Will that side that finished the game start the game against Brackley…?
I don’t only hope so, I expect it.
Try fitting Campbell in as well and keeping the ball on the ground.

Think you can only fit 2 of Campbell, Mancini, Fev in the side and of those Mancini has to Starr. Sherron has to be in the side to win the ball with his mobility, aggression, and stamina.
It may be that injuries force Sarll I to picking our (not his) best team.

a wise man would do that even if they thought that team was the fans team. an arrogant one would go back to their own basics and live or die by their own actions. in life its best to listen to all points of view and pick out the best to use yourself.

We had a false dawn at Boston so it would be very Sarll to start the second half team but make them play hoofball to prove a point. We need a shift in style to get the best out of our players as well as that second half team

by league and being at home we should be starting the game as firm favourites. they are not exactly firing on all cylinders every game like chester were around the time we played them last season. surely used correctly we have players to win this game and be able to park our bus once we get a lead. its the cup and 1 nil is just as good as 7 nil if we win. its easier to hold onto a lead than having a come back every week which aint going to happen even against a lower division side who will ride their luck.

Completely agree - something closer to the second half team. There is the question in defence as Parkes will be back available and offers good balance on the left side, but Sass-Davies has done well when played.

I’d start with an attacking line-up Charman, Campbell, Grey annd Mani D and then bring Mancini on in the second half to reduce the risks around his injuries. But no matter who plays we have to start actually passing through midfield and building attacks, not just hit and hope and battle for the second ball.

Well he can’t drop Mani D, he can use the excuse Madine is injured or not fully fit and put him on the bench.

He does prattle on about players being exhausted but are the ‘ever presents’ super human…..?

He also talks about meritocracy and if you've got the shirt and play well then you keep it.
Well for me that's pretty much the 2nd half starting team, although I'd bring Parkes in for Waterfall and maybe Aswime for Fergy.

Well Manni will defo need a rest after scoring 3, Seriously, god only knows what excuses he will come up with to fuck it up AGAIN.

As i posted in another thread, Sunderland have just played 3 Championship games in 6 days with an unchanged team.

It’s all about what they show him in training, remember he’s a winner (we know this because he’s said so) and if you’re a winner you don’t pick and choose when you win

Whoever goes toe to toe best starts, the rest nurse a size 9 in the backside

Really cannot see how he continues in his role.

there has been poor trainers since the game first started. its what players do on a matchday thats important. might be hard on lads who bust a gut on the training ground and do not get a look in but would if they were good enough on match days.

Because he got 3 points and that's all the justification needed for the board.
He abandoned all of his blueprints and principals to get it though which should show the board exactly why he is unfit for purpose. If you hire a manager to play one style of football, they persist with it even though everyone can see what's wrong and then, when their job's on the line, they change it to how everyone can see the team would've been better playing they should go. He's wasted most of the previous (only) 12 games with his tactics.

That is absolutly true, Worked with some players myself who you would not give a second glance to, Total opposite on match days.

So he/they trained well is utter shite, Some players you don,t expect full sessions from.
And if him and his mate say differently, Then we have no chance.

only time will tell if he has learned his lesson or not. if he has and we start picking up points at the vic and some away then fair play to him and we might change our opinion on him. cannot see it but hope is the only thing we have left.

This. Sarll lost what little plot he had after Pools turned the game around at Boston. He realised he'd have to start the next game with attacking players like Mancini but had no clue how to set them up to get the best out of them. A couple of defeats later he had his excuse to get 'back to basics' and drop the flair players. It'll be rinse and repeat soon enough.

away from whatever side is picked the only way you,ll be able to watch the game is to turn up at the vic. there is no streaming live even with it being an international weekend.

If Snarl was a racing driver, he’d be more aroused by his brakes than his engine power….always safety first.

Id use this game to maybe try a formation with all our best players starting - lets be honest we are not winning the FA cup. Use this game to maybe try something. I know we like a little cup run but this side is so out of it at the minute and players out of form we need this game to maybe let it sink in that there is a winning formation to be had (a start is letting the players play football). The team that finished the game saturday should start at the weekend or like a say... go with something else - shoehorn a Mancini and Campbell into the side. Play 3 at the back ? use wingbacks - we have enough good players available to be able to change it to beat these if it doesnt happen. But this is FA cup isnt it and anything is likely to happen !

i dare say we could possibly get away with...

Young

Waterfall Sass Parkes

Dodds (wing back) Asimwe (wing back)

Feaths

Sheron Mancini Charman

Mani D

Joe Grey and Campbell to come on as subs to secure the game - Mathurin also to run at tired legs

we are not going to win the cup but we could make a lot of money out of it. oh shit forgot we did it quite recently and it went into the black hole and saw as fans nothing from it. its a ash cow now for lower division teams as well as non league ones and we,d be the first to rightly moan if brackley did beat us going on to a couple of winnable 1st and 2nd round ties to draw manchester united at old trafford with a financial reward that could be a game changer for them. just thinking about watching sarll ball at the theatre of dreams that would turn the place into a shit working mens club with the worst turn in clubland history on view.

like you just said - the money would go straight into something else and never be seen or ever put back into Hartlepool United

and used as a good excuse to sack a manager who is under pressure. how many will depart over the next few months because owners have lost out on a cup run for money to be used as they feel fit. the magic of the cup my arse. the magic of the money tree more like it.

Win this game an he's on course for Manager of the Month.

All you winngeing bastads got no patience.
A season lasts for 46 games not 13.

Keep the Faith

Super Sarlys Blue n White Army.

UTP.

Who’s hacked in to Kevs account…is that you Snarly

Only you our Kev only you.

Hes not took his meds AGAIN, C,Mon Kevin.

Kevin are you there, I knew you would get a place on the Board.

" Kevin are you there " No Gray he is not there, just seen him outside your house on his bike. The big concern is what he had under his arm in that black plastic bag.

And what’s in his saddlebag, especially as he has a padlock on it.

For me the team that finished the last game starts and we allow our best players to express themselves. Sas Davi’s for waterfall yes. We need wing backs and our goaly needs to stop just punting the ball forward at every opportunity. It’s ok occassionally

I forgot to say we need 5 or six players in the opposition box like we had on Saturday. So wing backs attacking left and right and players in the box. Further need work on our set plays. We are creating loads of corners but crossing straight to their keeper. Cross infront of the keeper, put pressure on him with numbers and force errors

Got Pearsons job.

But I've only joined to find out Sarlys contract then I will Spill the beans on the Bunker if I don’t get banned.!

don,t blame the keeper, blame the one telling him to do that.

honestly id love nothing more than for DS to now turn a corner and get us promoted or there abouts - more for us than him like !

but yeh there is still time and we are only 13 games in. Lets hope he changes his mind on a few things and learns a thing or 2

Very descriptive, Are you Kevin?????

That black plastic bag, Is in fact a POO bag, He has a very large dog, With no teeth.

Its actually Saddleback Pork Sausages, Very nice too.
Remember DJ and his sausage sandwich, Where do you think they came from, Kevin has people ITK.

Back to the thread, Hope Maxted is in goal, Big team like.

He would not dare to change a winning side............would he?

The scary thing is he could afterall it's a cup game against a lower league team. He could argue players need game time or he wants to play a different system or a change the system to suit this game etc etc. It would be his worst decision to date and they has been some belters.

Trouble is, Snarll is shit scared of losing.

Thing is, It was NOT his winning team, So expect changes.

He will probably underestimate Brackley, Hes a fool.

Never under estimate a fool Gray

And there was me thinking he is shit scared of winning.

or make em out to be a non league man.city. one thing in our favour is we have no idea of the team or tactics and brackley will have even less an idea how we will set up and play.

are Brackley actually any good ?

Small squad with no former Pools players in it - currently sitting 12th above Spenny in the NLN (north ? as if).