Absolutely pathetic. I don't know what the players were pissed off about after the performance they gave on Tuesday night where we got torn to bits by the worst team in the league for much of the match. You can't polish a turd and everything written after Tuesday was spot on and you can't expect journalists to turn up and report that everything is rosy after a performance like that.

The club have totally embarrassed themselves by doing that IMO, give your head a shake.

they all got the marks they deserved on Tuesday. What the hell do they expect when they played like that? I can't believe it's the players behind it though, it definitely stinks of a management decision.

whoever made the decision needs their head read. I could understand it if we'd won our previous six games and then the press turned on them after one poor first half performance but they've been poor for months.

Nelson bollocking fans, players snubbing the press.....do they just want us to turn up, pay our money then go home quietly. Pathetic.

totally agree Parmo.......

I reckon they must of been told not to speak to press.........

Couldnt imagine the likes of Humphreys refusing to speak to the press.....

Fooking stinks

To be honest I think Richie is exactly one of those who wouldn't talk to the press.

I had a dangerous door wedge once. I tripped over it when I walked back in.

I'm sick of saying it and being rubbished for it.

There is an undercurrent in that dressing room that is not healthy. Too many players who have (or think they have) too much power. Stand by for Gremmlin to jump in with 'mafia' comments but this goes back to Gordon Watson assisted by Ritchie Humphreys, Mark Tinker and Micky Barron leading the deputation to oust Cooper.

In my opinion Gordon Watson was the most devisive player ever to enter Victoria Park. His legacy remains but now the bus keeps crashing.

good post

I would rather that the players didn't bother speaking to the press as most of them come across as being complete divvy's. It's the same shite whenever they open their mouths - We are where we are in the league on merit and it is about time that the players started being proffessional and stopped talking and playing shite and actually proved that they are better than what the posistion in the table suggests rather than just saying so......

the most committed young player in the squad, sweeney, ask to go on the transfer list.

Don't think he actually asked to go on the transfer list, did he???????

As I said on another thread I reckon DW has instigated a siege mentality in the players in order to get them to play together. He has seen the same thing work at Leeds (everyone hates us but we'll show 'em) and is probably trying it here. But it is out of order in my opinion - Pools fans get treated like unwelcome guests by Hodcroft and the management, now it seems to be spreading to the players.

Some of us have been part of this club for far longer than any of them have and we will still be here when they have gone. Show some respect, we are all in this together after all

Well that might be a bit of a Captain Obvious statement since I've never met a fan who doesn't care about results and performances. But by and large we fans don't give a monkey's who the players are that are giving the performances and getting the points. Even Jon Daly was a hero for a week but that didn't last long and no one cried when he left to make room for Vince. We aren't very loyal to players. If we signed Adebayor and Rooney tomorrow I don't think even you Chip would complain if we then sold Porter.

Don't look for any relevance between that and not speaking to the Press though. It may or may not be relevant but in truth my observation was pulled straight from my arse.

At the end of the day, football is about entertainment ... that combined with actually winning a game. simple as that. Sadly, for us, it seems to have degenerated into a points harvesting exercise, that's about as enetertaining as the production line in a Russian tractor faactory on a wet Tuesday afternoon in Minsk The old optimist/pessimist debate is missing the point, it's down to blindly enduring and hoping we survive or thinking ...."hang on a minute I came here to 'enjoy' myself ".... THE FUN HAS GONE.
Tuesdays match was like a comedian coming on stage, giving a shit performance and then telling three cracking gags at the end of the show to avoid the boos....When did it go to an accounting exercise about points and survival...?
I said months ago that Wilson has no rapport with the fans and as a fan now, I feel more like a customer in a super market buying a packet of football... then I think hang about this is my club and I really do feel excluded and detatched from it... I 'd just like it to be acknowledeged that we as fans are part of the set up and should be treat and respected as such. I get the overwhelming impression that we really are out of it....there seems to be the management and players indulging in some experiment where the fans can watch but don't comment...we are expected to leave it to the 'experts' and play our part and cheer on cue....no way.
As for players not speaking to the media...it's a long time since I listened to or read any of their comments about anything, so no loss there then. Mind you, they should be making a noise, even if it's only sorry... I magine going to Tesco with a complaint and them saying we aren't gonna speak to you because you've complained....of course not, ...so what is it about football...

but Gordon Watson had left the club before Cooper was even made manager?

Maybe but he certainly created the mentaility.

If this is true it is outrageous. The press have hardly said a word against the players or the management. I find it rather pathetic but predictable and a PR own goal. You'd think Pools were Real Madird the way they behave, but on second thoughts, Real Madrid wouldn't behave like this.

You couldn't make it up.

You whinging pack of gets spend weeks on here saying that you wish the players would stop telling the press how "up for it" they are and how they're gonna put in "a big performance" etc etc etc and instead of talking about it just go out on the pitch and do it instead.

And then as soon as they stop talking up how great they are in the press you slag them off for keeping their gobs shut!

I agree with NH.

I think the sentiments were that people are sick of the continuous droans from the players saying how they 'are up for it' and then putting in a below par performance. I don't think that quite equates to wanting the players to stop talking some sense.

I'd love to know what articles in particular the players aren't happy about. Personally if I was getting paid 2k a week to be proffesional footballer for Pools; you could call me what the hell you wanted. If I didn't like what you wrote, I would go out the next Saturday and prove them wrong instead of some poncy little boycott of talking to the media.