Can't see game being played for some reason but if on the off-chance it does go ahead.
2/0 pools Armstrong and Oates.

Another earlier 7pm kickoff. I hope the traffic from upstairs to downstairs here at home is okay.

I'll go for a 1-1 with Oates scoring.

Postponed at 18:59

We are due to win an away game so I predict we will lose.

Please don't let it be fogged off.

The rhubarb triangle is close?

FC Halifax Town V Hartlepool United Postponed.

We win 3 2.

streaming log in anyone ?

1-0 Shelton

I did go for the streaming. That was a disappointment, as was the result. A good start to the match with Shelton getting us underway. It really was a tough watch after that. Halifax were more effective than I expected, so credit to them. Despite League position, Pools were not able to dominate them and they always kept an element of threat. When they hit the post in the first half we were shown a bit of luck. My stream went off just after half time and it restarted with the commentator talking about the great save from Armstrong! There was an element of inevitable about their equaliser as we could not get a second.. sure enough. The sending off for them was another that came too late to allow us any benefit. Only just outside the box.. but definitely outside. Disappointing that Sutton got the late winner to put some daylight between us and them. Hopefully we'll get a (surprise) win at Torquay on Saturday but against them, would take a point.

I had a horrible thought about the play offs.. Wembley is in use in June for England hosting the Euros.. matches on 13th, 18th, 22nd, 26th and then into July. We're going to be robbed of a day out...

They were definitely the better team in the second half, the goal didn't surprise me, thought it was a needless foul from Liddle.

Also, it's clear that Holohan needs time out of the team, very wasteful in good counter attacking positions and missed a good chance after their goal.

Dave Challinor was pulling no punches in his post-match interview https://www.hartlepoolunited.co.uk/latest-videos/

As he says, winning 1-0 when you've had the majority of chances is adequate in the sense that it's another 3 points, drawing is no good when you're challenging for top spot. Sutton rubbed that in by winning at home after twice being behind. Halifax have some good attacking players - Jamie Allen had Ferguson on toast for big parts of the game and their goal was the fifth they've scored against Pools this season. Their goal when it came was no surprise - though even the Halifax commentators were surprised that the foul by Liddle was given.

Pools scoring a goal a game isn't going to cut it. Holohan is in the side as an attacking midfielder but for weeks now his final ball has been poor and he's been blazing chances over the bar that he'd have put away last season.

Judged by the standard that Pools are not settling for a play off place, squad depth is still an issue. Luke Williams is the natural replacement for Holohan but has disappeared from view again - what's going on there? Bloomfield did nothing when he came on to suggest he should be getting a start - Luke Grey looks a better option, either as an impact sub or a starter instead of Oates. There's a hell of a lot riding on Armstrong not getting injured!

Challinor made it clear in his interview that he'd like to get another defender in - he says he wants to carry on playing 5 at the back but can't do it at the weekend if Sterry and Johnson are both injured. That's tough on Aaron Cunningham but Challinor obviously thinks that going from the bottom of the NLN to the top 3 in the NL is a step too far for him.

[quote="trevwoody"]I did go for the streaming. That was a disappointment, as was the result. A good start to the match with Shelton getting us underway. It really was a tough watch after that. Halifax were more effective than I expected, so credit to them. Despite League position, Pools were not able to dominate them and they always kept an element of threat. When they hit the post in the first half we were shown a bit of luck. My stream went off just after half time and it restarted with the commentator talking about the great save from Armstrong! There was an element of inevitable about their equaliser as we could not get a second.. sure enough. The sending off for them was another that came too late to allow us any benefit. Only just outside the box.. but definitely outside. Disappointing that Sutton got the late winner to put some daylight between us and them. Hopefully we'll get a (surprise) win at Torquay on Saturday but against them, would take a point.

same happened to me with the stream and found the camera work abysmal. at times it was further behind play than i am nowadays on a sunday morning. overall a fair result due to our recent inability to score a second goal in games. a win is needed on saturday if pools have any chance of automatic promotion.

think he is in a similar situation as shelton was earlier in the season. nothing is going right and has lost his scoring threat. a couple of weeks out may help in to re charge his battery and get his form back. for me he has gone from being one of the first names on the team sheet to the first one i,d drop. thought featherstone looked a bit rusty and off pace last night also.

Aaron Cunnigham is out for the season with injury.

We do seem a couple of absentees away from a problem. Imagine if Armstrong pulls something as he's playing virtually every minute of every game at the moment - and has had injuries in the past. Harsh on Bloomfield to say he did nothing too, he played Crawford in for a guilt-edge chance last night with the time he had on the pitch.

Challinor was bemoaning that final ball & i'd say Holohan was most guilty of those moments where a better pass would have seen us in. White/Williams/Crawford likely to come in?

One thing i've noticed this season - and maybe this is because I'm watching a lot more conference football than normal as it is all streamed - there is very little between teams top to bottom & in large periods the standard is quite poor. Opposition fan response to us as a team in general has been that they think we are very ordinary, yet we are 3rd top & taken points off a lot of 'decent' teams in the league. I thought Wrexham were rank bad when we played them, they went on to smash someone by a few goals.

Sutton, Stockport (feel they will really kick on now), Chesterfield - teams at the moment for me that should be feared in the division. The rest, who knows.

Yeovil have turned their season around too - only 5 points behind Stockport in 4th and surges from the bottom end of the table to the top are not unknown in this league.

I'd missed that Aaron Cunningham was out for the season - got to feel for the lad, he's had so may injury problems at a young age.

[quote="thebigdog"]

Challinor was bemoaning that final ball & i'd say Holohan was most guilty of those moments where a better pass would have seen us in. White/Williams/Crawford likely to come in?

thing is that none of these 3 are likely to make a difference. thats challinors problem. the team more or less still picks itself. that was my reason for starting the thread about NLN and NLS players the other week. the team is still playing better than most expected months ago and thats will holoham and molyneux both having quiet seasons where more was expected of em.

The Luke Williams saga is getting more and more shrouded in mystery. One minute he's on the bench and the next he is nowhere to be seen.
I'm of the opinion that the cotton wool approach isn't working and now think we should grasp the bull by the horns and throw him in on a make or break basis.
Keeping Armstrong fit is paramount to our chances of any joy this season. If we are going for further recruitment I think another striker needs to be on the list, someone in midfield who can spot a pass and a big no nonsense defender would be where I would concentrate, obviously aware of the possibility of no funding but I am hopeful that DC's hints at maybe bringing people in means that it is a distinct possibility.
Here's hoping.

on top of that a left sided midfielder who could slot in at left back if needed. last night was a rareaty anyway with pools attacking more down the left than the right.

[quote="Flying Hogans"]Dave Challinor was pulling no punches in his post-match interview https://www.hartlepoolunited.co.uk/latest-videos/

only watched
it yesterday tea time. usually agree with challinor but thought he was over critical in this interview. any point at halifax is regarded by me as a good point. same if we draw at stockport. both places have hardly been happy hunting grounds for pools over the years and i have rarely gone home happy after games there.

Those two grounds have always been difficult to win on. These anomalies turn up all over football for no apparent reason. All fans talk about their respective bogey teams or grounds, maybe we should never mention it. Strange.

Our record at Halifax is pretty decent think we won something like 4 of the last in the football league at there place. Think we need to stop with the excuses, if we want to win any league we really need to be going to some of these places and winning. We are still 2 or 3 good players from being a really decent team and are still pretty powderpuff up front, if Armstrong gets injured were stuffed.

Four of the least six meant to say we had won there

[quote="billinghampoolie1908" We are still 2 or 3 good players from being a really decent team and are still pretty powderpuff up front, if Armstrong gets injured were stuffed.[/quote]
certainly powderpuff in the ability to give the ball a real whack. just cannot see anyone with the ability to score the type of goal that lad did at the vic a few weeks ago from 25 yards or so. this lack of ability really shows in what we have to do with free kicks where some clubs have someone who has a crack at goal and bulges the net.