I new it

Ward should have been man marked it's all come from him. Bad management.

The ghost of Chesterfield comes back to haunt us.

Hunter cost us 3 points. Fucking idiot

Some credit for Woking in terms of how they played against 10 second half

Ward did well for them--gorman is a little shit and a poor player

Everything against us today--self inflicted by Hunter and unlucky with Waterfall and Parkes out

feel better than I did after Wealdstone game, and we will finish above Woking---but overall its been a poor start to the season given who we have played

Braintree needs a win and a proper performance with 11 men

For being correct.
Gutted.

yes. you cannot fault the manager or the other 10 on the pitch. he needs to do something big to make up for that stupidity. if he had done it with 10 minutesleft at 2 nil then fair play

Braintree has to be a win or its been a pretty poor start considering who we have played.

Hard to man mark with 10 men---Woking didnt look much but did play sensibly against 10 men.

Time to regroup--get players fit and kick on hopefully--at least until Hunter went off we played good football and looked dangerous
a 4-3-3 with Sloggett in looks the way to go

Still shouldnt lose from 2 nil up with 25 mins to go though. Was all a little predictable.

We were comfortable prior to Hunter's stupidity.

Yes with no Parkes or Waterfall we dindt have much organization--Dixon is not the answer either which we all know really though not much his fault today

The sub on of Robinson was a poor one--has a lot to learn and that wasn't the game to learn it.

I actually feel a lot better--the things we did shit we know about and can be relatively easily fixed with common sense and the center halves back, the things we did well give me hope we will try and play some football and not just hoof it

LOT of pressure on the next game though and these silly red cards have to stop

Have a look at the other results. Could have been a lot worse!

and to the surprise of only the willfully naive our luck runs out in the 5th game....

Rewind to half time team talk.
Not all on Hunter.
We just didn't press

That was just mental torture, this team is obviously no better than last season's shower, can't defend a lead to save their lives.

Yeah, we are still 10th with a plus 1 GD.

Dont think we had the energy--whats the worst game you could pick to be down to ten--the one with only a days rest from the prior game that we had to chase for 96 mins !

Defence is poor without our first choice CBs, dont think that is new information---Saturday was on Sarll--today not really his fault it was on Hunter 100%, and he will have a long bus ride home

Self inflicted defeat. Even then we had chances to score a third before they got their first. Hunter is a liability but the aggression demanded from the manager also plays it's part.Two yellow cards in a minute is absolute madness, Cruising to a victory and three points and he has to go and do that. Was hoping for six points over the weekend and we get one. The other five were lost due to managerial incompetence and recklessness.
August bank holiday weekend is not my favourite time of the year. Talk about groundhog day.
Well played Joe Grey.......feel sorry for you mate.

cant argue with any of that---we have a really easy start and if we continue fucking is up we wont find it easy to pick the points up to make up for it

Sarll likes to reference responses to 'punches on the nose'....well here is a suggestion lads--stop hitting ourselves !

I agree with every point except one …..Gorman is a dirty little bastard and a BIG shit

No discipline at all in this team, thats gotta be down to the manager. Three points thrown away again, all too familiar for us fans, sickening.

What 25 minutes to go What about down to 10 from 25 minutes.What about fatigue from bank holiday & travel What about 10 men for half game v Southend. You will never ever stop whining.

We were 2 nil up with 25 to play. You can play 5 subs now so all this tiredness lark is the same for both teams. Yes we know its harder with 10. You have bulled this team up and manager and we have picked up 1 point from wealdstone and woking. Not good enough is it? Whining or no whining everyone predicted what was coming apart from probobly you.

Poor man’s featherstone , did so little with the ball in the time he had

Early doors but we are starting to use the big book of Pools excuses a little too much already. But for some good fortune we would be on volume 2 already. Still gelling? Travel? Fatigue? Everybody else is the division has the same problems.

I take heart in the fact that in our promotion season we got smashed 5-0 at home by Torquay. Seemed like the end of the world. Twas not though.

Wow so until the sending off my prediction was making a mockery of the rest of you then.

We lost iffs and buts dont count remember. Maybe look at the managers tactics and subs in the 2nd half. It wasnt all down to having lost a man.

So Parkes probably out for a while, Hunter unavailable next game or two, Grey limping right through the second half, Waterfall unavailable, a familiar pattern playing out here methinks...

Look I am going to now stand with you and demand this manager / team do a hell of a lot better than this total dross being dished out its embarrassing. I say sack the manger and get some real quality footballers in before we get relegated.

Just remind me again where all the money is coming from for this revolution ?

Kit Kat read the full post to understand my last message.

Why all the complaints, yous wanted football, yous got football, But not the result.

Are they only 2 choices,?

In fairness the football was a lot better before hunter stupidity, though Parkes going off may have been the bigger impact

We lost both of our central defenders (one before and one during) and then had a man sent off. All things considered, I don’t think losing 3-2 away to a decent-ish team is that bad. The performance was good and the team continues to battle hard. I’m much happier than I was at this stage last season.

Nice to see some positivity

Anutha classic mugging of false hope.

Cudda went 4 4 1
Played the usual hoof all and pressing shit.
But didn't.
Strange how we do it the first 4 games when not 2 0 up.

Plus posting false positivity has the axact same outcome as negativity.
Absolutely no bearing whatsoever
Only football tho.

Really, we had lost the first one against Barnet then went on to win the next 4, 12pts after 5 games.
On 66 minutes today we were 3rd, half an hour later we’re 10th.

If lightning does strike twice ala this time last year, keep your arms and legs in the car at all times.

Let’s calm down . There is a long way to go and I think the manager knows he needs 2 or 3 more

I was at the game this afternoon, my first opportunity to watch the Pools live for a few years as i'm normally following Charlton home & away.
The sending off so early in the game made it an uphill struggle despite having a 2 goal lead. It was shame because up to then Pools looked like scoring a hatful of goals.
I was impressed by the effort every player put in & only one player let the side down & that was Hunter in getting sent off.
Some of the Pools defending was heroic in the circumstances & the keeper made some good saves & with a bit of luck Pools would have held out for a draw at least.
Anyway i wish the Pools the very best of luck for the rest of the season & hope i get the chance to attend another game this season.
Keep the faith.

This Manager is a fraud.

3 points chucked away pure and simple. Discipline in this team is nil. The reds and yellows are mounting up like confetti. The "strong" back line is becoming non existant. A shambles and mirroring exactly what happened last year. Expect the crowd against Braintree will be just over the 3,000 mark. Gutted today. Hunter for f....s sake what were you doing?

And your trying to catch Snowy, I see you.

Not a problem Kit Kat we all do it at times.

Thanks for the kind words Clive good luck for the rest of your season.

I only caught the second half today as I was at work and had to wait for my colleagues to bugger off before I could stream it (it's not a bank holiday where I live). It took me about ten minutes to realise we were a man down because I was too busy thinking "how the heck are we two nil up against a team battering us like we're St Crispins school for the blind and they're 1980's Liverpool?".

Anyway - I didn't see the sending off or the Pools goals (but I'm gathering that Grey is great and Hunter probably had a long journey home) - but based on that second half...

We're f'ked without Tom Parkes on the field. We might have done better with Waterfall playing but we're f'cked without Parkes. He's like two players for us.

Fergusson is struggling. He's either a good winger or a shortish left back but right now he can't do both. I like him a lot but his crosses aren't good enough and we're leaking at left back.

Dixon didn't put a foot wrong from what I saw and made a couple of great saves. I think that transfer listing him then using him as your number one because you can't find anyone better is piss poor man management.

To wrap this up. Everyone watching this at the ground or National league TV could see where Woking were coming through us like a hot knife through butter and the manager tried to solve it by putting subs on instead of changing our formation. Without our two experienced centre backs we're very vulnerable on the flanks (again). I think he should at least have told someone (anyone) to stick to their lad Ward. He's a game winner and we made it far too easy for him.

On the bright side 2nd to 7th is playoffs and I think we're looking like a team in the mix for that - which would be an improvement.

Just watched post match interview from Sarlle and he really didn’t criticise Hunter enough. I am one hundred percent certain we would have won that match although we don’t look as strong without Parkes. I’m all for us being physical but we must play within the rules. Mixed emotions for me. I was pleased with the start but naive with the sending off and injuries now starting to mount up. It’s understandable after 2 hard games the energy levels was down and we resorted to hoofing again. But ward was the danger man and Ferguson just give him freedom to run at us.