Pod On The Tyne: an independent NUFC podcast

Imperfect Ten: An NUFC health check

We're ten games into the new Premier League season, ten games into 'Newcastle 2.0', ten games into Matthias Jaissle's tenure. So, how is it going? We have our thermometer

Matchday, Fulham (a): the point of an arrow

Newcastle United travelled to Fulham for a Premier League Saturday 3pm kick-off and put in an improved performance from the twin disasters against Everton. "Some mean fea

What is Jaissle's Newcastle plan? Is this a relegation battle?

Last week we tried to think of a few ways Matthias Jaissle could repair his strategy and tactics to build on an ugly win at Crystal Palace. Seven days later, so chaotic a

Everton and... Everton again! Jaissle's next test

Jacob Whitehead returns to the pod for our preview of Everton week; a double header against a club who, like Newcastle, sit just outside the real battle for honours right

Matchday: Palace (a), Experience the difference

Matthias Jaissle's Newcastle United headed to Selhurst Park in, if not desperate need of a result, then pretty close. Chris and George set off early to compare horrific v

How do you fix Newcastle United?

Three defeats in four Premier League matches for Newcastle United and fans are quite quickly getting restless. Why have tempers started to flare already? There's no doubt

Matchday, Aston Villa (h): Manzambi inevitable, Newcastle inexplicable

Newcastle United followed up the Premier League loss at Coventry with another against Villa at home; a much stronger opposition, it's true, but this was no less worrying.

Newcastle 'self-thrashed': how can Jaissle combat the chaos?

Newcastle United away from home in the Premier League on a Monday night is becoming the stuff of nightmares. A second consecutive 4-1 defeat in such a fixture, the match

Sent to Coventry... NUFC back in Premier League action

It's been 84 years... OK, it's only been two and a bit weeks, but it feels like an age since the last Premier League game. In that time, Lewis Hall has established himsel

Knox Knox: ‘Matty Ice’ hosts NUFC charm offensive

It's the international break but the number one story in football, nay sport, is a Premier League story, and it's not good. Luckily, it's not Newcastle, but the whole div

Flirting with Jaissle (ball): Vertical Newcastle, expectation and reality

The Daily Telegraph's Luke Edwards stands in for George Caulkin as we reach the first international break of the season, and it's a long one! Luckily, Newcastle got their

Matchday: Hull (h), the kids are alright

Newcastle made a lightning start as they looked to correct the wrongs of Monday night's humbling at Leeds. 2-0 up in the first ten minutes, they had chances (including a

Newcastle battered at Leeds: panic stations?

Monday night was officially chastening for Matthias Jaissle and his young Newcastle United squad as Leeds gave them the full Wetherby Whaler treatment. With quite a few i

Newcastle vault Millwall into Carabao 4th Round

Matthias Jaissle named a near-full-strength team for the Carabao Cup third round tie at Millwall and, with the opponents suffering an injury crisis, smooth passage was ex

Matchday: Bournemouth (h), a glass half and half a glass

Newcastle United, even when they are flying, don't tend to beat Bournemouth, so perhaps a draw should be viewed as a positive result. Certainly, with Marco Rose's Cherrie

Terminal Velocity: NUFC Transfer Deadline Review

Pod on the Tyne brings you an exhaustive review of Newcastle United's transfer business on Premier League deadline day. A few weeks ago, fans were tearing their hair out

Matchday, Spurs (a): Plus ca change...

Had Tottenham's headline midfield signing been aware of the midweek PotT debacle that was "Sand-no Tott-nali" he must surely have thought things couldn't get any worse fo

Nico Time: Gonzalez joins Jaissle's NUFC 2.0

Here we are then, the first* epic-length Pod on the Tyne of the Youtube era. Newcastle United beat West Bromwich Albion in the Carabao Cup 2nd Round on Wednesday night in

Matchday: Liverpool (h), King Kev and ****s

Sunday afternoon at St James's Park, it's the return of the Premier League, it's the return of football, it's the return of George's literary diversions; this time, the d

Season Preview: Optimism, Signings, & Captain Burn

Here we go, then. Newcastle United 2.0 will be a reality when Liverpool come calling this weekend and the rubber will hit the road... better that than the 5**t hitting th