Cooper made no contribution to the game…..post him back.

He's pretty limited in options available though isn't he?
And his points record isn't too bad.
What's the coherent plan for the club if we sack managers 2 or 3 times a season?

I think he's lost 4 in 14? With this group of players that's not actually too bad! As long as KP clears the dross out in the summer I'll be a lot happier. If he keeps the usual suspects then we might as well just give up.

Agree Loyal

Yes

Funny you say that because I have said to my lad " Cookie only plays well every 7 or 8 games". We need a new midfield completely.

Totally disagree

Spot on PTID

I am pretty sure you said you would judge him next season.

Maybe KP has an idea how he wants to play but doesn't have the players to do it. If he wanted to press opposition we couldn't do it with this side, they don't have the energy, pace or power to do it. He's pretty much working with other managers signings so I certainly won't judge him til next season.....mind he will lose points if he doesn't clear the crap out!

He has a part-time job lined up for Christmas pantomime.He is playing Dopey unless they create a new dwarf called Useless.

Agree they are bigger issues but…

The 7-1 mauling vs Gateshead where he was like a rabbit in the headlights
The lack of any decent signings (waterfall and Parkes were lined up before he arrived) apart from Aygemang he under uses
The incoherent cliches before and after games (i know a lot f managers do this)
His complete failure to address the midfield issues….he even praised how well we bosses the midfield v aldershot ffs
The poor recent record after an admitted initial bump.


Mainly I have seen and heard nothing apart from old cliches about running, learning and attitude etc that suggests he actually knows how to build a side at this level , and he has no record at other clubs to back that up, he was funded beyond belief at south shields 2 leagues below and not many people seemed bothered by him leaving

Just my opinion and I hope he proves me wrong but I haven’t seen any evidence he wil

What " beyond belief funding " did he get at Shields then Loyal.

Think what he is saying is that South Shields basically bought the league. I must admit ive been very dissapointed in him so far, despite having a reasonable record, well a reasonable record in a dreadful league. The players brought in so far with him at the helm have been nothing short of useless, are we prepared to spunk another meagre summer budget on a whim.

I'd love to know who out of the loans brought in were actually KPs choices, I'd guess at none, I'd also guess they were brought in on Monks advice. All those loans were basically scraping the barrel of left overs nobody else wanted.

I'd love to know who out of the loans brought in were actually KPs choices, I'd guess at none, I'd also guess they were brought in on Monks advice. All those loans were basically scraping the barrel of left overs nobody else wanted.

Oops

He seemed happy to take credit for them after the early games saying he decided to add ‘width and pace’ to us, which isn’t a bad idea but as has been said before his signings were mainly shite

and yes his shields budget was ridiculous for
The league he was in, I know we aren’t exactly flashing the cash but they out paid us (then a league side) for Liddle for example despite being 3 divs below us then.

I may be wrong but the players brought in have all been recommended to KP by the young lad who is supposed to be a talent spotter Maybe KP realised he needs a older head in the recruitment department and asked Raj to bring in RM to help him find better quality signings.

At one point (not that long ago) we were all seriously contemplating being in the NL North next season. Before Askey got the push we were on a horrible downward spiral. I don't think that KP is the next Pep but he has kept us in this league -and given our squad/injuries at the moment that wasn't a sure thing when he took over. We're a shambles of a team right now. We've been scraping the barrel since that Scottish twat cleared out what we had and signed shite for two years. Well the two years are up soon, it's time for a new clear out and I'm hoping that KP (and Ronnie) get a team together to give us some hope in the 24/25 season.

Manny Ds 9th game without a goal in open play.
Looked very lazy or maybe his priority is to avoid injury at all costs.
Wudent rule out a move to a EFL club if he's got a decent agent.

Couldn’t see the point of taking 3 youth players on a long trip then only giving one a few minutes not unless Pools didn’t have any other players available to sit on the bench ?

Apparently it’s the done thing to get them to feel part of the squad, not necessarily about game time, it makes them feel included and is good for their confidence to experience.
A lot of teams do it. Any time on the pitch is a taster.

A deflected goal and Featherstone’s stupid cross field pass into of the simple pressure free pass to a waiting Jameson cost us last night, simple as that.
As for Mani, he was putting himself about as usual but our midfield or more fittingly midlife crisis field supplied nothing of substance .
Our midfield lacks legs, power, speed and creativity, they are pedestrian, our Achille’s Heel and till we re build it …..we’re stuck in a rut.
A new midfield, a forward of ability and full backs is our basic requirement.

Searching through the comments after yesterday’s game I concur with Richy. I like KP and just think the team lacks quality. KP has done his job and should be judged next year. Waterfall and Parkes have been good and crucial signings. Jameson too after shaky start. To get out of this league you need pace, structure, players who can break up the oppositions play and a high press system. At the moment we just sit back and let teams dominate us. That belief system has to go. Money has to be spent and younger players encouraged. Most of this squad is lower conference /to northern league standards and not capable of league 2 football

In the 13 league games before he took over we won 3, drew 3, lost 7.
12 points from 39 and over a season would give us around 46 points - relegation.
With pretty much the same core squad in 15 games we've won 6, drawn 4, lost 5.
22 points from 45 and over a season would give us around 67 points - top 10.
Think he deserves a transfer window and next season to show what he can do with whatever budget he's given.
That's not too shabby

I could appreciate what you’re saying, except……you started rubbishing him from day one so all your cliches are hard to take seriously.

midfielders who do not back up strikers at one end and do not help overstretched full backs at the other. stephenson was having a bit of a torrid time but who helped the lad out. a bloody disgrace as when we got the ball there seemed to be 2 on every player when they got it. to get out of this league, unless you can buy yourself out, needs lads that will run and challenge till they drop with some size and athletic bodies on them. we get mugged everytime we play teams like them therefore its bloody obvious where we are lacking both in players and tactics. just wonder also if KP has just given up on the sicknotes and we,ll finish the season with the same squad thats been used in the last two games. even some of the basics are wrong like corners in the first half. every one they took were dangerous, ours just are not. if the ball had dropped for them like it did for gateshead we could have got another real hammering. how many shots did their keeper have to save. one, and he let it in.

I thinks he’s fed up of battling with 3 opposition centre backs on his own.
And when he does get the ball,there is no one anywhere near him to pass to,just stood watching twiddling their thumbs in their own half.

According to the Mail report of what KP said, Pools conceded 15 corners and a lot of throw ins from a long throw merchant. Two of the corners lead to goals. If you give away that many set pieces, its highly likely goals will go in. According to KP too many players "didn't turn up" and he has more or less made his mind up on who will be going or staying at season's end.

We started the season with Mani D getting on the end of things created out wide. Since Dodds injury he's played mostly with his back to goal.

The service into Mani has been non existant of late, he thrives on the ball being put into the box but you need out and out wide players supplying him or at least players willing to get the ball in the box instead of turning around and going backwards.

I was watching every corner and we were gathered in the box like a rush hour crowd on the Underground, legs flailing.

I can agree Snowy but a 12 hour round coach trip and probably not getting back until
early morning isn’t much of an experience more so only one of them got on the field for a couple of minutes, ok if was only a couple of hours away.or a Saturday game.

was just waiting for their first goal to go in after defending some really good corners like we did that seemed one after another. if KP has told these players they will not be around next season is anyone suprised by their lack of character in not turning up by what they have previously done on the pitch.

They went by train. The youngsters are getting valuable experience training with the men, travelling with them and witnessing what it is all about. Step by step. We don't have to rush them at this stage. Next season hopefully we'll have a squad that is worthy of the name and can pick and choose when it is beneficial to bring them on.

Blood them now, they won't get a chance next season unless we have an injury crisis. At least a couple of games of men's football now will help them prepare for when they're needed and there's nothing to lose now is there?

its not as if we are going to miss the player who loses there place for them. its one less game we have to see them shame the shirt.

The lad Cooper had a truly awful game, I was hoping he would maybe have a half decent game after being far from impressive in his previous outings but alas no, from ballooning a cross way over the stand early on to constantly giving away possession and being pushed off the ball far to easily I can understand why Colchester want rid.

Of the 2 Agyemang is the better option but didn't we have a winger on the bemch?

Said it before but we need the entire midfield overhauling, agyemenag I would try for next season due to his flexibility, but we need players who can get up and down the pitch, sick and tired of us being overrun and mani d being isolated

Dodds back should help but we must be the least athletic team in the division and it shows

If Phillips retained list includes the names Featherstone, Cooke or Crawford we know we are pretty much fucked again next year

Train to Maidenhead, enlighten me on the return journey ?

No idea how they returned but KP said in his interview that they went by train, which they did.
What never happened was a 12 hour round coach trip. Hope you are suitably enlightened.

No not really, I would be interested how the team got to Kings Cross to catch the last train or was there helicopters on stand by ?

Maybe they stayed down there after the game and travelled back by train this morning?
I'd imagine the young uns would've been buzzing to be part of the 1st team set up, although I think it wouldn't have done any harm to give them all 15 minutes last night.

In that case you will have to contact the club and ask how they got home.
Maybe KP made them walk. I've googled walking pools players but got nowhere.
Snowy hasn't come across them whilst exercising his dogs, BBC is completely in the dark, nothing from the Mail.
There's a motorway flyover near me but no joy there and It's pissing down here so I came home.
It's a mystery.
Ah I've got it, they've resurrected the league liner. The railway runs very adjacent to maidenhead's ground............that's it....solved.

Jamie, if they have ambitions of becoming professional footballers, they’d better get used to it.
Come on if it was you or me we’d have loved it, they’re tougher than you think.

[quote="derwent"]In that case you will have to contact the club and ask how they got home.
Maybe KP made them walk. I've googled walking pools players but got nowhere.
Snowy hasn't come across them whilst exercising his dogs, BBC is completely in the dark, nothing from the Mail.
There's a motorway flyover near me but no joy there and It's pissing down here so I came home.
It's a mystery.
Ah I've got it, they've resurrected the league liner. The railway runs very adjacent to maidenhead's ground............that's it....solved.[/quote

To be fair Mr D, I was in Windsor with the dogs, took a wrong turn down Burn Road in the motor and ended up there, but I stayed the night with friends and Princess Anne said she hadn’t seen them but they’d put them up if they were desperate.

But surely it’s disheartening travelling all that way and not getting mud on their boots ?