Where are you getting that from Kev?
-1 tonight according to the Met Office.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/fo ... 2023-03-10

The ground is so close to the sea the temperature there will be higher than that shown on the forecasts.
Not as close to the sea as Arbroath though.

Bbc website weather forecast for hpool
Low - 5 for tonite.

MET Office says lowest temp is -2 tonight ,5 & cloudy at 3pm
The ground hasn't been anywhere near as frozen as on the run up to the Rochdale game.
The game will be on,no problem.

I will do a pitch inspection in chester rd Cemetery at 8am when i go to corner shop for the SUN Newspaper(only get it for the tv mag n Sudokos ).

Verdict on here at 9am.

Got ya hattrick there Kev, BBC, TheSun & Raj. lol

Pick the odd one out, isn,t one.

4 inches of snow fell in Harrogate last night according to my mate.

Chester Road cementary- used to like going there on lunch times from Brougham School. Was fascinated by ages people died etc. Must have been a bit morbid in those days.

Passed my inspection just to say.
Game on.
Come on Pools.
Surely we cant fcuk up this Gimme opportunity.

UTP.

As a long standing Poolie, the same as you, I am confident Pools are more than capable of fcuking up at any time in any game. They are also capable of surprising us. What will it be this afternoon? Not a clue but if was a betting man I'd put a pound on Hoskins to score for the Cobblers.

If you didn't watch Pools vs Tranmere and you watch today, you will be in for a pleasant surprise.

Northampton's last 6 games have produced the following;

D 1 - 1, D 0 - 0, L 2 - 1, W 1 - 0, D 1 - 1, W 1 - 0

So 9 points from last 6 games with 5 for & 4 against goals

Going for a 2 -1 WIN

If he’s fit Dodds on the bench and Murray starting is a mistake, other than that team looks as good as it can be

Maybe desperation….but I fancy a win

Stockport county fan in peace… really hope you guys win today, your a proper football club and really need to stay up… keeping my fingers crossed for you.

Dodds on the bench Murray starting.

unless dodds only half fit that doesnt make much sense to me

Murray spoons a ball out of play under no pressure

Half chance for Cooke but poor 1st touch

couple of poor touches from Kemp, hope he isnt having one of thoss games when things dont come off---overall we have been decent so far

playing nice football--Pruti v good on the ball and nice to see Kemp and Cooke interacting

So much better than under Curle

good save pools keeper, murray flat footed and skinned again--why is he on the pitch ffs

northampton on top, pools doing more and more long balls

Annoying just as we get better our fixtures are against good teams--should have got rid of Curle a month sooner in hindsight

Brilliant goal umerah....shades of offside but did so well!!

Get in lad!

good first half, slighltly fortunate to be ahead against a good side but we have done well

Great goal Umerah who has been handled well by Northampton that aside

I really like Pruti--had a great game so far, though think bith Sterry and Ferguson need to do better preventing crosses into the box,and Kemp off colour so room to get better

Will do well to hold onto this 2nd half but fingers crossed!

Are u on Match of the day tonite.

Pools improving every game. Great goal from Urehah . He had 3 players around him, turned the lot and right in the corner. Northampton playing better but at least Pools playing like a league 2 team.

Crawley beating Harrogate 2-0 !

Murray booked--embarassing challenge--exposed lack of mobility and pace--lucky not to be off, didnt even do a good job of making it subtle

ref giving us F all --we are being too negative though v little time on ball

ffs been comimg

Hoskins. Crawley winning means they are one point behind us with two games in hand. Of course I am assuming we dont lose another.

its all northampton--really stupid goal as well

Needed the win--but didnt deserve it--stupid goal though

Dodds has to start -- gave us another option when he came on

Fast running out of games and going down I think

Think that’s it now

Agree.
2 wins from last 14 tells that.
Cant fault the effort of players but cheap as chips recruitment since Promotion will mean we back in non league oblivion forever.
Fcuk off Sing u Crank.

It's going to go to the last game.........

3rd last...

We can only pray that Colchester blow up, they haven't won or scored since Bloomfield left. The last 10 games are:- Orient (A) Tranmere (H) Newport (H) Stevenage (A) Crewe (H) Salford (A) Crawley (A) Sutton (H) Donny (A) Mansfield (H).

As long as we can keep picking up the odd point against the top teams and hope we can possibly beat Swindon, Grimsby, Newport, Crawley and Barrow.

Call or Bluff time now

We,ll win at Bradford.

A very brave prediction when we cant win at tiddlywinks at the moment.

Ratings

Keeper 7 - A step up from Killip
Sterry 6 (barely)--not effective at stopping crosses or going fwd as he could be
Ferguson 6 (see Sterry)

Foran 7 - Solid, a little slow but had a decent game
Pruti 8 MoM good defensively and used ball well
Murray 5 lucky to get that mainly for effort- hesitant and slow---didnt hide at least-should have been sent off for a ridiculous 'challenge' which left Northampton player with broken nose

Sylla 7 Best of midfielders
Kemp 5--poor game for him where nothing came off
Cooke 6 -- Blah

Umerah 7 - didnt get much change out of a physical Northampton defence and shit ref but excellent goal
Jennings 6- Improvement on what we had

Murray got a really good round of applause when he came off - with the score still at 1-0. Maybe he'd have defended the far post better than Foran did for Northampton's goal - who knows?

I thought Pools were excellent in the first half, when a lot of good football was played by both sides. The second half was really scrappy in comparison and Pools were slowly muscled out of it. Despite all their injuries Northampton had a better bench than us and that really big forward who came on towards the end made a difference. Umerah and Jennings were both blowing out of their arses by that point. Dan Kemp had an off day - the curse of the monthly awards strikes again!

He isn’t quick and he makes bad decisions

He got himself into an awful position and then in a non-subtle way chinned the player who beat him, it’s amazing he didn’t get sent off and may get a retrospective ban

Agree we did well in 1st half, was a good performance against a good sidw

He got a yellow for the incident and no further action should be taken. However, this is Pools.

He broke the blokes nose apparently, if that had been
The other way around we’d be fuming

And with today’s result, I think that is it. Farewell League 2.

Askey didn’t take the post match presser but thought Sweens was honest - to the point of also admitting we are some way short of what’s required for the division.

First 45 was good. Second - dire. But still streets ahead of what Hartley and Curle served. A good point if you’re mid-table. Potentially fatal when you’re where we are with results going against you.

Run-in looks brutal. Time for the players to grow some bollocks, be brave and throw absolutely everything at it. The reality is we were probably all but relegated after the debacle of the Crewe and Newport games. Miracle needed…

This is like being on a slowly sinking ship where we know the pumps can’t cope, but you cross your fingers and everything else and hope the ‘pumps’ save us.

Aren't we 22nd? Which means, as fact, other teams need more points than us.

Askey has taken us from being terrible to being average, except we have a goal scorer in Umerah.

I expect this team to compete in every match, today wasn't hopeless, we created plenty, unfortunately we tired.

Askey has time to work on that, building fitness and making us more solid, meanwhile I would back us to.score against anyone.

Form guide says you could be correct.
Dont rule out a 97th minute goal from Stockport to send us down on G/D.

Its only football.

pools shaded the first half. both keepers made good saves. anyone turning up with no idea of league positions would not believe they were 18 places above us. second half though was same old pools. never really got going and was just a matter of time before something came off for them. fair result really but the worst person on the pitch in the sacond half was the referee who seemed to find any offences pools made but was not as fussy about their play. nice also to see josh back in the goals and should give him more confidence. just hope that we quickly get a win like crawley did and everyone will feel more confident.