Still carrying an injury,not fancied or not putting it in at training? I'm curious as to the reasons behind his lack of game time. Anyone have an idea?

Bad signing he is here for one last wage watched him against carlisle besides being crap he was not interested in grafting for the team either.

Hes only 29, seems early to be winding his career down. Does seem a pointless panic signing in fairness.

It's a bit rich of Dave Challinor to be having a go at Fela Olomola for lack of end product - at least he's fit enough to play!

Cullen seems to have dropped down to 5th or 6th in the pecking order of Pools attackers after barely being seen by us fans.

He's red hot favourite for the Josh MacDonald Trophy at the minute.

there must be a big problem somewhere when he cannot make the bench and when he does we do not see much of him. possibly the exursions of sutton in the rain has put his fitness back further.

29?
He must have a had a hard paper round.

I think all the forwards have the hallmarks of panic signings, no wonder Challinor hasn't signed his contract yet, he probobly knows like a lot of fans if you can't score goals and be given enough money to get decent players in, things can turn against him pretty quickly. OK living off the home form but that will go up in smoke shortly, when we don't look like scoring.

On top of that a possible vacancy occuring nearer to home at stockport where the natives are in revolt. more cash available without being tied to the transfer window.

to sign Cook who for me is in the same mould. Suggests he was a panic signing who is also not fit. Maybe DC gambled with the fact he has played at this level and is only 29 - another Williams unfortunately. We should of definitely gambled on M.Cheek or J.Sbarra both on fire again in the league below.

I got my head bit off earlier when I said Cook looked like a panic signing before I had seen him. True but I had seen his record.

We probably can't afford Cheeks right boot let alone the player himself, raj said their is money available, what he fails to mention is we will be lucky to sign a lad who has scored more than 3 goals a season with the money available.

It's almost a joke how bad our forward line is for a professional football club.

I'm sure someone will emerge from the group Grey, Fondop, Cullen, Cook, Olomola, Goodwin to bag a few before Burey returns from injury

Keep the faith.

Fondop looks good imo

One of the biggest problems I find with signing players in football is that we are not the only club. Sometimes those other clubs are interested in the better players as well. Really annoying.

So there are clubs with more money than us. Some of them are no wealthier than us but the Chairman are prepared to risk the future of the club offering crazy contracts in the hope they hit a gold mine. Then it all goes wrong and they take years to recover, if at all.

This season we had the problem of the late finish to the season and our strikers from last season taking better deals.

The other issue is location. It is not easy to tempt someone to move away from home for a similar wage. So we have this year ended up with strikers who have something to prove. Loan signings are the best way forward and Burey resolved the problem but now we need 1 or 2 of the others to step up.

Raj has supported Challinor well and we have Goalkeepers and Defenders up to the standard of the rest of the league so it shpi;d be re,e,bered he rescued us and financed us well alst year and has a budget to keep/

There is no bottomless pit.

Despite all the striker doom and gloom, we’re currently sixth in the league. I know it’s not about how you start but there’s plenty of the goals in the side even without the strikers.

Signing players, any player, is a gamble.

Less Quantity.
More Quality.
= More paying clientel over a longer period.
IE: A full season.
Peanuts n Monkeys only work in zoos n jungles.

from where. apart from gav can anyone see a player getting 5 this season who do not play upfront. actually could be worse, we could be one of those sides who needed 3 goals a game to give us a fighting chance of a victory. rather have what pools have got than shitting myself once opponents get over the half way line.

We have scored once in 4 games, against 3 of the teams struggling at the bottom, one of those teams was 5 down at half time against a prem reserve team last night. We should not be blinded by the fact that we started well . If the home form dips which it will and quite probably starting this Saturday against a very good team, then what? We have unnecessarily made this season much more difficult because we wont pay for one decent player up front.

Now we're coming into a much tougher part of the season against decent teams, we can soon find ourselves 6th from bottom not 6th from top.

Fans say Challinor has been backed? Really? Maybe last year when we went out and improved the squad but this year he seems to be shopping in Aldi.

wish we were shopping at aldi. the last few signings look from a charity shop. anyway 6th bottom in may would suit me fine. doubt anyone pre season expected pools to be in the play off positions at any time of the season and at the moment i feel some are thinking with their heart instead of their head. Challinor knows his budget and if we had finished the season earlier we i,m sure had recruited better which is no ones fault but the system we found ourselves in.

Fondop is no mug, did well in a poor Chesterfield side a couple of seasons ago and was playing in LG.1 for Burton last, surprised he was available and he'll not be on peanuts either.

Why after grafting for the last 10 seasons to be an EFL manager,would he drop
straight back down to the NL,no matter how much money County have?

Cullen looked finished when he came on against Sutton. Fondop, I'll reserve judgement till he's fit and had a few games.

Because if your team can't pick up points away, then eventually no matter how much the fans love you pressure will be on he could be out of a job in a year, he could go to a team near his home have money to do what he wants and probably be on on double the money. Raj should have had him signed up.

[quote="Wommers"]Cullen looked finished when he came on against Sutton.
not fully match fit. the question is how long does it actually take for a reletivly young bloke to get to that stage if and i say if he is in full training with the rest. got a funny feeling without any knowledge that he is being put in some cotton wool in training sessions just in case he fully breaks down.

Cullen is defintely the next Williams - we wont see much of him, which is a shame because the man does know where the goal is and can be a threat (looked slow and leggy though on all his appearances for us so far). Im hoping Cook becomes our next Oates (both Armstrong and Oates had spells at Gateshead, lets hope history repeats itself).

Fondop did well and i actually liked the way he played - not the cleanest of strikers but definitely has potential under DC. The way we put balls into the box against teams who let our wing backs drive on there is no reason why he cant grab a lot of goals. Im sure the team will mould him correctly as to the way we play and where he should be.

possibly he could not have had a harder debut at oldham with our crosses into the box not being of the usual standard. the lad did ok feeding off scraps. be good to see how he performs when the team is on song.