Hartlepool Mackems Returning to Hartlepool

Mute Witness · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:10 am **Posts:** 3572

When getting off the train there was a group of Mackems who were dissappointed Brighton had lost.

"I wanted you to win cause Robbie Savage is a legend".

banghead

Gerry Mandrake · **Joined:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:23 pm **Posts:** 1427

Should have given him a bat. banghead

parmopooly · **Posted:** Sat Oct 25, 2008 9:59 pm

I hope they all get arse cancer

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37357

I was reading in the Mail last night about the bloke from Rift House who was retiring and was described as a 'keen Middlesbrough Football Club supporter' ...i wonder what makes someone by-pass their local league team and travel out of town to pledge their loyalties to another outfit ...

.... that will always be a mystery to me.

Portsmouth Poolie · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:55 am

Insecure people need to associate themselves with a club which is more 'succesful'. Hence all these sad b@stards supporting Newcastle, Sunlerland or Middlesbrough (although why anyone would want to support middlesbrough is beyond me, even if they are from there). Or people from Portsmouth supporting Liverpool, wtf is that really all about?!

As Poolies, we are by default much better, stronger people!

parmopooly · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:18 am

definitely the worst kind has to be those who "support" another team from the same division as the club where they come from, such as those Liverpool "fans" in Portsmouth as mentioned on here

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37357

The pathetic part of supporting the ludicrously and pompously titled 'big three' is that it's all smoke and mirrors... they sell a supposedly successful 'product' that isn't! Newcastle trade purely on hype and 'what ifs', plus the 'support' they can muster, which proves nothing, as millions of flies will turn up if the turds big enough... :roll:

The other two are fixed in my minds as yo-yo clubs and if Gibson ever leaves the borers, they will flounder.
It's not football as we know it, with the boost of media hype it's boosted the Premiership to a money making tragi-comedy soap opera that attracts the sort of dim people who years ago folowed the fillum stars, the footballs irrelevant to them, it's the politics and personality that grips them, the game itself is a candy floss part of the plot.

baby lemonade · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 11:48 am

Mr Gaunt wrote:

When getting off the train there was a group of Mackems who were dissappointed Brighton had lost.

"I want you to win cause Robbie Savage is a legend".

banghead

that is absolutely fucking scandalous!!! to me it seems if supporting a team outside your home town is the last refuge of the morally bankrupt, i dont know why they just dont indulge in incest and have done.

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 11:57 am

baby lemonade wrote:

Mr Gaunt wrote:

When getting off the train there was a group of Mackems who were dissappointed Brighton had lost.

"I want you to win cause Robbie Savage is a legend".

banghead

that is absolutely f*** scandalous!!! to me it seems if supporting a team outside your home town is the last refuge of the morally bankrupt, i dont know why they just dont indulge in incest and have done.

They probably do.

parmopooly · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:24 pm

that would explain why we keep getting successive generations of the farquhars

Salty · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:48 pm

Portsmouth Poolie wrote:

(although why anyone would want to support middlesbrough is beyond me, even if they are from there).

I am, and dont!! [altho I have been many times.... :uhoh:

]

Splod · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:57 pm

Surely the fact is that once you start supporting a team thats who you stick with whether you're an armchair supporter or a regular - they're your team. So those in the town that support other clubs are highly unlikely to switch to Pools, the most they are likely to do is stop going regularly to watch their team when they are doing badly. When we do particularly well they may come down to the Vic for the odd curiosity visit but nothing else. That's why the club needs to be much more proactive in getting youngesters involved with the club and all season ticket holders should be encouraged with half price junior season tickets to bring sons/daughters/grandchildren/friends kids down to the Vic regularly.

The other incentive that would boost crowds is to get the armchair Poolies to come back. The Commercial Dept, by defenition, should have some ideas :roll:

parmopooly · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:45 pm

it's a fact of life that the club you support is because of your parents/siblings/peers etc - i.e. you follow what they do from an early age. So splod is correct - it's got to be Pools' remit as a club to get the hearts and minds of future Poolie generations, because the "termites" have been lost forever in the abyss of premiershit rarfness

The Lightning Tree · **Joined:** Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:30 pm **Posts:** 5804

I agree, those 30+ years of age who are supporting other premiership teams I would class as lost, its the kids who we need to educate and we need to start now. I'm not sure what the club does in promoting itself to schools in the area but if you did a survery of all junior and comprehensive schools in the area you would find most kids support either Liverpool, Man Utd or Newcastle!!

parmopooly · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:49 pm

again because of their thick dads usually. This is an area Pools need to get in there and do what's best for those kids and bollocks to their rarf parents.

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 6:29 pm

Mr Gaunt wrote:

When getting off the train there was a group of Mackems who were dissappointed Brighton had lost.

"I want you to win cause Robbie Savage is a legend".

banghead

Perhaps he confused 'legend' with overrated, peanut hearted, girlie haired, welsh, talentless shithouse

Hartlepool Mackems are bollockbrained turds

GroovyCrimes · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 6:33 pm

Splod wrote:

junior season tickets

An under 16 season ticket is £75 quid

Salty · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:25 pm

The Lightning Tree wrote:

I agree, those 30+ years of age who are supporting other premiership teams I would class as lost, its the kids who we need to educate and we need to start now. I'm not sure what the club does in promoting itself to schools in the area but if you did a survery of all junior and comprehensive schools in the area you would find most kids support either Liverpool, Man Utd or Newcastle!!

some boro coaches were in jacks school lask, all the kids got a 'goody' bag full of paraphernalia,mascot shite pencils,erasers posters etc

jack scribbled all over his like, but it is a good idea that sorta thing

i also remeber when we lived in N.I and it was election time our local MP [enoch powell :shock:

] was on his voye drive thing and bezzed round our estate [catholic] playing jaunty music through a loudspeaker and giving all us kids rosettes and stickers and stuff

we all bounced into our relative houses to proudly show our parents our free stuff only for each and every kid to have it ripped off and binned!!! :laugh:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:26 pm

The Lightning Tree wrote:

but if you did a survery of all junior and comprehensive schools in the area you would find most kids support either Liverpool, Man Utd or Newcastle!!

It's nowhere near as bad as it use to be though!!!! confised

I see loads of kids doing Football lessons at the baths with Pools shirts on....more Pools shirts than any other team!!!! :coool:

When I was doing Football Coaching about 10 years ago you might get the odd one or at a push 2 wearing a Pools shirt!!!! confised

poolsdonkey · **Joined:** Sun May 06, 2007 8:52 pm **Posts:** 512

I was always one of them you were coaching at the mill house with a pools shirt on

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:47 pm

poolsdonkey wrote:

I was always one of them you were coaching at the mill house with a pools shirt on

You must be a helluva' player now after that excellent coaching at a young age!!!! :laugh:

threepintwonder · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:50 pm

poolsdonkey wrote:

I was always one of them you were coaching at the mill house with a pools shirt on

The Lightning Tree · **Joined:** Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:30 pm **Posts:** 5804

Went in the grand after the game and I could hear as the tables came up, eeehhh pools are doing alright, what was the game like, what was fooooking robbie savage like. Not how did kyle or browny play banghead

Mind, I have mates who stop on the drink rather than go to the game stpid

JohnnyMars · **Joined:** Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:24 am **Posts:** 2473

The only legendary thing about Savage is the way he has made a fortune out of being a very average player.

I don't know how he has done it, as expected he was garbage yesterday...

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37357

chip fireball wrote:

a kids season ticket is indeed 75 bar, but how many parents will let kids under 10 go to games on their own ?

its a fact that most really young kids start off being taken to games by a parent or grandparent or older sibling. you simply do not get gangs of 6 year olds all going to the games unaccompanied.

so while the 75 bar ticket may be popular with kids aged 14 and 15 going to the game with their mates, a six year old is only going to get one if they have an adult to take them, and thats an area of marketing the club may want to look at. you dont just need to incentivise the kids you need to incentivise the parents to bring them.

alternatively you form a kids club, run by responsible adults using the classroom facilities, whereby parents can drop their kids off at the ground at say one or half one, and pick them up after 5. the club could provide pre match entertainment, hoy in a drink and some chips, and get kids used to being in and around the ground. theres loads of mums would jump at the chance to pay the club a tenner to dump their kids off on a saturday afternoon while they go shopping.

okay this is going to mean some graft on the part of the club and they are going to have to employ a couple of youth leaders but its giving you a steady stream of potential long term customers.

the family enclosure was a good idea, but when the likes of me and dibble used to get in there with the kids it used to be very well populated with a good atmosphere. looking over there these days from the millhouse it seems to be very sparsely populated. there seems to be virtually no incentive to use it anymore.

In the early 90's we used to have the junior Pools set up if my memory serves me well, two of mine went, you got the chance to be ball boys etc. The thing that puts a lot of people off working in youth organisations is the Criminal Records Bureau check which just seems like a load of hassle.... I had to get the advanced one and had to wait weeks for the certification to come through.

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