Our only chance is to scrape into the play offs and then fluke our way to the efl in what will effectively be cup ties. To do any of that we should be finishing teams off when we're dominating as we were yesterday 1st half? Trying to protect a 1 goal lead has rarely ever worked for us and inevitably cost us 2 points again.
Even with injuries and a weak bench we should have pressed on and won the game.

Lawrence must have managed nearly 1000 games. I wonder how many times he has trotted out the same crap as he did yesterday. He is beyond a joke. He was the one who got Sarll in.

Mancini wasnt even getting his game not so long back, so losing 2 players against wealdstone shouldnt really be an excuse im sure they had a few out too.

Thing is though if the chairman allows the manager to have strength in depth, allows him to bring in quality defenders a decent midfield, results and 2nd half performances like yesterday dont tend to happen as much, unfortunately its a regular occurence, under many different managers.

Quicker he puts the club up for sale the better. We are getting very close to the point of anybody could be no worse. the best we can hope for is one new kid coming in which i seriously doubt is what lennie wants unless his age has addled his brain. a well run team with a decent budget should be looking to replace even their better players with better ones unlike pools who seem to live from game to game with no long term plans for the future. its not just coming back from wealdstone which is the problem as holding out and bringing back home 3 points is only covering the cracks. its not as if the fans have been shouting for any of the managerial appointments we have had since challinor apart from possibly askey who got the boot when the team was really down to bare bones without a striker to pick from.

losing both of them probebly weakens the side going forward more than in other positions because on their day they can be match winners and offer something different to what we have got.

Also their goal took a huge deflection, that's not to say we weren't under the cosh, we would have lost that game under Sarll, look a point at Wealdstone isn't the end of the world, look at York yesterday losing at home to Sutton, that was unexpected.

On the manager appointments, I guess it also comes down to two things; firstly what Pools will pay and who applies. I can’t imagine the former is particularly attractive and as for applicants, do you really believe that given our track record good managers are queuing up?

Pools currently have a Manager and 2 coaches, Lawrence is there till the end of the season then the coaches take over do they not ?

Think we have to accept too that we'll only get managers who are out of work eg Challinor who was sacked by Fylde, or Turner who was a youth coach looking to go to a new level.
We've tried managers who've been top tier and from obscurity but rarely have any clicked.

still feel some since challinor could have been given a bit longer in the job. only sarll and hartley have been massive failures and nothing improved really after the others were shown the door. it would be hard to imagine things being worse under lee than it was with hartley and the same with phillips compared to sarll. thats our trouble going backwards instead of forwards and chucking money away on it.

He thinks it’s still 1980,when it was 2 points for a win,1 for a draw& win at home,draw would get you promotion.

Oh dear, that's success for Pools now is it? Better than Sarll . Oh my word. You might be right if yesterday's mediocrity was within the context of an overall bright era for the club, but it isn't.

He is no fool, he said himself we had no pace on the pitch and fuck all on the bench ….he thenbasically said it is what it is and on we go….the club is just taking the piss and going through the motions it’s so depressing

So going on that philosophy of other teams results.

We might as well not travel to Barnet 28th Jan and Sutton 8th Feb.
Well now that's two games I'm not even thinking about getting more than 1 point from.

The Hope (self inflicted brutal desease) has finally left my interlectual brain.
And will now only return under new Ownership.
Sing Out.

Whether any fan accepts it or not.

We have become a last resort club for Managers and Players who can't find employment at any other club.

FH might disagree because he thinks we are blessed to have that lazy bastad MannyD on the payroll with his 50k a week wages.

He's a grade 1.Fraudster we're only 1 club is gullible enuf to fall for his cockney bullshit.

And anutha mug Takeing the piss.
Ronnie Moore must be the worst Chief Scout we've ever had.
Probably gets pissed everyday watching the
Great Escape Season.

Spot on !

Lennie is cheap, and probably desperate to work, rather than sit most of the day in a Coffee shop in Yarm touting for work. Given his old skool outlook, he is probably as good as Pools could get in their current situation. Lennie will keep Pools up, some of the past managers would've taken Pools down with this motley crew of players, and yet some of those managers came here with decent CVs, Sarll, Curle, Askey, what is it with Pools?. Lennie is aware of the limitations of the players at his disposal, he won't chase a win just to appease the fans, when he knows fine well by doing so, we could throw away all 3 points. However the likes of Lennie will never get Pools promoted or into the play offs. certainly not without serious money getting spent on serious players. As usual 3 or 4 signings will be made shortly, the usual 3 or 4 flawed characters, and so it goes on...and on, rinse and repeat.

Mr I could've even said...

On the signing of players, I guess it also comes down to two things; firstly what Pools will pay and who wants to come. I can’t imagine the former is particularly attractive and as for interested players, do you really believe that given our track record good players are interested?.

one thing that sarll did get correct was recruiting players from the NE. really we are in a position where we only need to pay more than gateshead and teams in the northern section like spenny. We are not london area based where teams like wealdstone have to fight off interest from literally dozens of clubs where the player could get a bus ride to another club.

We had a great opportunity to cherry pick some of Gateshead finest who were out of contract.

Instead we took the usual cheap option of keeping shite like Fergy n Fevs and the new signings didn't turn out as great as Leggie expected.

Our league position represents the level of Ambition the club is run at.

Yet only last week
Radio Tees
Former players
And current players were coming out with shit that a genuine promotion assault was about to start at Wealdstone.

Unfortunately for the fans it ended at that tinpot club who we beat 7 2 under DC.
Ah well

Lawrence is not daft he knows what we are lacking, his hands are tied!
Wait until Featherstone is put in charge next year............................

Shoe string budget, managers salaries are stuff none of us know about though do we? My guess is that our budget is in the highest 3rd at least for this division when you consider where some of our recent signings have come from.
Raj has committed to financing only up until June so there may indeed be very dark times ahead.

Was replying to a different thread so not sure how this ended up in here?

for a start i suspect that from the outset fevs was not seen as a regular starter and we,d have seen less and less of him rather than the other way round. radio tees cannot say too much officially byt ex players especially could say it as it really is even though some would accuse them of never liking the club in the first place and have their own agenda with the club. actually does lennie really think we are genuinly in a promotion push or really thinks its a case of losing as few games as possible to see where it goes.

Would Tee’s still do live coverage if Pools dropped into the NLN or would it be split with reports from Darlos and Pools games, I believe it would be.

really doubt that will happen no matter what some i feel would love. same as gaining football league status again. just forget em both and get used to mid table obscurity and getting knocked out of the cups at the first available opportunity.