Came on and made every player look as shite as chip fireball on his prime.

Was dissappointed to think he is our strengh to come off the bench.

This is why this message board has gone to shit. Petty, probably drink fuelled attempted point scoring.

We were under the cosh when Luscombe came on, he barely saw the ball apart from two crosses one was decent one was appalling. Barely worth a mention in the context of the 90 minutes.

stevo shouldnt be allowed to post straight after a game

Lol was only after a reaction and it worked. Pj loves it.

Absolutely backs up what I posted.

Did you see Nathan getting his shirt on in the dugout, promising signs of the flab disappearing, my boy will come good soon

I'm still laughing at your story about the roulette machine haha.

Yeh but what sort of "mate" Puts a pound or whatever in this machine after his so called pal associate whatever has just lost a bag of sand. Personally i would of punched you in the mouth even if you were my best mate.

Really bad craic to do something like that if you had.

i can see it now You wouldn't of give him a penny.

Sums you up pal.

The story is a complete fabrication, Stevos photo is spot on!!

Your right though mr elkots, no mate would do that

Hang on Ritchie I know you can't stand PJ but you cant have it both ways, is it complete fabrication like Stevo indicates or is Elkots right and he should not have done it!

Eh? Read what you have just wrote?

Yes I think the story is fabrication and yes I think no mate would do that.

Ah I see he made it up, however on the off chance he didn't he is a silly boy anyway hmm all bases covered.

He is not a bad lad really you know.

PJ would not lie IMO.

Maybe not but he went out of his way to quote me repeatedly when I joined and not in a good way. He seemed to make it personal then cry when I started to do it back.

what ever happened to supporting the players that play for the team you support:?

Was that meant for this thread?

I arrived at the ground just as Luscombe came on, and I have to admit to thinking thank god I didnt pay to watch him play. There you have player that did less training during the summer break than I did, and I am 36, and no longer play at a decent level.

He looks a joke, and something of a throw back to the early 70''s when we were a shite div 4 team, who just ended up with all the cast offs from everywhere else.

A talented waste of space in my opinion, who doesnt deserve the support off his own mother never mind people that have paid to watch him.

Dont care how good he might turn out. I wont EVER pay to watch him play, unless I was asured by the club that he had done a full preseason training regime, and he was the weight he should be.

Feel free to disagree.

Eh - nope, agree with every word.

The only reason there have been so many Luscombe threads (granted this one is a pisstake) and Nish threads too for that matter, is because Pools have a threadbare squad and people are desperately hoping that these players will either finally come good or get shipped out. At the minute, there's ONE player not in the first team who has a strong claim that he should be - Murray. James, Baldwin, Holden should all feature quite a bit over the course of the season but are not the finished article yet. Feck Financial Fair Play, feck IOR's fabled tight ship approach - it's going to be a long, hard 10 months if Pools don't add some more quality to the squad.

I'm hoping that Cooper has 2 or 3 players lined up who he wants on loan from the likes of Sunderland or Newcastle before the end of August and is just waiting to see who these kind of teams are going to let out on loan when they've finalised their own squads.

I voiced these concerns, in the right quarters, about the strength of our squad before the game on Saturday. I was told not to worry.
No detail was given and to be honest I didn't press for any.
So we'll have to wait and see but the club are aware of the situation.
Read into that what you want but I am content not "to worry" for a few weeks.

Noble will do. Would obviously like more but his quality would be a huge boost for us. The more the merrier like but if we were limited to signings noble would certainly be top of my list.

Was Noble on bench for Sunderland at weekend?

No;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19221271

Good, looks like at least 4 ahead of him in pecking order?

Yep- Campbell, Sessegnon, Saha and Wickham. Plus I think they're trying to sign at least one more forward too. Maybe whether or not they're succesful in that might determine whether or not we get Noble.

I'd be buzzing to have his quality for an entire season. Really impressed me when on loan and playing alongside Howard would probably benefit him more than James did least season. Maybe try Luke James on the left. It would be very nice to have options ,well good ones anyway. Hopefully Sunderland sign a new striker, a left back, centre mid and left winger

edited for accuracy

Hey, that's quite good for you that.