Maybe uncle ken dislike of the loan system will change this year, hopefully to benefit of us.

From Echo,

"Reach and Williams have already been linked with Hartlepool United, as has Curtis Main, after they installed former Boro Under-18s coach Colin Cooper as their manager.

"Coops has been on the phone," Mowbray admitted. "He understands they will be doing pre-season with us and then we'll sit down and see what happens."

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/ ... t_on_loan/

If we could get players like these who played in the Championship 15 odd times last season down here in League 2 then it will show how highly these players regard Cooper imo.

I actually LIKE the idea that they are doing the pre-season stuff at their own club. Those players on the fringes of Mowbrays First Team Squad will be busting a gut to get noticed...then he wil buy in a load of foreign shite as per usual leaving decent local lads either

A) in the stiffs OR....
B) At Pools.

A then.

It's a bit of a balance really. Pools have wage constraints and Gibson is almost out of cash at Boro. Who pays the wages??