Some names becoming available this summer solely from the NL...
albeit they dont get offered new deals with their current club.
Ive seen a few of these lads this season and id love Pools to at least capitalise on a few of them - at least maybe one. Sure Ronnie has it all in hand....

Ryan Galvin LB - Halifax
Joe Sbarra CAM - Solihull
Devante Rodney CF - Halifax
Dennon Lewis LW - Woking
Connor McBride - LW Gateshead < not sure if he played in the 7-1 drumming but if so was impressed.
Tom Allen RW Gateshead
Joss Labadie CM Solihull - Always a good solid player at this level. 33 now like but still can do a job a reckon.
Jeff King RB - Chesterfield
Josh Barret CM - Aldershot (sure we had been linked with him before too).
Max Wright RW - Halifax - tore us a new one on a few occasions always liked this lad
Chris Con Clark - Alty < wont be at them regardless of where they end up next season. Deffo make a League club 11.

There is a few more but i didnt realise they where all like 35/36. But heaps of talent becoming available and thats just from the NL.

Rodney plays for Rochdale

Ryan East - Rochdale
Tyler Golden - Halifax
Ryan Sweeney - Burton
Ben Parkinson - Newcastle
Lebrun Mbeka - Spennymoor
Sam Barrett - Maidenhead
Devante Rodney - Rochdale.

I thought Rodney did well against us in the recent game at Spotland - worked his backside off as the lone striker when they went down to 10 men and still had the energy to nick the that embarrassing equaliser in time added on.

He spent a lot of time injured this season but still manged 7 goals in 19 games.

Depends what level of back-up Pools want for Mani and Joe. It looks as if Josh Umerah will be getting a pre-season at least off Pools, if not a new contract, but Devante might be a better bet.

Hanant at Gateshead looked good in bith games against us and has had a good season for them. Winger, just what we need.

Good shout I reckon Rodney would be ideal if he stays fit. He is one hell of a handful at this level that's for sure.

Tinkler from Gateshead would be a brilliant signing

look at players from promoted teams from our league who clubs think are not good enough and look at those from the two league 2 relegated ones who might release decent players by having wholesale clearouts.

I think you're right. We have to set our sights, at least, on league 2 players if not higher. Look at the type of players Stcockport, Wrexham and Chesterfield signed to get out of this league! Having said that, we don't have Stockport, Wrexham and Chesterfield's owners

Have a closer look at the squads of the teams above us excepting Chesterfield, they're predominantly players who've never played efl level.

There's some names on that list that have caused us plenty of problems in the past. Would be nice if they were our players instead.

I don't have an argument with the idea that good quality NL players can get us out of the NL. Manni D being a case in point. Waterfall's another.

hope we do not go down that line as it was easier to perform against us if you played in midfield than against many other sides. its not exactly hard to look quick and aggressive playing against ours.

Will Stanwick Keeper Chester& England c out of contract
Christian Dibble - keeper Kidderminster 17 clean sheets in a relegated side out of contract
Ollie Pearce - Striker Worthing 40 goals out of contract
Paul Blackett - south shields striker 29 goals still under contract

just wonder what fans would like for next season. an old household name who would not mind finishing his career with us or a good bread and butter player who could improve even further with us.

Lebrun Mbeka Spenymoor player of year Central defender or midfield

I would love to see a blend of both - the arrival of Parkes and Waterfall including that of Feaths (yes ill say it) helped stabilise this team and got us a league position to be proud of given where it was heading ! Hell we all know we could of made the playoffs given those silly 1-1 games that should never of been ! But anyways ... Mr Blackett should be in with more than a shout at this level now, and at just 26 i would be very surprised if he stuck around with SS. Again the lad from Worthing whom also featured with wor Manny in England C duties will also be very hot on the radar id suspect of some southern NL outfits or even league as you never know these days.
We cannot just sign players for the sake of it though - if the big name wants one last pay day but does absolutely nothing in the season which we have seen before then its a pointless signing. Dont care who they are... i didnt know Sterry before his time at Pools but for me will go down as one of the best right backs to play for the club. More of this type of raw talent mixed with some good former league players who can still do it for a full season at this level and we laughing all the way to Wembley !

Shields seem to be cutting back on their big earners and apparently reverting to part time only.
The chairman is trying to sell a club that costs him money hand over fist and is finding it hard to find a buyer, no surprise there. He needs it to be more attractive to buyers so trying to make it profitable makes sense.

Opal Fruits? A Marathon Bar? Camp Coffee?

Can’t believe no-one’s mentioned Fondop yet…

On his way to Barcelona For a well earned holiday.

,, "" a league position to be PROUD of "
That's a classic.
Your funnier than Chubby Brown n Bernard Manning on the same stage.
Ya get a laff on here sometimes.

To be fair thats a corker. Rumour has it pools are trying to sign a top striker from the faroes league division 5 had a prolific career so far banged in 3 goals in 650 appearances, only downside has been out of the side recently with a bad back, sprained ankle achilles injury and bad knees. If we pull this off the usual suspects will be raving about it thanking raj for just being alive.

well we signed him as a div.2 player but oldham signed him to play in the national league which is a big difference. there is no guarentee if we had signed manny d at that time he,d have been that much better than him.

Er, Kev, you’re laughing at your own post…STOP….seek help.
I’ll send ratboy round with a cask of ‘Moscow Blindness Vodka ’.

Can ya make it Baileys. Not into vodka.
Cheers matey

I think we can cancel talk of new signings and realise we’re gonna carry on using the old stock .

the reduced ones who are nearly out of date.

Fondop has been released... it could yet still happen !

Sbarra hell of a player as we well know, Personaly i think the guy who makes Solihull tick is Osbourne.

Magic Mike!

Yes he is for me what Beautyman was for Sutton when they went up ! hell of a midfielder.

im having my money on them going up tbh. Bromley finished higher but there is something about this Solihull team and their desire in this last push for a league position at last.

Woking have a few fellas on their transfer list - wonder if we see any of DS old team mates makes the move up here ?

We will do what we do best at Pools, wait until all the best players have been snapped up. Then we come into the room and get the crap that no one else wants.

Still, statement stays we missed out on all the players we wanted and they went elsewhere.

Same old story, no ambition at the club board level.

Probably and then Dodds n Mancini injury problems return..
Where's the Rope.

Mancini wont be here next season - dont think anyone has spoken to him for weeks im hearing.

Dodds will return this season thankfully.

also did anyone see the retained list supposedly leaked ? offered deals to Umerah and Cooke and Feaths supposedly

I see a certain Irish midfielder has been released by Grimsby...

Did Shelton get released ? i can hear the " we getting the band back together"

Id have him back for sure. He was decent enough for them last season, surprised to see him off like.

Shelton is under contract for another year but hasn't played since the end of November. Seems to have completely fallen out of favour there.

Luke Hendrie released by Bradford. Whisper it quietly, but Courtney Duffus has surprisingly been released by Barrow!

duffus summed up a lot of our recruitment. we got him 4 years too late like some others or 4 seasons too early like hawkes, kabamba and rodney.

Harry Chapman also released by Bradford, we were interested when Spike was manager

From things I've read on twitter Shelton has been awful for Oldham. Better players than him out there

Players never have their contracts for a couple of reasons mostly because they are not deemed good enough or they asked for too much money.

Kabamba did ok for us. Well enough that Kilmarnock paid a transfer fee to sign him.

Chapman now there is a name i would have in our new look midfield. Fallen from grace but still a very talented baller for this level. Would probably walk into most NL teams id imagine. Did not expect him to be shot by Bradford but then again he may have an injury or not performed as well as ive seen him as of late. Duffus wouldnt get a game for FC, he literally is up there as being one of the worst CFs ive seen play for Pools. Him and Fondop in the utter shite all time pools 11.

Hendrie i can see coming back here although once Dodds is back (Stephenson on bench) not sure we really need him. What we do now need though is another CB as we short again in defence

one extra CB is totally necessary as it seems the position on the pitch that picks up the most cautions, now crawford has gone, and eventually most miss games due to them totting up.

no Lacey and Mani O highly likely. Again leaves us in a position with only 2 senior CBs both of which put 100% in and are likely to catch a knock.
for me we technically have cover on either flank the way it stands (if Fergie signs on) so another ball playing decent CB is a must.

cannot wait now to see who Sarrl brings in - again i think we will know where we stand with his first signings

To be fair to Big Mike, He was at least entertaining, Many a good wrestling hold.

Didn't Big Mike have a second hand car dealership on Durham Road in Stockton before he became a professional footballer