We will find out who we play in League 2 on Thursday, unreal isn't it.Home game to kick off season,Harrogate would be nice. Carlisle New year's day and Sutton at Home on last day of season to be crowned Champions, dreaming ..yes, but after yesterday..anything is possible. UTP

only downside is morecambe and bolton being promoted. at least we,re back in the league cup again with possible games against sunderland and boro in early rounds plus the paint pot thing.

If we stayed in the NL, we wouldn't know our fixtures until July 2nd, and, get this, wouldn't start playing until the 21st of July!!!

No offence to the clubs down there, but the NL board is the dictionary definition of tinpot.

Oh yes forgot about the the other silverware we could go for,can we have Manchester United at home in FA cup. I was concentrating on the league

Only one division below Sunderland again

one of the reasons all ex league clubs just cannot wait to get the hell out of it. like that non league paper, a football version of some train spotters magazine from years back. always expected to see roy cropper off coronation street sitting in the stand at some remote non league ground.

The sooner it's called div 5 and brought in line with the league the better. That includes 3 up/3 down.

I agree but I have a sneaky feeling they would go for a north/south split. There are currently four promotion places from lge 2 to lge 1.

Spot on.

but would the rest of the league clubs vote for that. the extra 24 clubs could dilute some of the money they already receive every season. possibly the only real winners would be the teams in the 5th division where finance is concerned. its more about the money nowadays and will get worse before better.

As long as plastic pitches are ruled out and a requirement that at least half the squad are full time professional footballers is brought in. Can't see the NL ever agreeing to that so it won't happen.

Season starts on August 7th so less than 7 weeks for DC and the team to wind down after yesterday, get a new squad together and go through pre-season before we all start again!

I would expect Harrogate to be a mid-week game or Boxing/New Years Day with it being our closest rivals next season. I hope we are at home, preferably to one of the bigger teams who will have a big following, sell out the home end & get the season off to a winning start. If its an away game, I wouldnt mind Northampton, Walsall or Scunthorpe, not too far away so will be guaranteed a huge following. But wherever it is, home or away, its better than Borehamwood, Weymouth or Dover!!!

Apparently lots of people have been phoning in sick today.......I wonder why?

Roll on harrowgate time to show tune tees tv who the best North East team is

Since our playoff campaign theyve shown us almost daily. Didn't want to know us a few years back

Dodgy pickled onion crisps

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I would expect Harrogate to be a mid-week game or Boxing/New Years Day with it being our closest rivals next season. I hope we are at home, preferably to one of the bigger teams who will have a big following, sell out the home end & get the season off to a winning start.
do not want to put a dampener on everything but there could still be a situation where the vic is still under reduced capacity rules. if anyone is looking to watch most games and can afford it a season ticket seems a good option for next season.

Problem we have is that EFL 2 finished weeks ago, & since then clubs have been planning for next season & hoovering up the best available players, the only ones left will be under par or too expensive, the agents will be circling Pools like hawks!

please no more hawkes.

No Shite hawkes..or other snake oil types.

Mansfield away Boxing day, really!!! nowhere any closer then? FFS!!!!

hope we are at full or near full capacity for the crawley game and have all 4 sides. surely the odd crawley fan can be accomodated somewhere in the ground. they never bring many anyway and can hardly be a problem. certainly unlike mansfield or bradford where police leave will need to be cancelled.

and remember that it will be all ticket with no tickets for sale on the day.

The first midweek game....away at Bradford. we would have already played 10 midweek games in the shitty league we got out of.

That would have been a bad fixture for Torquay if they'd won.

Followed by Tranmere and Oldham at home over the holiday week then Carlisle away on 7th January. It's not so bad.

The draw for the first round of the Carabao Cup will also take place on Thursday, June 24th. The draw will be shown live on Sky Sports and is set to get underway at approximately 3.40pm. The first-round ties will take place on the week commencing Monday, August 9th

Like the Carabao Cup, the EFL Trophy group stage draw will take place on Thursday too. The draw will be shown live on Sky Sports and will get underway immediately after the Carabao Cup draw. It is expected to start at approximately 4.30pm BST.

the reason for that is the early rounds of the league cup and that no interest trophy thing that are played midweek.

According to Pools website we play Sutton Away on Tuesday 17th August

Pools, Carlisle & Morecambe are in Group A of the Papa John's Trophy they will be joined by either Everton U21, Leeds U21, Leicester U21, Liverpool U21, Man City U21, Man Utd U21, Newcastle U21 or Wolves U21 draw live on Sky Sports at 16.30.

Pools draw Crewe at home in the Carabao cup

Your right and I even wrote it in my diary FFS!!! getting old is my excuse.

Tory voting towns automatically get a home game to start and end the season as well as home draws in the Cup

Everton U21's are in Pools group in Papa John's Trophy

Don't forget their right to win penalty shoot outs as well as having pitch walkabouts by the PM.
If this is what Boris means by levelling up. I'm all for it.

Plus all contentious goals against us ruled out.

Ben Houchen bribed the ref for us in the play off final

Joe Parkinson will be pleased with that one.

so that means pools have one home game anyway in that competition. thats if the club and fans are as interested in that competition as they were last time we had to play in it.

Each of the league clubs has 2 home games, I hope our away game is at Morecambe, never been there & its a nice easy drive to the West coast.

Looking at our first three league matches we have a good opportunity to get off to a bright start. I would fancy us to beat Crawley and Barrow and wouldn't be surprised if we gave Sutton a going over. We have the momentum.

We have momentum with a team out of contract. How many remain is the key…

Pools are 50-1 with Bet Victor to win the League Two title. Salford are favourites at 6-1 with Mansfield 10-1.

what were the other names of this cup?
Leyland Daff?

The Johnstone Paint Trophy was one of its previous names. Cant remember any of the others.

Freight Rover, Sherpa Van, Leyland Daf, Autoglass, Auto windscreens, LDV Vans, Johnstone's Paint, Checkatrade & Leasing.com were previous sponsors of this cup.

next one may be Pontins with the final at haig avenue southport. to make it more interesting the teams that do not win the trophy are obliged to take up the weeks free holiday with the company at a pre season boot camp.

Maybe the Viagra Vase next?