Colchester have just signed Freddie Sears on a months loan from West Ham. This is the kind of guy we should be looking to bring in and not the likes of Freddie Who? It is not as if Colchester are a big club seimming in money. Therr are definitely strikerd out there ready to go on loan. With poole, boyd larkin out of the picture and Brown likely to hit the old onion bag about once every 12 games the need for a gosl scorer has never been more pressing. Granted we are not paying much to watch the football but surely we should expect to see more goals from
Our team than this bunch of non achievers are producing.

Whats his record? Im pretty sure he scored hardly any in his stints with Championship clubs? Only cos he had a good reputation at one point doesnt mean he will be awesome.

2 goals in over 80 league games.

A natural.

Just checked, 3 goals in about 75 games. Get him signed!!!

a record david foley would be proud of

He would crrtainly be a big improvement on the dead wood we have failing to score goals. Lets just wait till he has a few games in League 1 before coming out with all the negative bollox. If he is not better than any striker we have I am a fooking banana

you are banana

Luke James has scored as many goals in last three home games as he has in his life. The only 'negative bollox' I'm reading is from you about our own players.

You've heard of Sears, he was a 'hot prospect' four years ago but has actually done fook all.

How many goals would Luke James score in the champiobship now ? Sears has yet to play in the third tier. For the record when Jermain Defoe went on loan to the third tier with Bournemouth he set a Football League record. There really are some ignorant fookers on this board who evidently are content with our goal scoring record. The same people who thought Turner was the dog's bollox

How many times have you seen Sears play?

For Sears, see Francis Jeffers

Quite a few when I lived in London, he is lightning quick and if he is played in is a good finisher.plays well off a big striker although I am not sure whether Nish would be the man to set him up. Could be though. Much better than we have on our books might not make it at top level but a shoe-in for League One. Have always rated John Ward as a good manager at our level

good finisher yet scored 3 in 80?

Quick but thats it and you say he plays well off a big striker? When and how come he didnt bother top score when he was playing off him?

Typically overrrated youngster because he made his debut when young when West Ham had fuck all options up front.

What if sears doesn't want to come all the way up to Hartlepool to play for us when a team down south will sign him?


Just putting it out there

wagga moon wrote:
PJ_Poolie wrote:
How many times have you seen Sears play?

Quite a few when I lived in London, he is lightning quick and if he is played in is a good finisher.plays well off a big striker although I am not sure whether Nish would be the man to set him up. Could be though. Much better than we have on our books might not make it at top level but a shoe-in for League One. Have always rated John Ward as a good manager at our level



good finisher yet scored 3 in 80?

Quick but thats it and you say he plays well off a big striker? When and how come he didnt bother top score when he was playing off him?

Typically overrrated youngster because he made his debut when young when West Ham had fuck all options up front.

I bet people mentioned him as a 2.5 million pound player?

Pointless having an opinion mr moon certain posters only allow other certain posters an opinion and everybody elses is meaningless.

For the record I think you have a valid point. Mackay is a good example of why you could be spot on. Dropped down a few levels and is prolific. Sears has spent his life playing against top defenders, dropping down to play the likes of Sam Collins is probably what he needs. We are linked with an un heard of george baker, yet other clubs get freddie sears and Sanchez watt. Maybe not prolific at top level but ideal for our standard and would be players I'd love to see play for pools.

That is Definately the case. We should receive more help from the supposed north east 'big 3' and I don't mean another ryan Donaldson.

Why not ryan noble???

wagga moon may well have a point, but he has such an aggressive tone to his post, calling our players a bunch of under achievers and calling on the club to sign players, as if they are sat there doing nothing.

Wrong way to go about it i say.

People need to realise it's not footy manager and it's not as easy as picking a player n saying right your signing for us.

Maybe your right but to be fair we don't actually achieve much do we. Take out that run of 8 home defeats in a row (league) and we would be around the play off area. On the other hand take the unbeaten start and we would be near relegation.

So are we under achieving or over achieving??

Is mid table good enough and be honest??

The world is full iof strikers who look good on paper... Freddie Sears doesn't even look good on paper. he's on the waiting list to join the cast of Eastenders!

personally i have ambition, mid table isnt good enough. if mw didnt lose the plot we would be up there. under cooper im very confident of a top 8 finish and hopefully a late push to the play offs. cooper has un finished business regarding league 1's play offs and to be fair 17000 of us do aswell.

0-0 last week id have rather seen sears come on than nish. he would be a great signing for us. i hope when colchester play us he dosnt prove a lot of you wrong!!


also the top part is the truth, if telling the truth is being an arse, then ok you've got me

Thats not the case at all, well not with me anyway. If he came on and posted about someone bagging a goal every 3 games etc then yeah id agree with him. But he comes on slating Brown for 1 goal in 12 or whatever and says our strikers cant score and suggests we sign someone who has 3 in 80. He got a name cos he scored a goal when young (as someone else said same withg Jeffers, same with Cadamarteri etc)

Yes his pace would be an asset but id rather someone slow who can actually score alongside James than a speed merchant with zero goal threat.

You and quite a few other posters have completely missed the point. Sears has only played in the top 2 leagues and never had a long run in the side. Coming down to the third division will be a piece of cake for him as it was for Defoe and. I believe he will be far too good for this level. I dread to think how Collins and Hartley would struggle to cope with him

We will see but , but i struggle to see him doing shite in the Championship means you will do brilliantly in League 1.

We will, but I struggle to see what Defoe has got to do with anything he was scoring goals in the Premiership at the age of 19 and had played for England by the time he was Sears age.

For every Defoe their are ten who don't make it. Michael Proctor came to Pools from Premiership and Championship football with a poor scoring record. He was no better at our level.

you have named one player, who went on to be a top, top striker.

I've named Jeffers, someone else named Cademarteri, fuck, even Paul Robinson prior to signing for us had only played in the top 2 divisions. It's a complete irrelevance.

He might be good, he might be bad, only time will tell.

By the way Sears will score today, possibly a hat trick I might even put money on it

As a Poolie you are not allowed to have ambition Mr. Birthmark! I have been slapped down on here and other forums before for daring to have ambition and wanting better for my team; there are far too many people on here who think avoiding relegation every year is deemed as success.
Cue the rose tinted brigade now; "We've never had it so good", "We're punching above our weight", "Small town", etc etc etc blah blah blah!!!

Of course ambition is good. But you can only have true ambition if you have the money to back it up.

IOR have said for a couple of year now that we will get by on what we have because money is very tight. If that means being a midtable League 1 club then thats fine by me.

A fast as fuck striker who can't score goals...sounds like a younger version of Colin Larkin.

Shock, horror, probe. Another Bunker thread turns into a slanging match......

It's like Lister Street Infants in here some days....

We've got James, we've got Nish and we've got Brown, all of whom the manager everyone wanted is praising to the skies. We've got Poole waiting in the wings who did very well according to all the reports before he got crocked.

Exactly why do we need someone else's under-achievers when Coops says he wants better than what we've got??

Just did a quick google search to see if any opinions on his debut and only thing i found was...

Sears U's debutJust been off the phone to a mate who watched colchester today at yeovil.
Had a torrid game, no confidence going forward and he played almost 90 minutes without a shot of any note?!?

Has Mick wadsworth took over Colchester like??

You can only have ambition if you have money???? Iv read some nonsense on here but that tops the lot. I know we are capable of being a top 6 side. We are 9th and lost 8 home games in a row ffs. Ambition is what brings the fans to each game. What's the point in going if you arnt ambitious??? Mid table for ever and ever is pointless. We are in league 1 because that's were we deserve to be, I dont care how big our town is. We can challenge for the playoffs and that is a fact

if you think that tops the lot, you obviously don't read your own drivel Mr. Birthmark.

How many has he scored?

0.

He must be still adjusting.

Your a banana.

What a sad little life you must have Free having to trawl back through old postings to try and make a point. He has scored as many as our non achievers brown and Nish have scored but is obviously a far better player as his value on the transfer market would reflect. Hope that makes things clearer for you Soft Lad x

Nish hasnt harldy played so thats the reason why he hasnt scored. Of course he is going to make the point if he was shown to be correct, which in this case he was.

Just take it like a man and say you were wrong. Oh and market value means nothing a lad from Forrest the other day went to Chelsea for just over a million quid and played approx 12minutes.

You couldn't help yourself across the road you dozy get. To explain to the people on the board with more than one brain cell why sears for Pools would have been good for Pools is that he has pace in abundance. And what has Neale been saying for the last month and I have been saying all season? We desperately need some pace in the side. So come on Mr Chips we know you are from the hard of thinking school but do try and keep up. There's a good boy x

Don't feed the trolls

Your opening post said we needed a goalscorer. Now you just wanted him bringing in for pace?

The guy cant score for shit and already been benched by Colchester.

Yeah but Pools need him Someone who hasnt played in their last two games great signing that glad wagga moon isnt a scout.

He wants to stay till end of season now:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17391050

Can we swap him for Brown? And maybe chuck in Nish and Boyd to clinch the deal

Yeah we all know how much you like the scouts. You want to be careful you don't get arrested for it

Christ, the trolls craic is getting even worse.

Is no-one listening to me?

I am listening, Fatty. How's the salad dodging going? e