It doesnt matter who is in charge or who is in the starting line up but nothing ever seems to change!. For season after season we are a push over at home and away, if a team needs a result we roll up and they beat us. There are players in the squad who shouldnt be here yet get kept on season after season, i mean how many chances do the likes of Richards and Walker need to have!. Hignett has not changed a thing if you ask me, we are conceding goals at an alarming rate and he goes out and signs two bloody strikers, we are crying out for a tough tackling midfielder and some leaders on the pitch. We have two centre halfs who are injury prone, one that seems to be a walking disaster and another who got released then bloody kept on even though he's clearly not good enough! We only have one left back in the squad so carroll can play as shit as he wants and never get replaced. Fucking 4-1 down to this pile of shit, its just not on!

Can't argue with any of that. Another season at the bottom of a god awful League.


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It's very disheartening. Again.

It's Hartlepool United.

Hardly unexpected, is it?

Inexperienced manager and chairman whos bizarre quotes were questioned by Eddie Kyle last week.

The usual perenial relegation battle looms.
Expect a few helmets to say its early doors and players need time to gel.
FFS.
Its only a game.
Wheres the FOSTERS.

Hignett wont last long, I never have and never will think he's the right man, altough we could appoint Guardiola and nothing would change, he'd probably keep richards on as well then totally unbalance the squad like the rest of them! 5-1 man, I feel so sorry for the away fans and all other pools fans coz we deserve better, even being competitive would be nice!

The only time we've been competitive in the last 5 years was the last 5 months of the great escape season

Eveything changes but you...

Let's be honest, dropping out of the league has loomed large for 4 years. Hignett has made poor signings, poor team selections and poor tactical decisions.


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Need to look at fleming here.
Poor defensively since he came here
Poor squad decisions and team selection.

The defence is awful. Carroll hasn't had any competition since he arrived. Nsiala is a walking timebomb, Bates is injury prone, Harrison wasn't deemed good enough 3 months ago but now is, Jones is past it and Magnay I'm not really sure what he is. Unfortunately the midfield is worse. Deverdics? What a waste of a signing, Woods and Featherstone ineffective together, Brad Walker is still at the club why? All of that and he signs 2 kids on loan who are forwards. Worst part is that we are stuck with this squad until January.


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Cant argue with any of that, squad is totally unbalanced. Hignett has said he applied for plenty manager jobs and didnt get any of them, theres a reason for that and its showing now!

In Hignett's defence, there wasn't much he could do in terms of personnel at the back today, I had a bad feeling when I saw that team sheet. The problem is that even with a fully fit defence we still look cack. I'd say only Bates and Magnay are decent players at this level. Carroll is very inconsistent and the rest, Nsiala, Jones etc, I'm inclined to say aren't good enough. That's a problem with signings. Carroll is coasting week in and out, Nsiala looks a poor signing, Jones is well past it and like said Harrison probably shouldn't have been kept on. Fleming got us organised the back end of last season, so it's over to you Curtis. Sort it out. We are shocking defensively.

We should've gone all out for Jackson people will say but would he come here to probably the most unsuccessful football club in the football league? We're by no means the smallest but nothing ever goes right for us and it's just disappointment year in and out. It's just our destiny, sadly. Fact of the matter is Hignett has tried to bring in defenders, bought them, but they're poor signings thus far. Loved to be proved wrong but this is Hartlepool United. I've long lost hope we'll ever sustain a successful side. The only thing he didn't do in pre season was sort the midfield. I and many others I suppose, knew we should've got a tough tackling type. But alas, we didn't. And we'll pay for that this season.

Trying not to be doom and gloom, there's enough here to score our way out of the bottom 2 but it'll likely be a similar campaign to last.

Lastly, I fucking hate Stevenage. We are always so so gash against them. Have we ever beaten them? We are a disgrace whenever we play them.

We now have the worst defensive record in the league, having conceded 15 goals. The team with the next worse record is Stevenage, who have just put six past us. We can't keep the back door shut and now can't do anything about shoring up our defence until January.
I've waited since last Saturday hoping to hear about a couple of decent defenders and a no nonsense defensive midfielder either being signed permanently or at least on loan but instead we get two attackers.
In our first three games we came from behind to get a win and two draws and Hignett remarked that we need to start better and be the first team to score. Well in the next three games we did exactly that by scoring the first goal early on in all three of them but all we have to show for that is one point, culminating with today's hammering.
Unless our management and players collectively can produce a Damascus moment and unearth a formula and a team, from what we have available, that can hold it's own until at least January, I fear the worst.
Our relegation odds the other day with bet 365 were 7-1. I haven't looked after that hammering but I'll be surprised if they haven't shortened.
I'm hoping for a glimmer of optimism but for the moment I am worried sick.

No, never beat Stevenage.

We have a poor inconsistent team but what's worse is that we have an inconsistent manager. I could see we changed shape at times today but I'm not sure I could actually say what formations we played. They weren't a good team today, very basic in what they did but you'd think we'd never had scouted then, utterly clueless on set pieces.

We've made poor signings and kept players who should have been long gone. He says he doesn't like 442 but never knew who to leave out. If he cant make the hard decisions and stand by then then he isn't cut out for the job. He changed it today and got it wrong, very wrong, he needs to grow a pair and take responsibility.

Personally its time for Higgy to go but if he does stay my advice would be to pick a formation, pick your best team and work on them because he clearly hasn't got a clue how to change things and they looked like they've never played together before.

It's still worrying but we must correct our defensive shortcomings in January.