The Poolie Bunker

Pete O'Rourke reporting we are close to signing midfielder Jack Earing from Barrow.

makes sense as he played under Wild at Halifax, I think he was on loan at Spennymoor before becoming a regular in the Halifax side.
Went to Walsall and I am sure he had almost 12 months out due to an injury but that was few years back.
Hopefully the start of changing our midfield.

Good news if he is an improvement on what we already have. Any detail on him and his capabilities?

Signed for Barrow June 2025 but hasn’t featured according to Wikipedia, still under contract so it’s either a fee or a loan, cruciate injury kept him out for the whole of 2023, he can’t be any worse than we have though.
According to our ‘local’ rag The Mail on FB Pete Wild is aiming to bring three players in before Monday - and hopefully at least one prior to Saturday's trip to Forest Green Rovers - he is looking to strengthen the spine of the Pools team with short-term loan deals for experienced players

And there's the answer to Landon Smith's current attitude to Pools. He's giving Pete Wild the backing he needs to turn things around. Worth a lot more than empty promises via Twitter or the OS.

Earing played 30 times for Walsall in League 2 last season but lost his place at the back end. His career stats are here: https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jack-ea ... aison/2026

Played 30 games for Barrow last season in league 2, 23 starts, with 1 goal and 2 assists. Barrow finished bottom and got relegated.

Not going to pretend I know the first thing about but given he got 2 assists I’m going to say he’s at least better at passing the ball than Hunter and Sheron are.

[quote="Flying Hogans"]And there's the answer to Landon Smith's current attitude to Pools. He's giving Pete Wild the backing he needs to turn things around. Worth a lot more than empty promises via Twitter or the OS.

Earing played 30 times for Walsall in League 2 last season but lost his place at the back end. His career stats are here: https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jack-ea ... aison/2026[/quote.

Before you get carried away Mr H, we are desperate for additions to our midfield and have been for what seems like an age and finally we have signed one. Landon has to approve that but to suggest it is instead of personally communicating with the fans, or is a substitute for it, is getting a bit carried away don't you think.
What if he is a flop, are you going to land that at Landon's doorstep.
As the owner Landon has multiple tasks.
One of those tasks is approving expenditure on players, and another is fufilling his belief in the importance of communicating to the fans.
As an aside........I don't think anybody is stating they prefer empty promises via Twitter or the OS to correcting or at least trying to, correct our deficiency in midfield.
Can you enlighten us as to the empty promises Landon has made on Twitter or the OS.

By the way, Welcome Jack Earing and all the very best of luck in your new venture with us.

Tsk. I didn't say he had. I expect we might hear from him next when Pools have finally turned the corner on this run of horrible results.

I'll let you off.

Two more signings due.

They need to start working.
Hit the ground running.
League table on New Year's Day will be the evidence.

UTP.

Absolutely. I don't think Earing has played in the NL so far season but has been on the bench twice. He might take a few games to get up to speed.

What does TSK stand for?

I think Landon has acted in good faith being new to ownership and bought a pup, he’s returned and took steps to rectify the situation.
A general slagging off by those at the top never works out in any business as that is the territory of the customer (fan).
It’ll take time to get the ship back on course bur miracles overnight are like hens teeth.

just hope he repeats the form he had with halifax that got him a move to the efl with walsall. one of those players you do not forget where his best part was his passing ability. something we definetly need.

I'll use the modern miracle of the internet to answer that:
"Playful teasing: Used lightly among friends to scold or mock someone in a joking way (often paired with emojis like )."

Ain't it amazing how you can get the answer to virtually anything in the time it takes to type the question? Specially now that Google comes with an AI assistant free of charge. It's a gateway drug though. One of these days they'll want to start charging for it.

Yep. Things might look the same as before on the surface but I bet Pete Wild said something along the lines of:
'You can refer to me as head coach rather than manager if you like, but I'm not coming unless I get to pick my own assistant and funds are made available to me (no-one else) to strengthen the team so I can get Pools out of this mess.'

I would love you to be right, Mr H and win your bet but, nevertheless, that is what was needed to be said and it has cheered me up no end. Maybe he told Landon to keep quiet as well, Whaddya think.

I think Landon has returned and told the people who he appointed to run the club for him "this situation is not acceptable, you are responsible for it, get it sorted" They have responded by bringing in the new management team.
The next step is dependent on what that achieves. That is a wait and see and I'm assuming we are all hoping, wishing and praying that it is successful, I certainly am.
Saying any of that in public or having people slagged off has not been requested, not by me anyway. All I have asked for is a breaking of Landon's silence, no more. Rightly or wrongly, I look to him for assurance and to give credence to his belief that communication with the fans is important. Maybe he didn't mean the communication would be coming from he, himself but the impression he gave on his arrival was that it would be. That's how I read it at the time and I now read it as a change of intention and I would like a U turn. Not demanding it, not threatening anything, just a simple request for a bit more assurance. You see I probably won't be around when he writes a true account in his memoirs.

ChatGPT allows you to ask a few questions and post a couple of images then when you have used your allowance up you have to subscribe £19.99 a month of course auto renew hoping you forget to cancel.

TSK to that.

Those AI companies won't be worth trillions on the stock market forever unless they start showing a profit on everything they do. When Google tries something like that I'll just switch AI off. The sources for the info I need are already there on the internet. AI just finds them that bit quicker.

Sam Lavelle (Carlisle) and Will Sutton (Oldham) both linked with moves to Pools.