Did you the match he was in total command the whole game. Helps if you have a brilliant defence in front of you

Watch

If you only listened to the audio or followed via X twitter, do yourself a favour and watch the highlights.

Yep beaten the 2nd best team I have seen this season on a cheating pitch I doubt they lose many at home.

I have agreed with your comments all night mate. Bromley are a brilliant side and will go up. No doubt about it. To beat them you had to play out of this world and we did.

I am normally wrecked at this time 12.25 and I am still buzzing. Another glass of wine I think who gives a fuck about sleep when your happy

A great result, well done lads. Momentum is everything at this time of the season. Two wins from the play offs and all talk of relegation gone.

Was not expecting that result today. Well done lads, just goes to show what can be achieved with a couple of real defenders in the team.

Had a great game, dropped a bollock Killip would have been proud of right at the end but would have been seriously cruel if they scored from it after the rest of the game
He had

Brilliant stuff, well done Pools

Great result.
Even better that the Pools players were pushing,pulling the Bromley lads about,also surrounding the ref.
About time,as we've been too soft for too long.

Best performance I’ve seen all season.

I know we’ve brought in some good players (fair play to Raj etc) but they were also so organised and motivated, to a level I haven’t seen since we were in the top half of League 2.

KP clearly having an immediate effect.

I don’t want to get too excited and we will have off days, but I’ve confident we will be fighting for the play offs rather than avoiding relegation by the end of the season

Dixon MOM...So Feaths can still play a bit too...Wallace to play a blinder next match?...dear oh dear...

Yes it’s nice to see isn’t it and our hard bastard defenders growling at their strikers. I wouldn’t like to face them on a night out in Pools. They would scare Mike Tyson, proper defenders

Not just the new defenders making a difference though, totally different mentality about the side, battle for everything since KP took charge.
Cooke has great talent but always looked to be short of a yard of pace, the last couple of games he's getting away from defenders and looks as though he could run through a brick wall with a defender on his back.
I thought after the goal we were much the better team against good opposition, especially on their pitch.Well done lads, onwards and upwards.

What a great win. When was the last time we beat a half decent team away? Shows you what a couple of decent players brings to a team. Now lets do it again next week.

Only got to see part of the game, but it was light years ahead of the garbage we have had to endure over the last 18 months or so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IglBWTzazc

Sobbing....

Couldn’t agree more. Boy am I looking forward to the highlights tomorrow. Enjoy lads bed now. Hope to see many more positive comments on here tomorrow rather than me monopolising the forum. Sorry about the f word a lot tonight I could not believe what I was watching . Thought I was in another universe

Hopefully this illustrates to Raj what can happen when you back a manager. A massive difference between the neglect he has previously shown. He can stay if this is how he intends to run things from now on.

Oh your back 6 months after we got relegated are you? No ones sobbing apart from you who went missing last year.

Well done to the team, staff and all that travelled far- I salute you all!

If we can beat these on their plastic when 2nd top, having already played Cheaterfield twice, the remaining games shouldn't be anything to be afraid of. Come Pools- nowt to beat!

I was worried Cookie may have got red carded and would have taken him off at half time for that reason only but what a great second half performance from him making him my m.o.m. for the second game in a row. The team battled and scrapped for every ball second half and deserved to win. Special mention for young Joe who was superb today. Thought Dixon ( who looks total quality now ) and all the defenders played brilliantly. The only player who struggled a little today was Crawford who worked his socks off like the rest but could not get a hold in the game. Its strange but in only a week or so K.P seems to have transformed the following players to new exciting level Ferguson / Gray / Dixon / Cooke / Hendrie / Featherstone. Take a bow King Kev the new mesior of Hartlepool United. I can only judge by what I see and so far so bloody good.

More like having a manager with a different outlook, pace and fight have been sadly lacking for a long g time. Cooke for one looks like a new player.

A combination of new players and new manager. Agreed.

I suspect it’s as much to do with KP insisting on a cast iron guarantee of new players before accepting the job rather than a magic management formula.

The save he made from their free kick just outside of the penalty area was out of this world. There aren't many keepers at any level that would have kept that out.

He didn't mess about with coming off his line. His throws for quick breaks were great. His goal kicks were - well he needs to work on them - but bollocks to that - he played a blinder.

Nail on head.

I think Mr Harrogatepoolie needs to calm down a bit, Pools have a habit of bringing you back down to earth with a big bang!!

Feet on the ground time.

Like Cloughie once said at a talk in " good players are only the shell of a good car but without a good engine it's going nowhere "

Second top disposed of, now for second bottom Woking.
I hope KP can put behind us, Pools' habit of disappointing in such games.

in post match interview, KP said that Bromley never looked like scoring. Those who watched the game, would you say this is true? Obviously they scored first and Dixon made a good save from a free kick but apart from that?

I know exactly what you mean and our record at Woking is poor. On the positive side, we have won three of our last four games and KP seems to have restored fight and self-belief into the players. Having said that, I hope I'm not administering an early kiss of death.

One game at a time, play like we did today and last week should see us win more than we lose. But even when we lose I doubt it'll be the meek capitulation that we saw earlier in the season.

They looked dangerous in the first half, but never bothered us much in the second. As the game went on we were more in control, a very impressive away performance and their commentators said the same.

Many thanks, Johnny.

Bromley pressed and they pressed, there tried the hardest to break us down but we were like a rock. The defence including Dixon who imo by a whisker was motm, played like the Arsenal unbeatables of the early 90,s when they went on that massive run. Remember Keon, Adam’s Seaman, Dixon, Winterburn. That’s the biggest compliment I can give them. To be honest I would love to see the full match again. The highlights won’t do it justice

Pools recruited a new goalkeeping coach the other week, looks like he has made a difference.

Set myself up in my bunker down the garden, radio on feet up heater wafting and the they scored…..got up stormed out and burnt pruned branches in my incinerator and went back at half time to realise my departure was …..premature… …..the extra time was the worst

The way Bromley started it looked like it was gonna be a hiding for us but once we rode out the storm things looked better. We started playing some lovely stuff and gradually took control, fully deserving the equaliser. Second half we came out and grabbed the game by the scruff of the neck and always looked like we would go on and win it. Bromley commentators were full of praise for Pools, saying we were one of the best footballing sides they,d seen this season. Overall we were well worth the three points.

Brilliant to see him enter the pitch with a big smile on his face.
KP totally transformed the working environment in double quick time.
UTP.

That works both ways. Haven’t seen hide nor hair of that Big Dog on here since KP turned Pools around. Seems a winning team doesn’t need the benefit of his advice

Our record at Bromley was dreadful, so lets hope this is a massive turning point against some of these teams. Are we starting to put together a team worthy of a club our size?

We a big fish in a small pond.
Hopefully the penny has dropped and we set about competing with them poorly supported teams in division 4.
Have a right good go at this division from August.
Mr Ds play off dream still alive mathematically.

UTP.

Early days, but when players are transformed virtually overnight, you start to wonder.

Different game plan.
Different big mouth in the dugout.
Different big mouth on the training pitch.
Different standards laid down.
Few new faces.
Nice bloke quiet and in his place.
All good.

Exactly, why are half a dozen players working their socks off and putting their bodies on the line to protect the goal now when just weeks ago they looked as if they couldn't care less?

[quote="PTID"]Not just the new defenders making a difference though, totally different mentality about the side, battle for everything since KP took charge.

did not shock me the comments on us being the best footballing side they,d seen at there place either. even when we have lost we have tried to play the right way and the players have it in them to do this. Its this new mentality and steel in the side thats hopefully turned the corner for us. more games we win and higher up the league we finish should also help in summer recruitment as most would rather sign for a team like pools that look on the up again rather than some strugglers and being in a relegation battle from day 1.

Games in hand can be a hindrance though, playing twice a week on heavier pitches, time of year when injuries and suspensions take their toll. Meanwhile we have a week before Woking to get injured players back and KP to work with them on the training ground.