SHOCKED by his team’s woeful performance on Sunday, Ronnie Moore is out to improve his squad for the weekend.

Hartlepool United, bottom of the League Two table, to go Wycombe, joint top of the division.

After losing woefully to Morecambe, Moore admitted he cannot try and go into the game with the same squad.

“We are desperate for new faces,” Moore admitted, who was in talks with an experienced centre-half yesterday.

“We have made an awful lot of phone calls and now everybody is evaluating the situation at the respective clubs.

“It is a matter of following up phone calls.

“We are looking to get at least three in before Wycombe but we won’t have time to settle them in.

“We have a meeting today with an agent, a centre half with a bit of experience and if we can get that done and dusted that will at least help us a bit in that area.

“I can’t go to war with what I had out there against Morecambe.

“I would have thought some players will be leaving this window too.”

With short-term deals for Nicky Featherstone and Sidney Schmeltz expiring this week and the loan deals for Matteo Lanzoni and Joe Ironside expiring, there’s plenty of scope for changes.

In reality, he won’t be able to sign the dozen players he needs to turn Pools into a competitive outfit, but he won’t stop trying.

“The players need a bit of help and hopefully the players that come in will give them that bit of guidance,” added Moore.

“It is hard to get leaders now though, they are a rare breed.

“We are doing our part to make it right, we just need the 11 that go out to Wycombe to go and get a sweat on and show some desire for the club.

“We have to try and do something about it very quickly.

“We have umpteen names on the board, we have had so many conversations with teams about their players.

“We will keep trying and knocking.”

Midfielder Tommy Miller will visit St George’s Park, the national football centre, for treatment and diagnosis on the calf problem which has kept him out since mid-October.