I didn't go as I didn't want to pay £15. I would have loved to have seen Pools but the whole pricing structure of the game was set up to hit the Newcastle fans in the pocket, so I stood to one side and let exactly that happen.

Why are people on here whinging about them though? If they want to pay their hard earned to see their 40k a week 'heroes' let them. I'm over the moon the attendance was over 6k, nice little earner for Pools that. I'd happily welcome Middlesbrough and Sunderland to the Vic for pre-season games as well, all easy ways of collecting money. How often recently have Pools generated our own 6000+ crowd?

Yes there are plenty of Newcastle fans in Hartlepool, but there always has been and there always will be, get over it.

I can agree with that.

Similarly I didn't attend.

And like somebody on here said last week, maybe Pools missed a trick not charging £20+...




... and poisoning the pies.

Geordie fans from Hartlepool are all knobs,the only time they get to watch The TOON ,is in the Woodcutter on sky

bloody knobheads

Don't discourage them from going in the Woodcutter...

That's all well and good, but I wanted to go and see Pools, what I object too is having to sit right next to the smug, arrogant T***s

Surely they could have had the rink end and part of the Mill House, friendly or not we shouldn't have to put up with having to listen to them spouting bile rigt next to you

Do you not think the Billingham Town fans think the same of us when we taken 1000+ to their ground? I wouldn't have even bothered making it all ticket, I'd have made it a free for all. Would have saved us time and effort with tickets and our lovely ticket office. Pay on the turnstiles, the computers know when the stands are full, shut the turnstiles and get on with the game.

Old skool!

i was in the same frame of mind , about not going, but i will not see any more games this season due to work,but got too the turn stils and asked for a concession and the nice lady duely agreed so i got in for a £5, ON THE GAME THE GOALIE IN THE SECOND HALF HAD A NIGHT MARE,IMO TURNBULL DOES NT MOVE INTO THE FREE 10 YARDS SPACE IN FRONT OF HIM IN STEAD KICKS THE BALL TO THE RIGHT OUT OF PLAY BEHIND JAMES BROWN,NOB HEAD!!!!!!!!!!,QUITE LIKED EVERY ONE ELSE SHOULD JELL TOGETHER NICELY IMO

No, i wont fooking get over it if you dont mind.

What the fook is it with Hartlepool folk 'supporting' Newcastle??

Its as random as claiming to follow a team like Racing Santander, or Panathinaikos.

Why Newcastle???

You're both right.

THere are too many of them and it is perplexing.

THe only logical reason is cos they are all thick as pig shyte.

Do you not feel sorry for them though? If you are going to support a club you have no affiliation with, you might as well support one that wins something. Newcastle have been shit every season for fifteen years now and thats all that most will be able to remember.

I'd honestly support Pools over any of the teams in the north east in the last 10 years, Boro have won the Mickey Mouse Cup but apart from that they have churned out awful football week in week out and the atmosphere at the Sewerside is abysmal. Sunderland have twice been the laughing stock of the Premier League and I fully expect them to be again this year and Newcastle have been concistently crap.

I don't envy any of their supporters, they don't know what they're missing.

Fookin 'ell I've seen some bad analogies in my time but you're really scraping the barrel with that one

Ssssshhhh I was getting away with it to you brought it up!

How is it random? you can get to St James Park in an hour, they are in the same region, they are a big club, there will be loads of Hartlepool residents who work with Geordies and are easily brain washed.

What's random is Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea shirts on 6 year olds, why as a parent would you buy them! There is glamour in the Premiership so a local club who can deliver the glamour will always be attractive, it's like flies and dog sh!t, they can't resist.

Newcastle/Boro/Sunderland are always going to attract the less intelligent of the human race. Let them be, you will never change them, accept their money and laugh at the sad fookers!

Oh an just because you live in Hartlepool doesn't make you a Hartlepudlian.

Darlington is quite close also, why not support them?

Its because they feel the need to attach themselves to a 'big' club, to make up for their empty, vacuous existences................the scruffy bounders!

People do all sorts of things for very weird reasons. It doesn't really bother me who other people support. But it bothered me last night to be parked behind half a dozen geordies shouting and screaming and dancing around so that no-one behind could see. One arrived without his shirt on so that we could all see his geordie tattoo (balanced unappealingly tho it was on mounds of corrugated flesh.)
The REALLY ANNOYING thing was that they thought they were funny. They kept trying to involve the Town End in 'banter' ....the really funny thing being that no-one in the Town End once registered their presence during the whole match.
The people you meet when you don't have a gun.........

Actually I thought it was a good analogy and made sense. Billingham town fans may have thought the same, and some of them may also have been pleased to have been playing a bigger club with a bigger gate.

As for all the comments about Geordies, well I live and work here and the vast majority of people I meet are Newcastle United fans and also lovely friendly people who will do everything to help you. I think its pretty sad when people rattle on about thick geordies when they probably dont know any. I'm not sure Hartlepudlians are any more intelligent in general to be honest.
The above is a comment on geordies in general, not a comment on geordies at football matches (or fake geordies) as I never attend newcastle football matches and didnt go last night due to work.

and these lads thought they had you all hot under the collar at the sight of their manliness.................

West, there were several reasons for calling that analogy.

- I'm pretty certain very few of those 1000 (?) Pools fans crawl out of the Billingham woodwork just because Pools are in town.
- the Pools fans who do go don't think their team is the rightful heir to the title of greatest fookin club ever and consider we're doing Billingham a favour
- Newcastle Reserves don't play regularly at the Vic; there is no traditional close cooperation between the clubs.
- Newcastle haven't forked out 130K to improve the Vic.

I think it's fair to assume BTFC Supporters consider HUFC to be their friend though I could be wrong.

That seems fair enough Mr Head. I cant really argue with any of that so accept it.
A good gate and receipts for both clubs and the chance to watch a local higher league team though.

I can't argue with most of it either, although we've only just done the pitch.

The point I was trying to make was 'big' club going to little club, Billingham was the first that came to mind, in olden days our preseason used to see us go to much smaller regional teams, I remember going to Whitby one year and scoffing at the £30 season ticket price, I didn't mean to be offensive, but I had a chuckle. If a Whitby season ticket holder over heard me he'd probably have called me a knob head!

What really boils my piss is the fact they turn up in the home end wearing colours (normally the home shirt from when Keegan was manager) At least try and blend in a little bit, even worse when they turn up to support Pools in a normal game and they still wear there Sunderland/Newcastle tops patronising cumnts I'd have laughed my cap off if the stewards had turned anyone away wearing Newcastle colours trying to get into the home end last night how funny would that have been!!

I'd hate to support a Premiership team I really would. I used to go the odd Newcastle game when I was kid when Pools where miles away or didn't have a game midweek. I was once at a league game at St.James when Ardiles was manager against Port Vale with just over 11,000 other skunks, I wonder how many of those plastic fookers at the Vic last night where at that game?