Forced me self to 1:43.
He's a gonner.
Totally lost the dressing room.

Was 1.43 when he blamed it being sunny ?

From banging his gums about t intensity to whining about 2 away games in a week…didn’t take long for the nonsense to start

From what i saw, The players half way through the 2nd half stopped.
I know they never really started, Just the body language Stank.

Boring interview.

Never watch any interviews…I fall into a coma.

He talks about tiredness and lack of intensity but doesn’t seem to understand that it’s his tactics are the route of the problem and his players just can’t buy in to his style of play. Yesterday the whole team played badly with only Dodds supplying some width. I don’t think Raj will put if with this shit for too much longer. As others have said we look like a pub team.

That interview says to me he is done, he has a squad of players that would be the envy of most of this league. He talks of fatigue and travelling etc... its all bullrod. He has good players, his tactics and general lack of letting good players play has been his undoing, he has to go. The thing is he is likeable but beyond the fitness and defensive work he is clueless

Dog n Duck b team.

Not many teams in the NL enjoy overnight stays in hotels, in days gone teams never did, maybe Pools should stop it, a night in your own bed can be better than being in a hotel bed

It won't be so bad if it was just the defenders who played the constant hoofball to get the ball out of our half, but when you've got Hunter and Sheron doing it too there's nothing created for the strikers, they're having to wait for defensive errors or create for themselves.
Total lack of composure in central midfield needs to be addressed and soon.

In Fevsy we trust.
Ist session Tuesday morning.
UTP.

You mention Raj but doesn’t he have board to make decisions now? They picked the guy so have to take some responsibility. Wonder if we’re close to a ‘full confidence’ announcement.
Have said it before, we’re wasting points by wasting the talent we have in the team. His favoured hoofball is horrific and you’ve got to think this will be Sarll’s last managers job.

last season we needed a hunter or a sheron in the side as we do this season. it should though be one or the other with the other replacing the starter from the bench.

biggest shock was that he never said 3 points out of 2 away games was decent haul. actually has he ever won anything as manager and at best just been a nearly man.

Your right.
We have all seen it in the past, Teams travel disrupted , Arriving late and going home with 3 points.
ComfyComfy = Soft.

Hes been given a decent squad to work with, And i dont know why, But he just can,t see it.

Depends who you’re in the bed with

I though Sarll seemed slightly shaken in his general demeanour as though he'd had words with someone or more than one prior to facing the interview. Wonder if in the dressing room the players told him where to stick his tactics? Pure speculation, I admit.

agree. thought at one time for once he was lost for words.

Might have something to do with the crowd reaction at the end of the game. Our crowd that is.

That’s the mystery…but you can give a kid a Ferrari to drive …… but if they haven’t got the ability to drive it …..it ain’t gonna end well.
Has he got the ability to change things ?

problem is if he did make a change would he be happy making it. would show to everyone then that he got his original approach wrong and had to admit it. something football managers do not like to do but would blame everyone if he did change and it did not come off. one single game does not make him a bad manager but only a few days back somebody said i was not a true believer in their hero.

Think mr sarl needs to realise we are here to win the league with some of the players we have and we are not happy sat in mid table. Trying to pick up points? We should be going out to win every bloody game. Negative tactics against two of the worst sides we will play all season wont wash with many fans at all. Dont think ive ever seen a pools crowd turn so quick on the manager.

Yep a very good point, that seems highly likely.

Why what happened Derwent

This the games ARE going to get harder, and we will drop points against better sides (no one is expecting we march through the league chesterfield style)--the problem we have is we've dropped so many points already against the real shite that we can't afford many more bad results against the better teams.

York look like they are going for it--we laughed at them last year but they got rid when their managers weren't producing--hopefully we do the same before its too late

At the end of the game a section of our crowd left rather than stay to interact with the players and management. Some applauded, others just remained unmoved while a smaller section really gave it vocally to them. A, A turning of the tide you could say

I get what your saying Loyal but we have been here 5 or 6 times under Raj and it never improves enough to bring any real success. ( not icl D.C. ) Wether its D.S. or a another we have to stop this nonsense of continuing to sack each one after 5 mins in the job. Maybe next time around the manager is given a roll on contract of 3 months At this rate we will probably never attract a good quality manager and it will eventually all turn to tears.

The thing is you cant just stick with a manager who looks out of his depth and is losing fans by the week. Its even hit the away support down to below 200 again second game running. Fans wont pay out to watch this turgid rubbish, then to lose against the whipping boys of the league is just a pure insult to the ones that travelled. We should break the bank to get pete wild here someone who clearly has a clue.

It really is hard to overstate how bad that result was , ebbsfleet aren’t just shite they are whipping boys adrift at the bottom won’t win more than half a dozen games all season shite and they beat us comfortably

People applauded the players after that.
Bloody hell.

Some will accept any old shite. Applauded id of been embarassed if i applauded.

Like you've mentioned previously we did not take advantage of the DC promotion bounce.
Grounds rocking. DC expecting to bring decent players in before the end of August deadline.

The foundations were in place to have a good crack at hitting the play offs which I know some fans were disgusted at the thought of it.
Every excuse in the book come out.
Weird or What


A ultra quick slide of major proportions was to follow.


But we are were we are.
That's life.

A bit of dissent. Only to be expected in my opinion. I didn't see it all cos I had a train to catch. Got told later. If performances like that continue it will get worse.
We can't expect howls of glee from people who travelled fair distances, spent good money and get served that. I spent around eighty quid and didn't even have a pint. It didn't help that the train I was on from Kings X had no food or drink for sale.
I think the problem is that the vast majority of fans are convinced we have the players with enough talent to go to places like that and perform, if they are allowed and/or are set up better.
It's sheer frustration to be honest.

Can you name a single fan who was disgusted at the thought of going for the play offs then?
DC left and he would always have left at the thought of managing a club closer to his home with massive funding and of course the thought of trebling his wages overnight.
All history which has no bearing on the fact that we've brought in good players, some we paid a fee for and you'd think they're on good wages to come here.
I'd say the ambition and playing ability to make a promotion attempt is definitely in place, unfortunately one piece of the jigsaw seems to be missing and that's a capable manager.

Thing is I totally understand that My point on this thread is not about any individual manager but about how we supposed to move forward if all we do is sack manager after manager after manager . Forget who the manager is because all we all want is success regardless of differing opinions. But surely we need to change something quickly regarding the process of managers. And a good start would be to pay a good salary & bonuses that would attract a higher quality of manager. We here that we have players on two or three grand a week yet it appears ( if rumours are true ) that we only pay managers in the region of £60,000 to £80,000 salary range. If you take the higher figure of £80,000 its approximately £1,500 a week. If these figures are correct it's got to put off the top managers in the lower leagues especiallywith guillotineRaj in charge.. If Raj decides to sack D.S. so be it but what then? I would personally go for Pete Wild but cannot see him being half interested in a " poison chalice " job on what is possibly average salary in this division. They would need to bit the bullet and make it financially worth his while or a another proven manager. This roller coaster must stop and get a proper overall before its restarted otherwise it will eventually crash and burn.

60k to 80k to manage non league football? I wouldn't think we pay that.
There were rumours that Challinor trebled his wages when he went to Stockport and was on 180k so that would've been 60k when we were efl.
If DS is on 60k then he's massively overpaid for what he's achieving. I'd seriously doubt a y manager at this level is getting that much.

No chance of Pete Wild coming here. Featherstone to be given the job in 2 weeks time.
Indoor Market spending.

My eyes are filling up now.
If you have a good set of tools, And you make a pigs ear out of the job in hand. Who/What do you blame ?

I said between £60,000 & £80,000. " You said you seriously doubt a manager at this level is getting that much " but you mentioned D.C on £60,000 and that was 4 years ago surely with the massive increase in cost of living and wages you could well expect a £80,000 salary now. I know quite a few friends and family who now earn £70,000 £80,000 and even one on £125,000 salary who all hold management positions at various companies around the North East. One of my sons who is 25yrs works for Mammoet as a supervisor and takes home around £2000 a week without his expenses of / accommodation / travel / staying away bonuses etc. He only started at Mammoet 3 years ago buts it's a company that allows good workers to be promoted. I would highly recommend to anyone wanting a job for life with excellent prospects to apply.

100% the manager will be blamed by most. But I keep saying over and over surely regardless of who our manager is we must at some point stop this hiring and firing stupidity.

Leggie, the rumour was that DCs improved contract was for 60k and we were then in the efl. That's why I doubt any NL managers are earning that much.

OK fair does But would you agree £60,000 to £80,000 is not over the top to manage a professional football club the size of Pools. I have a long standing friend whos brother managed in this league and he was on £130,000 and that was two years ago. It was one of the big clubs but we are also a biggish club. My point being if we are serious we must pay top dollar or alternatively just keep hiring and firing.

I'd expect we would be in the top half of salaries for NL and around the middle when we return to the efl.
I can't remember which chairman we had that wanted to pay the players fairly low wages but with a huge bonus for winning promotion. Good idea in theory but unlikely to be accepted by any manager or players.
I'd guess Sarll is on decent money and package to up sticks and come here though.

That might have been Gibson

Yeah Gibson was what I thought too but wasn't sure.

main problem is the hiring and not the sackings. cannot think of a manager sacked by pools who has improved their lot since that happened and we,d want any of them back. fact is the club is now in a worse position than the day lee was shown the door and how much has the club wasted on compo from that day onwards. history has shown us if sarll went today who could manage the side to give us what we want. the idea of if at first you do not succeed sack sack and sack again just does not work.