(18 Jan 2015, 10:47 pm)aureolin wrote @MrFozz - Try watching the Dutch league. You won't be disappointed.

The only Non-English Football I can watch is El Clasico or the Old Firm Derbies, and UEFA Games...

Most people I talk rave about the Bundesliga

What a terrible penalty by Mirallas - he should have let Baines take it - and now he has been replaced.

FA Trophy Update - Their will be a precautionary pitch inspection (1pm) at Gateshead International Stadium ahead of tomorrow's FA Trophy 2nd Round Tie between Gateshead FC and Grimsby Town. Kick off is at 7:45pm if the match goes ahead. The Tynesiders are currently 12th in the Vanarama Conference with The Marriners sat in 4th spot. The two sides have met twice already this season. With Grimsby winning 6-1 at Gateshead Stadium and a 0-0 stalemate at Blundell Park a week ago.

(20 Jan 2015, 10:25 pm)leestransportphotos wrote FA Trophy Update - Their will be a precautionary pitch inspection (1pm) at Gateshead International Stadium ahead of tomorrow's FA Trophy 2nd Round Tie between Gateshead FC and Grimsby Town. Kick off is at 7:45pm if the match goes ahead. The Tynesiders are currently 12th in the Vanarama Conference with The Marriners sat in 4th spot. The two sides have met twice already this season. With Grimsby winning 6-1 at Gateshead Stadium and a 0-0 stalemate at Blundell Park a week ago.

Ya aint gonna have the problems you had a few years are ya, that was a farce having to play games in places like Boston...More proof a new stadium is needed

Haha, with the snow being so constant it can't be helped. We got groundsman of the year last season so it can't be that bad lol

(21 Jan 2015, 7:29 am)leestransportphotos wrote Haha, with the snow being so constant it can't be helped. We got groundsman of the year last season so it can't be that bad lol

Is the groundsman a divine man, goes by the name of God, from what I have heard about that pitch, it is shocking...The Groundsman must be good

FA Trophy Update - Tonight's FA Trophy 2nd Round Replay tie between Gateshead and Grimsby will go ahead after The Gateshead International Stadium pitch passed a precautionary pitch inspection. Kick off is at 7:45pm.

(21 Jan 2015, 4:19 pm)leestransportphotos wrote FA Trophy Update - Tonight's FA Trophy 2nd Round Replay tie between Gateshead and Grimsby will go ahead after The Gateshead International Stadium pitch passed a precautionary pitch inspection. Kick off is at 7:45pm.

At last!

Hopefully the adventures and A1 have annoyed Grimsby to the point they just want to go home.
Can't see a repeat of the August score, hopefully one similar to that Sunday afternoon in the sun!

edit: Apart from Danny Wright yesterday, Lewis Guy has also gone.

Half Time - Gateshead 1-1 Grimsby

Into Extra Time at Gateshead Stadium, the score is 2-2

Full time from Gateshead International Stadium, Gateshead 3-2 Grimsby Town. An extra time goal from subsitute Jon Shaw sealed a spot in the 3rd Round v Wrexham on Saturday!

(21 Jan 2015, 10:31 pm)leestransportphotos wrote Full time from Gateshead International Stadium, Gateshead 3-2 Grimsby Town. An extra time goal from subsitute Jon Shaw sealed a spot in the 3rd Round v Wrexham on Saturday!

Wooo

(21 Jan 2015, 10:31 pm)leestransportphotos wrote Full time from Gateshead International Stadium, Gateshead 3-2 Grimsby Town. An extra time goal from subsitute Jon Shaw sealed a spot in the 3rd Round v Wrexham on Saturday!

Nice one...hope ya go one step further than ya did in 2011...Northern teams done well in the trophy lately, us in 2011, York not long after, hopefully Heed can have a good run, Wrexham wont be easy though

(22 Jan 2015, 4:05 am)MrFozz wrote Nice one...hope ya go one step further than ya did in 2011...Northern teams done well in the trophy lately, us in 2011, York not long after, hopefully Heed can have a good run, Wrexham wont be easy though

Hopefully another away draw and victory at the stadium.

Didn't think there would be a similar score, nor them ending with a player or two down.
How wrong could I be!

(22 Jan 2015, 11:22 am)Andreos1 wrote Hopefully another away draw and victory at the stadium.

Didn't think there would be a similar score, nor them ending with a player or two down.
How wrong could I be!

You going down to Wrexham for the mate...

Would it not be better to go all out for the win, avoid the need for a replay, the pitch at the Int'l Stadium is bad enough

The pitch isn't that bad.

Mills wants it fresh for the passing game he has them playing. If it was that poor, they couldn't do that.

No, won't be going to Wrexham. Family calls. Mind, wouldn't fancy sitting on a coach there and back.

(22 Jan 2015, 8:32 pm)Andreos1 wrote The pitch isn't that bad.

Mills wants it fresh for the passing game he has them playing. If it was that poor, they couldn't do that.

No, won't be going to Wrexham. Family calls. Mind, wouldn't fancy sitting on a coach there and back.

I was going by the last few years e.g. 2 years ago when home games we played at places like Hartlepool and Boston and having to even play a game at Filtrona Park on one occasion quite a while back...The pitch is an awful one and, I could piss on it and waterlog the pitch...

leestransportphotos mentioned the other day the groundsmen won an award, so that sounds good

Quite a few Gateshead fans have recently came in for quite a bit of stick recently, mainly for 'not being passionate enough' and apparently being 'Toon supporters in disguise'..... So here's a clip of the Super Heed Army at West Brom

(22 Jan 2015, 10:08 pm)leestransportphotos wrote Quite a few Gateshead fans have recently came in for quite a bit of stick recently, mainly for 'not being passionate enough' and apparently being 'Toon supporters in disguise'..... So here's a clip of the Super Heed Army at West Brom

I can understand Gateshead getting grief, a lot of Gateshead are probably Newcastle and Sunderland fans primarily. I also can see the lack of passion argument, look at the average attendances from recent years


2013-2014: 886
2012-2013: 502
2011-2012: 843

Although it has picked up this season with an average of 1281, which is close to Darlingtons attendances and we are 3 divisions below you...

As for the passion at West Brom, how many will actually go to a lot of games back at home, going by the average about 25% will go on a regular basis...

Another thing about Gateshead, they turned Professional in 2010, how come, because attendances up to this season was never close to 1,000, the only I logical answer is, your being bankrolled by your sugar daddy chairman, as attendances do not justify the need to be pro

There was only 1,300 at West Brom.... So pretty much all of them

(23 Jan 2015, 7:33 am)leestransportphotos wrote There was only 1,300 at West Brom.... So pretty much all of them

Ah right...I thought more would have went to Birmingham that day mate given the ticket allocation you could have had.

My point still stands though about people who give Gateshead grief about being having no passion, the stats back that up...

I hope Gateshead go to the next level, there average this season is not too bad considering there next door neighbours are Newcastle, near neighbours to Sunderland and have to fight with Darlington, Whitley Bay, Blyth, Spennymoor for fans.

I really look forward to the day when a division contains Darlington, Gateshead and Hartlepool, hopefully League 2, but will settle for the Conference

Them stats don't reflect the passion that the fans have. A lot of people seem to think we just sit their in silence, but the last two seasons have been wonderful in terms of chanting etc. Where about's did you get them from? Because last season our average was 998.

Personally I feel the 12/13 attendance of 502 is unbelievable considering we played our home games at Middlesbourgh, Boston, Blyth, York, Carlsile and Barrow.

(23 Jan 2015, 9:52 am)leestransportphotos wrote Them stats don't reflect the passion that the fans have. A lot of people seem to think we just sit their in silence, but the last two seasons have been wonderful in terms of chanting etc. Where about's did you get them from? Because last season our average was 998.

Personally I feel the 12/13 attendance of 502 is unbelievable considering we played our home games at Middlesbourgh, Boston, Blyth, York, Carlsile and Barrow.

I will give you that, 12/13 was good considering the problems, those people who travelled to the arse end of nowhere are hardcore...

I got the stats from the football ground guide, I am guessing the figure is league games only, take off the Grimsby play off game and the figure is probably lower than the 998 you say, I will have a look about see if I can back up what I have found myself

The stats I provided above are for League Games, so the 8k for the Grimsby Play-Off game is not included...

You only had 2 League games last season were more than 1,000 turned out, v Luton(1,080) and Cambridge(2,916).

But I must say, fair play to Gateshead, not many clubs will be able to say they have increased attendances by around 50%, take the next step and who knows what could happen...I still reckon a new ground will cause a jump in attendance

What kind of attendances do Gateshead need to break-even, I know at Darlington, somewhere round 1,000 is our break-even point, but our attendance has dropped from 1300 to 1100 to just over 1000 this season...

check out non-League matters top 250 attendance table
[url=http://www.nonleaguematters.co.uk/global/attendances/[/url]

North East non-League is doing well with 5 teams in the top 100

20th Gateshead with 1,281
26th Darlington with 1,024
42nd Spennymoor with 624
66th Blyth with 449
94th Whitley Bay with 355

Got to admit, the atmosphere has got better at Gateshead over the past few seasons, noticeably over the course of the last 12/18 months.

Historically, they have always lived in the shadows, it is only natural, given the clubs location and league situation.

If you compare the situation to other urban areas, like Manchester, West Yorkshire etc, you can see similar patterns. The more popular clubs are the ones in the higher echelons - Leeds, Bradford, Halifax. Man Utd, Man City, Stockport etc Newcastle, Sunderland, Gateshead.
It is similar in London too. In all four corners of the city.

(23 Jan 2015, 10:42 am)Andreos1 wrote Got to admit, the atmosphere has got better at Gateshead over the past few seasons, noticeably over the course of the last 12/18 months.

Historically, they have always lived in the shadows, it is only natural, given the clubs location and league situation.

If you compare the situation to other urban areas, like Manchester, West Yorkshire etc, you can see similar patterns. The more popular clubs are the ones in the higher echelons - Leeds, Bradford, Halifax. Man Utd, Man City, Stockport etc Newcastle, Sunderland, Gateshead.
It is similar in London too. In all four corners of the city.

Here is a question Andreos...I am not looking for an argument or anything, just a bit of a history lesson...

In May everybody was raving on about Gatesheads 44 year absence from the League...

My question is this

Can the Gateshead we know today be considered to be the same Gateshead who dumped out of the League back in the 60's given what has gone since, going bust in the 70's and merging with South Shields(for the 2nd time) in the mid 70's...I was just wondering what people thought about it, or is it when people refer to the years out of the league, they refer to the Town of Gateshead rather than Gateshead Football Club...

Your thoughts please

No idea, suppose everyone will have their own view.

Trying to think of similar examples and I suppose the most obvious one is Wimbledon or Darlington.
They ain't the same club in the sense that Newcastle or Sunderland are, but represent the people of Wimbledon or Darlington.

Reckon you could compare it loosely to some bands. Totally different, in all but name. 

(23 Jan 2015, 10:56 am)Andreos1 wrote No idea, suppose everyone will have their own view.

Trying to think of similar examples and I suppose the most obvious one is Wimbledon or Darlington.
They ain't the same club in the sense that Newcastle or Sunderland are, but represent the people of Wimbledon or Darlington.

Reckon you could compare it loosely to some bands. Totally different, in all but name.

Wimbledon is a thorny issue, most football fans will universally agree AFC Wimbledon are spirit of the old Wimbledon, Milton Keynes can claim to be as well, though for there supporters club to be accepted by the FSF they had to relinquish all ties to Wimbledon and hand all of Wimbledons honours back to Merton Borough Council. And for a short time, there were 2 teams named Wimbledon playing at the same time, till the former Wimbledon changed to MK Dons

Darlington, is aslo, amongst fans is a thorny issue, we could not agree a CVA to come out of admin, the old chairman would not give the golden share back, no golden share, no play football basically, and that is why Darlington are seen as a new club...

A good example at the moment would probably be Scarborough Athletic or Spennymoor Town, I dont think Scarborough claim the old clubs honours and Spennymoors history lies in Evenwood and dont hold onto Spenny Utd history as far as I am aware

Two recent examples also get me thinking(1 not so recent though), The Smoggies in 1986 and Leeds in 2007

Today Gateshead travel to North Wales to face fellow conference side Wrexham later today. In their last meeting, The Heed ran out 3-0 winners at the Racecourse with goals from Marcus Maddison, Jon Shaw and Jamie Chandler.