Good post and agree on those 3 being the poorest.

We looked like a team that is carrying a lot of knocks and had a virus doing the rounds during the week. A week off will do them good but Bury will be tough.

Agree with comments on Harewood he can't possibly be in the squad next week. Such a bad player. There isn't one single positive he offers to the team.

....his fist pumping and cheerleading is Premier League quality......


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I hope we never see Harewood in a Pools shirt again after today, as first half Harewood and Morgan was one of the most toothless partnerships ive seen us have in a number of years. I thought Stevenage looked a strong team, one of the best we've played this season, just hope Fenwick is fit to start next week and that Moore can get a pacey striker (similar to Bingham) in alongside him.

Very impressed with Stevenage today, the lads playing up front for them were a real handful and the most obvious difference between the 2 teams.
Woods was our only player going forward who looked like he could produce anything, unfortunately the forwards he was knocking balls into were embarrassingly way off his wavelength.

Stevenage were average: we were awful.

The way the team was set up and some of the selections were baffling.

Harrison, Woods and Mirfin earned their pay. Austin, please eff off....

Got to say Stevenage were a lot better all round team than us, but Austin,Franks,Compton and Harewood should all be dropped next week at Bury.
Austin has been our weak link at the back all season.
Franks and Compton just haven't the balls for a fight and Harewood takes longer to turn than my chuffing bus.
Morgan is getting fitter by the week and should come into games more, Mirfin looks better by the game as well.
We were never going to win all our home games but hopefully we will make a better fight of it.


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Are you saying Harrison and mirfin had ok games? Thought they where both well below average.

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Yes, which is why I wrote it.

And, outside of the first twenty minutes, Compton was poor.

We had two telegraph poles stuck up front.

Austin! Give me a break....

Woods - great

Fenwick - why didn't Ronnie play him from the start? O K , he couldn't do a full game , but let's get ahead...

Harrison was all over the place because Austin and Duckworth were awful.

Ok, we can disagree.

I simply can't see how anyone could compare Austin's performance to anything remotely positive.

Duckworth looks like he is being asked to play in a way that he's not comfortable.

Harrison worked hard against two good forwards, with no protection.

Ok, we saw different games...

First game I've been to for a good long while for various reasons, can honestly say that not one Pools player came out of it with any credit, a truly dismal performance by a bunch of players who either can't be bothered because they are coming to the arse end of their careers (and let's face it that could be most of them) or are simply wage thieves seeing how long they can get away with it before they find their true level in some Sunday morning league. Only glad I didn't have to pay to watch it.

If any of you have got the cash to spare get on the 1/12 that we are relegated, 8% interest for a risk free three month investment is pretty good.

According to BBC website Pools had 5 shots and only 2 on target. Doesn't suggest players or management are busting a gut to get a win.

Duckworth is being asked to play defensively, he should be comfortable with that considering he's a right back. That first goal was laughable. We were beat after the first goal.
Fenwick gets goals I'll give him that. A goals a goal after all, but the lad did nothing bar that, I notice more and more he doesn't run for the ball at all. We need a striker who is good in the air!
It was a total flat performance.

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Yes, which is why I wrote it.

And, outside of the first twenty minutes, Compton was poor.

We had two telegraph poles stuck up front.

Austin! Give me a break....

Woods - great

Fenwick - why didn't Ronnie play him from the start? O K , he couldn't do a full game , but let's get ahead...[/quote]

Tbh, very few had decent games. I would have given MOTM to fenwick.

The whole back 4 where poor today. How you can say that the two centre backs had good games when we conceded three goals and lets not forget should have been 3 or 4 down by half time had it not been for some poor finishing is beyond me pal. You have chosen in a later post to criticise compton as well. The lad was hardly amazing today but there where far worse players, such as his colleague on the opposite wing.

How can you say Fenwick doesn't run for the ball? His 45 minutes resulted in a goal from him. I believe it was the Plymouth game where I think he literally ran himself into the ground for the full game.

He was also in the town end/Cyril knowledge corner in the 90th minute trying to win the ball 20 yards from his own keeper. He put in more work than most others today

Some people on here don't have a clue that's why

Fenwick should have also scored near the end. He takes up decent positions and comes alive in the box. The best Pools player was Woods but Fenwick did ok. As for him not running

I also thought Morgan had an ok second half. I never though I would say it but I think we look a better team with Bates...

First 20-30mins we were well in the game. Franks had their left back in his pocket, left him standing on numerous occasions and we looked well up for it. We were the better side.

They then came into it and took charge for the rest of the game. They were first to loose balls and that Kennedy lad up front was a pain in the arse all day.

Morgan continues to look a bit crap to me...he appears to have the touch of an elephant and that's when he's first to the ball which is rare. So easily brushed aside by his marker. At least Marlon can hold the ball up occasionally (he wasn't great today though).

Don't think Mirfin properly recovered after the bang to the nose...seemed much less assured than he was at Portsmouth, but I still think he's decent.

Harrison seemed to get a bit bullied today although the ref didn't help. He was being pulled all over the place on several occasions and when he retaliated the ref gave the free kick to them. Wasn't his usual self though.

Fair play to Stevenage, once they started playing they looked much stronger than us and just better - it said it all for me when they were camped in our half despite being 3-1 up, I'd have expected them to sit back and give us a fookin' chance.

Plenty of timewasting and FUCKING DRINK BREAKS?!?! what the fuck was that all about? Can't stand Graham Westley, what a twat he is. I used to know the missus of a lad who played under Westley when he had his first stint in charge at Stevenage and it sounds like he was a right cock with some of the shite he spouted.

On a positive though, we were 6pts off safety prior to kick off today, it's now 7 and with our piss poor goal difference we were always going to need a 3 game swing in our favour so it's almost as you were (granted we need 3 wins instead of 2 wins and a draw with one fewer game....just trying to be positive)....and it was never going to be the case that we'd go unbeaten the rest of the season, it just means we have to win one of those games that we'd expect to draw/lose.

Exactly my point. I think he's a fantastic find from the lower leagues. He will have a pretty good league football career I imagine. Seems a natural goalscorer. Could probably rely on him to bag between 15 and 20 goals a season. And to think he's probably still learning a lot about playing at this higher level too he can only get better.

Unfortunately, for whatever reason far too many players were way off the pace today, there were battles to be won and tbh many of them simply bottled out. The entire back four need to take a long hard look at themselves - OK we all know that Austin is several years past his sell-by date but Duckworth needs a severe kick up the backside for his risible efforts today and both Harrison and Mirfin were found to be lacking when it really mattered. The least said about our 'strikers' first half performance the better but both could and maybe should have been hooked at h/t. If we are to have ANY realistic chance of staying up then we need to have this group of player advised sent accordingly.

I don't think we can complain too much about time wasting I think someone should of told flinders we were getting beat a complete lack of urgency at 1-0 and 3-1 down

Lol.

The fact is Stevenage were a decent side. How anyone can say they were average or poor is beyond me . way too strong for us and our defence couldn't handle them. They pushed forward in numbers too. Possibly the best side I've seen at the Vic this season. It was men against boys.

Fenwick did more in 45 minutes than 2 or 3 of them have done in half a season

I made it up for the game....still haven't seen Pools win this season! I was thinking of going to Bury on Saturday but we're bound to lose if I go!

Pretty poor game I thought. And yes, Walton is a cock.