well done much needed 3 points we just about deserved

2 points from the playoffs . We need to play out of our skins against Gateshead . But we can do it with Mani and Parksy in control

Yup, well done lads. Ground it out today.
Thought Parkes had a stand out performance

Spot on score line and spot on about unconvincing.

Got the result.
Now have to back it up boxing day n new years day.

Looking like even 72 pts gets a top 7 finish.

Beer garden promotion party on n off more time than Joan Collins knickers lots of years ago.

Only you our Kev

On the pools facebook thing there is a picture of Madine with what looks like a watch on his left arm. Is the scoreboard that unreliable?

A good win after the disappointment of a late equaliser.
Pleasantly surprised with LL's being positive and bringing on Madine.

Despite his goal scoring record, I have never been convinced of Mani D's heading ability. With his height and stature he should be getting to the back post hitting the target more often. Does anyone else agree?

Tired ground, tired fans, run down club. Thats what I picked up from today.

That's the spirit, we get a good win today & you're still complaining about something!!

Yes everything is great. We win a game in the National League. Yaaaay!!!.

It was nice to win but flipping heck the club is in a state of neglect.

Worst game since tamworth quality wise but got the 3 points….thought Yeovil gk looked solid, and if that penalty had been given against us we would have been fuming so looking fwd to cooper kicking off in his post match :D

Very good win in terrible conditions against hard opposition.

Shite game but a good 3 points. Job done.

Yes

Spot on it was a bit depressing seeing the gaps in the stands and total lack of atmosphere. But we won and lennie or whoever is doing a half decent job. Apart from york this is one abysmal league.

I cannot believe Mark Cooper's post match interview. He is bitter and twisted these days his head has gone. He said basically the referee robbed him of the offside goal and give us a penalty that was nowhere near a penalty. The goal was offside and the player did catch Parksy. He said the game was stopped because of a bit of paper hanging from the stand. No Mark it was a chunk of board that was about to drop on a players head. What a horrible bastard he has become.

Bah Humbug, .

Fear not, in a couple of nights time Santa Claus will fly over the Vic, dropping some Xmas stardust and lo and behold, Pools will thrash Gateshead 7 -0 on their own patch. The Vic grass will grow like wildfire, three brand new stands will sprout out of the ground and four £50k new signings, watched by a capacity crowd, will line up against Oldham on New Years Day. Is this soon enough for starters?

One or two speaking through gritted teeth. Not mentioning names.

Agree that this is a Godawful league but we knew that when we escaped from it few years back only to be sucked back down due to abysmal management and a lack of serious investment. No need to mention the names of those responsible, everyone is aware of the identity of the culprits.
However, as you say Lenny and co are doing a half decent job and hopefully - together with more than a little luck AND investment - the club MAY be in a position to emerge from the depths once again in 2025.

As for the gaps in the crowd, remember that today, the last Saturday pre Xmas, traditionally attracts the lowest attendance of the season for most lower league and non-league clubs. Finally if you want to sample football in an atmosphere akin to that of the moon, get yourself along to Gateshead FC - but not this week as the Poolies will take their own.

Cooper is a tit, no argument there but he has a point on the penalty which was super soft, and I thought the offside was as close….we have been fairly fortunate in a few games this season.

We’ve also dropped points because of a couple of ridiculously soft red cards, I reckon we’re about even.

Don't be shy.
Be brave
It's only wordage.

3 in 3 for Madine - whatever else he can or can't do as a footballer at this point, he really has that instinct to be Johnny on the Spot.
He's spent most of his career playing 3 levels above where Pools are now, and it shows.

So who could have forseen the advertising board coming loose?
Nearly 3500 fans on an horrendous day for watching football and the Saturday before Xmas makes us tired?
A well deserved win on balance of play and chances created, now 2 points off the play offs, and with genuine quality within the squad. Hardly smacks of run down club to be fair.
Plenty of room for improvement still and we need it for Boxing Day. But ffs credit when it's due, rather than searching for put downs even after a win.

really hate to say this but i agreed with his comments. the ref was totally attrocious for both sides and we have had clearer penalty decisions turned down.

Anyone who goes to pools knows the club is nowhere near what it was or should be. The club is run down anyone denying that really is out of touch or probobly in denial. We won a game in dreadful conditions, maybe there is a chink of light. We are getting results lets be honest we should be getting for what is a pretty strong forward line for this league. Once again though we will see how good we really are on boxing day, against one of the better teams.

What no one can deny is that whoever is managing us now is doing a pretty decent job, compared to the bufoon before, despite in my opinion looking miles away from a promotion team, we are definately not the soft touch we were.

the club cannot win even if they win a game of football. a bit of cardboard comes loose in a gale therefore the vic needs demolishing pdq.

even more shit for me as i missed the winner due to my time being up in morrisons car park and i did not want another parking fine there. if leaving early is a guarentee of 3 points i might try it again.

again its pointless to make the play offs if thats all we will get in the end. at the moment the best we would get is a semi final away to one of york, forset green or barnet. still need to bring a couple of players in and use the squad better than we do. when will we see dodds again or lua lua making a start.

The club is nowhere near what it was when? I can remember the old Clarence Road stand being torn down because bits fell off it every time there was the slightest breath of wind. Then years when there was nothing there while we waited for grants to rebuild. I can remember blanket collections regularly to keep the club going. So relative to those days we're miles better off. Relative to the glory years under IOR not so.
Since Sarll went we look to have started to turn a corner and now we're looking upward rather than down.
Where should the club be? There's no answering that, it's football nobody has a divine right to be anywhere. Who'd have thought .an City with arguably the best manager in football over the last 12 years, some of the best talent in world football, playing in front of sell out stadia week in week out, would be sat with 1 win in 12?

exactly. if it had not been a bit of cardboard it would be something else somebody would find to knock their club with. just enjoy the win and move on. one win out of two difficult games to come will suit me no matter who it is against.

We shouldnt be in the national league, we shouldnt be going out of cup competitions against teams in conference north or out in the first round of cup competitions against the likes of tamworth. The ckub has been run down to a level you and many others now accept as the norm and acceptable.

If we shouldn't be in the National League we shouldn't give a flying fart who beats us in the tinpot FA Trophy. Well I agree with you on that at least

But I'm forgetting the glory years when Pools were a great cup side... Sorry, I'm a bit too young to remember the Man Utd game

My daughter went to the game yesterday with my 8 year old grandson, never known it so cold she said, some fans were leaving when the game was stopped for the signboard incident because of the cold. She stuck it out as my Grandson didn’t want to go but relented after 70 minutes as he was chilled to the bone obviously missing the goals. She say it was one of the worst Pools games she has witnessed, she has been a lifelong Pools fan for 30 odd years.

I accept where we are because I can't change anything that will get us anywhere near where I'd like us to be.
Man City shouldn't be losing 11 out of 12 games, "bigger" clubs than us are in this league and in fact leagues beneath us should they be where they are?
Remember when we beat Palace, or reached the last 16 of the League Cup and got a draw against Villa, or even further back giving Man United a scare in a thriller - well none of them should have happened either. It's football not science with fixed rules and outcomes.
All we can do is get behind the team on a match day and see where we finish.
Apart from criticising on here are you doing anything productive to change things at the club, I'd hazard a guess the answers no because unless we win the lottery and are foolish enough we can't actually change a thing. Quite often in all things we don't get what we want and have to accept what we have.

we are in the national league because of one thing. appointing a manager with no idea of what was needed to run a team in the football league shortly after sacking one who finished 17th in the league. a position now that most poolies would give their blood for.

He's still got it.
Just needs better service.
Staying semi fit could just scrape us into 7th as the top 6 looks done n dusted.
UTP.

Oh that's right. We pick up three points against the mighty Yeovil Town and the years of utter incompetence and neglect from those that preside over HUFC can be forgotten. Jesus, how low we have sunk. For me it's a long way back from where we are as a club to where we ought to be and where we have the potential to be. I get what folks are saying, we won and I'm pleased but why should that mean you throw all perspective out of the window?

New regime is hope for a shit load of luck and add 400 onto the crowds.
Promotion n sell up required to reset the ambition levels.

Otherwise your views are totally justified as failure this season cements us at this level for the foreseeable.

As for the here n now 6pts needed from next 2 games.

UTP.

Nothing wrong with ambition levels, big deficit in achievement levels is the problem.

Spot on PTID, I too remember the glory days of Pools beating much bigger clubs such as Palace, Stoke City, Blackburn Rovers, Sheffield Wed, the Mackems in the FRT, drawing with Leeds, Villa, Forest etc. We would all like to see a return to those days but it’s not going to happen simply by critical disgruntled fans continually whinging on mb’s week in, week out.

Despite the recent improvement and good work by LL and his team we probably won’t end up back in EFL at the end of the current season. However even reaching the play-offs will raise the profile of the club and potentially attract investors who will see that at least the spadework of recovery has been done.

The whiingers should also appreciate that the presence of rich backers doesn’t necessarily equal success - instant or otherwise. The Shaggers of Carlisle are under their second set of rich Yank owners but currently remain favourites to return to their old stamping ground of the NL. Also the tinpot outfit of Harrogate is also in danger of returning to where they traditionally belong despite the fantastic backing of Irv Weaver who is coming under increasing criticism for not pushing the club forward quickly enough to meet their expectations.

The rose tint brigade should realise that nobody in their right mind thinks we're entitled to a wealthy owner anyway, just one that doesn't make cock up after cock up and when he dies appoint people to do it on his behalf, no prizes for guessing what they do.

Who says we're entitled to anything at all.

One only has to look at the NL table to see that it took a complete idiot called Sarll to engineer a loss to Ebbsfleet. 3 points from that game and we would be where we should be; in a playoff position!
The squad has not been used to its full potential and has the ability to keep moving upward provided LL goes for wins in his team selections.

Anyone who supports Pools and who hasn't lived under a rock for a few years is entitled to expect better than the dross we keep getting served up.

Entitled? Expectation after years of following Pools, really?