Expect him gone before Tuesday
1 home goal in 5
4 red cards in 10 games

Time up

Add to that - Ebbsfleet not won all season and beat us. Daggers not won away all season, beat us. Dave Challinor simply would not have it. SORT IT OUT.

It’s pathetic, another season fu ked before it’s started losing week in week out to shite with a quarter of our support

I really will be surprised if he’s in charge Tuesday

We are 15th after 10 games having scored 7 goals without playing a single team in the playoff positions !

It’s relegation form

If Sarll had anything about him he would do the decent thing and fall on his sword this evening. He has received every backing possible from the chairman, the board, the players and indeed the fans. He has screwed up big time and doesnt appear to have a firkin clue as to how to get the club out of this mess.

Lennie Lawrence in the dug out from half time: and n charge by 7:00pm tonight? Bring back Sweens!

Bring back Philips

Bring back Cloughie

Is the rift between Raj n Higgy too wide?

Weirdly really like this shout.

Just get sodding rid of Sarll and take it from there, anyone - or even no-one - would be an improvement this arrogant misfit who is an utter embarrassment to our club.

Bring back Ian Crumplin.

And Ron Hogan

the point is the players that have been recruited are not used to hoof ball, the problem is DS is not a good football tactician, the real problem is that he convinced the chairman that he would be able to get us out of this league. The real real problem is we have some good footballers who are pissed off with being told to just get rid when the ball is received, that to me says that DS has to go, the players don't understand hoof ball. I don't, I'm 52 and when a player on my team on a Sunday morning just hoofs it i get absolutely pissed
with the nonsense of it, just play the ball to feet, move and ill give it back, the fast players will know and they will move and we will feed them because they are fast...ffs its fucking easy when you have good players and that's why he has to go/ He has over complicated everything by trying to be zero goals, he has to go

Please can he go now

i have never been one for sacking a manager unless the club has a plan B ready for replacing them. however like murray i think enough is enough and he cannot bleat about injuries to key players unlike his predeccesors could. its gone from lack of entertainment to lack of points with good players on the pitch looking worse. if he goes quickly there will be a few in the squad having a celebration for sure.

Be prepared for featherlight to be installed as player manager if Sarl goes because he will be cheap

Is Sarll and his assistant a cheap option then? It would be a bit odd to have built a squad, which most agree is capable of doing a good job, and on the face of it doesn't look cheap, then put a manager in place because he'd work for peanuts.
Incompetence doesn't equate to cheap in every case.

doubt for a second he was a cheap option which means compo wont come cheap either if he gets the boot and digs his heals in to get the maximum he could get. only in sport you can be a rich failure due to this contract farce that favours the manager. we just get our p45 and shown the door for being crap.

Doesn't smack of being an expensive option. I reckon he was a cheaper than KP and also got the job cos he said he could get us promoted more cheaply than KP. It seems a good squad to be fair so if it is a modest budget then there has been some good recruitment work. DS might have been right about that but I don't think he thought that he himself might be the weak link in the chain.

He's probably on a six month probation period

All of our manager seem to come from the cheap tree, even Challinor coming from national north, askey pretty much the same, bates, lee all pretty much lets do it on the cheap.

We can blame raj for very rarely getting it right, though he does appear to have allowed sarl or is it ronnie? to bring in better players than the shower kevin phillips had to bring in. The results this year are firmly on an out of depth manager. The performances have been a disgrace really. 1 goal at home that is pathetic. Do the right thing raj step in and get this guy out of our club.

its not all about how much you are paying somebody especially a football manager. if sarll is poorly paid which i doubt is he performing just to the manner that money allows and doubt he,d do better if his wage was doubled.

Snarll will be on a decent wage.

I know Raj isn’t picking the team but yet again approves a manager that is dog shit. As long as he is in charge this club will stagnate… the malaise and bad feeling. Has set in once again.

How many "right" managerial appointments have any Pools Chairmen made over the entire history of our club? I very much doubt Raj chooses the manager and would think that's more in LL job remit, and I can't see Raj appointing LL to oversee the football side and then micro-managing him.
At this moment in time I don't think it's fair to criticise the chairman when he's quite obviously allowed the manager to recruit (many from a higher level) what is our best squad in years. Any and all criticism lies fully at the feet of Sarll. Hopefully he's been told the axe has been sharpened and things have to improve.

There seems to be a repeating pattern with Snarll wherever he goes. He's able to motivate people initially (you, though, haven't even had that bit so far) but ultimately drives them too hard and isn't capable of adapting his philosophy or approach. It's a though he feels that by repeating the same bland platitudes that the team will miraculously regain collective consciousness and do what he said all along. It increasingly becomes, towards the end of his reign at a club, more stick and little carrot. He doesn't 'do' nuance'.

Yes... but others are also responsible for this "dogshit" mate.
Lenny the clubs football consultant for one.
Then there's Raj's mates Pallister and Rust.
And of course board members John Walter Mitty Shithead and Andy Steel.
According to Steel Sarlly “presented a very clear and compelling view of how he wants to build the squad, deliver a positive style of football that statistically supports success in this league, and create a winning mentality and culture.”
Positive style of football?
Statistically supports success?
Winning mentality and culture?
You gullible idiot.
https://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/fo ... es-4610272

Shambles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XgakSxcHPE

It must be bad if Twads is back!

Looks like we are in agreement on the current bloke though

The chickens have come home to roost...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XgakSxcHPE

but at the outset when these managers were first appointed how many said shit, we do not want them at our club.

Most of us felt that Phillips was treat realty badly. He had the best win ratio of the last minibus full of managers and had a nice brand of football which would have got us in the top few at least. His treatment means we sold less season tickets and another 7 or 8 hundred have fallen out of love with the club. Now we must be in a right stage financially with an owner who stubbornly refused to sell the club. This goes to the very top.

he was and doubt anyone saw his sacking coming. it wasn,t as if his replacement was DC Mk.2 no matter how he came over initially in interviews and recruitment. doubt i,d buy a used car from either owner or manager of this club.

I was happy KP got the heave ho, his football was dreadful, are people forgetting that? Darren sarll is not doing as well as I'd hoped, but have we forgot gateshead? Forgotten rochdale, 1-0 up against ten menand trying to defend a goal lead, hey ho 1-1. KPs football was awful, everything that's wrong with modern coaching, tippy tappy pass it sidewards and backwards. Kevin Phillips insisted on playing that waste of space from Derby when everyone could see Louis Stephenson was more deserving.
When I hear people now talking of KP was hard done by, it makes me laugh, he was utter gash. Even south shields supporters told us when we appointed him, I was very happy we got rid.
I'm not glossing over what's happened recently, but please... kevin Phillips.... really??

Whatever the question…KP was never the answer.

but what is the answer. it cannot be that difficult for a pools new manager to be an improvement on the one thats gone. Oh to be a league 2 side again struggling in 17th position and having good runs in the trophy and fa cup again. lee was sacked for giving fans something they,d have taken at the start of the season even with its poor ending after achieving something we just dream about now.

All very well sacking another manager but what good manager, unless he's desperate for work, is going to work for a chairman who is as trigger happy as Singh?
You'll probably end up with another mediocre manager who doesn't care if he gets the chop since he'll be quids in anyway.

Which sacked manager should we have kept?

Yeah, real gash KP was.
Check out his record.
24 January 2024 to 27 April 2024... P16 W7 D5 L4 Win rate 43.8%
And all done with other peoples dross.
Now go compare it with all the other shite we have had managing us in recent years.
Tippy tappy footie?...
Nah... with respect think you are mixing him up with the previous incumbent mate.
The tippy tappy stuff was why KP got brought in ffs ...remember when we were heading down to NLN and no one knew where the next win was coming from?
Maybe you didn't notice all that.
Clearly you obviously know your footie mate... and like a good laugh as well?
The sort who would laugh if their hair was on fire I would guess.

We cant keep managers for the sake of it. This guy is clearly out of his depth, any mediocre manager popping down to manage pools, should be able to get this team playing better. This is just the start of a shit show with this guy, nothing to say we cant be relegated if he stays its been that bad.

Totally wrong ! He had the best win ratio of all the recent managers.

If we lose tomorrow I think LL will be in the dug out as assistant to Fev as caretaker player manager initially.
Can't understand why he can't see the potential and strengths and weaknesses of a squad when we all can.

When you start off afraid of failure, You fail.

I don't think it's fear with Sarll I think he genuinely believes in his system. For me I don't have any problem with a player launching it when he's under pressure in our half but when they're doing it when they've got time and particularly the midfielders they should be playing g football. Fev picked out and played some wonderful passes on Saturday, I can't remember Sherron playing a memorable pass all season. He's getting onto the ball in the centre of the pitch and just hoofing it forward regardless of men around him, runners, or space. Hunter is the same, and he's trying to get Mancini to play like a headless chicken too.

Out of his depth?
Yep... he is in the deep end and cant swim.
And having Auld Len in the dugout with him just stinks of a last throw of the dice for me... and it's been forced on him by others one way or another.
No way has Sarlly asked for his help.
That fossil ain't in there to try and calm Sarll and his thug mate now is he?
Prevent them from "sneezing" and "blowing their noses" and winding up the match officials so much that we get f/k all given our way?
No... he's in there because others are finally smelling the coffee.
This bloke is a David Brent type who you get in the game because of the way it works especially at the lower levels.
Have the right mates to give you jobs as academy or assistant coaches, and then B/S your way at management recruitment interviews with naive well meaning club owners.
Sarlly has to go.. as soon as.

Don't let him disgrace our club and our town too.
https://www.thecomet.net/news/22388370. ... miliation/
"So if you have a softness to your defence in one box, where every time the ball gets played into the box you allow an opponent to get a shot on goal, what do you think ends up happening? We end up conceding lots of goals."

And once it starts to unravel, and he really really begins to struggle, the proverbial shit will no doubt hit the fan big time.
Patience is most certainly not a virtue with this character.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67404448

I like a bit of Fact. Some dont.
KP is a better manager than this current crank.

Just ask our better players from last season who were mint MannyD Grey.
Finished the season on fire and all ready to smash this shitty division up this season.

Only one person put the block on that.
Yeah the crank who unbelievably is still burgling a wage from Pools.

Sarlly scores a 10 on my crankometer that I got on ebay.
Fact.
Believe me this crank will either drop or sub Mani D tomorrow night.
Reason?
Offensive unit not working hard/aggressive enough, out of form, not closing people down, or meeting crank management back of the net expectations.
"Fortunately we have a big squad so we can do that."
Is that right?
Cranktastic Darren.
And while you're on.... maybe have a look at your decision to run the season and your big squad with only one out of form left back whose legs are shot /gone/goosed.
He cant play tomorrow night by the way
Thanks in advance.

He must have got early release with the first wave last week.

Do you do an English language version…?
Thanking you in anticipation.