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JimmyGiro · **Joined:** Sat Dec 23, 2006 7:02 pm **Posts:** 381

Looks like we have our work cut out for us. We will need to see some real fight to get something out of this match.

Tax Paying Poolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:18 am **Posts:** 9053

Dodgy defending for the first by all accounts. Plenty of time to get one back and then it'll be game on.

Good first half for ex Poolies/loaned out Pools players; Ian Moore, Danny Coles, Kevin Kyle and Micheal Mackay all notched

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

it's got to the point now where it would be a decent bet betting on ex-poolies to notch every week, be a cheeky accumulator that.

tigro · **Posted:** Sat Aug 15, 2009 5:10 pm

Beaten by a better team, cant say pools did anything wrong, charlton were just far far better.

JimmyGiro · **Joined:** Sat Dec 23, 2006 7:02 pm **Posts:** 381

tigro wrote:

Beaten by a better team, cant say pools did anything wrong, charlton were just far far better.

Fair enough comment. Seems there were a few chances toward the end of the match. Onward and upward.

butterflinders · **Posted:** Sat Aug 15, 2009 5:46 pm

MadJohn wrote:

We were comfortable for the first 20 minutes then shot ourselves badly in the foot for their opening goal. Charlton were the better side for much of the rest of the first half and for the first 20 minutes of the second half. Then Pools finished strongly. Charlton deserved their victory and look a good solid side who will challenge, but some of the comments leaving the ground would suggest we were outclassed from start to finish which simply wasn't the case.

Concurring fully with Mr John!
SOme of the Mill House whingers were really getting on my chesticles - look its first home game, gift of a first goal, & we struggled to get in the game until last 20 mins. Charlton looked a half decent team (after the gift).

Behan looks like Bob Newton and was my MoM. Got a shot like a rocket as well!

Thats all !

HUFC Poolie · **Posted:** Sat Aug 15, 2009 5:48 pm

I may be completly bonkers here but why did Boyd get a chorus of "booooooo" ? :roll:

I thought he did ok.. bbolt

butterflinders · **Posted:** Sat Aug 15, 2009 5:50 pm

i think the boos were because he was being subbed, aimed at Turner me thinks.

JimmyGiro · **Joined:** Sat Dec 23, 2006 7:02 pm **Posts:** 381

MadJohn wrote:

HUFC Poolie wrote:

I may be completly bonkers here but why did Boyd get a chorus of "booooooo" ? :roll:

I thought he did ok.. bbolt

I've no idea what the fook that was about. Whether they were booing Boyd or the decision to take him off, the usual gobshites in the Mill seats were bang out of order.

Perhaps we should rename the Mill House Stand to the Moan House Stand.

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Sat Aug 15, 2009 6:54 pm

MadJohn wrote:

We were comfortable for the first 20 minutes then shot ourselves badly in the foot for their opening goal. Charlton were the better side for much of the rest of the first half and for the first 20 minutes of the second half. Then Pools finished strongly. Charlton deserved their victory and look a good solid side who will challenge, but some of the comments leaving the ground would suggest we were outclassed from start to finish which simply wasn't the case.

We were probably not 'outclassed' but there was a definite gulf between the sides. Charlton never really got going (thank god). I think Jones would have made a difference had he played. We lost it in midfield today.

Warwick Hunt · **Posted:** Sat Aug 15, 2009 7:54 pm

HUFC Poolie wrote:

I may be completly bonkers here but why did Boyd get a chorus of "booooooo" ? :roll:

I thought he did ok.. bbolt

They might have been saying booerns.

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6476

MadJohn wrote:

We were comfortable for the first 20 minutes then shot ourselves badly in the foot for their opening goal. Charlton were the better side for much of the rest of the first half and for the first 20 minutes of the second half. Then Pools finished strongly. Charlton deserved their victory and look a good solid side who will challenge, but some of the comments leaving the ground would suggest we were outclassed from start to finish which simply wasn't the case.

Spot on again Mr Mad, I spoke to Mutters after the match and he said 'was it just me or did we play ok there' we agreed with what he was saying he must have heard the comments as you John. Charlton will be up near the top at the end of the season and apart from their 2 goals they didn't really create that much

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Sat Aug 15, 2009 7:57 pm

Warwick Hunt wrote:

HUFC Poolie wrote:

I may be completly bonkers here but why did Boyd get a chorus of "booooooo" ? :roll:

I thought he did ok.. bbolt

They might have been saying booerns.

I certainly heard Hans Moleman shouting booerns

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Sat Aug 15, 2009 8:03 pm

ElvisAintDead wrote:

More positives than negatives from me. We now have a Goalkeeper who can catch, save and kick.

We now have a proper Striker who can put it about a bit AND control the ball AND lay it off.

We lacked a bit of pace, James Brown will provide that, and Colin Larkin.

Didn't enjoy it, 'cos we lost but we DId play quite well especially 1st 20 and most of the 2nd half.

Very true. Boydy is tooo slllloooooowwww. get larkin alongside Behan (who I think was excellent) and brown on the right wing and we will be more mobile and creative.

Oh, and Flinders looked 100x better than last seasons "keepers" although he didnt really have much to do.

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Sat Aug 15, 2009 10:46 pm

ElvisAintDead wrote:

More positives than negatives from me. We now have a Goalkeeper who can catch, save and kick.

We now have a proper Striker who can put it about a bit AND control the ball AND lay it off.

We lacked a bit of pace, James Brown will provide that, and Colin Larkin.

Didn't enjoy it, 'cos we lost but we DId play quite well especially 1st 20 and most of the 2nd half.

100% agree with that, Jones in for Sweeney will also help. I'm usually the most sadly optimistic Poolie, thinking 'we can still get back in this' right to the end, but I had settled for a 2-0 defeat from half way through the second half.

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Sat Aug 15, 2009 11:13 pm

I think we just had to accept today that Charlton were a better side than us., just like when we played them in the League Cup a few years back.

katcha · **Posted:** Sat Aug 15, 2009 11:35 pm

ElvisAintDead wrote:

More positives than negatives from me. We now have a Goalkeeper who can catch, save and kick.

We now have a proper Striker who can put it about a bit AND control the ball AND lay it off.

We lacked a bit of pace, James Brown will provide that, and Colin Larkin.

Didn't enjoy it, 'cos we lost but we DId play quite well especially 1st 20 and most of the 2nd half.

agreed

kosherOY · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:25 am

Wise words Chip !

klinger · **Joined:** Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:27 pm **Posts:** 1589

chip fireball wrote:

fraid to say i thought we played shyte today compared to first home game of last season.

a few looked out of their depth, and i have to say a couple didnt look interested.

dunno about flinders, hard to judge on that performance. the two full backs had poor games i thought, and the midfield were all over the place.

only real bright spot for me was the performance of behan who had a really good game, although i thought rowell looked bright when he came on. at least he passed the ball on the deck .

the team will take time to gel, so im not writing the season off already, but was hugely disappointed today after 2 great away results.

Dont really see what the first game of last season has got to do with anything.
We gave away a daft first goal but Charlton were the better team on the day.
I dont think we looked out of our depth and certainly didnt see any players who didnt look interested, we were up against a good side. Agree Behan looked quality.

Nobodys Hero · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2009 7:58 am

Grave wrote:

ElvisAintDead wrote:

More positives than negatives from me. We now have a Goalkeeper who can catch, save and kick.

We now have a proper Striker who can put it about a bit AND control the ball AND lay it off.

We lacked a bit of pace, James Brown will provide that, and Colin Larkin.

Didn't enjoy it, 'cos we lost but we DId play quite well especially 1st 20 and most of the 2nd half.

Very true. Boydy is tooo slllloooooowwww. get larkin alongside Behan (who I think was excellent) and brown on the right wing and we will be more mobile and creative.

Oh, and Flinders looked 100x better than last seasons "keepers" although he didnt really have much to do.

A great post by EAD, but you Grave, had to have a dig at someone didnt you? Is Boydy now your target? Just cos he didnt have a great game? And I just love the way you want Larkin up front based on the evidence of never actually having seen him play.

I take it you want McSweeney out of the side based on one game too do you? Since you want arguably. our most talented striker to play there.

Fook me. :roll:

Nobodys Hero · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2009 8:00 am

chip fireball wrote:

a few looked out of their depth, and i have to say a couple didnt look interested.

I hope that post was tongue in cheek, otherwise its quite a stupid thing to say. Please tell us which players werent interested then.

The Lightning Tree · **Joined:** Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:30 pm **Posts:** 5804

I'm more worried about the crowd, after a decent start to the season less than 4500 :shock:

Puts to bed a few of the predictions on here. This fooooking town banghead

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:56 am

ADG wrote:

Grave wrote:

ElvisAintDead wrote:

More positives than negatives from me. We now have a Goalkeeper who can catch, save and kick.

We now have a proper Striker who can put it about a bit AND control the ball AND lay it off.

We lacked a bit of pace, James Brown will provide that, and Colin Larkin.

Didn't enjoy it, 'cos we lost but we DId play quite well especially 1st 20 and most of the 2nd half.

Very true. Boydy is tooo slllloooooowwww. get larkin alongside Behan (who I think was excellent) and brown on the right wing and we will be more mobile and creative.

Oh, and Flinders looked 100x better than last seasons "keepers" although he didnt really have much to do.

A great post by EAD, but you Grave, had to have a dig at someone didnt you? Is Boydy now your target? Just cos he didnt have a great game? And I just love the way you want Larkin up front based on the evidence of never actually having seen him play.

I take it you want McSweeney out of the side based on one game too do you? Since you want arguably. our most talented striker to play there.

Fook me. :roll:

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Tax Paying Poolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:18 am **Posts:** 9053

Grave's comments are in line with the opinions I've heard from people talking about Boydys performance yesterday. I don't see the problem myself, he hasn't been abusive and most people have suggested we could do with some pace upfront which Larkin would provide. Why start fcking squabbling over it?

Mister Ed · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:24 am

The Lightning Tree wrote:

I'm more worried about the crowd, after a decent start to the season less than 4500 :shock:

Puts to bed a few of the predictions on here. This fooooking town banghead

There is still a recession going on, and recent stats say the towns un-employment rose, 45%......
if you had to choose a game out of the 3 this month, maybe this would not be it...

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:52 am

just out of curiosity, how many 'big' ( :roll:

) teams to Barnsley and Burnley have within 40 miles of them?

They may be smaller towns however, their catchment areas could be much larger

just a thought

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2009 11:02 am

MadJohn wrote:

By the way, I'm not sure when the Bunker is worse: when it is laughably over-negative towards Pools, or when opponents are laughably overpraised. Charlton looked a good side but let's not get carried away. Like chip I also thought they were light up front, but they also looked vulnerable at the back especially down their left. Had we taken even one of our chances (and I would say we created at least as many good ones as Charlton, maybe more) it could have been a different game. And we didn't play particularly well.

spot on, Charlton were a good team and will be up in the top 6. But barring their 30 minute spell either side of half time i think we more than matched them.

We had two great free kicks by Behan which were very well saved and created one or two decent chances as well. where as they really only created the two goals (one of which we created for them!)

I think we struggled once it went to 2-0 and they defended pretty well and nullified us.

Charlton were good but not great.

We showed very good flashes but still looked very much like a 'work in progress' team.

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2009 11:03 am

MadJohn wrote:

misterb2001 wrote:

just out of curiosity, how many 'big' ( :roll:

) teams to Barnsley and Burnley have within 40 miles of them?

They may be smaller towns however, their catchment areas could be much larger

just a thought

Within 40 miles of Burnley? Manchester United, Manchester City, Blackburn, Leeds. Liverpool (and Everton) are only maybe 50 miles away. The "big" three is a ridiculous excuse for a Hartlepool fan.

thanks for blowing my possible theory out of the water, bounder banghead

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2009 11:16 am

misterb2001 wrote:

MadJohn wrote:

misterb2001 wrote:

just out of curiosity, how many 'big' ( :roll:

) teams to Barnsley and Burnley have within 40 miles of them?

They may be smaller towns however, their catchment areas could be much larger

just a thought

Within 40 miles of Burnley? Manchester United, Manchester City, Blackburn, Leeds. Liverpool (and Everton) are only maybe 50 miles away. The "big" three is a ridiculous excuse for a Hartlepool fan.

thanks for blowing my possible theory out of the water, bounder banghead

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2009 1:01 pm

Something that really pissed me off yesterday sat in the Mill House, was the big cheer that went up for Drogba's last minute cross, that fluked into the goal to give Chelsea a win. Bastads((c)adg)
banghead

RAY52 · **Joined:** Sat Aug 11, 2007 7:36 pm **Posts:** 932

Not seen many BORER shirts around town though, why is that?

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