Hard to argue that Woking didn’t deserve a point

Thought the battle between their center back and mani D was a good one,

Senior ….doesnt seem great
Desperately need more physicality in midfield, defence actually looks much better now, grey is young but that was really fucking poor at the end

Yep Wakey wakey Phillips, really hope this new body in is a midfielder who isn’t 1 paced

Exactly

Raj hopes of a playoff run to distract from what the fuck is going on down the shitter

Sometimes don't you wish you were wrong!

KP probably get the usual start off backing then av to work a miracle.
For Sale Sign back up.

We had no movement or out ball between the lines everyone battled well but grey and senior didn’t offer enough and when you have the 3 we have in midfield you aren’t going to win too many second balls though cooke and featherstone did as well as could be reasonably expected

Senior offered nowt. Apart from trodding on the ball when through on goal. We are crying out for some life in midfield.

We nearly did it. Grey made a mistake and from the look on his face at the end will never make it again.
That’s life, disappointing sometimes.

Really? Well you tell us, I’m all ears.

If you just stick 11 men behind the ball the chances are your luck will run out. On that showing we are nowhere near play off contenders. Woking were very poor but we couldnt beat them. Disappointed.

Bloody awful 2nd half, yes should have been 2-0 up but we did not play in the 2nd half and got what we deserved. Awful

Feels like a defeat given the manner of the equaliser. Joe will learn from that.

Need to replace Senior and Crawford, the show pony, neither contributed anything today. Featherstone and Cooke had too much to do in the midfield with little or no support

I hope Phillips learns from it more, that we are not good enough and have never been good enough to just defend.

I’ve got to go and repair the ‘meeja room’ door as I lashed out in frustration.
She who must be obeyed is not impressed.

Overall I thought that was a rotten performance, if if we'd won I'd have been disappointed with the performance. We just gave the ball away so cheaply all game, Cooke, Crawford, grey, senior all guilty of it. What little build up play we had was so slow, felt sorry for Mani as he had zero to feed off. Woking are shocking and to play like that against them and sit back for 45 mins is not good enough. We did so much right last weekend and it was the polar opposite today. Mancini and khan straight back in next week hopefully and start dickenson as senior looks an impact player at best and Grey despite the goal is no wide player and doesn't offer enough. Crawford out for Mancini, he was dreadful today. Plus sides I thought Waterfall and Parkes did well, Ferguson and Hendrie didn't do much wrong, Dixon was was decent, featherstone was the best of the midfield and Mani battled well but had zero service. Blown a great chance of 3 pts there.

We appeared to have no forward line but a well crewed midfield.
Mind you if we’d pulled it off I suspect the complaints would be a bit more muted.

Maybe, but even when 1-0 up I thought it was a poor performance and a really poor game.

Agree he looks no better than foooking hastie

Got to agree

Agree

Cooke gave the ball away quite cheaply a few times today, maybe due to a lack of options. Crawford was rotten today, he's just not consistent enough and lacks defensively.

It's Pools they twist our minds week in week out the torture never seems to go away

Senior wanders about the pitch, usually to where the action isn’t…Crawford invisible, looks like someone who won a competition to do the pre match Kick about and forgot to go off with the photographer when the whistle blew.

You do make me giggle Snowy

Yep that is obviously true. Got two strong Centre Halves but our age old problem of stopping crosses hasn't gone away. We need to attack teams not just try and hold them at arms length, we are not good enough.

For most of the 1st half we controlled the game, what happened 2nd half? Did we sit back or did they press us back?
Not sure swapping Crawford for Mancini would work without other midfield changes, who'll do the legwork?

Spot on Ozzy. We are working progress and are a lot better than before but KP still has a lot of work to do before next season.

I guess we were all hoping we would play as well as we did at Bromley ( why shouldnt we? same team, no midweek game etc) but for unknown reasons, that did not happen so the disappointment particularly with the way we played was all the worse.

My alarm not go off but am happy with a draw. Look at the positives gents seem to be getting more solid. Woke up 5am . At least I got 7 hours sleep. Looking forward to the highlights

As per usual, this team gives us a false sense of optimism.
After a couple of decent results,the 2nd half showed again,a lot of them just aren’t good enough.

10 out of the last 15 points isn't a bad return but it should and could have been 12.
Joe Grey made a bad error but Senior standing on the ball when clean through was equally costly imo, don't think they'd have come back from 2 down.

Won't make the playoffs now, too much to do, just playing for pride in the games left.

Think there’s a bit of an over-reaction going on now. The second half was really poor but the facts are we didn’t lose and would have taken all 3 points but for a scandalous error by the ref. There’s no way on God’s earth Woking would have pulled 2 back - Pools defended well all game, Woking were gifted one decent chance at the death and scored from it.

Two home games now and a chance to carry on the unbeaten run. Mancini should be back for them and maybe one or two others.

A bloke my brother works with who supports South Shields said KP is a decent manager but only problem he had with him was if the team was winning away by a single goal at half time he would defend the second half and try to win by that single goal lead. I like KP but we need to finish games off not park the bloody bus.

Let’s get real, minor setback (a draw) and the cosy fit nappies come out.
The doubts start and see things in some twisted version of events.
Joel Grey made a mistake, his face at the end said it all, otherwise we’d have all been quite content…even the commentators openly acknowledged us as the best team and referred to the missing players.
Let us not fall into the usual practice of the car owner who thinks every noise his car makes out of the ordinary is a sign the engine is about to disintegrate into oblivion even on the school run.
No one goes through a season on a string of never ending victories, but some folk expect it as the norm…that’s for the fairies.

It's a positive sign when there's huge disappointment after an away draw from where we were a few weeks ago and defeat would have been the more likely expectation.
Don't think anyone outside the back 5 had a decent 2nd half.
Not sure the ref did get it wrong with the goal that wasn't given, Crawford looked just offside when the cross was played. Senior should have at least got a shot on target when he stood on the ball, he doesn't look comfortable at all when through on goal.

There was no offside decision. The ref awarded Woking a free kick for an incident in the scramble AFTER their goalie had fished the ball out of the net.

It all depends from which perspective you look at it. You could shut yourself off from the years of shite and neglect the club has had to put up with for years now, culminating in last seasons disaster, continuing into this one. In which case this is a good point.

Or... you could have all of that in the fore front of your mind and realise that its a single point.... at fucking Woking. How far have we fallen?

The former perspective will be better for the mental health, the latter is much more accurate but ... the heartache!

Exactly this - particularly for Joe. He knew and he was gutted. More than anything it shows he cares, which is something many of the recent players have clearly not. Very smart finish for his goal too.

We’re a work in progress, but there has been significant progress in the last 6 weeks. The defence is unrecognisable and Dixon looks much more confident behind them. The midfield needs work but we’re in a much better position than we were and the signs are that we will improve further before the end of the season.

I’ve said it on a few occasions that my theory is if you sign five or six free transfer players you might get two or three successes. Well it is early days but of this present crop the two central defenders look good signings the rest have just had half games here and there with Khan and Duffer already out injured but non have got me excited. As for Mancini he has just had a serious injury let’s see if he is the same player when he is fully fit.

Joe Grey is clearly not good at defending: it is not in his DNA. Was he being expected to play as a wing back? In the first half he gave the ball away near our box a couple of times but luckily nothing bad happened. He did it once too often as we all saw. I dont blame the lad, he just isn't a defender and should be further up the pitch.

didn,t see the game as i do not have the channel its on. would always take a point away in any pools game and not too long back most fans would be delighted with a point at woking no matter how the game panned out. even in one of the post match interviews mentioned we,d have lost that game a few months back which is perfectly true. anyone really moaning about us not winning have very short memories after the performances against other strugglers like oxford and fylde showed. its really all about getting through this season and concentrating on the summer transfers and really pushing on next season for promotion.

The ‘new manager comes in every thing works’ has been rampant on the board for a few weeks, but it never works like that, it takes time to build a team and the trouble is that most fans of all clubs were born without the ‘patience’ gene.

Your right he did look offside(slightly), However by all accounts the lino never flagged and the ref had no chance of seeing it.

You’re right, it was re-run repeatedly and again at half time and it appears the ref only took action when there was a nondescript scuffle that he took an interest and that was well after the event.

Thought Dixon had a great game and the save before their equaliser was outstanding, shame it’ll be forgotten because they scored the rebound. Would’ve been tempted to go to a back 5 second half as they were getting joy from overloading down the wings but it’s all well and good speculating now.

plus being totally overoptimistic about a place in the play offs and then being promoted. if that did happen it would be 12 months too early anyway with the ability of most of the side and there would be a near miracle of recruitment just to keep us up next season. think even KP will know this and fluking promotion could actually lead with him losing his job due to this lack of patience from all.