Needs fining....absolutely brain dead and cost us 3 points--fucking stupid

If we had kept Parkes on or had Waterfall we likely would have got something there--that is down to bad luck

Freeman and Sloggett are plusses, Robinson meanwhile has a lot to learn

Onward we go--in reality we are going to be scrapping for the lower play off places if we are lucky---nothing we dont know but we will do nothing with a defence of Mani O, Sass-Davies and Dixon as keeper

Not Hunters fault entirely. He made a mistake, it happens. We should be able to deal with that. It isnt written anywhere that being a man down means you have to concede three goals. Having a small squad is a gamble because of potential injuries, having a physical style of player, rising suspensions makes it an even bigger gamble.

It's definitely not our 1st choice of defenders but very harsh to signal them out in a game they both give every single ounce of sweat and the first time they have played together in a competive game. I thought they both did extremely well considering it was a bombardment up against 11 players. As for Dixon he did as much as humanly possible again against none stop attacks by 11 players.

Yes they did there best….let me check how many points you get for that

Nothing against either of them but it’s true we really missed Parkes and waterfall and it was back to the bad old days of last season in terms of communication

Dixon again nothing against him but we all know he’s not good enough and Sarll even transfer listed him so how is he still our1st Choice keeper ?

I always stuck up for you because I believed deep down you love Pools. Not sure this season you pick fault at every single opportunity and constantly hammer the team. That is a strange way to act even for a frustrated true supporter. By all means criticise certain games but you started this last January time and you have continued throughout to me thats not normal behaviour for a true supporter. You may totally disagree but I ain't witnessed nothing like that in 50 years of following Pools and mostly through thin and thinner.

Hunter was really poor on Saturday, Sarll said he looked tired so not sure why he started him again. I haven't been impressed with him, I actually think Featherstone is quicker than him.

All about opinions a d appreciate social media probably brings out the worst in me on here

The 3 I mentioned I agree didn’t do anything wrong today but it’s frustrating we are starting a keeper we all said wasn’t the answe and has been transfer listed

As for the others what is killing us is a lack of leadership and organizing without the main 2. Who stepped up there and said right I’m organizing things on the pitch ?

Take your point on over negativity though….i should impose a 2 hour cool down period after games for myself !

As I said that’s the best we played before sending offs and I think freeman and Sloggett looked good so definite positives !

Oh fair enough Loyal so you are a genuine supporter and a proper man for that post. Please forgive my out burst just frustrated enough by the result without some pilling shit on top.

The first half (even after the sending off) was as good as Pools have played all season. Unfortunately Woking had a load of good attackers on their bench to bring on for the second half - that lad Ward looks exceptional- his goal was pure class.

The lesson is you can't shoot yourself in the foot against a decent side and expect to get away with it. Sarll needs to get a grip on the needless bookings - that's 2 red cards and well into double figures with yellows in only 5 games.

Everyone pissed off and deals with it differently. I definitely post stuff here when annoyed that likely doesn’t stand up too well a little later

Agree Mr. Hogans

Hunter is an experienced player 27 years old, Pools were comfortable no need to be rushing into tackles more so there was no threat from the opposing player. He should have known not to go flying in the second time, maybe a good idea now if we have the players on the bench to substitute any one on a yellow card.

No one is perfect and the bile heaped on the lad for something so common in the game, is really more the anger losing from after a brilliant start.
Parkes was a bigger loss.
Shit happens, I’d lost my anger five minutes after the final whistle.
By all means discuss things …..but looking for someone to lynch ain’t the answer.

Think it's more disappointment or exasperation that's bringing out the anger. 3 schoolboy errors, Waterfall red card / Stephenson switching off / Hunter red card - 2 of them from experienced senior pros and neither red card in a dangerous situation.
I'd imagine manager and team-mates are as disappointed and will have made it known to the 3 players too, the others work their socks off to be let down badly.
But it's all history now and 2 home games to come, 6 points is a must and then things won't look so bad overall.

I put the majority of the capitulation on the managers shoulders.
Needs to manage the players better in self discipline and how to tackle firm but fair.
Plus can't understand while we didn't play our usual style of play like v Southend with 10 men.
Next 2 games massive to recoup a bad weekend.

Praise n Criticism is the way I roll.
Which mite offend.
Not my problem.

same here. if i have to criticise one player who stayed on the pitch its got to be fergy. it could not have been a co incidence that the danger came down his side and his covering for one of the goals was rec standard where he got his angles all wrong. if we are going to play with a LB we need one who can defend not one who does better when we are on attack. as for sarll trying to defend hunter by saying the ref could have handled it differently for me he had no option to what he did. if it had been one of their players who had committed both those fouls he,d have blown a gasket if they had stayed on the pitch.

I get what you are saying about the referee but blowing a gasket is not D.S. way. He stays calm no matter what decisions are made by officials.

And whoever comes in for Hunter may well keep him on the bench following his suspension.

Post-match Sarll blamed the ref ("it was 12 gainst 10 in the second half"), implied that neither of Hunter's tackles was a bookable offence and said that he wouldn't be having words with Hunter because his "edge" is part of his game. It certainly is, looking at his past record Hunter has picked yellow cards on a regular basis throughout his career. In one season with the Heed he only played twice, booked in one game, sent off for 2 bookable offences in the other NL refs will know what to expect and it's only human nature that some will come down on him like a ton of bricks.

Dixon - nothing against him but he isn't good enough? What's he done wrong this season? Absolutely nothing that I've seen so far. So goalkeeper is not a priority, pace and width up top definitely is.

We’ve had a season worth of evidence as to his ability at this level, he’s been pretty well protected for 4 out of 5 games so far
Didn’t drop a bollock v woking but also didn’t make any game saving saves, he’s also very quiet usually covered up by Parkes and waterfall

This is typical Pools though, no one would have been happy pre season with him being our keeper, now we are talking ourselves into pretending he’s something he’s not, come October if he’s still in goal reality will hit and we’ll be back to
The why didn’t we get anyone in at the start of the season mode

No team serious about going up has a transfer listed keeper as first choice

Replacing him wouldn't be top of my priority list at the moment is all I'm saying.

We can
Improve more than 1 thing at the same time though surely ?

Only Pools.
That's if we are serious

But if we're waiting for a keeper till the end if the month it's no big deal is it to keep playing Dixon?
At the end of the day I'd say dropped points are more down to Stephenson, Waterfall, and Hunter rather than the keeper who's hardly put a glove wrong so far this season.
Also, it may be that last seasons loss of form (not forgetting when he got back into the team he was MoM for 2 or 3 games with outstanding performances) could have been down to lack of confidence considering the protection our midfield and defence gave him?

But if we're waiting for a keeper till the end if the month it's no big deal is it to keep playing Dixon?
At the end of the day I'd say dropped points are more down to Stephenson, Waterfall, and Hunter rather than the keeper who's hardly put a glove wrong so far this season.
Also, it may be that last seasons loss of form (not forgetting when he got back into the team he was MoM for 2 or 3 games with outstanding performances) could have been down to lack of confidence considering the protection our midfield and defence gave him?

The information you bring to the table is second to none. But can I respectively ask you which post - match interview was it I watched the one on YouTube three times now and he I am pretty sure he does not say 12 against 10 Maybe it was a second interview I am yet to see.

I think we just need to be more ruthless
If we want to succeed, we kept the likes of Crawford for so long as he was ‘ok’ but ok doesn’t get you promoted…there are others we could mention here also down the years

It was the tees interview he mentioned the 12v10

Cheers Richy that's why I never heard that one. Mr. Hogans is a very reliable sauce of information so never doubted him just wanted to know where he got that information

I've always liked a good fact so I try to stick to them

I knew that but wanted clarity

Disappointing comment from Sarll --can have no complaints about sending off, and if that is the worst ref we get this season we will be very lucky

in the three games i have seen the ones we have had might not be the next collina but are better than some we saw last season who gave us naff all unless its was obvious to barry white.

so far if dixon was our only problem we,d be pissing this league.

thinking about hunter, did i read it correctly that some thought he looked knackerd after the wealdstone game. if so why was he risked starting the game even if he had physically recovered enough but might have been mentally tired causing him to do what he did. mental tiredness is something that isn,t looked at as seriously as it is in life where i feel so many accidents at work and on the roads are caused by it.

If you play without the ball all the time like we did against Southend and Wealdstone it is tiring, its a shame that for 20 minutes against woking we got the ball down and tortured them.

if only one positive of the game is built on we might be fine in the end. a positive that took 5 games to actually witness.

It was a massive positive but its proven if you dont have a strong bench this year it can count for very little.

Dixon isnt that bad but i do understand where others are coming from - hes keeping a keeper with i dare say a better CV out the picture. I thought Smith would be nailed on to start these games. Especially with DS working with him and knowing him already.

Massive positive as others have said is that this team can play football and we have the players for me better suited for that - why we are doing the bad none league hoofball is beyond me, especially against the easier opponents. I get Tamworth though that was a given to play like them.

DS quoted as saying its still a learning curve for him with this team and i dont think he knows his best system or 11 yet anyways. The trial and error game has played off so far and would of done even more so had Hunter not been sent. We have the squad and ability its just about keeping folk fit and out of the book now aswell.

Do you mean Stevie Wonder by any chance? Barry White probably hadn’t seen his dick for decades but there was nowt the matter with his eyesight…