To all those that I asked if they could kindly put me up and responded, thank you very much, but I have had to cancel any plans I had to come up for the game due to money, convenience etc.

Rest assured though I will be cheering Pools on by shout very loudly at the television set at home !

Mr TPP, cousin, thanks for the text informing us about the night shift, I appreciate the warning in advance.

Night shift my arse...

TPP is doing a one man conga around his front room right now

I'll pay you in PoK.

You can stay at my house in Seaham

I'm sorry PJ, I just can't physically afford it, I've had an expensive Christmas, and the journey is too arduous by coach and too dear by rail.

Ordinarily, wild horses wouldn't have been able to drag me away from going to this one, but hey it's on ITV - at leasst that will allow me to be there in spirit and my full 100% will be behind the team.

Watching the Pools game on TV from here is very different to me being a Man U gloryhunter.

I did contribute, PJ - I made the long trek in the freezing fog to the freezing North West and started my journey at 6.55am - at leats I made an effort there.

Shame pok you missing the game , and dashing the hopes of the many Hartlepool ladies hoping to meet a real man ..

Puff

It's only a few hours up from Kent

It's not cheap and it's too long by coach - maximum of EIGHT hours -, rail is expensive, I haven't got a car to try to maake the journey quickly.

Gettging form the South to the North quickly and cheaply at the moment is virtually impossible, Talbot.

Can you drive?

Got to admit this is poor form Pok.

No

a) I haven't got a car - I would like one but at the moment they are too expensive.

b) Fuel prices are high because of the war.

c) I haven't learnt how to drive - I would like to learn but lessons are expensive.

You're just going to have to accept it, however hard it may sound - I can't do it....maybe sometime in the future I micght come up, eh?

The War?

Fuel prices haven't so much fallen as plummet!

Aren't fuel prices the cheapest they've been for years at the moment!?

'The War'

But it would still cost me a lot of money to drive 200 miles or so to Hartlepool, refill and return.

a) i havent learnt how to drive and points b and c are totally pointless drivel

Money can't buy you love PoK.

and learn how far away places are

Yes, you know, you remember the war in Iraq that President Bush dragged us into in March 2003, the one that President-elect Obama wants us to leave?

Aye especially given if you drove 200 miles you'd be nowhere near Hartlepool. Another trait of the;



fan

Thanks for clearing that one up I thought you were on about the one Uncle Albert was in.

It was an estimation, PJ

Please don't be pedantic - I'm not in the mood.

What's up like? Did you miss In The Night Garden?

I hear now they're not allowed to have a light-skinned puppet in the show, how ridiculous is that?

You know, I resent being called juvenile just because I've watched High School Musical and things like that and enjoyed it.

If it's a round trip of 575 miles, you could do it on a tank and a bit in a diesel

Who did you hear that from then, then NF/Daily Express forum?

i went to wembley and back on less than a tankfull in my scenic 1.9dci

A blog on the Guardian website.

I remeber seeing a similar article from a left-wing newspaper basically rubbishing Bond films as being anti-women.

It's a Bond film, how can you not like them?

You keep setting yourself up, don't you POK??

How much does it cost for a tank, and a bit of diesel?

It would take some time doing it on a tank mind (and bloody cold), they are a bit slow ain't they.

That fuel comment is one of the most misinformed things I've ever heard someone say on here

This has to be a wind-up

They seek him here, they seek him there,
The Bunkerites seek him everywhere'
Does he excist ? .... we just can't tell.
He's PoK, the Poolie Pimpernel.

it's threads like this that make me keep tuning in!!!!

The scripts are always top notch!!!

BBC will be in touch I'm sure!!!

8 hours on a coach arduous???!!!!

we got the bloody coach to spain! 24 hour trip!

or try 10 hours in a van with sweaty stinky keyboard players!!!

they are very delicate, the youth of today

I used to do a 760 miles round trip for every Pools home game on Saturdays couldn't make the mid week ones and that was by train a 10 hr journey and 100 quid a ticket at the start.

Admit man your a part timer.

sorry but i can just imagine him every five minutes saying" are we there yet"

Bless him!

I just don't have the money - end of discussion.

So you can't get a student loan?

get a job

You'be been offered free accomodation and even a free ticket. What more do you want PoK?

this bloke has to be the product of someon'es vivid imagination.
Even Basil Fawlty wasn't this good

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Unfortuantely unless someone were to offer me free travel, which I very much sincerely doubt, I'm afraid I still find myself in the same situation.

Don't worry about it - it's on ITV.

come up a day early, I'll give you a days work a bed for the night whatever you want for tea and i'll take you down the leg iron for a pint and a game of pool.

hows that sound?!

That's a nice offer, Salty, it really is, but nothing can really change unless I find a quick, frequent, cheap way of maybe, maybe getting there.

Do a charity walk, make some money for a good cause