John Askey

And that was probably mirrored.

It was mirrored when John Askey managed to get us back into the league as well.

So I recognise that there was something there that was a monumental achievement for us to get there and something that we should fight.

to hang on to and try and preserve for as long as we could.

when it wasn't a guarantee that we'd sort of shoot up the table like we did in the end.

And yeah, I think my sort of formative years were probably my favourite memories were made then.

It was the John Askey period that you said where, yeah, it was a sort of four or five seasons, wasn't it? That culminated in a Wembley appearance, didn't it? In the second to last year.

And then finally the title win.

But it does seem to happen to Pools quite a lot.

If you remember when John Askey was with us, He had a hellish injury list at one point, and I'm pretty sure he was quoted at one point as saying, it's the biggest injury crisis I've ever seen at any club that I've ever managed, because it was that bad.

And it does seem to happen with quite a few managers.

If you look at last season, for example, where Reece McNally got an injury after the first month and he was out for, what, four months, five months? And he wasn't back before Christmas because when we did the game against Scunthorpe for the Reds, I think he was back on the pitch training, but he still wasn't ready for the matchday squad yet.

And the gaffer sent me in.

John Askey sent me in.

And I'm saying to the gaffer, don't be fucking scared to send him in as well.

And I remember being sat in the changes and I've got, it was like tiled floor.

think, he brought

a lot of good players together and we had like a good, a good run.

He brought the John Askey from the 18s

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