Dr.Spaceman

Eastleigh 1-2 Gateshead after 25 mins. Just seen the second, really weak shot into the far corner and the keeper just stood there. And to say it's wet would be an understatement.

Shit, didn't realise this was the Onana from Everton. Absolutely fucking not, we can do better than him. I'm sick of seeing him flop to the deck every time a player breathes somewhere near him. He's not a bad player, just don't think he improves us. Edit: And I had no idea that he was 21, thought he was mid to late 20's for some reason. A year or so of Howe...who knows what he could become.

Signed from Gateshead for £50k Good player.

Lock the fucking thread for a week or so

He kept us in the league looking pretty good at times against decent opposition with the likes of Ciaran Clark and Isaac Hayden in the team. We added Jacob Murphy, Javier Manquilo and Florian Lejeune to the side that was promoted, it was a pathetic summer transfer wise. Look at what other sides have been able to spend. Were he given the tools we'd have been so much better. Why's he not allowed to go to China when many were going there at the time? They were all promised something that the league then prevented.

Altrincham just missed an open goal from 6 yards out, smashed it off the bar

Altrincham 0-1 Gateshead. Great goal by Dinanga, who used to play for them. Wearne (another recent signing) went on a nice little run through the middle and played a good ball to Dinanga who smashed it into the far top corner. 6 in a row marra. Just hit the bar now too!

Altrincham v Gateshead - sideways rain making this one interesting. Gateshead started well with a few chances but the game has settled down now.

It's all relative though. Who should we have had as manager at the time instead of Rafa then? Nobody would have been able to do what he did under those circumstances (out of the realistic candidates). We panicked after Rafa contract expired and signed Joelinton and ASM (a shit load more spend than Rafa was afforded fwiw), ultimately ASM was the magic wand that patched over the incredible lack of any sort of logical tactical instructions. Without the panic signings we'd have been relegated. Had MA allowed Rafa to spend anywhere near the amount we spent in the summer of 2019 we would have pushed for Europe imo. Genuinely can't believe we're still debating this.

Did you have your eyes shut for the entirety of Carver, McClaren & Bruce? Rafa's tacics were out of this world compared with those clowns.

Mental! He worked wonders here. He left because his contract expired and Ashley did fuck all about it. To side with MA in that scenario is absolutely crazy.

Meh. Howe knows what he's doing. If he decides to sell him, great. If he decides to have a word and draw a line under it, great.

You love to see it.

Great ball by Van Dijk

Liverpool are utter shite

Agreed.

He's overrated by us like.

211 minutes of football for us (plus today) and you've completely written him off

Going off that it was handball tbh. The ball hit him just above the elbow. Still not sure what he's supposed to do like, impossible for him to avoid the contact.

Even Toney.....fuck off with that man you stupid prick. IT's IVAN.

That cunt Schade is looking to go down every single time

What's he supposed to do different there?

I heard that too - he said "...to craft...." as the ball was passed to Burn

How has the referee allowed us to score that goal man, the CoRrUpT BASTARD

Lass commentator has had an issue all the way through