Has gone back to Maidstone

I appreciate that Cassidy has hardly pulled any trees up at Pools and Higgy obviously doesn’t rate the lad having presumably been involved in shipping him out on loan twice. Let’s hope that he has something up his sleeve in respect of a direct replacement - if not this could prove to be a major gaffe to eclipse some of Higgys previous classics.

What previous classics?

Name them.

Shipping out a below average (7 goals in 43 Pools appearances) non league striker who doesn’t want to be here a ‘gaffe? Yeah right I. I’m sure we are looking to replace him and with Kabamba we already have a more mobile, more regular scoring target man replacement anyway.

He looked totally uninterested all the time he was here and never a threat. He went through the motions. As for a direct replacement... do you mean another big disinterested lump who made no impact whatsoever?
As for the big gaffes comment, all managers have signed players who failed to produce the goods.
You do tend to ‘accentuate the negaive’ as the song goes.
He’s getting shipped out because he’s been replaced already.

We're doomed! How will we cope without his 5 goals a season. Massive gaffe from Hignett.

Bloody hell man




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Hey ! lets just wait and see shall we. I think Smokin Joe is overplaying it here, but no need for people to get narky. Cassidy has never been prolific wherever he's been, with the possible exception of when he was once on loan at Tranmere, maybe the major gaffe was that we signed him in the first place.

It was the “higgys previous classics” comment that got me.

Is that implying he’s regularly fucking up? If so when?




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Someone put a post on here ages ago about Iggnet's signings, and there was about 10 players he brought to the club who went to other teams at a higher or the same level. That's a good indicator for me.

One of them scored in the last 2 rounds of the FA cup against higher level competition. I'm sure Hignett can live with that particular 'gaffe' on his conscience.

He did okay in that respect , from what I remember mostly half decent players, a couple of duffers. It was getting them to gel and be consistent that was Hignetts problem. Hopefully he can do better this time around.

He should go work for Audi and BMW cos their indicators are shite!

They probably stopped gelling when they stopped getting paid


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Media Department were taking up all of the wages

I disagree, until the shit started hitting the fan we were better to watch than at any point in the last 7 or 8 years.

Disagree with what ? I never said we weren't entertaining, just results that we weren't consistent, which we weren't. It may of been better to watch, though compared to the shit served up in the few years prior and couple years since, it didn't have much to compete against. IMO there were odd games that were good, but some people seem to think the Hignett period was akin to the Kevin Keegan period at Newcastle, it certainly wasn't.

Good to see that my innocent post has instigated the predictable hysterical overreaction from the usual self-righteous group who fail to bother to understand the message. The potential Hignett gaffe would be not replacing Cassidy not the realease of the player himself who I agree has been a flop at Pools both before and after his loan spell at Maidstone. The previous gaffes by Hignett are an obvious reference to his recent substitution of Kitchen for Newton that cost us the game against D&G. As for his previous let’s not forget that he was not sacked by the club without reason but I cant be arsed to trawl through the past for the likes of PJ. Suffice to say that I agreed that Hignett should be reinstated as manager and remain 100% behind him - for now.

You said that moving on an average non league player could be viewed as a ‘major gaffe’ where in pointing that completely fair point could that be construed as ‘hysteria’ or ‘over reaction?’ From what I saw of Cassidy I have seen worse centre forwards at the Vic but if we want to be competing where we want to be he’s not the answer. One substitution in a single game is not a ‘major gaffe’.

He’s already been replaced by a bigger, stronger, quicker target man option.

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ ... ck-198353/

Another person comments on the negativity. Have they got a point?


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He has a point, but don't see why that should excuse him from giving his all for the club, which from were I was standing he didn't appear to be.

We are historically a FL club, Maidstone aren't , our supporters have never tasted real success, Maidstone probably have , albeit at a lower level. Our supporters have just got on with it for far too long, relegation from the FL tipped the scales, we are a cynical brow beaten bunch now, going to watch Pools is no longer fun, only improvement on the field can sort this problem out, but how do you achieve that in the face of such adversity? that is why we need good communication and leadership from those in charge , something I often bang on about. Currently I feel we are not getting it , if things are to improve this needs to change. Then we take it from there.

Good points horden.

Ironically the negativity n hatred that seems to appear on the terraces and online would have been welcome when coxall was shafting the club.




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I accept Cassidys comments, and in response I'd say it looks like he's taken the easy option and wasn't up for the fight. In my incredibly humble and worthless opinion, we don't need that type of player at The SUPER SIX STADIUM, we need people who are fighters and will to put their bodies on the line to win football matches and get the fans on side. We have a loyal fan base, if we get on a roll it WILL come together.

He's gone to a relegation battle and appears to welcome it because he's loved, bless him.

He does have a point though. I jokingly said in another post that we’ve been shite under different chairman, different players, different managers. The only constant being the fans.
If you’re a player getting abused all the time you would obviously think ‘sod it’.
Players are wary of making mistakes so opt for the safe pass option because there’s always the terrace gobshites waiting to pounce. I don’t know if these people are repressed outside the Vic, under the thumb or just pig ignorant, but the venom you see in some people is disturbing because a player got something wrong. They wear the players down and eat into their confidence and it’s something we have to address, calling ourselves loyal fans etc means we might have to be a bit more patient with events.
There’s a reasentment, a defeatist attitude and someone has to be blamed for the humiliation of relegation, but nagging negativity is not the way to sort it.

Nor is blind loyalty, and I would say the majority of our fans fall into that category, its just the negative ones tend to be the most vociferous. Despite what Cassidy says, in my experience of following football for 47 years, I don't think any set of fans would of accepted what we have had to put up with over the years, in terms of kicking off our lot are pussy cats compared to most I myself tend to criticise the club rather than individual players, its the job of those employed by the club to sort the players out, if they don't do it, the club get criticised not the individual player. Some of our fans are repressed outside the Vic, that is what makes our situation so unique, for many Pools is the only outlet in their lives , in an economically depressed town. That is why our situation needs to be treat with kid gloves, and we need people running the show who know what they are doing, people who can harness the negative situation and turn it to an advantage.

The Pam stuff was even worse, even till the last day people thought she had the clubs best interests at heart and was just "out of her depth".

Havent we replaced Cassidy with Kabamba or whatever he is called like?

Even if we didnt have a replacement, if those are Cassidys thoughts then you wouldnt want him around the dressing room anyway.

He is spot on btw. The negativity on the terraces and general abuse is astonishing at times, as it is on here by a select few who get their kicks from slagging the club off at every opportunity.

We have went from being owned by a bunch of conmen ripping the club to pieces, winding up orders, false promises after false promises, selling players behind the managers back, signing players behind the managers back due to their agent, dodgy loan companies, dodgy deals and being hours from going out of business altogether etc etc A local successful businessman stepped up and agreed to take the club on when no other fucker would. From the sound of it he is staying paying random bills from the Coxhall/Goldberg regime, Vat bills, keeping the club running, admitted he made mistakes at Darlo so brought someone he trusted in Hignett along to assist on the football side of things, the players are getting paid on time, were signing players when needed, not having fire sales of our best players, reducing the squad size as it was always too big and generally things are a lot brighter than under the Coxall/Goldberg/Pam regime.

However there is more negativity towards them than the people who attempted to run the club into the ground.

Unbelievable.

The usual suspects in the town end start the abuse even before the players are on the pitch, im sure its only a matter of time before they will even give the mascots a hard time.

To be fair some of those mascots have been shite. When did one last score or even make a meaningful contribution to a match? It is hard to believe that a succession of managers have kept signing the little fuckers.

I blame Sky Sports, Gary Neville and the scouse fella. Analysing every inch of the game, and it'll get worse, because next year there is VAR. People sit at home and watch the top earners of the sport playing well and winning games, they then expect the same at the live football they attend. It's a vicious circle.

just ditch sky sports as you can watch boring, negative sise to side passing games at most sides near you and save some money .

Good post. We actually replaced Cassidy before he left.

Classic hignett fuck up that




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Not seen much of Cassidy, been too busy working a fake job in Africa. Can't say where though soz.