And take Monks and the majority of players with hi

New start desperately needed starting with the owner and then the rest of the shower of shit that runs through this entire club

Fair point.
God forbid him n Radgy are still here in August.

What? And start yet again with a proven (ie Askey/Curle/Sarll) or unproven (ie Hartley/ Harrison) manager and an entire squad of players of journeymen players who may not have what it takes to be effective in this Godawful league? Unless there are a couple of of Hollywood superstars waiting in the wings to stride into the club and start splashing the cash big time, don't expect a big name boss or a host of marquee signings.

The Yank-owned Carlisle shaggers brought in the geriatric Hughes and effectively signed a whole new squad in the January EFL transfer window and despite their recent revival are still hot favourites - along with Morecambe - to return to their old no-league stamping ground next season

Far better and more realistic to retain a hard core of six or seven players who have proved their worth in the NL and complement these with affordable signings preferably those who have been individually successful in EFL or NL promotion winning outfits.

Come on, so we do that and we start all over again ….new manager, new owners and new players….then we lose our first match and you will repeat your opening sentence ……but just change the names.
Slow to praise, quick to condemn.

A few good signings will go a long way, not necessarily a big clear out (although I understand the frustration). We need better recruitment, despite what the happy clappers say every single summer, it has been patchy.

We do have a habit of turning decent players into average or worse too.

We need new owners announced next week so the club has the financial stability to sign players. Until that happens the rest is pointless.

it is and will be unless the new owner has money to burn, a football man with contacts who can bring his own good manager into the club. anything else would at best be stagnation with a similar manager and group of players like we have now. hopes and dreams are all we are left with as fans.

If we get new owners with a different level of ambition and the money to back it up they're entitled to appoint whoever they want.

In any other scenario Limbrick should carry on in charge. Yet another pointless role of the dice is the Raj Singh way.

Preferably last week…this is getting ridiculous…it’s treating the fans like irrelevant fools.

fans are the last thing that bothers them as we are only a necessary moaning evil in their eyes. we need to pay our money and shut up.

Aye…to paraphrase a certain poster…

YOU’RE NOT HERE TO THINK
A COMPLIANT SUPPORTER IS A HAPPY SUPPORTER
NOW SHUT UP,
PAY UP,
AND TURN UP.

Several EFL and NL clubs have been the subject of takeovers, administration etc over recent years. I would very much doubt that the associated fans of those clubs have been mushroomed as Pools supporters have been over the past four/five weeks. Even allowing for the fact that detail of the takeover ls by necessity confidential, it beggars belief that the 'interim board' seemingly cannot be arsed to provide a further update that would at least indicate which direction the club is potentially heading.

The recent announcement of the change of kit supplier for next season without any indication of how the takeover process is progressing may have served to provide some fans with hope. However, in the absence of a follow up statement it only served to heighten concerns that all may not be well and could be construed as taking the piss out of the fanbase.

Unless Raj Singh is taking some perverse pleasure in taking retribution against the handful of Pools fans who shamefully found it necessary to verbally abuse him and his family via mushrooming the entire fanbase, it is difficult to appreciate what purpose the above announcement served.

To his credit, Stelling Junior of the Hartlepool Mail is the only local journo who is at least attempting to keep the 'takeover' process (if that is indeed what is going on) at a reasonably high profile amongst the routine noise emanating from the club. Is it really too much to expect regular updates from the club itself now that the 2024/25 season is rapidly drawing to a conclusion?

It’s like you’ve booked for a cruise but have no idea till you turn up on the day to find out if your cruise liner has been replaced by a dredger or a luxury private yacht…..

yet again it all hust shows what they really think of us. don,t worry you,ll hear from them once season tickets come on sale and the explanation of why they have increased in price.

What's Limpdick been outed for then...???

Is he really a woman, and was sussed while trying to reverse the Datsun?

Should Limbrick stay or go? its a choice as attractive as should I vote for the Conservatives or Labour.

If he stays, every chance nothing will improve, if he goes, every chance of rinse and repeat.

Personally I think, by the width of a fag paper, he should stay, and Raj should give him a season to prove himself.

What can't happen, is Raj stick with him then sack him in November, that guarantees another mediocre mid table season.

If he a new manager is to come in, he ( or she ) needs to be in place by the end of this month.

As ive said before if AL was allowed to sign DECENT players i think his brand of football could work.

If NOT then Darrell Clarke.

Completely agree- I said the same on a different thread a couple of weeks ago

Yeah, let's get rid of another manager because that's worked so well for us in the past. I'm sure that the queue of top level managers would reach down to Morrisons.

thats a bit hopeful. more like the number you could get into a cubicle at morrisons bogs.

I think at the end of the day, the manager who could turn us around, wouldn't come here in the first place, such as Warnock, Holloway etc.

I've always maintained a manager ( apart from the very best ) generally have only around 10-15 years at the top, before they run out of luck. Ideally you want a manager at the beginning of that cycle, and get around 3-5 good seasons out of them.

A manager I had in mind 3 or 4 years ago, was Gary Bowyer, or is he at the end of that 10-15 year cycle.

Again, would he come? just performed a miracle at Burton, so probably not, but would he have come after leaving Dundee and before he took on the Burton job? probably yes, but would we have paid him what he was getting at Dundee and Burton, probably not, and therein lies the problem at Pools, that and identifying the right people and players in the first place

I think both Colin Jack and Mr I have touched on the issues we have as a club currently. We have a rep of not giving managers time which puts off your successful up and coming managers, Chester's manager turned us down for this reason, and maybe don't pay enough (this isn't saying we should and isn't a slight on the club) to be able to attract the very experienced been there and done that league managers who could come in and put together a really strong title push (Steve Cotterill, Bowyer etc.). This leaves us with a much smaller pool of managers to pick from, academy coaches, people out of the game for a while, managers sacked from lower half league 2 + national league clubs.
I'm unsure if Limbrick is the answer but we won't know unless we give him a transfer window and pre season to work on HIS team and not a team of Sarll, Phillips, Askey etc. players.
I think a problem we also have as a fanbase is thinking we can attract just about anyone to manage the club. We had this with Pete Wild after Sarll was sacked, who wasn't interested due to wanting to stay in the league, and I think we're seeing it again with Darrell Clarke. His last 3 jobs have been in League 1 and he has 2 promotions from League 2 on his CV, is he likely to want to drop to the national league? Probably not.
I'd say we may as well stick with Limbrick, with all the uncertainty and the takeover dragging on if we were to bring in a new manager he'd either have to make some extremely quick decisions on players or the retained list would be done before he arrives by someone at the club. Not ideal prep for a new manager when we could stick with someone who will know which players fit his style, which he wants to keep and where he wants new players to fit into his system.

100% common sense.
This expectation that the manager comes and things take off immediately is nonsense….even Challinor was struggling in the first half of the promotion season.
Anyone wanting instant success is away with the fairy’s, but some fans and an apparently impatient owner are a bad recipe for success.

surely there must be some manager of a club in a lower league to us would jump at a chance to manage us. Its a job where they all have two things in common and if they are not in your DNA you would never dream of doing such a risky job. ambition and a high degree of your own ability. challinor started at a much lower level that pools at colwyn bay and its difficult to imagine there is a new one about having success lower down the leagues and not a flash in the pan one season one.

feel many fans have less patiance that the owner has and given there wishes many would have got rid before raj did.

The last time Pools went out and signed a proven manager who was in demand was way back in 2006, when Danny Wilson was brought in to get us straight back into League 1 - but that was before the money tree IOR were using was taken away.

If Pools' fabled new owners are loaded we'll have our pick of managers from the lower leagues. Otherwise, it's Limbrick or someone like him, or starting again in level 9...