Dwight Gayle (now playing for Hibernian)

[Conjo]

[Sean]

32 minutes ago, mikejaxer said:

Always remember fondly of him for helping getting us out of that shite league with its wank refs and wank teams. Hopefully he can still bag them in for Stoke.

Wow this brought back some memories, the ones that stick out the most were 9 men at Forest I think, and the penalty being ruled out where the crowd knew the rules better than the officials 

 

Good luck to Dwight

 

 

Edited July 20, 2022 by Sean

[Joey Linton]

Like everyone else has said, kept on way too long but wish him luck.

[54]

Remember the game against Burton whereby the ref (Keith Stroud) disallowed a scored Ritchie penalty to give Burton a free kick as  one of their players was encroaching the box.

[WillingtonMag]

Got to be a big announcement tomorrow

[Ikon]

On a free.

[BeloEmre]

Free transfer according to Downie.

[Nobody]

1 minute ago, 54 said:

Remember the game against Burton whereby the ref (Keith Stroud) disallowed a scored Ritchie penalty to give Burton a free kick as  one of their players was encroaching the box.

Was so fucking stupid. Daft cunt even went to check with the fourth official as well IIRC. 

[The Butcher]

Great news. Should've left ages ago. Best of luck to him. 

[LV]

G’luck Teef

[Kid Icarus]

Along with Ritchie he can be considered the main on-field reason that we went up in 16-17. An absolute diamond of a player at that level and a pleasure to watch. 

 

No idea if he'll be any good there now with it being well past time that he should have been moved on, but he leaves with his mark well and truly made and I hope he can carry on where he left off 

 

His hat trick Vs Norwich at home was honestly of my favourite experiences watching Newcastle. 

[matta]

Good luck to Dwight! He turned out quite allright for us. 

[relámpago blanco]

Ritchie next, I know he is a mental bastard and probably good for the dressing room but I'd rather play a kid than him.  He has been a cracking servant to the club but he needs to be moved on.

[JumpersForGoalposts]

Professional player, did well in the Champo for us. Should have moved on for his own good years ago, but he's made a lot of money here, so understandable by him. Ashley's fault for offering ridiculous contracts to the wrong players, can understand why Gayle stayed.

 

Best of luck to him and I hope he does well back in a division where he's played well. Better than rotting in the reserves at a PL club.

[Minhosa]

Bit disappointed we didn't get any sort of fee for him tbh. He's basically guaranteed goals at that level therefore, even on a hefty salary, he'd surely be worth a few million?

 

As it is, we're probably funding some of his wages too.

 

Regardless, wish him well and he goes with plenty of good wishes.

[ponsaelius]

As soon as you're subsiding wages (which we will be here) theres basically no chance of getting a fee. Otherwise the buying club may as well put that fee towards paying more of the wages. 

 

 

Edited July 20, 2022 by ponsaelius

[Minhosa]

1 minute ago, ponsaelius said:

As soon as you're subsiding wages (which we will be here) theres basically no chance of getting a fee. Otherwise the buying club may as well put that fee towards paying more of the wages. 

 

 

 

Understand that completely but still feel we've been done over a bit tbh.

[gdm]

No disrespect to Gayle & the others that have left but how good is it to be getting rid of players that aren’t good enough to be playing for this club now. Under Ashley Hayden still starts, Clark and Gayle make the bench and Woodman is still touted as the future

[midds]

Speaks volumes of the recruitment policy that's been in operation for the last few years that we've amassed a standard of players that is literally worthless. Hayden, Clark, Hendrick, Gayle, Woodman have all left without bringing in a fucking bean. We've essentially given them away as no other club deems them even worthy of a nominal fee. Another example of Ashley being such a fantastic businessman - allowing a fucking moron to accumulate players who tank in value so much they literally worthless. 

 

Problem being is there are another 3 or 4 at least who are in a similar boat - worthless and unwanted, stuck on hefty contracts because they simply couldn't be fucking bothered to scout for better. It's fucking scandalous how they used to run the gaff. 

[ponsaelius]

Yup. There basically hasn't been a recruitment policy at all for a good few years. Just giving crap players long inflated contracts instead of selling them while they have worth and making new signings. Cashing in on an asset once a year to keep things ticking over. At least in the Graham Carr years there was some kind of methodology - flawed though it was.

 

We're lucky we're able to shift some of these players on at all tbh. I think you can basically thank Rafa for generally recruiting good pros who remain desirable to Championship managers and who actually seemingly want to move on to play football - even if the ages and contracts at this stage mean their value is nil.

 

 

Edited July 20, 2022 by ponsaelius

[Coffee_Johnny]

Thanks for the 34 goals, DW. 23 in one Championship winning season ? 11 in 88 Premier League games. Just checked, 11 is same total as Dabizas, Wijnaldum, Elliott, Watson, Maxi, Guoffran, Shelvey, Sissoko, and Rondon.

[Guest]

Ciaran Clark's record probably isn't far off.

 

 

[Coffee_Johnny]

Just now, Optimistic Nut said:

Ciaran Clark's record probably isn't far off.

 

 

8 Prem goals. 

[JumpersForGoalposts]

11 minutes ago, Coffee_Johnny said:

Thanks for the 34 goals, DW. 23 in one Championship winning season ? 11 in 88 Premier League games. Just checked, 11 is same total as Dabizas, Wijnaldum, Elliott, Watson, Maxi, Guoffran, Shelvey, Sissoko, and Rondon.

Excellent Champo record, terrible PL record. Not through any lack of effort though. I always get the feeling he was kept as insurance in case we were relegated. Thankfully those days are gone and he can be let go.

[Shearergol]

Was decent over 5 years ago. Worth nothing now. Seeya!