Do you change a winning team? in my book not normally but in this case yes, Cassidy in for Muir.

Easy game on paper, Maidstone in freefall but fairly decent away from home and when they do get beat its usually only by a tight margin , so with that in mind can Money, 1.get us another home win?. 2. also get us to score the elusive 3 goals in a game, that we haven't managed to achieve so far this season?. It would be nice to think so.

3-1
Cassidy 65
2844
55 away fans

Muir had a good game on NYD, his hold up play and passing was back to his early season form.

Never looked like scoring though, so yes, Jake Cassidy has got to come into the side. It'll be the last thing Maidstone want, judging by comments here:

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ ... ue-196244/

2-0 Pools. Cassidy, Donaldson.

Can't remember the last time we won back to back home games.
But it's gunna happen on Sat day.
Pools 2 Stones 1
2895.

2/0 Cassidy and James.
2851 46 away
I contemplate buying a round.

The comments from Maidstone fans under the article say it all sounds like he has been average for them same as he was for us.
I wasnt there Tuesday but sounds like we played well so only an idiot manager would change things around to bring in a striker who couldn't hit a barn door the last time he played for us. Saying that Money could well be an idiot manager if he thinks Hawkins and Magnay was a good centre mid partnership on Boxing Day.

Pools 4 Maidsstone 1

Cassidy 2 James 1 Noble 1

3260 ( 33 of them )

And Bluestreaks buying the beers!

This is fantasy land........

Ha!

"The bloke 'put's in a shift' blah, blah, blah' but the reality is he's scored 2 league goals in what 18 games? A classic 'number' 9 is your main goalscorer"

Sounds like Cassidy and James are going to get on just fine

Maidstone and Dagenham , September 2017 , we beat Maidstone 3-1

How do you reconcile the above with your first post?

"Do you change a winning team? in my book not normally but in this case yes, Cassidy in for Muir.

Easy game on paper, Maidstone in freefall but fairly decent away from home and when they do get beat its usually only by a tight margin , so with that in mind can Money, 1.get us another home win?. 2. also get us to score the elusive 3 goals in a game, that we haven't managed to achieve so far this season?. It would be nice to think so.

3-1
Cassidy 65"

Short term memory issues?

Honour(2), Dalton, Baker...

http://inthemadcrowd.co.uk/UI/Match.aspx?oid=3416

Steve Butler for the Stones

It was a quote from someone off the Maidstone forum, from link you posted, not me, hence the quotation marks.

Oh, fair does - hadn't read those. Happy New Year!

To be honest I would start with the same line-up as the Heed game with Cassidy on the bench. 2-1 James, Noble pen - we desperately need to keep the momentum going but Maidstone will battle hard.

My last go at our scoring three.

Pools 3-1 Maidstone. Cassidy,Noble,Donaldson

Gate 3005 with 45 visitors

Luke Molyneux has returned to sunderland, he played well down gatesheads lhs in the 2 games would be a good loan signing to balance our lhs with pace.
Hope money doesnt change the team for cassidy leave well alone.

Pools 2 Maidstone 0

Pools 3 Maidsomething 0 (James, James, Donaldson)
3720 (45 Somethings)

Muir played very well on NYD, inventive, good holdup play, good movement, energy. Money should not talk in this case and Cassidy would be better on the bench to shake things up if needed.

2-0 to Pools.

Same team as last time, maybe Cassidy on later to nick a sealer once their legs are going.

Pools 6 Maidstone 0

Cassidy 3, James, Kitching, Muir (on as a late sub for Cassidy)

3,650 (62 Southerners)

Noble and Walton sent off after ten minutes

Bluestreak really does buy a round.

Hartleblue goes ninety minutes without screaming 'to feet'.

I think you will find that I don,t mention the word feet anymore, my most well used scream these days is " get it on the fuckin deck" closely followed by "stop fuckin hoofing it"...... " for fucks sake"..... "what the fuck was that" and " fuckin hit it"

And "it's my effing round" and "sorry, I'm going shopping with the missus".

Ill agree with that like about Muir and his hold up play he was Immense he had Williamson in his back pocket, Hope Money doesnt play Cassidy though play Muir he had a cracking game on New Years day let his form continue plus all in all i think we played well New Years Days, Donaldson was immense to as soon as he gets the ball his first thought is drive forward it, It will be even better when Williams rerurns 2 forward thiking creative players.

Anyway , Pools win for me, 2-0 James to score and Muir (If he plays)

3278 (47) Maidstone.

Will Williams return?

95% doubt it

2-1 pools win. could not care less who scores as long as someone does.

Eifion?

1-1 Noble.

Cask Ale only £1.79 at KJTavern 2 x Rooster beers and a Hadrians too excellent. I will buy a round if the other person buys the next.......deal?

Simply awful.

Again, why take Hawkes off?

Raj me old mukker, I didn't buy season tickets (and travel 80+ miles for each home game) to watch Money play trial matches - and trials devoid of decent tactics as well. The gates are dropping and, after 45 years, I feel my wallet closing. Is this really what you had planned?

They were second bottom - and made us look worse. Nothing else to say.

Bet you wished you had gone shopping! Seriously though it,s the last time I predict a Pools win, I can only see it getting worse and as for Telford on Saturday I,ll be putting my fiver over a bar somewhere.

What else is new. Been same all season. It was only because Halifax were down to 9 men we won. Orient down to 10 got a point. I know your pain. I'm sat on a East Coast train heading home now. Like last week and week before that.
I wish I saved a Annual leave day.

Thankfully got a text with the team just as was about to set off, turned the engine off, got out the car and went back into a warm house an saved myself 20 notes. Rather sat there listening to the missus moaning than watch that shite.

Hawkes hasnt played well the last two games, maybe teams are getting wise to him, he was man marked v Gateshead. If he wants to make a career in the game he needs to be able to rise above this, still would of kept him on like as we know what he can do in terms something out of the ordinary. I still reckon Hawkes would be better on the wing. I think Money got his team selection and more importantly formation wrong today , would of had Magnay at centre back instead of Anderson, Featherstone in and James or Muir on the bench , with Cassidy up front with James or Muir (James for me ). In saying that whatever permutation he goes with I doubt it would work, we simply just arent good enough.

That was a horrendous performance, the team was disjointed all over the pitch. I'm all for getting the ball down and trying to play the right way but come on,these players simply aren't good enough to play out from the back, everytime we tried it they pressed high resulting in a pass back to loach then a mis placed hoof under pressure, what's the point!. I understand your trying to draw the opposition out of position but we just end up giving it back to them anyway.

I really don't think we can afford all this tinkering about as well,especially at the back, we need a unit who know their jobs and we need magnay in there as nobody else opens there mouths and organises. Anderson for me is awful, he's slow and looks a nervous wreck whenever he has the ball,he never opens his mouth and he's weak as piss, at one point today he struggled to out muscle Jake Robinson to win a header and he's about 5ft 6. He has looked slightly better with magnay or Davies beside him but Rodgers is just a young lad and isn't going to be barking orders.

I left today really angry as I'm sick to death of seeing games like that. Awful negative team come to defend ,we gift them goals and struggle to break them down, it's a common occurrence at the Vic. In order for this team to improve we desperately need a left back,centre half, a winger, defensive midfielder and a striker. That's not going to happen right now so it's probably going to be more of the same!

Money, I reckon thinks we lack a proper defensive midfielder. He’s right we do Featherstone sits deep but his game is all about having the ball we don’t have anyone to break things up but he’s doing to put a defender as one of the three then rather than using one your most experienced available defender why not try Kioso, he’s got an engine and could press all day. I think he did come on late on in midfield today but I reckon that was more about getting a bigger lad in the box for a set piece.

Not a big fan of Featerstone but it sounded like he had one of his rare good games on Tuesday and a mate who was there even said he won loads of headers so dumb decision to drop him to bring Rodgers back in. The 2 games I have seen Rogers he has been physically weak and easily brushed off the ball. Magnay was basically playing like a fifth defender at Gateshead and that is okay away from home but you shouldn't be playing with 5 at the back at home against bottom of the league if you have serious desires to make the play offs or want to provide entertainment not treating games like friendlies. For people like me that don't have a season ticket they wont keep going back to watch long ball rubbish or 6 passes then back to the keeper who boots it off the pitch.

Awful, awful, awful. Who gives a flying fuck

Lowest ever attendance for competitive game next week I reckon. Be lucky if they get 300 there.

A low attendance I’d imagine as everyone gets them in this competition but you are just being hysterical here. It’s a Saturday at the Vic, 1,500+.

The back four were really poor today. Maidstone had obviously done their homework and targeted Kitching. Both their goals came down the right and the covering for the resultant crosses was atrocious - for the second one their guy had enough time to do a rollie before sticking it in the net.

Money had another go at explaining what he's trying to do with the players he's got available in the post-match interview, but I wasn't convinced. Anderson can't play it out from the back to save his life. The others aren't much better, and without Featherstone to link up and keep it moving by playing simple balls, Noble is left trying a Hollywood pass every 2 minutes.

Kioso did enough when he came on against Gateshead to show he should be back in the team. Featherstone played well and got dropped. Worst of all, Magnay got moved out of central defence, where he has been good all season, for another go at pretending to be a midfielder.

That should be the end of any daft talk about making the play offs - we have no chance. Keeping away from another relegation battle is the best I can imagine.

The defending was dire today. Both their goals very easily avoidable.

They were fucking rubbish and we should have won at a canter. We actually completely bossed the first half despite conceding but again couldn't create and/or convert.

It was the same at Chesterfield last week. First half was very good and should've been out of sight, second half not so cracking. Today's second half was shit. The players just looked petrified after about 20mins of the second half.

Money has only been at the club 10 minutes and anyone calling for his head or even thinking anything along those lines is quite frankly a dick. This is NOT his team. The ONLY way he can properly assess the squad is in game situations. I've trained with loads of lads who are shit hot in training and for whatever reason are completely different in games - it doesn't matter what level it's at.

Noble had a poor game but he'd be the first name on my team sheet. Similar to Nathan Thomas in terms of being in and out of games but with the ability to turn a game...not to the same extent as Thomas but not a million miles off. Noble just tries the killer ball too often which when it doesn't come off makes him look shit.

I reckon Money is playing Magnay in defensive midfield for 2 reasons, one because he is a much better ball winner than Featherstone and secondly because he can drop in and make a back 3 if the full backs go forward. I aren't sure however that Magnay has the legs to do all the running needed for the role though.

Money also said in his programme notes that he hasn't had much time on the training pitch with the players - pretty key to teaching players how you want them to play.

Despite the shite that was on display in the second half, I have seen small signs of improvement since Bates got the boot - we look more direct when attacking which is needed for this league in my opinion.

The pay on the day prices are outrageous for non league footy.
But when the club are charging £250 for a ST after 4 home games and £150 for the last 10 they can't really reduce the prices.
Pricing structure will have to change next season when ST Sales will be down.

Can't see us shifting more than 1800 St's next season as the home sickness is becoming boring after 7 years.

Not sure they are outrageous you need to balance the books, if the team is winning people will pay them if it isn’t that won’t whether it’s £20 or £14.

The Vic has turned into a bit of a toxic environment it’s interesting not being at the games and listening you hear the same voices week in and week out being abusive towards Pools players often young lads, this can’t help. Many of them must hate playing in front of our fans as they know any mistake will be slaughtered. I know it’s difficult when what you are watching is rubbish but we need to look at the bigger picture here. We have new owners and a new experienced (with experience of success) manager, we club needs support more than ever. Surely the players would respond better to a more positive encouraging atmosphere? Maybe it’s worth a try!? An outrageous thing to suggest I know.

Sorry PJ but that really is an out of touch comment. The player who is getting the most abuse from the terraces at the minute is Noble. The reason for that is simple - he takes every free kick in the opposition's half of the field and every corner - 90% either hit the first man or sail over everybody. Nobody but a crank would suggest that Noble is a bad player, but clearly it's past time that the likes of Donaldson and Hawkes got involved in dead ball situations too. That's the manager's call.

Money's NL record since he took over is W1 D2 L2. You can't blame the fans for hoping there'd be a bit of a bounce in results with a new man in charge, and that hasn't happened. Yes, we need to take a longer view, but Money's chopping and changing isn't producing the desired result at the minute, as even he would have to concede.

I've seen 4 of his 5 games in charge and in two of them we've played as badly as I've seen all season. I can't pretend that isn't the case. Work commitments mean I'll only be able to get to a couple of games in the rest of Jan and Feb, and I can't pretend I'm unhappy about that either. Attendances are going to fall away again now the holiday period is over - it would certainly be a great time for Pools to go on a cup run!

The Vic has its share of terrace loud mouths but no more than its share. The atmosphere hasn't been 'toxic' - anxious and frustrated yes. I read an interesting article last week about what it takes to judge a contest that you are watching accurately. There's a long list of things that you can't do if you want to really understand what's going on in front of you. For a start, you can't do that if you're in drink or on your phone all the time. I'd say them two alone rule out 50% of our home support and 80-90% of our away following. But again, that's no worse than any other bunch of supporters!

I must need to clear my ears out then I must have misheard some of the stuff coming out of the radio yes Noble seemed to get loads of clog as did quite a few others, both full backs, the keeper and others on isolated occasions. All very audible, we have and have always have had more than a few loud mouths. The atmosphere sounds terrible, maybe understandably so but even after we scored it was flat apart from grumbling/outright abusing our players! It’s a two way street I know and I’d be grumbling myself if I was there but it doesn’t sound an easy environment to play in right now. Eddie Kyle and then the manager after the game commented on it are they also out of touch?

Maybe they should open the Rink End up to home fans next game and try and get singing section going or something?

The worst thing I ever heard said about our fans was a visiting manager in the cup said in a pre match talk to his players.
"Keep them pegged back for the first ten minutes and then the home support will do the rest for us", or words to that effect.

Can't remember which manager it was or when although it was someone who had been at Pools previously. (Maybe Little).

But the comment has remained with me and pops into my mind when I hear the home fans having a go.
Disgusting really.

The ground is void of any atmosphere, after 7 years of rubbish fans are bored to death of watching the same half arsed performances. Its hardly toxic, its more like a morgue. Fans seem to get the blame when the wage robbers continue to stoop to new levels of garbage.

This blaming the fans is unbelievable. The fans have been incredibly patient, shown both in the renewal of season tickets and generally staying with the team during , what is it now? 6,7, or 8 miserable seasons.

Agreed horden if Money, Eddie Kyle or anyone else has a go at the fans for after 7-8 seasons of stuggle, boredom, false dawns not to mention criminal activity by those charged with (mis)managing the club they will quite rightly vote with their feet. No-one should be shouting for Moneys head after a handful of games but he is doing himself no favours with his ludicrous meddling and tinkering. It has suggested above that he is on the verge of resigning - if he feels that he is not man enough for one of the toughest management posiitons in pro football then so be it, the sooner that he does so the better Im afraid - as we have seen from the number of applications there are ample alternatives looking for an opportunity to turn around the fortunes of this once-proud little club.