gutted. A win today and we would have been safe (in my opinion)

we now HAVE to beat Hereford at home, and win one of the away matches against Yeovil or Crewe. if we dont then we are down. Simple really...

Mugged I think today, great performance according to Pools World, Sweeney on a hat trick etc.

Should Clark have took the penalty ?

An inspired substitution I think by Millwall, unfortunately.

Not sure that mugged is the word. If you dont take chances and gift 3 stupid goals away then you deserve nothing from a game.

Our goalkeeper is an absolute disgrace and if we do go down then the blame lies at his feet imo. By the law of averages a shot must 'hit you' now and again but yet again he made no saves whatsoever. A complete poncing clown. I never thought I would see a keeper that bad play for Pools ever again, its like having sidall, o connor, steve jones et al between the sticks.

If Turner REALLY believes he is any good then he wants locking in a padded cell

sorry but there is no way you can blame the goalie in this game.

I'm sorry but all you need is a free kick anywhere near the box and it's a goal, ALB never looks like he will save any free kicks, there was a few tasty goals today and Joels miss just made losing worse.

How do you work that out?

The first was yet another free kick where he got it all wrong, the second he hesitated coming off the line and it went under his body and the third one beat him at his near post.

He couldnt save stamps

There are 11 in a team, not 1

Shame most of them decided to go missing for the last thirty minutes, again

We were 2-0 up. All we have to do is defend

never mind at least we; ll look good in League 2!!!!

Me and your mark just gatecrashed a party in the the sports bar, looked a right pair of doyles

Why should we just have to defend? Surely go out for the second half with the same attitude as the first and not sit back and invite the opposition to attack at will would be the better option

there were only two people to blame for losing that match, Nelson & Collins. The rest of them played bloody good

ALB certainly didnt play 'bloody good'. He made no saves so how can he have played good

Agree that nelson and collins were shite. Nelson got turned like he wasnt there for the 2nd goal and he reckons bigger clubs are in for him. Give the twat a 5 iron

are you for foookin real?

All around us in the town end could see that free kick was going to go in...and where it was going to go in.

ALB was down on his hands and kness waiting for the kick to be taken. Waht the fook is that all about. We were all shouting at Liddle to get on the line.

It had goal written all over it.

He is an utter bounder of a keeper.

He reacted as quick as he can. S.....L....O....W.....L....Y

ALB YOU ARE A WANKER.

AND SO ARE YOU COLLINS.

3 shots on target today, they all end up in the net.

But he's as good as anything in league one isn't he Chris?

tell you what this is ridiculous....i am in no way ALB biggest fan but to blame him today and not mention the 2 clowns that he has in front of him just demonstrates the way that our supposed fans are thinking

ALB is not a good keeper...yet to blame him is a joke...collins and nelson are pathetic and the fullbacks are not the biggest problem....you have the best centre back at the club playing centre midfield....wat a joke.....thing is we are in trouble....if we dont go down this season do you really see the problems being sorted....we will be even worse next season as for some reason the management team (likely to be in charge next season) thinks its the goals that are the problem


yes score 2 and you should win...but no our joke of a defence seems to let that go

1st goal....not ALB's fault.....could put a man on the line, but the wall should do its job...mistake was putting parker on the end of the wall

2nd goal....Nelson got turned as if he wasnt ther...Harris is not fast yet he turned and got a shot away before Nelson got the challenge in

3rd goal.....Collins lost it, yes ALB could of done better but he should not of been in the position to have to save it

I feel really sorry for Sweeney today...scored 2 brilliant goals (two different reasons why they are good)and we still could not manage to win

Turner/West is not the solution for management...I feel the decision for our new manager is the most important for the summer....regardless of how bad our defence/team is

Errrrrr.....it was ALB's fault like.

Foookin hell man..................that frre kick took about 3 minutes to take.

ALB was stood right on the right hand post. I say stood though I should have said crouched down. He made himself about 3'2". Why do think he did that?

By standing/crouching that way, he had no chance of making up the ground to get to the other side of the goal. The man is a foookin clown.

A bad foookin clown..cos he aint funny.

I have never seen another keeper anywhere that does that when the other team have a free kick.

The bloke is a fooookin nutter.

There were about 500 people in the town end saying exactly the same thing as well, so I know I am not alone.

I can't believe anyone would say the keeper is not at fault all the time - can he not pull out a great save?? Is it too much to ask? Even once a year?
That keeper from Stockport would have kept out about 20 goals which Barrett has conceded. Oh yes he would.

What a complete load of bobbins!!!!!!!!!!!

ALB at fault for all 3 in my opinion (and many other peoples). The defence were also at fault but the fact is a goalkeeper should get them out of jail on occasion. ALB is a complete bounder and feckin useless

totally agree - and so is Turner for thinking he's any fu-0cking use

is the right answer


from Harris's position he'll be looking at the goal not seing a fuc-king keeper there!! why?
because the clueless bastard is crouching behind the wall....

Nelse may have been turned, and collins fooked up, but that freekick started the rot and it WAS Barrett's fault.

He lines up the wall, stands three yards off his line and crouches to almost show the taker the top corner, as if he's saying "go stick it in the top corner son". Every free kick we concede around the box only needs to be on target towards the corner and it's a goal. Just how many has he conceded this season? The winner sailed over his left shoulder at his near post and went into the middle of the goal, the lad is like a fooking hologram.

Mind, it was never a free kick against Ben Clark that led to the second free kick.

people are sticking up for Barrett and saying not his fault etc, but sorry... I want him OUT of my club and never to play in goals for Hartlepools United ever again.

oh yeah, make a comment about THAT in your next interview when mentioning message boards , Mr Turner

me too parmy baby

How as an ex keeper can Turner not see he does not make saves of any note apart from the odd one on one, is that the problem because Turner is an ex keeper he's too sympathetic towards Arnold Rimmer?

Was a mistake putting him in the team at all. He wasnt bad when he got on the ball, his close control and bringing the ball down is good. But he is a lazy sh1t, he didnt run or challenge for anything at all, and Joel was having to do absolutely everything up front. Parker gave away so many stupid balls. Hope he doesnt make the squad again.

I thought Parker worked quite hard yesterday actually, he played two suicidal square passes granted but I wouldn't pull him up for work rate.

what an absolute bunch of fucking horseshit. Nelsons fault for one goal YES, Collins fault for one goal YES Collins partly to blame for the 1st goal YES, ALB may have done better with the first YES

That to me suggests Collins is to blame the most, followed by Nelson, follwed by ALB.

ALB did NOT cost us that match, the centre backs did.

anything else is pathetic childish shite.

You tell 'em Elton

So getting beat at your near post at easy savable height and the ball ending up in the middle of goal is fine. How can you justify your comments? Show me a game were his saves have got us something out of the match??

Fook childish, I'm sick of it, he is not good enough to play for my club. Sam Collins actually had a very decent game for an hour yesterday, he made a mistake yes, and Nelson got skinned for a goal. All defenders get beaten or make errors sometimes, but sometimes goalkeepers bail them out of these situations ours NEVER EVER DOES and I've had enough of it.

Agreed totally.

clapping loudly at PJ!!!

I want MisterB to watch the winner on TV, and ask himself what the fook our 'goalkeeper' was doing? Apart from flopping down on his arse as the ball went past him in the middle of his bastard goal!!!

diving to try and save the ball, surely?

Collins fucked up, he was to blame for the 3rd, try and blame the keeper all you like (i completely agree he is not good enough btw).

I'm just saying your making the 'escape goat' out of the wrong person in this particular game.

both centre backs cost us the game. i'm not slagging them off either, like you lot are with ALB. the fact is the defence this season have been at fault for 75% of the goals conceeded this season because of poor positioning/tackles etc.

i would say ALB is responsible for around 8-10% of the goals we have conceded. yet who gets most of the blame?

ALB is the new Escape Goat, pure & simple. And some of it is completely unjustified.

sorry but he fully deserves all the flak. He makes NO saves - the very reason Cooper scattered Williams after he watched him a couple of times. A shit keeper will get us relegated. Barrett is a shit keeper. I'm not having it people sticking up for the gonk. He can fu-ck off out of my club. And so can Turner for thinking he's any good.

While we are on the subject of escape goats, Ritchie was dire again yesterday. He never once in the full game managed to stop the cross coming in from their winger. A complete liability who gets skinned everytime a player 'walks' at him.

Again, this is CT's fault however. You cannot polish a turd as someone once said

Even Dimi would be shipping 1 or 2 in every match with those centre-backs in front of him making the mistakes they have made all season. I thought our full backs didn't play too badly although Richie should be replaced.

I'm not looking for a scapegoat, I'm not one for singling out individuals but I'm sick of us shipping soft goals that on reflection look savable, have a look at the winner yesterday, what the fuck was he doing? Look at which part of the goal the ball goes into.

the centre backs would probably improve their game as they would know that they had a competent keeper behind them