This season is developing into a carbon copy of the Scott debacle. The same inconsistancy, the same laisser faire attutide and the same inane mutterings from the man in charge.

Lets start with the tables. Currently we are on 26 points from 21 games. At this time under Scott we were on 29 from 21 games - spooky eh!

Our upcoming fixtures don't hold out much comfort either. How many of the fixtures in the next eight weeks are you confident that Pools can win?



That little lot of games takes us up to 30 played. At this same stage under Scott we went on a horrible run that left us 6th bottom. Well ladies and Gentlemen, we're only four points above that position now and looking at those fixtures I wouldn't be suprised to see Pools emulate Scott's team or worse.

i too can see this season emulating the scott disaster.

the problem lies with the manager but for every two bad performances there is one decent display that leaves him hanging on. i believe he knows the fans do not support him and also the players know aswell they are not daft, this is turn affects results leading towards a downward spiral that ends in only one thing.

i am going to bring up when cooper was in charge as an example, players and fans respected and supported him and thus the general feel of the club was much better and players were more committed i.e not being lazy and letting two goal advantages slip.

I'm not so sure it's just the manager. Cooper, Scott, Wilson and now Turner have all run into the same problems. I think theres something deeper, something darker, something in the attitude that abounds around the club. There are some who are in favour with KH and some who aren't. I have a feeling that those who are have an unspoken seniority that somehow goes beyond the team manager. (this isn't another Humphreys rant, there are more than just him). How else can you explain some players being essentially undroppable irrespective of performance.

I think that Turner bottled it last close season. He should have got rid of a good few more because those who came in did well initially but now seem to have been infected by the malady that pervades the place. I also think that what the manager says goes and nobody should even consider overuling him whilst he is in place.

Without going any further this club needs a good sort out i know we could be in a far worse state but still needs freshining up like sending non performers out on loan new faces in but with a bit of quality and commitment needed as for a manager/tactition that would be a bonus

bottom line is IOR don't care what division we are in... and they will look after their special ones...it's glum indeed and a massive massive clearout is needed of the people who run the show on a day to day basis in my opinion.
So far as the playing staff is concerned, I think it isn't too bad - but look what happened under Scott - and let's not forget - Turner again - who was really running the show when Stephenson was the puppet in 05/06

When a manager (as reported on Pools Player several times) says that a 2-0 half time advantage is a difficult score than you know it is time for that manger to step down.

If we are to get a new manager in then do it NOW so he can assess the squad and try to improve the squad when the transfer window opens in January. Don't wait till its closed, we are in the sh*t and all we can get is dodgy loan signings.

I agree the season is looking familiar to the last 2 and the Scotty season. For me this has been coming for a while as we have no central midfield and this means we can't keep the presure on teams and are not creating chances and we allow teams onto us. Thank god Monkey is on fire. There is no pace in the middle and absolutely no goal threat. Humps is too slow, Jones is not the answer and Sweens has had his good times with us but now he can't hit a cows arse with a banjo means he doesn't contribute to the team. Sweens has no passing range, can't tackle or head and has a terrible touch. The only reason he got in the side previously was cos he could score, now he's lost that.

Our centre of midfield should have contributed much more than 1 goal between them in 38 combined appearences. We will be in the bottom six after the Jan and Feb fixtures and in a real scrap AGAIN. Bollocks i was hoping to relax a bit this year!!

Scotty in

great first post. so good that I have to break from tradition and NOT tell you to fuck off.

excellent post Tim

This is ALSO concerning, poolietim is this person!!

Jeezuz, you'd scare the kids to bed with that......

she's not a bonny fu-cker, and that's from someone who came last in the bonny baby contest again (I'll find some bas-tard who's uglier than me if it's the last thing I do)

Thanks for the welcome, err that's not my photo by the way. Now I can explain....... the helen worth bit is her indoors, no i'm not married to Gail from corry, and it was on the good lady's email that i signed up. There i feel better now that's explained.

What the F*** was CT on about saying a 2 goal lead is "a nightmare lead". It is when you have no midfield and a numpty playing at right back. This from the man who said during pre season that he won't play people out of position!!!!!! Why didn't he put a defender into right back like play Clarky in there? or move Lidds out wide and play the big French fella.

Only last week he was about to play central midfielder Jones on the right ( where he played under Wilson and was crap ) until he pulled up injured just to keep Sweens in the middle who himself had been pants against Carlisle. That forced him to play McSweens who had a good game as it turns out against Millwall. Then he takes off Monkey against Southend to bring Clarky on, that's right our only goal scoring midfield player who had funnily enough scored our second. And some people say he's tacticly naive. Why not take the pedestrian Humps off???? I don't get it.....

Scary stats when you compare us to Scotty's season especially when we have 3 fewer points now. Don't worry though it's not like we lost to a non league team in the FA cup managed by Mark Cooper is it!!!! Oh shit, just hope a few more teams go into administration to save us again.