How did he start ????

Zero pace

Baffles me...especially with Baldwin on the bench...

Also Luscombe starting??

Agreed but thought he played well today.

agree 100%. baldwin must be scratching his head.

however, ritchie and young luke james are probably the only two players who can leave the field with any sense of having put a shift in. the two were at the centre of any passing or threatening moves we produced all afternoon.

I said after the Sheff Utd game, he was finished 5 year ago. Just go now while you still have SOME pride

Who played well today? Don't dare say Humps played well!!

Humps played well but James was MOTM for me!

Humphreys is fuckin useless. I dont know why hes takin all the crap tho.. look at their second goal what was hartley doing, he had plenty of time to make a tackle and their fat player danced on past him with no skill its fukin ridiculous.

No bites from me you clown

James not afraid to run at them...Monkhouse is a shadow of the player he was. Used to always attack down the wing

Wasn't after one but Humps played well I thought!

humphreys gets praise from me because he tried to get us moving forward by passing to a player in blue and white on several occasions. not just hopeless punts like hartley, liddle and horwood, but passes to feet. yes he's slow, yes he's probably finished, but that doesn't prevent credit where its due. james and humphreys were by far our best players today FAAAAACCCCCTTTT.

which doesn't really mean much to all of us - who are sick as fuck. If IOR are serious about wanting to not be relegated, then sadly it's going to cost them money.
My belief is they are going to stick with what they've got but it's going to cost Pools a place in League One

Hartley was absolutely shocking for that goal, he stood off him and then let him trot past him. Basic defending and he couldn't even do that!!

Hartley?

It was Liddle.

Both of them

Hartley was the 1 tracking back with him..

it was hartley

No, it was Gary Liddle.

No4 Gary Liddle, Liddle was No4 wasn't he?

It wasnt liddle.. face it, wait till you see the highlights.

Liddle fell over Solano and let the man get away, then Hartley embarrassed himself with his attempt to stop the bloke from going through one on one.

Exactly.

So it was Liddle he got past then? Thought so!

Anyway regardless of who it was it was poor defending at any level.

it was fucking awful defending. our over 40s team defends better than that (now chip isn't playing there)

Totally agree with the above and it was Hartley not Liddle too

Id deffos say we miss Stephen Wright tho.

Hartley should have had the guy in his back pocket, easily shrugged off and no pace to catch the guy.
Not like Hartley, somethings seriously wrong!!

Same bloke singled out again when about 8 were worse.

Austin, Sweeney, Boyd, Monkhouse, Liddle, Luscombe???

How did they play?

why wasn't he given a start today? Liddle is awful, a League 2 player at best.
They are still shoehorning these people in, and surely that has to be on the recommendations of Barron.
Cooper will have picked Liddle on the basis of what Barron said that he could play CB

Or else maybe they are worried their mate Big Sam won't get back in

Massive shake up needed, and hopefully a few of these will be put on the transfer list very soon

i don't often agree with you when you're in negative mode, but you are absolutely spot on. This full squad stinks of relegation material.

Cooper has got his work cut out and i doubt one man alone can sort this out without being allowed to alter the playing squad

Humps put in a shift but he lacks creativity for a midfield player and is too slow. Must put Baldwin back in there for Saturday!!

Baldwin done nothing wrong when he has played before, Humphs past it, should have retired from playing last season

Am I going mental? I thougtht he played well!