Breaking News - Hartlepool to launch immediate appeal against point deduction

Foooking goood.
Twats at the fa and fl:):):)

Laughable.

Pools should of just waited to see what happens after saturday.
If we win leave the appeal.
If we lose then we should appeal.

Never know what will happen if we lose the appeal.

FFS! You fucked up, just own up to it for christs sake. Why appeal as it wont get anywhere as YOU ballsed it up!! Let the players go to Brentford with no distractions, do their job and all is ok.

Arseholes.

Does that mean our points have to be reinstated pending the appeal

To be honest Im more likely to beleive anything Sky Sports say than what comes out of HUFC these days.

Aye back in Gary Gibsons day we were always kept in the the loop and that

I think its a foooking disgrace taht the FA and the FL basically make their own rules up to punish small clubs like ourselves.
People should be getting behind the club and writing or emailing to the relevant people to complain.
Honestly

How are they making up the rules, we fielded a player who was banned end of, if it was Tranmere, Exeter or Gillingham we would be shouting for them to be docked points.

Bearing in mind your grand old age, was Robin Hood a real person and did you fancy Maid Marion????

bag of shiite. The FA and FL are not the ones responsible. The blame lies much closer to home. They are not making up any rules as such. Pools are incompetent. end of.

So why haven't other clubs been punished for similar ?

Which are the teams who've fielded ineligible players and had different punishment?

West Ham springs to mind.

There not in the FL though, lets be honest we were in the wrong end of, instead of blaiming the FA / FL for giving us a punishment that fitted the crime (one that you would have called for if it was one of our opponents) why not scream and shout at the idiots running the asylem.

Didnt accrington play 2 ineligble players over a few games where they earned 7 points and they only got fined £14,000 or something.

altho dont quote me i may be wrong.

Here we go, small clubs getting fooked. I remember Billingham been the small club a few month ago and you saying fook them.

Yeah but this is lightning tree we are talking about here, he changes his mind and argument more time than I do my pants.

What gets up my nose is that both bodies want to try the club for the same offence, and both bodies have dished out different punishments as a result.
That needs sorting in my book. It is double jeopardy in any other book, including the law of the land.

As regards the punishment of the maximum three points deduction. Yes Pools are in the wrong BUT there are mitigating circumstances. Surely the maximum penalty should only be applied if there are NO mitigating circumstances.

On top of that where's the sense or fairness in giving the maximum points deduction for the first offence.

On top of that, if there is an appeals procedure and in this case there is, punishment shouldn't be carried out until that procedure has been exhausted.

Take it to every court available I say.

People used to say that it was a waste of time taking these things to court but that's how the Bosman ruling and the abolition of the maximum wage came about.

what would you say if it wasnt Pools but anyone else, you would call them cheating bastards and to throw the book at them.

I'd like to think that I would judge each case on its merits.
Like for instance people site the fact that five other clubs had players on five or ten yellows and managed to avoid playing them.
What if each one of those clubs did as we did and checked the OFFICIAL football league site and found the records regarding their players was correct.
I am not defending the offence here................but I am saying there are mitigating circumstances in my opinion.

Some offences are deliberate and should have the book thrown at them, but this one wasn't. It was a mistake and yes it should have been avoided. There was no evidence of deliberate intent to cheat or twist the rules. If there was then i'm all for the maximum possible punishment.