We've got plays missing still. Um, but we're getting the results and that's the main thing I suppose, but just, I'll just like to see as a little bit more like cynical, a bit more clean.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Um, we're just not like that at the minute. I feel like there's something just a bit disjointed and a bit missing.
Jo: Yeah.
officialgspn: No, ah to be fair, I do agree. And I was one of the ones who disagreed with you when you said we go 1 -0 up and said back, I was.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: youa You You were?
officialgspn: I still think other than the first four games of season, and again, we have done that.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yep. Mm hmm.
officialgspn: I think in a way we're kind of both right weirdly because for there is games, we've just blown teams away. But then there's also games where we have done exactly what you've said and and just kind of went into our shells a little bit.
officialgspn: But it seems like even though I think it was maybe I don't know, 60, 40, 50, 50 before this season, the start of the season, it's 100 % what you're seeing and 0 % what I'm seeing because so it's that complete shift of we haven't went for the throat yet.
Jo: Yeah.
officialgspn: I do still think it's coming um because historically, not all the time, but we have done it at teams.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah.
officialgspn: It was so many results. You can go back like with 5 -1, blah, blah, blah. and But yeah, it it was an interesting first 15 minutes. ah Part two, we'll definitely look at the rest of the first half and the whole of the second half. But before that, we've got a very quick message from Joe with our first sponsor of the episode.
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officialgspn: You've done well there, mind you, especially when you've just admitted that you had pre -match and post -match drinks and you were at the game today and you've just done that.
Jo: Not too
officialgspn: Fair play.
Jo: I'm so proud of myself, right?
officialgspn: I was expecting you to just go,
Nicola Pringle_Adams: She has just sat on here before, though. yeah She has just sat on here before eating garlic bread, though.
Jo: I'm keeping classy today.
officialgspn: Yeah, yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: On the camera, yeah. She's eating garlic bread.
officialgspn: Coffee, water, egg garlic bread desperate just to get some grease and fluids into it. They'd be like, I'm okay. I promise I'm okay. I'm still really happy, but I'm okay.
Jo: Panic.
officialgspn: It could have been worse. Like you said, you could have just come on and said, then castor is mint.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Dinner of champion.
officialgspn: Use it. And that didn't happen. So well done.
Jo: Pretty much.
officialgspn: So, obviously, yeah, hang on.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: We're not canceled.
Jo: that wo
officialgspn: There's still over half the episode going.
Jo: but
officialgspn: um So, yeah, part two. and Like I say, we've talked about the first 15 minutes. I think we're all pretty much in agreement. but We started the game well, and then there was a big disruption and with the officials, which negatively impacted us.
officialgspn: Even more negatively impacted us for the rest of our first half. We scored first. We got the goal. I thought the goal was incredibly well taken by Harvey Bonds.
Jo: What?
officialgspn: I do have to now mention, no I'm going to actually ask Joe, Um, I'm going to ask Joe that, um, what, what did I put in the group chat? Driving to the game, by the way.
Jo: he did it again so excited the other night but honestly it was unreal because i was at the match so you don't get signal as everyone knows and i came out and then here's all this stuff pinging through on like the group chat and there's kev's picture which bless him underneath he was like i hope this goes through before the match kicks off underneath it so fair play to him he had sent a pre -match of
Nicola Pringle_Adams: You did it again, I know.
officialgspn: all the game
officialgspn: hu
Jo: obviously what number does everyone come on anyone listen to this must know it's the number 11 I freaked out I was just like I said my mate who's only kind of what listen like a few different ones bless us she's like I need to catch up I was like right I'm gonna give you a heads up here and I told her all about she's like no way and I was like so I told her the whole story and then I told her about the Bruno one but then I told her about the Willick one the other day I was like he's done it again I was like what's going on man
officialgspn: and never
Nicola Pringle_Adams: 11.
officialgspn: ye i
officialgspn: really
officialgspn: yeah yeah
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I'm starting to think you've just got a picture on your phone of every speed.
officialgspn: I sent it before the game, I sent it before the game
Nicola Pringle_Adams: It's mad.
officialgspn: The time, the time is, I even left a map.
Jo: It's time stamped, I suppose. We got it.
officialgspn: I left a map on my car. The time is in the picture.
Jo: I like it.
officialgspn: You can actually see, I shouldn't be taking photos of the wheel, but you know, you could see I was stuck in traffic.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah, love it.
Jo: Shh.
officialgspn: You can see above the steering wheel.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: ah
officialgspn: You can see above the steering wheel. You can see where I'm at. You can see it's clearly not edited in any way. And it was 11 miles per hour in Harvey Bond's score.
Jo: It was.
officialgspn: When that first goal went in, I lost my mind and I was like, Oh my God, get in.
Jo: I bet you did.
officialgspn: And then it said Harvey Bond's score. And I was like, nah, no.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: No, you failed to mention though that you didn't get your iced coffee.
officialgspn: Yeah, I didn't get my coffee, which is probably why we didn't play well again.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: So you're lucky, you're lucky.
Jo: But again,
officialgspn: I keep getting, I keep getting ah keep getting me step on the wrists where we're not playing well, but still giving us relief.
Jo: this is why we only won 2 -1.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yes, all your fault.
Jo: We only beat Southampton 1 -0.
officialgspn: It is.
Jo: Both games should have been killer games, but curve.
officialgspn: Yeah.
Jo: Mind, I've got to hold my hand up at this point, by the way, and I did tell my friend I would admit this on the podcast. I didn't get my lucky pie, but by the way, it wasn't my fault.
officialgspn: Oh.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Oh.
Jo: I tried to get my lucky pie, nodded.
officialgspn: Red Dyson with, Red Dyson with Death Ian.
Jo: But no, no, we we tried to get lucky pies and I stood in the queue for the stupid pies.
Jo: Got all the way at the front, there was about two minutes left of like the half, so I'm like, oh, two men's pies, just refrain from calling them lucky. Two men's pies and two bottles of cider. And he's like, we don't have any pies.
Jo: And I was just like, dude, I was just like,
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Oh, you don't understand.
Jo: it's gone wrong today like i'm not gonna i've
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Kev, take over.
officialgspn: but so I tell you what, there's somebody listening there now, right?
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Kev, take over.
officialgspn: Someone's on the way to work thinking, this is a match review? What we're talking about pies for?
Jo: got lost a plot man
officialgspn: and If you have
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Back to the pod.
officialgspn: and But if you are wondering what on earth we are talking about with speed limits and highs, we haven't unfortunately got time to go to Nicholas Wardrobe. That sounds horrendous, I've just realised.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: i mean
officialgspn: But yeah, listen to the Wildcard Wednesday episode from last week and then just move on from it.
Jo: It makes sense.
officialgspn: Back, here we go. um So, Holly Barnes got the first goal. I thought it was an unbelievably well -taken goal. and And I thought, actually, after we scored, we did all right. We still had a couple of half chances, especially down the right with Tino and Gordon, where I thought, oh, if we'd just got that final ball right, we could really get a couple of quick goals here.
Jo: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Mm hmm.
Jo: yeah
officialgspn: So, Nick, I'll come to you, because Joe's just just told everyone about the looking high.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah, we're not talking to you anymore.
officialgspn: What did you think of the rest of the first half, then, Nick?
Nicola Pringle_Adams: but The reactions for the first half.
officialgspn: the rest of the first half after the first 15 minutes.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah, I thought we I mean, I know it wasn't the most prettiest performance, but I thought we played really well. I genuinely thought we played actually really well. And I'm just gonna, doesn't get much credit for me, this player. So this would be the first probably this season. I am actually going to sit here other, other than the own goal, but he didn't, he didn't couldn't do anything with, I thought Dan Byrne had a really good game today. Like really good game, really strong at the back. You know, like you say, man on man constantly, never really lost his position that much. I don't think anyway, I know people are going to disagree, but
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I just thought he had a really good game. Um, I can't remember if this was in the first half or second half. The only thing I'm going to criticize is a sack, not square in that ball earlier.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I can't remember who it was too. I think it was start with taking half.
officialgspn: ah Start the second half, yes, start the second half to, I think it was Brown.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: It's going to live rent free in my head. Yeah. It's going to have a rent free in my head people. Why didn't you do that? But other than that, I thought it was overall not the worst performance.
officialgspn: Spurs are a good team, or we need to give Spurs a little bit of credit here.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: But those are a really good team.
Jo: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: um And i've I've got, yeah, I think they're a really good team. They're really tough side to break down. I know we've done it a couple of times now, so obviously not that good. But um yeah, I think they're quite a tough team to break down when they have a good day.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: When they don't have a good day, things like today happen. I thought they were unlucky in certain I did.
officialgspn: ah thought we had a good day today. I thought we played well. um Joe, what are your thoughts on the rest of our first half?
Jo: Ah, a bit like what Nick said. I mean, yeah, we weren't as strong as the first 15 minutes. We've already kind of touched on that. But I'll be honest, when we scored the first goal, it was one of those that I hadd said before the game that today I felt more importantly, we've discussed it before about getting the first goal.
Jo: Today I thought was very important on getting the first goal.
officialgspn: with
Jo: I think we've touched on other the pods that it would kind of get our tails up. get them in the mindset of oh no man not again you know what I mean we're in but it is we've touched on this before and of course naturally it's gonna isn't it you know what I mean they've had a nightmare the last two times I came up here so I said if we can get the first goal and we did and straight away I just said my mate I was like it's them and we've got it man we can push on from him and we've got to like go for the jugular sort of thing we didn't you know we didn't play horribly right it's just again one of those things that we need
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Okay.
officialgspn: ah p steve sp
Jo: We need the consistency back. And I think I've watched some of the post -match stuff from how an EZAC, and they were very kind of head down, not negative about it, but they understood and they acknowledged the fact that that was not our finest game.
officialgspn: or PTSD, I suppose. Yeah.
officialgspn: Mm -hmm.
Jo: and We can do better and we're in no way shape or form at full strength, top gear, whatever you want to kind of call it at the minute. um So if we're grinding out results, it's in no way shape or form pretty.
Jo: It's dirty. It's whatever you want to call it. But hell, we've got seven points from three games. Yeah, all right. It's not pretty, but I'd rather do the results than pretty.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: No.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: What are we all?
Jo: Simple as that.
officialgspn: Yeah. yeah and Yep. Yep. I completely agree to be fair. and I do want to quickly touch on the second half, obviously in an ongoing goal by Dan Byrne. I thought we started the second half poorly.
officialgspn: But again, I feel like it's through no fault of our own. We know, right? Most more sensible Newcastle fans know we, at the minute, have a makeshift centre -half parent. Dan Byrne played the majority of the season at left -back, regardless of what you think of him or his best position.
Jo: yeah
officialgspn: He played the majority of last season left -back. We've got Emil Kraft who is naturally a right back plain centre half alongside him. So in terms of our makeshift backline, we have survived without Shaw.
officialgspn: for three games. Botman still won't be back yet was taught what he's ahead of schedule, which is great, but we haven't got a fully fed team.
Jo: Yeah. Hmm.
officialgspn: I know everyone's saying we've got all these players back. It's great to have Tenali back. I know what it's out again, but it's not as bad as what first for you. So that's great. It's great. We've got all these players back, but we're still missing Wilson who again, whether you think he's too injury prone or not, he does give you so much either coming off a bench and running with channels and making center halfs think twice because he runs for channels 10 times better than he's back.
officialgspn: That was my main frustration with Isaac today, just if a defender was under pressure, we're getting close, like properly close by Spurs. He's only got one option is to hit their space down the line and Isaac stood in the middle of a centre -half, so what are you doing?
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah.
officialgspn: Wilson would be running the line, he'd be putting his body up again without going too much into that.
Jo: yeah
officialgspn: and We didn't start well in the second half. Spurs pressed us, and pressed us, and pressed us, and it was a makeshift backline.
Jo: Mm -hmm.
officialgspn: We conceded an own goal. I think Byrne could do better.
Jo: Pope.
officialgspn: I think Pope could definitely do better. But I think criticism i moment two please and After what Nick said about Byrne, I think it would be harsh to criticise more of Roy.
Jo: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah, I think poop.
Jo: Mm -hmm.
officialgspn: Yes, it's a bad one goal, but it happens as a defender. And Nick Pope, even though he should have pirated behind, again, he's made about three or four top -class saves to get us a win.
Jo: Mm
Nicola Pringle_Adams: straight after that yeah
officialgspn: I don't want to spend too much time criticising them.
Jo: -hmm.
officialgspn: and What I do want to get from is pretty briefly I suppose is that second half and obviously we do then break on the counter, which I have to say because he's been getting a lot of stick.
officialgspn: Joel Linton lured the midfielder in, sidestepped him and played an unbelievable pass into Jacob Murphy.
Jo: Mm -hmm.
officialgspn: He also had a shocker up until that moment.
Jo: You did.
officialgspn: um But yeah, we'll go with Nick first on this one again, and what do you think of a second and half and what's your overall thoughts?
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I think I just touched on it a minute ago.
Jo: Hehehe.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I thought we started poorly. I don't think we came out like we did in the first half. um ESAC not squaring that ball earlier is still living rent free in my head and we'll do for the next couple of weeks.
officialgspn: That was right at the start of the second half here.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: It's lucky we, I know it's luckily we won because otherwise if we lost, I would have still been thinking about it. um And Jo, you're really not going to like this comment, but I actually thought Jacob Murphy had an awful game up until the assist.
officialgspn: Yeah, and I agree.
Jo: That's fair.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I thought he came on, we we took Tenali off, whatever it was that he took off for Murphy. I can't remember now. Every ball he got, he lost. Every ball he got, he lost.
Jo: You did, I know.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: And I thought, you're frustrated me.
officialgspn: yeah
Nicola Pringle_Adams: You're really, really frustrated me. And then he got his de assist and then he kind of went back up in my estimation. So we'll let him off a little bit.
Jo: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: um And then Nick Pope, I thought, yeah, kept his in the game. Other than the own goal, I thought he could do a lot better there. I've got no idea what he was doing. Um, and there's not really much Dan Ben could do that I don't think.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I think he thought in his head Nick had it.
Jo: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: um But he made two or three unbelievable saves straight after that, um not long after that. So overall second half I thought was quite poor.
officialgspn: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: I thought it was quite poor but we got the goal and we done what we needed to do and we got the result.
Jo: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: So yeah.
officialgspn: Once copy here. Sure.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: no
officialgspn: Anything out of that?
Jo: pretty much bang on, I'll be honest. the um Like I said before, the second half started poorly, like it has in the previous games. Like I said, your goal was a funny one, because yeah, alright. Pope could have held it, maybe, could he?
officialgspn: Hmm.
Jo: instead he didn't he powered it off yeah the other guy took a shot he couldn't have do anything with that shot he just obviously stuck his hand out and obviously went straight to burn at that point burn just lashed his leg at it we all know when you do that it literally can't go anywhere unfortunately for burn it goes in the back of the net so i'm not going to really kind of go on about that side of things because it's it's more bit of luck than anything else from there kind of side of things and like fair play there were
officialgspn: Push up behind.
officialgspn: yeah
officialgspn: the
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah.
officialgspn: Mistakes, mistakes happen in football.
Jo: We did pick up again like we did in the last game kind of things got better and thank god unlike the last game where we picked up and didn't get the goal and we had to go to pens we actually got the goal which we desperately needed because it was as I say it a kind of
officialgspn: Mm hmm.
Jo: make that kind of difference between coming out so poorly from the start of second half and then kind of building and building and actually playing well again like we had in the first 15 minutes we needed that goal it was a brilliant kind of like you say a brilliant ball from Big Joel um beautiful pass from Murphy because at the end of the day we've seen so many players be a bit selfish in that situation
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah.
Jo: take it themselves and either sky it or just hit it straight at the keeper or anything. So brilliant that he passed it off to Isaac. Isaac was on side. Fantastic. We got the goal sort of thing. um Obviously I had a bet on 3 -1.
Jo: I was kind of hoping that we'd push on and get that, but we didn't. It's fine. oh I'll get over that. um So Ian and my daughter's prediction didn't come in again, but I don't know.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: We won.
Jo: Look, overall, we won. Exactly. Look, again, it wasn't pretty, but who cares? We won.
Jo: like
Jo: It was, it still could have been the 2 -2 that Kev, didn't you say? What was it? 3 -1 in your heart, but 2 -2 in your head, eh? And I was thinking to myself, I was like, Kev, don't you dare be right with your 2 -2 mind.
officialgspn: Yeah.
officialgspn: I didn't want to be right, I didn't want to be right. Even though I would have won quite a bit of money because I had over 3 .5 gold on.
Jo: Oh, did you?
officialgspn: But yeah, and just going back briefly as well, ian's Ian's prediction was actually correct.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: You could now, yeah.
officialgspn: He was wanting to say 2 -1, I can't go 3 -2 because he said there'd be one gold in it.
Jo: Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm.
officialgspn: So yeah, to be fair to Ian, he got a spot on one gold in it in Newcastle the Victor.
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officialgspn: oh again so professional so good
officialgspn: obviously this part of the show, and I'd like to kind of, we're four games in, ah including a cup game. It's an international break now. So obviously guys who were listening, um there's only going to be three episodes this week. I think, I think it's going to be Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. It's going to be a bit more of a ah chilled space and whilst international football has happened. And just to give you guys a break from us, cause you might be sick of hearing about pork pies and and there speed limits, or you might love it. I don't know.
officialgspn: um And again, to be fair, once the Premier League gets back up and running, we'll be back to daily episodes so you won't miss anything. So just to quickly recap the season so far, seven points from nine games in the league. We are through to the third round of the League Cup. We have Wimbledon away, which I think is a good draw considering our recent history with draws and cups.
officialgspn: Fabian Schar got suspended in the very first game. We went down to 10 men, but still won that game. We then got through his suspension without losing the game. Callum Wilson and Joel Willard look like we're going to be back properly and fully fit after the international break. Sven Botman's closer than ever.
officialgspn: um so what are your guys thoughts on a very brief kind of season? Again I'm i'm not going to be blind to the fact that performances haven't been great but I do have a little bit of a theory on that which I think and it was just watching today came into my head do you know how we're not playing this fluent like high aggressive high pressing football and we have a backup plan a little bit to just sit deep and catch him on the counter.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: ah Yeah.
officialgspn: I honestly think he's put the brakes on the midfielders because it's a makeshift back line because we have our ah arguably third and
Jo: Hmm.
officialgspn: Third and fifth, i six choice centre half because one of them is not even a centre half, AKA Kraft.
Jo: Yeah.
officialgspn: I think he's actually put the handbrake on two of them midfielders rather than just one. I think the plan always was watching how one of yours will stay in the other two, just go roll, go press high, go into the channel, do what you want to do and just call Havoc.
Jo: Yeah.
officialgspn: I think when I was what day there was two of them who had the handbrake on where it was like,
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah.
officialgspn: give burning craft a little bit of help without Botman, without Shaw, we are without the sales. So I think that is part of it. I think when, again, Shaw's back and Botman's back, I think we might see the old Newcastle, so to speak. Joe, what do you think of the season, the first four games? How are we doing?
Jo: Like you said, all things taken into account, I think we're doing great. it's I'm going to repeat myself a few times, but it's it's just facts. it's It's not pretty, but we've got the results.
Jo: We haven't got the back four, like you say. Craft, I'll be honest, I'll give him his due. He had a game today.
officialgspn: didn'
Jo: I was more than happy with what he did. He's by no way means.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah.
Jo: I was anywhere near the central defender, um and obviously when Cher's back, he's kicked straight out, but he had a game today. In fact, I think he was better than Burn, if you're going to pick one between the two, in my opinion. back, once everyone's fit,
Jo: I'm not going to say we're going to be unstoppable, because that's just that's ridiculous. But you've got to say we're going to be a pretty big force. You know what I mean? Get everyone back in the midfield. You've got the likes of, as I say, having Big Joe, Bruno, Tenali across the middle with more freedom. Once our back is solidified, get Botman back, share at the back. You know what I mean? What are you going to do with the left back? It's a funny one, isn't it? Because then you've got Byrne, who was our consistent, Hall, who is an actual left back.
Jo: and Kelly who can obviously play left back or central.
officialgspn: great assist Great assist by Kelly.
Jo: It's going to be
officialgspn: man You did very well today.
Jo: It was, yeah, yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Very well.
Jo: um So it's going to be interesting to see what Howe does, because I think sometimes he is a bit unpredictable on that one. I don't know how he's going to play it once everyone's fit and it available, if you know what I mean.
Jo: I don't want to talk about the transfer window, by the way. um but I also don't think we should let anyone go I think this should be it for now until January quite frankly um but in the grand scheme right like I said before seven out of nine points through the next round of the cup really can we complain apart from the fact that it's been ugly football nope yeah
officialgspn: and We are going to talk about a transfer window, but that's a different episode of this week. and I don't know if you're on a tour.
Jo: not today
officialgspn: You probably hope you're not, but we are going to talk about it because again, I've got some, I think it was Nick who said a lot of things from a different perspective.
Jo: oh
officialgspn: I've got a positive perspective on the transfer window, but we haven't got time to share it in this episode. and Nick, what you what are you thinking about the season, the first four games?
Nicola Pringle_Adams: No.
officialgspn: How do you think we've done?
Nicola Pringle_Adams: You can't complain, can we? We've got what we've done. We've done one, two, we've drawn one in the league and then we've got through to the next round of the League Cup. So it's not that bad. In fact, it's not bad at all. Yeah, we probably made mints out of the League Cup fixture, but we'll go into that another day. But like you say, you've touched on, we you know, we've got Callum Wilson out injured because he's made of absolute weeabics. So We haven't got him as poor Callum.
officialgspn: Pooh a column. Pooh a column.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah, poor Callum.
Jo: Wait a bit.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: He is made of pure Weetabix, isn't he? But, you know, when he comes back, if he comes back, you know, we've got him as a backup for Isak to obviously give him a break.
officialgspn: Column. Column.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: um I am kind of desperate to see what Oshula brings. I want to see some of him, please.
Jo: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: um ah Because I'm going to touch on what you said, Kev. I did think Isak today, yes, okay, he scored and You know, but there's certain parts of his game that isn't there.
officialgspn: Definitely.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: It's just not there sometimes.
officialgspn: definite
Jo: Yeah.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Um, I'm not saying Oshawa is the answer, obviously, but I would quite like to see what he's going to bring to the team and what Eddie and team have seen him to bring him in. That's the only thing I'm going to say. And in regards to the back line, um, I agree with what Joe said.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Eddie's now got a lot of options that he can play around with once Shah and Botman are back. Um, literally got so many options now he's experimented enough. I think players have proof to him that they can play in these positions, even though it's not their natural position.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: So got a lot of, a lot of choice there. So I'm quite positive. I think it was been our best start of the season for a while, isn't it? So yeah, looking forward to the rest.
officialgspn: Yeah, so we're all happy.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah.
officialgspn: All happy with the start of the season, yeah?
Nicola Pringle_Adams: All good.
Jo: Cool.
officialgspn: spot on. So again, I agree. i I do just want to touch on one more thing, I think, which will be a huge positive for Newcastle after the international break. I think when Wilson comes back, we saw him at 22 -23 season.
officialgspn: I mean, wilson people ever I get the injury kind of thing with Wilson. I'm not going to deb debate that, but people forget that Wilson last season, he missed most of it, still got 10 league goals.
officialgspn: And we also forget that the season before that, he missed
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah.
officialgspn: about a third of it and still scored 18 league goals.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah.
officialgspn: So when he comes back, A, he's going to put the pressure on Ezak, which is great for Ezak because he left it up his performance.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Yeah.
Jo: Yeah.
officialgspn: And B, we are going to get some more goals because Wilson, again, when he's on the pitch, I'm not saying he's on the pitch as much as you should be, I agree.
Jo: Yeah.
officialgspn: But when he's on the pitch, you don't score goals. You look at these right off in Newcastle. I think he's our second highest Premier League all -time goal scorer.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: yeah
officialgspn: think he's only, he's obviously only second behind Shira so we are going to get more goals when he comes back. and So yeah, all positive here, part with doing your Cincinnati team. Like I say, and thank you again for listening. There is only three episodes this week with it being an international break. We will review the England call -up because again ah we did an episode on that at the very very start and I think you guys said Tino was more likely when we did a practice one which nobody got to hear But then the one we did, I think we said Hall was more likely.
officialgspn: So the girls beat the boys in that one. So fair play girls. Well done. and Thank you very much for listening.
Nicola Pringle_Adams: Ah.
officialgspn: It has been a pleasure. Seven points from nine games. Wow. Great start of the season.
