Got to be a positive reaction to the last game.
A rare home win
3 2 not bothered who scores
Crowd:
Just the choosen few.

A gruelling win, only papering over the cracks and prolonging the agony

1-0 win

Armstrong

Depends on the team he picks. I'm sick of predicting a loss and being right. So saying nowt!!

The team he picks will be interesting, hopefully DC won't over react. At 6pm on Saturday , sounded like 4 or 5 could be for the chop, no one safe ( except Featherstone ) , even Ravas. The formation he plays, whether he plays 2 up front, and whether Grey partners the new lad , are the things I will be looking at.

they have the worst defence in the league. if pools cannot notch a couple of goals against them then its time to give up. got a feeling we will and end up 4-2 winners with the cracks papered over for a few days. lets hope gray does get a start and gets a good hour at least on the pitch.

Think Altrincham came up here with similar stats, and look how that turned out

Dear God Kings Lynn........
How we have fallen.
2_1 loss Featherstone thunderbolt.
Game suspended for 10 minutes in second half as RSPB feed starving Gulls.

Drop Featherstone and Donaldson get some life in the middle of the park with forward thinking players and let’s just see what happens. How many more home games do we have to lose before the penny clicks that there not good enough.

Plumping for a confidence building 2-1 win. We don't keep clean sheets but do sometimes manage to score..

The thing with Featherstone is he is consistent, so unlikely to be dropped. For example first 10 games, he probably got a 6/10 nearly all of the time. I sometimes wish he would occasionally get a 8/10 or a 4/10, that way we might win the game where he got an 8/10 and lose or draw the game ( which we probably would've anyway) where he got a 4/10

wish donaldson could actually get a 6/10.

Donaldson is in poor form and should be dropped, but above all Challinor needs to change the way he sets Pools up for home games. The away form so far this season is pretty good but 1 win in 6 home games is dire. Catching teams on the break in away games is one thing, but at home Pools put no pressure on opposition defences and let them play out from the back. There's no plan B if the away team nicks a goal and then parks the bus in front of their own penalty area - which is exactly what Kings Lynn will be planning to do.

Agree, but difficult to drop the captain though , great way of causing dressing room unrest. The way to do is , is give captaincy to another player , probably Featherstone or Ferguson, then quietly drop Donaldson a couple of games later. Donaldson has been poor. but why is this? I think a lot of it is to do with the way ,as you say, DC has set up the team.

Unless DC has calmed down since Saturday and had a re-think, I think the 2 or 3 dropped tonight will come from a group of players containing Donaldson, Holohan, Molyneux , Featherstone , strangely none of them DC signings.

I think there will be 5 or 6 changes tonight, Challinor knows that it’s do or die now I think he will go for it.

Donaldson couldn't captain a packet of fish fingers, he needs dropping and pick someone who can use his mouth a lot more. We couldn't do any worse could we????

4-3-3 formation, 43% possession for Pools and we run out 3-0 winners. I'll watch it being as tho they sorted the streaming. Featherstone captain as Donaldson not dropped but has a niggle. Molyneux on the bench.

You do realise, you have just scuppered his chances of a move to Grimsby

Weather is vile. did we really used to go to games on nights like this

Pitch will be heavy tonight, it didn't look too clever on Saturday, and we've had a lot of rain since. Should make for a classic, NOT !

Shock horror Donaldson dropped !!! Better win this one then!!!

Donaldson, Magloire, Crawford, Molyneux, Bloomfield out, Odusina, Shelton, Armstrong, Grey, Oates in. On thing's for sure, that front 3 will give Kings Lynn a busy night.

Pardon me, Killip's in a s well. Only the 6 changes then!

Decent half. Shelton and Holohan can use the ball better in the second hopefully.

Its the team i would have picked.
As its only £7.50 i have invested. Excellent stream.

I'm not a great believer that luck even itself out over a season but it certainly has for Timi Odusina tonight.

He ran in to Odusina. Quality decision that.

2-0 to the Hartlepool! Great debut for Armstrong.

Just checked the BBC page for tonight's match. Does the referee look like they are named Rebecca Welch?

Armstrong got the goals and the MOM but Featherstone was very good tonight, in the mould of Andrea Pirlo, pinging it about calmly in a very good team performance. Hopefully Odusina can buy some new studs with his win bonus. Well done lads. Disappointing that you didn't get a third as I'd predicted mind.

Good win well done all.

And as things stand Pools go straight back into a play off place and make up ground on some of the teams above them. Mad
Kings Lynn weren't the best opposition but it's something to build on.

Excellent win, streaming worked well too. Great all round performance.
Armstrong equal top scorer already. Can't wait for the weekend

Well done young Armstrong....

As it says on the tin. To The Hartlepool 2-0. Well done lads. Armstrong, Armstrong give us a wave. Armstrong give us a wave.

Well done.

A much needed win.
Well done lads n Armstrong n DC.
But one swallow doesn't make a summer.

A much needed win, that keeps the wolf from the door for another week or two. Fans of other clubs must think we are a right bunch of miserable t.... as we are again in 7th place, but we all know how in this league with a few bad results how you can fall to a position just above relegation places.

So the gamble paid off, more changes than even I anticipated. IMO Donaldson and Molyneux deserved to be dropped, they had it coming, but a bit harsh on Ravas and Magloire, as for Crawford I never understood how he got into the team in the first place, obviously makes an impression in training, I assume those 3 were dropped rather than having niggles.

Whilst there were a couple of good individual performances , an 8/10 for Featherstone perhaps?. it was Armstrongs goals that won us the game, maybe this is his level, for now anyway. Without his goals you have to wonder if a poor Kings Lynn side may have went away with a point. Its a shame Grey didn't get on the scoresheet , but I'm being greedy now.

For now a win is gratefully accepted, hopefully with Armstrong and Grey up front , more will follow, but I won't hold my breath.

Of the lads who came into the side I thought Shelton, Oates and of course Armstrong did particularly well. It was great to see Pools attacking in numbers from the first minute and bodies in the box for the crosses that were coming in from Oates and Cass. 6 changes gives the lie to any idea that Challinor has favourites that he won't drop - the 5 who kept their places all did so on merit. Ryan Johnson at the back just keeps getting better - won everything in the air, stays calm and isn't prone to slips or lapses of concentration. I also enjoyed Joe Bunney's little cameo when he came on - he's got the nous that comes with experience. As someone said, Andy Monkhouse comes to mind.

Well no surprise if you play 2 up front with movement, get some some life into the team with Shelton and things tend to happen. What Challinor has been thinking at home this season god knows, he must look back and think that himself.

It’s a win and a home win at that, but we need to remember kings lynn are just a part time poor team, the big tests at home to see if we have found ways to improve at home are against Stockport and Halifax, the two form teams.

This team is still way short of the standard this club deserves, but if we have found one elusive forward then that’s a bloody good start.

Other than hard work and pace, Oates offers little else for me. I have always made a case for Shelton and Grey, and DC finally saw sense and gave them a start last night. Johnson is a steady away player, as is Magloire so dont understand why the former was dropped v Boreham Wood and the latter last night, unless they had niggles. Challinor was forced to drop some of his favourites last night, despite his loyalty they let him down ,it in no way dispels the fact that he may have had his favourites, not that having favourites is a crime, its human nature, but if favourites perform badly and others don't get a look in, it can be destructive. It will be interesting to see what happens from now on in. Armstrong and Grey made the difference last night , and those two were signed and played out of desperation brought on by Challinor himself. It will be interesting to see what happens from now on in. I will be a lot happier after a win at Woking on Saturday, that will tell us more than a win against a poor Kings Lynn team, that any team with promotion aspirations would've put 4 or 5 past them.

Its crazy, that some posters have been saying this since day one, yet DC throws a dice in game 12 and gets a 6 and suddenly everyone is singing his praises and everything is rosy in the garden, it happens all the time with our fans. One positive and I have said this before, is that we have finally these last 12 months mastered the art of beating poor teams, whether it be teams poor on the day and or their position in the table. As you say , the big test as always is beating the good teams , when we prove we can do that, then we can start to get carried away.

happy today for once. funny how the win happened without donaldson in the side, gray getting a start, a proper striker and by the sounds of it featherstone having a good game. its not that difficult a game. there has been many wanting this all season.

Can't see much evidence of that at all - plenty of relief that Pools have finally recorded another home win and a bit more optimism about the future; that's what picking up 3 points tends to encourage.

A fair chunk of pools fans have zero ambition for pools, they seem quite content losing year in year out against some non league part time cloggers most weeks. They came into the non league thinking we would walk it, now they just accept any old rubbish, whilst coming up with any old excuse why we can’t compete at the top.

Featherstone is seen as some sort of poolie legend now cos he can pass a ball from a to b, that’s how bad standards have dropped, he wouldn’t of got on the bench when we had tinker, Dalton etc in the team.

Exactly how I see it BILLY.

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If I put my mind to it, it wouldn't take me long to think of a hundred players who used to play for Pools who were better than any we've got now. As it's impossible to put the clock back, Poolies who experienced better times have got 2 choices - walk away or carry on supporting the team and hope for better times ahead. I don't have a problem with fans who've had enough and walk away. But I guarantee there's not a single fan who's stuck with Pools who is 'content' to be in this division. There are no prizes for the fan who complains the most, so some us can't be arsed to play that game.

If fans pretend everything is ok and never say hang on no it’s not good enough being in this division, then we will have raj and future chairman thinking well all I got to do is spend enough just to keep us in this league, pressure from fans and maybe Challinor has probobly forced raj to bring in Armstrong last night and hey presto we win a game.

Spot on, Mr Billy.

Grey is talented but hasn’t got enough strength yet to play regularly in this league in my opinion. He’ll develop during this season hopefully. I enjoyed the win but we were fortunate they missed that sitter or the last 20 might have been uncomfortable. There are a few people on this board who just like to complain and insist they have more ambition than the next supporter. The truth is we all chose to support this club for different reasons. My expectations when I first started supporting the club and attending games in about 1980 were that we’d be fortunate to exist in ten years time. Every game post 1990 has therefore been a bonus and some seasons have been exceptional for a club like ours and the best in our history. Hopefully that will come around again but if it doesn’t I have no ambition to support any other team. The club exists because of thousands of idiots like me and that’s the truth of it, same as every other club. Do they lack ambition too I wonder as most of them don’t achieve a great deal.

what annoys me and i imagine plenty of others is pools are supported by thousands of idiots and get beat by those clubs who only have hundreds of idiots on a bad day. you can compare it to someone who had a decent semi detached house but had to move to a terraced one in a bad area. their ambition is to move back to their semi as quickly as possible. those who always lived in a terraced house may want to improve their lot but if they cannot they are quite happy to stay where they are.