Steve Howard I believe will sign tomorrow (Sunday)

I agree.

Yeah im gunna get in on this too.

Does this mean no Noble or Waghorn?

Cooper said a central mid (Walton) a forward (Howerd) and a Left Wing (????)

To be honest I feel as though we could struggle this year, I don't have a problem with any of the signings, but all teh clubs who came up look pretty good, so its tougher to see 4 weaker teams than us (sorry)

Walsall, Yeovil, Oldham and Portsmouth if it goes tits up for them are 4 possibles, Bury too I suppose...plus there is always one club who does a lot shiter than people expect....hopefully not us!

Considering we finished mid table and if Howard signs I would say the squad this season is stronger than last, then I really don't understand how you come to that conclusion?

We need James Poole to really push on. He looked class at a few away games but just never seemed to get going from the homes games I saw. With Luke James, Franks, Walton, Sweeney, Walton and possibly another winger still to come surely we have enough goals in the team, well 'on paper' anyway

If Howard signs we will be weaker and clsoer to the drop zone. \he is yesterday's news. Do we really want 2 target men with little movement. I say get some quality in on loan such as Waghorn or Noble with pace and movement

Who says if we get Howard we won't try for Noble as well! Don't James and Poole have enough pace to play off a big target man?

Do you not think that with Poole and James we have the pace and movement, so why do we need a third similar type of player. Now I'm not saying Howard is the answer but all teams need a plan B, at some time during the season. I'm not saying I wouldn't have Noble back just that players who have some sort of affinity to the shirt (signed rather than on loan) may be a better option.

Howard is the type of player we have been missing since Richie Barker left.
A strong battering ram of a centre forward and with quality to match.
Our forwards barring James have been guilty of being too soft, Howard will put that right.
Hope all the rumours are true!

I rated Kyle but when he went and then came back (within a week if my memory serves) he seemed to be much less interested.

I also reckon letting John Daly go was a daft thing to do but then again I don't play any management sim games so know nowt.

Then you'll be the first to moan when we're knocking it long all the time

I remember at Scunthorpe before everyone was warming up except Kyle who was just stood in the box braying a few balls into an open goal

Because I feel the league is much stronger this year, and there are a lot fewer weak teams.
Look at the promoted sides
Do you really thin Crawley, Swindon,Crewe and Shrewsbury are a weaker set of sides than Chesterfield, Bury,Stevenage and Wycombe?

How many times did you go to watch Crawley, Swindon, Crewe and Shrewsbury last season?

so you have no opinion on any teams in this league?

you for example don't know if Swindon are any better than Bath City given you have not seen either of them ?

Or do you have an opinion based on the limited info you have seen and heard about respective teams and players?

Over the time Pools have spent in league 1 I can't pick out a season which is stronger than others.
There have been seasons where a couple of teams might have been stronger and more consistant, ie Charlton, Brighton, Leeds etc and these get promoted.
But I think for the rest of the teams the standard doesnt change much and Pools are experienced enough now in Div 1 to cope with whatever teams come up from the division below.

You have to wonder what potential players think of HUFC.

If any of them log on to sites like this and find miserable gits like Ritchies Birthmark and Doubledecker slagging new signings and potential new signings off before having seen them play, writing the team off before we've kicked a ball and generally being negative miserable and spreading their we're not good enough bile.

I bet the same people sit at home and read sites like High Tax Hartlepool and have a similar reaction to a dried up old spinster reading 50 shades of grey for the first time.

I'm far from a happy clappy fan but some people who follow Pools could find the negatives in the positive terminal of a battery.

Please show me a quote where I have 'slagged' Walton..........

Maybe people can't find a post from you actually slagging Walton off but Mr Alien does state



I think you've done that, fair enough you may not have slagged Walton off but you've only took part of Mr Alien's quote, to suit yourself, so Mr Alien is correct in much the same way as yourself, when you use the whole quote.

All I have stated is I think the standard will be higher this season than last and I am worried we will struggle, thats hardly being all doom and gloom, its just my opinion....time will tell if I am wrong (hopefully I am) and we may have more signings to come....I haven't slagged either Walton or Howerd off, so its hardly being grossly negative.

This board is about opinions, if people think I am wrong and have a counter argument or point that is great, but just to say..blah blah blah don't be negative is not a counter argument

Never slagged a new signing or a potential new signing so what the Fuck are you going on about?? Blatantly just made that up. If you are referring to mr nish then I'd seen him play a handful of times before I'd made my mind up and in all fairness i wasn't exactly wrong.

As for miserable gets the site is littered with them. Still if this is how you get your weekend kicks crack on

Also if I dont think were good enough for next season why have I had £10 ew on us at 50/1.

Never said that either, another Blatent lie

The thing is Mr Decker, not everyone wants to listen to negative shite. I personally always look forward and for the positives of life and nothing pisses me off more than negativity, particularly about my team. Blinkered maybe but hey, I fooking support Hartlepool, I ain't expecting us to be in the running to sign Robin Van Persie.

I don't think your negative Mr Birthmark, not sure if your a full ticket but definately not negative

You have countered your own argument.....not everyone wants to listen to positivity with no back up either...maybe nothing 'pisses me off more' than people being unrealistically positive with no back up....but I don't slag those people off as they are entitled to their opinions and outlook...thats why this is a message board and not just a sounding board for everyone to agree with each other.....

I'm still waiting to see were I have been negative.

My quote on the Walton signing was ' well happy with that like'

I am also happy with the franks signing and have never been negative and can't wait for the new season to start. To say I'm excited is an understatement.

Just a cheap pathetic dig by alienlife

If I was a full ticket mr chessington I wouldn't post on here. You have to have a few screws loose to get to 1000 posts surely

Correct a message board is all about opinions. But previous posts by you have been negative and slagging the team off before a ball has been kicked. Now surely no one can give an opinion about something that they haven't witnessed yet, so as Mr Alien pointed out if there are posters who do slag the team off and any prospective signing views the board it will as he states give that player a negative thought about Pools as a whole. Now I know the chances of that happening are slim but that was Mr Aliens point.

If no one can give an opinion before a ball is kicked how can people give a positive one?
Franks and Walton I have said lets see how it goes...actually that is keeping an open mind..what you are asking to do.
All I have said is looking at the quality of the other teams I think this division will be tougher and I worry about that...hardly a hanging offence.
Any player who decides not to join a club because I pointed out 7 goals he scored last year were penalties and I was keeping an open mind about us signing him we probably don't want anyway!

Thing is bob he named 2 of us.

Looks like mr life is on a weird little wind up

I don't think it's a case of giving a positive opinion, it more like going into the season with some form of optimism and hopes that we will have a decent season, rather than looking at other sides and fearing the worse, which as I have said you have previously done. Come August 18th when League season begins it will be 11 players against 11 players and as we all know anything can happen.

I used Mr decker as I knew he had slagged off the side in previous posts , I can't place you slagging the team off on here, but if I do I will point it out to you , no need to worry there.

I'm sure you will bob

So I am not allowed to get anxious and express it on here?
What is optimism if not a positive opinion?

I have no problem with it, i just don't understand how your statement
'How can you have an opinion before a ball is kicked' tie in with..... 'you should go in the season with some form of optimsm'

As I have said I have no issue with peopel being optimistic, but I do struggle with people twisting on when any slightly negative counter argument comes out.

PS I have not 'slagged off the side'
All I have said is we have a really tough start and can see us struggling at the start of the season...3 out of the first 4 games away, with the home game against the promotion favorites means I am worried about how we start...that is not the same as slagging off the team.

Nope that's nearly true however I'd seen him play 4 or 5 times and wasn't impressed. The song lasted maybe 4 seconds and most of game really?? I was fuming when he fucked the 1 on 1 up. This lasted hardly more than 20 seconds. If were being honest I'd say the majority of all fans have at some point shouted something at a player in the heat of the moment and being pissed certainly didn't help. your perfect though so have obviously never did this.

However that isn't what alien wrote. If you read it again I havnt did anything mentioned at all. You have slagged Howard off more than anybody else so you could be the person mr life is getting me mixed up with.

hear hear, I've already prepared my anti-Walton songs for the Carlisle game

Whether you rate or player or think he's shit it's pretty dumb abusing him while he's wearing a blue and white shirt. You are their as a supporter, making up songs and loudly berating him isn't support is it? Just counter productive and thick.

Ahhhhhh numpty number 2, wondered when you would show up

I'd say the 100 other songs started that day clearly outweighed the 4 second pissed song about nish.

Also he didn't have a blue n White shirt on , we were away

ah, I know who birthmark is now, I recall the incident, did you get pulled by the stewards and threatened to get evicted?

That was the game, they were sat in front of us and stood up all game, you were wearing striped socks and eating chips

wasn't it Poolietilidie who posted after we got beat on Penners to Sheff U slagging Nish off? that was the 2nd game of the season, unless he was counting friendlies too

ah another nish thread!!!!!

its been a while like, 7 pages minimum with chip and pj sat in there jim jams posting shite

ok go on then............................

Someone was slagging Nish off at the MK Dons after the match on the concourse

not guilty officer

to be fair we all knew he was rubbish because about 6 people went to the york game and told us we all had to hate him because he was starting ahead of poole

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