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Jamie1952 · **Joined:** Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:56 pm **Posts:** 7425

Didn’t Danny Wilson have a bad start to his tenure, Pools got relegated but he got Pools promotion the next season ?

Leggie43 · **Joined:** Wed Apr 15, 2020 4:55 am **Posts:** 7286

Flying Hogans wrote:

Snowy wrote:

Flying Hogans wrote:

Mikey76 wrote:

Not sure how Pools survived in the early to mid-80s, average crowds were about a third of what they are today - and in case people with rose-coloured spectacles have forgotten, part of the reason people stayed away was that the football Pools were playing was crap. In the 3 seasons from 1982 to 1985 Pools finished 22nd, 23rd and 19th in the 4th Division. :doh:

More to the point today, how much longer can Pools AFFORD to keep Sarll on? I doubt that the official attendance on Saturday will reach 3,000 and that'll be counting all the ST holders as present, whether they're at the game or not. The Town End has looked to be about a quarter to a third full for the last two home games.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar, said someone once. It's great looking back when everything was better but it wasn't really. That said, the club somehow felt more like it belongs to fans going 20 years and more back, people running the club were often fans, seen around the town, popping into pubs. Players were perhaps more accessible and mixed in with fans. It feels like fans are kept more at arms length now.
It took me a while to get round to our supporters' trust as I signed up this year when a consortium was being assembled. I think they're onto something regarding having some kind of ownership in the club to redress the balance. Their updates and stuff on BBC Tees talks about community links, constant communication rather than box ticking, having long-term aims etc is common sense stuff that the club now just seem to be scared of. Fans seem to be an inconvenience now, with the season ticket announcement being a prime example. We were fobbed off with some lame excuses for raising prices without any kind of vision for the club. Just cough up lads and lasses and be grateful - that was the vibe I took from it anyway!

Without nostalgia you wouldn’t have a life worth living because they are your memories of your good times.
Any fool so dumb to see it for something else is a grinch.

All depends what you choose to be nostalgic about. We've all got fond memories about being much younger than we are now but the comments before yours are about Pools at a time when the club was a laughing stock.

When Mike Dochery was manager in 1983 Pools had 1 win in 23 games before Boxing Day. And 14 losses! There was no social media for the likes of Loyal to to vent his fury on, fans just voted with their feet and stayed away in droves.

Then Billy and his Datsun came back, Dobbo scored twice in the derby match, local bragging rights were secured for a few months, and all was well with the world

Or a bit less dire, at any rate.

There was no social media for the likes of Loyal to vent his fury on . :laugh:

Flying Hogans · **Joined:** Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:29 pm **Posts:** 5530

Jamie1952 wrote:

Didn’t Danny Wilson have a bad start to his tenure, Pools got relegated but he got Pools promotion the next season ?

Absolutely not. Danny got us promoted back to League One in his first season after Martin Scott got us relegated.

Scotty's time in charge was an object lesson in what not to do in a crisis. He wasn't sacked till the beginning of February and then IOR dicked about by bringing in youth team coach Paul Stephenson as acting manager rather than going for someone of Wilson's calibre straight away. Stevo didn't want the job full-time and he was right not to - his results were no better than Scotty's.

Let's hope history doesn't repeat itself this time around.

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