Tonight was a new low as far as i'm concerned. I know i don't post on here very often but there are a couple of issues that i wanted to get off my chest.

To start with, it is plainly obvious to all but the management that the goalkeeping situation is a real problem at the moment and tonights goal was an absolute shocker by Budtz. I cannot dispute that.

However....

The reaction of a number of fans behind the town end goal was nothing short of disgusting. I agree that if you pay your money then you should be able to voice your opinion but surely there is a line that was crossed tonight. When the goal went in it was clear that the lad was devastated - and rightly so, but is a reaction like that really the way to improve his performances, his confidence?

'You bounder'..... 'You w@nker' etc etc. For me the only w@nkers were those stood at the back of the town end and directly behind the goal at the front. These people are not fans, they are simply people whose lives are so meaningless that they have to act like cretins to feel like big men.

Yes we need a new keeper, but this is not the way to go about things. It was a poor team performance tonight, not all about 1 man. He didn't lose us 3 points because we were never going to win the game playing like that.

happens everywhere tho not just at hartlepool, the problem is the management if u ask me, players r playing with no confidence and looked like the dressing room had gone months ago

but it is not the first howler he has made this season he is not even as good as taffy williams who i would rather see in goal for us than that clown
i can understand why people are abusing him
he had already got away with dropping the ball in the box once

he is simply a piss poor keeper

I could hear them from where I was sat in the cyril knowles, it was shocking behaviour from some fans. Before he let the goal in I actually heard a female voice shout, budz you are shite The thing is he'd had foook all to do before the goal

I agree with most of your comments and I never boo a player. But you should never be ashamed to be a Poolie.

read what he said he knows he's piss poor and isnt defending him he just thinks the fans were shocking

read my post
the clue is

read the third line

Correct, i know he's not good enough but if he keeps getting picked what is he supposed to do, refuse to play coz he doesn't feel up to it?

You're as bad as them sharp sh1t, i could never understand anybody being that evil to a bloke who really is trying his best.

for us than that clown

ok abusing him when hes trying his best at a sport.

trying his best my arse
he is shite and cost us more points

and i agree with the sentiment shown by them

you dont so what

the only thing i am ashamed of is that some dozy bastads on here can think showing how you feel about losing is more annoying than getting beat

That's just what I have been saying. It's not Budtz's fault - it's Wilson's for picking him!

showing how you feel?

thats what you call it

I absolutely agree Norton. It's abusive behaviour and in most other walks of life the bullies (because that's what they are) would probably be arrested. But then in most other walks of life they might be deterred by a potential bloody nose.

For God's sake, however passionate we get about it, it's still only a game

did wilson dive over the ball no

he picked a professional goalkeeper who did not do his job

Totally agree, for bus to suggest that Budtz isn't trying just goes to show what a complete twit (for want of a better word) he is. There is a big difference between not trying and simply, unfortunately, not being good enough.

Maybe we should pay our £18 stand or sit there say nothing in case we offend any one then we should skip happily home.

And hasn't done so for weeks. So who is to blame?

nah hes correct john, he seen it coming and didnt put effort in

Are you thick?? You seem to be missing the point!!! We all agree with what you have written here, but it is plain to see that he is not good enough and Wilson continues to pick him week after week. If this was his first mistake then you could not blame Wilson, however, it isn't, so you can! (without having to be an arse about it)

Oh dear...

Well, one thing for sure and whatever the ethics of it, bellowing abuse brings no returns at all.
If we really want to make a point about players consistently not being good enough, or not being worth the money to watch, we should start boycotting matches.

both of them
wilson for signing him
and budtz for letting shots go under him

and most observers have stated that lee barratt is even worse so who would you play

Again, missing the point entirely. I totally agree with free speech and people having an opinion... but answer me one thing, would those clever people shouting from a distance be big enough to go and say those exact words to his face on the street? Not in a million years!!!

What do you mean?

whos third choice keeper?

ok i will not go when we play huddersfield at home on 11th march
anyone else got the balls to admit they are boycotting the game

no ill be there, and at oldham

more fool you

Nope, because i'll support pools through thick and thin, even if we were losing 10-0 every week. On 11th March, why not pop over and watch darlo, you'll fit right in

You'll be there probably with ur free tickets you spawny get

Neither. I'd sign a loanee. Brad Jones would be nice.

If we can only bring in emergency loans then you dont get more of an emergency as this. Hasn't Graeme lee played in goal before

as soon as (if) we get to safety, I can see attendances dropping like a stone for the last couple of games. I have a feeling that Pools will take this right to the last game. Too many bad selections, too many crap players and too many mistakes, very often not enough quality or effort and cohesion. Bloody awful season this has been.

Well, I don't see it quite like that, Norton. There are any number of 'organisations' that I'd like to support.....can't afford all of them so I tend to pick the most deserving

look i have seen plenty of shite pools teams over the years and have never felt the need to boycott matches but someone suggested it and i am responding to that
now if you havent the courage to show your disgust at wilson by boycotting the game then so be it i will consider your opinion to be as worthless as the shite you are posting on here tonight

I dont stand on the town end but tonight from the millhouse i shouted Wilson feck off and take Butz with you my blood was boiling. passion of the game.

no we are in prague for 4 days for lord seatons 50th birthday but dont tell anyone or i wont be able to get them to bite

id butz hadnt of let that goal in i know for a fact you wouldnt be posting this sh*t so as far as im aware

your not going to a match because of a keeper error

If someone told you to jump of a bridge would you???

john check your pm

And if the Titanic hadn't have hit an iceberg it wouldn't have sunk. So what? It did happen and people are going to talk about it.

When you put it like that it's hilarious!! The pettyness of some people astounds me!!! Well done Mr Bus, you've made my night!

That old chestnut, it's only a game......

Should we just accept the garbage served up then because "it's only a game"?

I have said this before - the players and management wouldn't get any stick at all if they performed as a proper Hartlepool United team should and could. We wouldn't even have to be winning... losing in the right manner is acceptable to most fans, I wasn't there tonight so some could say I can't comment, but it doesn't sound like they are putting in the required effort does it?

yeh i know just an opinion but i wouldnt miss a game because of a bad keeper theres weeks before the next home game, we might have a new keeper by then anyway but ither way ill go (and ive already got oldham tickets)

steady on there mouldy my old mate think of the blood pressure

And if me auntie had bollocks she'd be Robert's live-in lover.

But my point was ...it's only a game therefore personal abuse is out of order. If indeed it's ever in order.
Antway I'm off to watch Jools Holland

It's all relative. If a six foot blonde with 38ff baps offered you a quick one, would you say no?

I stopped going to Pools when Scotty was in 'charge' after the Tamworth game, i said i'd never go back 'till he left. I didn't.

I never went tonight, mainly because i was busy in the house and i'm glad i fooking never.

Big problems at Pools in my opinion.