Your first Pools game

yloop · **Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2017 4:35 pm

Kevin Poole had a blinder that game.

Micky fisher ate my socks too · **Joined:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:35 pm **Posts:** 82

I only really remember the goal. I was in the millhouse seats with my dad and the goal was scored in the rink end goal from the other side of the pitch quite late on in the game. Dont even recall if the Cyril Knowles stand had started to be constructed at this point

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

A bit of confusion here I think yloop is on about away game on a Friday night game late ish in the Promotion season in 91 when Kevin Poole made his debut and we won 3-1. I can be seen in my wax jacket and flat cap celebrating all three goals on the promotion video! That game you are on about was at home like you said in the League Cup first round probably about August 93.

Micky fisher ate my socks too · **Joined:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:35 pm **Posts:** 82

PJPoolie wrote:

A bit of confusion here I think yloop is on about away game on a Friday night game late ish in the Promotion season in 91 when Kevin Poole made his debut and we won 3-1. I can be seen in my wax jacket and flat cap celebrating all three goals on the promotion video! That game you are on about was at home like you said in the League Cup first round probably about August 93.

Yes that all sounds fairly accurate. Pretty sure Martin Hodge would have been our keeper around this time

Dalton'sHaircut · **Joined:** Sun Oct 05, 2014 9:26 pm **Posts:** 1013

The away game Yloop is on about could be part of another thread entitled best ever debut performances by a Pools player. I think I would vote for Kevin Poole that day as well, simply incredible.

Brian Honours goal in the League Cup would rank as one of the best I've seen scored by a Pools player as well. 2 extra threads there

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

Micky fisher ate my socks too wrote:

PJPoolie wrote:

A bit of confusion here I think yloop is on about away game on a Friday night game late ish in the Promotion season in 91 when Kevin Poole made his debut and we won 3-1. I can be seen in my wax jacket and flat cap celebrating all three goals on the promotion video! That game you are on about was at home like you said in the League Cup first round probably about August 93.

Yes that all sounds fairly accurate. Pretty sure Martin Hodge would have been our keeper around this time

It was probably even 94 thinking about it I reckon so after Hodge, in goal could have been Steve Jones or even someone like the late Tim Carter or Brian Horne.

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

http://www.inthemadcrowd.co.uk/UI/Match.aspx?oid=3548

It was Tim Carter.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37702

balltofeet wrote:

A shocking 0-0 v Cambridge United 1st May 1971. After that player manager Len Ashurst was my hero he could kick a ball further than anyone on the field! Highlight was tipping over a award shot from a Cambridge player that floated into the rink end and running onto the pitch at the end.
The next season I was hooked and 1971-1972 is still for me a 'great escape' under Len should we say at least the equal of Ronnie's sterling effort in 2015 because we won the last 7 home games of the season on the bounce and my first experiences of 6,000 crowds.

If I remember, the locals weren't very welcoming.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37702

Chip Fireball wrote:

Yeah that was also my first game, a Terry Bell hat trick according to ITMC, but all I can really remember of the game was the winger Harry Kirk beating 2 or 3 players every time he got the ball.

Harry Kirk.... Aaaaaaah... he was good.

Micky fisher ate my socks too · **Joined:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:35 pm **Posts:** 82

PJPoolie wrote:

http://www.inthemadcrowd.co.uk/UI/Match.aspx?oid=3548

It was Tim Carter.

Christ! Some players I totally forgot about there. Nicky Peverral being one. Couldn't pick him out in a lineout but I remember his name. What a player Dean Emerson was though

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2017 7:09 pm

Halifax Town at home in 83. Won 3-0. Hooked.

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

Micky fisher ate my socks too wrote:

PJPoolie wrote:

http://www.inthemadcrowd.co.uk/UI/Match.aspx?oid=3548

It was Tim Carter.

Christ! Some players I totally forgot about there. Nicky Peverral being one. Couldn't pick him out in a lineout but I remember his name. What a player Dean Emerson was though

Dean Emerson was pure quality in his first season with Pools. He only came down to our level because his career was hampered by bad knee injuries.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2017 7:31 pm

I really can't remember but I think the goalie was called Guthrie, or maybe Dyson.

yloop · **Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2017 12:16 am

We had some great players around that time. Hodge, Emerson and Saville were all a class above where we were, McPhail and McGuckin too. Nicky Southall, still had Olsson and Knobbsy then as well I think? Then we went to shit the season after and nearly went bust.

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6476

Before my first full game I remember waiting outside the Millhouse for the gates to open near the end of the matches and we'd go in and watch the last 15 minutes or so

My first full game will probably have been early 1980s with my great grandad (EX Pools goalkeeper). I used to live in Osborne Road and he lived in Ellison Street, we walked down Elwick Road and got the bus along to Millhouse and it cost about 9p for both of us, I'll have been about 6 or 7 and he'll have been in his 70s.

I remember that my mam used to make me sandwhichs for half time, one game we were sat on the wall in the Rink End with our half time refreshments, mine a flask of juice and my grandads a hip flask, when a copper came over asking us to put our flasks away as they could be used as missiles and start a riot

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37702

Not forgetting walking from end to end at half time.... And putting a spurt on if you had a chosen spot in mind.
And worst of all when the odd big occasion turned up and all the part timers turned up and upset the established routine.

ElvisC · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:55 am **Posts:** 4504

Am I imagining this or was a Boxer Dog a Rink end regular?

ElvisC · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:55 am **Posts:** 4504

Chip Fireball wrote:

Sitting on the wall behind the goal was great. As was running on the pitch at the end and seeing how many players you could touch.

Not in a gay way, just a pat on the back and a quick " Well Done " irrespective of the result.

Seems bizarre looking back to think that fans could sit on the wall behind the goals ( as long as you had your legs swung round behind it ) and it was expected of you to run on the pitch at the end and pat the players.

I used to get Mick Spelman's tie-ups. Like EVERY week.

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

Snowy wrote:

Not forgetting walking from end to end at half time.... And putting a spurt on if you had a chosen spot in mind.
And worst of all when the odd big occasion turned up and all the part timers turned up and upset the established routine.

Those big crowds are a damned nuisance...

Know what you mean like - it's amazing how ready to let rip with criticism many of the 'infrequent attenders' are.

Stoic doesn't begin to describe the majority of regulars in the Millhouse at the minute. Plenty of grumbles on the way out if we've got beat but generally hoping for the best during the game.

kevin pooles gloves · **Joined:** Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:28 pm **Posts:** 9727

Plenty of good memories and good players in years gone by.
A few times i would watch a game from all 4 sides of the ground.
I dident like that old wooden Dock Stand like.

Hope our younger generation of fans get the chance to talk about better days in the not to distant future which seems an eternity away at the moment.

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6476

Snowy wrote:

Not forgetting walking from end to end at half time.... And putting a spurt on if you had a chosen spot in mind.
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You didn't need a watch in them days, you knew there was about 5 minutes until half time when the same people would set off to change ends

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37702

ElvisC wrote:

Am I imagining this or was a Boxer Dog a Rink end regular ?

Monkeybutt won't have been going then will he?

KeithNobbsBigToe · **Joined:** Wed May 01, 2013 11:32 pm **Posts:** 1057

I remember watching the town end / rink end switch when I started going. Found it fascinating. They put gates in the season after? (1991-1992) and stopped it.

gash923 · **Joined:** Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:58 am **Posts:** 18

Sat 22nd October 1988. Pools 0-3 Crewe Alexandra. Hooked for life after that.

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