John Hughes Named Hartlepool Boss

agree sallyjord, we have become a joke club, they took time to get the right man, we all know that is utter crap. they took him on because brown said no to barron as number 2. the club had a chance to show fans, they mean business and take the club to the next level, instead we end up with nothing changes and barron still at the club with humps as coach as well...were a joke, oh and Russ were not excited

The irresponsible decisions that Ken Hodcroft has taken today could well signal the death knell for OUR club as we know it. Its no skin off his nose of course, he can simply walk away and revert to jumping back onto the sickening barcodes bandwagon when things finally go t*its up at Pools. In point of fact, surely there is something at the very least immoral about being in control of one professional football club whilst unashamedly and publicly following another?

All good comments guys..... On a positive note , lets give Yogi a chance to strutt his stuff..(if allowed) He may well be what we have needed..!!

Agree nothing we can do now, got to get on with it, but ill put a bet now that we are going down the same road this time next season...nothing has changed, and were going down the same road...I hear fans saying he's a hard man etc, but cooper kicked more arse then any one and it still didnt work..oh have a look on Livingston, there sad to see him go, and say his style is lump it, get on well with Barron then, lol...well we just after see what happens, but of we lose Saturday at least Hughes has plenty time to palm for next season

Agree, we can't change what's done and I seriously hope Hughes proves me wrong. I'm sure he's not a bad manager but you could put Mourinho into the current situation - clueless backroom team that's not of his choosing, demotivated squad that already seems resigned to being back in the basement division and a chairman who seems totally oblivious to the fact that his "mind the pennies" method of running the club, while it's served us well in the past, is now doing the club far more harm than good - and he'd struggle to keep us in this division. That's what I'm so angry about - if Ken had just agreed to let Brown bring in his own coaching team then we could've at least had a clean break from the past. It might've worked or it might not but surely if things aren't working then you change them, not just put one new bloke in at the top and hope for the best while keeping the same bunch of muppets in the background who the players wanted to play so much for that they shipped six goals against a mid-table division 4 side. Like I say, I wish Hughes all the best but I think we've passed up on the opportunity to make the changes that would've given us a fighting chance of staying up - it feels like everyone at the club has resigned themselves to relegation already and it's bloody depressing frankly.