Am I right in saying Pools return today for pre season training with a total of twelve outfield players! Actions must now speak louder than words and stat getting players in. Within a week they are due to go on the training camp in Portugal. Also what has happened to our media manager no information from the club to speak of I much preferred Mark Simson to the current guy. Please do not piss Paul Hartley off before he even gets started.

Probably got the smallest squad in the league apart from Derby.
Still 5 weeks 5 days to go.
Keep the Faith
UTP.

Same position as last season & look what happened.
Signing the likes of Fela as we left ot too late.

The fact Barrow and Carlisle have signed more players than us and also found them selves in similar scenarios with no manager etc (Barrow) speaks volumes - we are in the same place as last season - no blaming late finishes now etc - albeit we have a full strong pre season planned which is much better than last - and the lads are back earlier for the preseason. We have a GK/Coach in and thats it - The 2 best players we ideally needed to sign on are still undecided and Timi looking likely to Join Bradford with our mate Chapman (thats a signing and a half btw). Also Tom Allen signs for Gateshead (another player i feel we should of had a look at).

No doubt there will be trialists through the door today and joining the lads in the camp - PH did state there would be new faces come the Portugal trip.

Im seeing Leigh Griffiths is now being linked with us - 31 and still getting in the national team - we have signed worse in the past and id hardly say at 31 hes a journeyman either.

Dont panic...................yet!

Reghan Tumilty looking like the second through the door, ex Raith Rovers defender.

How do you know we haven’t looked at Allen? Just looked at his record and nothing there to suggest we look at him. As for Chapman, record very similar (without injuries) as Morris but has not realised his potential.

Has Challinor returned, the official site is still showing a photograph of last seasons squad including Challinor and all his buddies, don’t we have a media manager who updates the site ?

When Challinor left I heard Kyle and Hignett on Tees. Hignett said the budget was up there for the league and the chairman was ambitious but does things his own way. We will have one of the best budgets in the league and a new management team who have targets identified. Nothing dodgy.

Griffiths hasn't been selected for Scotland since 2020. The back end of his Wikipedia profile makes him sound like a real headbanger. Ah well, Bob Newton was one of my favourite players back in the day so I'll give LG the benefit of the doubt if it happens

Oh dear, yet another dire pre-season warning of doom from the ever depressed and hoping for disaster king, also known as the fifth horseman of the Apocalypse..,Death, War, Pestilence, Famine and of course ….Essex.
Abandon all hope, launch the lifeboats, it’s a disaster in the making, all we ever get, apart from the compulsory excessively grovelling post of welcome to the new post holder followed by the deconstruction of them ……. as you don’t have a clue to what’s going on, why torment yourself.

essex..."Actions must now speak louder than words and start getting players in."

.dodgy crank...

We’ll you seem to be leading the charge,……..yet again.

essex..."Hartley turned us down after a conversation with mr x about budget and interference from above and not being able to do it his way"

..dodgy crank...

essex..."Believe me word has gone around about the budget the manager's salary and the expectations of an interfering chairman "

..dodgy crank..

Premature ejaculation of football rumours can haunt you sometimes

essex..."Why was the playing budget cut despite going up a division ?Why were promotion bonuses not paid in full?"

..dodgy crank..

snowy and Poolie 1, There you both go again anyone with views differing from yourselves is called all manner of names and subjects from last season are brought up again and again. I am not a prophet of doom and would dearly love Pools to do well. However i will continue to point out if I feel matters are being done wrongly or not at all. Despite what you say I will not reveal my club source for any information except to say it is a strong connection. My comment about Paul Hartley was meant as you have appointed him now let him do his job.

Could do with things speeding up a bit?

essex..."Despite what you say I will not reveal my club source"

..oh.. as mr teeth would say..just "fuck off"..

One of the features of a message board is to have conflicting views, ever considered a North Korean message board, it may just fit you down to the ground, everyone nodding approval at your posts…that’s if you’re on the right side of course… Personally I like a good clean series of verbal blows, far more democratic.
Now back to you problem……….
You have a paranoid obsession with the chairman and never miss an opportunity real or imagined to point the finger…seek help.
As for the old I will not reveal my source routine, it’s Pool’s not the KGB…. ….. the number of times I’ve heard that one trotted out, but oddly, no one ever comes back to say what it was.
You just have to try every time to put obstacles between the new manager and the chairman before they’ve even got through the door but do it so clumsily a toddler could see through it.

Contrasting views is one thing, but of the last 4 posts by Poolie1 on this thread 3 have been name calling and the last one telling someone to fuck off, hardly good clean verbal blows are they. Adds absolutely nothing to the board

I am guessing he'll be cover for Fergy? The right back berth is well catered for.

The absolute irony from Snowy, the very person who does his very best to stifle any other narrative than his own by discrediting, belittling and attempting to humiliate posters who express a differing view point. You have time and time again effectively called people liars, including myself. This is what happens in countries like Russia and happened in North Korea. The only reason it stopped in Korea was because they shot all those who didn't toe the line.

Talk about dramatic….. if I can ‘stifle’ anyone’s narrative, it can’t have much going for it, because if you’re soooooo sensitive, a reply has you reaching for the smelling salts I despair for you.
Ever considered the ‘In the Night Garden’ message board, or even the ‘Sooty Unmasked’ message board, that can be a bit of a challenge though. Ah well.

I may well give it a try. Knowing my luck though there'd some pratt on there scouring the place for any opinion differing from their own on how Iggle Piggle is running things and stamping it out.

Admittedly I am barred from the ‘Bob the Jerry Builder’ message board, and the ‘Come Dancing for Fun’ message board banned me for simply asking in my first post if it made the floor hazardous….I ask you.

See!

Goodnight Mr Imp, sleep well.

Right back/Right wingback allegedly, competition for Sterry, where that leaves Ogle

Oh I see. I just didnt think we would be signing a third right back when we only have one left back at the club. Very strange, but he hasn't been officially announced yet so maybe it is just a rumour.

cannot get overexcited at the monment. so long to go before the season starts. possibly if pools had brought in 4 or 5 already there will be some saying why so early and the club have been in too big a rush to sign these lads as they think there is better out there without clubs. more interested in the line up for the first game than any lack of activity now.

accy.."more interested in the line up for the first game than any lack of activity now."

...a sensible reasonable perspective..1st game 30th july....and the transfer window is open till 1st september...plenty of deals to be done in the meantime..but wonder is there a time limit on the deals offered to timi mols and the supercrock as their current contracts terminate 30th june ?..

Would have thought they would have been off by now if they had decent offers. As I have said before are they as good as they and some others think they are.

Sterry to be converted to a Right sided mid / attacking Mid - Tumilty to fill the gap you heard it here first - Tumilty is a very good RWB by all accounts and was tipped for Scottish Prem - would imagine he be very well suited at our level

a quick answer is no. there are some at least as good out there who actually want to be at the club. its just getting the right ones and a deal for them. the club is not going to get a penny for those anyway who have not re signed, so give em a date mid july to re sign and after that date tell em to f off.

eiphos...."Sterry to be converted to a Right sided mid / attacking Mid - Tumilty to fill the gap"

..maybe..or we have an offer on the table for sterry....sell him now or we get nowt next year...?

We’ll get something for Timi due to his age.

that would depend on how much ambition the club has unless its a really stupid inflated offer someone has made. otherwise i,d prefer him to stay till january to see where we are in the league.

No photos of first day back in training which is very unusual, do Pools still have a Media Manager ?

During the close season Pools appointed a manager who knows the Scottish leagues. They have a Head of Recruitment who presumably has a load of recommendations about players in the English leagues. We don't know know what's going on behind the scenes but there are no reports of Pools having offers for players turned down. I assume that Hartley, Young and Trotter are taking a bit of time to sync up their ideas about what the squad needs and who is available that might fit the bill.

If Molyneux or Odusina or both decide in the meantime that they like what they've seen of the new management team and that it would be in their best interests to sign a new contract with Pools, so much the better.

accy..."so give em a date mid july to re sign and after that date tell em to f off."

..totally agree...we cant let the tail wag the dog.. we need to know if they're going so we can crack on with replacements...and presumably if they haven't signed any deals this week they will not be boarding the plane to portugal next monday..

Thankfully Sterry is a home bird - hence why he chose Pools and stayed with us as at the time it was public knowledge that other league clusb where looking for his signature - he quickly proved to us all that yes his ability lied further up the football pyramid - thankfully for us though hes had a bairn and wants to stay with his family.

dont quote me on this but unless a championship sized club who where willing to relocate him and his fam for big bucks then i cant see him leaving (or he moves to Sunderland haha) - the lad rumoured to be coming in is merely back up and may also be utilised as a winger - we know the flexibilty PH likes to adopt to his team - this is simply another weapon in the arsenal should formation demand it. thats my thinking anyways.

I am a bit concerned tbh with the lack of signings and just hope that we dont end up with a team of ex Scottish league players.
I just have bad recollections of the team of Scots who Gordon Strachan assembled at the Boro.

Killip
Leth
Boyes

Sterry
Byrne
Ferguson
Ogle

Shelton
Crawfs
Feaths

Grey
Carver
Bogle

The reported (rumoured) list who turned up for day 1 of training.

I also share the view that ONLY signing Scottish players who haven’t played in English football is a risk. Supplementing based on his extensive knowledge, yes. But hopefully Trotter is pushing us towards some L1 / L2 free agents and NL bought for talent.

So we have one centre back?

If Odisina and Mols are still under contract they should have been at training if not don’t pat them.

Slightly of topic, podcast with Matt Le Tissier and why he never moved from Southampton, pity the majority of players didn’t have the same loyalty.
https://youtu.be/G6qmTEgXes0

Can we start the panicking in a months time…jeez.

my guess would be that hartley will have his own ideas who he should sign... and wont be swayed by any amount of data analysis and youtube videos provided by boneheads mate...

https://untypicalboro.wordpress.com/201 ... nt-page-1/

...trotter second from right in the pic...likely to be good at pub football quizzes according to the article..