Missing again
I have a suspicion his head might have been turned. No info just him saying wasn't fit to play sat. Now not tonight. Would love to be wrong but???

Sarll said on Saturday that Mancini wouldn’t be ready for tonight, he was only returning to training yesterday.

I doubt many would take him with his injury record

He's done nothing yet at Pools.
And under contract.
But if he wants away 50k probably be accepted.

I am not keen on stoking idle rumours however I attended tonight, could see the likes of Sloggett in the stands but not Mancini.

I also did not see Mancini but I didn't see him in the stands against Sunderland either.

If he wants away then our views/opinions will have no bearing on it.
My view which I'm entitled to is he's :Just using Pools to get his fitness levels back up to speed while engineering a move pay rise Away.
The club is bigger than any one Player.
UTP.

There is no doubting his ability but he has hardly played. Why would any club pay good money for an unproven player with a history of injuries?

Is this much ado about nothing?
Time will tell.

Having his head turned might keep him out longer than his hamstring injury.

so he is off to gateshead i suppose and will play in every game for them scoring over 20 goals before he is signed up by peterborough at the end of the season for a record fee for a non league club.

Mancini has a tight groin according to Sarll after the game, given that the groin injury finished his season last year, it’s sensible to be cautious, we’re not as desperate for his return this time.

There was a picture someone posted on FB of Onarise and Mancini in Tescos at Bishop Auckland, which was taken on Sunday or Monday, so he’s obviously still around.

At the present time I can’t see any team taking a chance on him. He had a purple patch at the beginning of last season got injured and has done nothing since.

they are getting paid too much if they can shop at tesco when there is lidl, aldi and home bargains about. bloody high paid footballers eh.

Not exactly a purple patch was it? He started the season as one of it not the best player in the division up until his injury before single handedly winning us 2 games (Oxford City and Ebbsfleet) when he came back for 6 games. He is extremely talented, it's not just 'form', and we wouldn't have him if he could play 30/40 games in a season. Realistically if you get 20+ games out of Anthony Mancini you will win over half of them, luckily we now have Adam Campbell who can easily replace him for the games he's out.

If mancini only plays 1 game next season but its to win the play off final, he will of more than earned his wages back for us. We cant afford to have him play very little but we certainly cant afford to give him away.

Sarll also said Mancini's groin problem meant he wouldn't be considered for the Notts Forest U-21s game on Saturday.

Thought I'd mention it so we don't get another Mancini thread or another 2 pages on this one come the weekend.

Hope he's available to play some part against Yeovil.

I cant see them risking him at yeovil if he isnt playing saturday.

more than likely.

you might be as good as your last game but not if you have to look back 11 months to remember it. at the moment old ronnie might be as good as him if he isn,t injured. as good i should have said better.

Cod Liver Oil tablets will cure him.
Needs to man up the french pussy.

dont understand why he wasnt at the game though - should be there injured or not.

hes buggered for me - i know hes came back from injury into a DS way of things with this tight fitness regime. But one game and some preseason training and hes back on the sick.

that groin is clearly fucked and will mess his season up - ill say it now, we wont get 15 games out of him this season.

Thanks for the diagnosis professor. Is gender reassignment your full time job or just a hobby?

Professor Gloves in future.

just wonder if he has the guts and determination to get his place back into the starting line up. i doubt sarll is the type to drop someone because he declares himself available for selection and is an automatic first choice. hope i,m wrong again but time will see.

Back in day it was only Ozzy Osborne who was paranoid, nowadays it seems to be trendy to jump on the paranoia bandwagon at the slightest opportunity.. Mancini may well be one of - or THE only player with sufficient flair and imagination to open up NL defences therefore it would be madness for the club to allow him to leave unless real megabucks were on the table. I very much doubt that will happen as I don’t believe that Raj would go down this route. In Raj we trust?

Or is everyone reading way too much into it. Darren Sarll didn't seem overly concerned about it, to me it just sounds like mancini has a tweak they're not risking aggravating it.

Exactly this. He said his groin was tight, no need to risk a player who's just come back from a groin injury in a meaningless game. I suspect he'll be on the bench at Yeovil

The game time he plays needs managing but i am concerned about how he will be in the winter. Fingers crossed.

I hope he lasts till the winter.
I'd settle for that problem now if he gets a few worldies in.

More questions than answers at the moment.
Fingers crossed like you say.!

I reckon you are spot on Krampesh He said himself he is now injury free. We need to remember he was out a long while and will get the odd tweak. I think it's a problem that will be gone by the Southend home game. I just hope Doddsy keeps getting fitter because he is extremely important aswell to this team.

he is more or less our farrari in the team who like those cars needs a service and check up everytime they get used.

very true - we need to probably manage him more than others - but if we get say 3 games a month out of him, those 3 games he can easily win us. Hes shown what he can do so we all dont have the worry of ability being there it maybe be a mental thing. Sure DS can sort that too.

Dodds and Mani D staying fit are also mega mega key players for me. We have the opportunity to really have a go this season i think !

Being the ever pessimist bad groin strains usually need surgery, Mancini has had 1 come back but returned to France for more treatment.

Only if its hernia related and he should be way to young for that.
Maybe Accrington know more about his medical regime and the reason they binned him.!

still something niggling there though - doubt we see him tomorrow too. So for me that suggests there is slight tearing or bruising to the muscle again which is basically a full blown groin injury either in process or about to happen again - so count the lad out for the next 3 months minimum again. 6 worse case.

I had a hernia when I was 13. Was never the same and had a hernia operation aged about 29.

Broke my leg in two places playing footy at 23, it affects your confidence for some time in case the injury happens again but being wary can also affect your game.

Ya been unlucky.
Had my groin hernia at 51
Excellent operation at Hpool hospital.
Wasent happy having to wait the full 18 weeks.
But was before covid lockdown shit were some are/were waiting well over 12 months.

thing is everyone is different in this like everything else in life. without knowing i,d expect the waterfall and parkes types to deal with it better than mancini. in the words of the late harry storer, no player likes being kicked but some like it less than others.

Missing again today sadly not even on the bench

Sarll said after the Scunny game that he wouldn't feature today. Let's see what happens next week.

Sarll said in his post-game interview that Mancini should be back in training on Monday. He’d like Slogg on the bus for Saturday, but most likely Southend before he’s ready to play.

I had loads of potential, but discovered Strongarm at the age of 17, and never regained full fitness after that.

The scouts never recognised my talents so I retired at 16.

In 3 weeks time we will have the after match conundrum of what are the NL doing makeing us play 2 games in 3 days.

While the other 23 clubs fans don't make it an excuse.
Well yesterday's game just proved we basically a 1 man team with Manny D missing so we got the numbers for the Yeovil bus.

Short on the 2 Qs in my book.
Quality n Quality.




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he said he wasn,t worried about him. one interview you have waterfall saying he is catching up on his pre season due to the injury he got and now we have the boss saying he isn,t worried about a player who has hardly trained.

Oh he talks like a Politician.
We Gunna get this till Fevs gets his job.
Probably before Xmas.

or tells fans with short memories what they want to hear. no it was a pre season game but you,d expect everyone in the squad to be present like sloggett was unless they were out with a serious injury that made travel difficult for them. hope we have not identified a player who is regarded as a special case if everything is about team spirit and togetherness next season. know of a situation before at a club with a player like that where team spirit was zero and groups were formed inside the squad where they never mixed and went their own way.

He did all of pre-season up to and including the win at South Shields and only dropped out just before the home friendly against Sunderland on 27th July - a week ago