I have heard good whispers that our first couple of signings may be the following:

- Rohan Ince

Another one of Wokings best players - had a standout season i think when Sarrl was in charge that time they reached the playoffs.
tough takling CDM just what we need. No spring chicken at 31 but right age experience wise and im sure he was more a less box to box last time i seen him play. Only thing is he is contracted till 2025 so guessing we would be splashing some cash in getting him here if the rumour is true.

- Curtis Edwards

Signed for Woking in Feb this year after being released from Norwegian First Div team. Local lad whos dad is/was Thornaby Manager.
Take a look at his career, was playing against Arsenal in the Europa League just few years ago. Won the Swedish league and seemed to of done alright with the Norwegian team too. Seems a hell of a player and Woking fans giving him the nod saying hes a class above when he came into their Midfield.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uDfeEXmJc8

- Kellerman may be talking to Sarrl too but may need to prove fitness.

3rd cousin of Paul Ince so he must be good

31 & 30 yrs old, Sounds like Sarll,s style.
Like players who have been there done that.

When I went to Woking for that last minute carry on to give away victory, Edwards was the best player on the pitch by a country mile.

Is there no players available from even 1 division up the pyramid.

Here here. Why would we want National League cast offs if we (Raj and Sarll) are serious about a promotion push?

If we are going to have a smaller squad and play a pressing game you aren’t going to do it with a squad of players in their thirties…

Negatives already and we haven’t even signed anybody yet.

Curtis Edwards has played premier division football in scandanavia since 2018 before signing for working..including for one of the best clubs in Sweden Djurgarden and European football under Graham Potter for Ostersund. As said above he ran the show against us at Woking last season and would be an excellent signing

30 & 31 no spring chicken! do you lot not have mirrors?

He joined Woking 3 months after Sarll was sacked so ther's no relationship there to influence the player. He might just fancy a move back up to the Teesside like Matty Dolan and Callum Cooke did - then again he might still be putting his career first...

Guarantee’s sweet FA …..we need people who can perform in this league…..

Ince still under contract, be interesting if a fee is involved. Edwards offered a new contract by Woking so he would be free.

30/31 is nowt, Could run around a pitch all day long at that age.

As snowy says signing from league above does not guarantee success.Last season we signed Dixon,Wallace,Mancini and Cooke the season before from League sides. We also signed Jameson, Hendrie,Khan and Duffers on loan from the league above. Who was the best signing MANI D a free transfer from our league. It doesn’t matter what league they come as long as they are a success. However as I have said many times if you sign free transfer players you are likely to have a number of failures.

£358 early bird STs

Whilst I’ll,be getting mine. I don’t think the early bird saving is sufficient to encourage supporters buying early.

£380 non early bird.
Match day £22.
Not very non league them prices.

Only promotion rewards that lot.

I wouldnt complain about Edwards based on my limited view of him

I don't think signing players who have excelled at our level is a bad idea at all. Over the years we have been proper terrorised by a number of players who we would have loved to have seen in a Pools shirt doing exactly that to our opposition.

Kev, you are suffering from a nasty attack of Season Ticket Phobia in it’s early stages, so help is available and you’d best book into the ‘Terry Plywood Clinic’ under Dr Radged where help can be given, but their Arm Twisting therapy and Chinese Burn+ manipulation will result in you joyously parting with your cash.
Kerching ££££££££££££££££, isn’t that better?

So this is we're ya sleep every nite.
Allowed out 6am to 7am so them dogs can take ya for Walkies.

plus hungry players from below our level who have been playing well. surely we do not want anymore of the cooke and dolan types around the club who have done it in the past and are using pools as another pay day until the inevatable happens and they have to do a proper job.

would have to have a lot of spare cash to waste if i stumped up all that money before i knew what i,d be watching even if i did live local. the only thing it guarentees is a seat next to others you know to have a good moan.

The club are really taking fans for granted with the launch. A pretty uninspiring video and a fairly hefty price hike on the back of another chaotic season.
And where is Raj? He just seems to have gone awol.

Exactly, getting in lads who want to prove themselves (like Gatesheads lot) who work harder and tend to do the nasty side of things too as they want to make a name for themselves are 100 times better than any journeyman or seasoned pro looking for his last payday. 30 and 31 is prime for footballers these days. Specially our level ! i was playing my best football at 30/31 due to injuries and other stuff my body didnt decide to mend fully till then. But anyways like others have said... the best chance sometimes to get out of this league is to sign the better players from it who know it and can handle it. Half the fairies who come down from L1 take an age to adapt anyways i.e Wrexhams lot.
These 2 would be an unbelievable start to the transfer proceedings for me and would give us one hell of a midfield with Mancini in there too !
Yeovil did it the season they romped the league - they got the best players they could from this division and it worked.
Speaking of lads in the division below- i can imagine Paul Blakett is as hungry as ever to prove himself further up the divisions and again an ideal candidate for us. He would bag for fun i think at this level in a good side.

“A fairly hefty price hike” twenty odd quid on ST,this is the first rise for a couple of years. I appreciate everyone cannot pull out for a ST or cannot make it every match to make it viable but it’s not a bad deal especially for concessions. Every close season we don’t know what we will be watching we just hope for the best. You can of course wait till closer to the season to see what we bring in before making your mind up.

20 odd quid across a full season is nothing if you are just looking at the financial aspect of it. however it would have meant the end of the world either if pools had reduced them by 20 quid for those who are renewing as a little thankyou for the last two seasons they have suffered. a bit of good will can go a long way even with those not involved.

Well okay, fairly hefty maybe a stretch if you just say 20 quid but in my view the price was already high and then as Accy says, it's a bit rich putting them up on the back of last season, with little communication about anything much (which isn't a new issue.) I still think the club, headed by Raj, are really taking the fans for granted and not really helping to drum up positivity.

its not so much as taking fans for granted but a case of everything in life is going up and we expected some rise and many will be greatfull thats its only 20 and not any more. once we all loved a bargain but now its looked at there must be something wrong with something if it is one. however i feel the club has lost some goodwill and PR by the increase as at the end of the day the extra 20 quid a season ticket isn,t going to boost the players signing budget very much and it would not take many not to renue and wait till what they see to wipe it all out.

Mr A you are always realistic yes £20 over a season is nothing to a supporter but to reduce it by £20 x 3000 is quite an amount for the club. Do any clubs reduce the price of STs to reward supporters for supporting during a poor season. Does Raj take supporters for granted? Don’t all clubs.

I think you can use the everything going up in life as a reason why they shouldn't have increased season ticket prices. Freeze the price for a year as a gesture of goodwill due to the cost of living, offer finance options and, if you claim something has to increase, then increase the pay on the day to £22 (as they have). Instead they've increased season ticket prices, yes its just ~£20 but it's still an increase which is always likely to get backlash after a poor season, as well as increasing pay on the day.

however if only 160 do not bother getting one for next season the club would be worse off if we were going to sell 3000 at full adult price. you are correct on what all clubs think about fans even down to ground improvements that are necessary but clubs say its to improve things for them. thing is many fall for it across the game.

This is the first increase for I believe for a couple of seasons.(someone may put me right) Go around the country and see how many clubs have frozen the cost as a gesture of good will, again I have no idea but I’d be surprised if there are many.

well any underperformers like us should have been doing unless the numbers being sold have increased. its back again to relying on fans loyalty and people expecting a rise in everything they see.

Now that he's got his new Board in place he's HUFC's very own Wizard of Oz - hiding behind a green curtain but still pulling all the levers.

Did any of us expect anything else

We have had a fair few duds of this type too unfortunately.

Didn't he say he was going to step back a bit, if so would expect the new board members to be the official mouthpieces now. Wonder how Mr Walter Mitty Shithead justifies the improving the matchday experience with the price hike - its already worsened it for many.

Look closely at Pearsons next statement…..you will see Raj’s lips moving

Emu n Rod Hull

No one ‘allows’ me to do anything, I just do it…..try it.
Out with the dogs , do some work, in the pub from 12 till 3.00 and the rest of the day in the summer house …lovely stuff.

So Mr A every club that underperforms should reduce prices as a gesture of good will?

How about a gesture of i Fecked up, I,ll take the hit to prove i care.

Totally agree.

Qualify new signings usually rely on Season Ticket sales, judging by the apathy there won’t be many buying them meaning no quality signings unless Raj puts his hand in his pocket.

i,d guess across the country there will be fans moaning, some more than us, about there club increasing there prices and expecting everyone to cough up. if pools had only kept prices as they were there would have been less anti club posts cropping up and for once they might have got some good feedback for once. remember the days when bus prices were not regularly going up but when they did companies expected a percentage of passengers to change their travel habits even if the actual increase like ours has been is minimal.

Stalemate!!

Maybe players and staff have holidays at the end of the football season?

Or perhaps the players are still under contract and the announcement will be made when the contract ends?