I’ve reached the happy equilibrium of accepting both outcomes….. I just want this season over, it’s been a nightmare.

can except anything but the unknown. a season where we have been starved from day 1 one and only recently been thrown a few crumbs to live on.

Que sera sera, whatever will be, will be, the future's not ours to see, que sera sera.

As a football fan we need teams like Hartlepool in the football league rather than tinpot outfits like Crawley, FGR etc.
150 away fans for a game like this?? Shocking and shows them for what they are. If the fixture was reversed you’d fill their away end plus more.
As a Darlo fan though you’ll have to forgive me for wanting you relegated

You’re excused

Sing kills two former established EFLclubs.

Shame on u cranks who have worshipped him.
Classic case of that was then but this is here now.
45
Mins away from a life on non league forever.
Hope um wrong.

Game ova.

Of course you do it's a shame what's happened to both great clubs. I miss the Derby days, but I certainly don't want them to be in non league.

More chance in the non league unfortunately. Our season imploded when we lost Beck and Dodds, now we can’t buy a win.
My worry for you is what Singh does next. Wouldn’t rule any eventuality out.

I think a fair few of us have a good idea what's coming.

The first thing will be Askey and co saying all is not lost and they will be busting a gut to win the remaining games but they know that we know they have to say that. Probably not many at the Vic next Sat with a toxic atmosphere and a defeat will ensue. By 4.45 next Saturday relegation confirmed. Stockport game a goal fest for the Edgely Park faithful.

And as a Poolie the only silver lining in a miserable day is that Darlo have comprehensively blown their chance of a play-off place. Shame

Would have been nice to extend the season by another game or two but going up would have been a massive ask and we would probably have come straight back down.

Also Torquay will be gone too. That's excellent news feel for Gary Johnson

And as a Poolie the only silver lining in a miserable day is that Darlo have comprehensively blown their chance of a play-off place. Shame [/quote]


And the biggest tickling stick of the day belongs to who?

He looks as sick as a dog in his interview on the OS. Offers no excuses or platitudes, admits that Pools players didn't show the fight that the occasion demanded and bemoans more criminally bad defending. He says that no amount of coaching has been able to eradicate the mistakes and I believe him - they're not his players, just a job lot of kids and has-beens.

Chandy tries to talk up the infinitesimally small chances of still avoiding the drop and Askey barely bothers to humour him. Chandy also expects another big crowd next Saturday but I wouldn't bank on that - my season ticket is already in the bin!

Askey is no fool, he knows it’s done, just a case now of if he gets any backing next year….am not holding my breath

Felt like we got out of jail two years ago, absolute disgrace we mismanaged our way back down and I think we are looking at a wrexham like time line out of the league

Just to be clear I have no issue with Askey. As you rightly say, it is not his team and he came close to working a miracle.

If Chandy is proved right and against all the odds we survive, I ‘d advise him to buy a Lottery ticket after the Stockport game, because the odds are similar.
I bet he still thinks Glenn Miller will eventually turn up with Lord Lucan as co pilot and Shergar as air freight.

Trouble is what scope would there be for Askey to bring players in as we are to all intents and purposes running a rest home for footballer impersonators for next season.

its not just chandy its others like him in the game as well. just be realistic about the situation. there will be some other last day of the season game where another team is not safe and they,ll go on about their survival chance if they win, the other team lose and overcome a 10 goal negative goal difference. these things only happen with roy of the rovers and story books. some fans are as bad as they actually believe it.

add to that the age old problem of getting players to move up to the area. have thought for a couple of years now we should copy barrow by moving the training ground miles from the town and they only need to see the town on matchdays. barrow train somewhere around the manchester area that must be 100 miles from holker street. so why cannot pools copy this and train say in the leeds/bradford area making the club more popular for a greater number of players who do not need to move or travel as far for training.

Hopefully you stick with Askey. He worked a miracle taking Macc up as champions of the NL when they were an absolute basket case of a club with players continuously not being paid. Your club is in far better health. If you get your recruitment right I can see you making a good go of it next season, hopefully Notts County can get promoted in the play offs then next season the NL should be a pretty even playing field with no real moneybags clubs present.

The last match or should I say wake at Stockport should be interesting and as painful as having your testicles evicerated without anaesthetic. There will be the Challinor thing and also maybe, an appearance for County by one Connor Lemonheigh-Evans who scored against Pools in the shoot out at Bristol. Knowing Pools they will beat Barrow and do Stockport over on their own turf but still go down. Or they beat Barrow and then capitulate at Edgely Park. It seems the only case in history where the body is subjected to a post mortem before it is technically declared dead.

"It seems the only case in history where the body is subjected to a post mortem before it is technically declared dead".

We got outplayed by Crawley Town at home in one of the most important games in the history of our club. Whilst not being technically dead - I'm getting to the point where I'd rather avoid more suffering. For this season at least.

The last three games have shown what they’re made of…sorry, but when ‘the going got tough’ they bottled it. It was in their hands and suddenly decided they couldn’t be arsed….. a recurring theme.

I will be amazed if this lot can keep the score below 4 at Stockport, amazed. They are shot, given up or something is plainly wrong.

Anyone who thinks a team that's won what is it 8 games all season? Is going to get anywhere near coning back up needs their heads examining. Askey might be a good manager but even he couldn't motivate them, against the worst away team in the country. The most important thing next season is we survive. A new owner with ambition and some money would probobly be the dream result.

This team minus sterry kemp and umerah are a disaster waiting to happen. None of them will be here next year no doubt

Would it? Sterry is a sicknote, barely managed half a season worth of games, Kemp has flashes of extreme brilliance but otherwise is anonymous and Umerah's form has fallen off a cliff post transfer window, it's like watching a completely different player.

It's a poor team whatever way we look at it, several will be let go, others will think they still have a shot at EFL footy (ha), others will have contracts ripped up and we'll have to build another team, I just hope it's Askey that's the one doing it.

Askey will leave because it has to be Steve Bruce’s turn.

who are still under contract for next season anyway. apart from grey and a couple of hartleys hero,s i do not know who the rest are.

Once we take umerahs goals out and kemps, no matter how bad they have been last few games leaves us with nothing. Sterry might be a sicknote but he will only be replaced by a kid who isn't as good.

I've just re-posted a list on a new thread.