The League 1 table is looking very horrible after that defeat. Still, grounds for optimism after they battled tonight. A couple of needless errors yes but we didn't lie down and die and that'll do for me.

Southampton commentator:
"Hartlepool have battled, and for a team flirting with relegation they've really put up a hell of a fight this second half"

but surely to god if we are flirting with relegation then we SHOULD be putting up a fight. Or have I just missed something. Does the Southampton commentator expect us to go down without any fight whatsoever???

There are times when we've looked like we don't have the stomach for it so it's good to hear we fought here even if it was in vain.

Still dangerously close to the drop though and we need points desperately. I'm optimistic looking at games coming up.

Pools never disappoint.
Another nail biting end to the season.
Out of the last 11 or 12 years I think there's only once we've actually had nothing to play for going into the last 6 or 7 games.

Let it be noted that we got better after the substitutions.

That might be the secret. for the next match, 30 seconds after kick off we put 3 subs on.

.....just about everyone logging on here would have started the game with the defence that finished the game, so ask yourself why is it Corporal Clott always gives us a mountain to climb by picking a defensively enept one every game.

The mans wanting us to go down surely.

I really think this 3rd season survival thing will never happen
Back to the dungeon for Pools!!!

It definitely was a case of yet another "plucky" performance with no reward. Started the game really well and deservedly took the lead........but we all know how long we keep a lead from away from home......

Apart from the errors for the goals we matched them reasonably well, Flinders having to make a few saves and after Austins absolute cracker of a goal we didn't really threaten with an menace inside the box. All too often it seemed to break down on the edge of the box.

Nobody played particularly badly and the mistakes aside not a bad performance...but.....performances are not going to keep us in this division and its looking pretty bleak at the moment. What really pisses me off is a performance like tonight away from home versus the pathetic inept lie down and die at Yeovil.

We increase the pressure on every home game with each away defeat. Do we have the stomach for the fight? Can we win our home games? Danny Wilson will really want to put one over us this weekend no doubt.

As for tonight...the Stadium for me was a bit lifeless and soulless and was a carbon copy of the Stadium of Light. The stewards were more interested in getting 150 - 200 Pools fans to sit down whilst 100 yards to the right were literally thousands of standing Saints fans who apparently were not an issue. Sick of this at these so called bigger stadiums. I feel like e-mailing the FA or Football League but it'll just come off like sour grapes.

Anyway, another stadium visited to add to the list.....wasn't expecting anything more than we got but we all live in hope. As a city/town?? Southampton is the shits, I was expecting a bit of a cosmopolitan metropolis but got a slightly less depressed Luton (a place I hate and is god awful).

Onwards and upwards (hopefully....please god let it be upwards).

well I think that if relegation sees Tubby booted out of the club altogether, a good manager appointed in the summer with his own assistant (not fu-cking Colin Donkey West), then it might not be a bad thing
In fact, if it means getting Turner out of HUFC then I hope we do go down

Puts tin hat on

sounds pathetic but i totally agree... the sooner we get rid of him the better

I don't want us to go down. We have a promising squad that should be doing far better than it is in this League and I fear that relegation may drive a few members of said squad away.

Then again there's surely no way Turner can hold onto his job if we do go down.

As Chip says, a lose lose scenario