Northampton, Bradford and Doncaster Rovers eyeing him up.

And the fee?

Aside from his recent goal I can't think of anything useful he's done!

I will drive him to the club of his choice free of charge as long as he promises not to come back. Absolute bobbins.

Would be a nice turn around for him, had to drop out of the league, worked hard to get a contract extension with us, and then again to get into our first team. A tidy player, but just a squad member for those three sides I'd imagine.

Would free up another slot in the team for a young loanee to get experience. Win win surely!?

Be a big loss if we want to carry on playing football imo.

Regardless of thoughts on his ability the amount of outgoings is more than concerning. No incoming until new manager is in place so how can players be allowed to leave??

Can't see this rumour being true, but if he does go and isn't replaced with a similar player, I'm sure we will enjoy watching route one football, straight onto the defenders unchallanged head for the rest of the season.

Happened all the time under IOR. Don't underestimate the influence of Hodcroft's mam.

I would laugh my cock off if he goes and gets his game for a better team. Not at him but the cranks in the Pools supporters who have singled him out as the scapegoat for all our ills. He isn't the complete player but he is the best footballer and if he as alongside someone with a bit of fire and bite could be an integral player.

Oh and message to morons playing the way you are facin and occasionally passing backwards and sideways is an important part of the game rather than constantly booting it forward. He is the least weak of our midfield in terms of overall contribution yet seems to have the most haters

I totally agree if he played alongside someone who could tackle put a challenge in for a header go past a man pick a defensive splitting pass and score 30 goals a season he would be the best midfielder at the club. His form picked up under hignett but has soon gone back to none existent. Let's see who really signs him Dave Jones might have him part of his plans. He is part of a team that consistently loses when he plays not just at pools.

There's loads of those midfielders kicking about in league 2 like

I like Featherstone generally but he winds me up the amount of times he gets caught with the ball outside the 18 yard box.

Featherstone was playing his best when he was at the base of a midfield in a 4-3-3, it gave him room to turn and play forwards. When he's pushed up in the 3-5-2 that Hignett was playing it didn't give him that option, because midfielders would close him down far quicker. As a result his possible out-balls were limited to the centre-backs or full backs who think playing wing back just involves standing five yards ahead of the back line.

He's one of our better midfielders, and certainly the smartest possession-wise which is why I was so confused as to why Hignett was playing him in the way he was.

I'm not a fan, he seems to receive the ball and almost instinctively turns back towards his own goal and quite often directly into trouble.


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I'm not trying to argue he is a world beater, he is a journeyman lower league midfield player with many aspects of the game which has weaknesses. However the type of player he is, i.e. one who tries to play footballer and keep possession seems to single him out as more of a scapegoat than many others around him who have as many or more weaknesses. This is a long term disease at Pools in my opinion, you can sense the frustration building in the crowd whenever there is some slow possession building.

He ain't a world beater but could be ok in a decent team with the right blend that's all

It was a dark day for the club the day he played number 10


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That I do agree with, like making Amond center half

It's up there with the day sweeney was right bort


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Sweeney was right bort for a season wasn't he?

Or Graeme Lee upfront.

Actually I seem to remember it was fairly common to have CB/ST on Champ Manager etc once upon a time?

Didnt Damien Henderson used to play both?

and be shit at both.

Excellent bait young Jeremy. I think you've hooked yourself a two pager here.

Its from Sky Sports News.

Then it must be true! Hope the bidding starts at £100k.

Featherstone is a canny footballer. I would say in possession of the ball he's a good player, out of possession though he's very poor. He has the tendency to be quite lazy in terms in closing down and a tackle is a rarity that normally ends in some kind of card. He'd do alright for a team doing well in this division likely to dominate possession with players around him that get stuck in. He's had some very good games for us his bad games are not normally littered with mistakes he's just anonymous as the opposition waltz through midfield without any bother.

That's not even the issue here though is it? Why are so many of our players being linked to other clubs. It can hardly be down our outstanding performances catching the eye. Are they being touted about as available? It can't be coming from the manager either. You could sort of understand Carroll and Toto given the way our back four have performed this season you could sort of see the manager saying 'I'll cut my losses here as long as I can replace them with better' but Featherstone is someone who plays every week and even considering his limitations we can't afford to lose from the squad. Laurent, Amond, Paynter and Carson are all names that have cropped up. What the fook is going on here? It's all adding to my very bad feeling.

He is a coward with a yellow streak down his back who couldn't tackle his Sunday dinner. his idea of progress is passing the ball sideways or backwards and usually losing possession. And when he has a couple of attackers running at him it is a case of "after you, Claude" as he allows them a free run on goal. Only Hignett could play him at No 10. And the reported interest in him from three clubs has as much credence as the Steven Gerrard to be our next manager story. Fucking laughable.

He is a coward with a yellow streak down his back who couldn't tackle his Sunday dinner. his idea of progress is passing the ball sideways or backwards and usually losing possession. And when he has a couple of attackers running at him it is a case of "after you, Claude" as he allows them a free run on goal. Only Hignett could play him at No 10. And the reported interest in him from three clubs has as much credence as the Steven Gerrard to be our next manager story. Fucking laughable.

As Chip said:

"Sort of player who will never be appreciated by people who don't really understand what they are watching."

He gets slated because hes not a tackler.
But his attributes are his control and passing.

Not surprised if he gets a move as the buying club(s) will of picked up on the fact that we are skint and need to reduce the wage bill.
Wouldent be surprised to see Amond and Laurent to move on before the deadline.

See what the next two weeks brings!

Club being stripped of its assets!
Not surprising as the club has no money.

Laurent is worth a million according to Hignett, I assume he meant Vietenamese dong!

To save you googling, currently 1 VND = 0.00004 GBP

The good agents of our saleable players should be tapping the Chinese Premier League!

He has had some good games but for someone who has played much higher up with Hull I find him an eternal disappointment, there really should be so much more from him, but if being a good player or our best player consists of 9/10 sideway or backward passes fair play. How many games does a manger have to play him and Woods in centre midfield without recognising it just does not work. I would take some money for him.

Coxall should take over another club, take out several loans against them. Then buy all of our dross with the borrowed money. We pay off our debts and get rid of half the squad. Easy

Chip you forgot to mention you played at hordon when you mentioned people don't understand what they watching.

Before the release of Nsiala and Carroll we had a First Team squad of 31 players.....yes 'THIRTY ONE' players (check the OS), that's one's who've been given a squad number, can someone please remind me but was it Yeovil? who got promotion a couple of season's ago using a squad of only 18 First Team players. Somebody has probably sat down and suggested we offload some of higher earners about 8 or 9 for example and a new Manager allowed to try and bring in 4 or 5 quality signings.......seems sensible to me.
That would still leave us with a squad of say 27/28 players, is that not enough?

We were checking the programme after the Grimsby game and counted 35.

[quote="paulus the woodgnome and a side salad"]Before the release of Nsiala and Carroll we had a First Team squad of 31 players.....yes 'THIRTY ONE' players (check the OS), that's one's who've been given a squad number, can someone please remind me but was it Yeovil? who got promotion a couple of season's ago using a squad of only 18 First Team players. Somebody has probably sat down and suggested we offload some of higher earners about 8 or 9 for example and a new Manager allowed to try and bring in 4 or 5 quality signings.......seems sensible?
That would still leave us with a squad of say 27/28 players, is that not enough?[/quote

Prefer quality over quantity, 20 decent would be good.

Can anyone name these 31 players? As for featherstone if he had a midfield of tinkler, miller and humphreys when we first signed him he would probobly be a cracking player, unfortunately he has spent half his time here playing with an invisible midfield, who get away with murder because no one notices them.

Chip wouldn't know a player if one kicked him in the balls. Why don't you get your nose out of his arse

Didn't Newcastle try this, buying in young players then selling them on for a profit? It got then relegated eventually.

As for Henry....... I love you still Chip and value your comments on here!

Opinions on Walton and Featherstone would make a decent acid test as to whether I'm going to listen to someone about Pools.

Well here's mine, Walton was a loud mouthed show pony who strolled around looking and shouting the part but did little other than try a few Hollywood balls per game and bollocked others putting in twice the effort he did.

Very true. If Walton tackled you, you would know about it. Whereas if Featherlite tackled you ... er has he ever tackled anyone?

Agree with CF for once, Featherstone certainly is no world beater but a better and more experienced manager/coach may be able to get rather more out of him than Hignett & co. Anyway there are surely others ahead of him in the exit queue i.e. Walker, Laurent, Woods, Deverdics, Jones although I appreciate that these players will have hardly attracted positive attention from elsewhere this season - but surely we didn't expect to receive fees for either Toto or Carroll?

Personally I would like to see more of the backroom staff's contracts terminated - starting with Parnaby - if funds have to be found to introduce quality and experience on the field of play. Also some of the myriad of the 'promising younglings' signed up 'for the future' should be shipped out on loan to the likes of Billy Town, Synners etc in order to toughen them up and enable them to learn how to take criticism without bursting into firkin tears. The club needs to shape up for the task in hand and become leaner and meaner in every sense.

Sorry chip football is a game of opinions to say people who do not like Featherstone do not understand football is a bit of a low baller.
Featherstone has got his place because there is nobody else. All managers have picked him yes but what about all the managers who have given him the boot?
I would guess 80 per cent of fans would drop him if there was an alternative.There .
. views are he cannot defend, he cannot win a header, his goal scoring record is about the same as Micky Barron and how many assists has he made? Yes he is a nice tidy footballer when given space and time but that is generally in his own half.
Come on now do not call others just because they do not share your views.

If we had a midfield three of Mark Tinkler, Dean Emerson and Walton in their prime we would stroll this division. It would not matter if we had a crap right back, two useless centre backs and a couple of strikers who can't score a goal