1 Hartlepool United 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
2 Northampton Town 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
3 Swindon Town 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
4 Leicester City 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
5 Oldham Athletic 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
6 Carlisle United 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3
7 Brighton and Hove Albion 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3
8 Leeds United 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3
9 Leyton Orient 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
10 Southend United 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
11 Huddersfield Town 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
12 Stockport County 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
13 Walsall 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
14 Yeovil Town 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
15 Millwall 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 -1 0
16 Bristol Rovers 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0
17 Crewe Alexandra 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0
18 Hereford United 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 -1 0
19 Scunthorpe United 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0
20 Peterborough United 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 -1 0
21 Cheltenham Town 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 -2 0
22 Colchester United 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 -2 0
23 Tranmere Rovers 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 -2 0
24 Milton Keynes Dons 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 -2 0

Fantastic start - I'm over the moon - Have we ever held the top posistion in this league before...?

No - We have never been top of the third tier of English professional football in our history, to my knowledge.

This day, then, is thereoteically the greatest day in the history of Hartlepool United in terms of greatest possible achievement.

What a great way to start our second century of football.

it is indeed

Not to piss on your chips like but, being 18 minutes away from the Championship in front of 60,000 and a TV audience of some 2 million might just eclipse today.

But yes it's a great start and defence willing, we'll have a great season. I think we'll be up there. I always do.

Don't get me wrong, Spender, Cardiff 05 was a great day, but in terms of highest modern league position for the Club, this is surely the best thing ever achieved at one particular moment in a season by Pools.

THE FIRST TIME HARTLEPOOL UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB HAVE BEEN TOP OF THE THIRD TIER OF ENGLISH PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL IN FIFTY ONE YEARS - now that is omething to crow about !!!!!

If we continue to play well the gates will come, our fans are notoriously fickle

Yes I was predicting over 5000, very poor turnout I thought

Missed an excellent game though

What about the 'Carnival Effect'?

Were a few hundred missing, so that they could go on the Waltzer, and stand and watch the big parade!!

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or maybe the whole team eased off the gas considerably considering we were 4-0 or 4-1 up at the time. The substitutions happened to allow Brown, Porter & Monky a well deserved rest

Is that one 'sad' for each potential Poolie that went to the Headland yesterday afternoon, blimey thats 848 of them, no wonder the crowd was down on expectations.

Yes

I can't believe any right minded adult would want to go and watch that shite over in the land that time forgot

I used to watch it every year, but then again I was living there at the time, and it was almost impossible to get off once the 'celebrations' started.