is for 3 years. How on earth do you give a manager of his experience a 3 year contact? No wonder he's sticking to his terrible tactics because he knows he's unsackable.

I don't get this view. When you make a managerial appointment you have to show some confidence in the guy. He was not going to leave a comfortable job and relocate his family for a 1 year contract. We're not a golden ticket club, I'm sure most managers are going to need some convincing to come. If you don't have the faith in him then you don't appoint him. I'm sure people would moan if he had turned out to be a genius and some other club snapped him up for peanuts. You can't really judge these things retrospectively.

He's now facing the same problems craig hignett had last year and his reign is following a similar path.

Show potential in the autumn, wages become uncertain, off the field matters regarding clubs future rear their head and form suffers.

January - fire sale starts with no scope to bring anyone in.

Only difference is we had the coin to sack hignett last year.

It's a fair analogy up to a point, but only up to a point.

Hignett had his own faults as a manager, but Harrison isn't fit to tie his shoelaces.

Hignett had us playing decent football, things could have turned out so different for him but for the off field problems.

I don't doubt that, but we keep employing managers and then they keep getting restrictions, you cant expect him to perform to the best of his ability with 1 hand tied behind his back.

Saying that he does need to make changes, move deverdics from left back for a bloody start.

I'd have Hignett back at HUFC tomorrow. In a heartbeat.

Me to, i’ll Even go and pick him up if that’s what it takes

decent mid table side but some wanted more at the time. memories are short in football.

He was as bad as Harrison though towards the end, but I think Harrison will get even worse from now on in. Hignett to be fair though, was hindered by the clubs off the field problems, and I always suspected he had personal problems of his own , which may or may not of affected his ability to do the job properly. If true , these things sometimes happen in life, I would certainly give him another chance in football, certainly better than Harrison, though I suspect most on this board could do a better job than Harrison as well.

I would welcome Hignett with open arms. He was destroyed by the owners the last time and was building a decent side.

Hignett signed some good players who've went on to better things,unlike the utter dross this bloke brought in

There aren't many in the full squad that have any value - other than possibly Loach. And even he has looked a shadow of his former self recently. When the off field problems make such a difference on the field as they seem to be now we will struggle to get many more points from this league. Teams will see us as a sitting duck.

Can't help but think of that photo comparison of Hignett when he was appointed manager and then shortly before he was sacked... looked like he'd been dragged through a hedge backwards and spent about 3 month on the street.

Pics on here:

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For what it's worth, I thought Hignett had the makings of a good manager too. It's no coincidence how it all began to unravel for him when players started to be bought and sold without his input (allegedly).

that's the one. Good stress free job at pools

My contribution towards saving the club would be to pay for the hire of a truck & fuel and transport Harrison and his family back to Welsh Wales FOC.

So would I Elvis

Nice 'gesture' but you're not in a million years actually going to do that, are you?

At a time when Pools fans and many others with no connection with the club are actually putting their hands in their pockets, cheap digs like that are way off beam.

The prospect of Pools in administration is a nightmare and it's mainly the recent experience of Darlington fans that makes me, as a HUST member, stick to the Trust line that throwing money into a black hole created by other people's incompetence isn't the best way to secure the long term survival of a club.

Agree Mr Dawes. He’s from Gateshead and why even bring his family into it?

FFS guys it was obviously a joke - are you do far up yourselves that you have lost your GSOH and are unable to permit anyone to make light of the current situation?

Its hard to see the funny side of Harrison potentially being here 2 and a half more years.

The club could possibly be about to pull of the greatest of great escapes but we'll still be faced with watching his baffling selections and game management.

Craig Harrison was highly successful with New Saints in the Welsh Premier league and there is still time on his contract for him to repeat his success with HUFC in the Northern Premier league!

Bit harsh to compare the Northern League with the Welsh Premier League, for all their passion the WPL is still not that good.

In Harrison’s slight defence (which may get me shot down!)... the job was always a step up without all the shenanigans of late. Talk about learning on the job - he’ll probably never have another season this hard.
He bought some poor players in but equally been a bit unlucky with injuries to key players. Pre-season we were playing some nice football before the reality of the style of game common in this league struck home pre quickly. At times he has recognised weaknesses and brought in good players. When Watson arrived and we had that good run we looked a solid team.
My worry, also mentioned by others, is that he has lost the dressing room, which is hard to come back from.
I do feel for him and it must be pretty horrific trying to keep going when the club could go bust in two weeks. That said, it’s difficult to argue with very poor results.