Years ago I remember this chant....

Bertie Mee said to Bill Shankly,
You’ve heard of the North Bank Highbury,
Shanks said no, I don’t think so,
But I’ve heard of the Rink End aggro.

I wonder how these unlikely scenarios were thought out. The idea of Bill Shankly and Bertie Mee walking down the street together having this little chat, always makes me chuckle.

'we're by far the greatest team, the world has ever seen'.

Really?

That one ALWAYS made me cringe.

worse would be singing killip, jones,loach or beeney for england. more like for the scilly islands.

In mitigation, they could have meant the England .....er, Dodgeball team.

Well like it or not Accrington Loach did play 14 times for England under 21s and was called into the full England squad on two occasions. In his two seasons at Pools he was players player and supporters player of the year in one year and players player of the year in the other and I would guess he must hold the record for man of match awards in a season during his first season.
Yes he was no Gordon Banks but probably as good as you get in lower divisions all of course a matter of opinion.

Can't really argue with that, don't think any keeper in the NL has ever stuck out to me as good, perhaps James Belshaw for Harrogate, but considering our main attacking threats were Luke James, Liam Noble and Gime Toure...well...

think he was a player who actually looks better now after what he ended up being replaced with. surprised loach was not a nervous wreck with the likes of laing infront of him. keepers always look better behind a good steady defence and you do not keep clean sheets behind bad ones whoever you are.

Loach had a weakness getting down quickly enough to ground shots, and let in some goals that a more agile keeper might have saved. Otherwise he was pretty dependable. A few gobshites in the Millhouse were always on his back if he let a saveable one in, regardless of how many actual saves he'd made earlier in the game.

I can't stand the type of fan who you know has a bee in his bonnet about a certain player and will spend a whole game waiting for him to make an obvious mistake to mouth off about, irrespective of how he's been doing up till that point. Players who like to get on the ball are a particular target, Nicky Featherstone being the obvious example a few seasons back. Someone like Lewis Hawkins could be dogshit for the full 90 minutes and not get a fraction of the abuse Featherstone did.

All I’m saying is to for Accrington to put Loaches name alongside Killip,Jones and Beeney is an insult to the man.
By the way it’s amazing how Featherstone has turned the crowd. I must admit I would have chased him long ago but good on him he certainly turned me round.

It's truly bizarre how Nicky Featherstone went from consistently jeered and ranted at into seemingly the most popular player. Think I was the only person who always rated him along with Michael Woods, for the simple reason the midfield wasn't the problem.

On Loach, when he first came the defenders we had were shocking, but by the end we had Peter Kioso, Michael Raynes and David Edgar. Loach's final game with Pools was a 3-2 win against Salford.

You weren't. The problem when they were playing together was Pools needed a more mobile, ball winning player alongside them. Jake Gray when he was on loan fitted the bill but the likes of Hawkins just compounded the problem.

I'm willing to bet most League 2 sides have a midfield powerhouse type of player and as someone has said, Shelton will have to be right on his game for the current Pools midfield to be able to cope. Better if we can get an upgrade on Gus Mafuta in.

I remember Jack Munns looking useful the few times I saw him, but he never really seemed to get a run of games. Hawkins looked promising when he first came into the team years ago but never seemed to improve.

Would take Loach back in a heartbeat. Much better than Killip

Loads of Oldies

We've been to Crewe n Barnsley too.
And the muddy banks of Southport.
But take my advice there's nothing quite like kicking the shite out of Darlow.

You've heard of Man Utd.
You've heard of Man City.
But now you've heard of Hpool were in the Football League.
And if u don't believe us we,ll see you all Outside.
Match of the Day tune.

Well seeing as the post originally about chants, how many older fans remember: "We 'ate Colchester U 'cos they beat us 6-2 (Paul Bielby a supposed great signing from Manure scored our two). continuing... "We 'ate York City f*****g City. Then the song died. "Whose your father, whose your father, whose your father referee? Hasn't got one, never 'ad one 'cos your a bastard referee. "Ernie, Ernie Ernie." "In your Darlo slums (apologies to Lone Star). You look in the dustbin for something to eat, you find a dead rat and you think its a treat, in your Darlo slums." "We've got Willie Willie Waddle on the wing, on the wing." And of course my all time favourite..."To The 'Aartlepool 2-0." Finally.. "Pooly boys we are 'ere, woah, woah, Pooly boys we are 'ere, shag your women and drink your beer, whoah. oh woah, woah!" Apologies to anybody offended.

"Dickie Dosh's blue white army"

With a bottle and a brick and a barbed wire stick,
We are the Poolie boot boys.

Thinking about it and doing the maths, they must have had three arms

You weren't. The problem when they were playing together was Pools needed a more mobile, ball winning player alongside them. Jake Gray when he was on loan fitted the bill but the likes of Hawkins just compounded the problem.

everyone seems to be coming out of the woodwork now. always thought pools looked good when both were on their game. as i do not see every game i might have been lucky in this respect. my lad who is not a poolie actually has woods as his favourite player but that was only after he saw him twice. think both woods and later featherstone both suffered with the players around them especially with the latter with noble around him.

totally agree with all that. the problem at the vic is there a lot like that. everyone has their favourite player and the ones they are not keen on. it seems fashionable to slate certain ones unless you want to fall out with someone for not being part of a certain crowd. think if fans had been at the vic last season it would have been odusina,s turn to get some shit off the crowd.

But getting back to the original theme.......
Who can forget "who's that copper with the helmet on. Do dah do dah." or for his female equivalent "get yer tits out for the lads".
Absolute gold !!

sexist, sexist,sexist. we,ll have the vic shutdown for that now.

Ello Ello ,Darlo Aggro, Darlo Aggro ..Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough..We only drink Whisky and Newcastle brown...all timeless classics Snowy.

wonder if there is an andrew lloyd webber among us who could welcome our bradford city friends next season with a chant about their locals celebs, peter sutcliffe and jimmy savile.

I remember Sheff Wed fans taking over feethams for a cup game in the late 70's,luckily being kids we were fast on our feet outside the ground as we needed to be...next home game it was You're going get what the Sheffield Wednesday got..

You’d need a popular tune to go by.

Jimmy and Pete.......to the tune of Bonnie and Clyde.....more lyrics needed.

Savile was Leeds born and bred. When I was living there in the 1970s he was quite the local celebrity - never heard a bad word about him. It was Irving Welsh (the Trainspotting bloke) who opened my eyes about Savile in the 1990s with a short novel called Ecstasy. It's a very good read if you've got a strong stomach.

We all hate Leeds and Leeds and Leeds...but never played em

Pools played Leeds home and away for 3 seasons when they were both in League One and their fans disgraced themselves every time they came up to play us at the Vic. Not inside the ground - in Hartlepool.

We also played them in the FA Cup 3rd round in 1979, got beat 6-2, and the main thing I remember is sitting in the Millhouse seats surrounded by plastic Leeds fans from the town.

" Hes big, hes fat and he doesnt pay his VAT, Gary Gibson.... Gary Gibson!"

Did he score the penalty against Crystal Palace when Nicky Southall fell over?

Town end singing Harry Roberts is our friend as the police walked round the ground then the one at the back grabbing a couple and throwing them out. (Ouch my ear)

Andy comes from a different branch of the family - the ones that can't spell Savile.

Didnt Don Revie's Leeds side refuse to use our changing rooms?

Bet league one was a lovely experience for them

Remember the time we played them up here (70’s ?) and they refused to use the changing rooms and used the Grand Hotel instead.

Yes, that was the cup tie in 1979. Don Revie was long gone and the Leeds manager was Jimmy Adamson, fresh from getting Sunderland relegated the season before. Can't remember any Mackems coming down to the game to shout abuse at him.

Ashington lad. I bet he grew up with an outside toilet and a tin bath!

Harry Roberts is our friend....

Absolutely appalling.

That’s why I threw them out

Wait till you hear what the Magpies sing about Raoul...

What struck at the time was the swagger they had and they had those little club tassels on their socks flapping in the wind.

My old man said follow the van.

You get a boot wrapped round ya head.

You going in the docks.
Late70s Early 80s era when it was under a quid to enter the Vic.
Scarfs around you wrists.
What was that all about.

Then the lovely......

Zagged, zigger, they have got a .....

Oh its a corner oh its a corner …………

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Pools played Leeds home and away for 3 seasons when they were both in League One and their fans disgraced themselves every time they came up to play us at the Vic. Not inside the ground - in Hartlepool.

think we played em in the league cup at bellend road back in the 60,s. in the dirty leeds era. we got beat with paul reaney breaking the leg of one of our lads.

Proud to be Rink End ranger.
Only here for sex and danger.

I don't recall seeing any sex in the Rink End, but if there ever was it was probably against Tranmere with Frank Worthington shagging someone's wife at half time...

What's that coming over the wall..............

Boydie was a Poolie till he signed for the club, he'd have qualified

I used to wonder when I was younger how they made up the songs .... did they all meet up for ‘choir practice’ in a pub car park somewhere? I was in the juniours at the time.