I personally wouldn't suggest you call them anything particularly, maybe lacking in certain management skills but nobody is perfect, I'm sure if you were managing a Sunday League footy team and your team were totally outplayed and a complete stranger came over after the game and called you a bone head you'd not be best pleased.
And yes I do attend games and am a STH of many decades standing so have witnessed the recent poor performances of which I am not very happy at all either.

A world (at any club) where criticism of managers does not exist is a fairy tale. I have seen a lot worse down the years than being called something as mild as ‘bonehead’ and sadly every time I see a post match interview I see the connection.
I saw Paul Warne the Rotherham manager interviewed after the draw at Sunderland and was well impressed at his communication skills getting his points and message over clearly, concisely and effectively, our post match shuffling, mumbling ‘thoughts from a distant land’ by contrast are a poor substitute.

woodgnome..."I personally wouldn't suggest you call them anything particularly, maybe lacking in certain management skills but nobody is perfect, I'm sure if you were managing a Sunday League footy team and your team were totally outplayed and a complete stranger came over after the game and called you a bone head you'd not be best pleased."

...i get the feeling that you sir have the moral compass of a fellow more reminiscent of a bygone age..the empire and all that perhaps ??...nevertheless i do applaud your gentle reminder to me that we should all be rather kind and polite to one another ...and respectful as the good lord no doubt wishes...however ....this is the bunker...not an afternoon tea party at the local vicarage...so sorry but i intend to continue to insult our management in any way i see fit ...as i consider them exceptionally stupid and certainly deserving of my use of the word "bonehead"..they are not suitable for the positions they hold and are fkin up ..errr...sorry..i mean damaging... something which i hold very dear to my heart...so private godfrey...sorry old boy...it is what it is...that's just the way it is....toodle pip...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH5syhVTwlM

snowy..."our post match shuffling, mumbling ‘thoughts from a distant land’ by contrast are a poor substitute."

..its not just manager boneheads mind numbing gobbledegook shite that he talks during interviews ..its also all the non verbal stuff that goes on which really gets my goat..the head scratching...ear nipping....collar and clothes pulling....head shaking...head rotating...shoulder shrugging ..tooth picking...it all just puts me right off...and...i swear if he starts picking his nose then that's it for me...definitely no season ticket renewal...and as you say the contrast between him and people like warne wilder and challinor is clear for all to see....embarrassing tbh.....

One thing did impress me about Warne was after they’d lost three points to a cruel late own goal he told the players no feeling sorry for themselves and come out to the coach smiling and laughing or you’ll have him to deal with….. or words to that effect.
Positive, Positive,Positive…a leader and the team knew it.

true, however have pools got the financial clout to bring em to the vic or actually wish to do so when there will always be cheepies on offer. we only got challinor because he was out of work. poolie 1 mentioned keith hill which is a good shout but the only way we,d get him is if he actually leaves scunny and not stays with them. if the so called boneheads will not collect money and are sent to the job centre then there is a better chance of boneheads mk.2 replacing them. we have seen all this before.

john hughes ?...one last throw of the dice in the big time?...may need to employ a translator to come with him..

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sp ... colts-job/

No there isn’t, replacing any manager is a risk, but there’s no reason to assume the replacement will automatically be worse.

well pools certainly attempted that for years. one thing about it is that they are far from unique is sacking one bonehead for another. get more worried by managerial sackings than any actual player leaving with even less guarentee the replacement will be better or as poor.

If it were true, the onus would be on the owner and more importantly, their ‘’advisors’, they pick them after all.

i trust raj and his advisors to do whats necessary....the guy is no mug....if things go badly over the next 2 games...and the fancy dress party in particular doesnt go according to plan... i trust him to adopt a lance the boil strategy as it were ....failing that....he must realise that to allow this failing bonehead/geek combo to piss away next seasons budget all at once is one hell of a gamble...potentially giving us a recipe for panic stations again come the next january transfer window...so i expect him to be prudent in limiting early spending...some on here wont like it one bit...

And they’ll like it if even less if we buy a load of stiffs either.
I am disturbed by the prospect of close season signings this year.
Please God, prove me wrong.

it is a very big gamble sticking with what we have got. is it a bigger gamble though than having to pay em both off which would affect the playing budget for the new man who comes in cold with little knowledge of the players to start afresh. still not convinced whether our management team had a honeymoon period at the start but are now showing their true colours or is this an end of season blip when the players have achieved what the club set out to do. who are the real lee/nelson. wish i bloody knew.

And that’s the conundrum, who are the real Lee and Nelson.?
The season since they came hasn’t really given us a clear picture. If the honeymoon period was down to their managerial abilities, why has it collapsed so dramatically over the past few months….? Surely if the honeymoon period was down to their talents this collapse would not have happened….?

i have a mad theory - only if it had the slightest bit of truth i wouldnt be so worried....

maybe Raj has strategically brought in Lee to manage and run the new youth academy - once its up and running we see him step aside and we unveil the new management team - this new management team have secretly being working their notice awaiting their grand entrance to manage the mighty Pools !

but on a serious note i would have John Hughes back - he would bring something else with him. He would certainly kick some asses and also bring some decent scottish talent down too. He must have some good connections in the game by now and his record has been good as of late in terms of management.

snowy..."If the honeymoon period was down to their managerial abilities, why has it collapsed so dramatically over the past few months….? Surely if the honeymoon period was down to their talents this collapse would not have happened….?"

...remember the away game against newport...when there was that bust up between feaths and bonehead out on the pitch....other players needing to be involved...is it just a coincidence the collapse seems to have accelerated badly since that game....or not ??

think you brought this up just after the game. think you were correct by saying it was serious and not just a storm in the teacup as i thought. a real clash where lee will be the winner if he stays.

accrington..."it was serious and not just a storm in the teacup"

..correct.....feaths probably sees what we can all see....and has not bought into the "vision" whatever the bollox is in terms of gameplan and tactics that has been presented by the bonehead management duo...thats a problem for the boneheads particularly as he is captain...think feaths has had a bellyful and cant wait to get away even though he has another year to run on his contract...shame because the lad has been outstanding in my book over the years..sad way to go out..but as the fail says the only issue is... are the players on the beach?...lets not look at the reasons why if they are ....eh?

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/row-zed/ ... st-6644112

rated the lad myself even back in the days where i felt like a lone voice. Have got a strong feeling if he does stay for another season he will see the back of another failed manager.

snowy..."And that’s the conundrum, who are the real Lee and Nelson.?"

..other possibles ??...bluebottle and eccles...??

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

“You rotten swine”….. loved the Goons, we’ve got our own now….unfortunately