Second half Duffus on Oduroh off. I am guessing a change in formation? I guess Phillips has concluded the first formation wasn't working.

No goalie on the bench as KP thinks a player standing in wouldn't be much worse!

Feel bad for right back, didn’t do much wrong

Almost 3 after more Dixon flapping , beyond a joke now

Bring back Killip !

Should have put them on the bench Stephenson could have played right back and Wallace in midfield, they could have been brought on later.

Better last 10mins or so matching them more physically, unlike us though they are playing a goalkeeper which makes things harder

Dickenson on for Cooper. Last throw of the dice.

Wondering if Kabamba will come off the bench and score the third.

Cooke booked for arguing the toss like a fucking child after the ball clearly came off him,

I have always hated Barnet they probably will not be in this league next season

2-1 great ball from Aygemang who has been v good 2nd half

full time 2-1, would have been a steal if we got anything, better 2nd half but over the full 90 Barnet clearly the better side and we have serious inadequecies vs the better teams

Its been one awful season this. I wonder if the new manager bounce is over. Got to start bringing better quality players to the club at some point.

I guess that finally puts to bed any ideas of the play offs. Remaining home games in no particular order: Southend, Halifax, Dagenham and Aldershot. None of these are easy games. Away we got Maidenhead, Eastleigh, Gateshead, Rochdale, Dorking. I'm just hoping we get enough points to stay up.

Gateshead will give us an absolute piping with our current midfield

While I would never want us to lose, I also dont want to have the end of the season provide a fig leaf to what is needed, Phillips is no fool in terms of his own ambition which is one good thing, so will walk and make it obvious if Raj is taking the piss budget wise next year

If we had a decent keeper would we have got a result today? I did not view the game so was wondering what folks who saw the game think.

Crawford will be back for that game and maybe Mancini will be fit. Possibly Dixon will be dropped so there is always hope.

maybe but Barnet were clearly better especially 1st half

I know we dont have everyone fit etc, but if we continue to play Feather and Cooke at the same time we will continue to struggle against any half decent physical team
Aygemang wasnt always great on the ball but the amount of times his physical presence just put pressure on people or forced them to check back was the complete opposite of the other 2,,,,,,and again its not their fault everyone can see what they do and dont bring to the table but we keep playing them together

A little bit of positivity was that unexpected Feathstone headed goal from a brilliant cross from Aygemang. Bet he has never scored a better header in his long career. Another bit of positivity was we won the second half. Barnet defended well but don't look that good for a top three team. They did however deserve to win this game. Looking forward to next season we must have a very good chance of challenging for this league if KP is allowed to bring in the players he needs. The only team who looked a class above is Chesterfield the rest are either above average/average/ poor. If Barnet go up & Sutton & Forest Green come down I don't see any reason why we cant challenge.UTP

It was a good cross and Featherstone's header was a belter. For a bloke who 'can't run' he has a knack of bursting into the box like that.

We need oldham to go up so they don’t outspend everyone and be next years Cheaterfield, similarly I will be happy to see Southend and York relegated but doubt it will happen

Rochdale may have money post takeover too.

We aren’t going anywhere in terms of going up
Without Raj putting his hand in his pocket

Not going to attach too much importance to that result - after Parkes went off mid-way through the first half there was 4 of the 11 on the pitch who between them had played about 20 minutes for Pools in the last 4 months. Barnet looked a lot more organised than us and deserved the win.

Typical Hartlepool weather - the second day of spring and absolutely baltic inside the ground. Unfortunately it didn't put the Southern softies off... Think it was interesting that Barnet chose to play with the wind 1st half. Looks like their plan was to get an early lead then defend it/waste as much time as possible. Worked a treat.

Watched a interview with Frank Rothwell the owner of Oldham and he said he had put 12 million into the club via paying off debt and buying the club / land and stadium. He said the club needed to find bargains because he has not got anymore money available to buy players. I agree that Rochdale will challenge if the buy out goes through and Souhend will if they avoid relegation. Same with York City but the pressure on them will probably end in relegation.

I know Barnet deserved the win but only 3 minutes added on, their defender was sat on the floor longer than that before being subbed plus all that time wasting.

Yeh it should have been at least 5 or 6 minutes. Time wasting injuries and subs. We very rarely get the correct minutes added on its very frustrating. This season time wasting was the big target for referees but after 8 or so games it reverted back to letting the time wasters win.

Well after the last 2 games it's pretty obvious we need Crawford back next match.

Barnet did not have every one fit either.

Nor did Pools Gray

I didn't see the board go up but was surprised by how little injury time the ref played. He'd probably had enough of Cooky! The doyle kept yapping at the ref even after he was booked.

Cooke wants fining he does it week after week the oppo must love playing against him , what he got booked for the ball blatantly came off him, appalling attitude

We really missed Waterfall and Crawford today. Also I hope Parkes isn't crocked because him and Waterfall at the back make us look like a different team.

Aygemang looked good today - especially in the second half when he was playing deeper. Joe Grey just kept getting clattered. Once the right back realised the referee wasn't going to give him anything he just kept shoving him off the ball.

Say what you like about Featherstone - but he scored a good goal today when none of our forwards ever looked like they would.

Other than that their first goal was dog shite. Very poor defending and poor goal keeping. Their second goal was a fluke and I don't think that many keepers would have gotten near it.

Sparky released him at Bradford for a reason.
He's fucken dogs hit.
The amount of players who retire at Pools for a final payday is unreal.

Been fondling your crystal ball?

Phillips post match interviews already sounding likes askeys

Bemoaning sideways balls and lack or urgency, wondering about mental strength saying we need a clean sheet….not making excuses but look at our injuries etc…

When we are bemoaning Crawford being missing you know we are in trouble, in fairness to Phillips he was at least honest on how shit Dixon was but think reality is dawning on him how far we have to go to get a decent side at this level

He’s a decent footballer but nowhere near as good as he thinks he is, former England youth to like release by a bottom half conference side, steepest decline since Brian Horne went from an England u21 international to 42nd streets best customer

No just making a prediction based on observation, not everyone shares your nihilistic what will be will be so don’t venture an opinion approach to this message board

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KP was openly critical of Dixon in his post match interview.

People can say just what they want….and so can I.
You use the word ‘nihilistic’ to describe my opinion… well, as far as I recall, ‘nihilistic’ refers to…basically rejecting all moral and religious principles in the belief life is meaningless…how does that apply to a comment on the result of a football match……moral and religious princiles
I don’t know about you, but no football match never had that effect on me, overdone the alphabety Spaghetti for tea…

Of course Crawford is a miss he's been out for 2 games and we've been dogshit in midfield in both.

Barnet were very well organised and quicker to the ball but we lost to a mistake by the goalkeeper and a stupid tackle by the centre half. A long way to go before we can think about getting out of this league

actually less dissapointed now than i was at the final result after finding out we started without waterfall and losing parkes early on. reading what others have written it seems the same old same. manny d on his own, cooke having a stinker and the keeper having one who goes from hero in one game to villain next. never rated dixon even at barrow as he was always like this and hopefully we can replace him with a steady lad whose mistakes are down to a minimum even if his memorable saves are just the same.

Almost’s don’t count….same as nearly a goal and deserved a goal.

We didn't turn up yesterday. KP says that Barnet didn't carve us open. The fact is they didn't need to as we did the job for them. The only highlight of our game came at the death when the one and only quality cross from us during the entire game was expertly headed into the Barnet goal. An excellent score but the epitome of too little too late.
It didn't help that three of our defenders were missing as soon as Parkes went off. Him, Waterfall and Hendrie. Once again our lack of strength in depth was a big influence.

This lot are supposed to be impressing a new manager 2 weeks in a row they havent turned up, once you can forgive but twice must make Phillips think a lot of these are going to have to go

First time I have heard a manager openly criticise an individual player mainly Dixon in his post match interview, could have done better with both goals he said. Will he stick with Dixon for the next game or bring Jamieson back or try and bring a loan keeper in ? We are closer to relegation than a play off spot !

He can make life easier for himself by shipping out of the out of contract shite.
No more let's blame previous managers players excuses.
Will be mainly his own team.
See what August's team looks like.

Well considering you have the best part of them labelled as not good enough from the start, I'm surprised at your surprise. Don't forget it wasn't that long ago you had them doomed to the Darlo league. Our best eleven would have given Barnet a game yesterday but they can only do that as and when they are available. Yesterday most of them were missing. We even had one on the pitch who was missing, namely between the sticks. Strength in depth or lack of it is our problem, as I pointed out. Have a rest, go on holiday or something whilst giving Raj and KP a chance before you get back into full whinging mode.

Well considering you have the best part of them labelled as not good enough from the start, I'm surprised at your surprise. Don't forget it wasn't that long ago you had them doomed to the Darlo league. Our best eleven would have given Barnet a game yesterday but they can only do that as and when they are available. Yesterday most of them were missing. We even had one on the pitch who was missing, namely between the sticks. Strength in depth or lack of it is our problem, as I pointed out. Have a rest, go on holiday or something whilst giving Raj and KP a chance before you get back into full whinging mode.