It looks like Swansea and Carlisle or Donny will go up automatically this year, meaning only one of Forest or Leeds could go up through the play-offs, provided they get to the final.

Looking at the Championship, relegation candidates include Sheff Wed, Leicester, Southampton, Norwich and Coventry.

I think this confirms that there is room for Pools in the Championship, at least for one season. In the meantime I am looking forward to matches at these former Premiership sides, even if it is only in the hope that we'll finally win a game in front of a 'big' crowd.

Wasn't it Coventry who came out with the "likes of Hartlepool" comment? Let's hope we get them then!

Which comment is that?

Last time they were in danger of relegation they said something like "we don't want to end up playing the likes of Hartlepool"

the quote " playing teams like Hartlepool " was made when they were due to move to their new stadium for the start a new season and they were in danger of playing at in in League 1.

Yes it will be great ... we can accomodate these big crowds Will you ?

you might half fill it at £10'00 a shot and kids free if any of these so called big teams know where you are

but you cant can you because your half built stadium and infastructure cannot cope

Once the car parks finished well have bigger gates than pompey and fulham Bring on the championship

Won't it be embarassing when there are more away fans than home fans?

they just can't cater for more than 4000
the game will be over before they get them in

In your white elephant of a stadium I mean? These big crowds are obviously not going to be made up of Darlow fans.

I knew what you meant collie What i mean is darlo is a sleeping giant just wait and see....What george buys always turns to gold

Hope the Wendies are relegated. Justice at last!

I think you're confusing justice and revenge Mr Sisters.
Justice would be Pools fighting relegation in the championship instead of them.

there's been an evening up of wrong-doings in some sense, in the respect that we are now a division above both Chesterfield and Rotherham. The fact we went up as they both went down last season had a sense of justice being done in the fashion of killing two birds with one stone. Now for those twats from S6...................

More like a comatose dwarf...

That's one thing they can do cater for more than 4,000. Have you not heard of the cavery? the loids could feed the five thousand on it Why do you think Phil Stamp stayed so long? Three choices of meat and a hesculator you know with club crested hand dryers.

They'd be absolutely fooked if they wanted to see a football match though, especially if they liked watching games from the kick off.

It's a good job the crowd has only swelled to 3,000 regulars to see the clubs best season for 17 years really.

Carverys 'escalators And 25.000 seats...........Burgers rats and 7690 seats

Seats?? SEATS????

How do you know the far side of you're stadium doesn't have pest problem? Nobody ever uses it. You could have bigger rats than a 60 year old hooker for all you know. It must be like staring at that Arsenal mural they had at Highbury for 90 minutes....... before they painted the people in.

Dick

Dullard

I hope to fuck you blow your first chance in 17 years and end up getting dicked in the PO's

Actually hope and luck isn't needed, because that is what is going to happen

It's great to see he now just spouts the same old dribble as he does on rivals after behaving well for a few posts

Carverys escalators and 25000 seats isn't old dribble dullard 's its fact

so what is the fact relating to how many of the 25000 seats are you allowed to use

that is like driving a 53 seat bus round the town on your own

your stadium is bigger
as your running costs must be
as our average attendance over the season is

but you have more empty seats well done you must be so proud

You can have a pre-match carvery at Pools we only have stairs though unfortunately.

We don't go on rival clubs message boards pulling our plonker over it either. That would be fooking pathetic wouldn't it?

darlo in my opinion have the better ground for the typical away fan, but id hate to go there every other week just staring at a sea of red with a few gimps here and there.

Only for the brave eh.. with there own teeth i guess

Any man who gets a bonk on over a carvery is more or less a grade A tvvat

Fancy calling pj that ?

Ohhhh you're a card, aren't you!

Just like going the Boro really Tom, just with a much calmer sea at the Riverside and loads more gimps.