Let's go for Tinkler.
Surely we can negotiate a wage to entice him away from that tinpot club.

Surely they’re just treading water till they resolve their ground problems….how do you motivate players who can never go up no matter how good the football.
Would players want to stay even

you answered your question .treading water till they sort stuff out. out of the 24 clubs in the league there are only 2 promotion spots, one via the play offs where possibly only about 10 have a realistic chance of making them. there will be others who will be in a relegation scrap and be equally happy to finish 5th bottom as another team have getting into the play offs. that leaves quite a few having nothing to play for but pride.

Conner McBride gone to Rochdale on a free.
Rochdale going for it.

Good call. Sooner have him than Hendry back at Pools.

McBride was released by Gateshead he was not offered a contract.

Him n this lad from Halifax would certainly perk up that midfield area.
Opportunity Knocks!!

Kev stop dreaming we are not Man City

Ya mean York City or Rochdale.

No ‘dreams’ at the Vic.
Definitely no ‘wet’ dreams at the Vic.
Just ‘dry’ dreams at the Vic, as dry as a bucket sand on a campfire…in the desert…in the middle of summer, with no wind, that dry.

Considering Gateshead are a team that cannot be promoted.how can they even be in this league?

Imagine if your a club that gets relegated, because of Gateshead results over other teams in this league over the season.

It's like having a ghost team or a virus that can skew results.

Maybe they should be called Royston Vasey.. as they'll never leave.

Bit like a roll of the dice match handicap team that can just throw a spanner in the works…a team in limbo.

So we have a team that can not unless things change can not be promoted even if they won the league. Yet the national league allow teams to play and win promotion on 3g pitches that they then have to rip up and play on grass it seems completely bizarre to me.

How would it play out if they did win the league next season? Would 2nd place be promoted automatically? Would play offs involve 6 or 7 sides. Seems an interesting scenario which should be planned for and transparent to all clubs in this league.

Why the 10 year requirement for a ground anyway? Surely a more suitable requirement would be 1 season, after all you could be playing at a higher or lower level the following season with different ground standard requirements?
Any club renting a ground, such as we do, could fall foul on the whim of the landlord who may not want to offer 10 year tenancies.

You go further down the pyramid and teams can't turn down promotion.
Obviously poor standard grounds.
So to allow a step 5 team to play under these terms is crazy.
FA needs to get involved n make a fast decision.

But all other teams can try. The players for all other teams have something to motivate them, something to play for, some pressure, some excitement. Professional footballers surely must need something to spur them on, at Gateshead they will be just picking up a wage packet.

If you play for Gateshead it doesn’t matter how you perform, you simply will not take any plaudits for what you might achieve.

In this league they make it up as they go along….and still seem to be taken by surprise.

normally teams who possibly might not complete the upcoming season are ones not allowed to play in that league, not something in 10 years time. where a team play at the end of their ground contract coul have an effect on any new contract being offered.

those who say gateshead have nothing to play for might re think if they have bloody minded players going out to win the league so they can stick two fingers up to the ones running the league. that situation would get more out of me and greater satisfaction than having a winners medal.

it does but not too different to clubs having a deadline for ground improvements if they get promoted. if by the biggest ever miracle since the bible pools got into the championship the club would have a period of time to make the vic all seated. This 3g thing gets me as clubs with them can play all FA Cup games on them against league clubs but cannot play a league fixture on them. injury to players keep getting thrown at them but do teams who play and train on them have more injuries than pools and others who do not.

Gateshead havent been in the football league for years, so it will just be business as usual for them, they are used to non league so i cant see not having promotion affect them too much. Like you say they can still win the league.

I can’t imagine anything worse than winning the league with no reward…who’d want to play in a team where you’re never going to achieve anything for your effort….?
Would anyone here be happy if we were in that position…..now call me a cynic, but I suspect not.

mean like all those teams in the past who we got more votes for when we had to apply for re election. know all i was bothered about was them staying down where they were and pools getting another reprieve. bet league 2 fans cannot wait to play the mighty bromley at home next season with sell out away ends at morecambe and carlisle.

A lot of the teams who went out in the 70’s onwards were Northern teams, Barrow, Workington, Bradford Park Avenue and Southport for starters.

afraid if football had started 100 years later they would not be league clubs along with many other teams from the north west and east who have come and gone before that period. it would be mainly teams inside or just outside the M25 thats the real hotbed of football now.

One Gateshead player Pools won't be signing is Ed Francis - Exeter City are in for him.

Dunno about you but I have a feeling Pools wont sign any Gateshead players. Everyone will be wondering why but the club will say nowt. Just a feeling, no evidence.

Rather go down the route of keeping Fergy n Fevs n trialing players with back problems.

Watch 3 Heed players come in tomorrow.

I doubt we will sign any, they have interest in most players. Interest means having to pay more money and that wont be happening.

not bothered either way. doubt there would have been all this interest in gateshead players anyway if they didn,t have that second half against us where everything came off that could and a loan player to them making the big difference.

Thought Hannant was very good in both games against us, just what we need a creative and tricky wide player.

Thing with Gateshead is they are or probobly were a really good team, watched them a few times and they played with pace something we dont have. You would think a team in dissaray on our doorstep who would probobly imptove us, we would go for Afterall we sajd we want north eastern players, well it wpuld make sense to raid them, not at pools though. We would rather look for lads coming off the back of an injury or two.

Article out about Gateshead possibly leaving that shithole of a ground. Looks like they might get things sorted for next season either way as they have a lot of support from the league.

surely if they move it will be a local groundshare. with their level of support they will not need a large one or ever be in the position to ever need a large one either.

Probably go to South Shields or is it a threat to Gateshead Council trying to back them into a corner to attempt to get a 10 year agreement

Yep, the logical groundshare would be South Shields. 4,000 capacity ground, less than half an hour away on the Metro (and the tickets are cheap). If the National League board is as supportive of Gateshead as they claim to be they could easily arrange it so that S.Shields home games in the NLN and the Heed's NL home games don't clash.

Booty and Hannant we should be goin for and also Kenton for me - but yeh we wont sign any

Going to Carlisle.the Gateshead fans reckon.

Rob Elliot appointed permanent manager.
https://gateshead-fc.com/rob-elliot-lou ... ment-team/

There were both very good signings for Gateshead.
I was really surprised when they both signed for them,they are the type of players we should have been in for.

know they,d have to pay me a lot more than any other club to have to play my home games at their place. just wonder if someway they have been doing that.