What's going on Oyston?....

So, we're nearly at the end of the transfer window and not only have we not signed anyone, but we also don't have a manager. Why am I not surprised? Easy, it's because we have Karl Oyston as our chairman who seems to think the football world moves at his pace. This guy started out as a farmer before succeeding his mother as chairman. So you would think a farmer would know something about groundwork, alas not this one. Unfortunately our pitch has been likened to a ploughed field, so I supposed he must know a bit about ploughing. If I was talking about another a club I would be laughing my socks off, but we're not. You see I have been supporting this club all my life, which is a very long time. So, when I see how he has dragged his feet over so many things related to my club it hurts.

 

There are so many former managers out of work and yet this guy can't decide who he wants. Obviously he wants someone in who won't cost him much and who is capable of being able to work with him (not easy at all). He took on Appleton who proved to be as mercenary as the best of them by doing the dirty on us and supposedly, according to him moving to a bigger club? What Blackburn Rovers, please. Then a clutch of managers most of us had never heard of turned us down one by one. Nigel Adkins was so impressed by Oyston's approach he b******* off on holiday. Nigel would have been a fantastic choice as would Owen Coyle, but as I write this no one is even near taking over.

 

So, my question is....What's going on Oyston? Either pull your finger out, otherwise we'll continue to slide down the league and we'll find ourselves in a relegation battle instead of a promotion push.

Which direction are we going?

I’ve not put pen to paper for a bit now, simply because I am totally confused with what’s been going on down at Bloomfield Rd this season.

Ollie goes after 3+ years, which is understandable. Then the chairman decides to go for Michael Appleton, who frankly managed a Portsmouth side going nowhere. This appointment was such a success he decided to jump ship the first chance he had after only 2 months in charge. Not only that, he decides to go to Venky Rovers, whose managerial appointments are worse than ours. So yet again we find ourselves managerless. Then Oyston decides to approach Phil Parkinson, currently at Bradford, who declines the offer of moving up a division. So next he goes for

Sean O’Driscoll, recently sacked from Nottn.Forest, who also declines the offer and opts for Bristol City instead, who are currently bottom of the championship. Now we hear Oyston has identified Peter Houston (Peter who??) as a possible choice. He is currently in charge of Dundee Utd, but after reading some of the fan websites the majority of fans up there aren’t bothered whether he leaves or not.

 So, how is this all going to end? Your guess is as good as mine. We’re fast becoming the laughing stock in the managerial stakes. Perhaps Oyston’s tight-fisted approach to everything he does has finally been acknowledged.

 Karl Oyston is the original “Marmite Boy”. He’s never going to be a pro-active football club chairman. Most fans distrust what the Oyston’s say because of all the false promises they have spouted over the years. Too many to mention in this small blog, but enough to fester in the minds of the most loyal of Pool fans.

 It’s sad to think that just recently we were experiencing the excitement of the premiership, which so nearly happened again last season. Yet here we are struggling to keep a mid-table championship position, managerless and in danger of possibly slipping closer to the drop zone than a play-off position.

Steve Thompson is again in temporary charge and will pick tomorrow’s cup-replay team to face Fulham. Unfortunately, the FA Cup has lost that special place for me. I would sooner we concentrate on improving our league position rather than having a cup run.

 

Up the mighty Pool, let’s keep the faith.