Those two scoring will have done them both the World of good. So good to see ManiD after scoring he refused his team mates congratulations until after he celebrated with the Poolies. Two great footballers two good lads who will be major if we are to achieve success this season.

In You tube interview Sarl said he only took Sloggett off because he had a bit of an injury. No mention of introducing Mancini in order to change things. If Sloggett had not been injured would Mancini have remained on the bench?

Agreed Leggie - just need to follow it up on Saturday with another 3 points at Ebbsfleet.

Think Sarrl has a winning formula on the road, when the home team needs the bring the game to us - whilst not pretty, it's proving effective, providing we can keep 11 on the field.

I think we just have to play a more expansive game at home, now that we've managed to shore things up at the back.
Go for the jugular early on and try and get a couple of goals in the first twenty mins, before game management mode kicks in.

Had we won at Woking AND managed to score once against Halifax on Saturday - we'd be TOP tonight (which isn't that far fetched)!

Winning breeds confidence and we now have a decent matchday squad (with Dodds to hopefully return soon). Surely got as good a chance as anybody to have a successful season.

Come On Pools- Nowt to beat!

Post match interviews were interesting

Sarll view of the first half and what constitutes a 'chance' very different to mine (and I suspect most on here)--I still dont think he gets it in terms of balance needed between attack and defence but a win buts some more time for his 'evolution'
Also worrying he was set up expecting a Boston onslaught of some sort---this is Boston here, we really need to stop being so reactive at some point
Hopefully he realizes only to play 1 or 2 of Sheron, Slog and Hunter, and if its 4-2-3-1 it should be as part of the 2.

Mancini interview was great--really likeable bloke, and interesting him saying he enjoys playing with 'players like Mansurin'--said it before but good players playing near each other become way more than the sum of their parts--looking fwd to Dodds coming back and hopefully getting the freedom to add to that.

We have to go on now and beat Ebbsfleet...no excuses

He said he was going to take off one of the 3 midfielders in the BBC interview, Sloggett having a bit of an injury made it an easy pick to be him.

Sloggett looked chalk and cheese to what we have seen - he obviously must have started the game with a niggle. He was way off it. His passing, touch and just general game play was utter crap. he should of been dragged regardless. But yeh i think that should be the nail in the coffin for that 3 in the midfield like - Mancini has to play end of, id even go as far as saying Featherstone needs to be in there too as hes just a really good footballer and tbh looks fitter this season than he did last and before that !
Great result and some good things now moving in the right direction - lets hope we get another LB in as Fergie still a weak link for me.

Dodds to come back in and Charman to start, i dont see why we cant go for automatic !

again it depends on how the players are used. away form and results are certainly automatic promotion ones but at the vic its at best a work in progress. there hasn,t been many times i have felt more confident when pools are away compared to being at home. think last night showed us what the players could do if allowed to do it and the best and worst of pools over a 100 odd minutes.

We only have to get the midfield right, the change fron a defensive midfield to a tacking midfield paid rich dividends, their late arrival commentary team paid us the compliments too.

just wish we,d have started the game as we started the second half. get a couple of goals in front and then use our defensive midfield to see the game out. the tactics sarll used last night worked but doubt they would have done so last saturday if a team with a defense like ours halifax had scored a 4th minute goal.

Mancini, the French Derek Hampton

yep said this the other day - we have to be the attacking most brutal team from the off. Get the goals then bring the park the bus players on and graft for everything. But we have seen this go belly up before with Pools. Hopefully this has shown DS what is needed. Maybe be a bit more negative away against the better teams but that team that finished that game bar Madine has to start for me. Charman is class aswell. Mathurin to come on and do what he did at weekend and cause absolute chaos for tired legs. Although hes clever and Mancini is appreciating working with another good footballing brain - tough decision for once for a Pools Manager. Dont think any have had this nice scenario since Cooper.

better failing by being positive than doing the same by being negative. fans will give players and managers a bit more leeway if they can see mistakes and dropping points by trying to be positive in games and going for it.

Yes I was thinking that on seeing his hairstyle, Derek was like Catweazle in comparison. Friday night at Sincil Bank in November 1979, 3-3 draw, Mark Lawrence 2 and Derek the 3rd, great game.

I think the manager got out of jail last night. That was awful first half no matter what spin he puts on it.

but will he learn the lesson of the second half and not go back to safety first against he mighty ebbsfleet who he,ll do his best telling us how good and dangerous they actually are in his pre match rallying call.

It was awful but after their early goal Boston never looked like scoring again till right at the death. Not a get out of jail at all really - we had enough chances to win comfortably. At this rate we could grumble all the way to to promotion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmijBW1PVpo

When was the last time any manager before any game at any level ever said the opposition are shit and we're going to murder them? Of course he's going to say it'll be hard, at the end d of the day no team is just going to rollover and let us win. Games might look easy on paper or form but when has that ever proven to be the case for Pools?

Ebbsfleet managed a draw last night against a good Aldershot side who im sure where level on points with us before last nights fixtures. Problem with this league is we think we can go to a bottom of the side club (or they come to us etc) and give them an 9-0 hiding. Doesnt work like that and teams fighting to get out of the bottom sometimes surprise the big dogs - Kings Lynn did it to us. always remember that cold night with a mis firing Armstrong and they hit us on the break and got a late goal absolute sickener as we had been the better side for 90+ minutes of the game.

I just got a notification on my phone from Twitter/ X - Mancini has just scored an equaliser!
I really should remove that app.

Really pleased we got a win!

I know Madine has a way to go for full fitness, But his contribution in preventing an equaliser at the death is worth noting.
Put a lot physical pressure on their player.

I am in two minds about Sarll.
I am in favour of his requirement for fitness and not making non league players try to 'play out from the back'.
He has done a good job defencewise but his reluctance to use our best attacking players from the off has me worried. Mancini scored a great winner at Ebbsfleet last season and Saturday is an ideal opportunity to play attacking football for 90 minutes and win something like 4-2 instead of the nail biting 1-0's.
Whilst it is great winning away matches, the vast majority of us want to see the team perform at the Vic and that is what will add up to 2000 more to the attendances. I am sure Raj wants that too!

Sarll has said a few times about getting to 60 mins at 0-0,then trying to win the game.
That doesn’t have the hallmark of a team pressing from the front
he also mentions.
Get your best players on from the start,get a few goals up,then see the game out.

Not one bunkerite has made an excuse for this deplorable performance n result.
This fixture completely mugged the lot of us major style.
Sarly Out.

mind you how we play away from home is more important now with the number of away games a season you can now from your chair at home. once most use to do just the odd more local away game even if they were e ver present at the vic.