Hello and welcome to Anfield Extra at the Liverpool Review Podcast with me Neil Jones.

No Andy Kelly today, he's tied to his desk, not literally unfortunately, but he's there

working away as ever during the international break so

instead I have with me James Pierce full time of the pool correspondent home and away

how are you James very good thank you Good and special guests with us completing the carpool trio from the

Newcastle of the weekends. We have a former Liverpool defender Jim Begglin, Jim. Plede pleasure to have you on the show.

It's nice to be here now. Yeah, absolutely.

Absolutely. As we say, we share the car home from Newcastle on Sunday night and

a pretty bleak drive and a pretty bleak game to look back on.

It was, I think there's another two points dropped.

Newcastle will say it's a point one for them, but now I think it's another two that I've slipped away from Liverpool

and it's unfortunately the subject that everybody is talking about at the moment and we all wish we weren't

just unable to kind of back up what they're doing going

forward. I mean there's still some very good work been done going one way and

there's a kind of a weakness now that seems to have slipped in at the other end.

And the worry for me now is that, you know, even if a good run is put together down the line,

whether this is going to continue to undermine things.

And my fear is that it's not going to be correct at any time soon.

Yeah.

James, I mean, we've discussed a few times on the podcast in in recent weeks but the hope

that Liverpool started the season with and the hope that people are at the back end

the last season it just

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