The Vidiprinter Football Web site has the following positions come the season end.

19th COLCHESTER 47 points
20th HARROGATE 47 points
21st CRAWLEY 47 points
22nd GILLINGHAM 44 points
23rd HARTLEPOOL 38 points
24th ROCHDALE 29 points

Our record to date is Played 37 with 31 points, 6 Wins, 13 Draws & 18 Defeats and 40 goals scored against 66 conceded.

The following is forecast

Played 46 with 38 points, 7 Wins, 17 Draws & 22 Defeats and 49 goals scored against 81 conceded

That forecasts over the remaining 9 games only 7 points will be gained with 1 Win, 4 Draws & 4 Defeats and only scoring 9 goals against 15 conceded.

I reckon that could be pretty much right, sorry to say.

Computer says:

Rochdale bottom.
next Crawley
next Colchester
Us and Harra next same points

I think we’ll get more than 38 points and I also think Colchester will get a lot less than 47. I’d forget about Harrogate and Gillingham, but I suspect Crawley won’t get as many as 47 points.

I think it’s going to be close, very close.

Then next Season

1st Hartlepool United 46. 30. 13. 3. 80. 40 +40. 103
2nd Notts County. 46. 30. 10. 6. 88. 38. +40. 100
3rd Southend United. 46. 28. 15. 3. 79. 27. +52. 99
4th Chesterfield. 46. 25. 10. 11. 80. 35. +45. 85

can only dream.

We’ll get what we deserve….. our position will be the result of our own efforts.

If Askey can find a way to close the back door we can do it. But, to be honest we are asking a lot. Still think us and Rochdale will go down but I would love to be proved wrong. Positives for me the improvement is massive in a short space of time.

if only he had more time to do it in. we can do nothing about other teams results apart from when we play crawley and as someone said on another topic its a pity he didn,t replace hartley as i am confident we would be relatively safe now and i,m sure we would not have suffered the likes of clarke and hartley and robimson in the side.

I think we will just survive but only just. Down to last game.

Least askey has given us hope. Unfortunately it's all a bit late. No doubt come the end of season raj will sell umerah and lose kemp, so I'm kot sure if this is enough to build on.

The Tranmere Manager, Micky Mellons, has been fired this morning.

Their games to come include, Harrogate, Colchester, Crawley & Rochdale. So they could play an important part how the table finishes. Will there be an improvement in their form or a continued decline?

After tonite the league table will more than likely say we need 10 points from the next 4 games.
Not impossible seen how brilliant JA is.
UTP.

Crude oil is nearly 50% of the price it was a few months ago, has fuel dropped 50% or airfares, in one word no.

Tonight I'm a Donny fan. Come on Mols. I have money on you for the first goal. Think about it Luke. Next season would you rather travel to Pools or down south to Creepy. Assuming of course you don't go up in the play offs (faint chance so beat Creepy tonight to start the late push. Oh, and if Pools stay up of course. Funny isn't it? Pools having to rely on some old boys to do their bit in keeping us up. Mols at Donny, The Hooligan at Grimsby. Are there any more I have forgotten? And slag off Devant Rodney for those two goals against Donny a while back but he suddenly seems to have found a goal or two for Rochdale.

How about Stockport in the playoffs

So DC rests half the 1st team for our last game.

The trouble is their 1st team consists of about 20 players, so can't see a difference that will make. Nice try though.

After 30 mins at Crawley the score is still 0 - 0 with the home side having more of the play but still very close against Donny.

Doncaster just scored in the 5th minute of injury time in the first half. Crawley having most of possession 64 versus 38 and Donny having 2 yellow cards.

How’s crude oil prices going to affect our league position..? ……

Obviously posted in the wrong topic.

Today is goin to have a mega bearing on our survival quest.
Just hopeing its not 4 or 5 pts behind Crawley at 5pm which could lead to 7 or 8 on Tuesday night.

Pools n Rochdale to win today but as you all know predicting a Pools result aint an easy conundrum.
UTP.

thing is rochdale are not dead and buried yet and we do not want them to start a winning habit to send both crawley and us down.

Despite a battling performance up to now, we are currently five points adrift allowing one for goal difference. We’ve now got to win this.

Should we all go to church in the morning and pray?

or have an exorcism on the players and the vic.

for what ever reason i have an aweful feeling it will go down to 1 point on the final day...

i think Colchester will find themselves in the mix now - can see us gathering wins / draws whilst Colchester and Crawley continue to also drop points... Crawley just pull away and leave us and Colchester again to battle it out.... we win our next 2 and they loose their next 2 - few draws for each team and its down to the wire... us leading by 1 point with the final game against Stockport ... can see it now !

There are so many ifs and buts now it reminds me of the saying;

If your Aunt had bollocks she would be your Uncle.

[quote="Critical Thinking"]There are so many ifs and buts now it reminds me of the saying;

If your Aunt had bollocks she would be your Uncle.

the 2023 version of that is the other way around. hopefully at the end of the season no matter which league we are in next season, i hope all lessons have been learned from the last 2 seasons and we see a properly run club at least on the pitch to give us some hope for the future.

if we do actually go down who do we think will actually stick around (see their contracts out)... who will be the Judas' of the group and depart at the first call ? Will we see the lads who are out of contract sign on for a season in the NL (for some it will be another season(s)) ???

my guess is the likes of the following will all depart in some way or another, either be it contract ends and they fail to renew or are signed up by another club (Oates / Mols situation all over again) or sent out on season long loans :

Umerah < will be poached by another league club
Sylla < will be poached by another league club
Cooke < will be poached by another league club
Sterry (on the fence with this tbh due to his possible injury list) < will be poached by another league club
McDonald - potentially leave for another NL club or possibly a newly promoted league side
Pruti - < will be poached by another league club
Murray - will end up back North of the Boarder either on loan or signed
Hastie - loan
Niang - loan or bagged
Feaths (possibly going into a coaching role ?) - may drop further down the ladder and play for someone closer to his home
Killip - rejects contract and goes to another NL club down south
Dolan - returns to parent club and we dont exercise the option to sign him
Ndjoli - Bagged

its down to money and what pools are willing to pay and the length of contracts offered. being in non league didn,t stop stockport signing div.1 players and wrexham seem to have a rolling road of league players joining them . know we have not the cash these two have but some speculation is needed to allow askey to keep those prepared to stay and the ones he wants.

We need to make Sylla our top earner in the hope he will stay on. He is the ideal centre mid for us. Having him in the team allows us to play 2 forward thinking midfielders which makes us more exciting to watch. He wins so many tackles in a match. Not too bothered about the rest of the players listed. I think Umerah will be off regardless of what we offer so we can forget about him as he is too good for the Conference. Sterry is too injury prone and Dodds may end up a better right back anyway. I would let Fergie go too as he has declined massively.
Looking again at the list, I would like to see Pruti stay. He is young and has shown enough to give us hope of a decent player there.
I think Cooke would stay as he is from the area and will be on good money.

Will be a very interesting Summer whatever happens. I’m going to sound crazy here but I think Raj will give us a proper budget after seeing the impact of last Summer.

[quote="Porter’s porter"][. I think Umerah will be off regardless of what we offer so we can forget about him as he is too good for the Conference.
too good for the conference like most of the stockport players were last season and the wrexham one this year. does not matter one bit if he gets what he wants in his back pocket and like many strikers who do well at one club they dry up at the next and keep the bench warm when they could have stayed where they were scoring and being a fans favourite.

lol

Comedy Gold that.

I don't care what, "Cunning Plan"..Raj has planned, I ain't buying a Season ticket next year..no matter what division we are in, I'm going to be a Glory Hunter..so I don't expect to be there much next season. in fact as the younger people might put...LMFAO.

Deffo a crazy quote

Reckon Umerah is gunna have to shape up majorly these last 8 games if he wants to put himself in the shop window. Horrendous goals per game ratio this year. He dosent get much help like or is he overated or just been dragged down to the normal acceptable Poolie level of lowness.
Still expecting 9 points from these next 3 games.
Keep the faith and keep smiling.
Its only Football.
UTP.

its only football and the worst thing that can happen is playing teams again after a two season break from them. worst thing about going down for me is being involved with bt sport again and their rip off charge to watch a single game live.

Having Sylla and Cooke still in the team if we where to go down would be massive for us

players like this would carry us in that league and totally dispel any sort of anxiety over being crap. Add to it some more lets say league standard players or very good NL players (like Langstaff - Dallas - Sbarra etc) and you will walk the league as Wrexham are doing (albeit Notts county also have decided they have had enough and are also walking it too).

Are we not starting to get carried away by some of these players? They haven't won a game for god knows how long. So for them to rock up and win 20 games next year will take some doing.

Another chapter will be revealed later today and after Monday's fixtures.

For those with a dodgy ticker it must be terrible.

who are playing on monday or did you put your clock forward a week instead of a hour.

I must have had a senior moment! Well spotted.

Had 2 grand daughters talking to me about birthdays - youngest grandson 7 today, oldest daughter 49 on the 4th & youngest daughter 37 on the 7th.

It says you cannot do 2 things at once, hold a conversation and type at the same time.

Yes the tables will look interesting a week on Monday if not after today?

comes to us all like my quote of nigal cloughs sacking at mansfield the other day.

Not so much getting carried away by the team but there are fundamental aspects of 'this' Askey selection that are changing our fortune. Its no surprise having Cooke back in the side (also Sylla) and a player like Kemp we are currently unbeaten in 6 against some of the best sides in the league.

if the absolute nightmare scenario does unfold and we find ourselves back in the NL then its players like Sylla - Cooke - McDonald - Jennings etc that will keep us out of any mess and see us pushing for promotion. Look at the top 7 teams currently in the NL - only really Wrexham and Notts flying with it and rightly so (both have everything you need to get out of that league, and both must be banging heads thinking why does it have to be this season that either have decided to have worldies and chase each other) usually with those points its a one horse race to the finish !

but the likes of Woking and Chesterfield are far from anything flash but find themselves right amongst it -

can see a massive shock in the playoffs with either a Wrexham or Notts getting beat in the final.

If we did fall through the trap door I don't think we will be playing Scunny as they look to be going down for 2 seasons in a row. Now apparently training at Ilkeston, 70 mile away!

Woe is me in Cornwall. If we stay up there's no Exeter City or Plymouth Argyle. And if we go down its looking likely that there will be no Torquay (happy hunting ground two win on our last two visits), and also possibly Yeovil Town who have decided to make their way towards the bottom. Not being selfish Pools but please get something at Grimsby and beat Stevenage. Thank you.

You want sympathy for living in Cornwall? You're not getting it from me, you lucky bugger

Yes it has been a massive change, for starters we look like we want to win games and stay up. The difference from 3 months ago is remarkable.

Can these players keep doing it though? Swindon was a massive win, I just hope tommorow we follow it up and get something.

As for the Conference it does look like it's going to be much weaker next season if notts and Wrexham come up,

Here what you are saying Flying Hogans but throwaway comment was merely football related. Yes Cornwall is good but none of my kids can afford to buy and house share or live with us at home and they ae all in their 30s. Still, can't have everything. Being able to occasionally watch Pools afar on the computer has been a welcome thing for me. Wish all you bunkerites well and can't believe The Heugh and Steetley's Pier have been left to deteriorate and might be lost.

actually ifollow even the legal one is the best thing that has happened in football for ever for exiled fans everywhere. you can follow live your team in a good number of games where for various reasons you would not have been able to do so.