Where the foooking hell are these southern softies at ?

We are battering them.

WORST TEAM IVE SEEN PLUS WORST SUPPORTED. EMBARASSING!!!

they are watching their side win on ifollow.

Oh no they're not

1,900 and something home fans.

Poor excuse of a club. Hope they go down next season

Looking at the seats in the new stand opposite, did anyone notice the exit tunnels where the wall around it meant the seats behind them would require a minimum height of 8 ft to see the bloody pitch.

It's a dreadful place to watch football, no wonder no one goes mind you if that was a 2000 crowd ours must of been close to 7k on Saturday our ground was rammed.

I think a fan boycott is happening there atm

You get the feeling there’s some long term problem at the club that’s now manifesting itself on the pitch.

Anyone remember the att of 832 back in the mists of time. Im sure it was announced on Grandstand. So please lets not call any club a joke.

dykey....totally agree ....apart from darlo that is....but seems the colchester chairman has been unhappy about being abused by clowns and gobshites on social media....dear me ...

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/196 ... criticism/

Where they to the left or the right

Difference is Pools struggled for years and years and people (albeit a small amount) stood by them. Colchester were in league one a few years ago and everyone has jumped off immediately.

Interesting comments about having an expensive team (probably as expensive as any in L2) but only 11 of them.
Not a way to run a squad at all. Recipe for relegation fight I would suggest.

Ye was at that game about 83ish

wasn,t that in the 70,s or 80,s where most clubs back in those days got giddy if 2,000 home fans attended. actually think its more sad for the club than being a joke. they have been around for years and these new age made up outfits deserve our bad comments far more. been to the vic also with sub 2k fans in the past so lets not go all stockport about them.

colchester were a championship club 2006-2008....on a downward spiral now.... big modern soulless empty stadium wont help.....

Looking at our league one attendances and comparing them with our national league ones, most people stood by the club, the main thing that went down was away attendances. I.e.

Hartlepool v Notts County 2013 - 3622
Same game in 2020 - 3839

Will never understand the "real fans/you don't go to games" shite you hear on FB and Twitter. Most if not all people at the Vic a decade ago still go.

When we played Colchester at home and got beat. Sunny day with heavy showers....just another day in paradise.

dykey..left or right?..stuck in the middle..

1982 I think.

That was 40 years ago, but low crowds were nothing of any note then for a lot of clubs.
As for not calling any club a joke club are you serious....we’ve had this shit since 1908, the butt of everyone’s jokes, so if I for one want to call a club a joke club .....I will.

Ask the laundry to put less starch in your under crackers

I am an humble person who can’t afford the luxury of a laundry, however you must be familiar with the deviant practice of ‘putting starch in your under crackers’ so I’ll take your word for it.
I’d buy some Sudocrem if I was you.

As I've mentioned before me and our lass were the 2 in the 832 - which I always thought was the official crowd but ITMC has it as 844 - 3-0 home win against Scunny in December 1973 and a good game as it turned out.

According to Mad John, it's not even Pools' lowest home league gate - 804 home to - would you believe - Colchester United in May 1983, a 4-1 loss at the end of a dire season when Pools had to apply for re-election yet again. I gave that one a miss!

First game I took my eldest to when he was 5, a friend took his lad along as well who was 5 too for his first match. Stood in the Rink End and it was one of those sunny days where sudden passing heavy showers lashed down, probably the reason it stands out in my memory.

I get my man servant to do it

Does he get danger money.

No just gas mask and welders gloves

It’s the fumes that do for yer...

Eell not for me, but the underling yes

Didn't Pools have a 700+ crowd back in the 70s against them Stockport County? I think it was 1974 and 740? Stand to be corrected.

[quote="ToTheHartlepool2-0"]Didn't Pools have a 700+ crowd back in the 70s against them Stockport County? I think it was 1974 and 740? Stand to be corrected.

You're right. Lowest home crowd in a league game was Stockport County, but 790 and in May 1984 - another re-election year! I didn't look below 800 on ITMC.

That's a terrible gate even though we had a terrible season.

Unless they were fiddling the crowd numbers - that was pretty standard back in the day too

From the time I started going full time until Gibsons arrival, we were dire crowd wise except the odd match that got a crowd, but having known nothing else you just resigned yourself to it.

just thinking that having a ground miles from the town centre is the worst thing a club can ever do if its struggling with from the home fans point of view, not interesting opposition. if the vic was miles out of town with a crap team and opposition would we have had many more. these out of town flatpacks are fine when the club is doing well but not when they are not.

Pools had an aggregate home attendance of over 27,500 in 5 home games over Easter 1972 when Len Ashurst's Pools were battling successfully to avoid re-election. That's when me and few others on here caught the Poolie bug.

After that, through the 70s and 80s home gates over 5,000 are as rare as hen's teeth unless it was the derby match with Darlo. Most of the time the reasons are obvious - a club run on a shoestring, ground in a terrible state, playing squads full of triers nearly always finishing in the bottom half of the table.

Not sure what happened in season 85/86 though. Pools were in the top 5 for most of the season and struggled to get more than a couple of thousand in!

think years of stagnation didn,t help plus football reaching an all time low in peoples minds. around that period of time many clubs registered their lowest ever home gates with 3 figure crowds happening and the lower 1,000 at the best. only a few seasons previously rochdale upped their attendance figures in the fear of being kicked out of the league like what happened at workington with their regular 3 figure gates in their last season.

It wasn't only Pools who had shocking attendances in the 80's/90's.
I remember going to Reading one Friday night game,the attendance was around 3600.
It would have been decent by Pools standards,but dreadful for a place that
size.

My hope for the next few seasons is to be winning enough to stay in a playoff place but fail to get promotion! In that way we will have decent gates and a sound financial position (fingers crossed).
Promotion too soon could see the team struggle and despite the current enthusiastic support, history tells me that we could easily see crowds in the three thousands for home games. There is a hard core of fans plus plenty of fair weather supporters who are not prepares to shell out good money to watch a losing team.

Got to remember we had won 1 in 13 and still got around 5000 staggering compared to what we used to get. Though I have a feeling crowds are not fiddled likke they have been in the past. Even in the ior days the ground seemed almost full yet hardly got over 5 k. Cashless gates have certainly seen crowds pick up, not only that the nwc has galvanised hundreds if not thousands of kids to come and watch pools now.

are season ticket holders counted whether they attend or not and the total number counted plus ticket sales but not actually the number of fans inside the ground.

Got to remember we had won 1 in 13 and still got around 5000 staggering compared to what we used to get. Though I have a feeling crowds are not fiddled likke they have been in the past. Even in the ior days the ground seemed almost full yet hardly got over 5 k. Cashless gates..et al.

How many were let in cash in hand, by bent turnstile operator.

How many were let in cash in hand, by bent turnstile operator.[/quote]


That still happens now.

Didn't Pools once have a home crowd of 450 against Cambridge United or did I dream it?

Remember not that long ago when there was talk of moving the club to Wynyard with apologists saying ‘ yeah, but it’s still in Hartlepool’. Technically yes, but realistically no.
I was against it but how do the kids who go or those who haven’t got a car access to car ... obviously thought up by people with two cars.

another argument they use is that most people travel to a town centre ground like the vic anyway with only a few able to walk to the ground. they just do not get it that most folk just do not just go straig game and right back home, unless you go to somewhere like fylde. a night that lives long in my memory.

At the time someone said they travelled to the Vic on the bus from King Oswy , how do you get to Wynyard on a bus?.... answer, you don’t.

however they would be asking their mates, what model of beemer or merc is a bus.

I bet they’d refer to it as an ‘omnibus’.

That one must have been a wind up. It's closer to Stockton/Billingham than it is to Hartlepool and not close enough to anywhere to attract a crowd. Last time I was in Wynyard village (a.k.a Johnhallograd) it only had one pub - more accurately, a restaurant masquerading as a boozer.