Lets keep all the players that arent good enough for this league then eh!!

Kushty!!

Next to be signed up to longer deals will be:
Budtz
Elliot
Boland
Foley
Gibb
Lee-Barret

Get a grip Wilson it's not funny anymore you clown.

You mupppet, give your head a shake man!

This board just gets worse with idiots like this bloke on it.

Look at it another way....what would be the benefit of not offering Ritchie Humphreys a new deal, in view of his contribution this season (and all seasons)?

What are you on about ali gibb is excellent

Rearrange these three words;

Talk Bollocks don't.

How the fook can any sane individual compare Richie to the likes of Budtz, Lee-Barratt, and Gibb

the full team is basically not good enough 4 the league

Poolie Girl, does someone else other than you having an opinion make them an idiot?

For what its worth Ritchie has been a great player for us but as a left back in this league is very poor, and he wont be first choice in midfield.

Just because he gives 100% every weeks doesnt mean he deserves a new contract, hell Richie Barker does that and scores goals but gets nothing but abuse from some quarters!!

He does a job at left back, yes maybe he struggles against the better wingers but essentially you've said it he isn't a left back.

He is easily good enough to play in this league though, and I'm delighted he's signed a deserved new contract.

Why in your opinion doesn't he deserve a new contract? Name an occasion when he's let us down......

Just because he isn't the best left back in the division (he is the best WE have there at the moment), and the fact he isn't first choice midfielder, doesn't mean he doesn't deserve a new contract. Have you never heard of squad players? Or should we only offer contracts to 11 players, and keep swapping and changing any extra players on our books?

i believe your right hes the best left back weve got and he hasnt made any huge mistakes like jan!

in my opinion yes you cannot argue with barkers goals and he gives 100% but basically barkers 100% is not good enough and more thn half of his goals have got to be penalties

I'm glad he has signed a contract. He still has something to offer - i bet Mr I is over the moon.....

No, not at all, but someone with an opinion so obviously ridiculous deserved the muppet comment.

Ritchie is still a great player and plays well wherever he is asked to play and I am made up that he has been given another contract. We would be worse off without him here and in my opinion he is fully deserving of his new contract.

Thats the worrying thing, He is the best left back we have but hes not upto it, sign one up!!

Humps signed as a striker, then played on the left side of midfield then the centre and now left back where will it end, it seems to me we are allowing sentiment to get in the way of bringing players in who are up to the job!

Wilson is being allowed to sign players up for next season when for me his own position should be under scrutiny, and that cant be right!

well who ever it was that signed him for the next two years has done a fantastic job
something to build on next season
LDB [LET DOWN BADLY] you seem to be comparing the two Richies WHY?
SENTIMENT HAS NOTHING DO DO WITH IT
HIS RECORD STANDS FOR ITSELF TOP SIGNING GETTTTIIINNN

effort and record do not make him set for the standard of this league that the fookin lot of you harp on about

i will be happy the day he (if) proves me wrong

he's not a left back and he's not a first choice midfielder

get over it gremlin, get over it adg and get over it gremlins daughter et al

great signing

I can't say I'm over the moon about the "signing", it registered as a dull thud with me much the same as that earth quake the other day

Ritchie has been been found wanting a number of times this season and has made mistakes. You cannot compare Butz with him because when a keeper makes a mistake it's 99 times out of 100 a goal against you. Thankfully Ritchies errors have not resulted in goals against as far as I can recall.

I hope Mr I makes his feelings on this news clear

Thank fook you agree thought i was on my own there!!

Were all pools fans but we all have our opinions, It's great innit!

As a servant to the club.........1st class. As far as commitment and effort are concerned......1st class. As a role model for young aspiring wannabe's...........1st class.
As a league one player capable of holding down a place in a team that is supposed to have championship aspirations.............not good enough. We need to sign a left back and perhaps a right back. If we do where does that put RH. The fact that he is the best left back at the club says it all.

Great post, Sums it up perfectly.

humphreys IS the club.one of the best signings the club has ever made.
it doesn't mean that he will be a first choice player it just means he will still be part of the club.
I can think of no better man to teach the young lads and the ressies how to conduct themselves.
If this club ever turns it's back on the likes of humphreys then it will lose it's identity.

This is just a guess but if we get a new left back at the club who can perform every game at a better standard that RH I would say he would be back up left back and a damn fine one he will be.

wooo hoo mr angry you are the one that needs to get over it
we are happy to celebrate a good signing
and just because some have another opinion's that doesn't make them right either
people were saying the same things about richie not good enough when the true fans showed them what they think when he cleared the board at the poty not too long ago

it puts RH back in the middle where he should be
but not many play out of position as well as he has done and just got on with the job when some of the so called mid field should have been backing him up as he does when he plays in the middle
too often the so called cover have been left wanting and is it not supposed to be a team game

he's a high wage earner who may be taking up the salary of a player like him when he signed all those years ago - winner of the POTY award well wow that's it for me like - it's an unusual array of fans that attend and vote in this as well and i ain't surprised that he wins it - the POTY awards aint exactly the oscars is it

got to agree with barkersbeef, the whole squad needs a overhaul and we have to get rid of dead wood, but ritchie isnt the worst player we have, at least he tries, but i do feel we need a new left back, cant see wilson being here next season anyway...............

He saw your opinion coming!!

he's a high wage earner who may be taking up the salary of a player like him when he signed all those years ago - winner of the POTY award well wow that's it for me like - it's an unusual array of fans that attend and vote in this as well and i ain't surprised that he wins it - the POTY awards aint exactly the oscars is it

so even the fans get it wrong for you as well as the management you are trying every angle now
not the oscars just a chance for fans to show their appreciation and it appears there is more for him than against him that will do for me

Careful Tigro, If you agree with me you will be subjected to insults from PoolieGirl for having a different opinion to her!!

What's the problem, a decent re-signing as a squad player.

talk about all girls together
a bunch of tarts having a pop at a young girl over a post just because she voices an opinion that disagrees with your own

Erm no, its all about opinions thats what im saying, When you put your opinion across you dont expect to be called a muppet and an idiot and making the board a worse place because of it.

I come here for good reasoned debate and in the main its the place to be!!

Well can we all start debating then...?

Never let reason get in the way of a good debate.

No need for the personal insults like.

It's only because you know that she is a young girl that you defend her - however you don't know the id of the rest of the other posters yet you like nothing better to launch your usual distribe on any poor unsuspecting fool.

hypocrite - and that's not a personal insult (before you spit your dummy out and your mates start pming me) it's an observation

Whoa...Lets end all this shite here eh!!

It's turning into Rivals!!

Ask yourselves the obvious question. How many of the teams in the top half of league one would be breaking a gut to sign Humphreys. He has been a great player for Pools but we need to move onwards and upwards.

You can't build a team on sand. Ritchie can play in many posistions and still has a lot to offer in my opinion. We all know he isn't the same player he was when he was 25 but you can't ship out everyone and create a team that will be challenging cheaply or overnight. We do have some good players but Mr Wilson is not getting those players to their potential, the likes of Clark, Nelson, Collins, McCunnie, Humphreys, Liddle, Brown, Monkhouse, Poter and Barker are decent players and although some of them shouldn't be ever presents they still have a lot to offer in a squad sense. The players in the squad that I haven't mentioned are either sadly past it or lacking in ability and charachter to succeed in the long term.....

i think you are picking on the wrong man picking on Ritchie......

I don't think i'm picking on the wrong man at all , Jonny. I'm discussing the man in question.

I'll put the question again. How many teams in the top half of league one would bust a gut to sign Humphreys?

The likes of Forest, Donny, Carlisle etc, probably wouldn't bust a gut to sign Ritchie but that does not mean that he should be released. You have to consider how easy / costly it would be to replace him.

I would love Pools to go and sign a superstar left back for 100k but if the budget is tight I would sooner that any quality cash buys were saved for signing a decent goalkeeper.....

It's only because you know that she is a young girl that you defend her - however you don't know the id of the rest of the other posters yet you like nothing better to launch your usual distribe on any poor unsuspecting fool.




the word is DIATRIBE and i have never launched a DISTRIBE at any one fool or not look it up
and i want all the liars on this board who pretended to be my friend and pmd poor unsuspecting Katcha on my behalf to show your selves now

It's been like Rivals on here for months

Well said Dawlish

that is what happen when you open up the board deterioration sets in

We do need a left back but until we do he's the best we've got. As a squad player fair enough, he's now what they used to call a utility player and he can fit in at most areas of the pitch and do a job so its hard to criticise this contract on a footballing level. In terms of booting people out the door there are more urgent cases so I wouldn't have him at the front of the queue either and as someone rightly said; you don't change an entire team overnight and expect instant results. For the future though, we need better than him in defence.

But why don't they want to Dibbs?

Why don't I want to much of the time?

I've never been a great starter of threads, leave that to clever folk like you, was a fairly consistent contributor though, but most of the stuff now is repetetive & negative & if you disagree with the concensus end up getting slagged off

Concur

90% of what is posted is not worth debating
that is why there is no true debate
which leads to rivals style slanging matches

we have a totally divided community
i have crossed swords on a number of times with the absent Mr I
but i dont hate him etc. which seems to come across in a lot of responses on here

mind i still think he is a grease ball moisturising tory boy woofter but that is only saying it as it is