The Poolie Bunker

Andy Carroll..........OR Danny Johnson..........

If eye rolling burned calories, we would all be skinny as rakes by now, all the daft rumours going round!

Porter or Boyd?

Was reading an article about Andy Carroll, apparently he's quite happy just enjoying his football in France, not doing it for the money. I'm pretty sure he'd have enough about him to do well in this league.

Probably have to be MannyD out before an intage is allowed to happen.

possibly when he can be arsed.

There's always that

Well he's left Bordeaux to move closer to home
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... 0pl3nj5gmo

Cos there might not be enough room in the squad???

Don,t encourage him ffs, I,m bad enough

He has left France, Hence the rumour.
He will probably stay down south.

WHY

No takeover to fund it.

Aye RightO

The Carroll one getting a bit of momentum.

He'd certainly add a few to the gate- with a chunk of the carTOON army turning up to see him, if he did sign

I just cant see it. From the height of the Premiership to a non league joke club with next to no money and zero chance of promotion. If he wants to be in the North, I could imagine him signing for the likes of Carlisle or York, Northern clubs with a realistic chance of promotion but Pools? Nah.

his family by all accounts live in london so he could be looking down there for a club and has many more choices if they were interested.

Oh righto, I had somehow picked up the idea he wants to be in the North. Well if he wants to live in the South he wont be short of options.

May be his GF will have something to say.

Is she a Poolie?

North London it is then.

Boreham Wood i bet!

While we get Bore em stiff.

James Bailey - Kendal Town.
Jack Young - Wycombe Wanderers ( Loan )

These seem far too left field to be made up rumours?
James Bailey - 26 year old striker who’s scored 30+ goals the last 2 seasons at step 9 (4 below us) the last 2 seasons. Confused why we would deem Mazfari not good enough to offer a contract when he was excellent at the same level but would sign him?
Jack Young - a midfielder who’s out of contract so it would be permanent. From Morpeth but was at Wycombe after being released by Newcastle. Was on loan at Dorking Wanderers last season and seemed to do pretty well there judging on fans reactions to him being released by Wycombe.

Another I’ve heard is Reiss McNally, centre back just left Kidderminster.

regarding bailey and mararzi they are two different players playing in different positions and you cannot compare them. doubt any fan has seen either play especially bailey.

Can't be the James Bailey I was looking at then, he's 36 not 26. Hope I've picked the wrong one !

James Bailey played for Weatherfield County.

a 26 year old from 4 leagues below ? Wow !

There's another who played for Yeovil, but had to retire on medical grounds in 2019 so assuming it's that one you found? The one who plays for Kendal is 26.

There are diamonds to be found, You need a lot of trust in your contacts.

This is all very depressing..........

This. It would take a miracle to put together a decent team at this stage. Even if we somehow pulled it off, I personally would struggle to be invested. The fat man has soured it all.

We could have had new owners funding good league level players, but we're going to end up with budget options and a bottom half finish aren't we? Zero ambition for another season, not sure why anyone bothers.

And for what? He's not going to make a profit and he's not wanted, despite what some "poll" says. He talks about time wasters, yet is wasting the time of approximately 4,000 people. There are only so many years we get on this planet. Only so many years we get to support our football club. Yet we're wasting years in obscurity with some fake crumbs of ambition. The glory days of the early 2000s feel like a million years ago.

I don't think its time to panic yet. I think the time to panic is probably tomorrow when a professional football club goes back to training with basically a 5 aside match the best they can do. A junior football team is better prepared than us, embarrassing no matter what excuses some come up with for it.

Similar to the Hartley season, where the happy clappers kept telling everyone we couldn’t possibly claim someone from league 2 in Scotland wouldn’t be an excellent player when the panic signings showed up

Seems like no lessons learned, will be playing with a bunch of trialists most of preseason and a couple of loan kids last minute is my prediction

Won't be re signing Brad Young; gone to Bristol Rovers. Good thing or not ?

Doubt we could have met his demands, We may have tried like.

Looks like loads more Poolies Takeing non league football to their gravestones.

Absolute shambolic run football club.

Will take the Mickey Barron prediction of finishing 5th bottom.

He's the first one.

Them time wasting wannabe owners not depositing the full funds have put the recruitment back.

Are we building a team to just keep us ticking over in this division…?

I'm not that bothered about Brad Young tbh, I preferred Adam smith in goal last season. If we're going for a previous keeper, I'd much rather have Brad James.

Should have been a full stop after team

Not a question mark?

Aye that as well?

Incorrect.
If we are building a team, we have no players of worth to put out a team.

Punctuation was never my strong point, I’m always late for everything

I’ve got an A at O level English and a B at A level English Lit and still up cock.