When he has played has looked decent like at Palace, surely there must be serious doubts about his fitness levels given the amount of games he has played at each of his clubs. Did we not learn a lesson with sicknote Williams . Certain stipulations should be made in his contract being pay as you play or not which ever is the case. Thoughts please.

Morris played 40 league and cup games last season for Portsmouth and Northampton (https://www.soccerbase.com/players/play ... son_id=153).

This season he's only played 18. Did he miss a lot of games for Burton Albion because he was injured or because he just wasn't good enough to get in their team?

He's been stop start with injuries since he joined Pools at the end of January but comparing him with Williams doesn't stack up. Luke hardly kicked a ball in anger for us in 2 full seasons!

My main concern is that he should prove his fitness and durability for a long hard season rather than be in and out due to injury.

Agree, but the trouble is do we know what the real situation is….?

cook and morris...feaths and gav......what the hell is going on here...the alarm bells are well and truly ringing for me....

hogan.."Morris played 40 league and cup games last season"...

.."played" ?....you mean "appearances" surely .....how many games did he play and lasted 90 mins?..how many games was he a sub for the last five mins?..worth checking out when youre dealing with a crock...the only reason hes at pools is that hes mates with the spike..that's the only reason...portsmouth wanted shot..and so do burton...northampton not interested...end of..

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/get-r ... of-player/

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/foot ... le-1307769

exactly. is he just having one of those seasons that many players have. going from one injury to another and cannot get going to full match fitness. fans will always be the last to know about anything especially players fitness.

Now Jordan Cook surely long term fitness is a basic requirement for a player. With the supposed budget we have for the summer we should not be looking in the not fit for purpose department.

[quote="poolie1"]hogan.."Morris played 40 league and cup games last season"...

.."played" ?....you mean "appearances" surely .....how many games did he play and lasted 90 mins?..how many games was he a sub for the last five mins?..worth checking out when youre dealing with a crock...]

Well, that's easy to do as well

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/bryn-mo ... aison=2020

So, the 'crock' played the full 90 minutes in 23 of his 40 appearances last season and was subbed late on in another 4...

You keep chucking out opinions as if they were facts...

It's a fact that he had serious injury problems when he was with Portsmouth 3 years ago...

He's been in and out of the side (with a different injury) since he came to Pools. I agree with Essex Poolie that Morris shouldn't be signed if he's still struggling come May and fails a medical.

hogan...."You keep chucking out opinions as if they were facts."..

...thanks for correcting your misleading original post....so morris in fact only played the full 90 on just over half the 40 appearances he made last season...and if im not mistaken....since he joined pools... due to injury... he has only managed a start in about half of the 14 league games we have had...fine...and crawfs?...the banjo player issue...."0 assists all season"....given your interest in "facts" rather than opinion ..maybe you would like to correct that little stat of yours as well while you're on ?....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXyys1JEkbk

and whats all this about a "different injury"...morris is reported as having a knee problem at the mo...knee problems....mmmm....as well as specialist surgery abroad for the double hernia... didnt he need surgery for a serious knee problem a while back ?....is it the same knee?.... i wonder...facts or opinions ?... .

https://www.shrewsburytown.com/news/201 ... ry-update/

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport ... rotherham/

Wether it’s injuries or form non of the clubs he has been at have been keen to hold on to him. Is he worth the risk?

Not wanting to pick on the lad (Morris doesn't score goals either) but Crawford's shots to goals record this season is hopeless. Most sail over the bar, like his pen against Rotherham in the shoot out. Barn door, banjo still comes to mind...

hogan..."Barn door, banjo still comes to mind"

...so....refusing to correct your stat ?...and crawfs couldn't hit "a barn door with a banjo"...facts and opinions eh ?....and whats this...."shots to goals ratios"...so....lets list all the "ratios" for all the players ...and see where the real facts are ...and who deserves the banjo jibe... are you for real ?....embarrassing yourself yet again...imo...

Morris didn't impress me today. One decent ball into their box which Bogle just watched, without breaking a gut to get on the end of it and virtually nothing in the second half.

Prat.

IMO he has not shown anything to deserve a contract. I certainly hope for better.

Major Recruitment required all over the pitch for next season.
( If the club is serious about retaining its outstanding support from this season.)
Money is there. Ya dont have to be Martin Lewis to work that out.
90% down to Raj in what direction the club goes now.
We live in hope as usual.
UTP.

the summer and the start of next season will show us how much faith we should have with our present lads who run the job on the pitch. spike seems a nice guy and hope he will not follow in the long line of nice guys in football who have failed.

He has to cross a chasm from basically teaching players who are pupils at an Academy, to dealing with individuals who can vary from the devious and unco-operative to the compliant and willing, a step up for him I suppose, with little time for adaption.

There might be a good cop bad cop situation in the dressing room, Lee being the good cop Nelson the bad cop ?

this certainly does happen but know players who regarded the good cop as a bit of a snake who slithered to the bad cop at every opportunity he was given. it worked in a roundabout way by keeping up dressing room morale by players making up new outragious stories about others to see how quickly the bad cop dragged them in.

“Bryn is suffering from headaches after a whack on the head. Hopefully he might train today but he hasn't trained since Rochdale."

https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/sport/ ... rs-3674904

...errr...whack on the head?...and hasn't trained since rochdale?...so when where and how did the whack on his head happen...??

..nevermind....think hes nearly ready though... getting there...for his medical and contract signing in a couple of weeks time..dont want to bugger that up now do we ??

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

groin problems..knee problems...head problems....is there any part of this mans body that isnt prone to injury ??..assuming he is out yet again tomorrow he has started only 9 league games out of a possible 18 since his arrival end of jan..mates or not...sorry but time to knock this whole farce on the head tbh...

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/get-r ... of-player/

This Bryn Morris, who is he….?

ask a doctor. save the local NHS and move him on.

“Bryn is suffering from headaches after a whack on the head"...

rumour has it that... even though bryn has not trained this week...or last week....due to his crocked duff leg...this morning he was told ...."you're in today ..take a paracetamol"...

I’d do a swap for Douglas Bader, at least he had plenty of fight in him.

The lad unfortunately hasnt lived upto to the hype. Nor shown the same sort of form he had going into the Palace game. Shame as i really rate him and he could / should be better. We cant be carrying anyone next season. Thats what … 4 seasons on the bounce now we have carried sick note has beens ? Cant be doing it - rather have a fit non league player trying his best - least we could field a full bench.

There is a few players in this borehamewood game im watching id have walk into the pools team. Marsh and Lewis uptop look decent and bring a threat

What hype? A player who had been released by every club he had played for.

The Hype came from Boro. I personally was involved in and around football at the time when he was an apprentice at the “the buru” ! He captained england at his age level - not just your average player gets this honour believe you me !

As a local lad I followed Morris’s career from Schoolboy at High Tunstall plus being in the England youth set up and no doubt he was an outstanding youth but as soon as he got into ‘mens football’ he failed to reach his potential. If he signs for Pools I hope he can turn his career around but if as you say you were around youth football you will have seen many outstanding youths who fail when they jump up to mens football.

I really don’t think they have ability to role play…….. although the got the managers jobs.

be interesting even at the highest international youth level where all the players are now who got there. Imagine even the northern league sides have many who have played youth team football for good pro clubs who hit their hights far too early and never kicked on. when i reffed pro yoth football in the mid 90,s i kept the team sheets for a few years after. can name only 2 apart from heskey at leicester who made it.

Cloughie always dismissed youth teams simply because after playing football continually from an early age and some under pressure from parents (I’ve seen it myself) they get into their teens and eventually they’ve had enough and have either burnt out or grown tired of the pressure.

even if the first team manager is in the same frame of mind to cloughie clubs have these youth systems and to keep their jobs the youth managers try to get the best available. problem is they tend to go for the best available over 6ft tall who develop physically early and fall away once they get caught up in their late teens. being over 6ft tall myself it always surprised me at the toss up before games how half the captains had at least an inch or so on me where i never got at mens games.

..out again today..bye bye bryn...

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

As much as i rated the kid - im sick of crocks around our club. The pathetic gambles we have taken with the likes of Carver etc. look at the state of the team today. No more sick notes … no gambling on kids … gambling on none league shite.

Feaths is having a stinker today and now Sterrys gone off. Ffs

This akinde fella is a beast aswell. Shite but doing all the things Bogle should be doing. Not interested at all.

Eiphos - of course you rated Morris, everyone rated him because he was an outstanding schoolboy and youth player but for one reason or another he has not reached his early potential and has lived on his early promise. He will however made a good living.

Sorry, everyone didn’t rate him. You only had to check his ‘logbook’ out see he was never 100% and Lee was just another punter/manager who thought he could make a runner of him. He couldn’t.

what did nelson say, he,s ok one day but not the next. funny how the next was matchday. it may sound harsh but if you are physically not up to it you,d be better finding another job and not wasting a wage.

accrington...."what did nelson say, he,s ok one day but not the next"

..the bonehead said money pit morris had problems with his "head and back" since taking a knock at rochdale..of course think he forgot he'd actually played a game since then at scunny...and when chandy asked the question..and full marks to him for doing so cos he didn't have to ..i thought our dour assistant manager showed all the classic signs of someone who...how can i put this....was being economical with the truth?...but just a pity a follow up question wasn't also put to the bonehead on where that useless cotton bud charlie was yesterday...so just how long does it take to recover from sticking one in your fkin ear??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWKObSpFtNI.... ..from 0.55

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/get-r ... of-player/

if cotton bud gate had happened at another club we,d have pissed ourselves over it. yet again pools are the football joke club.

Thankfully there was zero chance of brain damage.

Yeh where is Shelton the little sh!t house - bottled it for the last few games no doubt - worst excuse in football, so bad it made an article on social media 'news' outlet the LadBible - Horrendous Journo. I hope he isnt here next season he really isnt good enough at this level.

eiphos.. "I hope he isnt here next season he really isnt good enough at this level."

..agree...and also a proper fanny like..still... sheltons name will be remembered in our history forevermore..

..look...no more boneheads ...no more crocks...no more fannies...lets start all over again

The Mowbray era is upon us - no fannies and no gambling on useless kids or crocks from lower divisions. His recruitment strategy will be clear... good enough for this level or you dont play for Pools i reckon. Hope he brings some Blackburn players with him too. wishful thinking at it its best

i just really hope we dont just start signing none league fodder to make the numbers up.

new backroom staff - plus sweens - new GK jobs a guddun !

Shelton, not so much a Q-tip more a Q tit.

[quote="Eiphos_3"]

i just really hope we dont just start signing none league fodder to make the numbers up.

there are other clubs as well as pools who could not afford the better non league fodder. thats why we look below the national league.

did we pay a fee or a release clause to sign Bogle - more of these sorts of signings in the summer would do - the summer is a different beast as we could get quality players on a free due to not being in a contract - highly doubt we will see us paying a fee for anyone. Unless again we dip into none league which i really hope we dont (unless may i add its a player from either Notts - Chesterfield - BWood - Wrexham... maybe Halifax). As those teams have some actually quality players who could cut it at our level.

According to Nick Loughlin on twitter Morris is not signing and going back to Burton.