20 points

paulus the woodgnome and a side salad · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2015 12:04 pm

Is bottom of the League above us, the fact there are 3 really poor sides below us is masking what a godawful season we've had so far.
On the coaching side (which I happen to think is one of the main reason's we are where we are) did anyone notice the subs working together at half time in a group rather than randomly hoofing the ball to one another across the pitch during the break, which is going back to what we were doing at the start of the season.
I'm not suggesting this will singularly make a difference, but a real shake-up/rethink on the coaching side is definitely needed as the standards up to now have obviously been nowhere near good enough.......e.g. our first corner on Saturday clearing everyone and going straight out for a throw in banghead

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

paulus the woodgnome and a side salad wrote:

Is bottom of the League above us, the fact there are 3 really poor sides below us is masking what a godawful season we've had so far.
On the coaching side (which I happen to think is one of the main reason's we are where we are) did anyone notice the subs working together at half time in a group rather than randomly hoofing the ball to one another across the pitch during the break, which is going back to what we were doing at the start of the season.
I'm not suggesting this will singularly make a difference, but a real shake-up/rethink on the coaching side is definitely needed as the standards up to now have obviously been nowhere near good enough.......e.g. our first corner on Saturday clearing everyone and going straight out for a throw in banghead

For some reason on corners all our players attack the front post and no one covers the back stick.

Maybe just presume its going to hit the first man as usual.

ElvisC · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:55 am **Posts:** 4504

Use the windfall to get Hignett in as a Coach. Easy.

loan_star · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2015 1:24 pm

ElvisC wrote:

Use the windfall to get Hignett in as a Coach. Easy.

Thought he was after the top job rather than coach?

derwent · **Joined:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:59 pm **Posts:** 12380

ElvisC wrote:

Use the windfall to get Hignett in as a Coach. Easy.

Like ASAP.
Or better still NOW.

pooliecrab · **Joined:** Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:31 pm **Posts:** 6028

Fair play to Hignett/his agent, that interview he did has got a chunk of the fans in his corner. It would take a brave chairman to appoint someone else if he did sack Ronnie.

PooliePaul0211 · **Joined:** Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:59 pm **Posts:** 49

20 points and more importantly only 20 goals, the lowest scorers in the division. 2 of those being penalties and 1 own goal I believe which makes it 17 from open play. But it's alright because Moore thinks there's goals in his team. And he's tipped Carroll to knock in a few. The writing is most definitely on the wall.

I noticed the players 'working together' if you can call it that. They - including our goalkeeper - were playing three yards passes to each other. If a professional footballer can't play a three yard pass! There was a strong wind, the keeper should have been practising balls in the air. Walker should have been practising long balls to Bingham. And we should have been practising shooting against the wind seeing as though we didn't bother in the first half with the wind behind us. How many shots did Plymouth have in the first few minutes of the second half when they had the wind behind them? Words fail me just how inept we are tactically.

kevin pooles gloves · **Joined:** Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:28 pm **Posts:** 9781

The only deadball situation i get excited about is a penalty as free kicks and corners rarely produce goals and this has gone on for to long.
What goes on in training is anyones guess a mystery for scooby doo to solve!

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37785

If Hignett did come as coach, this would surely be a new appointment, as I've seen no evidence of a coach ever being employed for quite a while now.

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6476

ElvisC wrote:

Use the windfall to get Hignett in as a Coach. Easy.

He was at the match on Saturday, maybe it's time to start putting 2 and 2 together

Tax Paying Poolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:18 am **Posts:** 9053

Fensy wrote:

ElvisC wrote:

Use the windfall to get Hignett in as a Coach. Easy.

He was at the match on Saturday, maybe it's time to start putting 2 and 2 together

His interview in last week's Gazette wasn't the most subtle about wanting the job once it's available

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5096

He was at last Tuesday's game as well

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alibarthez · **Joined:** Tue Nov 25, 2014 10:06 pm **Posts:** 1072

I despair when the players come out for each half and gather to do those inane routines on the touchline. What the hell is that all about? We just look total tits.

Hartleblue · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2015 11:02 pm

Walked past that miserable git Lee Clarke in the car park before the match on Saturday, god help us if he ever gets the job!

chunky1988 · **Joined:** Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:33 pm **Posts:** 1066

Whilst I would never want lee Clarke in charge, someone like him might finally get us from being so soft.

We must literally be the nicest team in the football league. When people foul our player, stay on the floor. Get other players round the ref. Make ref think about it. We get straight back up and shake hands with the opposition.

It's not pretty but it's part and parcel of the game now. Take tactical yellow cards, think gray did it although that was only 4 minutes in ha

The Colonel · **Joined:** Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:49 am **Posts:** 4891

alibarthez wrote:

I despair when the players come out for each half and gather to do those inane routines on the touchline. What the hell is that all about? We just look total tits.

God help us?????

Compared to what?

How could things possibly be worse than they currently are?

Please tell me.

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

Clark reminds me of Turner.

Both fuck all to show on CV apart from failure.

PJPoolie · **Joined:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:28 pm **Posts:** 15342

Chris Turner is like the late Brian Clough compared to Clark.

His record since Huddersfield (where he failed with a huge budget and an entourage of experienced backroom and staff) is staggeringly appalling. Something like a point game over 116 matches at Birmingham and twenty points in 33 games at Blackpool.

If he ever got the Pools job I'd be having a spell where I didn't go.

kevin pooles gloves · **Joined:** Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:28 pm **Posts:** 9781

I,d be very surprised if a new manager was in the offing.
Add Ronnie n Sams wages together times it by 2 n half years and theres u answer.
More or less stuck with them unless they resign which i cant see happening.

They claim to be good coaches who can send these loanies back to there parent clubs better players.
Only 1 out of the last 20 odd loanies has benefitted from this unless theres some kind of confusion between eyes and pickled onions!

pooliecrab · **Joined:** Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:31 pm **Posts:** 6028

I'd say Tshibola and Hugill benefited. More from first team games than any coaching I suspect though.

unruly poolie · **Joined:** Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:12 pm **Posts:** 1015

kevin pooles gloves wrote:

I,d be very surprised if a new manager was in the offing.
Add Ronnie n Sams wages together times it by 2 n half years and theres u answer.
More or less stuck with them unless they resign which i cant see happening.

They claim to be good coaches who can send these loanies back to there parent clubs better players.
Only 1 out of the last 20 odd loanies has benefitted from this unless theres some kind of confusion between eyes and pickled onions!

Which makes it all the more baffling why JPNG gave them new contracts where were they expecting 62 year old Moore to go?

Sam Collins was hardly going to be fighting off offers with a shitty stick either

The Colonel · **Joined:** Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:49 am **Posts:** 4891

Right. I get the point about Lee Clark.

Now answer my question:

How couldit possibly be worse than it is now?

I have seem with my own eyes recently how bad this team is, and reading the most of the boards, it seems more or less accepted that this is the worst team we have ever had.

So I must ask again, how could it possibly be worse?

Are you suggesting you would rather go down than try that spotty horrible twat?

thetownendfaithful · **Posted:** Tue Dec 22, 2015 1:36 pm

Lee Clark was at the Bristol Rovers game as well

unruly poolie · **Joined:** Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:12 pm **Posts:** 1015

The Colonel wrote:

Right. I get the point about Lee Clark.

Now answer my question:

How couldit possibly be worse than it is now?

I have seem with my own eyes recently how bad this team is, and reading the most of the boards, it seems more or less accepted that this is the worst team we have ever had.

So I must ask again, how could it possibly be worse?

Are you suggesting you would rather go down than try that spotty horrible twat?

It would be worse as Lee Clark is a worse manager than Moore HTH

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 22, 2015 1:58 pm

The Colonel wrote:

Right. I get the point about Lee Clark.

Now answer my question:

How couldit possibly be worse than it is now?

I have seem with my own eyes recently how bad this team is, and reading the most of the boards, it seems more or less accepted that this is the worst team we have ever had.

So I must ask again, how could it possibly be worse?

Are you suggesting you would rather go down than try that spotty horrible twat?

Have to disagree here. Last year's team was horrific. This one is better, not much, but it's definitely better.

billinghampoolie1908 · **Joined:** Thu Feb 05, 2015 5:52 pm **Posts:** 4478

This team could easily go down this year but I still think its much better than last years shambles. Last years team would of caved in against Salford and had a few more batterings than we have had currently.

billinghampoolie1908 · **Joined:** Thu Feb 05, 2015 5:52 pm **Posts:** 4478

You could argue though that Huddersfield went 20 odd games unbeaten. I think we would settle for three games at present. Would be nice to see a team winning for a change whoever it is that would be a step in the right direction. Until we spend some money on getting decent quality players we may as well stick with who we have with maybe a decent coach brought in to help.

Wommers · **Posted:** Tue Dec 22, 2015 3:38 pm

Chip Fireball wrote:

Pretty much summed up the wretched Geordie fucker and his entourage.

Couldn't have put it better myself. The bloke is an arse.

Wommers · **Posted:** Tue Dec 22, 2015 3:44 pm

Every time I think of Lee Clarke there's an endearing image of him jumping up and down and shouting in a previous Stevenage coach face at full time of another inevitably fractious game.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/huddersfield-2-1-stevenage-staff-and-players-1701254

henry · **Joined:** Mon Jun 22, 2015 3:22 pm **Posts:** 127

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER wrote:

Clark reminds me of Turner.

Both fuck all to show on CV apart from failure.

this

henry · **Joined:** Mon Jun 22, 2015 3:22 pm **Posts:** 127

pooliecrab wrote:

Fair play to Hignett/his agent, that interview he did has got a chunk of the fans in his corner. It would take a brave chairman to appoint someone else if he did sack Ronnie.

Although some would say that Danny Wilson, who was at the Salford replay, as manager and Hignett as coach might be the dream team.

henry · **Joined:** Mon Jun 22, 2015 3:22 pm **Posts:** 127

pooliecrab wrote:

Fair play to Hignett/his agent, that interview he did has got a chunk of the fans in his corner. It would take a brave chairman to appoint someone else if he did sack Ronnie.

Although some would say that Danny Wilson, who was at the Salford replay, as manager and Hignett as coach might be the dream team.

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

Some would say that twice.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37785

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER wrote:

Some would say that twice.

Could be an echo.

Chesssington · **Joined:** Fri Oct 31, 2014 6:36 pm **Posts:** 900

Would be good for the chairman to advise his thoughts on the free fall

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