Away clean sheets...

parmo · **Posted:** Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:25 pm

one Mick Wadsworth!!!!

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22651

Pools have an away record this season that is automatic promotion standard. The only teams that compare are the likes of Man City, Cardiff, Leeds [spit], Bury (check theirs out, won 7 away already).

Its a polar opposite to last season when they may as well have saved the cost of travel as it was almost always a foregone conclusion. Same players, same league, the only difference is the management.

parmo · **Posted:** Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:28 pm

exactly!!!! I can't wipe the grin off my face now Turner is nowhere near our football club!!!!

threepintwonder · **Posted:** Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:32 pm

parmo who do you hate most tommy elphick or chris turner?

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

I prefer Gary Gibson to Turner

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22651

Chris Turner is finished as a manager. His first term at Pools was ok, not great, remember he fluffed the play offs several times. Since then its been a catelogue of failure culminating in the debacle of the last couple of years at Pools. I really can't see anyone offering him a managers job again.

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Tue Dec 28, 2010 2:04 pm

Mr Irrelevant wrote:

Chris Turner is finished as a manager. His first term at Pools was ok, not great, remember he fluffed the play offs several times. Since then its been a catelogue of failure culminating in the debacle of the last couple of years at Pools. I really can't see anyone offering him a managers job again.

Some of his legacy remains though he must have ingrained how dangerous 2-0 leads are to the players, look at the lengths the Ice Man went to avoid footballs must tricky scoreline on boxing day.

parmo · **Posted:** Tue Dec 28, 2010 2:11 pm

threepintwonder wrote:

parmo who do you hate most tommy elphick or chris turner?

Tommy Elphick has never tried to run HUFC into the ground and cause it irreparable damage by not fu-cking off, when it was clear to all but himself that's what he was doing

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Tue Dec 28, 2010 2:14 pm

Those statistics seem to suggest that whenever we keep a significant number of clean sheets away from home, we do very well in the League...

....or even get promoted, dare I say it?! :shock:

Could it be...?

Bramstein · **Joined:** Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:49 pm **Posts:** 1526

Poolie of Kent wrote:

Those statistics seem to suggest that whenever we keep a significant number of clean sheets away from home, we do very well in the League...

....or even get promoted, dare I say it?! :shock:

Could it be...?

Aye, funny that isn't it :wink:

It's been a tremendous season so far and given we've more or less played everyone there's no reason to think we can't maintain this position.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Tue Dec 28, 2010 2:57 pm

An amazing record....especially after the last couple of seasons!!!! clappp

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Tue Dec 28, 2010 7:51 pm

MadJohn wrote:

Already our third best season ever!

http://www.inthemadcrowd.co.uk/cgi-bin/ ... p=0&page=1

clappp

Can you answer this one please, John: when was the last time we won a league game in front of a bigger crowd than 14,813?
We have a bit of a tradition of bottling it in front of "big" crowds.

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Tue Dec 28, 2010 8:05 pm

MadJohn wrote:

1-0 at Stoke in 1993

We've only ever won in front of five bigger crowds than Sunday's. Apart from the Stoke game none of the others were in the last 50 years

17576, 1-0 v Darlington (A), 1954
17331, 1-0 v Stoke (A), 1993
16596, 2-1 v Crystal Palace (A), 1958
15176, 5-1 v Darlington (H), 1957
15108, 2-1 v Watford (A), 1951 (FA Cup)
14813, 1-0 v Huddersfield (A), 2010; and 4-0 v Aldershot (H), 1954 (FA Cup)

Brilliant. cheers.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Tue Dec 28, 2010 8:06 pm

So Sunday's result was a milestone in that respect too :grin:

alleztfc · **Posted:** Tue Dec 28, 2010 9:24 pm

Interested to note that 'Udders got spanked again today.
They're all topping themselves again on 'down at the...insert name here' board tonight.

Such a shame Mr Clark...

Bramstein · **Joined:** Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:49 pm **Posts:** 1526

The majority of Huddersfield supporters appear to want Clark out if that board you mention is anything to go by.

returnofaido · **Posted:** Tue Dec 28, 2010 9:37 pm

yeah, i've been chuckling at them queuing uo to throw themselves off the top of the stand :laugh:

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Wed Dec 29, 2010 10:26 am

MadJohn wrote:

1-0 at Stoke in 1993

We've only ever won in front of five bigger crowds than Sunday's. Apart from the Stoke game none of the others were in the last 50 years

17576, 1-0 v Darlington (A), 1954
17331, 1-0 v Stoke (A), 1993
16596, 2-1 v Crystal Palace (A), 1958
15176, 5-1 v Darlington (H), 1957
15108, 2-1 v Watford (A), 1951 (FA Cup)
14813, 1-0 v Huddersfield (A), 2010; and 4-0 v Aldershot (H), 1954 (FA Cup)

paulus the woodgnome and a side salad · **Posted:** Wed Dec 29, 2010 11:20 am

...It will be exactly 60 yrs ago to the weekend I assume.

derwent · **Joined:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:59 pm **Posts:** 12332

MadJohn wrote:

paulus the woodgnome and a side salad wrote:

...It will be exactly 60 yrs ago to the weekend I assume.

I thought that too, but no. It was December 1961, in a second round game. It was probably the worst Watford side in their history. They had finished second bottom of Div3 South the previous season and would finish fourth bottom that season. We already had the foundation of what would be a great side a few years later, with a lot of the mid-late 50s team already in place. It won't have been a shock when we won.

Pools: Brown, Willetts, Thompson, Newton, Moore, Richley, Burnett, Elder, Wildon, McGuigan, McClure

December 1961, MJ...........

katcha · **Posted:** Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:39 pm

tsk, john !

loyal blue · **Joined:** Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:53 pm **Posts:** 1912

Poolie of Kent wrote:

Those statistics seem to suggest that whenever we keep a significant number of clean sheets away from home, we do very well in the League...

....or even get promoted, dare I say it?! :shock:

Could it be...?

How sweet should we make the play off finals v sheff wed and stick it up em there at Wembley

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:42 am

loyal blue wrote:

Poolie of Kent wrote:

Those statistics seem to suggest that whenever we keep a significant number of clean sheets away from home, we do very well in the League...

....or even get promoted, dare I say it?! :shock:

Could it be...?

How sweet should we make the play off finals v sheff wed and stick it up em there at Wembley

Are the play-off finals at wembley this year? I seem to recall reading that they were being switched to premier league grounds?

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:30 pm

MadJohn wrote:

Grave wrote:

Are the play-off finals at wembley this year? I seem to recall reading that they were being switched to premier league grounds?

Correct.

The FA have booked the Cashpot League final for that weekend, in complete disregard to their existing agreement with the FL. The League One playoff final will be rescheduled or moved.

Twats. I hoped I had got it wrong banghead

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Fri Dec 31, 2010 4:11 am

And there are only two league grounds that could hold the crowd we played in front of in 2005.
Time to give the millennium a ring, FL. I liked it there anyway.

Mr Creosote · **Joined:** Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:05 pm **Posts:** 1887

As we are going up automatically it wont affect us. On the off chance that we need the play offs, I would rather go to Cradiff anyway, with its pubs outside the ground, and fantastic atmosphere, its a much better option.

The FA can stick Wem-ber-leeee where the sun dont shine.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22651

The new Wembley is to the old stadium what the plethera of identikit stadia are to old league grounds. Soul less and full of new ways to rip you off.

£25 for a pie
£42 for a hamburger
£162 for a pint

etc etc

The Wembley had its faults but its way preferable to this new version. Why oh why couldn't they just have modernised the old ground.

Away clean sheets...

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