I know it is ridiculously early but wondering if anyone had heard rumours about potential new managers.

Sweeney in charge until the consortium takes over who will then appoint their manager.

Bookies favourite is Hurst with Sweeney second. Wouldn’t mind Hurst but can’t see it!

i,d be interested in matt grey the recently sacked manager of sutton united. he did a good job at national league level getting them promoted and had a decent start to their football league life until the wheels have come off this season. might not be an appointment for life but two years seems a lifetime at a club for a manager nowadays. would be great if we could unearth a north east version of john coleman but suppose that and cash at the club are too much to ask for.

Cheers. Any new manager would want a decent salary and some sort of budget so I guess Sweens is the most obvious answer as he is already on the payroll and knows the score re transfer budget. He'll have knowledge of the dressing room politics although whether he has the answers to it remains to be seen. I guess if he is appointed, it will be on a temporary basis.

Yep, his managerial pedigree is excellent but he is a Southern boy and wouldnt want to uproot his family to come to Hartlepool; a bigger club with more cash in the North maybe but not Pools.

true, but how many poolies have had to go in the opposite direction looking for work. if he was offered what he was on at sutton his pounds will go much further than they did down there for him and his family. he,s not being asked to emmigrate to continue in his career.

I guess we'll see what happens within the couple of weeks but if was a betting man I wouldnt risk owt on Matt Grey.

neither would i as its not a pools type appointment.

Would be interested in Jonathan Greening from Scarborough. Doing very well there and wouldn’t be too far to travel. Problem being it’s a step up from part time football and we’d have to pay compensation…

Even if we do just stick with Sweens until hopefully a takeover happens, we’d need to bring in more coaches as we have literally no one else on the books aside from physio and conditioning staff. We’d need a goalkeeper coach and at least one or two more outfield coaches to have enough to actually manage the squad.

Do you remember how big Matt Gray's Sutton side were in their promotion season? Apart from the two Manis he'd want to start all over again with the Pools squad
Sadly, there isn't the time or the money to do that.

We have McGuckin looking after the youngsters. Maybe he could step up? As a former Centre Half, he would know about defence shape etc.

Agree. If by some miracle he got the job, it would take quite some time for him to revamp the current shower of shirkers masquarading as footballers. Mind you, that would be true of almost any other new boss. I defy Guardiola to bring any success with the current bunch.

I heard Billy Horner.

lol

I hope there's a swift appointment but with all the uncertainty at the club with the proposed takeover and other issues I can't see that happening. I would like to see someone like Kevin Phillips get a go, he did really well at South Shields, they played exciting football and he also has a lot of experience coaching at higher levels. It might be a risk but we may not have many other options sadly.

I favour is his brother Gloss Grey.

South Shields were the only full-time professional side in the Northern Premier League last season. It was still an achievement for Kevin Phillips to get them promoted in his first full season as manager, but he didn't stick around once their chairman pulled up the magic money tree. He might fancy the Pools job when the new consortium takes over but I doubt he'd be interested in the vacancy just now, given our present circumstances.

If a consortium is taking over then there is no way a new manager will be announced before then. I cant see any new consortium having a bottomless pit of money either so all the talk of expensive players, new signings and an expensive manager is a waste of time. We are a non league club with no assets that has lost money 90% of the years since it was formed. There arent a lot of wealthy people in or from the town so this sugar daddy dream is just that, a dream.

There's no takeover until there's a takeover so there's no reason why we won't get a new manager.

New owners don't need a bottomless pit of money. They just need to know that running a tight ship isn't just about making cuts blindly.

We are a non-league club with a big fan base. That is absolutely an asset.

I get your managing expectations outlook, spot on. However, cheer up and never say die!

Run the club like a well supported non league club is supposed to be and who knows we may get some success and pick up some decent players. Cut backs after cut backs, eventuallly have lead to whats happening now, a fight to avoid playing at curzon ashton or whoever next season. We dont need millions we need people inside the club with some sort of clue how to run a football club.

We have people inside the club that know how to run a football club into the ground.

Graeme Lee is apparently being unveiled at Spennymoor tomorrow. So you can count him out!

We’ll that’s one Ray of sunshine in a cloudy sky.

Steve Watson the new manager at Darlington, not a rumour, fact.

so true and apart from chesterfield which other side in this league splash the cash on transfer fees but pay decent wages to players making the club look attractive. like relegation last summer playing curzon ashton would not be a big isaster if a real turnround of the club happened instead of using sticking plasters to stay as we are.

know he was another bodies energy of a manager with us but we have never improved our league position since he left. could things have really been any worse if he had stayed. without a real plan B all managerial sackings are pointless with shit replacing shit without any continuity on the pitch. if things do not change at the top all we will see is askeys poor signings being replaced with similar like what has been happening now for years.

Why not get Keith Curle back in if he's still on the payroll. Need an update on his love life and cocoa habit

Thank fuck for that.
And if he takes Clarkey with him then even better.

He would probably still be here and we would probably still be in the efl, If he had not sacked the season off.

was it him or the players that did that because we had reached a position in the league that many would have took at the start of the season especially with some of the signings we made include those by challinor. admit it was annoying at the time but would take that season than any we have had since.

But that’s not saying much is it.
He lost the plot, it was chronically bad coasting it to the end of the season, he should have been busy making his plans for the coming season and driving the team on…but in the end it’s all in hindsight and won’t pull this shipwreck of the rocks.
The real problem started when some local businessmen decided to form a club in 1908.

and the germans in ww1 for not doing a better job on the vic and adolfs lot years later with their big fokkers not concentrating their attacks on the ground. both should have been classed as war crimes because of their incompatance and the legacy they allowed future generations to suffer through.

Let’s get Hartley, Lee and Curle back who will all still be getting a salary from the club ?

And JA as well if he was sacked?

We need to name and shame that local businessman in 1908. He has caused me personally and many of my friends so much grief i honestly would like to see his reputation tarnished forever.

A former manager was seen in Greggs today buying a sausage sandwich.

I want to know whats going on in the bookies at Throston.

Red or brown sauce?

Managers fault, Clue in the title, Ask Askey

Aye, and the 1914 bombardment hit everywhere except the Vic, and that was with three, that’s three, bloody battle cruisers to boot.