I know it’s all talk etc and meaningless but he’s coming over as a bit much to me

Very authoritarian….they don’t have a choice they’ll press the keeper, I don’t care if waterfall is 34 he’s going to defend the half way line (good luck with that one) Mancini needs to earn his place !
Impressed with some not all of the players fitness on return (the most needlessly confrontational one of the lot)
Alright sarll we all get it you’re in charge, do we really need this 1980s style big I am?

Obviously it’s how we play and the results we get that’s important but I hope we aren’t cringing at John Yems from Crawley sort of interviews with a manager desperately trying to be ‘old school’ and slagging off the players, you need real charisma to do that and not lose the players or sound cringey…last one I recall who did that well for us wa Neale Cooper and he always mixed it with high
Praise for the team

I reckon we only need 10 games in to see how the season is Gunna pan out.
Plenty of previous managers come out with the Open Transfer windows available when they know their good budget isent adhered to.
Probably why they are previous.
Hopefully it's better this time around and we smash this division up.
UTP.

Dunno about that. There's a long interview with Rob Law about pre-season on BBC Radio Tees (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0j7x2lt) that seems to be a different conversation altogether.

Sarll doesn't criticise anybody, is full of praise for the new signings and says Joe Monks is doing great work with him on the recruitment. On the other hand, he doesn't mention Ronnie Moore at all! I get the impression that was another brainwave from the board.

Law asks him about Mark Beck and Sarll says it's a 'watch this space' situation as Beck is still under contract with Solihull.

at least he does sound honest and does not talk in jargon. whether he is or not we,ll find out eventually and if we have a new pools to watch or just a re hash of the last two seasons. proof will be on matchdays and not interviews where he,ll be ready to answer questions before he starts. must admit i,d rather be in a locked room with him than the boring phillips or askey without a hot line to the samaratans.

This going to be very interesting, If the players can hack his style of man management we will be laughing all the way up the league. IF

If the players are good enough we will be up there a manager can only do so much. We are still way short in numbers and quality at the moment.

we are but somehow its something he cannot see or actually wants. he cannot have done his homework of how things pan out at pools regarding injuries or has a real plan B for proper loan players once normal service is resumed. might be due to what questions he was asked but seemed to have plenty to say about his signings but very little apart from a mancini and waterfall reference for the lads still at the club before he arrived.

It looks obvious to me we seem unable to bring many players in this season. I know a few were raving that we paid fees for a couple but we have probobly released about 15 since the season ended. I hope these 4 are top notch because we are still way short in many areas. Unless our loans are better than normal sarl is going to regret thinking the squad is already good enough, because we can tell him it clearly isnt.

Still need a keeper, Josh Mazfari 19 years old has signed an extension to his contract has been sent out on loan to Redcar Athletic for the season, he will still be training full time with Pools according to the O.S.

the teams that will succeed this season will be the ones with large squads of similar players that does not pick itself with a strong bench of 7 players that can change things or replace ones who are having an off day who are of equal ability. history has shown this didn,t happen with 3 used from 5 as it was mad up with just numbers and kids getting a few minutes at the end. with the extra 2 being available to use his comments seem either old fashioned or he has never in his career faced an injury crisis. 2 of his signings could just be easily out for a long period before the season really gets going like last year and thats after the usual injury in pre season we can rely on. this isn,t just pools this will happen to but feel a lot might depend on luck rather than planning from him.

he eventually did mention that as its so obvious as i doubt many would be happy with dixon as first choice even with a better defence in front of him but making nervous wrecks out of them.

Just under 4 weeks to the season kicks off, Pools haven’t exactly signed an abundance of players, it going be another season relying on loan players, what’s Ronnie Moore been up to, he was supposed to be identifying potential signings, is he stealing a wage ?

100% i have been saying this since this rule was announced. Absolutely Ludacris to go into this new season and not use the bigger subs available to us. We have to have some loan players or even the kids to fight for places and help fill the bench. No doubt we will suffer some bad set backs we always do. Then we are back to square 1 and panic singing no doubt and just filling places like you said for the crack. I dont like the talk of a small squad at this level. He is alot different to what we have had the last few years and he does talk a good talk - but dont they all ! i did like how he answered some of the questions and didnt just give the usual answers we have seen from previous. He actual had some decent chat unlike JA. I hope he can transfer this all into the play and the players - if things tick over nice and we can recruit some more of real good quality i think he does have what it takes to get us up the table. However he did sign alot more people at Woking so not sure ? make of that what you will.

Nowhere does Sarll say recruitment for the season is finished. He says he expects to be picking up conversations with certain players again after they realise they need to get themselves fixed up, and is always on the look out for the right type of player to become available.

Ther first proper friendly is a week Saturday (at West Auckland). I'd have money on a few more being through the door by then. And there'll still be nearly a month to go till the season starts on 10th August.

know we are not minted but a signing today is more likely to be better than a mid season one which wages still hav to be paid who is either a panic signing or the best of a bad lot who hasn,t got a club. you can get lucky with loans but always feel apart from league 2 clubs we ar low on the pecking order for clubs who want to loan out their best players. say its the boro, league one is their first choice, then league 2 and come a third place for really young kids or third choices.

wasn,t mentioning present players being loan out as well which could mean 3 in 3 out just as easily.

Most of the players in our squad will NOT have encountered a manager like Snarll, Older heads will have.
He will call a spade a spade and in public.

He knows, Like the rest of us he needs more players in, But not just anybody.
He is cleverly using his interviews to let players know he is happy as we are.
I believe offers will have been made and left on the table.

But players as they are entitled will be looking for better deals elsewhere.

He virtually said that there were players who were hanging on to see if any better offers come along but if that doesn't happen then the advantage moves to us. I also think he has put offers out there and is playing a wait and see attitude instead of just recruiting to bulk up the numbers.
He is keeping his nerve is the way I see it.

Any manager that says he likes working with small squads are talking utter nonsense. So instead of having 2 back up strikers who can get 10 to 15 goals wpuld rather not have anyone. What a crock of shit some managers talk. We all know that within 3 weeks of the season we will have about 4 players unavailable. The best teams in this league will have quality back ups or lads who can do a job, to me its a manager saying i havent really got much left to spend so why not just say it as it is.

If they getting better offers from divisions above
That's fair enough.
But if we lose our targets to other non league clubs then that's a bad situation.
Well we Gunna find out when we see the squad for the 1st game on August 10th.
What will be will be.
UTP.

I wouldn't think there'll be many teams at our level who'll have 2 back up strikers who can get 10 to 15 goals a season. There's quite a few at our level who's main striker will struggle to reach 15, and there won't be many players with those sort of numbers who'll be willing to be a back up.
If we get Beck and assuming we keep Grey and Mani D that would be 4 strikers at the club and I'd imagine keeping them all happy will be difficult for the manager.

Thought Charman n Campbell are strikers.
Beck =5

I'd counted Charman but not Campbell, but that's 4 even without Beck. Pretty good options to be fair as we'll probably only start 2.

Already in a much better place than last season. We were lucky Mani and Joe only missed a handful of games each, because Umerah was out so long that the only 'attackers' Pools had on the bench were Chris Wreh then Courtney Duffus. 20 odd appearances between them and zero goals!

It makes perfect sense that Sarll is after Mark Beck too.

Worried about cover at the back now.

We didn’t have a very big squad last time we were promoted.

He wants to play a pressing game but we only have 3 midfielders on the books, hunter, Sheron and feather , (Wallace out long term and am counting Mancini as more of a fwd) good luck pressing once one of the first 2 are injured

I don’t think sarll is stupid enough not to know we are way too short in midfield

I think Sarl knows exactly what he is doing. For me personally I have bought in to his vision of how he wants us to play. I am excited about it. Of course we all know that the squad is still a bit short but as said and I believe him there are still deals to be done and the manager is taking his time not to just rush in and buy deadwood. Of course like all managers he is working within Raj budget. We all complained last year about the defence and Midfield. Thinking back to it it was like watching England . We were crying out for energy. This guy has a positive outlook, maybe a little arrogant but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Sarls sides demand energy and commitment from the first minute. He knows
That high energy and application gets the crowd going and the crowd going improves the confidence of the team. The more I read about this guy the more I am impressed.we need to be patient though it’s not going to happen overnight and the bloke needs some luck with injuries. He said in the interview the other day it’s about embedding positive traits. I have always been interested in psychology and I know exactly where he is coming from. If this squad plays like Sarl wants it too it’s going to be very interesting. For now let’s back the guy

There are 8 defenders on the books. Don't think we need, or will get, more than that.

Assuming Manny Onariase is moved on that will free up a wage. Is he even involved in pre-season?
Kieran Burton is definitely back and needs to kick on from last season, which was mainly spent out on loan in the NLN.
For me, Louis Stephenson and Campbell Darcy are definitely not there to make up the numbers - both good prospects developed by the Academy who won't look out of place in matchday squads.

Just because players are transfer listed they aren't made to stay at home, of course both Dixon and Onariase have been involved in training.

Sarll has mentioned already he likes to play 433/4231 formation, he's already signed players for that formation, the midfield two are absolutely going to be Sheron and Hunter, Charman and Campbell have both been utilised as wide players.

Imagine it'll be something like

New GK
Dodds Waterfall Parkes Ferguson
Sheron Hunter
Campbell Mancini Charman/Grey
Mani D

Then we need a second keeper, another CM, another wide player and a backup striker.

Cheers for that. I hadn't spotted Onariase on any of the pics posted on X by the club, hence the question.

if things go as usual i doubt there will be a player having to be kept happy due to lack of game time or being the new burton running infront of the stand on matchdays and looking pissed off. more likely kids on the bench to make up the numbers who,ll be lucky to get a kick in the game. just have to hope most of our opponents will be in the same boat as us and there will not be another chesterfield in the making with their type of bench. its not an eleven a side game anymore its an 18 one where the best 18 will succeed.

Boro got promoted in 86/87 with only 19 players.
6 of them with less than 10 games.
So it can be done.
Philosophy = they have to be half decent n give 100% in every game.
If Sarly can put a bit of Bruce Rioch/Cyril Knowles into his management memphis.
Then we Gunna have a promotion party in this non excuse season.
UTP.

what happened nearly 40 year ago aint going to happen nowadays. must be a reason why as players do not get a good old kicking like they did back then. lets hope he is a man who can change that for us by bucking this trend and we have something to celebrate again.

Think Hunter & Sheron can cover the back if desperate.

Burton has everything that Snarll asks of a player. imo

really hope burton is given a chance which i feel he wasn,t last season as long as he is kept away from any real defensive positions unless he has vastly improved there. i do not really feel sorry for a single player but i did last year with him just running in front of the stand and nothing much more.

then we,d have to cover them and break up a partnership if they are playing well and making the team worse.

think there is still a big wait and see regarding what the real sarll is going to be. really hope that what we have heard is what we will see. however there is something thats making me feel not as fully confident as i first was. might be reading too much into it but feel what he is saying would be the same as if he had asked any poolie what they,d like to hear from him and just repeating it and seems to know the mood of the fans and their expectation from players a bit too quickly. could be coincidence but never a favour of them but equally when things sound too good they rarely are.

The thing I find interesting about Burton is both Darlo and Chester fans said he was a brilliant defender but he didn't show that at all in his (very limited) appearances for us. I don't know whether it's the differences between the standard of the leagues or whether it was just he was thrown into an absolute mess, therefore getting no guidance. Would be very interested to see how he would get on alongside Waterfall/Parkes as he has the pace we need and ability to pick a pass (see Altrincham last season) so if he can improve on his defending we could have a very good player on our hands.

This season down here will be like no other due to this new sub ruling. No team in this division (bar the Ex most recent League clubs) will have had the pleasure. So for me Sutton and FGR are already at an advantage of knowing how to use a bigger squad - aswell so should we be but i think the squads that thin and changed since it wont really matter. However there being no big chesterfield etc there is still Barnet, Solihull and now FGR and Sutton who have all looked to recruit nicely too. I will stand by what others have also stated in those teams that have a good 18 will win the league no doubt - if you have a good core squad 11 and then always have like for like off the bench you will piss it ! Especially when there will be teams who wont have a cat in hells chance of being able to afford the luxury. 5 new players who know their roles and are decent coming on against leggy tired teams will do more damage than anything for me this season. Real tool in the arsenal to have, and if used properly will be the difference.

i know plenty of time left and i know we are signing the right men - lets just hope it continues. He is a good manager DS and knows the crack. Think we will have a very good season under him. He seems to talk the talk but can follow it with the walk if you get me!

It wont be that difficult 1 will no doubt pick up an injury, the subs rule means they will probobly get quite a lot of game time. So i think strength in depth will win over little squads any day of the week. Their is a reason why premiership teams have about 40 good players, so for national league managers to say oh i like a small squad really is nonsense, who wouldbt love having 3 good keepers, 4 quality strikers etc?

Ask the Darlo fans who went to Chorley!
0 8 against.

The thing is premiership clubs have plenty of money and can afford big squads.

And they have U21 teams and Leagues to keep players sharp too.
If we had a 40 man squad we'd have to loan nearly half them out to maintain any decent level of match fitness.
A 21 man squad should suffice if the quality is there and the option to loan or even sign players mid season is there too.

I,d forgotten he was on the pitch himself.

i,d take a 21 man outfield squad now especially if all were challenging for a start in the side. not an 11 from 14 with the rest made up of kids , crap signings and loan players no better than the kids.

Plenty coming in this Afternoon then
Never bet on Pools

Reading this is like resigned Titanic passengers boarding the vessel with the knowledge the ship is going to hit the iceberg…..except they ain’t boarding the Titanic,