We had so much to look forward to this season and after Saturday our season is in tatters along with the clubs reputation due to a few utter arsholes.

I allways look forward to pools home and away how ever tomorrow night im not to sure how the players will react and i feel the atmosphere will be one of utter disbelief of what happened on Saturday

Pools 1 Cheserfield 1

Pleased there is a match so soon, hopefully everybody can get back to football while the club and the courts ensure that the racists involved on Saturday get what they deserve.

Pools 3 Cheaterfield 1

Probably Hignett's biggest challenge as a manager to date but I'm sure if he focuses on the positives such as the other 99% of the club's supporters and what is still possible this season. Hopefully he can use recents events to unite the club.

I think most fans have proven they are shocked and don't share views with the idiots who exposed themselves last Saturday.

Bounce back ability will triumph with a 3 nil win. James hat-trick. 2999 with 175 Spirites.

[quote="pooliecrab"]Probably Hignett's biggest challenge as a manager to date but I'm sure if he focuses on the positives such as the other 99% of the club's supporters and what is still possible this season. Hopefully he can use recents events to unite the club.

need to forget saturday in match preparation and the game itself. think a few will stay away tomorrow for contrasting reasons. a win is just what pools need at the moment.

Hartlepool UNITED 2-1 Chesterfield

Kabamba & James.

Crises are nothing new at Pools, but this one, totally abhorrent, was brought on by supposed supporters. As true supporters we've got to get behind the club, the owner, the players and create a positive atmosphere and not let a few Neanderthals win.

Questions have been asked about how Raj Singh and our black players caught up in this racism on Saturday would react. Well up until Saturday I was confident that all felt comfortable, respected and appreciated at Pools.

Raj has been supportive of Higgy in player recruitment, suggesting he was here for the long haul. He was there to haul us out of the shite when there was nobody else on the horizon. Thanks, Raj.

Gime Toure, according to Higgy, loves it here , has been well received and always has the crowd behind him. He must be playing the best football of his career - if he'd played this well elsewhere, other clubs wouldn't have released him.

Nicke Kabamba chose to uproot sticks from the other end of the country to come here after his successful loan spell last season. He must have been happy to come and knew he'd be welcomed back.

Peter Kioso came here as an inexperienced young player and has developed into a sound defender, improving all the time going forward. Although he seems very quiet, you always get the impression that he's happy here.

Gus Mafuta played in the last match of the season here for Salford, was a pantomime villain for them, could well have been sent off and got a lot of stick from the crowd, but if any of it had been racist then surely he wouldn't have come. In fact he's apparently said that it was that very atmosphere that persuaded him to come.

These are our players, our boys and the best thing we can do is stick together and get behind the lads tomorrow night. I'm going into hospital later today, but will be out tomorrow and I'll be there at the Vic tomorrow night. Get yourselves there, Poolies. Get behind the club.

By the way was it a month ago (yes, it was) that PJ said quite rightly," It's embarrassing to think that supporters of other clubs will be popping in and reading this shite," regarding unfunny "jokes?" about the kiss of life and Pakistanis. We can't print stuff like that and then hold up our hands in horror when we have accusations of racism thrown at us.

Nice one Rupert Ritzik, one of the best posts I've read on this board.

Hopefully the players affected by the racist remarks will focus on the reaction from all of the ground when the numpties were removed.

Team news.
I think Featherstone was sent off for his recent hair cut......two match ban seems harsh but it should have grown out by then.
https://www.hartlepoolunited.co.uk/team ... gOjLayyGDo

hope chesterfield can have fatty gerrard fit and one trick pony denton as well. seen em once this season and once they went behind their heads dropped at once. will i be able to witness a pools win for once. good chance tonight.

Bit of a must win game tonight, nice 3-0 win i reckon.

Tree

What is the weather like? it is battering down here and has been at it since last night.

anyone knows who the joker, sorry i mean ref is tonight and has joe johnson got a game.

We need a ref like Nigel Owens.

I am with you on this 3-0 25/1 on Coral......wager made.

What, a game where the ball has to be passed backwards when we have no Featherstone available

Be under no doubt hes our best scrum half

https://www.hartlepoolunited.co.uk/prev ... 32NdoeUC28

Samuel Barrott is the referee..... lets wish him well and hope no one notices him.
John Sheridan their manager.......ex poolie?
The link states we had a guy playing for us called Rodgers.....i just cant remember him!

Hartlepool v Chesterfield brings back memories of the old fourth division days and in particular one chilly Friday night in April 1968 at The Vic when 'Pools beat The Spireites 2-1 in front of over 11,000. The crowd tonight obviously will be nowhere near that far off day but a similar scoreline would be sorely welcome given events of late. Regarding Saturday's events you bunkerites have fair covered it I feel but I saw mention of one Lloyd Owusu the ex Brentford striker. He seemed to love playing against Pools and received all manner of abuse as I recall racist and otherwise. He was an out and out wind up merchant but I felt he could play a bit, a sort of lower league Dion Dublin. My point is that he in particular had it in for Pools when they played and the abuse spurred him on. I can see this sort of thing re-occurring. Events of Saturday last will have reverberated around the league. One final point. Let's hope tonight's referee is fair minded for both teams. Oh, an for all the black players in Pools shirts to score and be cheered by all.

They're in horrific form so 1-1 written all over it.

Harvey?? Rodgers he was on loan from Accrington.

I think we had a John Sheridan in our first ever promotion team, this one the ex Sheffield Wednesday midfielder would have been in nappies at guess at that time!

Yes PJ you are correct. John Sheridan and Tony Parry both Clough signings from I believe Burton Albion but certainly from that part of the world. Great gutsy team players. Not Chesterfield's John Sheridan though. He was only born in '64 and our "Sherry" had a bald head!

I think Sheridan played alongside a bloke called Gill who was married to Mrs Gill a teacher at Dyke House.
It all coming back............... Sheridan had a comb over!

Ah, the footballer's comb over. Bobby Charlton had a pretty good one, but nobody could touch the masterpiece that Burnley winger Ralph Coates cultivated on top of his head. When he was in full flight he had a frond of hair about a foot long trailing after him.

anyone got a picture?

John Gill came a bit later but you are right. He was a no nonsense defender who took no prisoners and plenty of bookings as they were called pre-yellow and red cards. Your comb over assessment of John Sheridan akin with Ralph Coates was correct as well. He was a great footballer as was Colin Bell ex Man City who came from Heseldon and who my dad said used to call in The Royal Arms Peterlee occasionally. The players mixing with the fans (albeit mostly Sunderland) in the case of The Royal Arms Peterlee. Who would have thought it? Anyway, it's Chesterfield up next. Nowt to beat 'Pools! Greetings to everyone on here.

Wonder if they water the pitch before the game

Mrs Gill used to wear her clothes up towards her kebab

One of the worst home games I’ve been to in many a year

Fucking dreadful. No urgency whatsoever. Players going through the motions by the looks of it. Needed to change formation or do something different after about 30 mins but just plodded on as it was. James may have made a difference but brought on with 2 minutes left. Slow, slow midfield who they could just walk through.

First time iv started to doubt Hignett.

Flat as a fart

We are not good enough utterly dreadfull

The ref had a good game.

At least the Ref was decent for a change apart from that it was like watching grass grow.

ref 10/10

Got to disagree with you there it was like watching paint dry

Paint drys quicker than grass grows...FACT!

I withdraw my comment.

I withdraw my comment.

Not bamboo

Well that sounded shite and flat, we even let that absolute cart horse score which is possibly a measure of the games quality the worry was it sounded like if they didn't have such a donkey up front we could have lost the point we got a couple of times second half. Eddie Kyle was saying quite early in the second half that our forward line weren't playing well, not holding the ball up, offering little movement and that the game was crying out for Luke James if nothing else to add a bit energy that was lacking, he eventually came on with about 2 minutes left for Holohan.....

One home win from seven and six points, has any clubs fans suffered such shocking home form such a sustained period? We have to be doing better than this, the points return is unacceptable as the league position and that can be pointed squarely at awful form (yet again) at the Vic. The saving grace is you feel we have more to come if get a few more fit and available and that squad has the potential to be doing much better, but potential means nothing I suppose.

is it just me or do we never get anything from corners or free kicks (especially free kicks)?

Apart from the goal last night that came from a corner?

The same cart horse won just about every header and held off sometimes two defenders a real handful. Granted he was not the most skillful but he was always a threat when the ball was in the air unlike our strikers. When was the last time we had anyone who could bully the opposition?

Agreed. It's getting frustrating watching opposition managers make early changes in the second half with no response from Hignett even when the game is going away from us. Fine if Pools are on top, or even looking like they have a goal in them, but from 60 minutes in last night it was obvious Pools were going nowhere with the 11 they had on the pitch.

Nothing from midfield - Mafuta is essentially a defensive midfielder, Kennedy has a passing range of about 6 yards and Hawkes was trying hard but not succeeding with much.
The front two weren't getting enough service and never looked like they were going to create something from nothing - Toure doesn't look fully fit at the minute.

The most depressing thing is that Chesterfield were rubbish - a better away team would have pinched all 3 points.

Time to ditch Rav and Hignett 2 takeovers waiting in the wings.

Of well that’s all of our problems sorted. Thanks ’Rav’ for saving the club from extinction and everything but we’re ditching you now. I hope our Petrobillions can sign us Tom Denton.

It’s always good to have two takeovers as well, like TMH and JNPG.

thought the atmosphere was a bit weird as well. mind you how can anyone get excited about passes going astray, players caught in possesion subs brought on too late and giving the flying lampost a free header to equalise. at least my dogs enjoyed getting wet at the blue lagoon before the game and her indoors picked up a couple of bargains late on at morrisons.

What 2 takeovers are these?