Assisted by sweeney

See new manager thread, already announced.

At least he has experience - will also tell us if it was the players who got Askey Sacked

Be interesting to see if we can keep a clean sheet during his tenure

Also think Raj deserves a bit of credit - not diving straight in with another permanent appointment

Who knows maybe the takeover is closer than we think and the consortium will appoint the permanent successor.

Lets hope so, this guy has supposedly been overseeing things. Well so far he has overseen pretty much turmoil.

We are down. A geriatric manager who last managed Cardiff 18 years ago in 05. Another Dave Jones comes to mind.

Really.

Or alternatively you could maybe give the bloke a chance and we are not down until it is mathematically impossible to stay up. The bloke is at least willing to try.

no jones will be back as physio and radio tees will employ someone with a bad stutter to commontate on our games with expert analysis from nelson. waiting for his first interview as he has been out of the game so long he,ll be talking about inside forwards, wing halves and centre forwards with quotes from charles buchans football monthly.

I remember not long ago when the teachers were on strike and there was talk of teachers(retired) coming back.
One ( on strike) was asked about it and she replied " Who wants a 60ish teaching the kids"

Well i for one would not want her within a mile of the "kids" as she put it.

Point being you can not teach experience.

Give him a chance, Think it will be a short appointment.

He can't be as odious as Jones!

Will find out during his first interview - depends if he turns up eating a sausage sandwich whilst wearing the contents of his Christmas lunch on a crusty black pullover.

Just as well Lofflin got the push as he'd be falling over himself asking pre agreed friendly questions whilst completely star struck

Behave.

seriously though he could be just willing to try because he is in a no lose situation where things cannot get any worse especially with what he has at his disposal. there is something similar to him and jones though as they both managed cardiff.

Yippee but you forgot about wingers and full backs and the lads "in nets" as they say in Yorkshire.

"They think it's all over, it is now"

Nobody is going to turn this lot round so you could of given it to some lad down the road, will only be for a month or two anyway.

Dickie Dosh syndrome hits the Bunker again, There again did it ever leave. Wait for it.

It might hit home one day its not the manager thats the problem at the club. Its the people at the club making the decisions.

Or he could be just thinking I'll sort this out, and things could get worse by seeing the name Hartlepool United in the bottom four. I have learnt in my time on this earth that for every could be for, there is a could be against.
Let's be positive until..................................
A very dear friend of mine who is sadly no longer with us once told me he spent his 21st birthday on a beach, which I thought was a nice place to be on your birthday until he added that the beach in question was Dunkirk. He said that he kept telling himself he was going home and he would return to a beach on his 22nd birthday and that beach was Scarborough. He was 94 when he passed away and i still think that story was one of the best answers to the question " what is belief?". Funny how little things like that have a major influence.

The clue is in the announcement, "Caretaker Management Team." Not even Crystal Palace pretend a 76-year-old is one for the future - though Lennie is a few months younger than Woy.

It also might hit home to you one day that until the people at the club making these decisions either change their minds or are replaced, we are stuck with them just like the record you keep playing.
We are all waiting for a change of ownership and hopefully that will happen sooner rather than later.
A very short time ago we created a voluntary agreement on here to give Raj beating etc a rest. I have kept my peace on the subject and I am disappointed you can't see fit to do the same.

Are we totally sure he is still a full shilling?
Looks like complete desperation.. and Sweeney said thanks but no thanks.
Assume auld Len will be sitting not standing in the dug out and will be well wrapped up.
Only Roy at Palace older in the English game currently?
The skivers in that dressing room must be in hysterics right now.

hysterics. its a sick joke. might as well have given stephenson the job as player manager now he has made his league debut. not long ago we were talking about whether lawrence of middleton sands was at the club or not or was he in one of singhs care homes or not.

[quote="waddell"]Are we totally sure he is still a full shilling?]
Are you.

Who said thats aimed at raj i thought we had a committee making these decisions, it wasnt raj that picked hartley, he didnt even know who he was. The club needs totally gutting and new people employed. If people are prepared to berate managers here maybe they need to look a bit deeper at the others that are at this club.

Maybe you might start agreeing now. That we are in a huge mess?

I hope you are not suggesting the club has lost the plot. You will have the usual lads on here defending every decision to the hilt.

I'm not

for once billingham you are totally spot on. that hopefully is the first thing any new qwners do when they find what the real problems at pools are. it could be just one person, a group or clique of them thats bringing us down to national league north standard and mindset.

For once lol cheers did i not tell you and quite a few others what was coming after bristol? Well not just me but several others?

But seriously now worrying times, im not sure how we get out of this mess.

AFAIK the other members of the committee apart from Raj are Lenny (!) and the atrocious Lee Rust, who is heavily implicated in the decision to appoint Hartley and ballsed up contract negotiations with Liddle, Odusina etc.

"Are you. "

Fully competent and continent as it happens.
Is it time for bed now nurse???

Good luck to the Lennie and Sweens combo...

Strangely enough, he has a good win percentage for the clubs he managed.

Carry on…..

Maybe maturing like a fine wine ???
Reminds me of someone.

https://www.hartlepoolunited.co.uk/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVUq2fdr39I

Enlighten me, what was going to happen after Bristol…..?

The money was getting cut off.

He is just a caretaker manager. So nothing to read in to. Probably offered Sweeney it and he turned it down.

All the guy has to do is pick up a few points against oxford city etc they are not barcelona and then we can move on. Hopefully he can motivate this lot for 4 or 5 games.

I recall no communication on this board prior to the Bristol final on that subject?

A former player of Lenny Lawrence David Carr once said that his best attribute is that he is a good motivator. Evidently between 2.50 and 3.00 pm he had the players hair on the back of their heads standing up. Could do with a bit of that.

So when you say it is the people at the club making the decisions who are to blame and not the manager are you ruling out Raj ?????
Now that you are admitting that it is not all Raj's fault maybe you might like to apologise to the man, because for years now you have hounded Raj in particular.

Can you name the members of this committee and who appointed them. Can you confirm Raj's position on the committee.
As for a huge mess, it is nothing to compare with the mess that we'll be in if Raj walks away without a replacement.

When you say it is not the manager to blame but the decision making of this fictitious committee are you blaming them for team selection, tactics, training etc and suggesting that no such decision making involved the manager ??????

In the past you have continuously accused Raj of not being able to run a football club but suddenly have now revealed that it is actually the fictitious committee and their decision making that have got us here.

This committee appears to have such powers that it begs the question why haven't they sacked Raj himself.

I was going to say you couldn't make it up but you obviously can.

You'll have to read the minutes of this fictitious committee meeting where it was decided.

I never said prior to bristol, once bristol was done and we had a ready made excuse of no time in pre season. I also told you paul gough was interested in pools about 6 months ago when apparently no one was interested in little old hartlepool united. Also denied by raj at the time. said the americans were interested in us which was laughed at, then came out they were with many other clubs.

As long as the committee allow him.

Who made the decision to cut off the money and when.

So have you never heard of lee rust, lennie lawrence adrian bevington?

Making yourself look a bit of a fool when hartley was named manager and raj singh didnt even know who he was.

A lot of people seem to be getting their knickers in a twist about this, it's just a caretaker appointment which hopefully doesn't last longer than 2/3 games. He is already involved with the club and the only other option is sweens so they are just working together.

What you cant make up is you would rather blame managers for the mess we are in. Who next lennie lawrence getting the blame?

Yes I have but never heard of them referred to by the club or you as a committee.
I have heard for over two years from you that Raj was to blame for all our woes and now you're blaming this committee.