Well i really am starting not to give a flying fook about pools,The club is still rotten to the core nothing has changed.

I will not be sitting there watching that drivel for much longer season ticket or not.

que all the micky nelson / Thomas/ audi crack!

Can you just predict that Pools won't get promoted before you go.

You Spanish only ever want to support winning clubs. Pools was always a long shot compared to Barcelona or Real Madrid.

Explain how the club is still rotten to the core?


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Try standing then!

Apologies if you have already heard it....

https://youtu.be/CWzKXcsYju0

We got beat, it must be!


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Heard that the other day. Class story. Also a bit sad.



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It is. Tragi-comedy I suppose...

I didnt see much of last season but what I did see suggests to me that the starting point this season is very very low.

So its hardly surprising we can look and play very poorly.

Its going to take months to really turn things around. People really do need to be patient.

Mr Colonel is spot on here.

Look at the team that finished the season last season and look at how it has changed. Not much. Why anyone thought we'd be challenging for promotion is odd. Ok so Mr Hignett did his job of trying to convince us and the players he was trying to sign that we are genuine promotion contenders but come on, anyone can say anything, you just had to look at it without Pools tinted glasses.

I am, however, happier with how the side is now compared to last season. For me on what I've seen it is an improvement. We now look like a side that is capable of tearing someone a new one when everything clicks, I don't recall feeling like this at any point in the last 3 years or so.

It is a team in transition and I'm sure we'll be ok relegation-wise but play offs would be a massive overachievement. Mid table is realistic but I think we will be lower than mid-table but safe from a relegation fight.

Heres a story that shows him in a better light https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/nov/11/nottingham-forest-brian-clough-i-believe-in-miracles - classic Cloughy

Last years - shit
season before - shit
Season before that - really shit
Season before the season before that - extremely shit but at least humphreys has gone.

He has signed a few players from a league below and people expect instant success. It has been a long painful slump into shiteness and there's no reason to think that it won't be a long painful grind back.

6 games gone, just 6.

Some of the stuff I'm reading about Hignett going if we lose on Saturday is depressing and ridiculous in the same measure. Why do people think constantly changing the manager is the solution, where has that got us in the last 7 or 8 years?

It's his first job he will make mistakes, and yes last week was a staggeringly shite result but come on let's give the manager and the new players a chance. People saying how bad a signing Deverdics has been as an example, fuck me the lad has barely played. If Hignett can see where it's going wrong and how we can improve and be more solid then we have the players to make this a much improved season. At the minute I think we're probably as capable as winning 6-1 as we are losing 6-1. Get the players on a run of form and playing with confidence and togetherness then things can improve quickly. It was only one League game ago we played really well. Last week can be a turning point and a real kick up the arse early in the season in the long run.

It arguably kept us in the league 2 years back. I agree with you mind, Hignett looked the bees bollocks last season and has brought in a lot of new players that will time to settle.

He did however get caught speeding so maybe he should be gone...

Yes obviously you have times when the manager simply has to go, like Moore did last season but that should hardly be ever after six league games of which you have only lost two.

For what it's worth I reckon I'd go this on Saturday;

....................Carson..................

Magnay.....Bates...Nsiala......Carroll

...................Donnelley.................

.............Laurent..Featherstone.....

Allesandra........................Thomas


...............Paynter/Amond...........

I agree that the squad has potential, that it's unfair to judge players like Toto, Deverdics and Amond who have only been here 5 minutes, and that a turnaround isn't out of the question - Chris Turner managed a spectacular change of fortunes in one season during his first spell.

Still, it's disappointing - to put it mildly - that the squad is still so unbalanced, which is down to the manager, and that he has persisted with such a strong commitment to attacking play, home or away. From the TV coverage, the players looked demoralised towards the end of the Stevenage game, and a pep talk isn't going to prevent a similar result at Yeovil if they're set up to win 5-4 again.

The shouty Hignett out types will get their way sooner rather than later if he doesn't show that he's got a footballing brain by adapting formation and tactics to win ugly (or at least draw) in away games till the team is really flying.

Concurring with pj that sacking the manager would be stupid and tbf only seems to be suggested by people in that FB group, which I try my best to avoid at all costs.

Stick with hignett, stick with the new lads, yes the 6-1 defeat was awful, but let's move on.


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It's been said time and time again but season after season of shite has lead to the Higgy out calls.

Of course it's too early but we were safe with what 10 games to go last year (down to him to be fair) and yet what has he achieved since.

People are impatient because of what has gone on before which I know is not his fault but I certainly understand the frustrations.

Higgy in for me but I'm really concerned he's out of his depth.

If we were safe with 10 games to go, what can be achieve other than the safety that he achieved? That comment makes no sense.

We've played 6 games this season, no one wins owt in August teams that are top now could well end up near the bottom.

Absolutely pointless discussion.


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I don't read the Facebook page, ever. Just here and occasionally the other one and a few have been saying it. That Billingham1908 poster has been saying it since the weekend, not that he is speaking for the masses obviously, I don't think he's speaking for anyone with much common sense.

I doubt Hignett is out of his depth managing in the Fourth Division, I don't get that comment. He's managed and coached at a much higher level. The season has barely even started let's see how we go. Most seasons how you set up and play plus your starting line up 15-20 games in barely resembles what it did in August. I also don't think our squad is that unbalanced we have cover in every position. Yes we are lacking something in midfield but we could have the answer to that here already with someone who who hasn't been tried in the holding midfield position.

Certain people just predict doom n gloom constantly. At a club like pools you'll probs be right more than you are wrong.

It's like waking up every morning saying oh god it's gunna rain today, you'll be right more than wrong, but you'll also be a miserable bastard.


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Season ticket... ? never even knew they did a Whining Special .
When you come on in future, just leave the space blank because we all know you'll be whining about something and it saves us the bother of having to trawl through the usual dross.

I don't read the Facebook page, ever. Just here and occasionally the other one and a few have been saying it. That Billingham1908 poster has been saying it since the weekend, not that he is speaking for the masses obviously, I don't think he's speaking for anyone with much common sense.

I doubt Hignett is out of his depth managing in the Fourth Division, I don't get that comment. He's managed and coached at a much higher level. The season has barely even started let's see how we go. Most seasons how you set up and play plus your starting line up 15-20 games in barely resembles what it did in August. I also don't think our squad is that unbalanced we have cover in every position. Yes we are lacking something in midfield but we could have the answer to that here already with someone who who hasn't been tried in the holding midfield position.[/quote first of all let me say I was all in favour for giving hignett the managers job. I thought this guy was going to be great. You mention talking common sense. You say in one of your previous posts we look more likely to win 6-1 than lose 6-1. What a bizarre comment after losing 6-1 on Saturday and having won 1 in 13 games. In fact in that time we looked like handing out loads of 6-1s didn't we? Like Plymouth reserves who also somehow put 5 past us. I dont want hignett sacked but anyone on planet earth, who has any sort of knowledge of football can see we are terrible in midfield and not so great at the back. So why cant our manager see this? How on earth can he turn it around with a midfield that's over run every week and a defence that concedes two a game? I dont want hignett sacked. He is getting himself sacked. We will probobly beat Yeovil at the weekend now, but week in week out we will get found out. I will buy you next years season ticket if we beat anyone 6-1 this year with him in charge. We haven't even played the good teams yet.

Not sure I would agree with the plenty of squad depth cover comments in here. If by squad depth we mean players.

Richards pretty much only full back cover and if Carroll got injured then it's either a 17 year old kid or someone out of position. Harrison and rob Jones cover for 2 cb's who are reckless and injury prone between them.

Plenty of central midfielders, possibly none who can play in a central 2, or least not very well. No cover for Thomas or allessandra apart from maybe you could argue Oates and Connor smith at a push.

Up front we have paynter and amond and until we signed the 2 lads on loan, Oates as only real back up.

If hignett stops fucking around with 442 and goes back to the formation we had reasonable success under him when he first came, it would probably be a good start. Can't believe something which seems so simple is something a manager can't notice.

Decide which one of Paynter or amond you want to play, with Thomas and allessandra either side of them and work out which 2 go with Featherstone as the holding midfielder.

Forgot about Donnelly actually. My mistake

Managed and coached at a much higher level? Pools is his first managerial appointment and he is clearly out of his depth. He doesn't even know what is best team is. And the re-signing of Harrison beggars belief. A complete lack of judgment.

I obviously meant played and coached.

Fell out of love around 18 months ago. Stopped going after God knows how many years as a Season Ticket holder.

Do I miss it?

Not at all. Saturdays are far better now. Sometimes I even forget Pools are playing.

Excellent. Now see if you can forget to come on here as well.

you just reminded me. Fecktards, I dont miss the fecktards !

A true pools supporter would never forget when Pools are playing. Never Ever!

I disagree. Bresslaw has been a poolie for 40 years. That is a lot of punishment.

Anyone in their early 20's has no idea what it used to be like.

Bollocks! I have been going to watch Pools since my first game in 1959 so I have been through far worse than most Bunkerites have and would never forget if they were playing even if I stopped going which will never happen even if we were in the conference. ( God forbid )

And one to be filed under Things That Never Happened:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... ham-forest

Hartleblue you need to calm down fella. a man in his 60's shouldn't be getting that angry.

I feel like he wants a little trophy for his loyalty.




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I've been going since 1874

Ive been going to the hartlepools ground since the cavemen were playing. We we're even shite back then.


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I have been going since I was 5 years old in 1980.

I'll never forget watching us lift the FA Amateur cup at Crystal Palace in 1905, it definitely topped the Man United game which I was also at.

I can't wait for the day I stop going though and can look down at the mugs who still do with utter disdaine smugly enjoying my much better Saturday's.

I'll still post on here to do that.

Love the way you write a smug post to describe someone as smug. You really are a dick aren't you !

I don't think I am no, and I don't think anyone who actually knows does either.

I just don't quite get the need to tell everyone you don't go anymore when you have done so countless times. That is your choice, who cares? I don't.

What are you adding, apart from now childish insults, to a thread about this season started by a wind up merchant in the first place.

I am now being insulted by private message from Breeslaw.

What a guy.

And that's the end of that chapter


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