Why would we want Bryan Morris back he never stood out when he was here and he always seems to be injured. He is only 26 and has already been at 12 clubs who seem to get rid of him quickly surely that sets alarm bells ringing.

I would like to see Bennett return. Went to watch Barrow pre Xmas and was surprised to see him on the bench. They were 1-0 down at half time and brought Bennett on and he was a real handful in the second half. Certainly gives you something to aim at when all else fails.

Spot on. We dont need Bryn.

It seems to me that KC has been impressed with the passion of natural born Poolies and is trying to instil that passion onto the field by going for Poolie born and/or previous Poolie players.
An Adam Boyd, Kenny Johnson, Wattie Moore, The Linighans or Jack Howe come to mind, to name but a few.
Hows about having that lot in our squad.

Think we are looking to make an impact in the Walking Football Premier League next season. Won't be much need for slow motion replays on the Highlights package at this rate.

Colchester have signed 2 players who won promotion last season, Gillingham looking at 3 good players from Charlton. We have fired up the De Lorean to pick up anyone who has previously been in the band.

He 'started strongly' at Grimsby then got crocked and has hardly featured since September. Same old story.

[quote="Herr Flick"]Think we are looking to make an impact in the Walking Football Premier League next season.

Doubt that Raj will reduce the prices though........

"Gillingham looking at 3 good players from Charlton"

Charlton pushing for the playoffs, Allowing 3 GOOD players to leave, lol

Depends what you mean by "good". I suspect Charlton will have lads in their reserves that are vastly superior to the majority of Pools's current first team.

Now do a list of how many subsequently came back to the English leagues and did well…
It’s basically a retirement home

Odusina dropped as a reserve at Bradford by anew player brought in. Wish he would think about coming back.

Jayden Stockley, Jaiyisimi, who did well with Swindon, and keeper in Mcgillivray. Also in for Tim Dieng at Exeter. New Yank owner is putting his wallet on the line. Whether they get them or not is another matter.

they actually might want him off their books to bring even more in during january. possibly would come back if bradford pay part of his wages and he doesn,t lose anything in his pocket. at the moment we need him far more than they seem to do and is more or less guarenteed football with pools.

Dieng now signed at Gillingham.

The Gills seem to be taking Saturday's six pointer a little bit seriously.

Yep, they are bringing in some serious fire power.

With a new very wealthy owner they can do that.

plus it helps when their problem is only in one area of the pitch, goal scoring. we need players in defence, up front and a keeper.

I'd guess they have a problem creating chances as well - 7 goals in 23 league games is a lousy return. Sounds like they are set up to defend.

7 goals in 23 games you do get the impression that may improve Saturday.

The words of a long suffering Poolie. I agree.

The rumour mill keeps turning…

Sterry to Stockport.
Umerah out with a similar price tag.

Meanwhile… our rivals continue to strengthen with genuine game-changing signings. Danny Johnson looking likely for Colchester. Hawkins & Nichols go to Gillingham along with a goal-scoring midfielder from Exeter. Rumours of James Henry and Jack Marriot too. We’re gonna get eaten alive…

Unsurprising, mind.

Although there is no doubting Sterry's quality, any manager signing him will be taking a major gamble. It could be his injury problems can be put behind him but on the other hand, you could be signing a player who is injured 40% of the time. I cant see it myself. Umerah will be attracting plenty of attention but I cant see him being sold unless a lot of dosh is on the table which will enable replacement to be signed. If he goes and is not replaced our fading chances of staying in the FL will vanish over the horizon.

I dont see Umerah or Sterry leaving for different reasons.

While i havent been over excited by our business if Gillingham are signing the likes of Marriot thats not something we can feasibly compete with.

Stockport fans reckon the Sterry rumour is Shite, Mind if i was offered 200K for him at this moment i would bag it.
Umerah rumour has been doing the rounds a while.

Gillingham are signing some good players, But will have to hit the ground running.
This saturday may be to early, We will see.
Some of their fans are totally deluded, Stating they should be nearing the playoffs being a club of their size.
And they have just signed Crawley,s No1, That club(crawley) will be extremely lucky to avoid the drop.

Going to be some crazy ups and downs to come, Think our singings so far are sound.

Sterry not going to Stockport they are signing Kyle Knoyle RWB from Donny.

I just don’t think the 3 brought in will be enough to change our fortunes & I doubt anything will come through the door to change my mind.

I have so little faith now in the football club to save our FL status - especially up against the other contenders down there with us (hopefully wrong). Sorry to those I offend but the track record during windows is absolutely abysmal minus a few masterstrokes during the DC era - and I’ll never forget the deadline day evening when we played Carlisle under DC and we were supposedly in for a host of forwards and ended up with a left back from Stoke!! Why was DC so sure we’d at least get 1 striker… and then got nowt… We then had deadline day of this season with ‘get the pizzas in!’ before a random utility player from Barnsley was our only business.

Our form has been a mess from the moment we got banged 5-0 by Orient and DC walked out. The fate was sealed with this calamitous gamble of a pre-season, we could well be 2 or 3 windows away from fixing this mess (at our current run rate) & starting from scratch in the National League. Continuity is massive in football.. successful clubs are built on it. We’ve had so little - and not just in the playing staff!!

Would love nothing more than to be proven wrong, but the trend is worrying.

I think Crawley and in an ironic twist of fate Newport might save us.....Curle isnt the second coming of Guardiola but I think he knows enough to give us a fighting chance--but we do have some serious shite on the books I agree

I find it bizarre how we could attract better quality players in the NL than we can now. Has Raj lost a few bob in the last couple of years?. It's frustrating for the fans to see us continuosly miss out on players to sides no bigger than ourselves.

One wonders just how much of an attraction the previous manager was. Yet again, I think our transfer policy so far stands off a mile (although not quite as explicit as it did during pre-season)

If we are relegated, there can be no complaints. The football team just isn’t up to the league 2 mark. It’s a mid table NL team right now. Needs to change and very fast.

Challinor had a good eye for a player, no question, but I think hindsight is playing a massive part in the perception that we were attracting 'better quality' in those days. He unearthed some diamonds, pretty much from obscurity in every case.

Rhys Oates? Released by Morecambe (and by Pools).
Luke Armstrong? Salford reserve, signed on loan.
Luke Molyneux? Signed from Gateshead.
Jamie Sterry? Signed after a spell with South Shields
Timi Odusina? Norwich academy player previously on loan at Fylde.
David Ferguson? Signed from York.
Gary Liddle? Signed on a free from Walsall.
Ryan Johnson? Signed from Kidderminster via Rushall Olympic!

Pools hit the jackpot with Lewis Cass, maybe the best loan signing we've ever had from Newcastle, but Joe White was much more highly rated when he came to us last January - overrated, as it turns out.

Thats more or less how i see it.
Ya dont need to apologise to the 2 or 3 fans out of 5000 who you may of offended and think everything is rosey in the poolie garden.

pools were poor when challinot took over. problem now we aree in a worse state on the pitch now and curle,s job is actuallu much harder as the club seem less willing or able to match our needs.

Spot On.
Like i said last week the Raj money supply has been cut off.
What he put in years ago he will of got back possibly plus a bit more. Hes a buisnessman who has no affiliation to HUFC. He will do whats best for him not HUFC.
Plenty of unbudgeted incomes since promotion and average crowds of 5200 and 4500 which must be a lot higher than was expected budgeted for.
Could of shown a tad of ambition and build on DCs ambition to take HUFC to the next level.
Built a team around what was already there.
Oates
Armstrong
Molyneux
Odusina
Etc.

Cheaper to keep your best players happy than to replace them with the same standard /quality.
The horrendous form guide n league table backs up my philosophy just incase anyone thinks im being a tad hard on the Main Man.
Quotes welcome

It could be that or it could be that we can only attract local players who want to come home as we don’t pay the wages to bring in players from elsewhere.

[quote="kevin pooles gloves"][

Cheaper to keep your best players happy than to replace them with the same standard /quality.
The horrendous form guide n league table backs up my philosophy just incase anyone thinks im being a tad hard on the Main Man.

unless a club is at a really low ebb all signings should be equal to those who depart. with current players they are of a known quality where all new ones are a bit of a gamble no matter what they have done with previous clubs. this is not a new problem at pools as from the early 60,s onwards apart for a couple of occasions when things worked out we had over 30 years of free transfers coming in for a season to be replaced by others no better and so on and so on. we cannot stop a reallu good player bettering himself in a higher league but surely we can stop many of these sideways moves players are doing.

then we are told pools pay decent wages its just they do not pay transfer fees. would love to know the full truth of the matter. all i do know is morecambe managed promotion by being near the bottom of league 2 wage payers and the club coming out of a dodgy financial position caused by old owners. funny how the only 3 decent players signed this season have no local connections and local connected players are drying up where there seems less and less available at our level.

So we are virtually half way through the window and have added four permanent signings as Dolan will become one at the end of the season. Three tall defenders and one who can play there.
How do we feel. What more do we need.

A goalkeeper

Another striker and a back up goalkeeper good enough to put pressure on Ben Killip for his place.

There's 8 midfielders in the squad not counting Chris Missilou, so anyone wanting to see more changes there will likely have to wait till the summer. Incidentally, an announcement about Missilou is overdue - his initial 1 month loan ended a couple of days ago.

Dodds and Brentford youngster - gambles.

Dolan - good addition.

Hartley - jury is well and truly out, but could be okay.

If we add Danny Johnson and a goalkeeper on loan then a good window.

We will still go down with only the 4 permanents we’ve made.

Or maybe he,s using money from this. "security charge against the stadium"

May not be a bad thing but does as far as i know allow monies to be borrowed.

Definately, Not because i dislike Bendy, But if he,s injured.

Think Hartley may surprise more than a few who think Mayo is good.
Goalkeeper defo.

Would expect another 4-5 before the end of the window at least.

I disagree. Let's see at the end of the season who is right.

So far we playing a game of Roulette hopeing 40 pts will keep us up.
3 major games this month and its 2 kids n 2 former players who are well past there best.
Its not about which poster makes the correct prediction.
Its the future of our club which seems to have lost ambition and direction.

You’re deluded. And also remind me very much of a former poster on here…

Gloves nailed it. 2 kids. 2 former past-its. We need BETTER. You should expect BETTER.

I thought at times it was me just thinking this is another horrific transfer window. Relying on a lad that left years ago playing in India, someone struggling to stay in the Newport side, a lad that played for Slough and a young lad who has been playing conference north, probobly were we are heading in the not too distant future.

Spend some money raj that you made last year or sell up.

He's not bothered about Pools....he's got his Care Home up and running!!!

Been a while since I posted. No surprise to see some people's views haven't changed. Signed a couple of players for the future, one steady midfielder and one ex player who might do a job for us or help the younger players at least. I'm hoping for more.

Clearly though it's not the right time to bring back big Stevie Howard. I mention him as I say him at Wheelbirks ice cream parlour a couple of years ago. He was with his wife I assume and two kids, playing in his phone. It wasn't the right time for me to tell him that the gilet he was wearing was paid for by my season ticket.

This Christmas I received a gilet. For the slim under 50's I think they are fine. You see Arteta or Guardiola or KC in one and they look quite snazzy. Difficult to tell what size those three are but they look after themselves, they aren't the tallest so I'll say medium and I'm putting them all in that same bracket. Say what you will. They look fit and as if they are so active they don't need a full coat to keep warm. They're self motivated, energetic and sleeves would get in the way probably of what they want to point at from the dugout and really what they want to achieve in life.

Now, put a gilet on a male or indeed female over 50, Size XL or 18-20 it doesn't really have the same effect. It just makes you look a bit bigger and like you can't be arsed to go and get your coat to keep yourself warm, or that you have enough body mass not to be able to feel the full effect of a harsh winter. It's flagging up that you have let yourself go, bingo wings flapping against a quilted torso duvet.

I'd have preferred money to put towards a hanging basket or trough to be honest.