All good choices...

plenty of sunshine ahead.

You gotta laugh. Here we are playing hell because our manager has been "poached", yet 4 out of 5 "targets" are already in full time employment elsewhere ! OK, I appreciate we would make " formal" approaches through the proper channels, but it still smacks of double standards. Football fans - we're a breed apart aren't we ? ( and I include myself in that ).

I agree. I enjoyed reading that. A lot of food for thought in that article.

The thing about Clough being a young inexperienced manager is that he had Peter Taylor alongside him who had knowledge of the lower leagues and helped bring in players like Parry,Sheridan etc.

wonder if any of them have signed a 3 year contract within the last few weeks ?

So very true.....Can you imagine going on a round the world cruise to wake up at your first port of call to find the Captain and his officers have buggered off to Swanko Del Posh Cruises to take charge of their new liner ‘Golden Balls’ for a wedge more money.
Oh no they can’t, the system won’t allow it.
Football has one crazy system of governance, if indeed it has one at all.

RAVANELLI @ 14-1 in betting. EH!!!!!!!

Ravanelli shows his belly on the telly.

think he might still be good enough to keep fondop on the bench
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8eQxWGwHvo

Well the rules are actually quite robust but unfortunately we are dealing with the vagaries of human nature linked to a venture which is a cross between a hard nosed business and entertainment but with a strong dose of emotion. Hartlepool United would have been within their rights to refuse to release Challinor from his contract. This would have meant he could not work for Stockport but he would of course be very unhappy and certainly not disposed to continue his job at Pools. A massive expensive legal wrangle would then ensue which would drag on for quite some time with both clubs effectively being managerless and eventually Challlinor would get what he wanted. The only realistic way out of all of this is to release him from his contract in return for a sum of money which is of course what we and every other club does in this situation. At the end of the day you cannot make someone work for you when they have expressed the desire to leave however dishonourable one might consider their conduct to be.

I agree. I think Raj would dig his heels in if he thought it was worth it. He isn't daft.

I’m not disagreeing with you, but can’t ever see a way of resolving the conundrum that leads to these situations...only good thing is that after they’ve been gone a week you don’t give a toss about them anymore.

Couldn't agree more.

have always questioned this need for contracts anyway. all it seems to do is put money into pockets of fail managers who are financial secure for life by cocking things up. know the money at pools level is not like that but the principle still applies.

Its unreal how a shit premier league manager gets the sack. With a huge windfall due to contract.
Has a bit of a timeout then gets the same contract somewere else.
Failure Millionaires

Just need a Chairman who says no like Levy did when Man City came calling for Kane. It can be done. Very much the exception.

And look what good that did. Bloke looks as if he never wants to kick another ball for Spurs for the rest of his life !

Andy Woodman for me, like. Apart from his football management ability, he speaks the same language as Mark Cullen so will be able to explain what is required much more easily than Dave C who could only speak scouse.

Not Keith Hill. Gone to Scunthorpe. Musn't have been in the shake up !

Woodman is a Londoner, born in Camberwell.

I stand corrected. I think I confused him with the Woking manager who is a proper Geordie what with Woodman having connections with the mags etc. My mistake and apologies for any inconvenience I may have caused. It may well be that the trauma of the last seven days has taken its toll on me. Either that or I am just losing it plain and simple. Anyway, even if he is a cockney geezer, I still think Woodman would be a good manager for us.

Not sure this is true or not but I was told yesterday that Woody's son is a young goalie at Newcastle.

Didn't we have him on loan here?

With Pools recruiting for a Head of Recruitment (with heavy input into the stats side of things), does this shorten the odds of Sweens getting the managers job permanently?

Just a thought.

Neil Warnock to get the job?

I believe young Woodman is indeed a young keeper at the Mags and Andy himself was once a goalkeeping coach at Newcastle, hence me getting my wires crossed.

Big Stevie Bruce not been appointed yet?

Aye DC has his work cut out tomorrow, bullying er sorry motivating his prima donna senior pro's.

I hope Stockport win tomorrow. Take their focus off the league.

Yeah I would like to see a diversion causing fixture congestion.

"Our lot " ????
Thought this character was a diehard Poolie !
Or you would have thought so, given his musings on the Challinor situation last week !

well i hope they win today and go on to win the league so we can hopefully take 6 points off them next season and shut my lad up.

Two Braddy85’s.
There’s only two Brady85’s.

Handbags could be twirling in the dressing room.

Good shout.
He also bring his number 2 who's a Hartlepool lad.

wonder what richie is up to these days??....still at the PFA ?...thought about him as a possible ...but hes a yorkshireman ..maybe a bit too risky in the current climate...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDqms_E4u3g

Good laff is Mr Enfield.
How times have changed.
Its now going from Equalism to Ruleing the World.

PETE WILD....END OF STORY!!!!

rinkender.....pete wild ..worth a shout...but can his missus cook...could make all the difference apparently....

A very successful lower league manager....Haven't we been here before?

Its only football fans who can be happy poaching another clubs manager after it happening to them. If the subject had been a different one, say politics and boris, people would be taking a far higher moral ground on this. The game will eventually eat itself alive with money.

I’ve given this one a lot of thought and whatever options you come up with to stop these practices there’ll be devious ways around them. It’s a grand system for the moneybags clubs so it will never change sadly.

Don't think it was so much DC leaving that annoyed me it was going down a level despite how much money Stockport have. If he had gone to a Barnsley or Bolton I think a lot of people would have wished him luck. If we did take someone like Wild then he's moving to the EFL and to a bigger club. I refuse to believe Stockport are a bigger club than pools, probably very similar in size. Plus I'd hope pools went about things in the right way without any underhand tactics.

Can’t argue with that. Money talks though.

just go back to the old days where the club advertise for a manager, pick a short list and hopefully appoint the right one. nothing could be placed at pools door doing it that way. no one is forced to apply.

Far, far, far too logical that Mr A.

Like everything else in football people have to change and over complicate simple practices, more often than not just for the sake of it.

Good read that, we’ll have the lot.

Just cut & pasted from AW's Wiki page....apparently he is our manager...go take a look, info right hand side on his page

Andy Woodman
Personal information
Full name Andrew John Woodman[1]
Date of birth 11 August 1971 (age 50)[1]
Place of birth Camberwell, England
Height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)[1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team Hartlepool United (manager)
Youth career
?–1989 Crystal Palace
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989–1994 Crystal Palace 0 (0)
1994–1995 Exeter City 6 (0)
1995–1999 Northampton Town 160 (0)
1999 → Brentford (loan) 1 (0)
1999–2001 Brentford 60 (0)
2000 → Peterborough United (loan) 0 (0)
2000 → Southend United (loan) 17 (0)
2000 → Colchester United (loan) 6 (0)
2001–2002 Colchester United 48 (0)
2002 → Oxford United (loan) 12 (0)
2002–2004 Oxford United 89 (0)
2004–2005 Stevenage Borough 21 (0)
2005 Redbridge 1 (0)
2005 Thurrock 14 (0)
2005–2006 Rushden & Diamonds 3 (0)
Total 438 (0)
Teams managed
2017 Whitehawk
2021–2021 Bromley
2021- Hartlepool United
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Very interesting