What.???

My answer to that is yes. He has said as much. This is the ‘style’… he is not a total football manager and nor should we expect total football at the level. What is jarring is the progression of Gateshead for instance, making light work of the division by playing slick and attractive football. They also know when to hit the channels and the big man, in their case Beck.

People are pissed off because we can see we have bloody good national league footballers.

He has said he has a bias in recruitment on physicality and constantly talks about putting balls in the right areas….so yes booting long and feeding off scraps is how he likes his teams to play

BBC Tees interview with Sarll, very interesting. Sounds a bit wobbly, first chink in the armour. Still talking about nicking points. I’m also unsure on the ‘blueprint’ he tell us we have… it’s shite!

I don’t like the idea of ‘nicking points’ as a solution to our problem this early in the season…..that sounds like a man clutching at straws.

Playing the worst team by far in the conference and this manager is talking about nicking points. What on earth is he talking about.

Recruitment has been very good. Fitness is very good. Tactics are terrible.

He’s talked a lot about a meritocracy, but the one thing that is failing is the formations, and he seems to refuse to recognise his own failure. Or hold himself to the same standard that he holds the players.

While he’s playing more defensive Central Midfielders than Central Strikers, we’re going to have this problem.

The narrow wins were mainly down to the opposition missing late sitters.
Not us creating loads of chances and the opposition keepers pulling out worldies saves.

There's no way these tactics were Gunna bring success especially when it's clear to see the players downed tools yesterday.

It's over.
Expecting Fevs to revert to grass football v the Daggers.
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Yes all 3 games we won featured a gilt edged chance for the oppo in last minutes, I know coulda shoulda woulda but based on balance of play we are lucky to have as many points as we do which is scary when you look at the shite we have played

So luck only works one way then? We were unlucky with chances that have hit the post which could have changed results weren't we?
And also, great defending doesn't make the opposition unlucky it's good football.
We are where we are points wise, we could have had more or less but that's the cold hard fact.
Should we be higher up the table with this group of players is a totally different matter. I think everyone would agree we're massively underachieving and the non-football tactics are the primary reason.
Sarll needs to adapt or he won't be here for very much longer.

did not see the yeovil game but if we had missed those last minute chances tamworth and boston missed we,d be bemoaning out luck in one and our bad play in the other. his problem was last seasons side needed a few new signings and tweeks in tactics rather than a sledge hammer to crack a nut approach he brought in. i,m convinced its an over reaction by him to rid us of being the leagues mr.softies.

Sorry to say this but i also thought the players jacked in half way through the 2nd half, The body language on some was shocking.
Early in the season i know, 2 really massive home games coming up for both the club and manager.
And why is Dickenson getting yellows, Does he have no control or just a thug.

more likely he,s the bully drill sergeant working under colonel blimp or the grand old duke of york whichever you prefer.

We weren’t against Woking, but other than that, you do have a point. I really don’t like his mindset of “we have a way of playing, other teams should worry about us, we don’t worry about the opposition.”

If the opposition know exactly how we are going to set up and play, then they can work all week on how to stop it. We are becoming very one-dimentional and easy to defend against.

If we aren’t doing our homework on where the opposition’s strengths and weaknesses are, along with any vulnerabilities to certain passages of play, then we are missing a huge opportunity. We’re not Barcelona, we need to take every advantage that we can.

Rewind to a few weeks back.
Concerned fans were saying we had to win those back to back games. We fcuked up major style.

Then it was its Only Boston n Ebbs fleet.
We have to win these piss easy game.
Yet again we fcuked up major style.

Now it's we have to win these next 2 home games.

Next it will be we have to start winning these next blocks of 3 n 4 games just to get near the top end.

Just got no faith whatsoever in going on a winning run under this clueless manager.
But still got faith with these talented players if Raj can find someone to manage them properly even if Fevsy has to hold Fort for a month or so.
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I agree with earlier posts that after a brief period after the break, the team just went through the motions. What has happened to the fit, ball winning outfit that started the season? Fleet, out to impress the new manager, were much keener and quicker to the ball. It looks as though our 'new manager' boost is well and truly over!

I must confess to being confused as to how the players on paper appear to be much stronger than previous seasons yet cannot perform on grass! I would like to think that Sarll can come up with a winning formula to save his skin but he has two home games before I join the clamor for his sacking.

Enough of the procrastination, it beggars belief that Sarll hasn’t gone yet - maybe Raj is currently away on business or holiday. Can anyone seriously envisage Sarll turning Pools season around given his inane tactics, illogical comments and what has actually happened (or not happened) to date, especially given the forthcoming run of fixtures. Most of us accept that this is a shit or bust season but if nothing changes we could easily be looking purely at survival by the time the clocks go back. Wherever you are Raj please get the job done, you can put whoever you like in caretaker charge, Ronnie, Lenny, Gazzer, Feaths even. We won’t hold it against you - honestly!

Bang on.
The longer the stay of execution or bigger the game of catch up and the quicker the budgeted promotion crowds drop off.
And now we approach these harder block of fixtures.
Blind faith doesn't win games.
Need a reset and sharpish.
We can climb a mole hill to promotion this week like today instead of turning it into a mountain on next Sunday or Wednesday or unbelievablely if it gets that far an FA Cup exit.

Lets open our eyes here and engage our brains of what is going on.
Over to you Radgy if ya serious about promotion.
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First of all a lot of us were willing to put up with a year of boredom to get promoted, now it looks like a year of boredom to be mid table. Unfortunately ive spent a fortune already this season to watch what appears to me to be pre season football. I still have nightmares about the scarborough pre season performance, ive seen nothing at home to suggest the season has even started yet and the first half at Boston was a pre season game gone wrong.

Seen very little of this press whatsover and even little old me pointed out in july why are we signing slow same old midfielders, ive zero management background so how come i could see what was coming yet this manager couldnt? Lack of movement in midfield, no creativity. Hoofing a ball to a 25 goal striker from last year, who scored goals mainly on the deck, who has zero support.

I hope we win saturday and the manager somehow changes his style and maybe gives the fans that go some brief entertainment, maybe gives raj some value for money for having faith in the manager to give him better players for once. But enoughs enough for me i wont be wasting 22 quids on watching boredom football anymore looks to me like we are heading towards a total shit show of a season with this guy in charge.

This boredom football has only produced only 3 1 goal wins from 9 v the majority dogshit opposition.
And now we've decided to keep 11 players on the pitch the win ratio ain't getting any better.
The majority of our goals so far have been down to individual brilliance of self creation.
Rewind on YouTube.
Not down to our midfield or so called winger wing backs creating for our forwards.

It's now or never this promotion dream
/expectation.
A change of style needed or a change of manager needed ASAP.
I'd prefer a new manager.
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everything you have sai is true but raj and the club need to have a plan in force before we get rid. weeks of a temporary appointment and another failure given the job is hardly going to impove matters. is it just a case with us of if at first we don,t succeed sack and sack till something turns right. we have tried welsh league, scottish league, local youth team and managers out of the area and only one has been a success. i for one am glad i,m not raj just living in hope something will turn out right again.