Making a flying start signing players

Don't panic I've heard Monks is eyeing a few players up at the Euros.
New philosophy of quality over quantity.

Any truth in it that scouts from both Darlo and Pools were seen flying out to various destinations in Europe this week ?

Benidorm?

or tirana.

May have made a flying start, but although I have not seen or heard of any of them, doesn’t exactly impress me as ambitious as Loyal Fan states on another post.

Think the York manager knows those players.

They've signed 2 from Worthing (NLS), 1 from Maidenhead, and 1 from Dorking - there'd be uproar on here if we'd announced those 4 as as our first 4 new arrivals.

They have signed Dorking's keeper who some have mentioned on here as a possibility for us & some bloke who has scored a shedload of goals at a lower level. Anyody remember Ian Crumplin, Michael McKay, Niko Muir & the like. Just couldn't hack it at a higher level

Everybody was raving about some lad that played for scarborough as our first signing last year so not strictly true about uproar.

I don't recall everyone raving at all about Burton signing?

Would you be gushing about the 4 that York have signed or would you be criticising as bargain basement, be honest now?

Theirs a slight difference. One of yorks signings scored 46 times, the other created 15 goals last season. I think the keeper has won multiple player of the year awards so they come with pedigree, i think they have been very shrewd. The maidenhead lad was player of the season for them If we compare them to duffus agyemang and one or two we signed towards the back end you would snap your hands off for these 4.

They might not work out but at least they come with form, we seem to discount that when we bring lads in.

So if we signed those 4 there wouldn't be a word of criticism then?

What we need to do is tell these clubs its only May. What on earth are they doing bringing players in now? If they wait several more weeks they can get to the point where they can panic buy to cobble a team together for pre season.

Is that a yes or a no?

Why should their be? They have actually done it 2 of them in this league, played plenty of games, done well, look a sight better than joel dixon or dare i mention Featherstone. The criticism with pools is we sign lads on a wing and a prayer who in their right mind actually thought someone like duffus was going to miraculously come good?

The two lads from worthing ones a goal machine, the other looks like his partner in crime. If we got someone with 40 goals in him from the league below id be buzzing, i think most fans would be. I hazard a guess now the first 4 we sign wont come with the same crdentials as yorks 4. Probobly played 20 games in last 3 seasons, coming off serious injuries, forward will be someone thats got 3 a season. But we will wait and see, wobt be long now, im sure we have players lined up for start of june

So on 1 thread you're saying you're unlikely to get good players from Leagues below, but on this thread it's a good thing to sign players from Leagues below?
Carver had a big reputation at lower level and was a dud, what's to say the new York striker will be any better at 28 years old with 2 seasons of NLS being his highest ever level?

Sarll has now been in post for 30 days, and apart from an initial round of interviews we've heard zip all from him. It's beginning to feel eerily reminiscent of Paul Hartley's tenure at the club.

Can only hope things start to change this week - maybe midnight on 31st May will make all the difference? At the minute the money for my season ticket renewal is definitely not burning a hole in my pocket

On and on you go. Carver had already had a season in the NL (with Chorley) and flopped when Pools signed him. This guy Pearce is twice as prolific a goalscorer than Carver ever was - 46 last season alone. Southend's manager is already bemoaning the fact that he wasn't able to sign him. Nothing is ever certain in football, but I have a strange hunch that he's a better judge of a player than you are.

Yes he does indeed go on and on and on Mr Hogans how dare you have opinions that differ from the self appointed board police officer.

Oh dear, a backward and forth of differing opinions is surely what the board is about?
I've never tried to shut down or disrespect anyone's opinions as they're entitled to form a d state them equally as I am.
Isn't it strange that so many of the debates that you and I get into always (and it is always) end up with you accusing me of bring an ally or confidante of Raj, being affiliated to the club, or trying to police this board (we have perfectly competent moderators who do that).
I have no desire to be on the board, or to police this forum, but I do enjoy most of the discussion and debates.

Always WOW

I really like Aygemang but agree with the rest, they are signing the best players from smaller clubs, May or May not work but more likely to than our sign fuck all until the last minute then furiously turd polish approach

No im saying its very unlikely you will build a team for winning the league on a team full of players from leagues below. Notice how wrexham chesterfield, notts county, and chesterfield never bought bulk buy from them leagues. We need quality not a team full of bargain basements.

or if we signed 4 and a few weeks later york or gateshead signed somebody we actually know of who seemed a better signing. the club then would get grief for jumping in too early. i, guess now we will be in talks with a number of players but the club isn,t going to report this or name names. the only thing that ever bothers me ar players that the club are after but miss out on. if we only knew these names and how far down the list eventual signings actually are to give a real insight on the club. everything else is pure guesswork.

It's so quiet at Pools Robbie Stelling must be scouring the Bunker for something to write about
Still, plenty of food for thought here:
https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/sport/ ... er-4644375

The thing at the end about 4 NL clubs still not having released a retained list is a bit of a red herring though - one of them is Gateshead, who've got plenty to think about with the ground fiasco and how their players are reacting to it, and another is Sarfend, who are facing a final court hearing to wind them up with their new ownership still not sorted out.

Id be over the moon if we had made those 4 lads our first couple of signings. They are all good players for this level. The lad with 46 goals was the hottest thing going and i cant believe its York who have given him the chance at NL footy - he had other offers on the table im led to believe ! Seems Mr Uggla has learned alot in short space of time in the NL with York.

Southend probs dont have players to release as they need them all ! weird goings on down there and its a shame !

Gateshead however is another shit show and i cant see them keeping a single decent player - wouldnt come a shock if they folded

Halifax have also announced a retained list of sorts. With the players who weren't offered deals and players under contract announced by them so you can read between the lines that those not named are negotiating.
Just think you can fill a few days a week with some form of fluff to help fill the silence and improve the mood of some fans. Somebody on here also mentioned we have a friendly with Scarborough arranged and we also have one with Redcar, why can't they announce one of these a week?

Tamworth have made 13 signings already god knows what they are signing but they are getting in earlywith trying to survive next season.

Well that sorts out what you can watch BP. Instead of watching Pools on your fire stick, who you continually knock, you can turn over and watch Tamworth.

I think with possible exception of yeovil all promoted team will be bottom 6 this year, as shit as this league is there is an even bigger drop off when you go regional

Jonjo channeling his inner twaddell

I wonder why i knock them? All going great isnt it?

Get to september he will be scratching his head why were not doing so well again.

As I say just switch over you are not forced to watch.

No your fine thanks i will watch pools, im just not gullible anymore and i call it out when were being taken for a ride. When we eventually get a chairman worthy of this club and we start winning games regualrly again you might understand, but if you want to pay some of the most expensive season ticket money around while getting players not even up to this level thats your perrogative, no right no wrong in it, id just rather call out whats going on, thankfully a lot of others are starting to do that now. Their is no need for a club like ours to be struggling so bad now, remember no excuses this season.

Well if everybody took your stance the club would fold. Never mind there are enough of us guillible fans to keep us going even if we are not exactly happy. As for the price of STs if you can afford one you get nearly 30% of matches frees and under 18s nearly 50% free. Without searching every club in our league I would be surprised if we differ a lot from most other clubs.

Considering its mainly a southern league and we pay top end prices its a bit misleading unless wages and price of things in hartlepool are on a par with down south.? Im sure i dont get paid what all these southeners get My stance is ive bought season tickets for years and i think just in my opinion we have been conned for the last 2 years. Virtually every club in this league can get season tickets at way cheaper prices until about two weeks before the season.

Remember years ago cheap season tickets were our downfall apparently? No one would mind paying the most if it reflected in the club.

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Considering its mainly a southern league and we pay top end prices its a bit misleading unless wages and price of things in hartlepool are on a par with down south.? Im sure i dont get paid what all these southeners get
none of us do but our outgoings are far less than the southerners where you can buy a slum for twice as much as a decent house in hartlepool would cost. then there are food prices much higher and we do not have the dreaded ULEZ to contend with. at the end of the day the average southerner will have no more spare money to spend than we have. the SE is not paved in gold and it riles up her in the kitchen who was born and bred there living half her life in north london with these types of comments that pop up from us northerners regularly.