Gateshead

[Chief Rocka]

Gateshead fans - how likely is it that you are going to be able to raise the 95k?

Where do they go from there though? Say they raise the money to pay off creditors is there a guarantee that these current owners actually just gonna up and leave/sell to the guy who was interested? Surely at this point they're better off just going with their original plan and get their phoenix club up and running in time for next season.

This just seems like a false dawn to me.

 

[#Beebot]

Isn't this basically what happened at Darlington, where the fans kept raising money to meet deadlines but ultimately it just delayed the inevitable?

I don't see the value in propping up the Varghese/Cala regime tbh.

 

[Quakerz]

Isn't this basically what happened at Darlington, where the fans kept raising money to meet deadlines but ultimately it just delayed the inevitable?

No, because we never went bust. We actually saved the club, bought it ourselves and exited administration as owners of the club and assets.

Unfortunately we were unable to agree a CVA with major creditor Raj Singh so exited administration without a CVA like Bournemouth, Leeds and Luton had done before.

However the FA didn't deduct us 15, 20 or 30 points, they decided to enact a shiny new rule and class us as a "new club" - that's why we had to play in the Northern League.

We actually paid some of our playing creditors off after this, and also received transfer money for sell on clauses on the Dan Burn to Fulham transfer.

Had we gone bust, we couldn't have owned those clauses, and neither would we have owed money to any creditors (football or otherwise)

Considering that the FA "treated us" as a new club and made us change our name, considering that everyone thinks we went bust anyway, considering we were put in the Northern League - then we might as well have gone bust anyway!

 

[Darlo On Tour]

Isn't this basically what happened at Darlington, where the fans kept raising money to meet deadlines but ultimately it just delayed the inevitable?

I don't see the value in propping up the Varghese/Cala regime tbh.

We still are working hard to raising money, only this time it doesn't go to the thieves that put our footie clubs at risk.

 

[#Beebot]

Crunch day for Gateshead. A quick browse on their forum suggests they have not raised the money. Club continues to behave strangely though.

https://www.sunderlandecho.com/spor...tory-with-controversial-joseph-cala-1-9779425

 

[DarkSithLord]

Reports claim that a takeover led by supporters has been completed, and Gateshead FC is set to be under new ownership (link: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/newcastle-united-transfer-news-live-16308301) chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football…

 

[Raymondo316]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1131155378518073344

 

[Shotsfan1993]

Looks like Gateshead have been saved at the eleventh hour.

 

[#Beebot]

If true that is a massive, massive surprise. They looked dead and buried to me.

Big well done to the supporters for pulling this off.

 

[Raymondo316]

The question now is will the supporters be able to show the National League they actually have the funds to finish next season.

 

[Luke Imp]

The question now is will the supporters be able to show the National League they actually have the funds to finish next season.

And what sort of budget are they going to be on? A fan-led 500 average crowd (or whatever they get) aren't going to last at this level and probably not even the NLN.

 

[ForzaCounty]

Big well done to the Gateshead fans, and I'm sure the council will be more amenable to a fan-owned club

Now we just have to see where Cala pops up next...

 

[Pink Panther]

The question now is will the supporters be able to show the National League they actually have the funds to finish next season.

This is the key I think. Dulwich were under close scrutiny this time last year as a newcomer to the National League (South) due to the uncertain situation concerning the ground. I know it was a massive learning curve for the club officials compared to dealing with the Isthmian League.

At a supporters meeting last week Hamlet's managing director stated that the National League's greatest concern is a club going bust without fulfilling its fixtures. If a problem arises mid-season they'll do all they can, but at this time of the year they won't give you the benefit of the doubt and let you start the new season if they think you're too much of a risk. (Isn't that what happened to Darlington, got bombed out and had to join the Northern League even though they paid their debts and survived in the end?)

 

[Minstermen central]

Well done Gateshead,never good to see a team go under.

 

[Dagenham Dave]

Great news that. Without a doubt the NL should be far stricter on ownership of clubs, Sugar daddy’s both successful and failed have ruined this league over the years.

But how would you actually go around sanctioning said regulations. Would tougher measures actually prove more troublesome to the new Gateshead ownership?

 

[Shotsfan1993]

Any Gateshead fans know what is going on?

 

[#Beebot]

Nobody at Gateshead seems to have any idea what is going on. Could be back to square one.

 

[Shotsfan1993]

Unless it is a genuine mix up, I imagine the National League will take a dim view of these events.

Hope for Gateshead's sake it is resolved, and for our sake that it it is resolved one way or the other as at some point we need to sign some players

 

[#Beebot]

The NL need to set a hard deadline by which Gateshead are either ready for the season ahead or get demoted to step 5.

I don't want this to be a Salisbury situation where a club looks 90% doomed and then is allowed to cling on for too long which brings a relegated team back in too late for them to prepare properly, or for this league or the NL South to run one short.

 

[chipmunx]

or the situation that Barrow ended up in in 1999 - went into liquidation in January 1999 (we later come out of liquidation much later and are still the same club) - we kept playing and avoid relegation, but were thrown out at the AGM. The FA ordered that the Northern Premier league accepted us (this was before Conference North) - the NPL refused and only accepted after the FA gave them an ultimatum - we started our season around the start of OCTOBER over a month after everyone else.

 

[Harrier94]

National League statement

http://www.thenationalleague.org.uk/national-league-statement-gateshead-disciplinary-h-57068

 

[Raymondo316]

National League statement

http://www.thenationalleague.org.uk/national-league-statement-gateshead-disciplinary-h-57068

Aldershot are getting a reprieve then

 

[Shotsfan1993]

Looks like we have one hand on the AGM cup after all

 

[#Beebot]

National League statement

http://www.thenationalleague.org.uk/national-league-statement-gateshead-disciplinary-h-57068

So Gateshead booted out subject to an appeal. AGM 8th June.

Wow. Ecstasy to agony for Gateshead fans in 48 hours.

 

[Lew]

Unsure how this all works now but its surely a possibility that they could run the league with only 23 teams next season?

 

[Shotsfan1993]

Unsure how this all works now but its surely a possibility that they could run the league with only 23 teams next season?

Shahid said at the fans forum that that would only happen if Gateshead were kicked out after the AGM. Unless their appeal to the FA is successful, we would be reprieved at this stage.

The reference to 68 clubs also suggests they are planning to reprieve us

 

[Monkey Tennis]

More importantly, every team 8th to 17th this season now jumps up a place. We finished top 10!

 

[Raymondo316]

The fans handing over that 25k is looking a very bad idea right about now. The money was meant to be going towards a new club and now they are potentially left with nothing.

 

[#Beebot]

The fans handing over that 25k is looking a very bad idea right about now. The money was meant to be going towards a new club and now they are potentially left with nothing.

What was it ultimately spent on?

 

[Soup Ladle]

More importantly, every team 8th to 17th this season now jumps up a place. We finished top 10!

Well we finished top 16 so up yours.

Good luck to the Heed in wherever they reform.