as in, played for more than just half a season or so at Pools......... who's your favourite pairing?

Baker and Allon.

Watson n Williams for the 2 months of the first promotion season, they were lethal until watson got that injury, such a shame.

the obvious of boyd n porter aswell like.

Poskett and Newton

Houchen and Newton was a real good pairing, forgot about those till you mentioned Newton!!!

It's Porter and Boyd still for me like!!!

Arthur Scargill and the NUM

I reckon Baker and Allon.

Porter & Boyd

they played together the season before too

Phythian and Mulvaney

Porter and Boyd

Moore and McMahon

Unstoppable. Two brutes!

I'd say Boyd and Porter...

parmo, Hope you dont mind, I added a poll to this post for you.

Baker and allon for me

Also what about freestone / jones

Baker and allon for me too

Phythian and Mulvaney turned me into a Poolie, but Boyd and Porter made being a Poolie fun.

Moore & McMahon - those were the days! For some reason my strongest memory of Mally Moore is of him missing an absolute sitter in an away game at Feethams - the ball rolling across the six yard box and him managing to fall over it! Think it must have been 73/74.

But the back four - Potter, Dawes, Goad, Shoulder - magnificent!

Flanagan and Allen.

Watling, Potter, Goad, Dawes, Green was better.

McMahon and Moore, that takes me back. McMahon was a big lump of a player and we had a certain Jimmy Shoulder who could drop a ball on a tanner ( small coin to you younguns ). Found big Macs head with monotonous regularity and he would lay it off very nicely for Mr Moore. The deliveries were the Key and it could be a similar cenario this season.

Jimmy Shoulder was our best Corner and Free Kick taker ever. I remember one game he went off injured and Billy Ward had to take the corners..he was shite and couldn't find the heads..Mick Spelman came over and had a right go resulting in Ward kicking the Corner Flag in a strop! Always remember it even though I was a kid.

With you on that Tex. Alan Goad's natural position was left back. Bill Green was a better centre half than him, but Jimmy Shoulder added attacking flair to a back four that was non-existent in Mr.I's selection - mind they were four hard buggers and took no prisoners!

Yes those pinpoint deliveries probably made average players look good at times.

Porter and Boyd for me. The pair complimented each other perfectly and Boyd would still be a proper footballer if he'd played with Porter for a few more years.

I remember a few years back when we started with Mackay and Foley away at Oldham. Their keeper did well to keep the pair at bay as we bombarded them with relentless shots on goal

Didnt the Mail run a poll on who was best partnership out of Allon and Baker and Freestone and Jones (sure i posted this earlier btw)

Somebody did!!

My early memories too of the 1973 squad playing on a Sunday afternoon in 3 day week in front of 5,000+ were great

Watling one of the best keepers ever at Pools

Potter Dawes Conlon Goad Shoulder

John Honour Spelman Scaife or Rob Smith and Billy Ward - a real limited midfield how sloooooooooooooow was Scaife.

McMahon and Moore with less pace than Steve Howard and was it Dave Smith as sub!!

Jimmy Shoulder's curling left footed corners to the back stick were great

Poskett and Newton.
those were the days.

Wasting your time; only about five people on the board saw them.
1st and 2nd top scorers in the division, what more could you want?

What's great with all of these pairings is the genuine air of expectation any time one of them got the ball within going for goal range.

That's why my vote went to Ernie & Jimmy.

Recently on holiday in Italy i was chatting to a chap who went to school with Ernie Phythian.

Very true....

2004/05

Boyd - 29 goals

Porter - 16 goals

And don't even try and say Porter set him up for most of them when it was the other way round!

The big difference between all these strike pairings is that only one of them did it outside of the bottom division

I'm struggling to argue with that but then why would I, I voted Boyd/Porter too.

yep. For that reason I think it will take something special to dislodge them from their current standing amongst the fans

Although Houchen, Poskett, Newton all successfully played at least one division higher, but never with the same strike partner they had at Pools.

I actually believe SOME of the other pairings had a harder time of it because there were so many poor players in the Pools team, but it was a different era altogether and it could be argued that the opponents weren't as good either.

And that's the reason I would go for Andy Saville and Lenny Johnrose as my favourite strike force

I don't really get your point!

The porter n boyd partnership in full flow was bloody brilliant, boydy the poacher, porter the grafter.

Awaiting post from 3quid giving me exact mileage boydy run during the season compared to porter...

yep they should have been in the poll really

1965/66 season
Phythian 17 goals
Wright 11 goals
Mulvaney 10 goals
Thompson 10 goals

Thats when you didn't have strike partnerships, you had 2 wingers 2 inside forwards and a centre forward.

2-3-5 formations etc, the game is so different these days. Am I imagining it or did Ardiles manage a team which didn't even try to defend?

Can you please tell us where Johnson and Luke would have come in that list please Mr John? I rather fancy they blow all the others out of the water.

Or at least in 55-57 they did.