Mentioned working on getting the lad back on loan from Charlton.

Assume Mathurin will be going back at Xmas do replacing him
He looked decent in fairness

Good player the lad from Charlton.

Good managers bring loan players into non league to stop us being non league like DC.

This muppet turns them into bench warmers or leaves them on the bus.

There's a reason why nobody else wanted him as manager for 17 years.

He needs to sack himself.

But the 2 coaches don't fill me with any confidence even though their you tube interviews are world class verbal.

The shits getting closer to the fan for sure.

He said he hopes the fans are still proud of the team after Gateshead

Proud ? Haven’t been proud of supporting this shower for a couple of years now, we are halfway down a league we have nearly always been at least one division above, and this clown is hoping we are proud of that….

and if we beat oldham everything will be forgiven for a few days at least. the shit started at ebbsfleet not yesterday.

We wont beat Oldham. We might get a draw, but the most likely outcome is a loss. Barnet played us off the park at the Vic and would have won 1-0 if the ref hadnt felt sorry for us and chalked off a perfectly good goal. We are just not good enough against the best teams in this league.

got to try to be positive though as we have not had a single shock result in our favour yet this season. every club always seem to get at least one.

I remember years gone by we used to beat the top teams regualarly when we expected to get beat, now its all a bit predictable, is it lack of fight? Just pure lack of quality? About time we actually put in a performance and won. Yesterday was a disgrace not something the fans are proud of lennie. We got off exceptionally lightly. They were streets ahead of us.

if every club was as predictable as pools now are the bookies would be in meltdown. only time we are unpredictable is when we lose to teams that we should beat.

All there goals come from no closeing down or press.
And no tackles.
Lazy bastads the lot of them.

Holiday camp under Superlen.

I have mentioned this before,Pools are back to the level of the pre IOR days and we will never be any different until if ever a buyer comes in prepared to invest a load of money into the club. We could just end up a yo yo club flitting between the NL and the NIN as long as Raj Singh owns the club.

Solihull away was a shock result for me, But not as big a shock as Ebbsfleet away, Now how many games have Ebbsfleet won this season

Yes, Solihull was a complete shock. The kind of result that rekindles hope that Pools could do something this season and then the York hammering plus the Barnet outclassing put things back into perspective and just in case there was any doubt, Gateshead eliminated it. While we might scrape past the likes of Yeovil; York, Gateshead, Barnet, Oldham and Forest Green are different gravy. AmI right in stating that we have only managed one win by a margin of more than one goal (Aldershot 2-0)? What play off contender has a record like that, half way through the season. I agree with Mr Accrington and others that we need to be positive but by heck it is a challenge.

I still think tactics are shit and that's down to the manager. Last season Grey and Mani as a strike pair worked a treat, this season Mani is lone striker and Joe is being played as a winger. Why when we've got wingers?
Sherron filled in at RB as an emergency but his best position is midfield, play your best players in their best positions ffs. Charman is a charlatan and shouldn't be playing at anywhere near NL level, especially when he's keeping Lua Lua out of the team. Mani O is better than Waterfall but he's loaned out. Fev is too slow, too static and inhibits any attacking threat from central midfield. Mancini was marked by 2 or 3 players so why weren't we moving into free spaces to feed off him?
Was Lenny dictating tactics to Sarll because we seem to be reverting back to Sarllball tactics again?
It's a f*king simple game made difficult by simple f*king managers and coaches.

Cant argue with that. We have some excellent players for this level but struggle our way through games even against the average sides. The tactics must play a major part in that which is down to the gaffer.

I can’t remember anyone saying that we are to be honest, LL went out of his way to emphasise that we wouldn’t be able to defeat the top teams therefore we need to collect points from those mid table downwards. We have progressed from strong relegation candidates under Sarll to (would-be) play-off contenders under the current regime. It is unlikely that the Pools side as it currently stands is capable of turning over any of the top 6 but grabbing a point is not beyond its capability given slices of luck as was the case vs Barnet. Fresh blood is clearly needed to boost the squad at this stage of he campaign - but I can’t see it happening - unless someone of value is sacrificed. God forbid.

Having just read the posts above I think the views expressed contain more common sense and truths than any other that I have read.

This side are miles off the top 4/5 teams in the league. We don't have a particularly competent keeper,Dixon on his early season form probably looks the best bet. We severely lack pace at the back,we can cope against sides who are more direct but as soon as we play a side with good quick movement we get badly found out. Totally lacking legs in midfield STILL after the problem has never been addressed for years. Sheron is the most mobile in there and he's not quick. Out wide we don't have players who get quality into the box, get in some good areas but the final ball is shocking, charman being the main culprit of this,rarely picks a man out. Grey tries but he's no winger. Games like yesterday you can see mani getting frustrated because the service to him is so bad and he has to come looking for the ball.
Personally I think we should be looking at a formation change to a 3-5-2 and bring a centre half in with some speed, dodds at wing back,still get your 3 in the middle but allows 2 up front,got to be worth a try surely.

Spot on our Kev.

Having watched the lowlights yet again I would concur with much of the above. Was yesterday purely a case of being gubbed by a better side? The midfield and defence was repeatedly static, no urgency, no press and no tackles. Did the players turn up at the Heed thinking that they could simply stroll about and pick up points against one of the strongest sides in the NL? Where they perhaps suffering from the excesses of Xmas Day, not necessarily alcohol but simply overdoing it? Did Lenny and the coaches not have them sufficiently motivated for the task in hand? More questions than answers - but the biggest one is that although LL has undoubtedly stopped the rot that was Sarll’s legacy, is he capable of motivating players taking the club as far as possible during the current season?

Maybe we might blame it on Christmas excess were were it not for drubbing York gave us and the football lesson Barnet gave us. Tactics not right and the team in general not quite good enough to trouble the top five teams. It is what it is. Lets see if we can be competitive against Oldham though I have serious doubts.

MannyD
Parkes
Featherstone
Mancini.
Can someone explain to me why they get cult status.
At the very best average non league players.

If the majority of our team had the same work ethic desire n Commitment as J Grey then we would be a lot further up the table.

Lazy culture set into the club under LL.

More gaps on the terraces is the future unfortunately and the worst thing about it.
This shit division WAS there for the Takeing.

DTP.

[quote="kevin pooles gloves"]MannyD
Parkes
Featherstone
Mancini.
Can someone explain to me why they get cult status.
At the very best average non league players.

If the majority of our team had the same work ethic desire n Commitment as J Grey then we would be a lot further up the table.

possibly because they are either the best central defender we have got or what they have done in the past. know of one player who could be a feathers replacement with legs. 20 year old cody johnson who by all accounts is playing well for high flying kings lynn on loan from stockport. a team higher up the league than the mighty brackley who dumped us out of the cup. i,m sure challinor would do us a favour in january after the lad is recalled after his loan spell is up.

This sh*t division WAS there for the Takeing, what brings you fo that conclusion you need investment and decent players which Pools don’t have and we have an owner who won’t invest in the club.

Sometimes it's about investment in the right players,look at gateshead for example, whoever does their recruitment seems to get it spot on and they probably don't have a budget as big as pools. It's about using the the budget wisely and having a plan on how to play then bringing players in to suit that. Pools recruitment is generally quite poor and we probably don't get value for money, rarely do we unearth a gem. The whole club has no identity and never will until raj goes. The ground and the fans are tired, there is no direction and we are going nowhere.

not tired but pissed off. do not know if others have done this over the years and get zero comeback. sending names of players you have seen to pools as sensible players for them to sign. got totally peed off doing this to find a good number of those names signing for clubs in our league to either have long careers in the game or in one case get international caps. just wonder if gateshead have a different attitude to this.

Well I reckon we'll be paying good wages to a lot of this lot but we're not getting value and that's as much down to coaching and management as anything else. Lua Lua and Madine won't be here on peanuts, nor will Campbell, Hunter, or even Charman. If money is so tight that it's spent on the team or the ground then it's got to be the team.
Not sure Lenny has the ability to really turn things around, we seem to be stuck in a constant rut where we accept our midfield being non existent or influential. We've separated a proven goalscoring partnership and we're as vulnerable at the back to pace and movement as we've been for 4 or 5 seasons.

central midfield as an attacking force has been missing for years and at the back we have sacrificed any pace we had for players being more commanding in the air. can understand the latter as not many teams we play have great pace and use it up front. more likely a long ball fighting for bits to drop in their favour but with more players than we have to latch on to them.

Notice Stoke have sacked their third manager this year. Stoke are owned by one of the richest families .in the country. Just imagine if our resident doom mongers were Stoke fans

we still have time to catch them up.