keep telling players how tiring 3 games a week are and they,ll end up believing it. about time those in the game shut up about it and just get on with it.

Thats come from the premier league very rarely do you hear lower league teams moan about it.

Who is it who always maintains on here that these players are trying... but are just not good enough?
Own up now.. don't be shy.

Assume Mancini is being rested--not sure why Stephenson still on the pitch--at teh stage of not being fucked to watch this

Well done Crawford, injured one of their better players with a unnecessary foul.....first time all season I can remember us doing that hopefully it galvanises us a bit

Mancini out for months so not fully fit which is why two games in quck succession is too much for him.
Hendrie been out injured 2/3 months not fully fit so two games in quick succession too much
Crawford out injured for about a month so two games in quck succession too much.

So three out of ten outfield players will be struggling. No excuse for the other seven but two out of the three returning from injury are in midfield where you need energy, committment and pace. Featherstone is slow and Cooke is slower. Wallace hasn't got any pace. Stephenson is young player learning his trade and by all accounts he appears out of his depth this evening.
As I said above, I thought Lennie might have changed things around.

That be our fault that. The abuse that poor guy has taken.

you can tell Fylde are shite as they have been wasting time since teh 20th minute even though we are there for the taking

Might have been me. Once at least. You can’t argue that they’re not good enough though can you? So at least I was half right.

Has their keeper made a save yet I can't remember

most depressing game of the season-well beaten by shite.

Crawford prob our best players but not saying much.

2-1
Cracking goal by Hastie in fairness.....half a player in ther ewhen he plays off instinct

Cracking goal by Hastie that tbf

ffs underside of bar....may even have crossed teh line--great free kick from Cooke

2-1 loss

Fucking shite on the whole

positives, Crawford (2nd half) and both new platers will do a job at this level

Least it keeps the season alive in terms of avoiding relegation.

I was going to buy a ticket for Ebbsfleet today, might keep the £19 in my pocket and buy a Chinese take away on that Saturday.

Much better second half. Like it or not, Pools only look halfway decent when they keep the ball on the deck and try to play football. The first half was as bad as we've played all season.

Admittedly can't win them all, as long as we win our home games.

I guess you are being sarcastic.
We scraped past Oxford City on Saturday, but when did we win at home before that?

Their commentator didn’t do much for my mood either, he sounded like some ex hospital radio wannabe…he was the icing on the headstone.

We just lost at a relegation rival is the most accurate way of summing it up

Yep. No argument. I suspect Fylde might survive. They have pace in the team and their midfield has bite. They dont really have a big lad up front which is why they dont score many but they certainly know how to take advantage of shite as witnessed this evening. I watched the highlights of their game at Altrincham and they lost 2-1 to two worldy strikes from outside the area after being one up. A lot of teams have lost at Altrincham but Fylde pushed them all the way.

I thought that Lennie's half time shake up was a positive. We still lost - but the second half wasn't quite as excruciating as the first.

And make no mistake - the first half was absolutely awful.

Apparently Raj was watching Boro tonight and they beat Chelsea in the Carabao Cup. So he's gone to bed happy enough (but I bet he's thinking "I wish I was Steve Gibson").

How did Tom Parkes and Duffus get on? Was there a change in formation at Half Time

Tom Parkes was definately a positive. He got caught out once because the Fylde lad playing up front is really pacy - but nothing much came of it. Otherwise he looked solid and he looked good going forward too.

Duffus worked hard and got onto the left wing trying to get balls into the box a couple of times.

Formation? No idea but our two full backs had a much easier time of it in the second half (they were both struggling in the first half)

Went to two up front when Mancini came off. That was an improvement - was a game too far for Mancini anyway. Wallace had been fannying about doing nothing very much as a left sided holding midfielder. I couldn't decide when Parkes came on whether we'd gone 3-5-2 - he seemed to be somewhere between where Wallace was and an extra defender. Definitely went 4 at the back when Hastie came on for Stephenson and looked as good as we did all game.

There was no tactical masterstroke if that was your question. Pools' midfield got into the game more when they stopped being completely bypassed by hoofball.

Thanks for your reply

Thanks.

I didn’t what this match as on to late for me. Sounds like back to square one!

8 hours a day, you have an easy life, I worked on average 10 hours a day 6/7 days a week most of my life, I never felt tired or took a day off for a rest apart from my annual holidays Players 2 hours training a day then play a couple of games where they are not running about flat out for the 90 minutes and they are tired ffs ?

He contributed little and I questioned playing him from the start…to be fair to Hastie, goal aside, he was prepared to run at their players….our trouble is the over intricate multi passing build up…all very nice technically but in some instances impractical at this level… like employing the Red Arrows in a real war scenario.

I'd rather we just played with two wide men who's job it is to take on the full backs and get the ball into the box. Playing like that I think Hastie would do quite well, especially when Mani is fit.

You thought that was hard. I worked 16 hours down the pit, had dripping on bread for my tea and sat in a tin bath infront of ta fire until we got burns on our body and then our dad would tell us we where soft and would nether play fer Yorkshire cricket

glad to hear i was not the only one feeling that way. i have never told anyone to fuck off as much as i did that clown in 90 minutes. her in the kitchen went to bed and the dog sat in the hall. another couple of hours and 9.50 lost for life.

they actually won for the reasons you gave about them. pace in the team and a midfield with bite. two things we do not posess. add that to a slow build up when players need 2 or 4 touches of the ball before they pass are food and drink to opponents like them. we got what we deserved last night even after a 2nd half improvement with hasties goal and cookes free kick the only thing worth talking about. did we actually have one single attack after the added 5 minutes came up. plenty of posession without getting anywhere at all with both teams looking if they were playing the game out.

whilst stephenson had his poorest game in the ones he has started he was far better than ferguson who managed to hit a real new low. defensively he was non existant and his passing all over the place. he needs resting if only we had a replacement in the team for him.

Stephenson had no cover at and all for a young lad starting his career surrounded by "experienced" colleagues they should be ashamed of themselves but after being there in the cold watching the first half definitely showed the midfield do not care. Grey played better when he had company next to him but lack of tackles from midfield really allowed Fylde to look really good first half so whoever the new Manager is he needs to be in quickly or we will be relegated on last nights fist half showing because they will need to perform miracles.

it is absolutely evident that we dont analyse the team we are playing before a game. How on earth we thought Feaths and Wallace could get round their strong pressing fast and fit CMs is beyond an absolute joke. How on earth can we have so many CMs who cant tackle at all. Crawford doesnt seem to get warmed up and into the game until the 2nd half. Just absolutely infuriates me as to how we have these lads that dont seem to give a shite!!!! basically im repeating everything else what people have said but im just glad we are all seeing the same thing and the same downfalls within this team man ! Stephenson needs replacing ! Ferguson had his worse game ive seen ever i think. The full first half we just looked so slow and sluggish. Joke really. Need better players on the bench to change aswell. Hastie apart from his goal is also absolutely aweful. Their lad who had Ferguson on toast was brilliant and Hastie should be playing like him. all round just utter crap and i dont think any new coach can do anything with this lot

I thought both fullbacks were left totally exposed in the first half with no help. It looked to me that Featherstone and Wallace were playing alongside each other in front of the defence and Cooke and Crawford out wide but neither helped out defensively. Basically we are playing like Manchester City but where they play with a false 9 we play with a false defence. Oh and did the goalkeeper have mittens on instead of gloves.

their players just seemed to play with alot of confidence considering they are bottom of league. dont have much hope for the weekend either as this lot are playing with their heads down man

think we,d all be confident if our opponents were slower, less aggressive and showed less energy than us showing little danger in front of goal to cap it all.

Is that you Raj.

ANYBODY who has ever kicked a ball knows if your fullback/s are getting isolated.
Your whole defence shuffels across.
Basics for f--k sake.
Thats why Fergie was looking over his shoulder for support, He cant get closer if there is space behind him to exploit
Some of these are as thick as 1 short plank.

Nail on the head.

plus those who regularly watch the live away games via the internet with their commentators instead of ours must be sick of hearing positive comments about their sides form against previous games when pools are in town. anyone who puts any sort of bet on a pools game must have more money than sense or need help for having a serious gambling habit.

He was like Smashy and Nice’s love child calling his audience ‘folks’…it was really irritating how he described their team as some sort of Supermen, but with a crowd in the hundred it’s obvious rhe locals ain’t buying it.
One shot showed the far corner of terracing without a fan in siight, weird…….and was it just us, but throughout the first half the screen kept freezing, so much so we were about to turn it off.

I liked it how he kept trying to make out how the fylde fans were making great noise. Christ was hardly any of them there .

During the last two games, the streaming was awful in both the first halves and then got sorted at half time. Not good enough. Just cos the commentaries are shite, there's no need for the streaming to be of the same standard.

This igores the fact that Pools' tactics in the first half were awful. Dixon was under orders to boot it upfield every time he got the ball - for Grey or Mancini to win in the air? Madness. The ball just kept coming straight back into our half.

Pools were the better side in the second 45 - not for the first time, but the damage was already done.

Spot on. Nice to read a bit of analysis instead of the usual rants about lack of effort.

We need the new manager in a.s.a.p. and just have to hope we finally get an upgrade on everyone since Challinor.