"You think we have turned a corner and them we are right back to square one"

quote from the DW's after match comments on the Pools site

Surely you'd have to turn four corners....? ...By the way he was praising Barker on TFM tonight i'll be surprised if ghe isn't playing Monday.

Well it sure looks like we are missing Barker doesn't it?

Sure looks like we missing something, a likeable manager

Turning a single 180 degree corner will get you back to where you started from. Shrewd cookie this DW

We dont need Barker, we just need to sort the defense out. DW is a cock

No it looks like we are as frustratingly inconsistent as we have been all season with or without him. By all accounts we defended terribly today. That's got bugger all to do with who's up top.

So its nothing to do with how the players are trained? Right thats ok then.

So its nothing to do with how the players are trained? Right thats ok then.[/quote]

Eh!?

We kept clean sheets in half of our games last season, did that have nothing to do with training then?

You can point at team selections and breaking up Nelson and Clark or the goalkeeping situation but Nelson has been off the boil for a lot of the season. I'm sure he's being 'trained' exactly as he was in previous seasons when he was playing well. You can't train people not to make individual errors.

Anyone with any sense that saw the game today would be surprised if Barker isn't playing on Monday. We had absolutely eff all up front.
Having said that the only players to come out of that with any credit were Monkhouse, possibly Humps and Liddle and Porter for scoring.
Thought Robson and Foley did ok when they came on.
It was a bad day from start to finish, shiit journey, shiit ground, shiit match, shiit ref, etc etc etc.
Then to top it off Didn't see Mr Ticklehill, so no ridiculous match reports to laugh at and Mr Chip hasn't been on bulling Joel up

Joel just about came out of the game with a bit of credit, he took his goal well, clean through one on one with the keeper dead central and finished it cool as you like. (that means dead easy, not as cool as you, like!)
Defence was all over the place again, was happy with it beforehand cos Antwi has done ok at full back the last few times, but none of the players appeared comfortable with it and after every mistake there was loads of finger pointing and whinging.
Sweeney was terrible and at one point came in for quite a bit of stick for one terrible pass to Mackay who had moved position ages before Sweeney decided to pass it, only for Sweeney to do what he does too much of lately, start waving his arms about and blame everyone but himself, anyhow I think the fans put him straight on that one.
Mackay was anonimous.
Monkhouse was our best player especially in 2nd half, but nearly lost the plot late on when Crewe started taking the piss.

Eh!?

We kept clean sheets in half of our games last season, did that have nothing to do with training then?

You can point at team selections and breaking up Nelson and Clark or the goalkeeping situation but Nelson has been off the boil for a lot of the season. I'm sure he's being 'trained' exactly as he was in previous seasons when he was playing well. You can't train people not to make individual errors.[/quote]

So if Nelson has made so many mistakes why has he been continously selected even though he has made so many mistakes. The manager picks the team, he trains em, he studies them all week so the buck lays with him. Just like any other management set up i would of thought.

this season has more twists and turns than chubby checker,we have'nt had a settled team all season, we just seem to get things sorted and we get an injury or dw starts pratting about over tinkering when there is no need,surely he could have blooded some of the younger players,instead of some of the crap loan players he brought in(god am i not loking forward to mondays game) just wondering which team turns up?

After building Collins up to be a superhero, it's seems from the few comments so far, that he is human after all. So the big question is not will Clark return, but who will partner him Collins or Nelson?

For me the team on Monday should be..

Lee-Barratt
McCunnie Collins Clark Humphries
Sweeney Liddle Boland Monkhouse
Brown Porter

Subs: Nelson McKay Barker Robson Foley

doesn't McCunnie get three games, for a straight red ?

Only one game for a professional foul or two yellows.

It's only 3 games for 'violent conduct'.

He might have said loads of things that are geometrically impossbile in his time but this ain't one of them.

"You THINK we have turned a corner".
- Implication: yes but finally we haven't turn a corner have we.

"...and them [sic] we are right back to square one"
- Implication: therefore since we never turned a corner we didn't really change anything; so we are back where we started aren't we.

Dove il problema?

Whats more fecking annoying is Bennyworth was a defender werent he they should be brought in for extra coaching where they going wrong.

Yes Ian Bennyworth was a defender.

To blame him for the current debacle is a tad harsh though and I don't think he should be giving the players extra coaching. This could prove difficult seen as he hasn't been seen around the club since half time at Feethams in 1991/92. We were three down......

So considering you are employed by an employee Mr PJ and your form dipped you werent selling as many tellies or pensions for instance what would your manager say/do. Im sure they would coach you or put there arm around you and try and find out what the problem is, so why should football at pools be any different.

I know what you are saying Timmy I apologise, I was being facetious with you after getting you're Bennyworth's and Butterworth's mixed up.

I don't see how a defender who left the club 17 years can help

Apologies accepted but you seems a tad angry this fine day Mr PJ

Considering Nelson and Antwis performances this season i may reserve judgement on that statement.