Good article about Cardiff from a young Poolie called Tom Acey here-http://www.wsc.co.uk/wsc-daily/1026-My-favourite-match/9837-hartlepool-2-4-sheff-wed-league-one-play-off-final-2005

Set me off thinking about my own favourite Pools match and I came up with a few that run it close. The 3-0 beating of the Wendies earlier that season, the Northampton promotion match,the Hull match when we sneaked into the play-offs, the away at Feethams that kept us up and the slaughtering of them in our only visit to the Echo Chamber all spring to mind but, for me, Cardiff edges them all.

Would anybody disagree with Tom's choice?

I really enioyed the win at Rushden when Boydy robbed the keeper..... a very pleasant afternoon on all counts.

Decent call, though for me I'd have to go for the Northampton match, and, of course, melting Darlo in their shiny new palace

I was pissed off that the Heskeylators weren't working- ruined it for me.

Hull away - brilliant second half to get to the play-offs and successfully avoided being bricked and beaten up.

Last away match before exile n all.

agreed. But the marble facilities more than made up for it!

That last couple of hundred yards to the car had to be done a bit quicker than I would have liked! Last thing you want to hear at an away match is, "Are you lost lads?"

especially in Hull!

...tidy win for tefece to round off an uninspiring season

My choice based purely on atmosphere would have to be away at Sunderland in the FA Cup 2004. The noise from the 11,000+ Poolies that day made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Apparently Alan Macinally was doing the reporting for football Saturday and he said he'd never heard a noise like that from any set of supporters before.

What's it with Cardiff..you lost ffs..

Indeed, me and Mr MFR were certainly in for a battering and it was me who knew Hull and was sure where the car was Fortunately a couple of coppers came down the road so the lads coming after us had to slow to a walk while we increased our speed!

On the TFC front it has been a very dull run since Sissoko left. Ben Yedder getting 15 in his first season of reasonably regular starts is impressive though. Promised the boy a season ticket for next year so I hope there are a couple of good signings on the way.

The match at Cardiff is one of my worst, I feel physically sick at the thought of it!

Darlo away for me, it was an absolute demolition away at a team that were on fire themselves. The atmosphere was unreal as the crowd was almost 50/50.

The Luton game at home was another good one for me, nice close game with an amazing goal and a late winner, the vic was bouncing!

...tidy win for tefece to round off an uninspiring season [/quote]
Indeed, me and Mr MFR were certainly in for a battering and it was me who knew Hull and was sure where the car was Fortunately a couple of coppers came down the road so the lads coming after us had to slow to a walk while we increased our speed!

On the TFC front it has been a very dull run since Sissoko left. Ben Yedder getting 15 in his first season of reasonably regular starts is impressive though. Promised the boy a season ticket for next year so I hope there are a couple of good signings on the way.[/quote]

Nasty rumors abounding about Gignac coming back may give fuel to the fire that Ben Yedder is on the radar of a few big clubs around Europe. I'd like to think not, but another two tidy finishes last night...

Next season looks like a PSG/Monaco carve up, as they look to have landed Falcao, and possibly Kompany too.

Has to be Darlo at the white elephant. Everything was a positive from the police rolling road block, the singing, the goals, etc.

Tranmere away was an awful game to watch, but great result.
Cardiff was great but we lost to a dodgy ref and the Wendies were vile
Hull was a fantastic result but spent most of the match dodging missiles

Best home game 8-1 demolition of Grimsby.

I would say the Northampton promotion game, the first time most of us had seen us get promotion, then the Darlo away game at the White Elephant. Cardiff was a good experience but football is all about winning & we didnt win at Cardiff.

Billy Turley, clever sod thought he could dribble it out of the area, couldn't have happened to a better bloke, and right in front of us.

I thought it fitting justice the git was humiliated ...... as a payback for his time wasting antics in the champions decider the year before.
Went to all the away matches at Rushden and always found the crowd sounded like the crowd of squealing girls at the old schoolgirls hockey finals from Wembley...odd place.

That day Rushden won the league was bizzare, we'd come 2nd and our 2,000 or so fans were making more noise, it was like it didn't mean anything to them. The times I've been to MK it's reminded me of it, all of them clapping along in unison like a rented audience rather than a football crowd.

Turley; what an absolute preening cock that man was. We scored a perfectly good goal whilst he hit the deck like he'd been taken out by a Jap Sniper. The relegation and Boydy robbing him the next season was a perfect example of karma!

And then he got done for steroids- we should have been handed the title at that point. Lance Armstrong didn't get to keep his titles so why should the preening cock keep his?

We did win the title, Poolie of Kent awarded us it when Rushden went pop.

I do miss Pok..Pools need whizzkids like him at the moment,who the f else on here would promote the Season Ticket deal ..come in, pok.

Boydy hunted him down like a cougar, drove him towards the corner flag and took the ball off him with a perfect scissor tackle, sprung up like a gazelle and scored from a dead narrow angle but from when Turley set off you could see what was going to happen. Boyd at his best and I can see it now.

What a player he was then, we were lucky to have him.