Found a folder full of old Pools paper cuttings, here's a couple with people you may or may not recognise !!

Good old Lee Johnrose, i wonder what he is up to these days?

Its lenny you benny

No, it's definitely Lee. Ask Tony Gubba!

Gubba called him Lee Johnrose ... Johnrose retired from the professional game to pursue qualifications in Sports Science

Lenny Johnrose, fame to glory scored the 3rd goal in the win that kept Swansea in the league. They went on to win 4-2, he put them 3-2 up On the last match of the season in 2003., he also scored 2 goals in other games that won Swansea 4 points. So without those goals those who watched Swansea in the premier League today,(on TV or at the Liberty Stadium) may well have seen the club go in the totally opposite direction.

They were the only 3 goals he scored for Swansea.

yes ronnie was scarey with that lionel ritchie hairdo

Love stuff like this I never saved old newspaper stuff anyone got anymore?

Mountains! Literally.

Interesting to see Dave Ryan on there, does he still attend?

Dave stopped going awhile ago and started going to west rugby club.

That looks like a young Nick Loughlin next to Lenny

See, that I don't understand. How the hell can you just "Switch Off" Pools? Members of my Family (not my immediate ones though) have done this. They were Season Ticket holders when we only had 3-400 S/t's. They would be at Hereford Away in 1984 with 16 other Poolies...yet none of them (that's out of 5 people..) now attend.

We all fall out of love with pools from time to time but you always end up going back after a few games.

Davey's three lads all play rugby that's probably why. It was Davy who really got me more Into pools he always took me on the coaches for the away trip.

If you got time Phil get them here be good to see the old cuttings

Ah, that'll be why then!

Saving them for my book mate!

Might put a few choice ones up here.

Only a few months and I can publish my letters from Mike Newell's solicitors!

I've fallen out of love of going to Pools over the two or so years, I just don't get the same excitement anymore.

I was doing 40+ games a season up until a couple of years back, I'll probably scrape double figures at this rate.

I got sick of going when wilson was here, after the promotion season. We just seemed to go through he motions.

Thats why people like Neale Cooper are worth their weight in gold.

But I am beginning to hate football generally anyway, as its now a non contact sport, and clubs like Darlo go to the wall for about £50k, yet Man City pay one player twice that every week, but ban him.....and want rid. Really, do people agree that thats business....and its just the way it is????????

Thank god for kids football.........probably the last level where its played for enjoyment alone.

Turner did it for me. The useless fat silly boy.

Unfortunately Turner wasnt very good second time around. Wilson just didnt give a shit, by the time he went.

exactly. That is why FCUM even exist in the first place. The fans wanted the enjoyment back, and wanted the sense of a real football club back.
Watching / supporting Man Utd can't be like following any other club anyway - where is the sense of achievement and pride in winning every single game against anyone other than the top 4 or 5, every year for 30 years? It must be tedium to have none of the emotional roller coaster that's guaranteed in supporting any other club, save obviously the other teams who are always around them at the top.

To be fair I think a lot of yours is work commitment though? Which is perfectly understandable. There were times in the early 90's when I simply couldn't go and it just about killed me..again, I don't think it would do that to me now. Priorities.

as for falling out of love with Pools, I think it's a falling out of love with football generally.
There's Darlo fans on about picking other teams to watch, but on the whole I think they'll just do something else like Mr Ryan did. If you become disenfranchised with football then that's how you feel. I don't believe it's about any particular club, I believe it's about the game itself

Now they will be a good read, when is the date?

I don't get many weekends off but which means the ones I do get I like to make the most of and going to Pools is so hit and miss that there is no guarantee you'll enjoy it. I've been to games over the last few years where I've been bored stiff and wondered why the frick I've bothered.

The fact we're a mid-table team doesn't help either I guess

We all craved to be a mid table team. Funny innit? Now we are................its as boring as foook.

Yup...totally illogical.

not a very big loft then if thats all you found

Often see Murray in the George in Yarm "Top Lad"..... Still as passionate for the game as ever

But we will all be happy if we can still be mid table at the end of the season and not fighting for our L1 lives.

Or he's fell in love.
Once he's bucked her a few times and done the metro a few times on a saturday he'll realise it just not the same as being on the terraces on a fookking cold saturday afternoon.
I love it

Her?!