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Newcastle v Bournemouth Review
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Iain hosts Nic and Michael to unpick the bones out of Saturday's humiliating home defeat to Bournemouth. They throw half the team under the bus (they deserve it) but, don't worry,...somehow they find one or two crumbs of comfort as well.
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Transcript
Introduction and Team Dynamics
00:00:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the Daily Newcastle. My name's Ian Mackay. I'm your host today and with me, my fellow Black and Whiters, I've got Nicola Pringle-Adams. How are you doing today, Nicola?
00:00:22
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Very well, thank you. That was a very delicate introduction.
00:00:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you. And I've also got Mr Shouty himself. Michael Graveslaw. How are you, Michael?
00:00:32
Michael
I call myself the energy of the team, but that's fine. I understand i understand how shouty he can come across, but I'm all good.
Newcastle vs Bournemouth Recap
00:00:39
Michael
Thank you. hoy
00:00:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
like I only I only mentioned that because uh because Nicola accused me of being gentle something I'm not being accused of for a long time actually but thank you very much indeed for that we are here to unpick the bones out of yesterday's match against Bournemouth which I went to I had such such high hopes it was meant to be our 10th win on the bounce our seventh straight win in the Premier League it was going to jump us into third
00:00:48
Michael
but
00:01:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
As we hunted down Arsenal drop points, by the way, did you see that?
00:01:13
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I know.
00:01:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
As we hunted down the top two, sadly, that didn't prove to be the case as so we were well and truly whooped by a fantastic Bournemouth side, actually.
00:01:13
Michael
Yeah.
00:01:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
They were good from start to finish. um Where do we start with that? I'll come to you first, Michael, because Nick has asked me to. Where did it all go wrong?
00:01:37
Michael
Yeah, I think it's one of those where to start off, I think we were all a bit overconfident going into the game. I said against in the wolves build up that I was more concerned for Bournemouth and wolves, I do have to say, than I was for Villa, Man United and Tottenham. I probably should have been terrified of Bournemouth. It's easy to say the out Newcastle, Newcastle, which is what I've seen a lot on social media over the last 24 hours. But my My immediate observations are actually more to do with Bournemouth and you can really see
Midfield Struggles and Positives
00:02:07
Michael
why. sort of They're so inconsistent. They have so many injuries but they still play the best football in the league because I didn't think we played well.
00:02:16
Michael
but it's one of those that every opposition fan when Newcastle played them says, oh why does everyone play terribly against Newcastle? It's not we make them play that way and it was exactly the same with Bournemouth against Newcastle. Without a shadow of a doubt I thought they were the best team I've seen at St James's Park against us, maybe other than that Borussia Dortmund side that you know made the Champions League final. So That's big praise for Bournemouth, I would say, but they played at such a high pace, a direct, and they bypass that midfield. Our best area of the pitch is that midfield, if that's bypassed, and that we can't get Bruno to gnarly, and even Joel Inter times on the ball.
00:02:54
Michael
You know, we are going to struggle and that's exactly what we saw. We couldn't get Bruno and Tonali on the ball. And when we could, they were so press heavy on Bruno. I think it was fouled four times in the opening 15 minutes. It might've been opening 20, but it was definitely, you know, a lot of fouls early doors so and he just couldn't get on the ball. And because of that, we struggled. can't, if we can't play our natural game, we don't win games.
00:03:17
Michael
at the end of the day, Bournemouth, fantastic. And I could say a hundred things that were wrong, but we went into the game on such great form that there's still reasons to be positive. 4-1, doesn't look great, but it's not really any different though if we'd lost 2-1.
00:03:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, I like to think that, uh, beating wolves three nil and losing to Bournemouth for one. It's just the same as drawing those two games, isn't it?
00:03:43
Michael
But with one extra point, get in!
00:03:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
So in reality, in reality, we're better off than just drawing those two games, in which case we still would have been unbeaten.
00:03:49
Michael
Exactly.
00:03:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I'm trying to get the, uh, God, there's some small crumbs of comfort to be got here. Newcastle out, Newcastle. What did you think about that, Nicola?
00:04:02
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Look. and Michael started off by saying that we went into the game as in us overconfident. I'm just going to put my two pence in there a little bit. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
00:04:13
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I don't think there is.
00:04:13
Michael
There is
00:04:15
Nicola Pringle-Adams
you know We've seen a side of Newcastle that haven't seen for a long time. We went on a nine game unbeaten win. We've seen our midfield become the best midfield in the league.
00:04:26
Nicola Pringle-Adams
We've seen ESAC become the best striker in the league, arguably Europe. And, you know, I don't think it was there's anything wrong with having a little bit of overconfidence in the team. But what then does come with that, obviously, is when things like yesterday happen and we are now sitting in this self-pitying of wallowing of what we actually watched yesterday. What I will say is as well is I don't think Newcastle actually played bad. I just think Bournemouth played a lot better than what we do. And in turn with that, obviously, because we were challenged on our home turf,
00:04:58
Nicola Pringle-Adams
we got messy, we got sloppy and Bournemouth just took advantage and quite like Michael says, they were the better team and they managed to pit four past us, which I haven't seen a team do that in a long time. so yeah, they were great. They were 10 out of 10 on it. They would probably be in the only side that looked like they wanted to play us and were hungry for the win. and they deserved the win. There's nothing really more to say other than I don't think we
Analyzing Overconfidence and Player Performances
00:05:23
Nicola Pringle-Adams
played bad. I just, we just got.
00:05:26
Nicola Pringle-Adams
we just had played a better opponent. And that's the game of football.
00:05:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, I'm going to have to take issue with both of you telling me that there's nothing really anything more to say. When I've only done five minutes of this podcast, you are going to have to get on it.
00:05:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Now, I agree with some of what you said.
00:05:42
Michael
I'll figure some of that out.
00:05:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
I agree with what some of you said. I'm not sure we were overcome. We were confident, but I think we were rightly confident. I never saw any of the Premier League previewers previewing ah as a a ah ah solid Bournemouth away win. I watched two of the Bournemouth podcasts match previews. One of them was hoping they could pinch a draw and the other one predicted that they would lose 2-1 to Newcastle. Now these are the guys that have watched Bournemouth over over the last well since November since they since they last lost and they thought they were going to get turned over. So I don't think we were over confident
00:06:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
certainly not what the Bournemouth guys were most concerned about and which is a fact that they were missing nine of their first teamers from that that scored that's just frightening or he's picking the wrong first team anyway because Bournemouth were fabulous I mean Lewis Cook is a dodgy midfielder but what a brilliant right back he was yesterday or maybe that's just what we made him look like I don't know I don't know now
00:06:47
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah.
00:06:47
Michael
Yeah.
00:06:51
Michael
Yeah, I think it's more that to be honest.
00:06:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
and I think I might take a little bit of issue with what you said there, Nicola, about that we didn't play that badly. Part two, we're going to unpick one or two of our players' performances.
00:07:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I, for one, don't think it just went down to Bournemouth being much better than we were.
00:07:07
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Okay.
00:07:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think there were certainly two or three players at the very least, six when you then had the substitutes who came on, who were miles off the pace for their game.
00:07:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
And obviously, When every player in the team is effectively having a stinker for whatever reason that's when you lose For one at home, isn't it now one thing which you might not remember because you might not whether you had been old enough I do remember Again when we were on our charge to win the championship at one stage I can't remember which campaign it was but we were steamroller in teams and then Fulham came to st. James's Park and Fulham absolutely played us off the park.
00:07:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
They out Newcastle to Newcastle that day and they were for one as well. If only I'd seen that I could have had a correct score bet on and made a fortune. So the good thing after that is that Newcastle simply dusted themselves down and got on back to steamrolling teams.
00:08:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I agree with you Michael. I don't think it's the end of the yeah end of the road. I don't think our players have suddenly become terrible.
00:08:18
Michael
Not at all.
00:08:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
I just think that
00:08:19
Nicola Pringle-Adams
No.
00:08:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
I just think maybe it was a game too far. I'm going to pause early there and ask Nicola to give us the first advert and we'll get into unpicking some of the individual performances in part two.
00:08:36
Nicola Pringle-Adams
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00:08:53
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00:09:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you very much indeed, Nicola.
00:09:01
Nicola Pringle-Adams
No problem.
00:09:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well done. Part two, then, the Newcastle players.
00:09:07
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I'm intrigued who you're going to talk about here.
00:09:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes, Bournemouth was super, right? Bournemouth was super. I was going to ask you who your man of the match was, but I know it's difficult to pick one out. By the way, I did think of somebody at the end of the game who actually played really well on the Newcastle side and nobody's mentioned it.
00:09:22
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I've got one.
00:09:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Martin Dubravka. Not really at fault for any of those goals.
00:09:27
Michael
Mmm.
00:09:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Maybe he could have got down a bit quicker to the second one, but they know to put it low down. he made some great saves and he was, he was fine with, the with his, with his distribution.
Fullbacks and Tactical Missteps
00:09:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know why anyone or compared to Shah's distribution, Shah announcing himself that he's back comes on in the second half and plays a square ball. Just onto the penalty spot, just about straight to their center forward, which he didn't score from amazingly. But, uh, God, that happens so often, so often.
00:09:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I'm exempting Martin Dubravka from my yeah critical comments.
00:09:57
Michael
yeah
00:10:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Now, we've got the best two young fullbacks in the Premier League. Not on yesterday's evidence.
00:10:09
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah, fair enough.
00:10:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Lewis Hall, Lewis Hall looked like he had Tino Livrimento's boots on, and Tino Livrimento looked like he had Lewis Hall's boots on, and and they have different sized feet, by the way. I thought they were, I don't know what it was.
00:10:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
They looked they looked slow. Is that just because the Bournemouth wingers were so super fast?
00:10:25
Michael
Yeah. Yeah.
00:10:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
they looked Maybe they were sluggish, maybe they were thinking slow. What did you think about our our Wonder Kids in full back, Nicola?
00:10:39
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Well, I feel like anything I say, people are just going to disagree with now. Cause I said, I don't think we played bad.
00:10:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Why?
00:10:43
Nicola Pringle-Adams
However, I do, I wasted the point.
00:10:44
Michael
That's the point.
00:10:46
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah. I didn't really so much notice Lewis Hall have a bad game, but maybe it's because I was probably too focused on Tino having a bit of a, a dodge of a game.
00:10:56
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I mean, I've commented on Tino a couple of times, particularly for this unbeaten run where. I think he's a great player, but sometimes he does get caught off guard and he drops out of position and is easily caught away from where he's supposed to be sort of thing. So yesterday I did sort of see him, I'm going to just say struggle a little bit with Bournemouth winger. As for Lewis Hall though, I don't think he played terribly, but maybe it's because I was too busy focusing on the right hand side.
00:11:24
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Whenever Tino has a bad game, my confidence does drop him a little bit. And I feel really bad saying that because he's just had nine great games. so maybe I'm just being a little bit too harsh, but I have said before that he has up and down times, playing.
00:11:37
Nicola Pringle-Adams
So maybe he was just a down.
00:11:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
He was definitely having a bit of a downtime yesterday.
00:11:41
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:11:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
I will observe that when it, when it came to, uh, trying to make a sows purse, no, what is it? A silk purse out of a sows ear. Eddie chose to switch Tino over onto the left and took Lewis Hall off, which is, which I think was the right decision out of the pair of them.
00:11:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Michael, did you notice Lewis Hall playing as though he was blindfolded?
00:12:04
Michael
um um Well, I have to be honest, out the back, well, I think it was five, six actual defenders that were on the pitch, I actually thought Hall had the better of the game, but what I will say is when Hall was shocking, he was dreadful. There's one moment in the centre of the pitch which is going to be burned on me for the rest of my life, and it's where Lewis Hall is in front of David Brooks,
00:12:27
Michael
he has the pace of David Brooks. David Brooks isn't exactly strong in Hall just flows to the floor. And it's, and I'm sorry for the impact that probably had on my microphone, but I've just done the the little flows brief flop there. But it's, it's one of those where he just falls to the floor and there's barely any contact on him whatsoever. And Yeah, it was Paul's probably worst game for us.
00:12:51
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Mm hmm.
00:12:51
Michael
Every wingback has them when you're a bit off the pace.
00:12:56
Michael
However, he was probably the one that had the least excuse because he wasn't up against Otara. He wasn't against Clive. He wasn't against a menu. He was mainly against Davey Brooks, who is a great player, but it doesn't really have the blistering pace that Tino Livremento was up against for most of the game. Yeah, Hall was poor, Livremento, I've said it for a little while, I don't think he's as good as people say. I think he could be, he definitely has the potential to be, but from the evidence, he had a great game against Arsenal, was decent against Tottenham, but I can't remember too many other games in this run,
00:13:36
Michael
where he's been really, really good. And that's why Trippier started to find himself back on the team. It's not a criticism. It's just maybe we've overhyped him a little bit to start off because he was so good in a purple patch when he first joined. He will be fantastic, but he's just not there yet.
00:13:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
thought yeah I thought was even worse than Liv Remento when he came on and started playing it right back, by the way. He definitely, definitely looks like he's got a ticket booked somewhere.
00:14:00
Michael
He wasn't great.
00:14:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
And if that is the alternative, let's stick with Tino Liv Remento, because other Trippio was awful. But i but i think i I think you also have to factor in maybe Eddie's tactics.
00:14:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've done very well with playing the ball out for a midfielder coming short, whether that's Tenali and then on to Bruno and playing through the midfield.
00:14:25
Michael
Uh
00:14:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
But Bournemouth were wise to that. They were wise to that in the first minute and they were wise to it three or four more times until they then scored after five and a half minutes.
00:14:28
Michael
-huh.
00:14:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Why we persisted in that, and we did all the way through that the whole game, we kept trying to play out from the back and they looked, that's where they are out Newcastle, Newcastle. Um, we gave the ball away so many times.
00:14:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
So it's hard to, it's hard to, to blame the back four for that. If that's the instructions that they've got thought to gnarly looked after the ball as well as he possibly could certainly better than Bruno did as evidenced by the second goal.
00:15:06
Michael
Yeah.
00:15:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
That was a hospital pass to Bruno for the second goal, was it not, from Bern?
00:15:07
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:15:09
Michael
I was going to say, I can't blame Bruno for that personally. to To play that pass there, you are basically asking someone to lose the ball.
00:15:17
Nicola Pringle-Adams
the boy up.
00:15:17
Michael
And Byrne had a shocker. That is another thing as well. Byrne was horrible. When I saw Fabian Cher coming on in the in the second half, I was sitting there going, you know what? That's brilliant. He's took Byrne out the firing line.
00:15:29
Michael
Oh wait, now he's stuck off Sven Botman. So Botman must have had, you know, maybe a little bit of a flu illness that has gone around the camp a a little bit, but I thought to keep Dan Byrne on and, you know, he was getting a lot of criticism on social media, et cetera, bit in the ground as well from what I hear.
00:15:44
Michael
So it's one of those where maybe he took off the wrong center back, but there's probably reasons why he took off Botman. And yeah, when Cher came on, he wasn't any better.
00:15:56
Michael
Hey, everyone made mistakes.
00:15:57
Nicola Pringle-Adams
He's been poorly as well though, hasn't he?
00:15:59
Michael
Yeah.
00:15:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was a tactical, it was a tactical switch apparently because Eddie wanted to get the more of the,
00:16:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Eddie wanted to get more of the ball playing skills that Shah would bring more of those long raking passes straight to Clive it on the edge of the box. And she did six minutes to the second half and escaped from, which, you know, it didn't work. It didn't work.
Physical Play and Refereeing Impact
00:16:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think, I think it might end up being a really, really quite a positive thing though, to get kicked up the backside, all of them, quite so hard at this stage when there's still 16 games of the season to go.
00:16:30
Michael
yeah
00:16:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Cause let's be honest, if we can go on another run of one loss in seven, we've only got to do that twice and we are banged up there.
00:16:44
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah
00:16:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
but God sitting through it was so painful.
00:16:48
Michael
Yeah.
00:16:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Our killer midfield of Brunaleton. Do you see what I did then? Brunaleton midfield.
00:16:53
Michael
Oh, yes.
00:16:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
They tried. I thought Joe Linton was super robust.
00:16:57
Michael
Yeah.
00:16:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
He just got rougher and rougher as he got more and more frustrated. Started a fight at one stage and they both only got booked somehow.
00:17:06
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Doesn't sound like him.
00:17:07
Michael
yeah Yeah.
00:17:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, they were outmuscled by, was it Tyler Adams?
00:17:11
Nicola Pringle-Adams
You are?
00:17:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
and Was it Christie that was here in the other midfielder?
00:17:16
Michael
Yeah, right, Krista.
00:17:16
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:17:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
But they're just workmen like players. how ah ah How did they do that so well? Is that how brilliant Areola is?
00:17:26
Michael
What I would say with that is you could tell, one of the things I'd sort of noted was when I mentioned why Bournemouth was so inconsistent, the point I didn't mention was a lot of it, I think, goes down to the referee. If the referee allows them to play the way they do, and by the way, it's not a bad thing, it's the same way Newcastle play against big teams. You disrupt them, you play a bit more direct, and you know if the referee lets the game flow, he doesn't give a yellow card early on,
00:17:52
Michael
He had the chance to a couple of times, to Adams and to Christie. Then, you know, if he lets the game flow that way, Bournemouth are absolutely fantastic. But if he'd gave that, if you had a different referee and he gave those yellow cards early on, they don't stamp their authority as much as what they're used to. And as much as we love Tenali and Bruno.
00:18:10
Michael
If they're not on it, they're not diving into tackles. If Joe Linton's not on it, he's going around elbow and people kicking them and I don't endorse that, it's not very good. But those two, you know, they'll try, but they'll they're not the kind of players that'll rough you up if things aren't going their way. If they're fired up and the crowd's behind them, then they do. Tenali did it a little bit more than Bruno, but Adams and Christie were just too physical for one that day.
00:18:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, I had five players to commit two fouls. And the three players on the Bournemouth team that I picked, they all did, probably more.
00:18:46
Michael
Yeah.
00:18:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
But neither Gamarish nor Tenali committed two fouls. So that must be one foul each. we did We committed seven fouls in the game and Bournemouth committed 18, which I think is a testament to how physical they were.
00:18:58
Michael
Yeah. Tells you everything.
00:19:02
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:19:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I didn't feel like they were kicking us off the park at all. Super, super through the last half an hour in
00:19:09
Michael
Yeah.
00:19:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
disrupting the flow of the game.
00:19:11
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:19:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
You sat in and and wondered how much of the last 30 minutes where the ball was actually not in play, because it was certainly a lot more than the seven that we got added on to at the end.
00:19:26
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I don't know.
00:19:26
Michael
Thankfully it was only seven.
00:19:26
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so fair fair play fair Fair play to Bournemouth.
00:19:32
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Anthony Gordon had a little bit of a stinker, Jacob Murphy, was he there?
00:19:35
Michael
Yeah.
00:19:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
it well Was he there, Jacob Murphy?
00:19:38
Michael
I wouldn't have thought so. Oh yeah, he's playing for Bournemouth.
00:19:39
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Don't let Joe hear you say that.
00:19:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
And and alex Alexander Isaac, well, they just choked off any supply to him at the source. I mean, he didn't go and hunt for it very much, but there again with what was going on in the midfield, I'm not surprised he steered clear of that because he's only got thin legs, hasn't he?
00:19:52
Michael
Nah.
00:19:58
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So yeah, Newcastle collectively a stinker. I know Joe
Substitutes and Squad Depth Concerns
00:20:02
Michael
Yeah.
00:20:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Willett came on because I saw the board being held up.
00:20:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think he played on the left.
00:20:05
Michael
No.
00:20:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Not that the ball went anywhere near him. Trippio and Shah were dreadful.
00:20:10
Nicola Pringle-Adams
No.
00:20:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Where was Louis Miley? Would he have changed it? Maybe?
00:20:16
Michael
I'm not sure because I think Ormuth do like to play sort of, they played around Armidfield more than anything, direct up towards the wingbacks and they didn't like to normally get on the ball that much, Gamara's either.
00:20:27
Michael
And when they did, you know, it was quite ineffective. Maybe Miley would have done something different. Maybe he would have brought something different to the game. But I think when you look at the way we played overall, it's going to take much more than one young lad, no matter how imp talented he is to
Future Fixtures and Optimism
00:20:41
Michael
have fixed that crock of mess that we had at the time.
00:20:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:43
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:20:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
You're right, Michael. I'm going to ask you to do the GSPN advert for us. And when we come back, we're going to talk positively about how insignificant a single defeat is in a 38-game season.
00:20:57
Michael
Oh yes.
00:20:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Let's let's look forward to to what effect it might have fired away.
00:21:05
Michael
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00:21:32
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Beautiful.
00:21:33
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And how many teams did they talk about?
00:21:36
Michael
Well, hopefully it's 19 and they've left Luke. In fact, 18, because they'd have to leave Bournemouth off as well, but I think they're covering the all 20.
00:21:42
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They're covering all of them, aren't they? All of them is is the answer.
00:21:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
So yes, so the end of, and let's be fair, let's let's try and start picking the positives out. We know how disappointed we are and how overconfident or maybe how emplacent.
00:21:55
Michael
Yeah.
00:22:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
We were going into that so that's match because we'd won nine on the bounce. So that's hopefully a big wake up call so that we don't ever get to that until we've won another nine on the bounce. That's a positive. But where does it leave us for the rest of the season? Nicola.
00:22:22
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I don't think we need to panic. We knew we were going to lose a football match at some point, and obviously it happened to be what I'm going to call our bogey team, Bournemouth, because we just seem to never perform well against them, or but I don't think we've won against them whilst Eddie's been in charge, have we?
00:22:40
Nicola Pringle-Adams
So I don't think we need to panic, I will say is um it's good that we've got that result out of our system to avoid
00:22:46
Michael
Yeah.
00:22:48
Nicola Pringle-Adams
like you say, any complacent issues further down the line because I'm going to argue that we're probably about to go into a very crucial part of our season. I'm not going to mention anything on that other than the fact that we've got another leg of the Carabao Cup and we're going into a very important time. and So I think it's good that we've got out of our system. All we need to do is dust ourselves off and we go again. Just don't look back and just crack on. There's no point of you know, focusing on what went wrong, it went wrong and just move on, learn from it, move on and take it into what we've got next, I'll stamp it away.
00:23:25
Michael
Yeah.
00:23:25
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Then we've got next and we'll just go on the next one.
00:23:26
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So I'm having the way, full of at home. Oh, so I'm in the way. And then, uh, then we're back at home against Arsenal in the Carabao Cup semi-final.
00:23:31
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yep.
00:23:33
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yes.
00:23:34
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And if ever we needed a Cup Cup pants to remind us that Arsenal could in theory, come and play us off the park and score more than two goals.
00:23:42
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Mm hmm.
00:23:44
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Bournemouth just showed how to win by three goals at St James's Park yesterday. So hopefully. So nobody will be reading what everybody was talking about on social media and in the papers that Newcastle have already there.
00:23:56
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Don't forget though, the caribou cut ball's different, so Michel Atetto will just blame that, so it's fine.
00:23:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know, that's true. That's true. I work at Ball is different.
00:24:03
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Different from the Premier League ball.
00:24:06
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Michael, you're not, you're not panicking, are you?
00:24:09
Michael
Not at all. I think the game I would compare it to the most was when Villa decimated us 3-0 in the season we finished fourth.
00:24:16
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Oh yeah.
00:24:19
Michael
And you know what we did after that? We beat Spurs 6-1. So Southampton put the big boy pants on. you're going to be terrified and you're going to lose 6-1, you're going to take a open and it's going to be an all round good time. We're going to go into Fulham, then we're going to rectify the 3-1 defeat we had earlier in the season and we're going to put the final nail in the coffin of Arsenal season. In fact, no, they've still got the Champions League. Yeah, you know what? Real Madrid can put the final nail in. We'll put the second final naal cough nail in the coffin and we'll go into the toughest run of the season, as confident as we possibly can.
Transfer Window Implications
00:24:59
Michael
and everything's gonna be dandy.
00:25:01
Nicola Pringle-Adams
absolutely really
00:25:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is that away at City, a home to Nottingham Forest, then away at Liverpool, I think, if memory serves?
00:25:07
Michael
Yeah, I'm not terrified for that at all. It's gonna be tough, but it's gonna be good.
00:25:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
We shouldn't be. and never We've never thrown a stinker in against one of the big teams, have we? Let's be honest. The disappointments this season and have come against West Ham, against Brighton, and and that wasn't a disappointing performance.
00:25:23
Michael
Yeah.
00:25:25
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That was just an amazing run of misfortune in front of goal.
00:25:31
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yep.
00:25:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Uh, and Bournemouth. So yeah. So, you know, I suppose we weren't very good when we lost at Chelsea, but you can lose to one at Chelsea and play really well as well. So that didn't, it wasn't quite so disappointing, not when we then beat them in the car about a cup, three days later, of course.
00:25:46
Nicola Pringle-Adams
No no.
00:25:47
Michael
Exactly.
00:25:47
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Excellent.
00:25:48
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Exactly.
00:25:48
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So, is there any implication on that result for the transfer window, which is still got two weeks to run.
00:26:01
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Michael.
00:26:02
Michael
Yeah parts of me and it's this is the brain talking saying we're probably not going to be able to bring many people in if anyone who could improve the squad. Now I don't listen to that very much. I tend to go more with the the heart but I think realistically you look at that and go we need another winger for when maybe Harvey Barnes is injured and we don't have that different style of player to bring on in the wings. Al Maron's leaving.
00:26:35
Michael
I don't think he would have made any difference to anything, whether he'd started or you know even was in his form of two years ago. I think Murphy and Gordon were so ineffective against Bournemouth that it just showed you need a winger for when they're off the boil.
00:26:49
Michael
They've been brilliant the last 10 games. Can't criticise them for how they've played this season. But when they're off the boil like that, you need someone.
00:26:54
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:26:58
Michael
dare I say it like an Alan Sir-Maxah man who literally put us on our his shoulders against Bournemouth a few times back in the day when they had worse managers than her aiola and you know could drive us to a result. I don't think we really have anyone who isn't starting who can do that at the minute.
00:27:17
Michael
well you buy one of those plans, it's gonna cost you 50 million. So I don't think anything for the the winter window, I think it just, it's a reminder that we should be looking at targets, we should be getting scouting network out there.
00:27:31
Michael
We already have, let's be honest, but maybe we just need to look for something that's just a little bit different to what we have.
00:27:31
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah.
00:27:38
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah.
00:27:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
I agree with you, Michael, except I don't agree with you. I mean, surely these scouts have had a big summit this weekend, haven't they? All the Newcastle scouts. I mean, they must all have lists and lists and lists of players that they've been watching. And there must be people in there that they can go and get for the same as we're getting in for Miggie, for example. And then it's a free bet. But also, what about the loan market? That doesn't cost very much other than wages, does it? What do you think, Nicola?
00:28:08
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Oh, the transfer window literally gives me anxiety. I'm not going to lie, having to talk about it because we don't know the state that Newcastle is in. As in by that, I mean, I know we're not in a financial state, but obviously you've got all the regulations and you don't know if you're going to break them or not. I think what yesterday did highlight and what I do agree with Michael on is It kind of highlighted our, I wouldn't say squad depth as such, but like our rotation.
00:28:36
Nicola Pringle-Adams
So like when he brought the subs on, they made little to no impact whatsoever. Whereas we really, and it is the right-hand side.
00:28:41
Michael
Yeah.
00:28:44
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I keep repeating myself and I'm absolutely sick of repeating myself and I'm sure the listeners are as well. But it, games like yesterday highlight how weak that what right-hand side is. And yeah, I totally agree with Michael.
00:28:56
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I don't think poor Miggy, bless him, would have made any difference and you probably have made the game worse, to be honest. I'm going to put that out there. But yeah, I think to think Miggie's time is completely done now with Newcastle.
00:29:07
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Bless him. So yeah, I think it does highlight um fact that we do need to be out there and get in a right winger particularly. What frustrates me the most is that we've been talking about a right winger now, what we're talking maybe a year, a year and a half, two years, maybe?
00:29:21
Nicola Pringle-Adams
I don't know. It's been quite a while.
00:29:22
Michael
Yeah, in a while.
00:29:23
Nicola Pringle-Adams
And yet we're now in the January 2025 transfer window. and we're still talking about a right-winger. I don't understand the hold-up. Well, I do understand the hold-up, but I'm almost like, grieve you, Ian, these scouts, they would be giving names forward every day, every week, every weekend. Why aren't we bringing anyone in? Even if it is until the end of the season on a loan deal, there shouldn't be any sort of restriction there. I don't know. I don't know how, well, I do know how it works, but I'm not sure what's involved in the finer print, so yeah.
00:29:55
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Well, there are big players out there for, you know, 10, 12, 15 million. That Bournemouth
Conclusion and Lessons Learned
00:30:01
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sent a half. hu He was 15 million, wasn't he? I think.
00:30:07
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The villa just picked up, well, the villa just picked up a winger that we've had on our list for a year or two.
00:30:07
Michael
Probably about 40, 50 now, isn't he?
00:30:07
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah
00:30:09
Michael
He's been incredible.
00:30:09
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yesterday
00:30:16
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah
00:30:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't think they paid more than 20 million for him. Do you know Marlin? where How much was that deal?
00:30:20
Michael
Yeah, it was it was twenty plus I think it was 20 million plus add-ons. But what I'll add with Marlin as well is there's a reason Dortmund are no longer playing him. Because his biggest asset is his pace and his finishing on the right for a right winger.
00:30:33
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah. After yesterday.
00:30:37
Michael
And he hasn't been really supplying that for Dortmund at the minute. Now, whether he does for Villa or not, could turn around. But I generally don't think that'll be a great sign. and But for 20 million, it's worth the risk.
00:30:48
Michael
I do agree. There are some players out.
00:30:48
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Three roles. This is what I mean. This just refreshes the squad, even if they don't get on the pitch to be bringing one or two and new players into the squad in January.
00:30:55
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:30:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Anyway, we should leave it there. There's still two weeks. I've got my fingers crossed that they can find some change down the back of the treatment table allows them to go into the transfer market and bring one or two new faces in.
00:31:11
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:31:11
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we certainly looked like we needed a good refresh sitting through that debacle.
00:31:17
Nicola Pringle-Adams
and
00:31:17
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yesterday.
00:31:18
Michael
Yeah.
00:31:18
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It wasn't a debacle. Bournemouth just played very, very, very well. I'm very impressed with them. Anyway, thank God we haven't got to play them until next season.
00:31:25
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Me too. Just a blip.
00:31:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Unless we get them in the FA Cup, don't think about it. I'm going to call time there. Thank you very much indeed for discussing that. It wasn't as painful as I thought it was going to be.
00:31:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you very much, Nicola. Thank you very much, Michael. Thanks. All you Geordie fans out there across the world. I hope we haven't depressed you too much, but we'll be back. We'll be back to talk about our game against Southampton later in the weekend year. That's where we win 6-1 according to Michael.
00:31:58
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Come on.