Centre half and Striker

PJPoolie · **Joined:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:28 pm **Posts:** 15342

Set to sign according to reports Micheal Ledger from Sunderland and Ryan Bowman from Motherwell.

Ledger is only 19 but had a successful loan spell in the Norwegian top flight last season, Bowman has plenty of experience at this level.

The Mail is also suggesting that we're after another more experienced centre half as well.

If true it's encouraging on two fronts, one that Harrison can see the obvious weakness and two he has the funds to strengthen.

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

Fair play to Auntie Pam! clappp

The Colonel · **Joined:** Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:49 am **Posts:** 4891

This the ex darlo player bowman?

PJPoolie · **Joined:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:28 pm **Posts:** 15342

The Colonel wrote:

This the ex darlo place
yer bowman?

I think you'll need to repeat that in English :laugh:

Is you meant is this the ex player Ryan Bowman then yes I'm pretty sure he had a spell at Darlo, scored a few for Gateshead as well.

The Colonel · **Joined:** Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:49 am **Posts:** 4891

Fair point. Really should refrain from trying to use a phone to post.

Think he was highly rated by darlo fans.

pooliecrab · **Joined:** Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:31 pm **Posts:** 6028

Sounds like he could be good at hitting the target.

I'd normally be wary at signing kids on loan at centre back but I doubt anyone could be as poor as the current two playing there.

charco · **Joined:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 8:24 am **Posts:** 885

Are these loan signings or signings?

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

I already think they are both shite

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Joe Mac · **Posted:** Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:26 am

I'm already creating my Pam Out banner as it's her fault we've signed these shite players.

horden · **Posted:** Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:27 am

Yubep wrote:

I already think they are both shite

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You beat me to it :laugh:

Seriously though , sounds like more of the same to me. Though to give Harrison credit, after I bumped into him down Blackhall beach, and spoke about our lack of height , both are over 6ft.

Dalton'sHaircut · **Joined:** Sun Oct 05, 2014 9:26 pm **Posts:** 1013

If he's following your advice Horden I wish you had asked him to sign Messi. However I realize he's too small for your liking

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

horden wrote:

Yubep wrote:

I already think they are both shite

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You beat me to it :laugh:

Seriously though , sounds like more of the same to me. Though to give Harrison credit, after I bumped into him down Blackhall beach, and spoke about our lack of height , both are over 6ft.

Please tell me you also spoke about the lack of pace?

horden · **Posted:** Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:10 am

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER wrote:

horden wrote:

Yubep wrote:

I already think they are both shite

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You beat me to it :laugh:

Seriously though , sounds like more of the same to me. Though to give Harrison credit, after I bumped into him down Blackhall beach, and spoke about our lack of height , both are over 6ft.

Please tell me you also spoke about the lack of pace?

Of course Tree, and many other things, but uppermost on my mind at the time, was stopping him from walking out into the sea

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

Did you tell him to get a haircut ?

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pooliecrab · **Joined:** Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:31 pm **Posts:** 6028

horden wrote:

I bumped into him down Blackhall beach

Are you ok?!

horden · **Posted:** Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:34 am

Yubep wrote:

Did you tell him to get a haircut ?

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No, but I did give him your mobile number, hope you don't mind, as I said you would be able to give him some good advice on male grooming, fashion and diet etc.

Has he rang yet?

paulus the woodgnome and a side salad · **Posted:** Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:34 am

horden wrote:

Yubep wrote:

I already think they are both shite

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You beat me to it :laugh:

Seriously though , sounds like more of the same to me. Though to give Harrison credit, after I bumped into him down Blackhall beach, and spoke about our lack of height , both are over 6ft.

Was he crabbing or picking coal again for the Vic furnaces Ron?,....... you know the furnaces where Goldberg used to burn all his paperwork in.

horden · **Posted:** Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:39 am

Chip Fireball wrote:

Adam Jackson and Christian Burgess were both young and inexperienced centre backs when they came to us on loan. Both could easily have been Player of the Year and immediately went on to bigger clubs.

Jack Baldwin was about 18 when he made his debut.

Age/experience is irrelevant, we just need someone who can play there who has basic competency and that wont gift the opposition a goal every game.

So were Scott Harrison and Donaldson. With these type of loans, it could go either way. Jackson and Burgess were two of the better ones we have had on loan, Baldwin was a great signing, even Hartlepool get it right occasionally. Not sure about the Sunderland lad, but Bowman might give us that rawness , spirit and fight we are missing at the moment.

pittingtonone · **Joined:** Sat Jan 03, 2009 9:03 pm **Posts:** 130

Who is signing these players for which formation in the tinkermans mind. I'll get the party poppers ready it's all good.

horden · **Posted:** Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:43 am

paulus the woodgnome and a side salad wrote:

horden wrote:

Yubep wrote:

I already think they are both shite

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You beat me to it :laugh:

Seriously though , sounds like more of the same to me. Though to give Harrison credit, after I bumped into him down Blackhall beach, and spoke about our lack of height , both are over 6ft.

Was he crabbing or picking coal again for the Vic furnaces Ron?,....... you know the furnaces where Goldberg used to burn all his paperwork in.

He was looking for the pit Dan and ended up down the beach. Aparrently he had been reading a book, given to him by an old Welsh miner, that had said, just shout down a coal mine and you will find a good footballer. I had to tell him the pit closed in 1981.

horden · **Posted:** Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:45 am

phil wrote:

Harrison won player of the year when he was on loan, to be fair.

Fair point ! I knew he decent when he first came here, didn't realise he got POTY. Which I suppose makes it doubly frustrating that he never kicked on his career and the fact he is pants now with us.

monkeybutt · **Posted:** Wed Aug 23, 2017 11:24 am

pooliecrab wrote:

Sounds like he could be good at hitting the target.

I'd normally be wary at signing kids on loan at centre back but I doubt anyone could be as poor as the current two playing there.

You mean like the 2 awful ones we had in Baldwin and Jackson

monkeybutt · **Posted:** Wed Aug 23, 2017 11:28 am

phil wrote:

Harrison won player of the year when he was on loan, to be fair.

And went back to Sunderland overweight and a crappy attitude, " Quote somebody but better not say"

johnjo · **Joined:** Wed Feb 27, 2013 5:57 pm **Posts:** 321

Loans of young players is always a gamble. Jackson and Burgess were huge successes but I can barely remember the names of the dozens of others who returned to their clubs and vanished, you only remember the good ones.
As for Harrison he was here with Charlie Wyke. Harrison swept the board with the end of season awards and looked a far better prospect than Wyke. Just shows how things can change.

Eiphos_3 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 23, 2017 2:42 pm

I think we should all be absolutely made up with the fact that pools are sorting it out quickly and bringing in a like for like replacement for Podge. This guy could be the answer to our problems. Podge was hardly banging them in week after week and hitting the target on a regular basis. Not bothered one bit that he has gone at all... main thing is we looking at replacements and not relying on Oates or having 1 upfront.

However we do need to get the ball to the front men and create better chances - that will come in the form of playing Munns and Deverdics in the correct positions and having them on the pitch at the same time. Donaldson isn't living upto expectations unfortunately as id thought we had finally got ourselves a good solid attacking midfielder.

would love to know what happened to Mondal and Maloney as they are quality players and I think we would have benefited from at least having one of them on the books.

hopefully this kid from sunderland can be the new Burgess and we have them signed up in time for Saturday as Fylde will tear us apart

Mctee1908 · **Joined:** Tue May 15, 2012 7:51 pm **Posts:** 629

Bowman would be an impressive signing, given he's played in 7 of Motherwell's 8 games so far this season. He must have made himself unavailable for the 8th game to push through a move to Pools...

Lord_of_Stranton · **Joined:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 4:48 pm **Posts:** 1852

Perhaps agent Trevor has been singing the praises of the North East riviera.

PJPoolie · **Joined:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:28 pm **Posts:** 15342

Mctee1908 wrote:

Bowman would be an impressive signing, given he's played in 7 of Motherwell's 8 games so far this season. He must have made himself unavailable for the 8th game to push through a move to Pools...

I don't think he's started many.

Stomper409 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 23, 2017 4:17 pm

PJPoolie wrote:

Mctee1908 wrote:

Bowman would be an impressive signing, given he's played in 7 of Motherwell's 8 games so far this season. He must have made himself unavailable for the 8th game to push through a move to Pools...

I don't think he's started many.

Started 3 and came on in 4.

PJPoolie · **Joined:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:28 pm **Posts:** 15342

It looks like Amonds dream move to Newport will be sealed at 5pm. I'd love to ask the bloke if they suffer the same fate us come next May, which is very possible, what then!?

Anyway forget about people who don't want to play for us.

yloop · **Posted:** Wed Aug 23, 2017 4:59 pm

In other news Harrison is now a manic depressive and going on a miners parade now he's met Horden.

The Colonel · **Joined:** Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:49 am **Posts:** 4891

Thank God you didn't say minor.

There are too many kings of the kids already round these parts.

Ginger Blueman · **Joined:** Thu Aug 24, 2017 10:15 pm **Posts:** 3

What's everyone think of Louis Rooney? Just signed for Linfield

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

Ginger Blueman wrote:

What's everyone think of Louis Rooney? Just signed for Linfield

Possibly the worst ball control of any player iv seen for us.

Plenty of effort, will run all day and has some pace though.

Ginger Blueman · **Joined:** Thu Aug 24, 2017 10:15 pm **Posts:** 3

Good finisher? Our top striker is joining QPR this weekend and has seemingly been replaced by Rooney

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

Ginger Blueman wrote:

Good finisher? Our top striker is joining QPR this weekend and has seemingly been replaced by Rooney

Dont think he had many chances at goal with us to be fair. Seem to remember a one on one which he missed.

Scored a cracker for Plymouth against us though.

PJPoolie · **Joined:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:28 pm **Posts:** 15342

You'd be better off asking Plymouth supporters he barely got any game time here, I'm not sure how any Pools could form sort of opinion of him as a player.

Ginger Blueman · **Joined:** Thu Aug 24, 2017 10:15 pm **Posts:** 3

Thanks guys

monkeybutt · **Posted:** Fri Aug 25, 2017 11:28 am

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER wrote:

Ginger Blueman wrote:

What's everyone think of Louis Rooney? Just signed for Linfield

Possibly the worst ball control of any player iv seen for us.

Plenty of effort, will run all day and has some pace though.

We still have Oates banghead

loan_star · **Posted:** Fri Aug 25, 2017 12:27 pm

Bowman is decent. He was a bit hit and miss at first but was one of the better performers in a crap team.
Prone to the occasional glaring miss but more than made up for those occasions. He should be well for you.

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