Bradford close to selling out for Tuesday should be another big crowd. When was the last time nearly 20 k went to pools home games within the space of 7 days.

I have a bad feeling about this one. Braford with new gaffer just won 2-0 at Forest Green. Pools exhausted and well below their best. Its got away win written all over it especially if Lee plays the same exhausted team as Saturday. I know we dont have a lot of choices but must be worth starting Carver and Holohan. If nowt else it will give a couple of regulars a rest. Fingers crossed Morris fit.

Agree Ozzy and could change a few more just to give players a rest. Many will disagree nut I believe we're safe now. Tuesday will be 3rd game in 10 games resting players os a good idea but it also a chance to see if the ones who haven't not only played over the last few weeks but ot gives Lee a chance to see if they worth keeping on next season ( regardless of which league we in )

Ogle been decent when covering for Sterry, Francis Angol deserves more time, Holohan dropped down the pecking order. We got a keeper on loan, surely it must be worth giving him an outing, with the young kid on the bench. Hull on loan and not really played he could come in for either CB. Play Joe White in CM resting Featherstone, Some will disagree and I'm not not advocating all the named possibilities just saying they're many of the positions that can be changed on Tuesday also taking account the following game is on Friday night and not the Saturday. So will it be travelling down on the day or staying over on the Thursday. If the latter it can add problems if players take knocks or are simply leg weary

Agree completely, simple as that.

Bradford's 2nd goal was after FGR sent the goalkeeper up for a corner and he didn't get back in time, the first goal took a deflection as the keeper had already gone to block it.

But they did defend better and goalkeeper kept first clean sheet sincce joining them.

As for changes, don't understand White for Featherstone, why put an attacking midfielder in for a defensive one? Smith maybe for Featherstone and certainly Holohan deserves a game, unless Morris is fit again to replace Featherstone for a game.

Ogle has had very few chances, obviously if he can only play right back he has little chance with Sterry but he must be able to do something else? I don't see why the cover goalkeeper should replace Killip unless he is much better? As for Francis-Angol he is another that doesn't get enough games but hard to replace Timi or Ferguson with him. We do still have an outside Play Off chance so not too many changes.

fetish....agree.....we're safe now...and can afford to gamble a bit...lets give carver a start central alongside bogle ...not playing as a winger ffs....mols out wide either side as a winger....and instead of always cutting inside for a change getting to the line and round the back ...plenty of permutations available in midfield including morris ...double hernia permitting....and holohan...if his contract allows ...and that flapper needs resting ...permanently imo...lets see if bilo can catch a cross and command his six yard box...and please please someone get a hold of andy cook....will give timid timi another good run around ...a la michael smith....imo "rash mistakes" are likely and will be punished....

agree also but i would have prefered changes to have been made on saturday never mind tomorrow night. think any pools 11 that were rested would have beaten that load of scrap on saturday.

agree also but i would have prefered changes to have been made on saturday never mind tomorrow night. think any pools 11 that were rested would have beaten that load of scrap on saturday.

Timid timi another run around? Shows how much you know about football, you mean the guy thats probobly held the defence together for the last 4 month and won numerous man of the matches. Michael Smith is one of the best strikers in the lower divisions. Let's see how many more starts hologhan gets then Mr know it all.

we all see players and matches differently but i,m scratching my head so much that its bleeding with the odusina comment.

Judging from Graeme Lee's post-match comments on Saturday (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYlWYPa9hIw) I don't think we can expect too many changes against Bradford unless a few injuries were picked up against Orient. The most likely change is Molyneux back in for White if he's fully fit again!

Some suggestions are wishful thinking anyway. Killip has made some great saves recently and is not going to be dropped. You've got to assume the Pools coaching staff are as aware of the faults in his game as we are but he's still their No.1. Bilokapic might get a game when the season is as good as over, but not before.

Holohan might get a start in the last home game of the season - be great if he did so the fans can say thank you. Right now he looks completely frozen out. The idea that it's because of a mystery clause in his contract sounds very far fetched - much more likely that him and Lee have had a shouting match after 3 central midfielders were signed in the January transfer window!

Crawford's form has dipped from the level he was at several weeks ago and he'll be on the bench as soon as Morris is fit. In the meantime, I wouldn't mind seeing White or Fletcher in central midfield as it looks like Tom is definitely one who needs to recharge his batteries.

The other is Omar Boggle - but he's probably undroppable. He was blowing out of his arse when he was subbed at Harrogate 10 days ago and I'm not sure his fitness levels are up to playing twice a week yet after a season on the bench at Donny. It would make sense to give Carver a start with Bogle ready to come on in the second half. I worry that Carver's first touch isn't up to this standard of football but we'll never know while he's getting 5 minutes here and 15 minutes there as a sub. Don't think Lee will risk that either unless he has to.

To be fair, it’s up to him to start fighting for a place and maybe showing that attitude to the manager, there’s always going to be new arrivals, that’s a fact in life in football.

I have to agree FH - pretty much sums up my analysis of this situation.

The fact is the team will only change (unless injuries sustained today/tomorrow) by one man, that would me Mols for White. White has played his better football in the Midfield for me rather than that attacking front 3. Id love it if Morris is back as hes a midfield talisman, albeit his fitness is ready for 90 he would be perfect for this game. They have some quality in that midfield and we need to make sure they dont play round us. Shelton needs to be on his A game again as he was in the Rotherham game.

Mr Crawford could do with a rest for Friday and maybe see Fletcher come in. Cant see it happening again as Lee seems to stick with his guns. Frustratingly even in the match when i believe Subs should be made earlier.

Timi is the man just now - ive slagged him off in the past but the guys come out on top and really started to perform, coaching abilities of our management and backroom staff to applaud for that so credit where its due. He has to keep his place in the side for this game.

Bilo to have a stint in goal sooner rather than later i also agree - again wont happen.

Carver now has to earn his contract for next season (if he hasnt signed long term). I think what ive seen of him so far hasnt impressed and rightly so his touch isnt upto standard yet, saturday he looked very none league. Id like the lad to start tomorrow and score would change his season and confidence immensely but again all i can see if a cameo from the bench in the dying embers of the game.

be a tough one tomorrow but i can see us stealing it late on with a 1-0 - Mols with another

If memory serves, Carver came in on a 2 year contract when Pools paid Southport a fee for him.

Play angol at LB and play ferguson LW and give joe a rest.

If morris is not fit give tom a rest and play smith.

Or just leave it be and see how it pans out and make changes as the manager sees fit thro out the game as normal.

Carver has alot to do in preseason then and if i was him, i wouldnt be taking much time off. Id be looking at being the fittest player on the pitch. I think if we had a Striking Coach, players like Carver would improve much quicker. Alot to do when you come in from non leage, hopefully a full pre season into him plus any extra time he gets this season he can improve for the coming campaign. Bogle for me will also benefit from a full preseason and actual match fitness as hes been blowing out his ass the last 15 mins of most recent games.

I think ZFA is carrying a thigh strain Injury - again for me one of the top performers in the team and gives it his all in games - was fantastic in that back 5 at start of season.

Be a shame to loose him if his contract expires in the summer.

Smith isnt good enough - i wouldnt want him anywhere near our midfield - rather gamble on Fletcher, and not much of a say gamble it would be as the lad has showed he can produce at this level. rather go back to a back 5 and have Hull in there.

the Holohan thing is baffling - hes deffo on his way out. But cant see him getting anywhere near the Stockport Midfield (and thats before the summers reinforcements become thawed out from the DC stockpile warehouse in sunny shitport).

If Holohan was going anywhere near Stopcock, even on a National coach, he’d have gone long before now..... as it turns out, Wavey Dave never came back for anyone.

accrington....."we all see players and matches differently but i,m scratching my head so much that its bleeding with the odusina comment."

sutton......from 0.45....check out the marking on the scorer...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffdi7VQ7P3M

crystal palace....from 00.58...check out the marking on the scorer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn8-BM0yAow

blackpool....from 00.00.....check out the marking leading to the goal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGewDJqebJY


and theres a lot more.... but can only post 3 at a time on here.....

accrington...."we all see players and matches differently but i,m scratching my head so much that its bleeding with the odusina comment."

one more.....rotherham....from 07.46...check out the marking on the scorer....getting bored now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjUUobph8Y

accrington......."we all see players and matches differently but i,m scratching my head so much that its bleeding with the odusina comment."

"accrington fan
Post subject: Re: Fondop
PostPosted: Tue Jan 18, 2022 12:20 pm
"You are correct the problem with Fondop was lack of condition. His past record suggests a decent Conference player but lack of fitness and condition cost him at Pools. Someone will get him fit and interested."

...scratching my bleeding head........

not over baffled about the holohan situation. has anyone got youtube clips of the last time he had a good game. before anyone starts by saying you cannot play well if you are not on the pitch his lack of form goes way back to challinors time this season. on his day he,s one of the first names on the team sheet but those days have been months away now.

Worth saying it is a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy. Player loses form so doesn't play for a while so loses match sharpness. If Holohan played today I cant see how he would be 100%. Having said that, I am a big Holohan fan and would love to see him given a chance. You never know, he might just do something special.

Fuck me, that's a really bad case of 'I'm never wrong' syndrome you've got there pal

What are you trying to prove, that Odusina may not be Championship level? Mistakes against Palace, Blackpool and nailed-on-for-promotion Rotherham?

Somebody is at fault for 90% of the goals any football club concedes. Obsessively collecting one individual's 'mistakes' and ignoring his contribution in the rest of the game is beyond sad. Apart from anything else, I doubt your one man campaign to rubbish Odusina is convincing anybody who actually goes to games and reads this board.

And BTW, you won't be "getting bored now" because you are one of those people who:

a) Can't bear not to have the last word
b) Is never wrong

hogans......"Somebody is at fault for 90% of the goals any football club concedes".....its always somebody's fault....nailed it as always....class...

Considering goals are normally scored from inside the box then the centre halfs and goalie normally get it in the neck for any goals conceded.

If you can't see odusina has been one of the best players on the pitch in the last few months, then theirs no hope of getting much sense out of you. We have lost once in the last 11 with him as part of the defence. Have one of the best defensive records of anyone in the league at home, was fantastic in the play offs and is keeping Gary liddle out of the team. I'm sure he will continue to make some mistakes were mid table in league 2, bloody hell man u paid 80 million for a calamity at the back.

billyboy...."I'm sure he will continue to make some mistakes"...yeah at last something we can agree on...having a central defender who gets bullied...regularly goes awol and looses his man.....is weak in the air on defending crosses when it matters in the box... and prone to poor decision making and "rash mistakes" ...yeah you are right...well done....what makes timid timi's deficiencies worse is that we have a flapper behind him who is also weak in the air....but i dont expect you to see that pal.....look at the goals we are conceding and how...instead of the motm award...

I don't hear you moaning about the open goal Bogle missed to send us to Wembley. Maybe you need to tell your mate raj to spend some money on a goalie and central defender then in the summer. I thought after you raving about all these great signings that came in transfer window, timid timi and flapper be in darlos reserves by now?

billyboy.....yeah bogle is garbage....that brick that dropped on your head in your younger days still giving you trouble ?...

Who said he is garbage?

How about that? Seems like Spike was thinking the same about resting Crawford and Bogle.

for me bogle has had a few flashes of the player he used to be but at times his impersonation of fondop can be spot on. lack ofmuch game time for about a year before joining us may have hindered him somewhat. think we,ll see a far better player next season in him.

Bogle and Crawford on the Bench and no place for Holohan in the squad. Smith gets a run out and Carver at CF. Certainly should be more energy in the starting 11. Be interesting to see how it turns ou.

yes, and how long they,ll last before being subbed. hope they both have great games and i,m wrong.

I think its fingers crossed tonight and hope.

decent game so far and pools just about edging it. far better than that durge on saturday. 2 half chances for carver.

I think I've said this before. If you don't score goals you don't win matches.

Players just strolling about very little passion and the crowds now will drop like a stone.

Season over how ever it has been good.

Sterry’s worst game for Pools. If Carver buried either of his chances, we win that. Bradford were utter tripe. Let’s finish the season as we hope to start the next (I hope)

If Bradford were utter tripe and they did us 2-0 what does that make us? Orient were tripe on Saturday but we couldn't beat them. Do we think we are better than we are?

Lots of tippy happy fancy passing but no end product, Lee keeping his loanees clubs happy but it's not what we need atm, where's Gav Holohan Graeme?, we need answers.

Whoa....before the Orient match no one was demanding the return of Holohan on pain of death.....unrealistic hopes were rampant but suddenly, one bore draw and a match that could have went either way with Bradford later, and everyone’s manning the lifeboats while we’re still moving through the water....it’s like a wonky trigger fired by nerves.... that demands panic reactions. Really?
I’m taking rat boy out for a shite now, his grimacing terrier face as he does his business will be pure heaven compared to some things I’m reading on here.

Interesting last night to see Orient drew away yet again at Forest Green, while Harrogate's rivet’s are popping out after a 2-0 defeat at Tranmere.

On the nite 2 bad teams.
They put chances away we dident.

they put their gifts away which ended up the difference. actually until we got in the penalty area we played better than saturday. cullen deemed not good enough but carver is. who is the most likely to score a goal.

Pointless comparison as Cullen hardly impressed..... on the night, the team who scored first were gonna win it, just one you put down to experience.
Time to start rebuilding for next season and seeing who goes or stays, the playoffs are beyond us so let’s start planning for next season.

Agree with that. 0-0 looked the most likely result for a long time. Pairing Smith with Featherstone didn't work as they both like to play in front of the back four. I thought Fletcher made an impact when he came on (the only sub who did) so it's a pity he wasn't trusted with a start.

BTW, complaining about Carver is all well and good but Joe Grey was anonymous all game.

I left the game before the end last night for the first time since... 2019! Covid restrictions had something to do with that but mainly Pools becoming a team of fighters at home. Bradford's second goal knocked the stuffing out of them in a way not seen for a long time at the Vic.

10 games left. Not going back down ( ) but no chance of making the play-offs either. Need to fight for a top 10 finish now as a platform for next season.

Saw the match on Ifollow, but got a bit pissed off with the commentary team going on and on and on about Carver’s two misses costing us the game, yet both chances were never clear cut...,yet at the same time as Cook for them had them rubbing their hands in apparent anticipation, the cart horse missed the target by a mile and they still said how good he was.
Turned the volume off in the end.

its getting clearer as the weeks go by who the commentators rate and who they do not. all poolies are equal and i hope they realise this before friday night. does turning ifollow off after 90 minutes class as leaving early. if bogle had missed those two half chances then their keeper would have got the credit from alex.

Bogle missed two sitters in the last two games, feel a bit sorry for carver lot of pressure on him coming from non league, that was a good chance he had last night, keeper made a decent stop.

To be fair to the lad, he was in a place to score goals to begin with...... ok the crowd called for Bogle to come on as a saviour, but that was wishful thinking as he was barely warmed up up before the end.
I’m not gonna join the pack and condemn Carver because he has a way to go yet.