First 10 minutes or so is about Pools.

http://youtu.be/P2K75F-05cE


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He says good things about the chairman.

Top watch that. Hard not to like the bloke innit?

Interesting that - although he has regrets its good to see he has no bitterness towards the club. Wishes us well and is confident we will go places - good to hear. Interesting that £40k is regarded as derisory amongst football managers even in the 4th tier...

It's about £10,000 more than John Hughes was on!!

Ronnie Moore and the great escape will forever be remembered in our history just like the team that give the Busby babes a hell of a game back in errr errr.....well I do not remember the year because I was still swimming around in bollocks and had yet to decide who to support if I managed to escape one day. Before I had even been to a game my old man was often talking about the greatest game in our history and that is probably what first got me interested in going to games. I would hear old blokes in the clubs talking about Pools and it always ended up talking about this one game which was decades ago yet still talked about. The only thing that I never quite understood was every one in town claims to have been at that game We must have had a 100,000 capacity then The great escape will be the next story passed down from father to son and talked about in pubs and clubs well after Sir Ronnie and most of us have gone thats for sure. Thanks for this treasured memory Ronnie you will always be a legend in Hartlepool.

The Great Escape .... or the ' F**k me that was jammy' incident ?
We were just lucky two of the escapees couldn't stumble as fast as us..... when only two were needed.
There's been plenty of cases of flirting with obscurity and they should always be buried quietly at midnight and quickly forgotten.
I'll pass down the few good times.

I don't think escaping relegation to the conference should be celebrated like.

Relief and hope it never happens again


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Thank him for what he did but ultimately the bloke was just undoing that hard work by trying to take us down this season. The fact he says in that interview we would have beat Yeovil anyways and had 5 games in hand shows how deluded he was.

Thanks for the escape, but he was thankfully displaced at just about the right time

Luckiest 'manager' ever. This season showed his true ability.

Survived because of two other teams where shorter. .The situation we where in this season proves it

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He was what we needed last season. Hignetts come in to hopefully take us to the next level now.


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We'd won 2 of 21 league games when he joined the club, two wins in almost half of the season. To dismiss that turnaround as lucky is laughable.

We needed to move on but to dismiss what he did last season is pathetic. We were certainly going out of league before he joined. He's gone now I don't see the point in continuing to stick the knife in he doesn't appear bitter it's a shame that can't be said of some of our fans.

I agree Phil, but did the board have those ambitions? The Fans did.

We were a disgrace of a football team before he took over. Nailed on certainties for relegation. I'm not sure any team has come back from the position we were in with football league survival at stake. How anyone can say that is luck Is beyond me. This year apart from August it was truly awful and Ronnie had to go but still shouldn't knock what he did last year for us. He has not said one bad word about us. Pools fans will always remember those last few months. Hopefully hignett will give us a team to once again be proud of.

We wouldn't have gone down even if he'd have stayed, we'd be on less points than we are now but York are only on 33 points, them are Dagenham are making Tranmere and Cheltenham last year look good sides.

I was more concerned this season than last the way it was heading but in hindsight I agree that we'd have been safe anyway this season given how bad the bottom two have been.

If it wasn't for last season I think he'd have been gone a lot earlier. He mentioned that we are still using his squad of players as though that was a reason he should have been given more time, to me it just showed his mismanagement of the team.

Paynter came back from injury in Moore's last game, our bad run coincided with his injury. All season we've been good at beating the teams in the bottom six. We were crap and he had to go but I still don't think we'd have gone down with these players. We might have had that form continued obviously but York and Dagenham have been seriously dog shit.