Game over … should have probably lost by more

4-3 really flatters Pools

Second half Gateshead "toying with pools"

4-3 flattered Pools by all accounts. Away at York concede 5. Away at Heed concede 4. Says it all. We are going nowhere.

Can't be bothered anymore, getting battered in the league you can carry on but this is pointless

Wholesale changes needed, that could have easily been 8 or more against our non existent midfield and comedy defence.

They were toying with us. Hope they go up but we just couldn’t live with them. All of their players good on the ball and played the match at a canter

They all look comfortable with the ball at their feet, our lot looked as if they just wanted rid of the ball as quickly as possible. Rating our lot you'd be hard pressed to give most of them a 5 out of 10.
No doubt he'll start the same 11 on Saturday.

The people who said this squad was better than the results Sarll was getting were right. I just wish they were MORE right. We are clearly a mid table team. Might be good enough to scrape into the play offs you never know. What a time to be alive and a poolie.

Still not playing to our strengths imo. Sherron has to be in the middle. We need to get someone close to Mani, and we need to be getting balls into the box from out wide. They absolutely bossed us all over the park today.

Overall today they played as a team and we didn't.

Never been to a pools game were we conceded 4 and our keeper never had to make a save at all in the game.

We talk about getting in the play offs then what we play a team like Gateshead who again today showed us how to play football as a team

Bye the way far more than a 1000 poolies you could just walk in they had a few fellas just scanning any qr codes on their mobiles no turn stiles i suppose you have to laugh no roof on the stand and we get played of the park.

Lennie already said that we don’t need any more recruitment…his mate Raj has spent quite enough thanks.

The midfiled for the 4th year jn a row isn’t mobile enough and is exposed against decent teams
Waterfall is past it and we have loaned out the center back who fits our system best
Dodds should have started but Lennie can’t be arsed to change a team until he has to.

It’s also obvious shite but same story again and again sadly

When Saturday doesn't come... you mean next Wednesday.. Thank fck

Probably go and beat Oldham now.

Talk about the current side reaching the play-offs this season is just that, hot air. I’ve been saying for weeks and weeks that the side needs to invest in three our four decent signings in order to firstly reach - and then be able to compete in the playoffs against the clubs which currently reside there. If Lenny cannot see this then he is either in denial or covering for Raj Singh by stating that further recruitment is not needed. Losing to a very decent Gateshead side is not shameful- their awful stadium and lack of fans may be the pits but on the evidence of todays game they have assembled an excellent squad for this League and Pools need to do much, much better to be able to compete with them on more or less equal terms.

Cheers Poolie i needed a laugh.

No way is this team getting into the play offs.

Spot on Joe.
Madine is way past his best but his conversion rate of goals from chances illustrates the shortcomings of the rest. Even Mani D, our main striker, has a poor conversion rate particularly with headers. Combined with a leaky defence, we have no chance of playoffs or promotion until a stronger squad is assembled. That will not be achieved under Raj Singh so the club is treading mid-table mediocrity for the foreseeable future.

Only 1 goal difference today.

But in reality a major gulf between
Ambition
Organisation
And that thing that Dosent cost money.

100% effort n Commitment

Mid table from next season is a pipe dream.

Admission prices to high n the out of contract players who are overated will jump ship if they have quality bullshitting agents.

The pay cut offers who stay won't give a monkeys fore end.

This was a last chance saloon season well n truly finished 4 months ahead of schedule.

Live in a mickey mouse dream world or accept reality.

Game over

4-3 won't took too bad in the record books but Gateshead will be wondering how they didn't score another 7. Waterfall and Parkes looked like they had PTSD - absolutely clueless at times.

Auld Len on Tees sticking to his 'recipe for success' - don't worry about games with the top 4, beat the bad sides, the last two play-off spots are still within reach. May as well say that a top half finish is job done.

When Challinor got Pools to the play-offs we knew we could beat any of the other 6 over 90 minutes - and did.

I'm just trying to respond to being told off for not being positive enough and not doing back flips when we beat Yeovil

Whatever you do, DON,T go on to youtube and listen to Ole Lens post match interview, Its Sad.

I am putting a few quid on us to be relegated next year if Singh still here, may as well make some money from having to be put through this shite !

That bit’s not true, Torquay hammered us 5-0 at the Vic, so I was expecting a valiant defeat at Bristol, I also thought Stockport would have too much for us at their place. We did really well to win through, but we were by no means favourites, not even in our own fans’ eyes.

Today we were again undone by pace and movement. Our back 4 and central midfielders are all good players, but none of them have any pace at all, they couldn’t keep up with the clever movement and change of pace that the Gateshead front line had in abundance. We coped with it slightly better than we did last year, but nowhere near well enough. Pace at the back and defensive midfield is a major Achilles Heel, and that is what needs to be addressed in January.

Lawrence is right to a degree, our results in the league against the likes of Gateshead, Barnet and Oldham aren’t going to determine if we make the playoffs, it will be the results in the 5 games following that which will be a bigger factor. But our lack of ability to compete at that level will mean that we will be the whipping boys of the playoffs, so it would be a pointless exercise.

Basically he is saying we're second rate so we'd better hope we pick up enough points when we're not paying those football giants.

Next two games Oldham home Barnet away. If we pick up any points from those two games it will be a miracle. I seriously doubt we will make the play offs which will be a good thing because it will be embarrassing.

Everyone can see that we ARE second rate in comparison to the top five or six teams in this accursed league. However, the push for the playoffs, whether it is a realistic one or not MUST continue as the alternative is for the players and fans to give up on 24/25, the fans voting with their feet and Pools sliding down the table towards the relegation dog fight. There is still time to get rid of some of the squad who will never be first team regulars and introduce some fresh faces, loans, or short term contracts who might make the difference between achieving a playoff place. Of course for this to happen Lenny needs to see the light and Raj Singh beds to get his hand in his pocket. Unfortunately neither event seems likely to come to pass.

Speak for yourself. Torquay, Stockport, Sutton, Notts County, Chesterfield - we beat them all at least once in the regular season. Didn't say we were favourites, said 'we' knew we could beat them on our day. Some of us did at any rate

I watched a couple of Pools coaching videos which were based on attacking, I think Pools should be concentrating more on defensive coaching judging by the goals they conceded against Gateshead.

We absolutely tore apart some of the top teams at pools. We were on another planet to now

We have pace at the back….its just on loan at Maidenhead

been saying this all along. no point getting into the play offs unless you have a decent chance to win them. if we did we could be going to the running track again with a similar or worse outcome.

I am putting a few quid on us to be relegated next year if Singh still here, may as well make some money from having to be put through this shite ![/quote]
losing a game that in reality most poolies expected to happen as hardly made us relegation candidates for next season. more likely though that the club will turn into a ne version of another ex league club aldershot playing in front of gates that dwindle down to the 2,500 mark. did not mind last season being a stability one but all that went with the appointment of sarll who tried his best to become oir second worst manager in history.

Contrast that we how we have fared against York, Gateshead, Forest Green and we gor a lucky 0-0 with Barnet. This season we are jut not at the races against the top four or five teams. Sticks out like a sore thumb.

seen the majority of games and the only one that i can remember that we controlled and looked much better than our opponents was the aldershot game at the vic and the second half at boston. the rest, even the wins there has not been much of a muchness apart from york and yesterday.

Some fans use results n performances like this as.

These tinpot clubs must have Secret Money getting ploughed into them.

Elon Musk a secret Heed fan.

No.

They just better run clubs.

Our club now running on life support as any future owners will now hang back till POPAGE.

And a town our size will Deffo rally round to reborn the club.

Mite offend a minority but just maybe a certain poster was correct about taking that A word hit a few seasons back.

As the here n now I can fully understand the boycotters stance.

This current debacle Dosent value £22.
DTP.

Well I for one would rather tread water until Raj goes rather than going pop and the relegation and unknowns that come with it. How long ago is it since Darlo went pop, or Bury, or many others, and how many have actually risen from the dead and achieved efl status?
I really don't understand how anyone claiming to be a supporter could wish for us to go bust and have to start all over again.

Big difference between wishing for it Than expecting it.
Reality is nobody wants to overpriced buy out Sing.
The Americans seen straight through the timewaster.

If n when the club goes Pop.
Then anyone putting that onto any part of our fan base is an absolute Bellend of the highest degree.
As basic as that.

in theory it sounds really good to do that but in practise it has never worked. even halifax are just back where they started being the most succesfull club to do it. How many more fans would we lose along the way never to return.

The Americans always had Wrexham as their number 1 choice, we were only considered as a contingency if they couldn't get them. That came directly from the bloke who was in charge of the project.

to be perfectly honest i,m glad they got wrexham. i for one would hate to be thought of as a glory hunter who was there because of them. heel a bit sorry for the old time fans of all these super rich clubs who in some way have lost the clubs they originally supported. surely there is a middle ground between hollywood and raj singh.

Nowhere near being a reliable source. He's not going to come out and say Wrexham were the runner up prize is he? Embarrassing.

A bit OTT. It would have been ace if they came here. Nobody would give a hoot about being thought a glory supporter once the ground and the team were being invested in.

But you are right. There is a middle ground and it isn't a pie in the sky. And also it would sit better with me and I imagine yourself and other fans too

yes. just being allowed to be a poolie and not hated by the vast majority of fans who would see the game as their cup final and two games a season they want to win over all the others would do. you would know at the back of your mind that the money has only helped and not being there just because of it.

So why would he allow the list of clubs they considered and their rankings to be published after the deal with Wrexham was done if it wasn't genuine? There was no bid, nothing to be considered, we would have been formally approached if Wrexham fell through as we were ranked 2nd.

'Published'

There could be truth in it of course but as the prudent thing for him to say would be that Wrexham were first choice (regardless of whether they were or not) and him probably possessing at least rudimentary PR skills, I would say that this matter is still wide open to speculation.

Pools were definitely 1st choice.

Exactly.

A lot like our new signings when they have to lower their ambitions and finally sign for us.