I'm more likely to cheer a fight or a smashing tackle

Was saying to a bloke at work yesterday that I hope we either start with a goal, some good Itensity or a smashing tackle to get the fans going.

We then looked at each and both said 'have we made such a tackle all season?' I don't think we have? A proper full blooded ball winning challenge that also takes the man out, the fans always react to it and get behind them. Even a Monkhouse style elbow or stamp would probably do.

I thought it was a load of old nonsense. At times it was like they'd never met each other before. Money was just slating the back room dealings every chance he got, whether it be the structure, the academy, at one point even the chairman. You've got Singh saying "well in three more weeks of probably have to sack him." If he's doing that bad a job then just do it now! I have no idea what Maguire was on about, sounds good though. And in all of this I feel like Hignett has been convinced to take a job he knows is a poison chalice. I wish I had a pen and paper to write down every part that made me scoff or scratch my head.

I also don't like how this podcasts are used as an opportunity for different people to say "I don't need this." Every one Money has done, he has said "I don't need this, I'll just go back to China." Sure enough, he is now slipping away. Maguire and Singh this week saying "chairman has better things to spend his money on." You're spending money here because you want to, and we want you to.

We don't directly blame you for the turgid performances on the pitch, as our managerial record shows. I do blame you for making excuses, pointing the finger at fans and threatening to leave. Give us something to shout about man! £5 tickets, a fans day, free pint or pie with a ticket, anything.

Get the players to stop being so spineless. I can bare watching bad players if I think they are trying. I'm more likely to cheer a fight or a smashing tackle than I am a good pass (and I'm someone that claps when we do a good pass too). We've always loved our nasty midfielders, like Paul Murray or Tommy Widdrington. We've not got one, that's fine, but why can't someone just come on the field with the soul intention of smashing the ball away from a player with commitment, enthusiasm and fight.

I'll always remember the Morecambe game at the end of Colin Cooper's last full season, where we needed a win or we'd probably go down. We packed the park, and with 20 minutes left we were down to 10 men and losing. But the lads were trying and the crowd was on their side and we eventually won thanks to the coolest finish even seen by Jack Barmby. If the players show up, so will we. The difference is they're being paid to do their bit, we have to pay to do ours. I think the club needs to remember that.

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Blimey, Money reckons he's the messiah! He better live up to his own hype. I hope he is as good as he thinks.

Good luck Craig.

Raj Singh has donated his own money to OUR club.

Well I have just listened to the podcast and I was impressed with the words that were spoken, the frankness, the reality and look forward to the day when those words come to fruition as they SHOULD do.
They all basically put their cards on the table in a positive way and I am prepared to watch and wait in expectation that they will put the same spin on the action side as they have done on the words side.
It's very easy for us fans to mock and jeer and criticise but there was a very important word used in that podcast and that word was DONATE. Raj Singh has donated his own money to OUR club. Let's appreciate the significance of that. He's not a born Poolie or a lifelong supporter but he has kept us alive. Make no mistake about that.
Is it going to hurt us to ditch the negativity and show a little bit more patience???
Yes our patience has been stretched in the recent past but by whom??? Not Singh.
We are Poolies. We have been ridiculed, mocked, been a music hall joke.
We have achieved very little in our long history but we are proud of the town, of the club and of the fact that we are the only people on this planet who can call ourselves Poolies.
A non Poolie has put his hand in his pocket, took out his money and given it to us. There is no other way to describe what he has done.
Please have a think before we piss the man off.
Please have a think about what you are posting before you press the submit button.
Singh has asked us to cut him a bit of slack. It is in our power to do that. Is it asking too much in return for what he has already done???
Let's do it, Lads. Let's give him a chance to fill our chests again.
Poolie and Pride start with the same letter, so does PLEASE.

I totally get that Poolie, but they are talking about a grand vision and their plan, but it's not the same from one week to the next. At the end of the day, I appreciate the fact they're telling us anything. It's certainly an improvement over the IOR days. I'm also grateful they're not blatantly lying to us, like Coxall and Duxbury (or whatever her name was).

I am just worried that their decision making is inconsistent at a time we need consistency. I think rather than a grand plan they need to focus on one thing at a time.

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I think there are two parts to the Podcast. Everything money says makes me cringe a little, he was going to get the bullet and saved his bacon by suggesting the solution of moving upstairs.

I thought Money was a great appointment at the time but ok listening to him I’ve now changed my opinion massively.

I’ve not listened to the podcast yet but I’m not so sure this is the case.

He had managed the team for six League games I very much doubt sacking the bloke was on the agenda, or it at least shouldn’t have been. This sounds like it was instigated by him after realising after two days the failings at Pools go way beyond who is manager. He as a fresh pair of eyes quickly seen what he had walked into. It’s easy to write a hindsight filled character assasination of the bloke like Kennedy did in the Mail but I don’t think that was fair at all. As was the reaction to him observing completely correctly that we are angry negative club.

Lots of people for a while have been saying a couple of things at Pools, that you can’t keep sacking the manager as evidence suggests it doesn’t improve things and that problems extend beyond that.For once we haven’t sacked the manager we have changed how we do things. If this structure had been announced at the start of the season who would have complained?

He had managed the team for six League games I very much doubt sacking the bloke was on the agenda, or it at least shouldn’t have been.

Look at the track record of the chairman. 6 managers in two and a half seasons with us.
It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if Money took the upstairs job because the club wanted to avoid another pay off.

Then there's the theory that Money's latest 'appointment' is a fig leaf to cover everyone's embarrassment:

https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/sport/ ... -1-9557965

Time will tell I suppose but at the moment it’s guesswork and speculation. The bloke from the Mail doesn’t know anymore than any of us. He’s proven in the past he has no inside knowledge of the club.

Keeping him to avoid a payoff doesn’t really stack up as what would be the point it’s not saving the chairman any money.

Money doesn’t strike me as the type of bloke who’s hang around where he’s not wanted just to save face for other people.

Going forward baseless speculation and more negativity isn’t going to help all we can do is see how things pan out.

Do you reckon?

I’d say far, far more stuff over the years comes out through forums like this than the Mail. Take the summer for example when he was getting stuff wrong on a daily basis. Unless he was been sat in meetings over the last week he knows as much as any of us.

We have a choice at the end of the day to either take what’s come out of the club at face value and support it or to continue the negativity. To be honest I think the man who saved our club deserves a bit of support.

We don't only have 2 choices. I don't take what the club is saying at face value, I think it's a load of nonsense. However, Money was doing a bad job and I'm confident Hignett will do better.

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Money's problem is he isn't very articulate which means, to some people, he comes across a bit iffy.
My stance is that I am concentrating on what he has said and not on the way he has said it.
He certainly puts his finger right on the problems within the club, so let's see if he can be as accurate when solving them.

Listening now I think Money says something very interesting early on he thought after a few days “how was this a Football League club 18 months ago” bearing mind he’s been at two clubs that have got back into the League.

Half an hour in I think he’s talking a lot of sense the club has needed this type of straight talking and professionalism for a long, long time. He’s talking about things like recruitment that are crucial to that and at the end of the day this is an impossible job for managers someone like him behind the scenes can make the job possible. Plus he seems to like and rate Hignett as a coach. They seem all very open and honest with each other. Like Money days he could have got sacked took his pay off and walked away. But the chairman says he wasn’t going to sack him (yet!).

Who do we reckon the player was who didn’t want to play in front of the fans anymore, it has to be McLaughlin doesn’t it as he left out of the blue?

You also get plenty of hints from the Chairman about the mess they inherited and that he keeps hearing that ‘we have had this for ten years’ he makes a very fair point that it’s nobody around that tables fault. I bet that VAT bill was only the tip of the iceberg. Also he commitment to his other businesses (that provide him with the cash he puts into Pools) means he can’t be hands on as chairman which goes further to Maybe why we had a director of football to start with.

Blimey, Money reckons he's the messiah!

Good luck Craig.