 Anyway, looking, starting to look at those two games, a big game this weekend, a very big game, Manchester City versus Newcastle, FA Cup quarter-final, how are we feeling? I'm in a weird position because obviously the last game we played against Liverpool, but when I think around that was big and stepping up and we had to... I feel like we said that a lot this season. I felt like we had to win that game and we didn't see City anywhere near our best or anywhere near a version of our best. So now we're going to this game, I don't want to just recycle that same speech of we need to be at our best. I know Newcastle aren't really doing well at the moment, they're having a bit of a wobble, they got beat off Chelsea the other day. I think that being knocked out, I think it's going to be a really difficult game, really difficult. Yeah, I also don't want to re-up that speech because it feels like we've won, it feels like one that was said repetitively. Singing the same tune all the time. Having said that, this is a big game. Huge game and we need to get up for it. Yeah, it's true though, it's just true, we do need to get up for this game. It goes without saying at this point. I feel like we don't need to say it because it goes without saying it. It's an FA Cup quarter-final, it's a chance to win a major trophy. At this point in the season, I kind of feel like it might have a positive effect on other parts of our season, i.e. the Premier League and the Champions League. If we can push on and get to a semi-final, everything adds together. Psychologically, you get through another round of a Cup, it puts you in a positive mindset. Newcastle not in the best of form, that's one I guess positive for us. You just kind of said it does it go out of the window with it being a Cup, but it does form go completely out of the window with it being an FA Cup. I don't know. I think Dab is like I always say yeah on that, so and that feels like a one-off game always, like could you isolate it? I think this is a one-off game that'll be isolated. I think I've said Eddie Hall want to do bits in this. I mean, fortunately we've been on the right side of Eddie Hall's career, like obviously when he was at Bournemouth and then but with Newcastle, I feel like there's a lot of draws creeping in there recently. A few draws, yeah. And we can't draw this game. Not physically possible. Is it from the quarters onwards then it goes to extra time panels? Couldn't tell you, couldn't tell you with all the new formats now. I can't basically, I can't remember if they scrapped the replays from quarter finals onwards or not. I'm pretty sure they've scrapped replays. It's not like the Carabao Cup where it just goes straight to pens. It's extra time on pens. Extra times on pens, yeah. So there's a percentage of that happening, but someone's got to win. And I think it'll go all out for it. Like I say, just got beat off Chelsea not having a good time. Yeah. Needs to just go for it. They need to, do you know how we were saying like the wounded animal kind of thing? The wrong times we're playing Manchester cities when we've just been beat or just dropped points because we'll want to bounce back. Like I think they'll be in that kind of frame of mind as well. Well, the one thing that I would say is kind of feel like for Newcastle, their season rests on this in a weird way. They're not finishing top four. It doesn't like finishing in the European places at all with the way things are going. They've got a long, long injury list. So it is proper not their year. I saw a quote the other day. I can't remember who it was. It might have been Jamie Carger who said it looks like Newcastle are ready for their season to end. Like they're begging for it now. They're like, oh, we just want this to be over. Well, the injury list just keeps getting bigger. Obviously they're not getting the results for them. It's just stopped the count. Yeah. So their only hope now of counting this season as a success is like, I'd say get into an FA Cup final in an FA Cup. Not that I'm going to say it's a complete failure. Three years ago, obviously Newcastle were in a much worse situation, but with their expectations of the fans and sort of what Eddie Howe's built now, they want to be competing for European places. That doesn't seem to be sort of the outcome that we're going to get this season. Yeah. They want to have a really strong squad. I've got a lot of injuries going on. Obviously the Carabao Cup's been and gone. Like it will mean a lot to them this weekend. And I'm not saying it won't towards, but I'm just putting it in the perspective of for Newcastle, if I'm trying to think of, well, where's the bite for the enemy? Like what did they, what's the jeopardy for them in this game? Cup games are always important, but maybe sometimes when you season completely rest on it, it's a bit more important. Mean more, again. It means more. It means more, I see it. You know, but who knows? I mean, what are your, I won't go as far as say predictions at this point, like in terms of score. But from what you saw at the weekend, are you feeling like City will bounce straight back? I mean, I'd like to hope so. I'd like to hope that we can put in a more controlling performance, a performance that is more like City. That's the other word that we've thrown about. Or control, control. I'm sick of begging for control. But just a more City-like performance is what I'd expect from City after that. Because the Liverpool game was not like City at all. The only thing that you could say it's like City is that we, yeah, again, have not won at Anfield. The rest of it was very consistent. Yeah, that's very consistent. The rest of it just was not City-like. You know what I mean? We didn't dominate the ball. In nothing that we're used to seeing. I think against Newcastle, I think City will really want to retain that, bring that back, start to play our own pace. Last time we played Newcastle, we've seen, I think they'll try to settle very similar. They'll be doing then balls over the top, like to Esaq and Anthony God, and they'll try, basically, that kind of blueprint. Which worked, it worked. Yeah, it worked. Obviously, I know, we was away with three points, so Oscar Bob last-minute winner. Just about. But just about, like you say. So, I just think they'll set up the same, they can't attack us, and I think we'll get a lot of the ball. But I just hope we kind of showed up a little bit more for another Liverpool game, because Liverpool just, it wasn't it. And I think City had a shot for ages. Yeah, it was bad. I want to say that's it. You're going to win. So you're going to win. I back us. I'm manifesting it. It's, after a performance like Liverpool, kind of feels like you're reaching to them, knowing as to like, it kind of feels like you're reaching into a magician's hat and you don't know what you're going to pull out with City. Yeah. It's sometimes, we've seen it in the past, where we've had results like that Liverpool game, and not even necessarily the results, just like the actual game itself, where we weren't in control, where we have a real off day, where we have a bit of a stinker. And then the next game, we come back and we fire on all cylinders. And we've also had games where that then carries on. So it's like, I really don't know what we're going to get. I genuinely feel like it could go one of two ways. Yeah. I agree with you. I agree with that. It's, we are reaching to the unknown in this. Previous season, you look at it and go, yeah, we'll bounce back. Oh, yeah, yeah. This season is just so, you sit in last podcast. Inconsistent. Yeah. We're just going from loads of different games, all the time. You don't know where we're at. You don't know where we stand. Even when we're going to a good run of form, we're going like on a winning run or anything. We didn't get a weird result. You still don't really know where we're at yet. You don't know if we're at our best. I thought for us a couple of weeks ago, the Luton game was the turning point. I was free flowing football. That's some of the best football. That's the best football. That is the best football I've seen from us. It was sort of the movement. Everything, everything just clicked into place. Yeah. And we spoke about the time. Yes, you can say it's Luton, but like the movement off the ball was just incredible. It was the best I've seen this play this season. And when I saw that game, I thought, this is it. This is where we click into gear. And then we had that first half against United. It wasn't terrible per se, but it was just a bit less fluid. And I was like, okay, well, we still came away with a win. The second half performance was decent, but it wasn't as good as the Luton game, but it is United. It's diabetes. So it's a one off. So who knows? And we have the Liverpool game. And I go, oh, no, we're back to being rubbish again. But like, Liverpool was like rock bottom rubbish. Just like inconsistently terrible and not have any idea what's happening and a man city looking like they're Bolton Wanderers in 2013 and just knocking the ball up the pitch constantly. Yeah. Bolton there for some reason. Just the first team I came into my head. Full shade after half a minute. Yeah. Nearly went to a game the other day. I know we did. We did. We did win when we were gonna have to go to one. Also, the home form is impeccable at the moment. Is it? Yeah, yeah. You did win last night? Yeah, yeah. For you, man. Could have been there. I literally see it before I was like, for you, man. Yeah. Yeah. So I think we'll get the win. I don't want to be the guy to say it again, but I just hope that it is the start of us knocking some form, but actually it won't be because we'll have the international break then anyway. So let's just end on a positive note before the international break is my opinion. Get the win. Yeah. Get through to the semi-finals and then we can worry about all the final third of the season. Yeah. You can worry about the running then. We can worry about that after the international break. Yeah, exactly. See what plays come back. Hopefully they all come back injury-free, but see how we turn up after the international break. See who's fit. Then we can look ahead as to Arsenal and then just like really focus on that and the rest of the season and then just try and figure out where we go from there.