Goes from bad to worse for them.

Shame really as I used to enjoy away days at Halifax.

Hope they can do "an Aldershot" (albeit from a slightly higher starting point if they can stay afloat).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 448831.stm

Is their main stand still unfinished?

They ran out of money the last season we played them, Flash scored a cracking volley, we were on a huge roofed terrace behind the goal with a half built main stand on our right.

Further proof of how lucky we are as a club - I remember vividly that match against Scarborough in 99 that kept us up and later Scarborough started their decline.

We are very, very, very lucky to have IOR.

I concur.

Hence why I get upset when people make stupid statements saying that KH should go.

IOR and KH are the best things to happen to HUFC in my lifetime.

Even if I do disagree with the current ticket pricing policy of the monkey they're employing.

Agree Mr Ripper loved having a bevy in The Shay then the match.

I went to the last match that Pools (and with the news, anyone maybe) played there. The pub landlord hated football he was a rugby league bloke and thought HTFC were ruining the pitch playing nancy football on it. All any of the regulars could do was nod sagely and say ....'arrrr....tha noos......'

Fookin' backwater......

Even if you only found out recently what IOR actually did

H'angus decides the ticket pricing policy?

Yes.

I've been looking for a picture of the WYP laying into the Pools fans,who were doing nothing wrong, apart from standing in an overcrowded area with intent.

Having found it yet, but did find this pic.......



A football fan attacks a police officer circa 1979 at Hartlepool United during football violence at a match. PHOTOGRAPH: DIRK VAN DER WERFF

That was about 1984 wasn't it v Mansfield????

I thought it was 1982 v Swindon

It was against Mansfield 1984, the away fans were in the town end then seperated by a metal fence from the home fans.

There'd been a couple of pitch invasions with fans from both sides squaring up in the town end goal mouth, then a lad ran on, police grabbed him, his brother ran on karate kicked a policeman and he was also arrested.
The lad who karate kicked the bobby got 3 months in the clink.

his brother is currently in the clink too and the plod had to wrap with a bad back

The only game i can remember it kicking off inside the vic was when Pools played Aberdeen in a pre season friendly in about 2000. There weren't many at the vic either.....

I remember that. 5-10 Aberdeen fans jumped the Rink End fences, marched down the Cyril Knowles side with a swagger as if they were carrying invisible melons, and then I don't really remember what happened. We beat them though, 3-0 wasn't it?

Didn't Gary Strodder score an absolute beauty of a volley from near the edge of the box in that game

And you don't like Ali G-isms? Doyle!

York away in the cup.
Bishops and nuns with adidas trainers kicking policemen on the terrace concrete
Police hats sailing through the air back to the pitch with accompanying cheers
Poolies celebrating Bakers goal about five seconds before it rolled over the line.

I remember the Grimsby Game early 70's.......it was the worst I have seen inside the ground for violence with several people stabbed with various implements including umbrellas.The Grimsby fans had got into the ground early and 'taken' the Rink End.......Pools fans spent the rest of the match trying to take it back.I remember this game so vividly because it was the first Game I had taken my younger brother to...he must have been about 10 at the time......it is still imprinted in his mind he was so traumatised.......

this is starting to sound like the 4 Yorkshiremen.............."you were lucky, I were back against t'wall wi' a 'undred o' 'em comin' at meh..." etc etc

It was never 4-3, was it? I thought we tanked them, I remember them being shite anyway

You shoulda thrown it at the Sheff U fans

My contribution to the thread is Preston at home in the Autoglass/JPT/Sherpa Van whatever it was at the time in around 1987.