Big Geordie

Great news

Another captains performance tonight.

Two brilliant finishes in his cameo off the bench. Given Eddie something to think about.

Excellent win for Blyth. Been a cracking night

Good shift at centre-forward today. His hold up play, movement and technique is terrific. He's also not afraid to put himself about!

Excellent win and performance. Great to see our wingers looking on song - need to transfer this to the PL. Gordon really, really direct, Bruno driving us forward and two superb goals from Harvey Barnes. MoM - Gordon.

Been OK first half - good that we got the goal. Room for improvement though. They look really dangerous down our left hand side. Big Dan getting exposed.

Big night under the lights. Gonna go for a 2-1 win to us.

Just reading that apparently, Stuart Pearce's 21 year old son as been killed in a tragic accident - involving a tractor.

Isak will come good for them in time - unfortunately. Raises a wee smile to see him struggling a bit though. What goes around, comes around.

0-0 draw at home for Spartans v Emley.

Howe will sort this out. Qualifying for the CL this season was always gonna be a long shot on the back of the Isak business, IMO. Mind - some of our bigger players are off form and have been for a while.

He will come good. :thup: Out of form, which will come in time. Needs a spell on the bench.

Bogey side (and a good team) strikes again. We looked much better when Murph and Barnes came on - more threatening and better end product. Elanga looks short on form and probs needs a spell out of the side. Big Nick took his goal superbly, but he was let down by a lack of support from our misfiring first choice wingers. Disappointed, but hey ho. Much to improve on for Benfica on Tuesday night. MoM - hard to say. No one really stood out.

As some others have said, this is going to be something of a season of transition for the club and the side - after losing Isak. Lack of goals and attacking play is a wee concern, but it will get sorted.

Tailed off after a competitive first 30mins. Lack of attacking threat again, down either wing. Brighton also breaking our lines too easily. Gordon and Elanga look short of form and have done so for a while,

This one is on their mentalist owner.

Forest's crackerjack of an owner has undone all of the good work that was done by Nuno, last season. He's only got himself to blame.

Taxi for Ange.

Supposedly, Spartan's budget should have them around mid-table in the league they are in, so clearly - something isn't working. Apparently the new owners are intent on building a community club, which is good - but as we see, it will sharp fail if results on the field don't back it up. Crowds will dwinde which means less money, etc. I suspect they are still paying off debt accrued from the previous owner, who turned out to be a con man and probably leveraged it with as much debt as he could, which he then asset stripped. 'Transparency' was supposed to be a key word from the new owners (who include Kevin Miles), but there doesn't seem to be much of that going on in recent weeks. Colin Myers is surely on borrowed time.

Bishop Auckland winning too, I think.

My bad. Town are at home to Consett.

Spartans 2-0 down at Dunston. Heading down to the NL, with barely a whimper.

Not a good advert for NE football at that level - a lack of quality available players, or too many teams in the same league?

Spartans lost 2-1 at Pontefract, after being in front. Lots of supporters online now calling for the head of Colin Myers (manager) Club is in free-fall- heading back to the Northern League. Desperate times.