[Stoptalkingbol]

Clubber Lang should’ve been loaned to Dover not Smith. Ditched our only decent full back because he’s under 6 foot. Shameful.

[azul]

Spire-Power, on 22 September 2018 - 07:58 PM, said:

He had the ball down the left with 20 yards to run forward and lazily gave a 50-50 pass down the line that went out of play. He didn't look interested


Agree. The winner Smith looked useless

Was Smith described as a “winner” thought he was described as “frustrating” he certainly was useless and I’ll add disinterested

Bring back Jack McCourt

[Nitrous Oxide]

NOFX, on 22 September 2018 - 06:51 PM, said:

When the manager calls the teams fitness into question, you have to ask what the heck they do for training. And that’s the managers fault

They really aren’t a good advert for this Herbalife stuff they keep singing the praises of. At the start of the season MA jokingly offered a chance for a fan to win a hill training session in the Peak District with the team. Maybe he backed out of following through because he knew they were all heartless carthorses. Stealing a wage today. Still can’t believe he took Reid off and left JBW on.

[jack bauer]

bucko, on 22 September 2018 - 07:52 PM, said:

I would rather the young lads be given a chance, like a Levi, Rawson, the right back Iffy, where’s the young lad in centre midfield , Wakefield. Give these lads a go , at least they would have a go , not like the sh*t that’s been assembled thus far.

absolutely why not, the so called senior players are proving they are not up to it, I've not seen much of our youth players from the bits I have seen I do like levi, wakefield has never yet convinced me, as for iffy got to be worth a go at right back, it was sad to watch drew today in that 1st half

[DIFH]

kopblue, on 22 September 2018 - 05:27 PM, said:

You think he was our worst player?

Oh yes....

[DIFH]

bucko, on 22 September 2018 - 07:52 PM, said:

I would rather the young lads be given a chance, like a Levi, Rawson, the right back Iffy, where’s the young lad in centre midfield , Wakefield. Give these lads a go , at least they would have a go , not like the sh*t that’s been assembled thus far.

They'd be gobbled up in this league.

[Blue roan lily]

jack bauer, on 22 September 2018 - 09:02 PM, said:

absolutely why not, the so called senior players are proving they are not up to it, I've not seen much of our youth players from the bits I have seen I do like levi, wakefield has never yet convinced me, as for iffy got to be worth a go at right back, it was sad to watch drew today in that 1st half

It was sad watching Drew today Jack. Even he looked frustrated on how **** he was. Its probs time Drew. You've been a great lad for the club but it's time to call it a day.

DIFH, on 22 September 2018 - 09:16 PM, said:

They'd be gobbled up in this league.

They would

[jack bauer]

pulling this thread off topic slightly here's our squad contract list copied from another thread, looking at those OOC at the end of this season, keep hines (even after today) bye bye everyone else and lets just hope we stay up this season


2018/2019 Season (Updated start of season 2018)

OOL; Dodds (full PV), Ugwu (full BW), Wakefield (SFC), Ofoegbu (SFC)

Loan in; Hollis (Jan), Burton (gk) (Jan), Smith (Jan), Kayode (Oct)

OOC Jan 2019; Ofoegbu

OOC 2019; Dodds, Barry, Anyon (gk), Ugwu, Wakefield, Binnom-Williams, Maguire, Hines, Weir, Nelson, Weston, Talbot, Muggleton (2nd yr option), Fortune, Reid

OOC 2020; Jalal (gk), Wedgbury, Evans, Shaw, Carter (3rd yr option), Denton

OOC 2021; Rowley

[Brimington Barry]

lindave, on 22 September 2018 - 05:33 PM, said:

He gave fans the dead eye as he walked in the tunnel when they were shouting no passion. Midfield and defence garbage again, where is the leader in the team.George Smith should be called back from Dover and given a proper chance. All BW did today was dead eye the fans at the end as he walked into the tunnel Another shocking display to match the last 2 years. Gateshead were a credit to football, no time wasting for the first time this season. They should have won by more well done Scot Boden.

JBW threw up his hands in frustration at one stage in the first half, but then he seemed ineffective the entire match: didn't deliver the ball into the box with any real quality. I thought Gateshead played the wings very well today and their goals came down those channels IIRC: the second was good enough for a league 1 or 2 fixture.

Baz

[Brimington Barry]

lindave, on 22 September 2018 - 05:33 PM, said:

He gave fans the dead eye as he walked in the tunnel when they were shouting no passion. Midfield and defence garbage again, where is the leader in the team.George Smith should be called back from Dover and given a proper chance. All BW did today was dead eye the fans at the end as he walked into the tunnel Another shocking display to match the last 2 years. Gateshead were a credit to football, no time wasting for the first time this season. They should have won by more well done Scot Boden.

Gateshead attacked from first to last and didn't do the corner flag routine at all, it seemed to me. It might have been different if they were defending a narrow lead with say, one minute to play.

In truth, they had 3 and could have grabbed 4 or 5.

Baz

[dtp]

Nitrous Oxide, on 22 September 2018 - 09:02 PM, said:

Still can’t believe he took Reid off and left JBW on.

Did you see how quickly Reid got back to help defend after his pathetic attempted back-heel led to their goal?

Neither Reid nor JBW put in a decent cross in the entire game but Reid probably put in less poor crosses and whilst JBW did enter their penalty area I don't think Reid, from a position further up the pitch, ever did.

[dim view]

dtp, on 23 September 2018 - 08:50 AM, said:

Did you see how quickly Reid got back to help defend after his pathetic attempted back-heel led to their goal?

Neither Reid nor JBW put in a decent cross in the entire game but Reid probably put in less poor crosses and whilst JBW did enter their penalty area I don't think Reid, from a position further up the pitch, ever did.

Well I personally thought JBW was MOM with a 4 out of 10. He is, unfortunately, clueless with his final ball but he made some good runs especially first half when the only danger came down the left. The RHS of which Drew is such an important cog did three fifths of nowt.


He's got to play Weir, Rowley, and Carter in midfield.

[Spire-Heights]

dim view, on 23 September 2018 - 09:00 AM, said:

Well I personally thought JBW was MOM with a 4 out of 10. He is, unfortunately, clueless with his final ball but he made some good runs especially first half when the only danger came down the left. The RHS of which Drew is such an important cog did three fifths of nowt.


He's got to play Weir, Rowley, and Carter in midfield.

So he’s going to play Wier, a player he wants gone - And not play Weston who’s ever present and scored Two goals (our 2nd top goal scorer).

If he does this, he’s 100% lost the plot.

PS. I think Drew’s legs have finally given up on him.

This post has been edited by Spire-Heights: 23 September 2018 - 09:06 AM

[clarevoyant.]

Spire-Heights, on 23 September 2018 - 09:05 AM, said:

So he’s going to play Wier, a player he wants gone - And not play Weston who’s ever present and scored Two goals (our 2nd top goal scorer).

If he does this, he’s 100% lost the plot.

PS. I think Drew’s legs have finally given up on him.

Weston did not look fit, whoever decided to play (risk) him deserves a good talking to by CPS

[Spire-Heights]

clarevoyant., on 23 September 2018 - 09:10 AM, said:

Weston did not look fit

He’s not alone with that, is he.

[Chewy]

azul, on 22 September 2018 - 07:09 PM, said:

The cross that he put out for a goal kick after one of the few half decent moves was a show stopper - how did he manage to do that

Which was Caught expertly by me in the KOP. Solid goalkeeping

[Ernie Ernie Ernie]

Spire-Heights, on 23 September 2018 - 09:05 AM, said:

So he’s going to play Wier, a player he wants gone - And not play Weston who’s ever present and scored Two goals (our 2nd top goal scorer).

If he does this, he’s 100% lost the plot.

PS. I think Drew’s legs have finally given up on him.

I’d say legs feet and head. It’s worrying when you look at the low lights of the match than JBW was involved of the little we offered. Obviously it doesn’t show all the times he kicked it with his slicer foot but nevertheless he was involved

[DIFH]

Spire-Heights, on 23 September 2018 - 09:12 AM, said:

He’s not alone with that, is he.

He did retire early after the injury, looks like a lot of em are playing with knocks.

[warfey is a spireite]

Chewy, on 23 September 2018 - 09:17 AM, said:

Which was Caught expertly by me in the KOP. Solid goalkeeping

Just missed knocking hot drink out me hand hadn't got u down as a keeper chew lol

[Sammy Spireite]

NOFX, on 22 September 2018 - 06:51 PM, said:

When the manager calls the teams fitness into question, you have to ask what the heck they do for training. And that’s the managers fault

I posted on here a month or so ago that several senior players had questioned MA on his lack of fitness work in training, citing that for our then habit of conceeding late goals.

Ut doesn't seem like anything has changed.