They say you can only beat what's in front of you, that's what we did today.

Hard to gauge the performance of the lads against opposition whose search for points could go on for some time (although they have Gateshead next ).

Blyth dominated the early exchanges, going ahead when John Hutton's header was judged to have crossed the line. Frickley equalised when Pepper and Forster failed to pick up Wordsworth to head an underserved equaliser. Blyth regained the lead when David McMahon headed home a cross in first-half injury time.

Blyth didn't start the second half convincingly, there were a couple of hairy moments in the back line, but the game was wrapped up when Carl Pepper scored with a simple headed from a chipped cross from Phil Brumwell. Brumwell made it four when he thundered home a free-kick from 20 yards. Frickley scored a late consolation, once again down to some slack marking.

Attendance was disappointing, perhaps due to England kicking off at 4.

MOM: Colin Morton. No-one stood out today, but Colin slotted in nicely and helped Gareth Williams. The two make a good combination.

With the way Gateshead are playing I wouldnt be shocked if Frickley beat us. At least they are scoring goals. We've scored two. One from the spot.

Never underestimate the ****eness of Frickley.

Jimbo T. Hornblower

I take it the ****ness means unpredictiveness. We were damned unlucky not to get a point at Accrington on Bank Holiday Monday - that would have messed up your 7 from 7!!!

We may have scored 4 without our topscorer/start striker playing but it could have been six or seven,
yet we look slack at the back looking forward to a cracking game at Whitby Tuesday, always a blood & thunder game.

Gateshead v. Frickley that will be interesting !!!!
Frickley scoring but losing, Gateshead not scoring & losing - score draw I think.

Wonder when the Heed fans will, think its more than a poor start, and something much more to worry about.
Suprise to read they've only scored twice !.
Al are you getting concerned about what you've seen so far ?.

cud b sh*tness. lol

roll on the 24th, shame im not there to wintess a gr8 win for whitby:)

GH

I am worried. We could be doing a Spennymoor from a couple of seasons ago at this rate. There is a long time before the 23rd GH we may have different players altogether. And anyway its only the UniBond League Cup. By the time we play you in the league we might be mid-table...if we're lucky!