How many chances do we need to score? James missed a sitter, franks should have had 3 or 4, Howard skied one as normal.

Someone will have to explain to me why Dolan is apparently a championship player, I'm almost tempted to say I'd prefer Walton there after this performance. Baldwin can't pass water and should be told to play it simple as let someone else pass it, Austin must have been pissed before he was injured, shocking game, Flinders, well done his usual when someone gets through - stands still and let's them pick their spot.

Yeah true their goal was a freak goal against the run of play but how we played after was a disgrace, as was how far we sat back and the panic that ensued.

We were battering them until completely against the run of play they scored.
Then......

Cooper makes 3 of the most bizarre changes iv witnessed at pools and this is having seen Hughes as manager. 2-1 up on top and double sub Howard and Collins come on..... Really???? What the fuck. Then they started to get back into it. So to cap it off he decides monky ( our best player IMO) comes off for Rodney.

These 3 subs nearly cost us the game and for the 1st time I'm wondering what out new manager is doing

Dolan took a knock and had to come off.

I could understand the Collins substitution as it gave us some aerial presence and strength at the back but the other subs WTF?

Putting Howard on just allows other teams to attack because we have no outlet . The bloke is finished ...

Good result - but we made hard work of it. Hopefully we can build on it ....

if you got your head out of your arse you'd have seen that monkhouse was injured and had been signalling to the bench for about five minutes that his groin had gone.

never mind the facts tho - you just crack on

Dolan was struggling after that collision to be fair. Monkhouse might have pulled his groin according to a lad I spoke to after the match

Shows how thin on the ground we are when we lose one or two players

As for the positives, I enjoyed the first half (again) and we shoulkd have had a penner it seemed to me just before the disallowed "goal" which would have put us out of sight

What happened after that was beyond belief!!!

They were easily the worst team for a long time but had us on the rack by the finish!!

the non award of the penalty and the disallowed goal then their quick reply turned the game on its head completely. Bonkers!!

This rebuild will happen one step at a time. Cooper has the player's that he has inherited and a few he has cadged so he's building within the parameters he has to work within. He's definitely tightened up the back four and now we've started to score a couple. If you're expecting to go from shite to Barcelona in one game then your dreaming.

Losses have turned into draws and now draw into a win. There will be a load of shite along the way but the trend is encouraging.

It wasn't monkey going off that was the problem it was who he was replaced with - Rodney is a long long way from being good enough...

agree with that Mr I...... I look at the football we played in the first half and I've still to see another 4th divison team be able to pass it around like that... we've done it to varying degrees in every game but there will be a time hopefully, where we can sustain it as in the Bradford match

Then we'll put some points and goals on the board... I like the way we play when we do that. It's good to watch and will get its rewards in the long run

Sure it was going in and monkhouse didn't need to touch it for the disallowed goal.

You can see how nervy the team gets when we don't score or like today concede and have a narrow lead.

I'd be pretty pissed off if I was James Poole of Rodney and Howard were getting on ahead of me. Subs nearly cost us, although did think Collins played well.

Hopefully we can make it 2 in a row because we need to start stringing results together

I couldn't understand why he did that either to be honest!!!

Hartlepool 2 Accrington 1. Different ground same score 23 games later. We are unbeatable

I might be wrong Bob but some would consider that statement stretches the point a tad.

Subs, I questioned when made but seems to have worked as we got the 3 points. Experience in Collins coming on and Howard won nearly everything he went for in the air as thats what we needed to do towards the end. You can argue about the subs but they worked.

I am happy to see what CC is trying to do and believe mid table this season will do until he can build the team he wants with a full wage budget.

We should be pushing for play-offs given the players we have in our squad.

hard to argue with that

Poole for monkhouse would have been a better choice seen as though they seemed pretty slow at the back.

Collins kind of made sense as odajiyo was winning a lot of headers n shit.

Franks n Howard Skyed 2 piss easy chances.


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Burgess and Baldwin got their wires crossed loads today, both going for the same ball etc. so I can see why Collins came on to calm Burgess down and sort the defence again.

Compton didn't look his usual self today and Dolan was terrible. Walton got some stick but did well enough.

I'm over the moon with 3 points when we had a few underperformers, now we have that win I hope we can build for on it and put a little run together.

Compton was definitely below par, I thought Dolan had a good first half and was decent enough until he took his knock. The subs for me were pretty poor, you could argue they worked as we won. But can't help feeling the subs took our momentum away and removed some of our better ball-playing footballers out the side. Hence why we couldn't string two passes together for the last 30 minutes or so.

I'm delighted with the 3 points, enjoyed the game and overall I think we demonstrated that, although it was 2nd bottom v bottom, we are a lot better than our position suggests.

Had Accrington equalised the decision to take James off would looked even more suspect. It must surely be questioned anyway as people are saying. He was having a field day against their two centre halfs. I don't think they were too gutted when Cooper took him off.

But a good win and, overall, another very encouraging display.

Jesus wept, I've only just joined this forum so perhaps I'm not used to how you lot are but what do they have to do?

We got 3 points in a game that probably had more pressure on it than it should've done, making it a proper banana skin but we came through it.

I thought some of the passing and movement was excellent, yeah mistakes were made and I could go on about how Baldwin shouldn't play in midfield and why do we always hoof a high ball to the smallest player on the pitch as well as Stanley being crap etc etc but when was the last time you saw any team play the perfect 90 minutes?

Sort it out you bloody doom and gloom merchants, we won, rejoice and be happy

So the man on the pools panel comes up with .... "Well Baldwin and burgess got there wires crossed".

This is in answer to why was Sam Collins on the pitch. Unbelievable. To clarify over 90% of his board probably 98 or 99 thinks the
only thing that shouldn't be changed is the central partnership in defence. Now in our reps eyes they made a mistake so a sub was acceptable.

Fuck me were 7 games into he season these 2 lads make there 1st ( apparent) mistake and a sub is justified. Hmmmmm.

The way I see it Dolan looked injured, we needed a change in midfield, so cooper thinks the clubs oldest and in all fairness slowest
centre back comes on and Baldwin plays midfield. Now to clarify I want Baldwin in the middle but in no way whatsoever for Collins. Baldwin didnt play well in midfield before anybody points it out. So back to point we need a midfielder to play alongside Walton who dosnt cross the halfway line. Sweeney is sat there. Last season he was not good but 2-1 up and his engine I fail to see how he was a worse option than

bringing Collins on. To make matters worse cooper decides to take the engine out of the attack in James for howard. This seriously is the worst double change in the clubs history, this game was massive and we risked it IMO at this point

We held on and people will congratulate the changes. IMO we were well i top and then completely on the back foot because of these changes. I like cooper I have stated this and I want he guy to stay but shit like this is going to piss people off. I surely wasnt the only fan to be worried at these subs.

Over the moon with the win and still celebrating but I needed to get this off my chest. Hopefully its teething problems but once again IMO our manager put a nailed on win in jeapordy with his change.

To answer mr Aido.. If monky is injured and has to go off, who would be Howard's best partner Rodney or Poole. I can shake my head many times but I fail to see why Poole wasnt brought on

Confidence - but any team who have a losing habit are bound to get nervy when they concede. Getting through it and winning more will sort it.

Slagging off - lol, you misunderstand me mate. I aren't seriously slagging people off, it was meant as a 'come on people, cheer up, we won and didn't play too badly' hence the smiley at the end.

Burgess and Baldwin couldn't win a header v odejayi all game, Collins came on to try and remedy that. I don't think Sweeney would have been any use.

I apologise for multiple spelling mistakes but seriously can't be arsed. Well happy with the win but once Again IMO the win was nailed on until those changes.

Also for the record I still don't want the guy sacked

I truly think that Sweeney's only role on the pitch these days is to cut the grass through the week

As an exile I don't see us enough so I rely on reading the boards. If someone like Parmo says this, I'm encouraged.

Not sure what the panel has to do with it, it doesn't make me an expert on football so it's an unfair comment for you to make. All you had to say was that you disagree and say why. My post was positive and I didn't defend or support Coopers choice, just said why I thought he did it.

We won, I'm happy, so should everyone else be

a player who has struggled to make the grade at a level below the conference isn't cutting it in league football?

what a fookin shocker!

Have to agree mate. Bizarre Subs ?

I stopped reading here. Drama queen.

The game followed a similar pattern to our previous games, we seem to go to shit whatever the personnel on the field when we concede. Given that we are clearly mentally weak as team I can't find words to express how thick the people are booing players onto the field when we are winning a game.

Good shout fella

Believe me I am, the final whistle I was ecstatic, really really buzzing. I led the ground and began remembering what had happened. Yes we won but should we turn a blind eye to those subs. Did you agree with them??

I really think the game was won and also we had more in the locker until those changes and then I was was shit scared they would equalise when they were made. I understand Dolan was injured but I don't get that change and the double change made it alot worse. Of monkey was injured then we needed another midfielder in all honesty.

I don't rate Sweeney as a footballer anymore, but he will graft his tits off and 1 goal ahead i really can't see how he wasnt an option to bring on

I'd draft Steve Black in. The team needs psychology and motivation.

Howard did ok when he came on. He offered as much as James was especially as at the time we'd already reverted the lumping it long anyway as we'd conceded.

Rodney as well late in the game the way it was, was the right person to have on as he at least he has loads of pace to chase and close down the loose ends.

Morons creating a ridiculously negative atmosphere when are ahead in a game probably doesn't help the players either. We are desperate for three points we actually have something to hang onto, I know lets boo the manager.

We won. Bottom line.

I don't agree with them, Howard is an awful footballer and we revert to negative football whenever he's on the pitch. The same with Collins who can win a header but can't play with a ball at his feet anymore. I was just trying to give reasons why Cooper may have made his decisions.

Who created a "ridiculous negative atmosphere"

I don't want Collins anywhere near this town, I don't want him in asda just incase, so believe me the last thing I want too see was him on the pitch today.

BUT...

It was a decent call to bring him on as the unit upfront for them was winning too much n he not only won headers but he put in a fantastic block when burgess missed a header n they were through.

If you look at our outfield 10 today it was very young barring monk n Austin.

We also aren't used to being in a winning position, maybe that's why we fell to bits a bit.


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Idiots booing every decision the manager makes, and actually booing players onto the field.

They were only booing Steve fucking
Howard surely?

Austin was actually injured before he went off and was struggling to run, Compton was told to take his place due to this.

I think we, collectively (supporters, players, management) shit ourselves when we concede a goal.

It was ridiculous that game ended being tight, had Monkhouse not touched Austins goal bound shot on about 50 minutes I think we would have won 5 or 6 nil, we were that much better and on top they score a goal from nothing and a different team turns up.

Aye, someone said the subs changed the game but it was simply that we conceded and then shit ourselves and nerves crept in. If we had been 3 up when we conceded it wouldn't have been anything like that.

Still no excuse for how lame we were second half.

I booed Howard onto the pitch I ain't gona lie or s
erwise. I didnt like his comments towards my club and it boils my piss he gets game time on a regular basis when others are better. However ( and fetish bob will back this up) I sang my heart out today, I got behinds team for 90 minutes. I stated around 90% of the songs and kept going. When the game went 2-1 I didn't shut up. We needed a 12th man , I tried my hardest to supply that, yes it failed because our support isn't that good but on no way was it a negative atmosphere. I don't agree with the cooper out shit but those subs made it cross my mind. I was scared in those last 20 minutes and without the changes I wouldn't have been. I love pools to bits they are
My team, I go all over the country following them and am proud to tell people who my team is. If something isn't helping then ill say so, maybe that's wrong but I can't help myself. I want my team to succeed and as it stands we are in turmoil and ill always voice my concerns. 3 points against the worst team in the country dosnt stop the worry

Drama Queen...

I honestly couldn't hear much singing where I was..apart from the Rink End bit I did hear all the cows mooing when OUR players came on..ridiculous

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I couldnt believe people boo'ing players when they came on. What is it meant to achieve? Like it or not. We are stuck with Howard till at least Jan, you might aswell get behind him. If i was him and was getting booed coming on I wouldnt give a toss either.

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I think that sums up where the team is. The second goal boosted confidence & we then played them off the park until the "penalty" wasn't given & the goal was disallowed. But the confidence remained fragile & the Accrington goal gave them hope of a draw whilst draining Pools' confidence at the same time.

It's hardly surprising that confidence quickly drains when Walton was booed as the teams were read out at kick-off, & both Collins & Howard were booed when they came on as subs. All three made their contributions to a win yesterday, but will that be remembered when they next line up, or is their hate status to be permanent?

If we are to see more of the passing football demonstrated yesterday, & get the wins we all want, supporters need to be that 12th man until confidence becomes more stable

Regardless of what had gone on previously, how would supporters feel if they got booed every time they entered their workplace? And what message does it send to the young apprentices in the workshop/office etc?

I booed Howard onto the pitch I ain't gona lie or s
erwise. I didnt like his comments towards my club and it boils my piss he gets game time on a regular basis when others are better. However ( and fetish bob will back this up) I sang my heart out today, I got behinds team for 90 minutes. I stated around 90% of the songs and kept going. When the game went 2-1 I didn't shut up. We needed a 12th man , I tried my hardest to supply that, yes it failed because our support isn't that good but on no way was it a negative atmosphere. I don't agree with the cooper out shit but those subs made it cross my mind. I was scared in those last 20 minutes and without the changes I wouldn't have been. I love pools to bits they are
My team, I go all over the country following them and am proud to tell people who my team is. If something isn't helping then ill say so, maybe that's wrong but I can't help myself. I want my team to succeed and as it stands we are in turmoil and ill always voice my concerns. 3 points against the worst team in the country dosnt stop the worry[/quote]

Are supporters only good if they sing?

I backed the team for 90minutes, no booing of my own players.

I don't agree with Howard playing but booing him is pointless n idiotic.


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I booed the ref for puilling play back in the 1st half for a free kick to Pools, when James was clean through

I shouted, "BOOO REFEREE - WANKER"!!!!

Got a few laughs to be fair

Maybe they werent boos but people saying 'booerns'?