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Absolute joke of a decision from the EFL and to make the decision at this stage of the season. Has far wider implications as will have a knock on effect to the money from ticket sales for not just Gateshead.

Most away wins in a season, most points in a season, a promotion (we hope) and getting the best defender in the league to sign a new long term contract in his first full season. All of this with very little spend and spotting some gems in the rough (Adams and Wilson). When we talk about the success under Jim Smith or Clough, we rarely talk about style but the results they had. If we go up this year I think Warne will be remembered in 10-20 years for the results he achieved.

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Oddly thought Ward looked his best slotting into the ‘10’ role last night, he seemed to interchange with NML on that right hand side and both goals came from him floating in the middle. Might be the three attackers behind the striker swap and change in the game depending on what the opposition defends with.

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Heard Marinakis wants to make us his feeder club for his up and coming sleeping European giants

Have we had a youth player in recent memory who scored as many in their loan as he has? Looks to have all the core attributes to kick on next season and an ideal replacement for Washington/Gayle

Eh we’re doing alright I guess

Gayle is a top level player starting to wind down his career, Collins is a lower league specialist who on form is one of the best in the league. It just happens that they are both about the same level now, and benefiting us

Player pull is huge, if he has the choice between going back to Cardiff who never really gave him a chance, or playing for us where the fans already love him and will continually play whenever given the chance then we know where he will go. The same reason the likes of Warne, NML, Cashin, Bradley etc all signed/stayed with us when they probably could have commanded better money and higher leagues.

Ffs

Great play by Hourihane, think we have a real chance at gold at the olympics this year (in diving)

Reportedly on 35k a week at Stoke. Presumably his wage (even if reduced) is still going to make him the top earner at the club hence it running by the EFL

Massive loss with Collins out for the season, absolutely imperative we get Waggy and Wash back fit now

Some teams just know how to poohouse a result against us, yesterday was one of those games. It’s no different to when we were in the championship, we could never seem to beat Cardiff or Reading. 2 points lost but we are never going to win every game this season.

Odd one, they always say don’t change a winning team but I don’t think anyone could say we play better football with 3/5 at the back. That said, everyone that played on Saturday earned their spot for the next game and unless NML isn’t fit I wouldn’t change it.

….highest we’ve been in the league all season?

Makes the win all the more sweet. On paper Charlton has one of the best squads (and certainly best attackers) in the league. If scrappy 1-0 gets us top of the league come May then Viva-la-Warneball

Bryson-esque

Absolute legend. Of our recent academy products probably has the highest ceiling and if we go up and he keeps playing like this he will easily get a move to a big premier league club. Gutted about Bird but if we had to choose we’ve managed to tie down the more important of the two.

People wanted a striker younger than 30, capable of outscoring 18 goal Collins, who would bring more play into the team and because of our financial position they would need to be either free or little cost. Anyone close to the above is either way out of price range (ie Langstaff) or has already been snapped up by the league above us. The fact that a player like Will Osula is getting regular prem game time shows how few exceptional strikers are out there right now. We have got to where we are in the league with the current attackers. Where we are faltering in recent games was down to the midfield and Warne has addressed that.

I like Max Bird, I also like the money. I’m sure the club likes money too, so they are getting more money and the same amount of Max Bird. Not sure where the problem is here when he was never going to sign an extension.

Collins does exactly what he told us he’d do, he scores goals. He’s not always going to be a stand out player but he’s a natural goalscorer in the purest sense of the word. Let our wingers be the flair players, we just need our striker to put the ball in the net.

I’m really glad we won yesterday, I was worried with our form there was a risk of relegation/dropping out of the playoffs/falling away from the automatic promotion pack (delete as appropriate to sensationalise our poor playing style despite our still exceptional form).