Those concerned will recognise themselves.

I was thinking the same thing

Vital football

How the fook can you have a poll voting on the ability of a player nobody has ever seen play

Welcome to Pools Arran, a club where 60% of the fans think you're shite and aren't prerpered to give you a chance

Next "Is Jamie McCunnie a good signing" I'd never even heard of the lad until Friday so i'll start us off with a no

Well it was you guys who actually voted, you could have put try him out for a few games but only 1 in 5 of the voters did. Seems fans have already made their minds up on him which is a bit unfair.

I think that McCunnie sounds like he could be a really good player but on Lee-Barrett there only seems to be Chris Turner and the goal keeping coach who have a good word to say about him. He is only young though and he could develop into a decent player, hopefully we'll be signing someone with a bit more experience to be our number one.....

I was one of those five.

But I'd mean League games, I meant pre-season games with the other keeper we are signing (if Provett goes).

Anyhow, has Jimbo defintley left Pools?

Yep, there's only those who know anything about goalkeeping who have any kind of regard for him so we can dismiss those opinions.
What a load of crap we seem to be buying.

Turner knows nowt about nowt, especially goalkeeping, after all he only played at Man U, Sheff W and Sunderland

Turner knows nowt about nowt, especially goalkeeping, after all he only played at Man U, Sheff W and Sunderland [/quote

Using that sort of logic no manager in the whole of football would make a bad signing, after all they were all good players in their day. When you have not heard of players you can get a good guide of what they are like from the clubs fans who they used to play for.

hopefully Lee-Barrett will be an excellent signing but from what I have read about him it does seem doubtful that he is ready fr first tem action....

I' m still desperately hoping we buy another goalie - even loan from a top club as has been suggested. This feller may come good, he may even start good, but at the moment it seems a bit of a gamble.
Methinks having a good/great keeper next season will make a world of difference to where we end up, that and a goalscorer.

OK I'll rephrase it, he knows more about the quality of a goalkeeper then you do, as does George wood

FFS give the lad a chance, or alternatively, you could go and poke dogshite though his letterbox if you feel that strongly about it!

I am giving the lad a chance, but like has been said I would like us to sign an experienced keeper. Someone that is provern and less of a gamble. I wouldn't really favour the loan option unless it was in view of signing a keeper perminantly.

The way some people go on we could sign Craig Russell and people would be saying 'give him a chance'. Like when we signed Hignett and people were claiming it was a good signing when really it was a waste of time. My opinion is the same as BitWestHpool, I really want us to sign someone else in such an important posistion.

I notice that Tim Krul has signed a new contract at the Mags. He's a good up and coming keeper and should they decide that he needs more experience we should stand a chance of him coming to us. Alternatively if they decide that he should gain that experience with themselves what would be the chances of getting Steve Harper on loan?

Very slim, he's very well paid to sit on the bench at Newcastle and would walk into a good few Championship sides.

Turner has never been any good at signing goalkeepers tbh, both at Pools and Sheff Wed. Only because he was a goalkeeper doesnt mean he is good at signing them.

Im sure the club will only have signed Arran as a reserve keeper, to sign an unrecognised keeper for Div 1 would be a very bold and many would say risky/ stupid.

I keep hearing all these rumours of us signing Krul on a seasons loan, im sure there is some truth in it

I reckon we have a chance of Krul.
I know we have no chance of Harper
But if we did get Krul, then either Harper or Given getting injured would mean Krul heading straight back up the road.
And if Krul is that good (as his european match seemed to suggest) then they may well want him loaned out to a championship side.

It wouldn't bother me in the slightest if we got a keeper in on loan for a season, especially someone of Krul's calibre.As long as they are keeping the ball out of the net it doesn't matter does it?

...your posts suggest otherwise ...you also seem to have stunning 20:20 hindsight.

Snowy - A, i not allowed to question any signings? Would it not be a little bit concerning if he was automatic choice for number one when he has hardly played or are you happy to take the risk?

On loan signings I really don't see the point in signing a young player from another team that we have nil chance of signing, doing that is so small time you'd expect Darlo to do it. I'd like to think we could get a keeper of quality who wants to be part of a Pools team pushing for succeess rather than someone using us as a stepping stone....

On the HUFCofficial site - Lee Barrett is number 13 on the squad profiles, which suggests he is only a reserve for now.

How would anyone ever make their debut if everyone thought like that?? Like, you can't have any experience until you've had some experience. Cooper put Provett in when he was three years younger than Lee-Barrett and he was player of the season.

You have not seen the lad play, yet you write him off and even start a demolition job on him .... I have this rather old fashioned habit of 'giving them a chance'.... before passing comment.

Scunthorpe in the CC would be the ideal game to give him his bow. Keeper is too critical a position to test his temperament in our first League game in a difficult fixture. So I would like to see a more experienced keeper between the sticks at Luton.

I expect him to be one for the future and a No 1 keeper to be signed, that said, I see no reason to start hammering the lad.

Wasn't Dimi still officially a Pools player when he signed though meaning number 1 wasn't available, having the number 13 hasn't stopped keepers in the past from other teams being first choice though.

They haven't assigned squad numbers for 2007/8 as far as I'm aware and aren't likely to before pre-season. And when they do the 13 will almost certainly be missing as always.