It’s a god awful game up to now. Crawley marginally on top.

Pitch is terrible by the way.

Yeesss..

1-0 Donny

I agree Mr I what a terrible game thank god Doncaster scored with their only effort on target.

Come on Mols put this to bed.

People got over depressive about Crawley beating Wimbledon. The latter are bottom of the form table so it wasn’t totally unexpected. Donny aren’t having a great run but they’re better than this shite.

Pressure without a cutting edge from Crawley. It’s a matter of time before Doncaster score a breakaway goal.

Great save from a volley by the Doncaster keeper followed by a criminal miss by one of their forwards.

14 minutes of this rubbish to go.

Bollocks 1-1
It’s been coming though.

This could end up desperate for Pools. If Crawley get a winner we’ll be four points adrift and they’ll still have a game in hand. They very nearly just did.

I see their next game is at home to Rochdale....bugger

Crawley just had a goal disallowed

Yep. Followed by Grimsby at home who no doubt will have a FA Cup hangover.

Awful game but Crawley are much better than Doncaster who look so unbelievably poor.

Who are also fighting for their lives. You never know…

Thats it 1 - 1

1-1 full time. Could easily have been worse

Just taken another look at the table. A double header of Rochdale and Grimsby at home is absolutely perfect for Crawley - who looked dangerous at times against a poor Doncaster side.

A bit like Crawley, we need our back to back wins to provide some hope.

I only watched the second half but Crawley were by far the better team, Doncaster were absolutely dire. Can’t begrudge them the equaliser, they deserved a win to be fair.

Let’s see what Saturday brings for us and them…

I'd love to know what's happened in the last 3 games with Crawley. They looked absolutely dreadful and couldn't win for a while and suddenly they're doing well.

We got to face it unless we go on a winning spell until the end of the season we are down. So what would I do in this predicament. For me it would be defending our penalty area tightly with at least 6 players or have everyone behind the ball then get at least 6 men in the box. Of course playing that way we would be prone to the counter attack. I can’t think of any other way. We have to throw caution to the wind now. Any other suggestions lads?

We need to be a lot more professional when closing games out.
Blew 4 points in the last 2 games and end of the days its only 4th division football.Minimum of 6 wins required from 9 despite only 6 wins all season.
Suppose its a 9 game season from now. Bit of promotion form needed. .
Wasent that what the season was all about when the STs where on sale.
What a major fucken Debacle.

Forget Crawley…..we, that’s WE, NEED WINS.

If crawley had won last night we would of been in a terrible position. Its still not great but we have to hope they don't pick up too many points from the next 2 winnable home games. At least they only have 1 game in hand now.

But we need to Win games, in which we aren't. Crawley could lose three games on the bounce (game in hand included) and we pick up two points against Orient & Swindon and still second bottom on Goal Difference. Doesn't matter what Crawley, Colchester & Harrogate do now. It is out of our hands; all we can do is keep hold of the lead and get the 3pts. Then prey Colchester, Harrogate mess up and we smash Crawley 5-0 to get the better Goal Difference.

Crawley have took 7 points from last 3 games while only conceding 1 goal. While we aint won in 8.
Time for these lunatics to stop saying there happy with draws. Do the fucken Mathematics.
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The defence has to be top priority now as we now look outstanding going forward.

Got a good feeling Rochdale n Pools both win on Saturday.
UTP.

[quote="kevin pooles gloves"]Crawley have took 7 points from last 3 games while only conceding 1 goal. While we aint won in 8.
Time for these lunatics to stop saying there happy with draws. Do the fucken Mathematics.
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The defence has to be top priority now as we now look outstanding going forward.

if we are drawing the next two games no matter which team scored the last we should go for the win. if we get it the rewards are far higher than seeing the game out for a point and if it does not come off and we lose we have not lost much but would have given it a go. if we did draw the last 9 games we play we will go down but someone will crop up saying it looks good for next season as we have gone 12 games underfeated.

Thats because the manager had them sitting in their own half for the last 45.

Rochdale will be going out to win, They defend worse than us.

C,Mon Kev your saying we need 6 wins=18 points. So we need 49pts to survive.
Which means at least 4-5 teams at the bottom will hit promotion form.

I reckon between 41-44 will do.

C,Mon Kev your saying we need 6 wins=18 points. So we need 49pts to survive.
Which means at least 4-5 teams at the bottom will hit promotion form.

I reckon between 41-44 will do.

there is always someone who does the great escape where everything seems to click for em. lets just hope its us and not rochdale, crawley or both. anything can still happen and i,m sure this will continue right into may.

I have now reached the stage we’re I’m resigned to relegation, but oddly enough think Askey should be kept as manager…….but saying that, staying up would still be preferable.

askey will not be the manager that took us down if that happens. its charlie carolli and the other clown that did.

With you on that Snowy

John Askey has a very decent record across League & Non League Management.

159 wins from 388 matches covering Macclesfield, Shrewsbury, Port Vale & Us with 40.98% record.

If (when) we go down he is the perfect fit for a challenge next season for a swift return.

He will be by far the best manager to go into the NL with - last time round was a shambles beyond belief - not saying its nailed on but im getting less upset about the thought. It is what it is and if we still have a club to support and somewhere to watch live footy on a weekend then happy days - it could be much much worse and we could be a Bury or Macclesfield !

Crawley and Rochdale has draw written all owa it - not too worried about that but either way someone or both are earning points that day and we need to make sure we dont loose any this weekend - yes id take another draw, every point counts just now

[quote="Eiphos_3"]He will be by far the best manager to go into the NL with - last time round was a shambles beyond belief - not saying its nailed on but im getting less upset about the thought. It is what it is and if we still have a club to support and somewhere to watch live footy on a weekend then happy days - it could be much much worse and we could be a Bury or Macclesfield !

got to agree as i have said something similar on another topic. think those who feel staying in the league is a life or death affair are remembering the pre challinor seasons where it was grim. due to restrictions in the challinor seasons we were not allowed to watch live apart from his early days and the last few games. why couldn,t covid had come in the harrison and bates days to save us real heartache.

Unless raj Singh leaves its going to be grim. I can't believe some still believe it isn't going to be, as if things will change in the slightest. We are incapable of holding onto decent players for long, they are sold at the first opportunity, so for me I'd rather see us struggle at the Bradfords next season, than dorking.

If we go down it will be a complete disaster, if anyone thinks we're coming straight back up they seriously need their heads looking at. We have won 6 games all season. Even with askey were incapable of seeing games out, so how on earth fans think we will win 20 to 30 league games next season, is beyond me.

It really depends on the nature of Raj's departure.
The ideal scenario would be a willing replacement with financial clout.
If his departure means we are left on the bones of our arse then that is a different scenario altogether.

Grimsby finished bottom in 20-21 and came straight back up. Previous season means nothing.

Its ok bleating on and on about wanting Sing out, been going on and on for long enough.
So if anybody is going to state that then put forward your proposal for the future, otherwise the argument does not hold water.

So Raj goes, then what? That’s part of a plan, but what’s the full plan after that?

We got 3 or 4 decent players carrying the shite rest of the team. You wont see them for dust if we go down.
I dread to think what the starting 11 will look like in the NL.
JA is a decent manager not a turd polishing magician.

What concerns me is this. With such a massive playing staff the wage bill must eye watering. Has Raj made a massive financial gamble gamble that we preserve our league status that will all go tits up if we go down? I mean has he borrowed money based upon a hope? Could we go bust if we go down? Worried.

We’ll soon find out……

Dont suppose Sing has put a penny of his own money into Pools since Promotion.
Been run by the fans Sponsors
Promotion bonus
Sky tv money
Last seasons cup runs etc.
Imagine that pot is empty now.
Of course theres cause for concern if we go down.
I certainly wudent rule out Administration.

I think Torquay are a better example of our likely fate in the NL. They lost the play off final by a whisker and now they are odds on for relegation to NLS

well they certainly did it the pools way by the better players leaving them over a couple of summers and anding up with dregs.

its really hard to imagine our recruitment being worse than last summers and the team that had to be put out. keeping askey happy and recruiting early is a must. the worst scene would be askey walking in june with another joker taking over with few players left. if that did happen some could get their wish for derby games with darlo and spenny and shields doing the double on us.