The Poolie Bunker

Best of luck to D.Challinor who’s been announced as the new manager of Sheffield Wednesday. Wish it was a different club given our history, but hope he does a good job and continues his ascent up the pyramid.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... d6er2025qo

It's a good platform for him, good luck to the bloke. Hope does well even though I still think the wendies are bunch of wankers.

Given their recent history, could be a poisoned chalice.
Handy for home though.

not too sure about that. chester to sheffield is not a joumey i,d be looking forward to doing a number of times a week. if he goes M62, M1 the distance is not that much shorter than going to hartlepool and driving across the peak district in winter is something i would be thinking about all night before. could go either way for him or anybody with a fanbase that still think they are a premier league club.

Best of luck to Dave in his latest managerial role at the Wendies. Hopefully all will go well but if it doesn't he must be aware that he is always welcome to take on a proper challenge at little old Hartlepool once Pete Wild has safely returned us to League One status.

The journey from Chester to Sheffield is horrendous, especially in winter. Over Woodhead through Tintwhistle is frought with hold ups and the motorway route isn't much better. If I go to Manchester I go by train, especially to the airport cos by road you just aren't sure you're going to get there.
Interestingly it was reported this morning that there is a meeting today to discuss the possibility of building a tunnel from Sheffield to Manchester complete with dual carriageway to alleviate the journey's complications. The tunnel will be 14 miles long and the journey time is estimated to be half an hour.
That is one big task being considered, but it just shows how big of a problem the journey is when they're even considering that venture.
It really is a nightmare. My daughter was posted to Manchester for six months. She travelled Monday to Friday by train from Sheffield and back. Bloody long days.

A lot of that history certainly in the last 10 years was down to their previous owners. Not too familiar with the situation now but I understand they’ve been taken over. Think there’s massive potential there for DC to work with, sizeable fan base with a near 40k capacity stadium. It’s a higher championship/premier league level club really that’s been mismanaged to near death.

I agree but it does make me chuckle when I listen to the fans whinging. They keep asking if I'm ever going to forget Cardiff.........no chance.

Unfortunately we’ve not got the luxury of having an extensive history of promotions and top level football so Pools fans will naturally cling on to what could’ve been a sliding doors moment for us. If the result had been different that day, maybe we wouldn’t be in the predicament we are now, maybe the momentum we were building would’ve kept us going to the point we could at least have solidified ourselves in League One.

Then again, clubs like Southend and Scunthorpe made it up to the second tier and look no better off than we do, so maybe it’s all pointless mental masturbation.

If we had won at Cardiff I wouldn't have expected Pools to survive in the Championship for more than 1 or at the outside 2 seasons, but that didn't bother me.
You only have to climb Everest once for the achievement to live on in the memory forever - for me getting to see Pools play in the Championship would have been the equivalent of that.

Anyhow best of luck to Dave Challinor - and by the way Dave, do you have any nailed on certs at our level to loan to Pete Wild?

His biggest supporter at Stockport Simon Wilson is as good as head man at Sheff Wed. At least he goes in there knowing he will get decent backing and support. All the best to him and hope he manages to get them back into the Championship or even higher. He was the one shining light in years of misery for us poor barstewards.