LET'S BE HONEST....

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36364

... in the summer we were all a bit depressed after the previous 12 months of downright misery. THE FUTURE WAS BRIGHT....promotion a mere formality, a case of a few cameo perfomances and the Red Sea would become the Blue and White Sea and part before us as we secured promotion in January with record points, playing exhibition football to stunned opposition teams and fans who worshipped at our feet and threw rose petals in our path as we etc etc etc .....THEN THE ALARM BELL RANG...and we all woke up with a hangover and we liked the dream and we wanted it to come true and when it didn't we couldn't hack it and like spoilt b*stard in the Viz we got angry when we didn't get what we wanted...well, here we are, victims of our own high expectations and demands. All our problems are of our own making...we turned from supportive to impatient and demanding..a quick fix they say, but isn't that what every team wants. Do I know the answer..NAH.... and that's the trouble. :roll:

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36364

MadJohn wrote:

Hey! I said we'd finish tenth! :razz:

Erm, can I revise that down slightly? :uhoh:

Do feel free to revise away :laugh:

3Quid · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:11 pm **Posts:** 1791

I said 17th at Christmas.

I think ive been too optomistic with my pessemistic prediction.

Salty · **Posted:** Sat Nov 04, 2006 10:00 pm

i said 3rd f ucking bottom snowdrop :shock:

but you're right, again.... tonight :shock:

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22566

Dibbs, it does look an odd pai of substitutions admittedly but I'm kind of hoping that they were done for genuine reasons. Was Duffy fading? Was Daly ineffective?

I am sure of one thing; no team has ever been successful by constantly changing their manager and all of the best ones had a bad period at the start. Today for example the radio is full of Alex Ferguson. Now I can't stand the jock get but you can't argue with his record. Nevertheless after a few months in charge there everyone was calling for his head and but for a flukely goal which won the game at Forest he probably would have got the sack.

Even Dario Grady was close to the sack finishing in the bottom six in his first season at Crewe.

Wilson has been here 20 minutes FFS.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36364

Mr ADG wrote:

Snowy wrote:

... in the summer we were all a bit depressed after the previous 12 months of downright misery. THE FUTURE WAS BRIGHT....promotion a mere formality, a case of a few cameo perfomances and the Red Sea would become the Blue and White Sea and part before us as we secured promotion in January with record points, playing exhibition football to stunned opposition teams and fans who worshipped at our feet and threw rose petals in our path as we etc etc etc .....THEN THE ALARM BELL RANG...and we all woke up with a hangover and we liked the dream and we wanted it to come true and when it didn't we couldn't hack it and like spoilt b*stard in the Viz we got angry when we didn't get what we wanted...well, here we are, victims of our own high expectations and demands. All our problems are of our own making...we turned from supportive to impatient and demanding..a quick fix they say, but isn't that what every team wants. Do I know the answer..NAH.... and that's the trouble. :roll:

Thats bollox.

And its just you trying to justify your support of the problem.

The one who put two midfielders( I use the term very loosely) on in place of two strikers.

Please explain to me why that has anything to do with our expectations?

...... is that a 'disagree'..... rolfl

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36364

Can't see anything to argue over there....especially a new chairman.....WE SEEM TO BE LIKE A RUDDERLESS SHIP IN THE PLACES THAT COUNT...i :roll:

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:55 pm

chip fireball wrote:

we dont have a god given right to be winning games. but when me and dibbs and the rest of us with families pulled out 500 bar for season tickets to watch fourth division football we did so on the basis that we were going to be watching a proffessional outfit.

instead we get treated like mugs. having to take time off work and queue for hours to collect season tickets we had already paid for was just the start.

boyd was sold and not replaced. underachievers and non achievers were handed new contracts. we werent told the shambolic embargo would prevent us bringing new players in, and nobody at the club has ever explained how it came about and who was to blame. we were only told as an afterthought.

getting any kind of information out of the club is virtually impossible. the boro website had news of liddle signing for us 2 days before ours did. the new club shop has no disabled access, we still have no explanation as to why you cant buy a ticket from the club shop 2 hours before a game without i.d. but can buy it on the turnstile an hour later without having to even give your name.

we have a chairman, essentially running the club, who seems more interested in newcastle united than hartlepool united, and who has watched the club going down the pan and done nothing to arrest the slide. the same man who has sacked successful managers and replaced them with less successful ones.

we have a director of sport, who has no real job description and seems to be paid to do nothing, other than reward crap with new contracts.

this isnt the penniless pools of old. the permanently broke club of the 70s and 80s with 15 cast offs on its books.

ior have spent millions on the football club and we are right back where we started, bottom half of division four, with a poor team and falling attendances.

give wilson time by all means. but for ffs get hodcroft and turner out and get someone in running the club with some passion and direction and some leadersghip qualities. someone who will root out the crap in all areas of the club and start getting people earning their salaries like how normal businesses are run. someone who will reward success rather than failiure, and someone who will treat its fans I.E. THE FOOKIN CUSTOMER with a bit more respect.

thats only my opinion like.

Spot on Mister C!

Tax Paying Poolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:18 am **Posts:** 9053

chip fireball wrote:

give wilson time by all means. but for ffs get hodcroft and turner out and get someone in running the club with some passion and direction and some leadersghip qualities. someone who will root out the crap in all areas of the club and start getting people earning their salaries like how normal businesses are run. someone who will reward success rather than failiure, and someone who will treat its fans I.E. THE FOOKIN CUSTOMER with a bit more respect.

1 million percent spot on.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22566

No. I get really pissed off with anyone who uses expressions like 110%.

100% is everything, the total, all. You cannot exceed it except maybe in some wierd example of quantum maths which is bollox because you cannot have more than everything.

parmopooly · **Posted:** Tue Nov 07, 2006 1:13 pm

the laws of physics in other galaxies are quite possibly different to those in this one, so maybe they can't add up properly either. Also in the parallel galaxy to this one, Pools are European champions and they provide the entire squad for the all-conquering World Cup winning England side

Salty · **Posted:** Tue Nov 07, 2006 1:53 pm

Mr I wrote:

No. I get really pissed off with anyone who uses expressions like 110%.

100% is everything, the total, all. You cannot exceed it except maybe in some wierd example of quantum maths which is bollox because you cannot have more than everything.

me too

oh, and spot on that chipster clap

Cowboy · **Posted:** Tue Nov 07, 2006 1:56 pm

chip fireball wrote:

we dont have a god given right to be winning games. but when me and dibbs and the rest of us with families pulled out 500 bar for season tickets to watch fourth division football we did so on the basis that we were going to be watching a proffessional outfit.

instead we get treated like mugs. having to take time off work and queue for hours to collect season tickets we had already paid for was just the start.

boyd was sold and not replaced. underachievers and non achievers were handed new contracts. we werent told the shambolic embargo would prevent us bringing new players in, and nobody at the club has ever explained how it came about and who was to blame. we were only told as an afterthought.

getting any kind of information out of the club is virtually impossible. the boro website had news of liddle signing for us 2 days before ours did. the new club shop has no disabled access, we still have no explanation as to why you cant buy a ticket from the club shop 2 hours before a game without i.d. but can buy it on the turnstile an hour later without having to even give your name.

we have a chairman, essentially running the club, who seems more interested in newcastle united than hartlepool united, and who has watched the club going down the pan and done nothing to arrest the slide. the same man who has sacked successful managers and replaced them with less successful ones.

we have a director of sport, who has no real job description and seems to be paid to do nothing, other than reward crap with new contracts.

this isnt the penniless pools of old. the permanently broke club of the 70s and 80s with 15 cast offs on its books.

ior have spent millions on the football club and we are right back where we started, bottom half of division four, with a poor team and falling attendances.

give wilson time by all means. but for ffs get hodcroft and turner out and get someone in running the club with some passion and direction and some leadersghip qualities. someone who will root out the crap in all areas of the club and start getting people earning their salaries like how normal businesses are run. someone who will reward success rather than failiure, and someone who will treat its fans I.E. THE FOOKIN CUSTOMER with a bit more respect.

thats only my opinion like.

Spot on sir clap

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