Amond has played on his own up front for weeks crying out for a strike partner 2-1 down at home and you take him off for Paynter, and put Hawkins on the right. Utterly clueless take Featherstone off he has barely got in the game to start with and he's a defensive midfield player.

Seriously pissed off.

Time is going start running out on Hignett. Pathetic (but predictable) result against a team who have picked up 3 points from the last 21.


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cost me a 30/1 fourfold an all the twats.

Three points above a relegation slot. Is it too soon to start panicking?

How many games have we led at home yet failed to win? 5, 6
Today was pathetic

Cant win a home game. 3 wins in 20 odd boring home performances devoid of ideas and any great desire to win home games if this was ronnie moore people would be up in arms. Speaking of moore 1 defeat in 11 not bad for a dinasaur.

Absolutely AWFUL that today. TURGID, GUTLESS SHIT.

Still not scored in second half of a home game this season.

Shock horror dstanley appears again after two defeats in a row.

We're shit but we won't go down.

Yep lets play 442 just to confirm it doesn't suit us.
Once again today down to bad tactics, the excuses are running out.

Yep it's HIGNETT I'm afraid, October is the time we generally find them out!
FFS take a look at yourselves clueless team shape and performance

WORRYING !

That was poor.
Sick of coming out the coldest ground in the league sick as fuck.

Season Ticket next season NO CHANCE.

We can all blame Hignett, bad tactics, gutless players, defenders, 4-4-2 (however I do agree, why the hell change it to that when we were creating chances?) but we created chances and should have been 3-0 up at half time, in a very 50/50 1st half.

Hignett is not the one being put through 1 v 1 and f*cking up or missing 2 point blank headers.

My blame doesn't land with the defenders, but the forwards we need to kill games off.

And by the way Amond had a strike partner 20 minutes into the game, until he was taken off.

I want the bloke, or any Pools manager to succeed, but if tactically he can't why this is not working I'm seriously starting to question him.

That was garbage today.

50/50 first half? I must have been to a different game. Very fortunate to be 1 up at half time. Best team won by a country mile, both halfs!

Same as every home game this season. Start well. Take the lead. Miss chances. Throw it away


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Most these players gutless bastards who show very little passion or desire. I hoped when hignett came in things might change but nothing has! We still have shite like Richards in the squad, no experience in key areas and concede pathetic goals. Look at Carlisle, they went out and brought in some experienced lower league players like Adams and Mike Jones on frees in summer and these players know what it takes at this level. We on the other hand scour the non league or bring in young lads from bigger clubs, it doesn't seem to be working!.
Our home form is sensationally fantastically utter utter crap, every week we go we think this has to change one day but nothing does. For me Hignett is not the man for us, that sub today taking amond off and for some bizarre reason changing it at half time when winning has just summed him up clueless! Three wins in God knows how many games would get most people the sack,let's see if his bestest pal coxhall is brave enough to change it!

I don't think it's time to panic and get shot of Hignett but the tactics and substitutions today were a joke. They were there for the taking, we took amond off for paynter at 2-1 down when Hawkins had been awful. If we can't beat them at home then I can't see where a home win comes from. The worst team
I've seen at the vic, barring us!


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Sack him? Seriously?

After the last 6/7 years do we suddenly have a divine right to challenge at the top? We are an average sized club for this division and we need some stability to progress, not sack trigger happily like good old uncle Ken used to.

Yes, we have thrown away a lot of points and we should be higher up the league. I'm not completely satisfied with how the season is panning out but we are just as capable of beating anyone in this league as we are of losing and that represents improvement. Last season we'd have lost more than the points we've taken. We won't go down but today was a wake up call for him and the players.

The squad is better than last year, we should be getting more out of them but one thing I will agree with the Hignett doubters on here, he didn't adequately address the defensive spine of the team during the summer and we are a liability. That comes down to him, his signings and Fleming's coaching. These mistakes are probably why he doesn't do 442 but I'm sure he will for the next home game (he has to). He's made mistakes but he's still new to management and he comes across as quite ambitious so I'm sure he'll be looking at ways to sort it (whether it be for his own rep or the club, whatever, but don't doubt he's trying). I'm backing him but we need to shape up at home and fast.

Don't panic yet.

[quote="Andy McAvoy's Bleached Barnet"]Sack him? Seriously?

After the last 6/7 years do we suddenly have a divine right to challenge at the top? We are an average sized club for this division and we need some stability to progress, not sack trigger happily like good old uncle Ken used to.

Yes, we have thrown away a lot of points and we should be higher up the league. I'm not completely satisfied with how the season is panning out but we are just as capable of beating anyone in this league as we are of losing and that represents improvement. Last season we'd have lost more than the points we've taken. We won't go down but today was a wake up call for him and the players.

The squad is better than last year, we should be getting more out of them but one thing.....................

So why aren't we?

The buck stops with Hignett. And, yes, we have no divine right to any form of success......but we do have a right to expect effort and energy from the team and for the team to be set up and managed to an effective level.

I am almost as p*ssed off tonight as I was at Stevenage.

So Andy, yes, sack him.............no wins at home, no midfield (again) and a defense that was softer than butter........

Okay sack him then, who do we get in? Let's just start the vicious circle again. No home wins in 7 isn't great but someone needs to be given time and if we are in the doldrums by Jan then we can act. I've seen enough of both hignett and the team to see that it can be pulled around.

Over to them..

Yeah you must had, we had 3 chances within 20 minutes. Lucky to me 1 up!!? Total different then what I saw.

I understand the fustrations, but look where we were before he came in. We have a better squad, even if they are from non league and bigger clubs. One of our major successes this season came in from a so called bigger club.

We have played teams off the park this season, Carlisle being one of them.

I believe we will finish higher than last season and that we will start winning games, 6 games unbeaten is soon forgotten about and we are still only 4 points off the play offs.

Don't panic!!

Don't put your chances away and you don't win games. The forwards danced pretty patterns in their box but all appeared very reluctant to take responsibility and shoot, preferring to pass it to someone else to do the business, but nobody did.
A dire mish mash of nothing worth watching.

50/50 first half? I must have been to a different game. Very fortunate to be 1 up at half time. Best team won by a country mile, both halfs![/quote]

Yeah you must had, we had 3 chances within 20 minutes. Lucky to me 1 up!!? Total different then what I saw.[/quote]

Can you honestly say we were as good as them in the first half?
They seemed to have players spare all the time. Our midfield was non existent. One occasion in the first half the ball was pumped up in the air to Almond, he had one defender behind him and one in front, theoretically we then should have had an extra man in the middle but the defender behind won the ball nodded in forward 5 yards to another of their players who didn't have a pools player within 6 yards of him, that made it one pools player to 3 of theirs. This was typical of the whole game, they found the spaces, we didn't.

He needs sacking ducking clueless

Orient weren't that good and neither were we...they ran a lot. Oh, and it was cold.

The problem is there are too many players who are weak. There is no Nobbs,Baron, Tinklers players who may not be the greatest footballers but have big hearts

The majority of players we signed nobody else wanted, Thomas very promising but very very inconsistent.

Great point. We have decent and some good footballers but that's is what is missing.

We havent won at home since april. We dont look like winning at home either. Im not sure people are panicing but when your manager of your club doesnt seem capable of winning in front of his own fans something eventually has to give. Why do people think that keeping a manager that cant win games is better than bringing someone in? If we had persevered with cooper like many wanted too we would be in the conference now. This guy has had more of a budget than anyone and apart from a few away displays the season has once again been piss poor. We might be an average sized club, but even tiny clubs can do better than this garbage.

Hignet said we were poor at both ends. What about the middle? Still no ball winner.

Agree with that. Donnelly had his worst game by far since he got into the team and the warning signs were there in the first half with big Palmer bossing him. I'm not Harrison's biggest fan but that game was tailor made for him and I was hoping for a change at half time.

The annoying thing is Orient started the second half really badly and for 10 minutes it looked as if we might win easily - the goal just before half time seemed to have knocked their confidence. Then they equalised and it was Pools that folded.

No leaders on the pitch so fair enough that Paynter comes on - but for Amond??? Very poor.

Back complaining about the middle again....that's been the best part of our team for weeks.

It wasn't yesterday. Not a tackle in them far too easy to play through us.

There are some decent players out there but Higgy still doesn't seem to know his best 11 and has no clue about the best formatiion to use. For me the fact that we are shipping goals for fun is the most worrying aspect. Far more than anyone else in the League. We need to tighten up at the back and start building from there.

I don't altogether agree with that, I don't feel their midfield was better than ours, but to complain about the middle when that has been a strong part of the side since the Yeovil game is ridiculous.

I thought Laurent was very good first half and won plenty of ball.

Unfortunately he went into his shell like everybody else when the chips were down second half.

Would you consider Paynter to be a leader?, I consider him as someone who should be playing in the lower leagues, he doesn`t offer anything for me and is taking the place on the bench of a young hungry reserve, who will work his bollocks off!

We all have opinions that's football but as far as the midfield goes where is the Tinklers,Widdringtons, Paul Murray type player who wins the ball and not frightened to put their foot in? Sorry but we just do not have a ball winner.

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I agree it's about opinions, I'm not knocking yours.

Football has changed, Orient didn't have a hard man type ball winner yesterday, nor have most teams. It's now about cutting out passing channels, pressing and forcing teams backwards, which the midfield did amazingly well against Carlisle and had good moments against Orient. And did create chances...

Hignett is the new breed of manager, he wants ball players and pressing.

But I do think Hawkins and Laurent (ok maybe not yesterday), have done very well in the middle over the pass weeks and have won their fair share of the ball.

When you have a big strong striker against us like yesterday, I would have played Harrison so they could strength it out and Donnelly on the right.

Teams who play with wingers are realising we are a little weak defensively at right back and are getting the ball quickly to their wingers and we are having far to many 1 v 1 situations.

In just about every home game this season we have been second best in midfield and not bossed and dictated the game like a home team should, we are crying out for a player who can. Our midfielders are all decent players with the ball but we don't break up play enough and we don't really have a player who will run a game like good midfield players can. We have been without this type of player for a number of years.

We play 'nice' football, tidy football, pretty football, but lack the hard edge of an experienced head in midfield and defence. The forwards all appear to want to walk it into the net after an epic passing marathon.
No one mentioned Thomas, probably because no one realised he was there.

Are we the Arsenal of league 2?

Sorry but we certainly don't press teams,we sit off them and let them play out while we retreat to the half way line!

We don't press teams!? You obviously missed the Carlisle game, they are apparently a passing team that went long because they couldn't get out. Our midfield, especially in the 1st half, bossed that game....

I was at the Carlisle game and I will give you that one but every home game I've been to we have just sat back with 5 along the middle and invited pressure. When was the last time we really dominated a team and won!

Actually I will answer my own question, it was Morecambe away in April!

You could be right, but we have dominated games and lost and have dominated games and drawn. So who's fault is that, the midfields?

We dominated, for most of the game, against Plymouth and came away with a point, played well in other games and came away with nothing.

Yesterday we didn't dominate, but still should have went in more than 1-0 up. The midfield put a forward through on more than one occasion...we need to finish teams off, when we have chances, that then takes some pressure off the midfield and defence.

How many combinations have we had in the back 5 this season? Injuries/suspensions/international call ups have resulted in a lot of changes and there has been no building of relationships. Add in the lack of cover from midfield and its not surprising we are shipping goals.