... dare not speak its name is well and truly out the closet. ....... I drive along Seaton front daily and if I see that fooking borer flag at the window of that house on the green again, I swear I'll do a kamikaze into it.......

A simple house brick through the window will do for a start................painted blue and white of course.

Godd idea Mr Tickhill. but it is a conservation area and it's easier to demolish the house than touch the windows.

If you wish and can sort your end out, I can get the toilets of China to flush through their letterbox.......

That's about 2.6 billion cacks and approximately 14 billion jimmy's a day. Should do it, like.

it just got worse....down the headland last night and round by the Pot House whemn my attention was drawn to some fooking clown brazenly walking along the Town Wall in a borer shirt..."behave and stop staring " I was told........ It was there 'GARMIN' staring me in the face........another product I can never buy.

I have a fixation with liverpool shirts and i'm gonna get knacked one of these days, i've stared a few big bounders out lately (from the comfort of my car mind).

I just don't get it. I tell our lass and even she understands. You cannot support another team apart from the town in which you live, you just cant, I cant believe people think they can get away with it and display with pride their alleigance to a team from a place they do not live. However, I am prepared to be lenient in some cases.

1. If that person has come to live in Hartlepool and has previously for a long time lived in a town from which he now displays that football shirt.

2. If that person is working in our town for a short period only.

I do not believe 100 scousers have migrated to Hartlepool, or even the same number for man utd, or newcastle or the boro.

It does my foooking head in

It gets on my man breasts too.

I was in the pub yesterday to watch the match when i was surrounded by Manc shirts and Toon shirts. All of which are cheering and shouting when Newcastle scored and again when Utd equalised.

I sat laughing when one of my mates said "What you laughing at?"

My reply was "All these armchair fans who support teams like this because they want to support a BIG club"
To which i got a reaction "I am NOT a Fan I support Newcastle".
"BOLLOX" i said. "How often do you visit St James Park?"
"twice max a season"
"Would you Support Newcastle if they were in league 2?"
"Nah was the answer"

My argument didnt go any further as I didnt need to say anymore!!!!

Until half an hour later when my pal asked about the tickets for the West Brom Game.

Then this so-called Newcastle fan chirped up again

"I think I'll go to that game like seen as though Pools are playing a Premier league side".

I felt my pi$$ start to boil and couldnt contain myself, so I went home.

Don't these people realise how stupid they look, mind even if they were told they still wouldn't understand otherwise they wouldn't be wearing the shirt in the first place.

Thick as foook the lot of them, they need telling, i'm not hard enough to tell them, could do without a permanent black eye, anyone got any ideas

but in the scheme of things, it is knowing what you are and knowing what they are in comparison.
The old saying that "there's those who know, and those who don't know. Those who don't know, don't know that they don't know" springs readily to mind.
Sad, sad sycophants.
Someone should write a song called that.

When I supported Sunderland... and yes it was home and away ( peter reid time) I went on holiday from Newcastle airport in a sunderland strip and have been known to walk round newcastle city centre in said top just to see what would happen.... nothing did though...

Now I tend to take the issue a bit more seriously and confront people with dodgy shirts and point them in the direction of the club shop.

'When I supported Sunderland home and away......' ... which leads me to the question..... who will you be supporting in five years time...and did it happen on the road to Damascus... the conversion that is...?

Pools now and forever...... blame the bloody wife..

I supported sunderland and my son manure. We argued all week long on everything. Even the grass was greener at sunderland than manure, conversly the white lines were "whiter" at manure. My wife got two tickets for pools and threw them at us telling us to fight it out on the terraces at pools.

Not wishing to offend the dear wife and mother we duly obliged and enjoyed "the lower league football" so much so that we took the wife and mother to the next home game and it's cost us a bloody fortune ever since. We might not be able to say we were poolies in the glum / good old days of AD 1700 or whenever most of you hark back to but like most of you we are all consistent and do a lot more than some of you on here. My company sponsored players kits, car parks and calanders etc which might only be small fry of the odd extra £1000 a year or so but it is more than most.

We had the chance to move south last year but it would be too far to do the home games.... so we didn't move and risked bancruptcy because of our decision.

Fooking ell. Fantastic, wish there were a few more like urself

So you weren't really a Sunderland supporter after all then, if you could be 'turned' that easily...hmmmm.

i spotted 2 on saturday at 1.30 going into the engineers both with names and numbers on their backs

My eldest nephew (16yrs) will only ever be seen in a Pools shirt
My youngest nephew just lijkes footy shirts so can be seen wearing literally anything including Celtic,Wigan,Tunisia,Egypt but Ive never seen him in a Man U,Arsenal,Chesea or Wankercastle though

Sorry Snowy can't let you be a complete arshole all the time. I was red and white all through but the economics of it all was not sustainable although I did make sacrifices at home to do the trips. Also the quality of football was not that much different to watching pools...... they always got beat !!

Why is it that you have to be a pools supporter from the day you were born to be a "real poolie" get off your high horse and realise that people like me and my family who came to pools late have as much right to be a poolie as some of you on here who have been around a lot longer. Don't forget it's our money that is making a difference over the sad attendance figures of 10 years ago and it's our bums on seats that are making up for all the tossers who call themselves poolies yet can't even be arsed to go to a home game.

Plastic mackems and plastic mags... well maybe you can add plastic poolies to your list.

I merely asked a question and you answered...... although the use of words like 'arsehole' is like talcum powder bullets to me as you'll find out ...I never, ever said, you have to be a Pools supporter all your life to be a true Poolie, never have done and never will, all are welcome... however.....
So in effect, you describe yourself as 'red and white all through' .... but you say you supported Pools purely out of economics, let's just say your idea of 'support' is different to mine... to me it's like having a child, it does your head in some times, but you wouldn't change it for the world, you criticise it, you praise it, ... it's yours for life.. it's not negotiable. That's my definition of support.

I appologise for my use of negativity and insults towards you. It seemed that whenever I said anything there was a questioning or a negative condemnation from you. I appologise if I read your posts wrongly.

Maybe I should read a few more posts from forum members BEFORE I open my mouth in order to gauge how people post and how they may appear sarcastic to me as a newbie but not to the general posters who know who they are. ... Right appologies, and sincere ones out of the way, it seems to me in general that there are two sets of poolies those who have come on board since IOR and the faithfull few pre IOR. if you haven't supported pools for generations then you are not worthy of wearing the shirt. You may not have said many things but you certainly implied things

Maybe you should re read my post.... I said I WAS red and white all throughand for many years as a plastic mackem from the mid 80's through to watching live from when peter Reid took charge but my alligence switched to pools after my wife gave us the tickets and that was back some years. Yes there was a financial aspect such as no train fair when I could walk to pools, no away bus fair, yes the ticket prices were at the time cheaper at pools and yes I could watch a team play football and lose like Sunderland. I guess it was a growing sense of dissalutionment with spending money at sunderland and getting nothing for it which co incided with the first visit to pools, maybe it was a clandestine plot by the wife to get me to spend less and get into less trouble, I don't know for certain however as time has gone on I value the alligence thing of being a poolie and that is something you cannot understand without knowing me or speaking to me in person. My last visit to the stadium of blight was Mick Macarthy's first game in charge when they got beat and my first at pools ( from memory) was about 4 weeks before Turner left for sheffield.

Your definition of support is the same as mine.

Mind you what is your view on plastic poolies who come on here ranting and raving about pools but don't even go to a home match??

I never imply anything...I ask a question and people apply their own interpretation of my question.... my only point of contention is that in my view, you have a team for life, through the good times and the bad times...you can have more than one wife, but footy team...? YOU MAY CHOOSE TO DISAGREE... but that is what message boards are about, debate.
As for the IOR era supporters, I was there when they were needing them, not feeding them... as for my 'sarcasm'.... that's non negotiable either.

I think it is perfectly normal for people to change their allegiance.............it's called freedom of choice and it happens all the time.
I was born in another country, was brought up in Hartlepool and support Pools........just like my dad. My wife was born in Sale, brought up in Liverpool, stood on the kop and now supports Pools. My daughter was born in Donny, brought up in Donny and supports Pools.
We walk around here with Poolie tops on. We are known as Pools fans. I have lived down here for thirty years and the pisstaking used to be relentless, it's not now.
It's funny though. When I lived in Hartlepool I was Hartlepool full stop. Now I find myself defending the North East in general.
As for 'other' fans. In our village there are Man Utd fans (season ticket holders) , Arsenal fans ( STH), two lifelong Chelsea fans,two Bristol City fans,one Oldham fan ( hardly ever misses a match home or away), at least half a dozen match attending Liverpool fans, one Boro, two Mags, two Mackems, three Wolves fans, and one or two others plus Donny, Rotherham,Scunthorpe, Hull, both Sheffield clubs, Leeds, Barnsley, Forest, Derby and even bloody Mansfield. That is amongst the people I actually know, obviously there are others. The football craic is very good, wide and varied.
I suppose that living amongst so much diverse football support has made me more appreciative of the fact that people move around, but they tend to stick to their team. Although I know at least ten 'southerners' who have changed their allegiance to one of the local teams.
It's a person's choice really.

I used to have Sunderland as a second team in my early years, as they were at home when we were away, and the bus ticket to Roker and entrance was quite cheap in the late 60's. I left them behind when I started working, and adopted Ipswich instead, while I was in East Anglia for a few years in the 70's, and went to Portman Road regularly as a cheaper alternative to a return home. But Pools have always been my team since I started to go as a 9 year old, even if I didn't watch much of the match, mostly running up and down the concrete slopes at the end of the terracing, at the end of the Rink End.

You see, this is how you set yourself up for muscular calf problems in middle age

If I didn't support Pools, I think I would start going to matches of a local small team, like Spennymoor. I wouldn't dream of supporting a big club, even tho there are some big clubs that I 'like'. That's because it's not the football I'm supporting, really, it's something else. I think that's what some people are saying, above

I was thinking that myself as I typed it.

I used to go to Joker Park several times a season when Pools were away, and I have no shame whatsoever about that. It's not as though I wore a Sunderland top or shouted Haway the Lads. It just happened to be a handy ground to go and watch footy at when there was none at the Vic. I even went to Ayresome park on odd occasions. Again, not to support any team but just to watch the game. Similarly I once went to Elland Road because I'd never seen European football with my own two eyes before.

But the only answer I have ever given to the question "who do you support" is "Pools".

Mr Tickhill, I find that in Doncaster centre an alarming number of people are to be seen walking around in red and white shirts that do NOT have hoops. In fact a hooped shirt is a bit of a rarity. In my village however the hoops as well as the West-Hammish duotones of Scunny both hold their own easily against the Red/Golds and White/Blue/Yellows.

Mr Head, I find that Donny's shirt is more in evidence now than it ever has been in my time here. This is borne out by the fact that Donny now sell more shirts and more season tickets than they did before.
The red and white shirts to which you refer are to be found everywhere, especially amongst the kids. I think that will always be so as kids like to associate with the famous clubs.
However as my daughter was born and brought up in Donny, should she be wearing a Donny shirt? Thankfully she doesn't.

I dunno if she should or shouldn't but if she did at least it would be justifiable (provided of course that Tickhill United shirts aren't an easily available commodity )

People will do what they want to do... but we can all have opinions can't we

It's Tickhill Town F C, but I think they struggle to get shirts for the squad never mind the supporters.

I know it's hijacking the thread but this is an active one. My son has two tickets for Leeds festival on Friday for sale. Anyone interested??

the wife's nephew was born and raised in Telford, and still lives there with his mam - but with his dad being a lifelong Pools fan he is possibly the only Pools fan of his age in that area. Attends 90% of Pools away games with his dad, and probably 50% of home games.