The Poolie Bunker

According to X

Maxim Kouogun

Happy with that, a good signing.

Centre Half released by Scunthorpe. On X but yet to be announced might just be more BS.

Standard NL fayre. Toss of a coin.

Wasn't released by Scunny, he turned down a new contract offer there.

6ft 3 , 28 and supposedly fast, hopefully a good signing and will compliment Parkes, do wonder if we trying to get shot of Hunter

2nd NLN singing albeit from full time teams

Yeah a mate of mine supports Scunny. Says their backline was very solid last year. The gamble is if he can do it for us a division higher. Our record for plucking players from the divisions below isn't good at all.

On the Official Site so its true.

You do realise that the Twitter account is run by the club don’t you? Anything announced on there is an official announcement.

Because they’re normally from teams like Consett etc.

Now has 3 central defenders so could play 3 at the back with wig backs. Good to be getting in big defenders as Pools always seem to have a small side. Next a bid target man.

Posted this ages ago, And he was not released he turned down their offer to sign for us.

If people think these are our normal fayre type players, then think again, And SG give credit where its due.
Imo decent solid sigins so far.

The initial post did not state it was the Official Club X Account. Just said it was "According to X." So could have been anyone posting any random X account claiming to have inside knowlege. Hope this helps.

You said yet to be announced, but it had already been announced, on X, by the club.

Smallwood, Wishfull thinking or what?

He'll get credit if when we see him play he's any good---I doubt most of us had heard of him until a couple of weeks ago--he seems to be a good profile but lets see how he does

Sorry only post the truth not a 'billy bullshitter' and it was HUFC official who posted it

Why think again? We've had players with higher profiles than this turn out to be shite. We are rubbish at recruitment. What is it that says we are suddenly a lot better?

Yes, I didnt check The HUFC Official X site. I hardly ever go on Twitter (or x as it is now known). I presumed it was a rumour because I didnt check the official X Site but when I read the News section of the Official HUFC website I knew it was not a rumour. What do you want me to say? You have scored a point, well done. I hope it brings a little bit of sunshine into your life.

I suppose one cant discount the possibilty that Grayson has contacts in the game and has had a say in the recruitment. Until the season get under way we wont know how good or gash the recruitment has been, and granted; it has not been beyond criticism in the past.

you could make arguments for or against most of the signings so far...typically fans are over optimistic before the season starts (its how we survive) but we have had that drummed out of us with the last 3 years of shite so not surprising when there is a glass half empty approach.

My view so far is we are way short of a playoff side, and our recruitment so far needs to all be very good/get lucky with injuries in order not to have a very poor season----Time will tell.

Lots of people saying this is a great signing. I don’t know how they know this unless they somehow watched lots of Scunny games last season. He was in the league below and previously played for York when they were crap and some Irish teams. Some were buzzing about the other centre back we signed too who was also from the league below.
Still time to get some proper quality in though. I’m hoping Grayson has some good contacts and can get 2 very good loans in from them. Need another exciting winger, a striker and a creative number 10 type player. These would make a huge difference.

Looking at the National League North final table for last season and with our two new central defenders paying virtually all the games Scunthorpe conceded 30 goals and Kidderminster 37. Now we need a decent keeper playing behind them.

When we Gunna replace Molyneux Sterry Hollohan like for like.

These are proper promotion material.

Reserve judgement early October.
That's more than enough time to gage assessment.

Ya can't get fairer than that.

Most of the signings are getting 2 yearers like Larry.

Anyone got any factual reasons why?

Genuine like no Bunker bullshit.

Expecting a variation of reply like

Well done kid.

Did Shelley broker the deal?
, Who's the next Deffo signing.

Back n Front gardens in Hartlepool Gunna get some serious beer can respect today.

Roll on 12:30pm first orders.

Got to remember that Holohan came from Waterford, Sterry from South Shields, Molyneux was released by Sunderland having played U23 football for them. None of them world beaters by any stretch of the imagination at the time we signed them but they came good for us, similarly Mani D.
How many of the new signings will come good for us, if any, is anyone's guess.
One thing for sure is that mass clearing out and signing 10 or more new players every season is not working, could be the reason for the 2 year deals? Or maybe players won't come here for a 12 month contract?
We seem to be building a squad where a lot of them were well regarded at their previous clubs but the big question is can we get the best out of them? Recent history shows that we turn what look to be good players on arrival into poor players for us generally. Can we turn that around with the new manager?

You keep forgetting that the list of failures dwarfs that. You keep forgetting that DCs magic touch was a once in a lifetime opportunity. Another one that was blown.

Not forgetting anything, I've said we have history of turning what should be good players into poor players. And I'm saying that needs to be turned around.
Campbell for example was very highly regarded at a club that got promoted from div 2 but for us he looks ordinary at best.
If we all believe that DCs magic touch was a once in a lifetime opportunity we may as well just give up. And by the way we've had equally good managers, Turner, Cooper, Knowles, Wilson, Murray, to name a few.

Good Managers under good Owners.

Or even good managers despite who the owners were? Was that the case with DC as we were under the same ownership as now!
Don't think anyone gives a thought about the owners when their team is doing well.

Ya can't just wipe it under the carpet about Radgys other 19 odd managers Pools n Darlo.

King David blew the failure script up major style. And now reaping the rewards.

Not sweeping anything under the carpet.
Very much doubt anybody has had a failure script at any time though, why would you want to fail when ultimately it'll cost you money?
We've never been the basket case that was Darlo - yet!!
Understanding why players and managers come here with decent reputations and fail needs to be understood and addressed though.
Raj will leave at some point and maybe that'll be the silver bullet, maybe not?
Is it the club culture that's holding us back, or is it a dressing room / training ground issue / something else....?
Here we are again signing players that look decent on paper, will they click on grass?

All our new signings are crap or they're all good. The truth will probably lie somewhere in between. I'm happy to wait till the season starts to make up my own mind on each one of them.

You ARE sweeping things under the carpet. Its what you do, relentlessly , and no amount of us being shit deters you. You must copy all these excuses on the clipboard on your device and just psste them on here to save you time.

need to get lucky sometime by recruiting average profile types of player into a team and not loads of individuals on the pitch that hardly ever click as a team. that was oldhams problem last season but eventually they clicked when it really mattered. then barnet were hardly worldbeaters either, so reaching the play offs is hardly an impossible task in this league if you get the right players in where a decent manager can get the best out of them. question is can this happen to pools.

that is the case every season but for a reason we all know they seem to be getting written off a bit by some this year expecting the worst to happen.

I'm still not sweeping anything under the carpet, but I am asking what I believe to be valid questions and what I believe to be reasonable comments.
This is a forum where discussion and debate are usually encouraged, not flat statements intended to suppress expression of opinion.

its never easy nowadays for anybody who does not support the party line on a topic whether its pools or anything general.

We all eventually get our answers on the green grass.

Results answer all our views predictions topics themes bullshit etc.

SG will have a intense say in who signs imo

Anutha Einstein moment

Ras-putin
Get it right.

Dry them.

Usual mature response, stop embarrassing yourself.

Stop 'straw manning' then. Nobody is pressing to shut you up. Indeed it is an energetic discourse. You can continue clap trapping all you like it's entertaining in a desperate, straw clutching kind of way. Don't like the responses? Scroll on by.

You're not pressing to shut me up as long as what I say meets your approval then?
I do scroll on by if I don't have an interest in the topic, if I do I'll give an opinion. I think that's fair enough on a forum don't you?
Do you actually proof read your posts for contradictions btw?

Ah the old straw man again. Before you make any kind of claims like this, make sure you can track back and find examples of me saying it. To save you time I can tell you that you won't. If I ever did say owt like that let me reassure you, it'll be very very clear and I'll even double check it for grammar.

Until then, please crack on with your sweep under the carpet excuse making and I'll keep calling it out.

Where's the excuses, where's the sweeping under the carpet then?