A player called Tyron Newton played no7 for them as a trialist against Boro and a couple of my Boro mates said he was superb and man of the match. He was released by Luton Town end of last season. How the heck does a little club like Heed keep bringing in good players from all over the country not just the big three He hasn't been given a contract yet maybe just maybe he might come here for a trial It was only one game but me mates reckon the lad is quality.

They are very well run, apart from the Lease problems with the council.

They have a good system of picking up young academy released players. Coach them well and show them to be a lot better than Non League. Then get a nice income from selling them to League clubs, maybe 3 from last season?

Apart from the release of Williamson to MK Dons, they also sold Wearne to them in January. Then this close season Francis to Exeter, after a season on a free transfer from Notts County then o course Dinanga has gone to Bromley. Clearly the coaching is excellent as they are players who have progressed under their methods. Will Sweeney have the same effect is interesting to look for this season.

Must have good scouts its mo coincidence they keep selling decent players.

Trouble is there’s loads of lads like this in varying degrees but every player is still a gamble…you might get a brilliant player on the pitch who’s a twat off the pitch…I ‘m just surprised that if he’s that good he’s had to travel this far north, loads of M25 clubs in this league who would make more sense from his point of view but no one was interested…..a bit odd.

Yes It's interesting what you say Unless Heed had him watched last season and 1st to offer him a trial Could he be a North East lad

Who knows what he'll be like in competitive mens football, looking good in a friendly isn't any guarantee. If we brought in someone like that there'd be he'll on, look at the furore daring to organise a couple of trial games brought on.

Didn't Ellis Taylor have an excellent game for Sunderland against Pools last pre-season? Was a complete flop on loan for us - which is not to say he won't find his feet in men's football for Harrogate. The point is you can't read too much into one game - and a friendly at that.

I agree with you but the lads all thought he was very impressive. He skinned Boro players time and again for fun put in some fantastic crosses and basically Boro could not handle the lad.

Sounds like what Mancini did to Boro last season.

Tyrelle Newton, a 20-year old defensive midfielder, who played 30 games on loan over the last 2 seasons in the National League North, for Hemel Hempstead and Cheshunt.

He came through the academy at Luton and left by mutual consent on 1st Feb this year (last day of the transfer window), presumably to try and get another club, which didn't work out, as he's been without a club since. Interesting that he didn't go back to either of the loan clubs at least on a short term deal until the end of the season.

If we'd brought him in people would be going nuts about getting the cheap option. He may come good at Gateshead, who knows, but he sounds very high-risk to me.

The problem is not the cheap options. The problem is probobly people who are bringing the cheap options in dont seem to have a clue about talent and we end up with a sack of shit. How many cheap options actually turn out to be anywhere near good enough at pools? Very few.

How many turn out to any good at any other club.

Probobly not many but then they are still in the football league but we still persevere with the same thing thats got us in this mess.

Define then how we are persevering with the ‘same thing’ this season…?
Personally I haven’t seen them play a competitive game and nether has anyone else…..so how could anyone say it’s going to be crap.

Stop panicking people He isn't coming here Lets see if Heed sign him and see how it turns out. Just a thought though plenty of players leave or fail at clubs when youngsters but end up back in the game doing well at another club but again millions don't

Yeah another new manager, 9 players offloaded, new players coming in, a promised different style of play all smacks of persevering with the same old stuff that got us where we are. You've got to laff.

Believe me , There are "Plenty who are twats off the pitch"
And in training.

As you know there will be loads of clubs who have scouts at these games watching trialists.
And if he is as good as your mates say, He won,t be playing for Gateshead this season.

How many cheap options this summer though, I wonder.

What's even more galling than cheap options who turn out to be shite are expensive options that turn out to be shite.

His name is Tyrelle Newton and he’s been without a club since the end of January. How come?

Attitude?
Spasmodic player?
Injury prone?
Reputation?
Inconsistent performances?
Dose the player fit into the team style of play?
Take your pick, but many a Owner, manager and fan has been excited by a dazzling debut then find it’s all a veneer once the slog starts.

Thanks for the name correction Stomper. I reckon me hearing is starting to go.

Has that happened twice a season for the last few year. You have got to laugh at how gullible some are.

I laugh more at how negative some people can be, it's fucking grim...

We might have changed managers twice a year or more which begs the question should we have kept any of them?
Sweeney has gone after probably too many years at the club, time will tell I suppose.
We definitely haven't changed as big a number of players or changed our playing style though have we?
So the exact opposite of persevering with the same old same old really isn't it?

I believe Sweeney had to go….. He appeared to have too much input and you can only have one manager.

I suspect it’s a form of masochism on their part, the orgasmic joy of failure.
Some on here calling for a season ticket boycott ..they demand success while calling for a cut in income …genius or devious.
Like I always say, it’s not hard to distinguish between the glums and a Ray of sunshine on here.

its only quite recently they have got things right up there. they are not a club like solihull who have been there or thereabouts at the top end of the national league but have had years of struggle.

Its fucking grim because its been fucking grim. When we act like a decent sized club it might not be grim. It certainly wasnt grim when we were smashing chesterfield, bromley notts county, wealdstone and playing well in play offs. It certainly wasnt grim when we came from 2 behind against Harrogate in front of 5500 and it certainly wasnt grim when we were playing in front of nearly 6000 to newport even though we lost.

The potential at this club is massive and we pissed it up the wall in a matter of months. No excuses this season but no doubt we will get them.

Excuses? Reasons, seems a more realistic word, depends on your outlook on life really.
Moaning about every single decision the club makes brings what to the table exactly?
There's things in life worth getting upset about, Gateshead having a player on trial who I've never heard of isn't one of them lol

just think of the problems created if we did reach our potential and the vic was sold out every week. we,d have to reserect plans and find money for ground expansion. would the club be able or willing to do that.

What a lovely problem

Challinor was getting stick on here in the promtion season, it wasn’t a season long March to glory but a late flourish so let’s stop the myths that never existed…some of the ‘heroes’ were also getting it in the neck of self proclaimed knowledgable fans.
Pools potential is there but it’s not massive, unless you think 6,000 plus crowds are massive, the townsfolk are lazy fuckers who don’t really wanna know and odd that on a town of nearly 100,000 we can’t produce someone interested to save us when the shit hit fan after ‘Cocks-less’.

Looking for a word there that I don't agree with.... Nope, I give up

I forgot to mention the key lesson is that some people will call you worse than a dog and when success pops it’s head around the corner they rush to be first in the queue to celebrate their new hero……and they won’t even blush.

Spot on Snowy.

There are REASONS we've been crap these last few years, most but not all down to incompetence. The excuses are used to draw attention away from the incompetence.

There's absolutely no point in moaning about EVERY decision the club makes. Just the obviously shit ones will do, that'll keep you busy enough to be fair.

Yes but moaning about bad decisions over the last few years is absolutely pointless we can't change what's past.
And to be fair there hasn't been too many decisions since the retained list was published to complain about has there?

Hope ya blushing after game 46.
Ya allowed to be semi normal like the majority of us.

Ya bang on matey
We Gunna win division 5 this season and live happily ever after.
Nice.
Raj is King. Better than IOR/Hornsey.

Couldn't give 2 monkeys who owns us, we've had better and worse than the present incumbent and we'll have better and worse in the future.
All I'm bothered about is that the club doesn't go to the wall and that this season coming is far better than last and the same for the one after etc

Making excuses for those culpable is pointless too but that never stops. Always sparks things up.

No nothing other than the season ticket debacle as yet. Time will tell on the choice of manager/player/ starting the season with a Swiss cheese squad.

Never, ever call me semi normal…I can’t cope with compliments,

could not agree more. never been in the company of any owner or board member at pools and not bothered if i never do.

one thing for sure in the coming season is there will be more posts slagging everyone connected with the club after a defeat than after a victory. a constant reminder of a hammering we get brought up at every opportunity but forgotton quickly if we managed to do the hammering. lets praise and grumble in equal measures and when both are deserved.

If this manager believes in himself like he does so far it will be praise more than the other.

They will get plenty of praise if they are in the top 4 but if your lounging around 17th all season and your taking pezzlings at Gateshead im afraid they deserve all they get

Gateshead are really of no consequence to me because whatever they do is irrelevant, even more so this coming season, if they won the League it would all be for nothing…run out music should ‘Road to Nowhere’
They may have beaten us 7-1…but we beat Grimsby 8-1..where are they now?
Bad results are like dead bodies. Best thing you can do is bury them quickly and move on, but never hang onto it, it gets messy.

they are neither good or bad results but freak ones. if the same teams had played each other a week later at the same ground with the same players i,d stake money on it the scores would have been different even if the result wasn,t.

Got to admire them though. They could teach HUFC few lessons on how to make the most of the resources you have.