Jones eager to enjoy the buzz again

Dave Jones admits he has taken a risk by becoming the new Hartlepool United boss.

But the 60-year-old is excited by the challenge.

“I want to get going again. I want the buzz of the changing room again,” said Jones, who starts work at Pools’ Maiden Castle training base today.

“I have been in and around football, but what I haven’t had is being around the changing room, organising and sending a team out. I am a football coach – that is what I want to do. I have missed it.

“When I have been helping others I have been sat in the stands watching rather than in the dugout.

“I have been involved in football a long time, I just thought a different direction would have been better for me. It turns out that is wasn’t.”

Jones feels the mentality around the football club needs to change. He accepts the precarious position Pools have got themselves into (19th in League Two), but sees no reason why the current crop cannot get themselves out of the relegation struggle.

“I want to climb the table and we will see what happens,” he said. “To do that we need to change this small club mentality.

“Can you get up there? Why not? There is nothing better than a win to inject confidence.”

Development coach Sam Collins will take the team for tomorrow’s home clash with Stevenage, as Pools look to avenge a 6-1 away trouncing early in the season.