A bit confrontational this morning chaps?

What's it going to be like in October then?

Tough to drop two points so late in the game, but the criticism of Hartley is so intense (it's even worse on the HUFC twitter page post-match than it is on here) he must realise that that only a run of good results will buy him some time. The home games coming up against Donny and Crewe are even more important than the Tranmere and Bradford fixtures were.

I hope Pools turn the corner because the people who want Hartley gone should be careful what they wish for. This is Hartley's squad till January and if it's really as bad as some people say it is, it'll take a miracle worker to turn things around. What are the chances that one is available and the board have the good sense to employ him?

With lifelong Boro fans like Adrian Bevington and Raj involved, they're more likely to take a chance on Robbie Stockdale, who is conveniently looking for work after being sacked by Rochdale.

The one source for optimism is that Pools are now creating good chances in games and though they are still missing plenty they do have people who are capable of putting chances away in Ndjoli (2 goals in 2 starts), McDonald (2 in 4 starts) and Umerah (2 in 6 starts). Against that, we're still poor defensively and the injury crisis that was inevitably going to come to Pools' small squad has already arrived!

I was pleased with the Hartley and Young appointment initially, no matter what Singh says he has a limited budget and Hartley took a chance signing players currently not up to the job but probably within the budget. We are weak in defence, Lacey 28 years old and Murray 29 years old both too slow, Hastie always promised a lot in his early career but has never fulfilled it. I am now beginning to feel concerned, no way do I want Pools to drop into the NL again and being the ever pessimist if Hartley did go we would still have a very weak squad no idea if any manager could turn it round.

Awwww so is it now all Hartleys fault? Won't have a bad word said bout your pal will you. Who will you blame in a year's time? Graeme lee the tea lady? Computer geek? We are going to the conference in a worse state playing wise than 5 year ago. Wakey wakey.

yes, hope that everyone is fit for saturday against in form doncaster who have only lost one leagie game after coming down. Will our two match unbeaten run continue or not. If we do have a full squad to pick from and pools do get a hammering then it could be time for the knives to really come out then.

17 games without a win in League Two now

[quote="accrington fan]If we do have a full squad to pick from and pools do get a hammering then it could be time for the knives to really come out then.[/quote]
The ‘knives’ were being honed to Stanley knife sharpness even before Hartley was appointed and whoever got the job would have to appease the entitled.

Not all down to Hartley.

Agreed, just a very concerning spiral

You’re right there. Couldn’t work out what happened with Lee’s ‘Charge of the Shite Brigade’ as after Rotherham everything just collapsed.

just finished watching the full match replay on ifollow.....6 dog n duck lads in the team and they still couldn't beat us....errr...how wrong can you be eh?... bookie fodder this lot...

1.I think we can all sit back and watch the goals fly in (to our net).
2.This may be the game Hartley walks or is pushed
3.Sorry but think 4-1 which will put more pressure on management.
4.I feel a pasting coming on
5.I think the result is not in any doubt. Bugger!
6.Christ what a team. Changing my prediction 3 nil col u
7.Looks like it could be a long afternoon again
8.Jesus wept what a team.

The Guillotine Knitter’s will have been disappointed with the result, nearly an away win, but a godsend to them, three points would have short circuited a few cranial cavity circuit boards.

snowy..."The Guillotine Knitter’s will have been disappointed with the result"

...yep...but the seagulls [aka guillotine knitters] will no doubt be circling the trawler yet again before the doncaster game..should be fun..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbwV5XX6phU

You bring your posts to an all time low of lowness.
Actually accusing fellow bunkerites of not wanting us to win games.
When the truth is YOU want us to lose so you can have a go at fans showing concerns of how bad the manager n chairman are running this shitshow called HUFC.
I suggested you take a visit to Kansas City to see the Wizard of Oz.
He will have a brain waiting for you seen as you need a replacement sharpish.

Sad troll thats all ya r.
Fuck off back under the bridge.

gloves.."He will have a brain waiting for you seen as you need a replacement sharpish."

..a f/kwit semi literate gumby like you talking about another poster needing a brain transplant.....now that is a contradiction in terms like...

Wakey , wakey, I’m not accusing fellow bunkerites of anything, I’m accusing YOU !….you’re the one with the dancing emoji’s everywhere celebrating your pre match prediction of yet another drubbing by whoever we’re playing so take a good look in the mirror.
Ever considered a logic transplant?….you can’t put it off much longer.

Which ‘bridge’ is that… …. Seriously, did you learn English by Morse Code?

gloves.."He was hanging out of Sing"

..still waiting for an explanation...look if you ain't prepared to let us all know what this comment of yours means regarding me and the chairman just say so... then i can go ask the mods to sort it out with you..ok?

gloves.."Fuck off back under the bridge."


...newburn ?...transporter ?...

I thought at one time it would be a good idea for the Bunker members to meet up and have a few beers before a game, maybe not a good idea ?

gloves.."Fuck off back under the bridge."

...cranks abuse...

I think the vast majority of members are decent folks. There is one maybe two who take a delight in causing as much anger and bitterness as they possibly can. I wouldn't want to be on the same continent as them never mind the same pub if I could help it.

mr henceforth.. "I think we can all sit back and watch the goals fly in (to our net)."

....diddums...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS7nqwGt4-I

I don’t know if I’m included in that list, but….. we get a new manager, he’s criticised from day one along with any signings he makes by people who patently haven’t seen the bloke or his players perform. How anyone could possibly know how things will turn out is ridiculous beyond belief.
Ok things aren’t working out yet, but there’s hope there and I think it better to get behind a struggling team than spout constant abuse at them.
I can understand people being disappointed of course, but those people waited to see how things turned out before complaining, that’s fair enough. No problem, but the minority who’ve had it in for the manager and team and even Scotland to boot, from day one were never gonna be satisfied.
What’s behind it?

You are one of the vast majority of decent folk in my opinion. Even when you disagree with people you generally retain an element of humour which in my view is all important. We all have our opinions and we all enjoy sharing them which is of course entirely healthy but the personal and aggressive nature of some individual's posts is uncalled for and distasteful and creates a negative atmosphere.
By the way, the Wee Jocky McPloppy exhange was great fun as are the adventures of Rat Boy.

snowy..."What’s behind it?"

..think we all know the answer to that question...the baying mob are really only after one man...and it ain't hartley...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLvGnro4Cgw

Great idea.
What game suits everyone.
UTP.

None, I’n in dry dock….. but I can put a satellite up.

People are still waiting for your explanation into the charity funds fiasco but it is what it is

You’d sooner grief other people on the board instead

Any chance of you running out to fetch some more popcorn for all the loids looking in poolie1??

ooooh fwends

I can’t wait for the Xmas do……Arm Wrestling, …..Hamster Judo…..Barbed wire knitting….Freestyle Castration….. Goose strangling…. Pin the blame on the Managers tail….. Tattoo a Rat…Anvil juggling and much more

everyone on here wants pools present and future to improve. think those who have an agenda against anyone at the club are happy when the wheels are coming off to tell us i told you so. think everyone has their own idea of how to solve the mess. before a ball was kicked last season everyone would have been happy finishing 3rd bottom. a few good cup wins, semi final of the papa johns gave em hope for the future. possibly too much hope as it turned out but this season is no different from the last apart from it carrying on from where we left off last may. hope may be our last resort, but without that we are finished.

accy..."hope may be our last resort, but without that we are finished"

..we were finished and on life support only 4 years ago..we have one man to thank for our rescue..and where we are now compared to then is remarkable... and we have one man to thank for that too..said it before and will say it again..if the airhead low life goons on here and elsewhere on social media get their way and force him to say "balls to this i've had a bellyful and don't need any more of it"...then i certainly wouldn't blame him...and rest assured there will be only one outcome...no queue of credible punters will appear wanting to step into his shoes that's for sure...difficulty getting players and managers to come here?...that will be a breeze compared to finding a new owner....if he goes oblivion will beckon yet again....oh and don't bank on hust and their community engagement/diversity officers being able to stop the ship sinking to the bottom...



"He was hanging out of Sing"

[quote="poolie1"]

..we were finished and on life support only 4 years ago..we have one man to thank for our rescue..and where we are now compared to then is remarkable... and we have one man to thank for that too..said it before and will say it again..
you are correct. like the manager and players he is not everyones choice and for me could do a liitle bit better. however the alternative would more likely give us sleepless nights where going back to the national league and staying at the vic would be something we could only dream about. another club stripped of everything like a modern day new brighton or workington and playing in a 3,000 capacity hell hole next to an industrial eastate on the edge of the town. there is never an imperfect mr. good guy waiting in the wings but plenty of bloody crooks in fancy suits though.

I can only assume the long drawn out campaign of attrition against the bloke by those of the ‘Darlo post code persuasion’ over the years, popping up on the bunker with bile, has been fully absorbed by the inevitable sponges and convinced them he is the Blofeld of League 2.
They turn every problem that occurs, no matter how irrelevant, back to the same source…guess who.
If the sponges got their longed for wish, they would be in for a severe lesson in the drawbacks of living in an alternative reality.
Harrison Ford or some other Hollywood millionaire ain’t gonna buy the club, in fact finding a buyer could be a bit problematic, sugar daddies really are thin on the ground and you don’t get them off Amazon.
The sponges blueprint for success in League 2 is astoundingly simple, if you believe in Santa…....it goes like this…..

. THE SPONGE’S CHARTER FOR SUCCESS LIKE.
We the undersigned loyal, caring, alpha fans demand and claim entitlement to….…
1. An experienced manager who has won loads of stuff at this level. (DC).
2. A team of talented, experienced players with good playing records at this level.
3. The NWC to become a offshore tax haven
4. PROMOTION NOW!
5. A new lifetime owner we approve of with loads of money to make our dreams come true
6. Er…that’s it.
In anticipation from the ‘Sponges’.

Ok i give in.
You get your explanation.
Meet me in the King Oswy Workies tonite from 8pm.
Or The Showroom 1pm from Saturday.
Just ask for me.
If these 2 places or times are inconvenient for you then just PM. me.
Me even buy you a pint matey.

Thank f#*k …….I can cancel the UN Peacekeeping Force.

If anyone on this forum or any other for that matter, Wants to understand the inner workings of a football club.
Then look no further than Spennymoor Town.

The now Owner/Chairman Brad Groves took the helm around about 2006.
The first thing he said to all concerned was the CLUB must become self sustainable, And never strectch it self financially.

The progress they have made is remarkable in my opinion, But i feel would not be enough for some on here.

They are doing ok for a village team.
But apart from that bad spell when they went to northern league div 2.
They have mainly been in that division for decades.
Old Northern Premier is the same step 6 level as vanarama north.

As for not enuf for some on here theres something majorly wrong when a 90000 population towns Football club with 5000 fans recruits from way below the standard required to challenge for a top 7 finish.
Its all about staying up now unless u believe in fairytales.
No doubt the usual suspects will have thefe fanny fits because they get off on failure.
This is a wierd place at times.

Sorry, the ‘fairy tales’ are in your head…the only people who get off on failure are those expect instant gratification…. The usual suspects you refer to, are grown up enough to realise shit happens. How you cope with it is different to how I cope with it.

missing the point.
Or believe Hartlepool is a BIG club as new managers and players tell us, Its what fans want to hear.
And Spenny have not been in that league for decades.
Unless most of the northern league div 1 have also.

While no one has a crystal ball i can only comment on what I see, which is a poor side with players clearly below the level required having been recruited
People can blame who they want, my opinion is it’s more down to the manager than the chairman
While we could have some big upturn in form I haven’t seen much or anything to suggest that will happen.

Agree 100%, but you didn’t start rubbishing the players and manager before they’d even arrived at the club. You waited to see what happened before expressing your displeasure.
My beef is with the critics who started slagging them off and Scottish football in general before they even saw their faces. That is just soooo wrong in so many ways.

Or believe Hartlepool is a BIG club as new managers and players tell us, Its what fans want to hear.
And Spenny have not been in that league for decades.
Unless most of the northern league div 1 have also.[/quote]
pools have never been a big club even in the league they are now in. no sleeping giant here but a team who has only had a handful of promotions in my lifetime and never really kicked on staying very long in the league above. new managers and players just say what they think fans want to hear just to rally the troups. spenny and others at their level are a much easier club to run as any real debts they have will be quite small compared to us and anyone with a good wedge in their pockets can do well there if they are not stupid.

Spot on Mr A. You don’t sign up for Pools for glory, if you want that take a life time subscription to Sky and superglue yourself to one of the Premiership Glamour clubs and kid yourself your a real fan.
Some fans who came into the club full time during the IOR period have had trouble adjusting to new found circumstances when the interest and the money dried up and we were cast adrift. We aren’t the club we could aspire to be because despite the devotion of the few they are up against the utter indifference of the majority of the town.

So finishing in the top 7 of the lowest division in the EFL is Fantasy World.

Er thats what Sing n Stellings ST Sales pitch was all about.
Get out of that Snooker Mr no ambition man.

Simple as hell to get out of.
I referred to YOUR ’fantasy team and manager’ wet dream scenario. Never mentioned finishing in the top seven of League2 as a fantasy world.
In fact you guillotine knitters are the ones crowing like a cockerel they won’t achieve anything and you have the emoji’s to prove it…I have no opinion on the subject this early into a season.
If you read what people actually said, instead of what you wanted it to say, it helps to avoid confusion.