From Budget to Billions.

[richy1377]

This week was the worst of I have had so far. Got sacked from work at my local furniture warehouse and had my under 17's youth team took off me as i am not a suitable role model to my players. I would have thought that my 3 consecutive league titles would have kept the club happy but apparently not. So out of work and out of money i noticed the sacking of current Gateshead F.C manager Ian Bogie and decided to try my look with an application to show my worth at the club in the managers role.

I woke up the next morning with my phone buzzing away merrily. I never thought that Gateshead would get back this quick never mind to me but as i picked up the phone the only words i remember hearing in the excitment are 'You have the job, see you tomorrow'.

I was over the moon with the news and took to my new role as manager straight away recruiting new and exciting players and trying out new tactics on the training ground but with a media prediction of 21st the season had no other outlook except dim. I knew i would be up against it with a mid table prediction to my board but with a few wise signings and a tactic that works wonders, anything is possible.

 

[MichaelSoulsby]

Another Goatshead story, Good luck anyway

 

[Ronan]

nice start good luck with gateshead

 

[PompeyChris]

I thought this was serious haha, good luck!

 

[udbhav45]

good luck

 

[richy1377]

July​

So i got to work in the transfer market mainly trying my luck with free transfers and loans because my budget was reasonably restricting. These are my transfers and a little explanation as to why i bought a couple of the players.

http://s952.photobucket.com/albums/...current=TransfersJuly2009.png&t=1272191795512

This shows that out of my 9 signings i only spent money on two of them and that is still alright because all i spent was £1,950.

I feel that my best signing is Danny Jackson and although he was free, i beat teams such as southend and peterborough to get him which is an achievment within itself.

Another signing i made that i was quite pleased with was Nigel Pearson. Although he is 40 years old and passed it, he will be the kind of player that i can bring off the bench and rely on to get the goals because he has a wealth of experience and great composure and finishing when under pressure.

Next are my results for my friendly matches.
Gateshead 0-2 Ayr
Airbus 1-2 Gateshead
Holywell 0-0 Gateshead
Gateshead 7-0 H&W Welders
Farsley 1-0 Gateshead
Porthmadog 1-1 Gateshead
Gateshead 1-0 GH Academy

As you can see my friendlies were up and down but with a great 7-0 win in there, there are plenty of positives to be dealing with.

July Concluded​

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August​

So this was the month that all my hard work was put to the test to see if my team are ready for the life in a league they are predicted to finish 21st. In this month there are some obvious hard matches as i have league favourites Luton and a strong team in the shape of histon at home.

Gateshead 0-0 Histon
At the start of this game i would have taken a 0-0 draw but after the match and our display i feel robbed. we had 5x more shots and 4x more shots on target than Histon yet we still failed to score and if this is anything to go by, we have a bleak season ahead of us.

Chester City 0-1 Gateshead
Graeme Armstrong 11
This result was good for us as we totally dominated throughout the game. We could of and probably should have scored more but 3 points are the main focus and we secured that today.

Luton 0-0 Gateshead
This result was great! The lads really dug in and defended really well. They really did play the full 90 minutes without a slip up and i am proud of them for that.

Gateshead 0-1 Tamworth
Iyseden Christie 34
Today we just didnt show up. We were outplayed and lost but luckily by only 1 goal.

Crawley Town 2-2 Gateshead
Sam Rents Pen33 Daryl Clare 23
Charles Ademeno 45+2 Alex Francis 90+3
This game was a reasonably poor performance and that is all that can be said. We nicked a point in the last minute so its not all to bad.

Gateshead 2-2 York
Brian Wake 8 Bonz N'gala 60
Wayne Buchanan 68 Michael Gash 89
This week i was on the recieving end of losing the 3 points in the last minute. It gutting to say the least.

Cambridge 1-0 Gateshead
Jai Reason 68
Another dissapointing result. We had the game under control until they went a scored a fluke goal that was meant to be a cross and from then on it was all Cambridge so it was a case of damage limitation for my team.

August Concluded​