Just goes to show we need another midfielder, Featherstone might have been an option but he wouldn’t sigh the deal, his loss as I don’t think he has a club yet.

Thing is we have known we are short in areas and have gone into a new season knowing this. We only have ourselves to blame really.

we def dont need a featherstone..we need someone with legs who can get up and down the pitch--hopefully bring someone in soon as cover--that and anther option up front/wide if we want to switch to 4-3-3

Dont feel as disappointed as I thought I would after that - think we do need some realism--annoying thing is that game prob galvanises chesterfiled to go on a run--if they play like that most weeks i dont see them dropping too many points

Very proud of the lads give every once and would have been a win if The Machine Mancini had not got injured. We move on and maybe the time is right for Raj to let JA spend some proper money on a couple of topclass additions. Raj has done good things lately to show his new intentions and leadership now back your manager Mr Chairman and you will not be disappointed.

Heartbreaking.
But it was coming when Mancini went off.
Probably all the Pools team would of been arrested for burglary had we got thru that 2nd half wirh a point.
Best non league team ive ever seen.

Jeez…how about getting Ron Young back to put the icing on the tombstone

Similar to last season we are weak on crosses. All three goals scored within 6yd box and goalkeeper doesn’t fill me with confidence.

You win some, you lose some…looooong way to go yet.
Wonder what the score is with Mancini.

Hasn’t taken long for the doom merchants to pop up from the grave. Oh dear.

Chesterfield have spent money on players and today it showed. Hard to take losing after being two up but there is a very long way to go and we are highly unlikely to be playing away at Chesterfield again. One concern from me, to what extent are we a one man team? Mancini goes off and the wheels fall off? True it is second game in 48 hours and Chesterfield are probably the strongest team in NL. If he is out for a month or more will we continue to win games?

Our defensive issues are well known. No clean sheet since Doncaster although lots of new faces in. Wondering if the goals we concede are partly to do with JA's attacking style? I dont necessarily mean today, just overall. Most of us would settle for loads of 3-2 wins as long as there aren't too many 3-2 losses.

Once again Snowy the voice of reason

Once Mancini went off, we bypassed the midfield - and got butchered. It was obscene he didn’t bring Umerah on for Grey. Once we started going long, we needed a focal point. Askey got that wrong for me, poor game management.

Some mitigating circumstances in terms
Of turnaround time and quality of opposition but we did struggle post Mancini to play as we usually do, looked physically out matched in the middle, and much as he is good going fwd Seaman needs to learn how to defend if he’s going to make it, up against a good player but it’s been a problem all season

Apart from distribution Dixon is no better than Killip

Some people think we just been relegated, the way they are talking. I personally think we are in a better place and possibly higher up the table than this time last season. Then again I might have the table upside down.

Said all along i think we will improve as the season goes on so apart from today been a good start. Few players short but win next week and we can get back on track.

Chesterfield brought quality off their bench. We had Paterson sat in attacking midfield. There’s levels and we saw it today. We are some way off their level I’m afraid.

JA has said he wants a few more in, midfield certainly needs bolstering.
Hopefully Mancini is just a pull and not a tear, did he walk off or was he carried? And we need Dodds back sharpish.

Askey confirmed Mancini injury looks ‘a long one’ … only at fucking Pools !

As disappointing as losing in injury time is, we've still managed 12 points from 6 games (2 points per game), so shouldn't really be too downbeat about things.

That will be our toughest game and we certainly gave them a scare. It's not as if we shipped 5 and were lucky to get nil- like at Orient in Challinor 's last match in charge.

Listening on the radio, sounded as though Mandaville for them was lucky not to be sent off for a poor challenge on Crawford,.

Anyway it wouldn't be Pools , if we didn't do things the hard way. As long as we remain in and around it- we can then make a well timed charge for the line towards the end.

So Mancini hamstring, best case won’t see him before haloween…worst case happy new fucking year !

Yet despite this level issue, the mighty Chesterfield could only draw with Oldham at home and lost at Altrincham. Obviously better than us today but in spite of their undoubted strengh, they are not consistent. Mancini went off and it seems we went into our shell. Wonder what would have happened if Mancini wasnt injured. Anyway, the loss is not the end of the world but Mancini's injury just might be.

Well what a shit day that turned out to be.
Left Hartlepool at 11 had a meal booked for 1.30 then due to speed limits, road works got to chesterfield at 2.30 got parked up at the ground for 2.45, hundreds in the queue with only 2 electronic turnstiles open then pools started scoring then 1 off the turnstiles broke down so got in at 3.15 just in time to see Mancini pull his hamstring and after that we just went to pot.
Substitutions very strange today the team didn't have a clue heard dolan going to south shields and come to your own conclusion about josh.
What a rant but that really was a shitty day.

Am fine with getting shot of Dolan if we can bring another in, done fuck all and wouldn’t have signed if not a local lad

Maybe Askey has is reasons.

It’s apparent Chesterfield play hot and cold, we got them on our wrong day, though losing Mancini didn’t help.

He may well have his reasons, Snowy. But if you put him in your squad for match day, then proceed to watch relentless attack after attack - meanwhile Joe Grey barely gets a touch as we resort to long ball tactics - you would bring your 15 goal, target man forward on to try mop up some of the pressure. You wouldn’t bring Paterson and Hastie on. If there’s an issue or he’s leaving, don’t bother put him in the squad.

It was poor game management and JA normally gets most things correct. On this occasion, he did not. The game was crying out for Umerah.

We got them on a day where they utterly battered us for 80 minutes. They will win the division.

Yes chesterfield did come at us second half only because we let them do so and wud agree JA made a few strange decisions today how ever players missing in the game/2nd half.

Dodds, Lacey, Mancini, Wallace, Wreh, Umerah so i would think had we had these players on the pitch it wud have been a totally different game.

I think he knew we were up against it and tried to change shape to 4-3-3 for something different, but I agree keeping grey on instead of Umerah seemed strange

Hastie actually did ok when he came on but this weekend has really highlighted there is a clear drop after the 1st 11

Really interested in how he solves Mancini absence, good news is a game a week for next few weeks and against teams we really should be beating

Well we nearly got a point, so we weren’t that far off but even with a point that would not excuse the performance….thing about Chesterfield is they were beaten 2-1 a couple pf days ago so maybe they aren’t that consistent themselves.

I was never advocating about bringing Featherstone back, we lost Sylvia and Featherstone and didn’t have another midfielder on the bench, that’s why we should have made an effort to keep Featherstone as a squad player, some one who could come on in midfield and put their foot on the ball, we were clearing the ball from defence to the our lone striker who had no support, Chesterfield then got possession again putting Pools under pressure once more.

One thing that cheered me up was listening to post match interviews

Askey as ever talked sense, whereas chesterfield wheeled out their assistant who sounded like a David Brent wannabe, already looking at the league table and flinging around cliches, very cringey

Oh and as well as celebrating Mancinis injury their manager was booked for trying to get Askey booked… classless bounder

The words ‘he might have been opinion’ make it pretty plain what you said.
He’d have been a liability in that team…..like a flotilla of destroyers at full speed with a tug boat wallowing behind.

Maybe hes off to a EFL club bfor friday.

I don’t think he would have been, after Mancini went of Chesterfield were cutting Pools up like a knife through butter.

You never know but why stick him on the bench if he was, if I was buying him I wouldn’t be wanting him involved in a top of the table clash.

Gives me a nice warm feeling saying ‘top of the table clash.

I admire your optimism Jamie, I bet you still think Glenn Miller’s just overdue too.

Just for clarity Paul Cook was booked for arguing with thr ref, insisting that Askey SHOULD'NT have been booked. But like a lot of refs in this shyte league he appears to have a big bed post and he wanted the notch of Paul Cook on it.

Claiming Paul Cook was classless is totally out of order. Don't tar him with the same brush that suits many a manager/coach in this shithousery league

every manager makes mistakes but we totally handed over the initiative to them once mancini went off. instead of moving seaman forward once prutti came on he was kept at full back and never got forward which is his best asset. the other option would have been hastie for mancini and prutti could have replaced lacey in the 2nd half. was expecting to see umerah coming on shortly after thy equalised but it was never to be. i,m sure he,d have been a better option defending all those corners than grey was as well as another threat going forward as mani d looked knackered. was just one of those games we had a couple of our best players out and another doing a job he is not affective in. chesterfield deserved their win but its sad the players efforts were rewarded by sod all.

lost to a team who let a two goal lead slip at fylde. they were not troubled by injuries and there changes were tactical with the dropped lads on the bench. if dodds had been playing, mancini had finished the game and the same problems had hit them instead of us we,d probebly be crowing about the result. just need a few decent bodies into the club who are as good or even better than we have and not just kids or rubbish just to fill the bench.

Fanbase n Good Manager in place.
But JA needs some major help from the Hierarchy.

Be very surprised if we sign any decent EFL players So JA needs to turn into Paul Daniels

we do not need to sign good EFL players. we need good NL players like most of the rest of the team are. heard from my lad that stockport are prepared to off load a couple who were good in the NL but not made the move to league standard with them and one would be a natural replacement for mancini, croasdale and the other evans who scored loads at torquay.

Yeh fully agree - we dont need to be chasing expensive loan signings either from the championship who end up absolute turd.
JA knows this and is well aware. But what did surprise me like all was the tactical subs and game plan we set up for - we almost looked like 10 men on that pitch, something went missing as though we had a player less. Some lads need a good rest now but unfortunately we dont have any decent players to fill their boots ? Where is Finney thought he was back fit ?

Ideally at this level you need that quality on the bench - thought JA would know that. Should of maybe tried to sign Greyson when we had the chance - we need footballers and lads with good engines to get out of this league. Chesterfield showed that yesterday. They for me will win this league. Can see them going on a run now.

Connor Evans is a cracking player for this level and id happily take him. Hope DC can do us a favour and loan us some of his better lads who cant seem to get into his league side.

Snowy I am a 60/70s music person it would be John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding or Marvin Gaye for me.

I would rather we signed decent NatLge players.

Maybe Johnson if hes still there.

he is out on a season loan at wimbledon.