How unpopular are we as a club?

Andy McAvoy's Bleached Barnet · **Joined:** Thu Sep 06, 2012 11:46 am **Posts:** 357

Just been reading through this thread on one football forum http://onefootballforum.co.uk/index.php ... eams.9867/ and we don't seem to be too well-liked by other L2 clubs. One calling us the Torquay of north (we're bigger than them surely?) and another saying we're as irrelevant as Morecambe :laugh:

Others saying how much they'd like us to go down. Well fuck them all I say. Never understood this historical ambivalence towards us, Hartlepool is a decent away day in comparison to many, if anybody actually could be arsed to get here. I don't see why we appear so offensive to other clubs.

The Colonel · **Joined:** Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:49 am **Posts:** 4891

I know quite a few people from other parts of the country that over the years have hated coming here. Whether it be the weather, which is freezing for them, the intimidation, which has been there often enough, or just the distance.

If you were a fan from the heart of the country, I would imagine the longest trip away would be one of the ones to miss for many reasons.

Again, I am amazed anyone is surprised.

Oh, and I work now in Cambridgeshire, Essex and Northants, and most people think we are even further North than we actually are.

grabec · **Joined:** Thu Jun 04, 2015 10:45 am **Posts:** 830

The only fans that I can remember who really liked us, were the Walsall people. Some of the best Bunker days were in the era of their visits

Apart from that, football fans just dislike each other on principle, usually....even the ones who belong to the same club!

Malcolm Dawes Knew My Father · **Joined:** Wed May 11, 2011 4:25 pm **Posts:** 4198

You've been more than a bit selective there Mr AABB. I wasn't too offended by any of these comments:

Hartlepool: Terrific away day and one of the best pubs in the league, 'the Millhouse'. Great away end as well.

Hartlepool: Our Cup Final. They also have the best forward line in the league with BOB - (Big) Billy. Oates. Bingham

Hartlepool United: Great away-day to traditional NE hot bed of football.
Team/Manager - Floundering
Fans - Level-headed
Nourishment - Excellent pie van (and ale) at the Mill House

Don't mind Hartlepool away. I love a northern dirt cheap shithole of a pub! Also like their fancy dress at last game of the season.

Admittedly, we're none too popular with fans from clubs in the deep South, but this Brizzle Rovers fan explains why:

Hartlepool United: Clearing snow if pitch to watch the game only to lose 1-0, horrendous coach journeys, top fans

PJPoolie · **Joined:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:28 pm **Posts:** 15342

The Colonel wrote:

I know quite a few people from other parts of the country that over the years have hated coming here. Whether it be the weather, which is freezing for them, the intimidation, which has been there often enough, or just the distance.

If you were a fan from the heart of the country, I would imagine the longest trip away would be one of the ones to miss for many reasons.

Again, I am amazed anyone is surprised.

Oh, and I work now in Cambridgeshire, Essex and Northants, and most people think we are even further North than we actually are.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if they've spent any time talking to you.

grabec · **Joined:** Thu Jun 04, 2015 10:45 am **Posts:** 830

PJPoolie wrote:

The Colonel wrote:

Oh, and I work now in Cambridgeshire, Essex and Northants, and most people think we are even further North than we actually are.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if they've spent any time talking to you.

Me too. So now The Colonel has at least 26 different identities, works in three different counties at once and comes from a place much further North than it is. That man could single-handedly provide the cast and settings for a film noir.

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Tue Mar 01, 2016 6:25 pm

I think we are well liked, mainly because of Jeff Stelling. Everyone I know who has come to watch their team play us at the Vic said it was a good day out. Some people in the south have the perception that we are a couple of miles from the Scottish border and that we play on permafrost, but proper footy fans ie ones who make the effort to come to places like the Vic appreciate us.

Chesssington · **Joined:** Fri Oct 31, 2014 6:36 pm **Posts:** 900

Some right arseholes on that forum but I wouldn't read much into it. I am clearly blinkered but if I wasn't a pools fan I would say that it would be one of the best days out.

Barnet is going to be interesting this weekend, a new ground so looking forward to it but I fully expect it to be a non event in terms of atmosphere and local drinking dens confised

Morecambe is probably the best trips I've had in years in terms of overall match experience and days out.

The 2 Exeter fans were disappointing, I always enjoy going down there as its a fabulous place to visit but the away end is an absolute disgrace.

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Tue Mar 01, 2016 7:45 pm

Some of my favourite away days over the years have been:

York
Brentford
Lincoln
Orient
Notts County
Forest
Barnet
Norwich
Shrewsbury (old ground)
Exeter

Basically somewhere that is easy to get to on the
train/tube, has a proper ground and plenty of friendly pubs. Exactly like the Vic.

There's nowt worse than a purpose-built, soulless shed in the middle of nowhere which you can only get to by car and has no pubs anywhere near it. See:

Scunny
Oxford
Coventry
Walsall
Northampton
Stevenage
Swansea
Plus loads more I can't bear to bring to mind.

Chesssington · **Joined:** Fri Oct 31, 2014 6:36 pm **Posts:** 900

How could I forget Burton, another top day for overall value / experience, not the match of course confised

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Tue Mar 01, 2016 8:33 pm

Burton is ellish for a day on the piss, but you have to get a bus out to the ground which is a prefab nowt. The away end is terraced mind, so it's not all bad.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37784

The Colonel wrote:

Oh, and I work now in Cambridgeshire, Essex and Northants, and most people think we are even further North than we actually are.

We can hardly be held responsible for the obviously poor standard of geography teaching in those counties or the general ignorance of the their population. We've always been here, always wil be, the trouble is anywhere 'up north' gives them the vapours, it's their problem not ours.

Loid Haw-Haw of Sussex · **Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2016 6:38 pm

I slag you you off at any opportunity i get, workmates even random strangers,i tell them as it is...I tell you what your name's shit down here..

Chesssington · **Joined:** Fri Oct 31, 2014 6:36 pm **Posts:** 900

Loid Haw-Haw of Sussex wrote:

I slag you you off at any opportunity i get, workmates even random strangers,i tell them as it is...I tell you what your name's shit down here..

Classy

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37784

Loid Haw-Haw of Sussex wrote:

I slag you you off at any opportunity i get, workmates even random strangers,i tell them as it is...I tell you what your name's shit down here..

'Workmates'.....? Surely inmates.

PJPoolie · **Joined:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:28 pm **Posts:** 15342

Senile pensioners who's drives that you're dishonestly tarmacking are not and never will 'workmates' as much as you trap pony will never be.

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2016 9:17 pm

Loid Haw-Haw of Sussex wrote:

I slag you you off at any opportunity i get, I'm a smelly pissmop of a Harry ramp and a c.nut to boot, I steal from OAP's and fuck horses. My skin is the colour of teak and my clothes are shite, my patter stinks and I live in a shitty caravan. I have more fingers then teeth..

Again, I fixed that for you

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