Let me be the first to say.

Get fecking Sarll out of our club.

That is all.

Twice.

Tidied up.

And the board can go with him. We’ve all heard the shite he comes out with. How on earth did they interview him and conclude he was the man to take us forward. Beggars belief.

I actually think he speaks incredibly well. He has the gift of the gab. But can quite easily see the mask falling when everything suddenly becomes not his fault.

If you are on the board and read this (cough cough) then brace yourself. Hope you’ve got thick skin for when the gutless custodian throws you under the bus

Woking fan, comes here in peace.

He talks a good game, but I suspect the mask will start to slip if your form continues,

ie getting stroppy with your interviewer for your YouTube channel..
there were rumours of him getting abusive with staff members ( apparently )
His tactics are to basically get his team to run around like maniacs and hopefully grind the life out of the opposition
No real patterns of play

I was very surprised when you hired him this summer, Hartlepool are by rights a league team and shouldn’t be in NL, sadly in my opinion I don’t think he is the man to take you there!!

Obviously respect your opinion but to my ears he oscillates between cliches and the nonsensical! He often contradicts himself in the same interview and says stuff like ‘the teamship is strong’ and ‘I don't plan for how other teams play, I prefer to concentrate on us.’ Then there was that stuff about daisies and Hartlepool!?
He kind of says stuff that sounds vaguely intelligent but what we see on the pitch bears absolutely no resemblance to the pre-match rhetoric.
I also bet he has another go at Rob Law post match. Just seems to be part of his make up.

Based on the pure fact we have not won a single home game from 6 in a new season ( which must be a record ) I have to agree the chance of D.S. keeping his job tonight must be very highly unlikely. My only " but " would be I thought today we did play better than the other 5 games but nothing dropped for us, and the referee was a total knobhead. If I owned Pools I would wait till after Tuesday's result before making a final decision but totally understand it if not. I believe we have the best squad in years and it may well take a new manager to get things moving. My biggest worry going forward is will the next manager get a chance from supporters who are getting more and more desperate for success. We blamed Raj for everything but he has been good this season and backed the manager. So if Raj acts and sacks the manager are we " The Bunkerites " going to follow the new Raj positiveness and back the next manager or are we looking at getting in another two managers this season.

Thanks for your thoughts MisterC

Good post, but a couple of genuine question for you, not to argue but just to discuss. Do you believe that us poolies DON'T give managers a fair chance? Do you believe that we haven't given DS a fair chance?

Over the years I've heard some dreadful stick given to players and managers by poolies. I don't know if that's the same at every club. I don't know if we are particularly impatient as a fanbase.

Also I don't know if we are spending more on the squad this year but I do think it's a good one and I do think it should be getting better results. Sadly I think another manager could well make that happen.

Thank you for a genuine response. Let's totally forget about if Sarll is good / average or piss poor. You asked a good question about do Poolies give managers a fair chance and my answer after following Pools for 55 years is no. The reason I believe that is based on the pure number of managers we have had under Raj. Now Raj has played the major role in hiring and firing but surely when we bring in a new manager and give him a one two or three year contract we need to give them time to get things right and our supporters seem keener than ever in my time to rid the club of managers after 9 / 10 games into a new contract. That might come from the horrendous job done in recent years by Raj but it's getting our club a terrible name in football. Like I said sack Sarll but then what.

No post match interview online yet….is it too much to hope he’s gone ?

Me 7pm forecast still alive.
Hopefully.
UTP

Yeah totally take your points. Before the season started, a lot of here likened him to Dave Challinor in the way he was never satisfied and the way he spoke. We’re now not sure at all. He’s wobbling and deflecting. Not my fault. This is Hartlepool United etc etc.

My worry is that Darren Sarll could well just be a bit of an arsehole. He was asked tonight ‘what will you do about not having a natural left sided player for left back?’ He responds ‘play someone else’ … ‘well yeah obviously’ comes Rob Law from BBC Tees to which Sarll responds ‘well I don’t know it’s half 5 on a Saturday’. He then starts wittering on about physicality and press again, winning the ball back etc. As a Woking fan has mentioned above, he is indeed, starting to become very rude to the local journalists. He then proceeds on to say ‘im getting booked for sneezing’… comments on criticism from the fans and patronises the area again by saying ‘that’s what this club is… that’s the whole point of coming here’. Almost as patronising as the metaphorical comments about having players who would start a scrap on the roadside of Hartlepool.

Players don’t seem to be playing for him and his interview tonight actually sounds pretty jarring. This IS Hartlepool United, not fackin Woking, Darren. Changed my mind over the space of an hour or so, get Darren Sarll out of Pools!

yeh interview out now.....not much worth repeating--blames refs for him and his assistant getting booked--no wonder we have no discipline !

I think he isat the stage of throw anyone on and hope for the best--and doubt the players have much faith in him left either----seems no point keeping him as just prolonging the inevitable

Get Sarll out, get Wild in and we still have a shot of playoffs....stay much longer as we are and another season finishingd 14th/15th and reduced budge and season ticket sales etc again next year

Just going to counter that by saying are we hiring the right managers? Let's look at Singh's record:
Matthew Bates, young manager in his first job, 34 games: win record of 34.2%. Lost 6 in a row, could he have been given more time to turn it around? Probably due to him being a young manager, but would it have helped?
Richard Money, old manager who hadn't been a manager 3 years apart from 26 days at Solihull Moors a year prior. 8 games: 25% win record. Awful appointment and 100% the wrong man
Craig Hignett, forced into the job by Singh and Money hasn't managed since. 32 games: 34.4% win rate. Ignoring what came after, a strange sacking which people were confused with at the time should've been given more time (again ignoring what came after!).
Dave Challinor, very impressive CV at the levels below and the national league, sacked by Fylde for a poor start. 90 games: 45.6% win rate. Best manager of Singh's tenure by far, left with his wife having a pop at Raj.
Graeme Lee, young manager in his first job. 32 games: 31.3% win rate. Some were happy with the sacking, some unhappy, but I don't think anyone was expecting it. Should've been given a summer to build his squad and had the perfect opportunity to do it with cup money in the budget from the games HE had won. Might've ended up the same as what came after but at least the squad would've been 10x better.
Paul Hartley, manager who was successful at 2 part time clubs but had incredibly bad reviews from Falkirk and Dundee. 11 games: 9.1% win rate. Don't even need to write anything here.
Keith Curle, experienced manager who spoke well but played direct football, success at Northampton due to the COVID season covers an awful job at Oldham but was given an impossible task. 29 games: 24.1% win rate. Did an ok job but should've been replaced with performances faltering before Jan and a new manager brought in with a full window, sacked too late.
John Askey, experienced manager with success in the National League + North. 41 games: 29.3% win rate. Did a very good job to attempt to keep us up with 2 other managers players, started last season incredibly but wasn't backed to replace his 2 best players and seemingly lost hope, sacked about right as we were only heading one way.
Kevin Phillips, inexperienced manager with success at a bankrolled club 2 levels down. 16 games: 43.8% win rate. Should've been given this summer to build his side but was let go for some reason. The 7-1 loss to Gateshead provides the perfect excuse/reason (whichever way you look at it) either way one who should've been kept on based on win rate alone.

From his history he's sacked some wrong ones very quickly, fair play but a few months prior he though they were the right man, but also not given some managers anywhere near enough time. The fans don't tend to turn on managers unless things are bad with the only few I can think of getting Sarlls treatment being Money, Hartley + Askey at the end of his tenure. I do agree that we need to give managers time but I also think you have to give the right one's time e.g. Lee, Phillips.

I liked when he said 'I've been in this position and won promotions from here'. He has never won promotion in his career.

Was astonished by this. Championing the fact he had been in a position to be criticised by fans many times before. His ego is so far damaged, it’s a tough place to be in fairness. Unemployment beckons….

did he mean as a player in terms of having won promotion?

Spot on and very sensible post.

We are only 10 games in but I don't understand what he's trying to do, I don't see any identity and don't recognise what we are trying to be. He talks of pressing high, I certainly don't see that happening very often. First half today was fairly poor but I actually think we played quite well second half but with all that possession and getting in some good areas we never tested their keeper once, if anything they had all the clearer chances and but for poor finishing could have had more despite looking like every other average team we see up here. It's pretty shameful that we have not scored at home in 90 mins yet this season, in fact it's embarrassing when you consider the opposition and the attacking players we have. I think another manager could get a lot more out of them, we have probably a L2 squad but a non league manager trying to coach them. Personally think I've seen enough to know he's not a good fit, I just don't understand what his game plans are and can't see what he's trying to achieve other than keeping it tight at the back. Believe me I want to get a manager and see him do well and give him a chance but you need to see improvements in displays, we've seen small patches of some good play but there's never anything at the end of it, zero end product. While Pete wild is available I would be trying to convince him to come here, at least it's a brand of football you can get behind. I'm 100% certain another manager could get way more out of this team.

He's also starting to contradict himself, a few weeks ago it was 'signing short term loans means you haven't recruited well enough and I don't like to do it'. Jump forward and here we are with a couple of short term loan players. Also ridiculous that we have one bloody left back on the books.

After a think time out.
2 major Fcuk ups from earlier on in the year.

Raj knocking back the takeover then shitting on KP is why we are were we are now.

Can't believe this crank manager still allowed to blame everyone but himself.

Game over from me.
But let the delusionists crack on with the false hope n shit excuses of contineous failure.

Fully retired from this shit fest.

The fuck up was getting rid of Askey then signing Parkes and waterfall

So I think you are saying Askey could and should have been aloud to sign these players. If I have understood your message properly? That is a very good point to make.

He's learnt how to convert 0-0 draws into 0-1 defeats

He's 3 games from the sack

Very sadly I have to reduce that to maximum of one game.

He should be gone now

OK forget my last game prediction.

parkes and Waterfall were lined up before Phillips came in Askey talked sense and was seriously hamstrung by injuries and having to keep the prior years under contract shite-he wasn't perfect but I would argue he's comfortably the best we have had since Challinor.....though the competition isn't much I know

So I did understand your post.

He should be gone, today was obvious before a ball was kicked what was going to happen. No wonder half of us didnt bother turning up and paying ridiculous prices for very little entertainment. We better watch ourselves because we havent played the best teams yet, we could be in a relegation battle before long, which is shocking for a squad that should be much better.

Lets not leave the players out from blame, the midfield is possibly worse than last years shower, i know quite a few bigged theses midfielders up when we signed them, but ive seen very little to say they are any better than callum cooke etc. Still though this squad should have done way better, especially our forward line.

got to agree. askey was an experianced manager who due to all the injuries was faced with a situation he had never experianced in his time in the game and was having trouble sorting it all out. again its not just the injure players themselves but how it affected other player in the side with them missing. just how would our present saviour cope if he had to play fergie s CB and no manni d up front with nobody else able to play there.

you can blame sarll as well for the forward line not doing better. if you get only a couple of chances per game to score at best players are going to snatch at them knowing they might not turn up again. even players at the top are like that and not 5th tier ones.

Mani D has been better defending than attacking this season and that's down to total lack of service. Between Him and Grey they got about 40 goals last season, we'll be lucky to see 40 goals scored by the entire team this season.
Surely LL and Fev must be telling Sarll the error of his ways and if he's not listening he needs to go.

Who would be surprised if someone else came in to manage the side and we suddenly looked a lot better?

I dare say we could raffle the managers job and the winner would make a better fist of it than Sarll. This squad is our best for ages imo.

No one i think you could bring back keith curle and things would be better, its that bad. Shows how bad this manager is when most of us had doubts about him after the Tamworth game and we were doing alright at that point.

correct. the only positive comments then were that fans would take wins at any cost. once that stopped what ar we left with.

Nailed on.

If Lennie Lawrence was in the dug out second half, as reported, I think the writing is on the wall.
I try to be positive and hope for the best, but I can't see a good outcome if Lennie is getting involved.

Fans were critical of previous managers making substitutes too late in the game, Sarls isn’t afraid to to change it, am I correct in the last 2 games he has brought 4/5 subs on ?

Lennie is the ears of Raj.

Pity we can,t sub the manager.

Lennie Lawrence was in the dug out, could he be classed as a sub for manager ?

We will find out Tuesday night, Cause neither of the 2 muppets/thugs will be in the dugout.

I would ask Gucky to have a go in a caretaker role, at least his tenure with the Academy has proved he knows how to set a team up to produce positive results.

if i was him i,d tell the club where to go as i,m sure he,ll be happier in his present roll. would not mind if the club had a plan B ready the day sarll gets the push.