Best thing to happen this. Its highlighting how pathetic we have become, This will be the norm if things dont change, if this isnt anither wake up call then we might as well pack it all in.

We've tried changing the manager every 5 minutes. It hasn't worked. Clearly not what needs fixing.

But it is about getting the right manager and Askey is apparently NOT the right man.

Changing the manager is totally pointless, everyone that comes here will fail within months. Challinor worked miracles.

The Maccy chairman must of give him half a chance.
And York.

Please don't quote Football Chairman as we all know most have sh*t for brains and in your instances both clubs have different chairman now - I wonder why?

So of last five home games, four have been 0-2 defeats.

Well what sh**e was that. Last week everyone played brilliant. Today everyone played bad. We had 10 corners , 90% possession. They had 10% possession, 2 chances, 2 goals. Worked as a team. Proper team. Northern league here we come if we continue like this. Forget promotion not good enough with this squad. If we stay in the national league it’s a bonus. Even Askey can’t dress this up. It’s just not good enough. £7 wasted might as well had an early night

The form guide reads LLLWL.

There was sparkling reviews after last week's performance. It was something to build on. The level of performance in 3 of the last 5 games - irrespective of the results - just haven't been good enough. I am granting the Boreham Wood performance as fair enough, despite the defeat.

So I know there is a lot of talk on here about 'doom mongers' and people changing their tune when we win, but the facts are that we are jekyl & hyde between being good & completely insipid - and the form guide (and goals against) is awful reading. Unfortunately, today's performance was the worst of the lot, individually there was some of the worst performances we've seen from some of them in Pools shirts. The phases of play were all so predictable as well, it appears our playmaker is Hendrie, who in the last two has found himself in the best positions consistently. Wreh's cameo today was painful to see too, looked miles off it.

Lots of sideways, backwards passes, mistakes from front players & defenders - & despite there being 90 minutes to fashion some chances, we worked the keeper once?

That result just shows how piss poor this team really is.

That kind of miracle worker doesn't exist.

Fuck me

6 months ago Askey was the right guy

Curle was the right guy

Anyone else realising it's the chairman yet?

I have stuck up for Askey but today was a low point. I hope he doesn’t put a positive slant on the game post match because there was nothing positive about that apart from now we are out of the cup we can try to concentrate staying in the league. I’ve had enough goodnight all

We all realise it but can't do owt about it.

Everybody apart from the Brain dead n a few of them get on here.

Blackpool fans had the right idea

They boycotted home games en mass

Bought no merchandise to put the chairman under pressure

Raj claims he wants to sell, but plasters his companies on the shirt

No money has left my pocket to go into pools since relegation, and I won't until he's gone

The problem is apathy. Certainly folk believe that because we were shit in the 70s and 80s then its OK for us to be so now. Other clubs fans don't put up with it.

FA Trophy still to play for, with a better chance of getting to Wembley than the FA Cup. We all know some shitty premiership team will win the FA Cup on Penalties.

Last week that team put on a very good display. This week that very same group of players just didn't turn up. They just can't seem to handle a team that gets in their faces, is organised and busting a gut to get a result. Chester wanted it more.
Once again we were treat to a display with no tempo, no urgency, no ideas. We couldn't even make a dent with ten corners but that is not unusual is it??
The kid from Boro showed a bit of promise when he came on and very rarely gave the ball away but ball retention is a waste of time if there is no end product. They created two clear cut chances and scored off both of them. Even the half chance which our keeper saved was better than any effort from us.
Our players seem to decide what sort of performance we are going to get, not the coaching staff.
These hot and cold performances won't be tolerated for much longer and why should they??

Exactly this, we make excuses to justify new lows. Raj said he put the club up for sale then weeks later sponsors the club shirt as if he knew he wasnt going anywhere. I wish i could of took the stance of not giving raj anymore money and for most of last season didnt, but askey gave us all some hope back end of last season.

Losing to a team in the conference north who were garbage away from home is nothing short of a joke. But thats where we are now, ran like a confernce north team and now playing and losing like one.

Listen I understand that talking about Rajs shortcoming s can be repetitive to some, even if they actuality agree. But it has to be remembered, when people start calling for yet another managerial change, the new guy has to work with exactly who and what the previous managers did. May as well stick with Askey.

Only person screaming and shouting at the team was none other than Sweeney. Some may or may not like him but no one can ever question his love and passion for Artlepool united. If I was chairman I would make him manager above everyone else. I like JA and have backed him 100% so far but now I would make the Sweeney change. Just my opinion

That was a team without a leader on the pitch ….and playing to a match plan that wasn’t a plan at all.
Mid table could be optimistic.

No getting away from how poor we were today at least five teams from our league were beaten by teams from lower leagues and a few only drew so I guess we aren’t the only ones sick as pigs.

Good old Needham Market, near Ipswich, getting a goalless draw at York was probably one of the outstanding results today. I remember years ago repping across Norfolk & Suffolk and there was a tasty baker there that did cheese rolls.

The chairman doesn't pick the Team or kick a ball so how can he effect what happens on the pitch! It's the manager and the players attitude which need to be questioned.

This is a wind up right?

Finance mate if you dont back managers with enough quality these results will happen. If raj goes out and buys 11 players off the rec next week what would happen? Get smashed week in week out, if he went out and signed 11 lads from the championship we would probobly win a few games, we cant keep blaming managers and how many have now failed under him? The players just simply arent consistently good enoughbecause we are signing non league average players or young kids on loan.

Until we end this cycle of replacing shit with shit then we will stagnate in this division for a while.
A few dreamers reckon Hasties 700k a week wages are holding us back and next season we piss this division.
Anyhow the pre match optimism on here counts for zero. Hope don't win games im slowly learning.
Only a game tho.

Nonsense, we were well pissed off then, but we didn’t have a voice like you have now because all we had was two letters in the football Mail to complain about things and I for one did write but soon found out it was pointless.
You’d have been just the same but fuming unheard like we were, so don’t go saying we did nothing, we didn’t have a voice.

Good good. Won't expect any daft excuses for this current mess coming from you then Snowy.

There are no excuses, they get paid to play football and Askey gets paid to manage (I assume), they also proved the week before they can play football despite the injuries…. and that’s the fly in the ointment.
So lack of consistency or playing as they’re told to play?

exactly. i was more bothered about the results and performances of the dorking and woking games than i was yesterday. its pointless saying how much the defeat has costed the club as us fans never saw any benefit of our last cup run that ended at palace.

be interesting to see the attitude of their players in those games. watched the dagenham game on the red button and they looked a carbon copy of pools even though they moved the ball forward quicker against a side from a league lower than chester.

There are lots of players with ability in the lower leagues but lack of consistency puts a lid on their ambition. Money talks and all we are permitted to sign are those who are prone to 'disappearing' for games on end.

[quote="accrington fan"]actually never seen chester lose a game so i,m keeping well away from this. seen em more than once
expecting a free ticket from chester for their 1st round cup game now.

At the end of the day to have lost 4 of the last 5 home games 2-0 is nothing short of relegation form, hate to say it but I could see us dropping 10 places in the next few weeks even with a slight improvement in that form, some of our players are a shadow of the players compared to when they first joined us, which begs the question what are they actually practicing in training?, because there is nothing I can see on the pitch which is convincing me of any improvement, no effect from corners or set pieces, players not showing enough effort to get on the end of balls at both ends of the pitch and no invention whatsoever, but hey they are maybe all hitting their respective yardage targets so all well on that front

[quote="paulus the woodgnome and a side salad"]At the end of the day to have lost 4 of the last 5 home games 2-0 is nothing short of relegation form, hate to say it but I could see us dropping 10 places in the next few weeks even with a slight improvement in that form,
thats the main point and not the eastleigh win or yesterdays defeat. that does with a win, a draw and a defeat in the last 3 away.

Ive been in boycott mode all year.
We soon get the superfans saying we out of order.

You suggest it and everyone says they’ll support you, they don’t, been there done that.
Most importantly, what are you gonna demand?
Not being funny by the way, just interested.

More Cheese on the burger maybe, A little relish.

Another prophecy aimed at fellow Poolies which has no substance to it whatsoever. Who are these superfans and where can you show me who refers to themselves as superfans.
You are toeing a fine line Kev, just be aware of that.
As a matter of interest I went to just a couple of home games last year and none this year. although I do buy match passes.

Spot on Snowy but we had a few scrapes with Garry Gibson in the Cooper stand face to face

What was he going in there??? And in the 70s and 80s????

I still call it the Clarence Road Stand….slip of the tongue/pen by Leggie43…..never claimed to have shot the Zeppelin down there though.
Didn’t Gibson put those state of the art portacabins there as courtesy boxes, recall going in once with sponsors tickets….must have been after the mid 80’s.

Think the courtesy box and portakabins were put in under John Smart's stewardship after he literally took an axe to the old wooden 'temporary' stand- sure there was a picture of him wielding an axe at the stand, shortly after the Bradford fire.

Think it was Gibson who then got rid of the portakabins and fenced off that side of the ground, moving the changing rooms into the Clock Garage - Pools then used to run out from the corner

Gibson then moved the directors box from the middle of the Mill House seats into the Rink End. Remember being present when the bailiffs turned up for his car during the game and the fans were offering him a lift home!

Lord Harold then bailed us out, rebuilt the Town End and Cyril Knowles Stand about '95 and we acquired the current boxes from West Rugby in about '98 after a disastrous ground share, which left the pitch looking like a ploughed field. That was down to Yuill's deciding to build houses on West's Brierton Lane Rugby ground, as they owned the pitch/ club. Once West eventually went pop, we kept the boxes.

And Yuill’s decided to sponsor a more popular Hartlepool sport than Football or Rugby after Cecil Yuill died…. show jumping.

So far he’s been blamed on here for the attack on Pearl Harbour, the Black Death, Krakatoa erupting, Global warming and The Wall Street Crash.

Yeah old Cecil seemed decent - and backed Pools and put a new roof on the Rink End in the late 80's His two sons however were like chalk and cheese- one was alright the other less so.

Sure he had a hand in COVID and Brexit too!