Well let's rewind to the summer recruitment.

Every signing made was world class and we've apparently got the best squad non league football has ever had.

All the midfielders strong young n hard as fuck n won't shy out of challenges. The midfield we been craving for for ages.

Dodds n Mancini back to full fitness a massive bonus.

MannyD n Grey not sold jackpot.

2 on loan excellent prospects from the Smoke.

Then add in the best header of a ball apparently Super G Madine.

BUT the full team have struggled and that reason was 100% down to the Sarly worst manager in the club's history stupid fcuken braindead tactics.


So now our Superstar players have no excuses to go out now n tear this division a new one.

I've set them a mini target of 6 pts from the next 2 games.
Then review it.

UTP.

Maidenhead 1 Pools 3

Kev, if you put a lawn mower engine in an E type…the hype falls away.
Let’s see what a proper manager can do…that’s if we can actually get one.

1-1

The season trudges on

I'm going to go 3 nil victory
Play out of our skins and the clouds start to lift after only 2 full days training.
Even tempted to go to the match - must be fucking mad after last nights debacle

ManiD, Campbell and Dodds with the goals

Crowd 1420
155 Poolies in attendance

0-1 win
146 Poolies

C,mon Kettering ALL poolies are mad.

Keep your hard earned cash in your pocket Kettering I cannot quite remember the results under Mr.Burns last time but it was nothing special at all. Did he even win a game He belongs in a care home and should be nowhere near a football dugout.

2-1 defeat with Mr.Burns in charge. But if they put the coach driver in charge I would fancy a 0-2 win.

Maidenhead have won their last 3 league games. And won through in the F.A.Cup game 3-0. It's nowhere near a easy game.

Never mind that.
We got the best team for 10 years.
Away banker.
UTP.
Start of anew dawn on the pitch.
3 pts behind play offs 5pm.

You have to ignore past results in this game and go out to seize a new opportunity….past results of your team or the opposition are history or football would be as boring as feck.

we,d make hard work of it against their lasses. lets just see how good the players actually are now he has gone. fope we,ll witness a new pools but would not bet on it.

We need updates on Hunter and Madine. Also did Mancini pick up a knock ? why did he go off ? is he injured long term again ?

Also has anyone actually been impressed with Madine in any minutes they have seen him play for us. Hes missed a few sitters for the standard he has been playing at - i expected alot more from him.

Assuming LL lets whatever team he puts out play to its strengths I'll expect some improvement - whether it's enough to win the game is a different matter.

it's the battle of the old gits - Lennie (76) against young whippersnapper Alan Devonshire (68). His Maidenhead side are always horrible to play against on their own patch, so a draw wouldn't be a bad result for Pools.

[quote="Eiphos_3" Also did Mancini pick up a knock ? why did he go off ? is he injured long term again ?

Yes, groin strain and who knows? - he's only just done it.

Wouldn't have thought there's any chance he'll play on Saturday.

Last season's game there was a poor one towards the end of season. The best thing about visiting them is the Rebellion brewery is nearby and they have it in the ground. That was more likely to attract me to the match than the actual football on offer. Now that Sarll has gone.. it is only 40 mins from home.

I'll vote for 2-1 to Maidenhead based on current form but a much better performance from Pools.

yeh i can see us having a better game of football but ultimately wont win the match.

Lets just hope we can get settled and get in a new manager before it really is too late

Will be really interesting to see and obviously some kind of fresh start (again). Will it be bootball and not play through midfield. We'll have to wait and see. Hope its chips, its chips. We all hope its chips.

Betting on the outcome of next Saturday's match would be a lot more difficult than picking the Grand National winner. Punters, give it a miss!

..........Hope it's chips for tea, hope it's chips, it's chips! Now that's a blast from the past!

Are you fishing Kettering

They’ve beaten what’s been put in front of them, 2 sides in the bottom 4, one struggling to keep their head above water. On paper it’s got a draw written all over it, if we’re still 9/5 on Saturday I’ll be lumping on that, and the draw as a saver.

normally do not like draws but would take one on saturday as long as we do not throw a two goal lead away just to get it. big wonder if there is a surprise dropping of a player we do not expect to see.

Be nice to see some entertainment for starters. Pools to sneak it 1 nil

Look at the league table.
A draw

We are a big fish in this pond, With NO credit.
We will get what we fight for and nothing else.

but we aren,t we are playing the other 23 on merit and get no bobus points for having more fans.

2 nil to them. Lenny had Sweeney last time but not sure whether he can handle this shitshow

Didn,t mean more Fans, But get what you mean.

Target still win today n Wednesday.
It's Maidenhead n Altrincham not Chelsea n Man City.
Time to shape up n deliver.
No more bullshit excuses.
UTP.

that includes the players now if they underperform. no excuses now he,s gone.

It's official we are Fucken shite.
The full club is fake false rotten to the core.

RIP
HUFC.

Been saying that for a long time. Also been laughed at for saying it too.

Seems to be a new era of acceptability nowadays.
Put up with shite n u get the superfan status.


Just heard LLs after game interview.
Talks more shit than Sarly.

And that takes some doing

Might as well have kept Sarll on if that's LLs best effort. He talks about what we want in this tough old town and then serves up the same shite as we've made clear is the exact opposite of what we want to see.
After we equalised that game was there for the taking but we settled for a point.
We don't have time to be dicking about with this fella in charge for too long, it's like the pupils had a go and now it's the headmasters turn to bore us all to death and piss us off.

Unbelievable. Sarll was sacked on Wednesday, LL has had 2 days to do game prep, get them recovered from the midweek game and give them information on Maidenhead get them set up to deal with their strengths and work on how to try and exploit their weaknesses.

Do you honestly believe that in those 2 days he could also completely change everything that they have been drilled to do by Sarll in the last 3 months and implement completely different patterns of play?

Of course it was similar to how Sarll played, because they have played that way for the previous 15 games, and have trained that way for the previous 12 weeks. You can’t just flick a switch and suddenly have them playing in a completely different way. It’s not Championship Manager. Jesus wept.

How did he do last time around with plenty of time to arrange / change and organise.

So he's watched every game and didn't think it might be worth picking a side that can play the type of football that we've seen in brief snatches and we've looked good doing it, let's just keep playing Sarll ball Lenny as the season drifts away, there's always next season to look forward too eh? I thought I'd heard the last of the old joke - Hartlepool the place where the football season finishes in October!
Why get rid of Sarll to just pick a similar team and play the same tactics. He's been around long enough to know what works for us and what doesn't but is still stuck in hoofball mode.

Joke aint it

Seems to be a new era of acceptability nowadays.
Put up with shite n u get the superfan status.

Afraid I have to disagree Kev- at NO point did Mr Burns mention Evolution or Teamsmanship! Maybe he was happy with both

He said in his interview that he didn’t expect Campbell and Mancini to be fit enough to start. So if you’re dropping Sloggett, then your options to replace him at Attacking Midfield are Robinson, Charman or Asiimwe.

The other option would be to put Charman on the left, Mathurin on the right and move Grey up front with Mani. Given the very short amount of time they’ve had to work with the players since Sarll went, I doubt they would be able to work on getting them comfortable in a new formation in that time too.

I thought we started off decent, kept it on the floor and played out from the back well. Parkes was unlucky to hit the post. Then we started to struggle to keep the passing going, they closed us down and we started to panic and got it long again, which made us look poor again. Then bringing Mancini and Campbell on gave us an injection, we looked good for 10 mins then they got to grips with us and it all petered out into a draw. It will take a while to remove the instinct to hit it long and to bring back enough movement off the ball to allow us to play the football that we want to see.

With 2 more games in 7 days, I doubt we’ll see a major change in those two either. I think they will want to get the new guy in by the end of this week, have him in the stands for Saturday v Aldershot, then give him the 2 free weeks to get his ideas across, make some changes before the York game.

That’s if they manage to persuade anyone to take the job.

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Well it's not £22 value unless ya lack self respect.

Really the players can't adapt quickly to a new formation and tactics? What happened against Sutton then, 1st half was hoofball then substitutions at half time had us playing out from the back and keeping the ball on the floor and it worked?
My grandkids under 12s can change formation and style quite comfortably so to say that professional managers and players can't is ridiculous. Lawrence says yesterday was a step forward, by what metrics does he base that on? It was bad and in fairness as bad as under Sarll. It'll be a huge step backwards for me if we continue like this as I'll be finding something more worthwhile to do on a Saturday, never thought I'd ever feel this way after 50 odd years. As Snowy said, despair has set in and I can't see it lifting until we get a manager with a different approach.

To be fair he has been sat in the dug out watched every match, knows the players etc normally a club gets a bounce after sacking a manager, but not today. Lets see how we do against Altrincham

you might say LL was grasping at the only straw of offer to him as the result was an improvement on tuesday night. cannot comment on how we played as i never saw the game. wonder how many on here and twitter have made comments without seeing it as well.

Well I made comments Accy but at least I watched it.

I watched it too unfortunately and for me LL offers nothing more than Sarll did. Cold wer afternoons watching that shite is not for me.

110% agree PTID not often we agree but no way could I fault your post this time.