The Poolie Bunker

I understand what you’re saying. It makes sense to delegate when you’re not an expert. But at the end of the day he’s bought a football club, and as the owner of the club he is ultimately responsible for the success or lack thereof. You can’t just absolve him of any blame. If this carries on in typical Pools fashion and we go on sacking managers every year and bringing in new consultants or directors of football each summer and they fail are we going to blame the consultants or the guy who hires them?

The owner 100% but I just think it’s too early to blame him personally, like you say if we get rid of the manager and staff and consultants and then next season is a shitshow aswell with the same mistakes it’ll be on the owner as much as anyone else, just for now I can’t really say Landon has gone about it in the wrong way, more hired the wrong people imo.

I watched the game from Belfast on DAZN and here is my thoughts for what they are worth;

Halifax looked like just another very poor but physical side. They didn't have one classy looking player, neither did we!!!

Pools midfield looked like they were all trying to get on the ball but in the same spaces and all running around without any of them getting their heads up and taking any kind of control.

Pools defence and goalkeeper looked solid enough for the most part, the error for the goal aside they look like they won't concede many.

I haven't seen much of pools lately with living away but it seems to me that the midfield is just too light weight and slow.

There was optimism with a couple of the fullbacks and wide players but there doesn't seem to be any confidence.

Clark was static on the touchline and it doesn't seem like there was any kind of plan tactically.

Borehamwood are now already too far ahead for us to challenge them for a top spot so i think it will be mid table or trying to get into the playoffs.

How come Hornchurch seem to have a great coach yet we continue to select has been coaches?

Apologies, but it was a hard watch and I feel for the brilliant 650 Poolies who travelled down on a Tuesday, total attendance was only about 1700 I think. Halifax ground looks and sounds soul less.

PTID, UPT

Clark said in his post match interview on X the budget has been spent, no more money in the pot, we are stuck with the players we currently have.

If true, then what must be changed is the first team coach. As many on here are already aware, Clark has done nothing whatsoever in managemen. I think most of us were seduced by the number of 'quality' signings and didn't really question the appointment of Clark. The club is paying the price of not employing a proven manager at this level - again. Current form is the stuff of relegation - please, please wake up and smell the coffee Landon before the rot truly sets in.

I don’t want to be at a club where the chairman picks the players…that’s why you hire a manager who supposedly knows the business…I do not blame the chairman…my gripe would be with the so called experts who advise the club on appointments…….it’s their job supposedly.
The teams weakest link by a country mile is in midfield and for a third year remains in place ..that’s our problem …end off.
The Chairman is being let down like the rest of us ….except it’s cost him money to be underwhelmed.

Proper dreadful evening that. Fans terrific again but just such a terrible and disjoined Pools performance.

I don’t think Nolan looks fit and for all the bluster around Harris I don’t think he’s getting anywhere near the service he requires to score goals at the level. Proper ugly hartlepool team though, no class or guile, just a bunch of pricks running about the field. Despite any word on budget I’m afraid this is yet another bad Pools team and it’s just so disappointing to see. Creating square root of fuck all all night and was desperate from start to to finish.

There’s no true connection between the fans and players and you knew it was gonna get nasty at full time and so it did, Miley being pulled back from starting on a few of the fans.

I think we’ll win on Saturday but I think it means nothing. My observations of the first 4 matches is this is another shite Hartlepool United side to add to the history books.

I’m normally of the see where we are after 10 games as an indicator of how the season’s likely to go but as seemingly everyone else I’m deeply concerned at this early stage.

Sounds like Miley had more fight in him after the final whistle

Must be trying to make it in football of his brothers name.

He's pure shit.

kept looking across at the bench and expecting to see feathers stood there. it was like going back in time to an age that has never ended. at least we won there last season. if he has told them to run about well they are not listening as every halifax player looked sharper and usually won all the 50/50 challengers. he,ll be saying how much the players are hurting. not as much as me and the third of the crowd who had to pay to watch that shite. just because they were blue there is no reason to pass to them.

you could always say that he was seduced about two players who had good seasons at other clubs but overall have a mixed record. then the third who looks as if we,ll never going to get 90 minutes from him. so average that they made a headless chicken look better. i never got all happy clappy with them and thought our squad was only slightly better than last season. know its still early but surely being slightly better should mean 7th position. next 7 games we need 15 points to get back on track. at the moment it seems an imposibility.

that must have been the highlight of the game. i,d have been a few miles down the road by then. what and how did it all kick off. its not as if he was the worst poolie on the pitch and no matter how poor fans thought he did play at least he was involved. some were quire annonymous and in an all green kit you,d not have noticed them.

Words exchanged in the final few minutes of the game. Miley then came over to clap the fans at the end and got a boat load more feedback to which he didn’t take kindly to.

Interestingly Clark was straight down the tunnel, McNally also very sheepish, whilst Hugill tried to be the senior pro and sucked it all up as the Pools fans booed and gave a rather hostile response to the end of the game.

It was bad though. Like really bad performance and yet again undeserving for what was a great following and noise. At this stage I’m getting to the point that I think we will be shite forever. Nothing can save us. We are just very bad at football and generally always have been as long as I’ve watched us.

and clark will still be up our arses saying how good fans we are. just why do fans bother to stay after a performance like that. i was glad to get out of the place like i have at the shay numerous times since the 54/5 season. the place will go down in history as the first away game i saw pools loose and the rest is history. why didn,t i learn. if people feel they need to stay then turning your backs on the players and saying nothing might work better.

I think the reason Landon has been thrown into the the mix is simply because, at the end of the day, he is realistically the only person that can do something to sort the problem.
Whether he was right to put his faith in consultants is a matter for debate but in the here and now I think he has to get all concerned around a table and thump out the way forward to get the best out of a situation none of us wants. If his business interests were going through a rocky patch I would expect him to be asking questions and holding his staff to account.
If he has given a budget to the recruitment team and insists that the tin is now empty then que sera sera as it were. It is not for me to spend his money or demand that he finds a bit more.
However, if he wants to arrest this slide to stop it turning into an avalanche then he has got to have a good long look at where we are, examine where we are going wrong, question the people whom he has entrusted to do the job and establish exactly were changes, if necessary, are required.
This is not a baptism of fire for the guy but it has the signs of becoming one.
I am sure he is going over all that has happened and will do his utmost to sort it all out.
Somebody has got to and I would like to think he is not the type to just shrug his shoulders and do nothing.

I am pretty sure Landon is a sensible guy and will allow Clark some leeway but the problem is the more the losses mount up, the more the play offs vanish into the distance.

lets face it if any of us had bought pools we would not have employed expert consultants who a few years back would not have been in business. neither would the majority have given the managers job to clark unless we were taken in by his gob. this is the problem we have being owned by someone who does not know pools that well and lives thousands of miles away. he can change things but who will advise him what the changes are. it will be nobody on here for certain and how much money anyway has he put aside for his hobby. as they say it is what it is and we have 2 choices and staying away when you can go to the vic is not really one of them. your money might not be much but it all adds up if others copy you.

but this is happening every bloody season now with no end in sight. appoint and sack. rinse and repeat.

True, but either the results improve and Clark stays or we continue the on field shambles and Clark goes. We only have two choices.

If I was in Landon's position now the first question I would ask myself is, can I trust the current regime of recruitment with any more of my money or am I in danger of throwing good money after bad.
The problems we now face started to emanate months ago when decisions were made on who we could rely on. I think those decisions have progressively got worse in my opinion
There were three glaring areas that needed careful scrutiny.
Who was going to be the club figurehead to compensate Landon's inexperience. My choice was Russ green. Landon's choice was Bromby.
The manager. My choice, a person with knowledge and experience of this league. Bromby's/Landon's choice, Clark.
Composition of the squad. My choice. Best possible engine room, i.e. Midfield. Known goalscorers. Recruitment's choice. Known goalscorers. No significant strengthening of midfield.

Most people on here agree as it is or was glaringly obvious, especially the midfield.

Which is why I would need a lot of convincing to give the recruitment team another shot at it.

The best piece of recruitment was loaning the Goalie. I suggest we take the same path and loan some decent midfielders, at least two. Someone in the Dan Kemp mould would be a good start.