How refreshing it is not hearing all the insults and degoratory remarks directed towards Mickey Barron And Ritchy Humphreys and IOR. Unjustified and ill informed remarks from so called supporters i find hard to forgive. It has now been confirmed that it was not due to Phil Brown not being able to bring in his own coaching staff in that the talks broke down. Makes my blood boil reading the comments of some posters on hear start having a go at people cos they see other people doing it. Cooper got us into this position not Mickey Barron.

Cooper wasn't here when things started to go bad.

You can feel self righteous all you like I dislike Barron and don't want him near my club.

I didn't like him before the Brown fiasco, and if we go unbeaten until the end of the season I'll still dislike him. Humphries I'm indifferent about as I'd personally like to see the back of a few players before he goes.

I'll support the team, and Hughes but don't have to change my opinion of someone because you say so and no amount of name calling, self righteous posting or success on the pitch will alter that view.

Correct. It's all about supporting the team and new manager now. That doesn't change peoples opinion of Barron.

Agree with alienlife and United i suport pools NOT Barron or uncle ken
Barron should not be within 100 miles of hartlepool
just my view if it offends then tuff

Its quite clear that since Barron started coaching the 1st team that there has been a marked drop in quality despite having largely the same players. We look less organised and half the time look like we genuinely have no clue what we are meant to be doing. The common denominator in all of this is Micky Barron.

See anything on here tex???.... http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q= ... 0AWd6YGIDQ

We have not had a full team of backroom staff since Wilson left and arguably even when he was here.

Wadsworth was a coach without a manager then a manager without a coach.
Cooper was lumbered with Jedward which even if you take out the personalities are very much novice coaches.
Then we had Jedward doing manager and coach. See 6-1 Chesterfield for further details.

Now we have a duplicate of the Cooper situation. A passionate Scottish manager with a backroom staff of numpties and the same gutless wonders to choose from.

I forsee a brief new manager improvement followed by a return to the same old same old until such times as a big pad of P45's (and carte blanche to use them) is given to Hughes.

let's hope so.

So if Cov score today it will still be Barron's fault and we'll have to suffer the same ranting from the terraces directed towards him?

Only if I'm stood near you.

Barron wouldnt get the flak on here if the club didnt insist on putting him in caretaker and coaching roles which he clearly isnt experienced or talented enough to observe on. He simply should not have any influence on first team matters. At last, we seem to have a manager who on first impressions seems strong and articulate enough to put his own stamp on things. Barron is not some sort of fall guy for fans frustrations. His ambitions far outweigh his ability and our results over the last year have been nothing short of criminal.

Let's say we stuff Cov 6 nil today. Barron wouldn't have anything positive to do with that? Infact Yogi will have had to totally ignore everything that Barron has said to him this week.

Lets see if we can say that at 5pm.

If Pools turn in a performance that stuffs them 6-0 then I would be even more anti these players than ever. That would prove beyond doubt that they have the ability but couldn't be bothered to use it. Scraping a single goal win through hard graft would be far more appealing to me and take a step towards them gaining any respect from the terraces..

Under Wadsworth he was learning from a proper coach with ridiculous amounts of experience. Wadsworth was the coach and Barron helped him out.

Under Cooper, Barron was expected to be the main coach and was clearly out of his depth.

Perhaps under Hughes, Barron will go back to being an aid to the main coach, rather than being the main coach himself. Perhaps it will lift the burden a bit and he will learn from Hughes.

To be fair I'm sick of hearing Mickey Barron this Mickey Barron that lets park it eh and see how the new fella goes I personnally believe it is the quality of players not quality of coaches/Managers that has been the main problem over the last two years.

Please can this be the new banner to the forum?