Dan Kemp has won the League 2 player of the month, on another note Dave Challinor has won the manager of the month for the same period.

its nailed on now he,ll not be with us next season. will be outbid by morecambe or crawley.

That's assuming MK Dons even release him. They look to be heading back down to League 2 themselves next season.

when is his contract up with them.

Dc will sign him after the last match of the season.

It's not clear. MK Dons paid Orient a fee for him when they signed him in January last year. Given his age you'd think it would be a 2 year deal minimum, or maybe 18 months with an option for another year.

Kemp is on contract at MK Dons till June 30th 2023 so why not start discussing signing for us come the end of the season and also get Sterry signed we are always better when he plays. Umerah is already contracted for another year,how long was Dodds signed for surely not only to the end of this season. Please Raj and his cronies can not say we don't know which league we will be in that is irrelevant if we are to have a decent start to next season and avoid losing decent players for nothing which seems to have happened every year since you took over. Given the correct backing DC could have done for us what he has done for Stockport.

Pretty sure Dodds got a 2 year contract.

lets hope yesterday was a one off for the lad as he was poor and slow all the game to rival cooke for being ineffective.

Dident take him long to get dragged down to the level of his team mates.
Missed a dolly last week then a stinker yesterday.

2 brutal fixtures coming up to continue the relegation form going.

Over 5000 yesterday .
Something majorly wrong with the way this club gets operated.
Loyalty abused to the fullest.

Yeh i wasnt majorly impressed with his display yesterday - i thought his mentality would of been to rip it a new one given his recent award !

i know his inconsistency and lack of weight is probs why MK have sent him on loan but hes played so well so far - seeing him being bullied and not doing what hes done previously was very frustrating - cant always rely on him to stick a freekick in top bins so i think he should of been dragged for Dolan and we protected what we had at all costs ! or least given Kiernan an opportunity to help the strikers out

think he was kept on just in case they gave away a free kick in a goalscoring position. something they never did throught the game. teams know what the few strengths we have and his chances will be really limited from now on.

Andy Cook did have the best MPG (minutes per goal) rate in League Two of the top 25 scorers at 119 ....by quite a way......until Friday, it now belongs to Dan Kemp on 118.
Take a bow young man

100% will be on the radar of the likes of Stockport or one of the new promoted teams from the NL - or can see MK dons wanting him back with a new deal and giving him the option

be interesting to know how he actually did at MK for him to be loaned out anyway. know he has dropped a division by going from one struggling side to another but the difference cannot be that great.

the reason i think it didnt work out for him at MK is the fact hes weak as Pesh ! and cant win any headers tbh due to his size - alot of managers like the bigger players - unless they possess the skills of a Barry Bannan type etc... (Silva - Xavi etcc..)

personally i think a very good midtable / pushing for promotion team at this level is where he is at - given he got himself on the weights and got stronger in the challenge he would then have all the attributes for L1/Championship for sure

Kemp was in town yesterday to open a schools new sports facility, was he at the Vic, he is wearing a Pools top in the photo. I doubt very much he has travelled from down south just to open a Schools Sports Centre ?
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That article was originally from June 9th. Although Pools being Pools it wouldn’t shock me if they’d just forgot to announce him.

In fact a quick google shows it was end of April.

According to The Mails Facebook page it was 1 day ago, they must really be struggling to fill their pages.

They’re doing it a lot recently. They get an old article, edit it slightly then it jumps it back up to the main page. Stuff like that with Kemp is bound to get a load of clicks so that’s a good article to bump up.

not oversure if i,d break the bank to get him anyway. he was either brilliant or unseen in games and you were never sure which kemp you were going to see.

Like Mr Accy, I'm not sure either. Definitely a gifted player but we need 7 or 8 rated performances not the odd 10 and followed by 5's. More consistency required for me.

A goalscoring midfielder like Kemp is a luxury most managers would take, you support him with the more physical and grafting types and let him express himself. If he gets 20 goals in a season you can live with him having games when he doesn't play so well (he'll probably occupy a couple of the opposition team trying to mark him).
Pie in the sky thinking he'll be playing his trade in NL anytime soon regardless of what he's offered - didn't he say he came to us because he wanted to play football not sit on the bench?

He scored almost 1 goal in every two games for us in league 2 I'm not sure what we want out of the lad if that's not good enough. We can always resign that lad from Blackpool if he isn't good enough.

Have you lot got sunstroke or what,lol

Why the hell would Kemp sign for us in the NatLge.

I wouldn't sign the lad from Blackpool either. The problem with going for Kemp is what it will cost, MK Dons will want a fee and there's his wage. Going by your record of Raj analysis I'm surprised you are even contemplating him going for the likes of Kemp. I can't see Pools breaking the bank, as Mr Accy describes it, or gambling a fair chunk on one player. If we get new owners with a "money tree" who are willing to finance such players then go for Kemp and the likes but, at the moment, we haven't got that luxury. Your mate Raj isn't cut from that cloth. Unless you've changed your tack.

I've never said we would sign him. I'm saying we won't get anywhere near that standard so to nit pick at him when he scored 1 in 2 and also won us most of the points we won, is a tad unfair. For the last two seasons we have struggled to muster a full team out for the first game. Not enough subs last year for example so no I'm not daft enough to think my mate raj could even tempt him let alone afford him.saying that fans believe were paying big money for Scottish players so kemp be a drop in the ocean to raj. I'm sure his replacement will be incoming any day now unless we think dolan is going to do a job with Featherstone.

Yeah I know mate, just winding you up, sorry.

or the other question you should be asking is why a league player would want to drop to our level with anybody when they have had good games the previous season. its either the wages or its there only option. we,ll see teams roll up next season with decent players we saw last season for someone else and we,ll all ask this question of why they are playing for them.

Money at the end of the day look at wrexham last season, Stockport the year before. Footballers will go anywhere if they are getting more money. Look at gillingham just managed to sign Williams over bradford stockport and wrexham. Though he grew up in Kent icant imagine many being attracted to playing for gillingham other than money.

wait to the end of the league transfer window comes. there are going to be many players without clubs because they refused what was on offer. they will be better than the ones we got hold of last season like clarke, johnson and misslou. could easily be a route we could take as they,d be more despirate than they are now.

The EFL transfer window doesn't close till Friday Sept' 1st.

Yeah we can't keep waiting and waiting like we always do. We need to send out bit of a statement look we messed up last year, we're going to have a good season this year, get the players in early and not a week before the season starts and have a bloody good go.

Don,t think the NatLge window closes.

it doesn,t till nearly the end of the season. this could work to our advantage as there will be still loads of names out there after the league one shuts early september.

many clubs bring in good signings up to a few days before the season starts and whilst the window is still open to sept. 1st. signing the right player is more important than just anybody that happened last season. would even hartley have signed who he did sign if he was in the job much earlier. For all we knoiw JA could be in talks now with a number of players and agents and due to the latter things take far longer than they used to take with even more secrecy. if we know at the first game of the season our recruitment is more or less complete apart from the odd position i,ll be happy if the signings are good no matter where they are from.

Realistically we will be looking at L2 players without a club. However they will not be wanting to drop out of the FL and waiting for a call from an agent/club. It’ll only when they realise they are not getting one they will start to consider NL teams. As said we have a little leeway in that we don’t have to panic owing to the transfer window not concerning us.

So the majority of our signings will be the usual cazt offs nobody else wants.
Signing for Pools now is a last resort.
Be very surprised if im wrong.

It’ll be the same as most seasons and the same for majority of NL sides. Did you honestly expect us to go out and challenge teams with big budgets. Have a look around at teams similar size to Pools we are all in the same boat waiting to see what’s left. I’ve always had the theory that if you sign four or five free transfers you are doing well to have a couple of successes.

Nobodies expecting to sign players on massive wages but what we do expect as one of the bigger clubs in the national league, is that we can tempt some of the best national league players to come here.

Well said.

its back to geography yet again. if they moved the vic inside the M25 i,m sure our signings would excite fans more when they happen. most of the better players released from league 2 are from southern clubs plus those who seem to move around the NL on a regular basis are from down there. said before you can have a long career down there without the need to uproot your family and leave your friends. we are not wrexham or stockport that can bribe players with stupid wages to move 100,s of miles away.