is unchanged. Jameson, Ferguson, Hancox, Grey and Umerah on the bench.

thats certainly a strong bench for sure. lets hopeody ody we use it with at least one change during the break. they possibly have created more chances than us with far less possesion. we need a spark from somebody as its pretty dour outhere.

1 up already - keep it going

Lovely football Pools, team transformed. 1-0 to us og

Kiddy look there for the taking

Isn't it strange but we have scored more goals than Bromley who at the moment lie in 2nd place in the table.

giving iniative away here....Wallace looking rusty and Patterson looking like Patterson

Their keeper's surname is Dibble...Surely not...?

let them back into this--should have been well on top now another stupid set piece goal--really poor

Johnson well and truly asleep

kets get Ferguson on for Patterson at half time please

Really key game this--we dont go on to win against this lot the players really need to look at themselves--to concede a goal like that is ridiculous

Very poor goal to give away.

I am guessing they are knackered after Saturday. Can we not get beat is the question?

playing the worst team in the league, 1-0 up and we sit back and give them confidence to play--tiredness is no excuse

should be 2-1 down Patterson is getting targeted

Mani D having his first poor game of the season

Some were saying Pattersonn was injured during York game. Maybe should have been rested.

The player who needs to get into this game is Cookie. He was superb on Saturday but really struggling in this game. We know he is not yet fully match fit but we really need his quality to shine 2nd half and I believe it will.

We need to put this team to bed. We have had most of the impetus but gradually letting them back in to the game. We need to press more and concentrate . Ferguson needs to be on. Get back on the front foot pools if you want to be on the playoffs

Mani D and Crawford both missed free headers they should have scored

GET PATTERSON OFF !!

Now Feathrtson misses sitter after great ball from Cooke

Sounds like we are trying to change gear but stuck in 2nd.

another miss from 5 yds out---looking like one of those nights--lets not at least lose it 2-1!

132 Poolies...

After the Lord Mayor's Show?

2 points dropped--had a lot of chances to win it but really disappointing against the worst side in the league

Hastie an option going fwd but a half decent side will explout it defensively

Well that is 2 points dropped. One lapse of concentration cost us. Plenty of possession but final shot poor. Cook and Hastie played well

4 chances with only the keeper to beat missed them all.
Hit the bar
Hit the post
One of them nights 2 points dropped how ever we played well.

Played well, Manny just not clinical enough tonight for me.

Very one-sided second half - Pools missed out due a combination of some decent saves from Officer Dibble and other chances that should have been put away - especially those two headers early doors. Not to mention a couple of decent penalty shouts that were ignored as usual.

Conceding to yet another set piece is annoying but as the camera was focused on the guy who showed for a short corner we don't really know who went to sleep at the edge of the box. It looked like Johnson because he followed the scorer in, but where was everybody else? That's the trouble with watching these streamed games.

We had a throw in by their corner flag with two minutes left and then took three passes to get it back to our keeper. Go forwards FFS!!!

This sideways backwards shite drives me mad. Especially when it eventually does lead to chances after 15 passes, 2 foot from goal and they just spoon it (3 times tonight).

They had three set pieces and won the ball three times, scoring in one. When are our coaching team going to find out how to deal with this. We are throwing away valuable points because we have no answer to this problem.

Mani D rare poor game
Cooke did well with some passes but needs to stop whining about everything
I like the look of Wallace
Patterson is not good enough but we know that
A decent side would love Hastie as our wing back--he did some things well but doesn't have a football brain--that offside from the return pass on a throw in was schoolboy stuff
Johnson absolute shit show for corner (not the only one) but recovered well and showed his physicality--that mistake may be the making of him
Dixon a solid 2nd game running

We shouldnt underestimate how shite Kiddy are--massive two points dropped against the worst team in the league

Derwent spot on. Every corner/free kick ball into area is heart in mouth moment. But we have known this weakness for past couple of seasons.

Hastie also doesn’t look as quick as I once thought he was. A bit laboured but has played fair enough in the last two so will cut him some slack.

Like others have said. Not awful. 2 points dropped.

Man of the match by their fans Mr Dibble the keeper…we were unlucky on the night….20 20 hindsight proves nothing.

Looking on the bright side, we are now three games unbeaten.

The set piece and goals against record really is something to behold.

We were by far the superior. But at about the consistency level we expect. Win on Saturday and we’re on a mini roll…

This may be contoversial but what about giving Manni D a rest on Sat and play Josh as CF? Manni D on the bench so could always swap over if it isnt working. If it goes OK Manni D gets a well earned Saturday off. Mani D has played every game since coming back from suspension and might benefit from a rest. Just a thought, dont shoot!!

I agree. I think he does need a rest. He's pulled up a couple of times recently with what looked like leg trouble but then played on. Tonight he looked like a shadow of himself. His passing wasn't great and he missed two absolute sitters.

It'd be good for Josh's confidence to start too. He scored 15 in League 2 last season - so he should be having a field day against teams like Kidderminster (instead of wrestling with defenders with his back to goal like he has been doing since the drop).

It's a decent thought - especially as Mani is now playing in the lone striker role. 3 games in a week doing that?

the way we are playing needs Mani D--we have two more advanced midfielders coming off him (cooke and Crawford) --dont think Umerah link up play is quick enough---spends 10 extra seconds having a wrestling match instead of releasing the ball.

PS credit for Askey for getting Cooke, Featehr, Crawford and Wallace all in same team without us looking too lurching.....if/when Mancini is fit for Crawford I can see him having a field day playing with Cooke and Feather

We had loads of possession and found it hard to break Kiddy down as everyone was behind the ball. We occasionally went backwards but mostly played on the offensive. That in itself pleased me in that we where at least fire decisive than England where over the weekend. The main thing for me is that our passing and shape look a lot better . Of course the mistake with the set piece was annoying. Askey must be tearing his hair out. If we can stay away from injuries get the Frenchman back early Jan we have a chance of the playoffs. I am pleased for Askey and Sweens that they have found a formation which somewhat works. As long as I see improvement and hard work I am happy.

Agree Mani may need a break

Pools played good neat, tidy football with crisp, tight passing and actually looked confident on the ball. Luck was not with us last night and even their wishful commentator admitted as much at the end…it was a team that new when and where to pass the ball, a patient team, Kidderminster were a tally ho and let’s charge after the ball outfit and it showed.

Apart from the finishing and the lapses at set pieces, that was a very good display and I think at this time last week most of us would be happy with 4 out of 6 points - didn't someone predict 1 point out of 9 including Saturday's game to come?
Easy to say that York and Kidds are poor sides, but prior to these games we've been awful against equally poor sides imo. It looks like Wallace and Cooke are the catalysts to us playing this higher pressing, neat passing, game, and let's give credit where its due - maybe they (York and Kidds) looked bad because we made them look bad. To be fair, any neutral watching either of those games must have thought we looked a good side. Could easily have finished 7-2.
Hopefully we're on a bit of a run and can keep everyone fit and on the pitch, Crawford must be close to another suspension.
A lot of us have said that it's Askeys job to find a way to get points with what he's got and it looks as if he may have done so.

I think its probobly a case of 3 poor sides, 4 points out of 6 is welcome after the shit show of the previous months. Certainly helps keeps us away from the bottom 4, i just cant imagine this squad getting anywhere near the play offs, defence is crippling us.

A positive is that we're playing the same slick football that we were at the start of the season, if we can keep it up we'll be closer to the play offs than relegation (as we are right now).
We've got Mancini still to come back and who knows maybe more incoming to boost our chances.

as players i do not think individually they are that bad. its like someone else said its corners and wide set pieces where we always look prone to conceeding more than we look like scoring from similar moves. at least in the second half we seemed to get on the front foot quicker than the first half durge where for me they looked the better side when they came off. thought we did enough in the second half to win. the one thing we are badly short of was a player able to run at a defence with the ball. mancini or a second rate version of him would have had a field day last night against a team quite happy to get players behind the ball in that waste of a 35 minute period after we scored with constant passing and possesion that got us nowhere.

anyone else thought it was a nailed on penalty when featherstone got fouled a split second before he blasted the ball wide. i certainly did.

Looked like a pen.
Besides that though Mani D, Crawford, Hastie should probably all have scored 2 each.