The Poolie Bunker

..... ..to all Pools Fans

Unfortunately many of us won't receive it as it is emanating via the 'Hartlepool' Mail who have again decided to make ALL of Pools articles accessible via subscription only. This at a time when Pools fans are crying out for news from the Vic so I guess they know precisely what they are doing.

Hopefully Pete's message will be released via the club site or posted on the Bunker otherwise we will never know. I for one would NEVER pay a subscription to ANY newspaper but least of all to the current shower of a local newspaper that was once acclaimed as the very popular Northern Daily Mail, Sentinel, Arthur Pickering et al.

Hartlepool United fans, it is fair to say, are frustrated, angry and fed-up.

With Raj Singh having departed, the new chapter under Landon Smith was supposed to be different and with it came a major summer overhaul and a new-look squad. Yet 15 signings later and with the club already on to its second head coach of the campaign and with Pools battling in the relegation spots, it is fair to say it hasn’t yet worked out.

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New head coach Pete Wild is aiming to turn the ship around, though has called for calm and patience. Pools travel to Forest Green Rovers on Saturday teatime in the National League, with Pools desperate for a win after nine defeats from 12 games.

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Speaking at his pre-match press conference, Wild told BBC Tees Sport: “I'd class myself as a football league manager and I came here because I felt like I could change fortunes. Massive club, sleeping giant. I think there's massive potential in this football club. What's gone, is gone and your opinions on what's happened in the past and your current opinions on the players.

“No player ever played better by being booed and criticised - that's a fact. I appreciate you're frustrated. I appreciate you're annoyed. As I said on Saturday, the product that's being produced at the moment ain't good enough. I'm clear on that. I know that.

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“The product's not good enough but whatever industry you work in, if you go into work and somebody abuses and shouts in your face every day, it doesn't make you better. Help them. Help them get over the line. Push them. Drive them. It's the only way they're going to get better.

“You either change the person or you change the person, our first job is to try and change the person in the building and if that doesn't work, we change the person and we change the personnel.”

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Not sure what the issue you're encountering is Joe?

I use the NewsNow site - either NewsNow Hartlepool United or NewsNow National League.

Don't have any problem reading the articles if I click the 'view with adverts' button

Here's one as an example: https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/sport/ ... ed-9276250

Thanks Hogans, that is precisely what I normally do too but for some reason on this occasion I was blocked - and it has happened previously. Maybe it was a glitch or perhaps they just don't like me (they would not be alone lol. I just tried again and it worked fine.

I think you get 5 free articles then you come up against a pay wall.

There is an excellent interview with Pete Wild on The Official X site. Very honest and clear. I must say I like his style.

Thanks Jamie, that sounds like a feasible explanation. The way to go is to access the official site (which seems to be improving lately, or the Bunker of course. I used to purchase a copy of the Hartlepool Mail every day of the week plus the Foot nothing y Mail on a Saturday. I might have still be buying it if they hadn't gone weekly which to me is pointless containing yesterday's news.
I used to also regularly purchase the Northern Echo until it stopped regularly reporting on Pools and even the Sunday Sun until they reduced Pools coverage to less than about a dozen Tyne & Wear local league teams. I see that they have increased the price of their rag to £3.90 which in iMO is extortionate

Is it possible to put up a link??

https://x.com/Official_HUFC/status/2108 ... 16919?s=20

There you go Mr D. Hope it works OK.

Thanks mate spot on

Wild’s interview with BBC Tees yesterday was very good: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0pfl ... are-mobile

Having finally both heard and read Pete Wild's message to Pools fans I would very much concur with what has been posted here in that he comes across as the most eloquent, knowledgeable and confident manager/first team coach since Dave Challinor. Wild is obviously aware of the task in hand and clearly has a plan as to how to stop the current slide, stabilise the team and start moving forward. His message was forthright and most refreshing, especially in comparison with those who have literally gone before him, predominantly Messrs Hartley, Curle, Sarll, Grayson and Clark who were all at times an embarrassment to the club when facing up to the media. I appreciate that it's early days, but at this moment in time I don't think the club could have made a better appointment, especially given the position it is currently in.

At last a manager who picks his own players instead of them being foisted on them by the Committee.
You can get behind and associate with a manager, not the case with a committee.