Milk Cup Tournament

Kolley Kibber · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:58 pm

I'm over in Belfast visiting a mate and I was lucky enough to catch a few games yesterday. Pick of the bunch was Borussia Dortmund vs Drogheda United, absolutely cracking game of football with some top draw finishing and the Irish eventually running out worthy 3-2 winners. Wish I could say the same thing for the Pools youth team, they got totally outplayed by a very good Co. Londonderry team and lost 3-1. They're playing the tournament favourites Fluminense from Brazil today which will be a very difficult game and one in which I'd expect them to struggle in again. I hope Pools have sent a scout out because some of the Northern Irish county teams are filled with excellent youngsters, and we're missing a trick if we don't. Oldham, Colchester, Millwall and Doncaster (who've picked up my mate's brother) to name but a few already have permanent scouts based out their, usually football managers they've made contact with to pass on the best players, and I see no reason why we shouldn't do the same. On a happier note, I met a Pools fan from East Belfast who'd supported the club for over 30 years and was down supporting the younguns proudly wearing his Pools top. Top bloke.

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:59 pm

Kolley Kibber wrote:

I'm over in Belfast visiting a mate and I was lucky enough to catch a few games yesterday. Pick of the bunch was Borussia Dortmund vs Drogheda United, absolutely cracking game of football with some top draw finishing with the Irish running out worthy 3-2 winners. Wish I could say the same thing for the Pools youth team, they got totally outplayed by a very good Co. Londonderry team and lost 3-1. They're playing the tournament favourites Fluminense from Brazil today which will be a very difficult game and one in which I'd expect them to struggle in again. I hope Pools have sent a scout out because some of the Northern Irish county teams are filled with excellent youngsters, and we're missing a trick if we don't. Oldham, Colchester, Millwall and Doncaster (who've picked up my mate's brother) to name but a few already have permanent scouts based out their, usually football managers they've made contact with to pass on the best players, and I see no reason why we shouldn't do the same. On a happier note, I met a Pools fan from East Belfast who'd supported the club for over 30 years and was down supporting the younguns proudly wearing his Pools top. Top bloke.

'Ere, it wasn't a new top was it, straight out of the bag?

Kolley Kibber · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:01 pm

TalbotAvenger wrote:

Kolley Kibber wrote:

I'm over in Belfast visiting a mate and I was lucky enough to catch a few games yesterday. Pick of the bunch was Borussia Dortmund vs Drogheda United, absolutely cracking game of football with some top draw finishing with the Irish running out worthy 3-2 winners. Wish I could say the same thing for the Pools youth team, they got totally outplayed by a very good Co. Londonderry team and lost 3-1. They're playing the tournament favourites Fluminense from Brazil today which will be a very difficult game and one in which I'd expect them to struggle in again. I hope Pools have sent a scout out because some of the Northern Irish county teams are filled with excellent youngsters, and we're missing a trick if we don't. Oldham, Colchester, Millwall and Doncaster (who've picked up my mate's brother) to name but a few already have permanent scouts based out their, usually football managers they've made contact with to pass on the best players, and I see no reason why we shouldn't do the same. On a happier note, I met a Pools fan from East Belfast who'd supported the club for over 30 years and was down supporting the younguns proudly wearing his Pools top. Top bloke.

'Ere, it wasn't a new top was it, straight out of the bag?

No, he was going to wait a week to wear it so as not to look like a div.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:46 pm

Kolley Kibber wrote:

On a happier note, I met a Pools fan from East Belfast who'd supported the club for over 30 years and was down supporting the younguns proudly wearing his Pools top. Top bloke.

It wasn't N17 by any chance (I think that was his name) who used to post on the board that existed before the bunker?

Kolley Kibber · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:08 pm

MadJohn wrote:

The lad who scored twice for Londonderry against Pools is supposedly off to Blackburn.

Not sure what to make of the youth team at the moment. With the obvious star (Rowell) stopping playing for them midway through last season, and some of the best of the rest (e.g. Tymon, Tait) no longer involved, it looks a very young team with not many youth team matches under their belts. I'm not sure how much the phrase "transitional period" can ever apply to a junior side, but the youth team has that kind of look to me right now.

That lad was a class act, both of his goals were excellent. His first was a freekick that Pools keeper maybe should have dealt with but his second was just sheer brilliance; he turned our right back and let fly with a beauty from just outside the box which just crept in the near post. One of Londonderry's forward's was also some player, loved to get stuck in and put himself about but he couldn't half play. Very impressive. I was impressed with all of the Irish sides that I watched to be honest, Co. Down beat Necaxa from Mexico, one of the pre-tournament favourites, relatively comfortably and some of their players were off to England for trials with various clubs after the tournament finishes. If anything, this tournament will do our youth team the world of good experience wise as they're up against some quality opposition.

Mr Head - it possibly could be. I actually randomly met this bloke's daughter in a bar in Belfast on friday and she told me about her dad supporting Hartlepool United, and I just coincidentally bumped into him at the game yesterday. I remember him saying that he wasn't aware of any other Hartlepool supporters in the region so I presume it'd be him.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:30 pm

Richard M. Head wrote:

It wasn't N17 by any chance (I think that was his name) who used to post on the board that existed before the bunker?

Just who I was thinking it might have been Mr.Head!!!! :grin:

Always very good for a tip on the Horses and one of my all-time favourite Pools posterers* on the Boards!!!! :coool:

Is that a word????

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:43 pm

Fluminense have won 2-1. No other details.

parmopooly · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:37 pm

you mean..................Pools are going to entertain us like James Mason and Dean Martin confised

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22659

No fecking wonder then won if they are deploying artillery guns in defence. What was the left back? a six inch howitzer?

"take a note Darling, recommendation to the Harrow governors, heavy machine guns for full backs. Nice idea Blackadder"

parmopooly · **Posted:** Wed Jul 30, 2008 1:56 pm

MadJohn wrote:

A report on yesterday's game, courtesy of a Brazilian news site (via Babelfish)

The Inhabitant of the state of Rio de Janeiro if classified for the fourth-of-end of the Milk Cup Sub-17 when defeating the Hartlepool Utd (ING) for 2 the 1, with gols of Alex and Stefano. The departure was disputed in this tuesday, in the Stadium Rugby Avenue, Coleraine, Ireland of the North. The tricolor team better played during all the departure and placed four balls in the bar before opening the marker, to the eight minutes of the second stage, with the apoiador Alex, artilleryman of the team in the competition with two gols. The Hartlepool Utd (ING) tied up to the departure to the 29 minutes of second time and, to the 34, when everything seemed lost, came the saving goal. The aggressor Stefano, who started the departure in the place of Marlon, I banish in the first one twirled, it received launching necessary and it completed for the nets. Valley to remember that the games of the competition are disputed in two times of 35 minutes each. - The important one was the victory. We play against an English team, that counts very on strong athletes physically and practises a different football very of ours. Now only they lack three games for the bichampionship - Genius informed to the Gilson technician. Still in this tuesday, to 21h30, he will have a drawing that he will define the marked confrontations of the fourth-of-end for this fourth.

I love those translation sites!!!!!

parmopooly · **Posted:** Wed Jul 30, 2008 1:57 pm

PS where IS N17 road???? He was a top poster, and seemed a decent bloke to boot!!!

Come back Mr N17 Road!!!!

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