Askey’s management style appears to have been building a team to perform to his way of playing with which he has had some success in relative terms with, but apart from Macclesfield his stay at other clubs have not been long in relative terms.
We have a team who can perform well on the day, the talents there, but like a dodgy light bulb that flickers irritatingly, just like their performances, which begs the question why are they as a group blowing hot and cold.
The management on the bench are pulling their hair out and the players act like a practice session at dawn on New Years Day, disorientated and puzzled with all the drive of a snail with a limp….
There’s a serious imbalance here because if ever a team needed a leader on the pitch to kick arses it’s this lot….but that said, there appears to be a gulf of sorts and needs sorting out sharpish, because yesterdays gate told me all I needed to know.

What did the gate tell you?
I'm intrigued!

Funny how on the 7th we beat Eastleigh 3-1, well, if you get paid every 4 weeks, that could have been the teams pay day.
Certain players don't look interested in playing in the cold N.E weather, don't look like they know their fellow team mates.
As for the gates, we all know Singh pushes the panic button over small crowds as the only talk Singh knows is Money. He'll see yesterday as £50,000 lost that includes Drinks, Food, Tickets, Programs and the rest and then a further £20,000 by not getting to the 1st round.

He probably had dreams of making dosh like 2 years ago.
Probably put the care home rentals up now.

Reckon the for sale price needs downgrading now.
Onwards n Downwards under this Regime for sure.

I'm sorry but regime has nothing to do with yesterday's performance, the fault lies entirely with the players, coaches, and manager. Heartless, incompetent, lazy, performances from most of them. Typical banana skin game in which they played exactly as we expected, yet our team. (the same 11 as the one that beat Eastleigh) couldn't find a way to break through.
Even Askey in his interview said him and the players need to take a long look at themselves in the mirror. We can't blame Raj for the decision making around team selections and tactics or gutless lazy player performances.
And by the way regime change could easily see us even worse off. The current squad is capable of keeping us in and around the play offs, if they can show more consistency.

The numbers are falling, I’d have thought given last weeks result and the FA Cup it would have been better than what it was when you subtract the Chester fans.
2734 home fans is not a good indicator.

Obviously the gate would have been down due to ST holders having to pay, and closing the Town End will have pissed plenty off to the point that they stayed away. On the other hand not much other competitive football in the area yesterday.
A better indicator will be next league game but with piss poor performances and expected worsening weather conditions I think we'll see dramatic falls in gates.
Atmosphere yesterday was poor, they gave us nothing to shout about and didn't seem bothered.

I suppose the fact that there’s no pay on the gate anymore hits crowds, but still disappointing.

need to remember that apart from some of todays players there are a number of fans who are not interested in this competition unless its against a big name or local opposition. you can count me in that number in the same way our players looked like that yesterday.

Its a ballache when ya got to pass the database in teregation test to get a ticket.
A crazy method for non league football

One of the worst decisions the club has made. To a certain extent I can understand the reasoning but I think they have lost more than they have gained!!

Nonsense. Askey is becoming yet another scapegoat for the rot that set in long before he arrived and will likely continue long after he gets the boot. If my car was running rough, I wouldn't keep changing the same part over and over again without improvement. I would look for the fault elsewhere.

think it will bite clubs in their arse in the end. its all clubs now who more or less do this with some being worse by not even opening a ticket office on the say of a game when their ground is not even full on matchday. the reason i rarely go to a non pools game apart from at stockport to see my lad who has bought me a ticket on bloody line.

I'm sick and tired of registering to every club site I want to buy an away ticket for. Getting to the stage I'm running out of Passwords and patients.

The thing was if you thought you couldn’t make the game but changed your mind or found you could, it was easy to turn up at the last minute, I can’t imagine a cinema or theatre turning anyone away if seats were still available.

Your Reliant Robin is only supposed to have three wheels, that’s why it’s running rough…slow down on the corners.

My car is actually a bag of bolts right now. As you can tell, it's on my mind a bit.

Well Askey seems to be saying much the same as Mr PTID, so is Askey talking nonsense as well. He actually said the performance was unacceptable and that the players and himself have to take a good long look at themselves.
I don't think that constantly changing the manager is getting us anywhere either but that doesn't mean the manager, coaching staff and the players shouldn't be held to account for their performance. Most of us in our working lives were judged on performance so why not employees of a football club.
The players have shown they can do better and some of us are questioning their apparent reluctance to show it more regularly and the apparent inability to drag it out of them by the coaching staff.
I don't know what goes on behind the scenes at the club so I can only guess or, like others, make it up but I can see what's going on the pitch and, as Askey himself says "it's not acceptable". I agree with him.

Don,t know what it told Snowy, But it told me WD40.

Who's making Askey a scapegoat? He said himself the players and himself need to take stock and improve.
Raj has made loads of mistakes during his ownership, but lately the players and manager have performed at a standard lower than what they themselves have previously set.
If money is everything then there's no way we would have lost is there, our budget will be far higher than theirs. Fitness, attitude and organisation are key in the lower leagues

Yeah, they have that effect, mine’s the noise from the wife.

Nah, Alvania EP2 grease from Shell is best

One of the worst short sighted decisions to remove "Pay on the Day"

And this picture on twitter, Well make your own mind up.

One thing I’ve noticed is the bench screaming instructions and no one on the pitch is taking a blind bit of notice. Not a good sign.

Funny how the ‘burger’ and ‘cheese’ have shrunk but the bun hasn’t

Anyone who can't see the clear pattern here. You just answered your own question in your third sentence.

You say that, But maybe it was bought for the Bedroom.

Smoke and Mirrors.

But what do we the little football fans know.

then its worse when you have bought a ticket you cannot use because of circumstances out of your control that you cannot get a refund on. however clubs do have ground regulations to follow that seem to get stricter as the years pass bye because a few cannot behave themselves, but are clubs going further than these regs state just to save on a handful of stewards and a refreshment bar.

Don,t know what it told Snowy, But it told me WD40.[/quote]
Nah, Alvania EP2 grease from Shell is best [/quote]


You say that, But maybe it was bought for the Bedroom. [/quote]


I bloody hope not ..it’s used for lubricating seawater blowdown valves

So last night some of our players were out on the lash laughing and joking, wont name them on here, one of our fans approached them said you should be ashamed of that performance, what was their reply, keep paying our wages, just sums these players up. Taking us for mugs, first teamers as well.

whether true or not i cannot see it like in fairly recent years players who had a bad game ended up sitting on their own in the team bus, getting home and making up a row with their wife just for the sake of it and sending kids up to their bedroom in spite. usually players out on the lash together only happened in victory where in defeat you,d never see one.

Just got that message via a lifelong poolies son that cooke fergy n Umerah were the players concerned in Newcastle last nite.
Obviously there will be a few saying its made up shit.
What a mess n joke our club has become when the players stoop to that level of lowness.

cannot download stuff on here but my lad sent me a video of the dorking manager on yesterdays performance on X the new twitter. thats the stuff i like to hear even if some will be upset by it. if so sod em.

If that’s the case, what does it say about the character of those concerned, I wouldn’t dare show my face to avoid the embarrassment, ….although on reflection, they’re just contractors Askey has to work with….more’s the pity.i

That’s disgusting.

Not so much Cordon Bleu as Corden Blimey.

What is made up shit Kev is you making up prophesies that a few will say it's made up shit. As for the stories about the players out on the lash it doesn't surprise me as it only backs up my theory that they don't give a monkey's over their performances, couldn't care less their performances and behaviour are sticking two fingers up at the fans and the manager and coaching staff have no control over them.

No one comes out with more shit you like.
Whats Prophesies even mean .
I agree wirh ya about the players like.

NAME THEM, They deserve it.

And so do us fans.

This is the link to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko8z3v33Cc4&t=432s

"No one comes out with more shit you like" says you. That doesn't even make sense. Why would I want anyone to come out with more shit I like. I do like a good shit like but you have the monopoly of spouting it. I can soon tidy your posts up for you if that's what you're after. Only too glad to help the afflicted.
A prophecy is like you saying "obviously there will be a few saying it's made up shit". If you don't like being challenged on made up shit then don't make it up. Tell me if I'm going too fast for you.
I'm flattered that you agree with me about the players but sense a foreboding that sharing a wave length with you makes me question whether my opinion on the players is on the right track.

It's the worst and most damaging business decision ever made at Pools.The talk was always about getting bigger crowds and building the business but Raj definitely showed here he has not got a "scoobie do" when it comes to running a successful football club. I personally know of 4 people who used to always go when you could pay at the gate and no longer go at all. I have personally turned and walked away on a number of occasions when presented with a large slow moving queue. Well done Raj on this amazing decision

If Pools are serious about selling tickets, why not have somewhere more accessible, a shop in town, with stock would be more accessible than the farce of having to go up Clarence Road.

The list of defeats recently suggests we are heading to worse anyway regime change or not. If this is the way things are heading we might as well naff off to the national league north with new owners and have a bash at winning games in that league against some local sides. This chairman is making us a laughing stock, he is now making askey who won this league a laughing stock. Will he do anything to stop the slide apart from bringing kids in and expecting miracles? Highly doubt it he didnt do much after palace so ive give up on this season.

Part of the problem is some of the people raj has employed strut round like they are important, yet dont appear to do much or be able to improve things.

It always staggers me just how unprofessional the club is behind the scenes.

I've had many instances where I basically want to give the club my money, whether that's through merchandise or buying tickets for matches and it's ALWAYS a ball ache to some degree. Club shop shut, ticket office shut, huge queue etc.

Being exiled in the East Midlands, I only manage to visit home on average every six weeks, so can't always commit to buying match tickets in advance. Where as having 1 pay on the day turnstile for each stand would surely be financially beneficial to the club- could even make the office staff, man a turnstile each if they're worried about people pocketing gate money - assuming that's the main driver behind this ridiculous decision.

I'm also upset about the lack of physical matchday program - another shocking decision, that fans weren't asked about. Would love to know how many buy the online version - surely can't be more than 2 dozen. I appreciate that it means we can save money on printing costs but surely the club could cut some sort of sponsorship deal with a local print firm- to make it viable?

Hobin a prime example.
We still waiting for these Stella /Marquee signings.
Oh i forgot we got them but they all managed to have off days at the same time.

When as anybody at the club used the words Stella/Marquee signings?

It’s registered at HM Patents Office under an organisation called ‘DreamKev’.