Ok well lets call them the boardroom? Same thing is it? I squarely blame raj singh and when we are playing curzon ashton or gloucester city next year the penny might drop with you why we are there.

That's a bit rich from the fool who continuously lambasted Raj as the sole reason for our woes and now says it was actually a committee who were the decision makers.

Stop press.....they're not a committee, they're a boardroom now. Is that your final description or can we expect further revelations.

Now you are back to solely blaming Raj Singh after deliberately disguising that notion with your Committee/Boardroom red herring you have actually resurrected your anti Raj stance which we voluntarily agreed to stop.

He needs lambasting look at the state of us. What difference does it make boardroom or committee, ? Is it the same thing or not?

You are a fool for sticking up for someone ruining this club.like ive said many times he is not the only obe making dreadful decisions, like ive said many times the buck stops with the guy at the top

Some of the thigns being SPOUTED on here today are totally uncalled for and frankly are disgusting.
Makes you wonder if its worth it. And spouted by people who don,t know any better.

Loughlin works for PG now and guess what he,s been saying about the takeover.

My stance all along has been until a replacement for Raj can be found, he is all we've got. That is not agreeing with him or backing him or having his babies, it is simply harsh reality. All the Raj bashing has achieved is he has decided to sell the club. We agreed, after a suggestion from the floor of the house, that we would have a cease fire from Raj bashing, to let things take their natural course. It worked well for a time but Raj bashing has started up again.
I suggest a return to our voluntary position.
All we can do is wait and see as unfortunately our hands are tied.

Its not raj bashing its an honest assesment of where we are, a club poorly run with dreadful decisions being made by him and others in the club. We are at present a laughing stock thats not down to me or you or fans wanting particular people out of the club, its down to a handful of people and the players, we keep blaming managers here but they have an almost impossible job.

Cant speak for others but I have always tried to avoid blaming managers knowing what they have to work with. Feel particularly sorry for JA but it was evident the players were not playing for him so he had to go. If I feel negatively towards anyone, it is the players who have knowingly allowed the club to fall to the lamentable position it is in.

Lenny will have taken this job knowing fine well it wasnt going to be his full time. He wont even be at the training ground most days tbh.

if anything he knows the game inside out - he knows when a player is on it and when one isnt assed. He has seen them all and been through them all. Damn sure fine well he will know alot about us with him being here already which anything is a bonus. Yes its a dodgy appointment but something is on if Sweeney didnt want to take the reigns like he has done in the past ? maybe above his pay grade the shite that he knows is on the field ? To me though i feel there is something on in the background - gives more hope to the takeover happening.

I am not a Raj lover and really not impressed with his handling of our club over the last few years but it is what it is and sooner or later his time will come to move on, lets just hope it doesnt leave us in the worst position !

all we can hope is the new gaffer bounce comes in - the likes of Dolan can find his way back into the side and we dont play Hastie as a RWB.

It might be an honest assessment as far as you are concerned but how many times have you got to make it. Every time you make it you must be aware that your "honest" assessment will be questioned and then the whole thing deteriorates. Nothing is achieved. The present owner is going and hopefully new owners will take us forward, so why can't we just leave it at that.
It is pretty remote that any action might be taken against the forum but the cloud is always there if the mark is overstepped.
That is my main concern.
We can all think what we like but care has to be taken over what we say.
So give us a hand eh.

Hastie was wide left in a front 3 last time out (and did ok as it happens). Dolan hasn't got the legs to play midfield anymore and has looked anything but comfortable in his few appearances as a centre-back. Where are you going to play him?

Before Bristol, after Bristol, there’s only 90 minutes difference and these things don’t come out of the blue.
Paul Gough has allegedly been interested in the club since just after the German Zeppelin bombed the Vic…came to nothing..who told you he was interested?
The ‘Americans’ were ‘interested’ in your own words, in ‘many other clubs’….was there enough Americans to go round to meet demand?

Now come on, let’s have something concrete instead of ‘interested’……. I asked you what you meant by Bristol, any team would struggle in that period of time but blame the League, they organised it.
You’re sounding like a drowning man clutching at razor blades.
No concrete, just sand.

Last time out Hastie was as weak as piss, Trying to go past defenders i lost count of the times the defender simply steped in front of him.imo

Hastie played terrible in the 2 games against Oldham that i witnessed. Back to old ways. Head down and no end product. Yeah he is as weak as they come and really only has a burst in pace to help him on. Unfortunately so do the full backs nowadays and the better ones just have him on toast every game ! its these weak links in the side that keep killing us and costing us.

Dolan is a leader on the pitch - i dont think hes fully match fit though, hence why JA always overlooked him. Struggling with a niggle.

ive seen him play for Newport at CB countless times and made my mind up enough that on his day hes class in there. Just a shame we not getting it

I think we need to realise that what we got is what what we got and stop talking about consortiums and the like. Point well made that if Raj walked away we would be in an absolute mess, remember what a state we were in before Raj came in. The most important thing is to get behind the team as we always do, forget who’s in charge and the things we have no control over. If Askey was the problem and the players wouldn’t play for him then we might be in with a chance of staying up.

Thanks for a bit of common sense.

Hastie is one of those invisible for three games and shines in one game players.
I believe the popular term is ‘mercurial’ an inconsistent talent, a luxury, ….an ashtray on a bikes handlebars.
A passenger in our present predicament.

Don't think he has a niggle.
He is slow, fat, out of condition, looks lazy and has shown no evidence of any leadership since he came back.
Good player in midfield and excellent for us on loan under Colin Cooper, but those days are long gone, along with Mattys legs.
Admittedly had been good at Newport County in a sweeper type role, but maybe had the right players alongside him.
Suspect Askey just didn't rate him, and never got over being forced to play him against Crawley when Murray was out injured.
That abysmal second goal against us was down to him.
Don't think he started another game under Askey, who said recently in an interview that if Murray hadn't been injured we would have stayed up.
Bringing Pruti back would be a better idea.

Dylan hasn't lost pace, he never had any. But he is good at reading the game and is a great passer of the ball. He's more of an organiser or leader than any of the current midfielders or defenders, and to be fair why stick with the usual non productive, uninterested losers?

Agree, By the way is Dylan still alive.

When Newport let him go their fans said 'great player for us in his day but his legs have gone.' Don't think we've seen anything from him to suggest their judgement was wrong.

In the videos of pre-season training put up on the OS he looked to have been given a leadership role by the manager. He got starts in a few friendlies then faded right out of the picture. Do you not think he'd have played more if Askey had thought there was a hope in hell that he would make a difference?

Agree with whoever said Pruti should be recalled - we are really short of left-footed defenders and he's not the worst player on the books. There was obviously a big falling out between him and Askey, but that's in the past now. He's had 11 games with Farnborough in the NLS so is match fit.

Askey tended to play the pretty much the same players if they were available regardless of form. And that included Broady Patterson ffs!
He dropped Mani O for some bizarre reason even though he was our best defender!
I'd expect Lawrence to shake things up a bit and I wouldn't be surprised to see Dolan in the squad for Saturdays game.

Various opinions which have zero effect /influence on what pans out on n off the pitch at HUFC.



Sorry to disappoint.

Best post I have seen here in a long while--sums him up perfectly

We've hardly seen enough of him to make a judgement this season though have we?
We could of course just stick with the same 13 or so faces that feature nearly every piss poor performance.
Askey froze Onareise out for a while over what? Same with Pruti, who although looked raw would have strolled this league given a decent run of games.

The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind

I'd expect Lawrence to shake things up a bit and I wouldn't be surprised to see Dolan in the squad for Saturdays game.[/quote]

Just a small point of order - can we refer to the new interim gaffer as Lennie, as there will only ever be one Lawrence at Pools (even if he has shuffled off)

I will of course retract the above request, should Lennie turn up on Saturday, in the dugout dressed in a lady's trouser suit, with matching handbag and shoes!

I always thought Pruti was decent

That applies to all message boards, but football without opinions or viewpoints being commented on would be a miserable place without out it regardless of outcome.

…or the Magic Roundabout Dylan. His team selections would be interesting in a bizarre way.

Exact opposite of Dolan
Enthusiastic and strong, with pace, and honestly didn't see anything wrong with him during Curleys tenure.
Raw yes but hes young.
Way better than the shite brought in to replace him like Johnson.
Don't think Pruti's private life counts as a concern, as long as it doesn't affect his performances, and he manages to leave Beckhams neice alone and get out of bed for training.
Whatever went on, freezing him out was a very very bad move.
Talks sense for such a young lad and comes across well in interviews, and certainly more interesting than that total bore Askey.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0ff8491

I wish Lenny the best of luck, I will reserve my opinion on him until I see if he can if possible motivate the current squad.

Very sensible approach if I may say so.

yeh agree Pruti has to be in the fold again

Exact opposite of Dolan
Enthusiastic and strong, with pace, and honestly didn't see anything wrong with him during Curleys tenure.
Raw yes but hes young.
Way better than the shite brought in to replace him like Johnson.
Don't think Pruti's private life counts as a concern, as long as it doesn't affect his performances, and he manages to leave Beckhams neice alone and get out of bed for training.
Whatever went on, freezing him out was a very very bad move.
pruti did have a nightmare at barnet and something must have happened between him and askey after the game or the run up to the next where it was hard by both to forgive. how many games did he play after that. can remember one but thats it. others have had nightmare games especially at the back but still get included in the next game squad. for me he was decent and deserves another chance.

apart from the odd dropping of players the team has been picking itself for weeks now. cannot remember the last time we talked about so and so should be playing insted of another. really our expectations have been dummed down so much since the challinor days when lacey is seen as our best central defender and fans got excited when murray became bang average from being utter shite. you can add the clamour of getting dolan back and the excitement of featherstone coming back for the season.

Not so much a clamour to get Dolan back for me, it's more a wanting to see players in the team on merit and if its not working try something different. All of our last 15 or more games have been pretty much the same, poor defensively, lazy ineffective midfield, lack of creativity, lone strikers feeding on scraps, too many of the same players being piss poor week in week out.
As for Featherstone, he started OK playing a more advanced role but is back to his usual lazy ways.

but raj is part of the problem but not all of it. his heart might be in the right place but in todays football world i doubt he has the spare cash the club actually needs. its a money game and the ones with the majority of it are the ones that will succeed. if the vic was full every home game we would still need an owner with large pockets to push us on. in life sometimes you have to get to really rock bottom before things change either with a bit of luck or real effort. in pools life it might take another relegation to sort the mess out. if that happened it would not bother me that much if there was a guarentee of big changes and our fortunes improving. far better by death by a thousand cuts by avoiding relegation for years on end, going down eventually by stagnating to become a 21st century new brighton where we do not exist at any level.

again they are not playing on merit but because there is no other options. some will know this and if everyone was available they might not even make the bench basically because they are not good enough. as for featherstone he is not the player he was in his loan spell and again when has he ever played well in a struggling pools team.

Think its become apparent to all that Askey was more than willing to cut of his nose to spite his face.
And that has undoubtedly added to his and our down fall.
Not a very intelligent trait, Think Raj is in the same mould.

I get the impression that his way was the only way and flexibility was a dirty word…if your face fit you were ok, if not, tough.
His response seemed to be like a woodpecker on a concrete lamp post…..Mistakenly getting nowhere at all …… but carry on pecking away, as there really was no plan B.
He played to a blueprint, but there was only ever one and it didn’t work.

The club has made a statement to the effect that they are busily searching for a replacement and hope to have one shortly. That tells me that a takeover is not going to happen any time soon, cos if it was surely recruitment would be on hold temporarily until the new people were in situ. Unless they are involved in the selection process.

well lawrence said himself about being manager 1.2 or 3 games. his 3rd game will be the trophy one a week tomorrow. doubt he would have said that if he had expected to be at the club much longer as manager. the laugh is looking at our opponents he could have a 100 per cent win record in the 3 games in charge of us.

What he actually said was "it might be one game two games three games who knows". What he was basically indicating was that it would be as long as it takes to get a new manager. The club are saying they hope to have a new man in shortly. If a new ownership is not far away it would seem wise, to me at least, that the new lot would probably like to appoint a manager of their choice. Like I said it is also possible that they are involved in the selection process. I would love it if he has a 100% record at the end of his tenure however long it is. The longer the better in that case.