good luck michael nelson. I think its ridiculous the shit he is getting for wanting to move clubs. He gave us 5 very good years of service (im not including last year)

on his day was a man mountain and for me deserves at least a thank you for your effort.

All the best nelse!

I want to echo that. That 4-3 comeback win against Peterborough that he debuted in was one of the great moments in our history.

Good Luck, Mike.

He's not the first player to have a bad season and he won't be the last, still the best defender of last year, having awful goalkeepers and no full backs doesn't really help and it's no surprise his form dipped.

Thanks Nelson for some great years of service as player and captain and i don't think anyone will ever forget that screamer at Peterbrough, greatest debut goal ever... FACT!

When he was good, he was very very good,
and when he was bad ... he still kept his place.

No more Hoofball straight to there full backs

Trust you!

He wasn't the only player to keep his place when he was bad.

We didn't really have a mass amount of centre backs to drop him for really did we?

So you aqree he kept his place when he was bad, what's the problem?

We had Big Ben....

Who didn't play very well last season no matter which position he played, in my humble opinion

Well as far as I'm concerned he was doing the job he was paid to do, over the past year or so his level of performance dropped from the high standards he set when he joined us.

I think he has become stale here, a move may do him good. I wish him well, apart from when he's playing against us.

I agree with Snowy.

Aye good luck Nelse.

He was good, but his star was starting to wane, his love affair wthn the club was over and like a relationship that was nearing it's end, he seemed to have lost interest and it was time to go their seperate ways.
As for his leaving, call me all you like, but once they've gone, they've gone and their use to this club is zero and it's what's best for Pools that matters.
Everyone can say what they like about a departing player, but I have to look at the total contribution and not just the rosey glow moments, to do otherwise would be to kid ourselves.

He will quickly become known as "former Pools centre half Michael Nelson" and bear as much relevance as "former Pools winger Neil Warnock".

I wish him good luck, hereby release him from the Poolie mindset, and hail his replacement.

THE KING IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE KING.... as they say, eh?

Greatest moments in History. How old are you.

I'm assuming he means a great moment in the history of modern day pools, and not the world.

I said "one of the greatest moments in OUR history".

What do you think is our top 5 great moments PoK?

I have to agree that game was a key moment in Pools' recent history. It set the scene for two fantastic seasons under Neale Cooper, and Nelson's goal was undoubtedly one of the highlights of that spell. IMHO it was an even better goal than Shuggy's thunderclap effort against Luton because he had to contrive the shot, whereas in Shuggy's case the ball fell smack bang on his left foot.

But just as Nelson's goal was a highlight of the very first game in that two season spell, so was Jon Daly's in the very last game of that spell - and who talks about Daly now?

My top 5 moments might be different from what other people's top5 moments would be because the best stuff that I can remember has come under Turner, Cooper, Wilson etc - I would think:

Joe Allon scoring against Darlo to keep us in the League.

Winning promotion against Northampton.

Ritchie Humphreys scoring the winner in the peanlaty shoot out in the play-off win at Tranmere.

Coming back from 3-1 down to win 4-3 with Nelson's 25 yard screamer against Peterborough in one of the hottest British summers ever recorded.

Beating Sunderland at Roker Park in the Sherpa Van's Trophy.

That's what I think most people might say, but as I say it varies from person to person, generation to generation.

Not Cardiff?

Not Darlow away at the Arena?

Not the 4-3 versus Luton?

Not the 8-1 v Grimsby?

Hugh Robertson's goal against Wycombe away when Tony Adams was manager and we beat them 4-3 - that was a great goal as well.

You want to know why we don't talk about Daly's great goal ?

Because some PRATT of a referee from Orpington decided to send Chris Westwood for a foul that everybody could see afterwards that he NEVER EVER committed, they scored, took the game to extra time and unfairly beat us.

Westwood never played for the Club again.

By all rights, Jon Daly's goal should have fired us to the Coca-Cola Championship...

...but all we can say about that historic day at Cardiff now for us was

"Eight minutes away..."

Westwood was going to leave anyway, he didn't leave cos of that incident

Cardiff was ruined for me for the reasons I've outlined.

Darlo away for me was just an ordinary routine win - great goals, but not a top 5 moment because in our history we've actually had some very sweet good moments and some very painful bad memories. It's hard to actually choose the top5 best moments because of that.

Grimsby was a great result in our history, but it was ultimate proof of why Grimsby got relegated that year and nearly went of the League last season. A great result and match none of the less.

As I say, it varies from person to person.

Well, how were we to know that?

Westwood still looked in a lot of pain though after the final whistle at Cardiff.

Cos he was moving down south for family reasons.

Even if we got promoted we would have still been a northern club.

dont talk sence you will confuse him

Yeah, that's what we were told and then he went and signed for Walsall.

And Walsall is hardly in the South I tell you!

please stop talking bollocks, he moved down there to be closer to his family, we know its not down south but its more south than hartlepool and were his family are located.

What compo said!

Would you class Walsall as a northern club?

Err no!

Walsall is about 8.6 miles from where he's from, Dudley.

Look, can we back track to this. No-one said C Westwood did leave because of this incident, so the rest of the thread is irrelevant. Grow up.

Hate to prove you wrong Yubep, but:

http://www.football-league.co.uk/staticFiles/78/38/0,,10794~145528,00.pdf

Tomorrow's League Cup seedings make interesting reading...

I couldn't have put it better Snowy!

Very well put Snowy.