We will concede. over to you lot.

its as much about scoring more than them than it is about conceeding. 4-3 win is as good as a 1-0 one and possibly more entertaining especially if we did a bournemouth on em like they did to luton last night. worst thing would be setting up just to keep a clean sheet and snatch a winner on the break.

I think this is a tricky one and our chances are obviously affected by the team we are able to put out, especially our defensive set up. I wouldn't be upset at a draw but a win would be very welcome. Sitting on the fence.

Its been a long break - there shouldnt be any excuses. Season is done for me and i highly doubt the team we have under KP now will get relegated. So yeh ill go for a bore draw.

At this point in the season we need the points, clean sheets would be welcome but as long as we get the points I’m not worried.

0-1 season over.

Southend played three times when Pools didn't so they'll be match sharp but possibly a little leggy which might be an issue in the second half. Pools, thoroughly rested and ready to go but lacking match sharpness. I cant see either side running away with it but I reckon Southend will score first and then Pools will play better in the second half and equalize. 1-1.
Edit: Wondering if we might get a few minutes from Mancini?

2-0 yes 0 win in a hard fought game. ManiD 2

Hard One to predict.
But if it's failure please not the lads were a bit rusty due to a long lay off!
After Solihull it was the lads were a bit tired 3 games in 1 week.
Quality how football managers have 8 day weeks after failure.
They talk more shite than Jeremy Hunt.

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3489.
UTP.

"They talk more shite than Jeremy Hunt". Oh come on, thats a bit harsh on football managers.

Southend on a good run of form, too good for us 0 2

1-1 Featherstone.

surely i cannot see pools winning two games on the bounce with me coming up for this one. 2-1 to them after gifting em a 2 goal start with match officials missing fouls on us but digging anything up they can for them.

Think this is a must win meself, And not just for the points!

KP pre match interview says he’s brought in Lee Moore a fitness coach. Anybody heard of him, thought we had fitness coach?

so did i but wonder if KP thinks he needs another one because of all these injuries we have got this season and trying to go down a different route. always wonder if this sciantific approach all clubs use with fitness coaches and diaticians could be the reason injuries are rife across the pro game.

Think he’s come from South Shields.

Pre match interview on Radio Tees no new injuries but no one is back in contention. Umerah saw specialist about his knee so results awaited-obviously not fit, Khan not even at Pools at the moment but will be back to start training next week so no prospect of him playing for a while, Mancini is training but KP reckons he needs another week to get properly fit, they dont want to rush him and rightly so.

If anyone in that athletes age group isn't fit then they shudent be professional footballers.
Relatively easy part time job with the correct attitude.
Excellent opportunity to bin the crocks/has beens/retires etc.
And recruit with promotion Ambition for the 24/25 season.
If only eh
UTP.

So many variables when it comes to fitness and pro sport. Some players have long careers with very few problems while others seem to be on and off the treatment table throughoy their careers. For Pools, Ferguson is hardly ever injured and neither is Featherstone. I just think some players just happen to have bodies more suited to the game than others.

Fergie and Feaths played about 100 games apiece in 18 months in the promotion season and the first year back in League 2 - NL not starting till October + cup and play off games, L2 back in August and 2 cup runs. They weren't ever-presents but only missed a handful of games. No-one else in the squad came close - not even Killip!

Exactly.

Evening Hartlepool. This will be an interesting game as we don't always 'turn up' for games that are played beyond the Watford Gap, and you lot truly qualify on that front. Whilst we were under an embargo there was a siege mentality amongst the squad where they were quite outstanding at times, sometimes with only one sub on the bench. Now we have broken loose from that restriction, some new players have been bought in and it takes a while for them all to gel together. If we're up for it we are pretty useful, but we will see. I have to say that at Roots Hall your team fitted that last description well, especially Mancini, who totally bossed the middle. And I'm surprised you didn't kick on from that win consistently.

All that said, I reckon a thrilling 1-1 is on the cards, even though neither you guys or me wants to believe it.

Hi Shrimper 1906. Thank you for your comment and welcome to The Bunker. Others on here might give you the usual "traditional" welcome but don't take it personally. I have a soft spot for you Essex lot as your pier is on my bucket list. Have seen you play Pools before and don't know old you are but I remember going to a Friday night game back in 1967 when your lot were the visitors and it was Pools first ever match under floodlights. The Shrimpers won 2-1. If you are travelling have a safe journey up and back and good to see that you are fighting back from all the problems.

I suppose even those who have given up on the play off dream harbour a secret one per cent hope that we sneak it. If its going to happen and I say if, then tomorrow's game must be a three pointer. Win and Pools would have a thin hope of clutching on to the play off coats but of course a very tenuous one.

Thanks buddy. I'm too long in the tooth to get too phased by traditional welcomes, and as for age, I was 15 in 1967 and wasn't allowed to go to away games in those days. Sadly, my away days now are also limited through being knackered from the neck down, so I'll be following this one at home. Obviously, I may 'pop over to France' and watch it on NL Streaming.

The ‘traditional welcome’ isn’t quite what you think it is….

Come on whos going to welcome Shrimper, Dont want him to feel left out do we.

Let’s get it over with then…:roll:
‘ You can fuck right off’…
There we go, it’s done………..

If it's along the lines of the post above, then it's about what I thought it might be. I feel blooded now, so thanks................unless there's more?

When I started watching Pools in the 50's injuries were fewer than these days. I cannot remember the halfback lineup, Newton,Moore,Stamper ever being split up by injury. No subs so get injured and you went out on the wing. It took two broken legs to get off the pitch!
I wonder if the introduction of substitutes means that players do not look after themselves the way they used to. Whatever the reason, the high incidence of injuries these days can ruin things for teams like Pools this season.

You are more than welcome…l

I’ve given it some thought …and in the words of Ron Atkinson….’well either side could win, or it could be a draw’.

I sense it could be a game of two halves.

Another 2-1 loss…squeaky bum time

Who cares anymore? Nothing will change till Sing is silenced

Well these last 9 games should be assessed for part of the retained list.
Rip ya bollocks off and want to be part of next seasons Promotion drive. ( No way KP will accept t h at consolidation shite.)

Or step of the gas n finish 5th bottom n bin every out of contractor.
We will C.
UTP.

Aye stand up and be counted.
Think we have a very good idea who will.

It's quite heartening to read an opposition fans board that's as optimistic and pessimistic as our board, all in the space of one thread. Must be something to do with both Club's ex Football League history I reckon.

Looks like around 350 of the Blues faithful are on their way to you.

Or four quarters.

To paraphrase someone whose name I forget…..’Both optimists and pessimists contribute to this board…..The optimist’s invent the aeroplane, the pessimist’s the parachute’.

2-2

That team selection is…interesting
How the fuck is Lacey getting his game in front of Onarisie ? And assume Grey is injured, good to see Mancini on bench at least and he’s finally fucked Dixon off

Loads of changes.

Dixon dropped for Jameson in goal, back 4 of Lacey, Waterfall, Parkes and Ferguson (no idea who will be playing right back), Featherstone, Crawford, Cooper and Cooke in midfield and Mani D and Dickenson up front.

Dixon, Manny O, Agyemang , Mancini and Duffus on the bench.

Oduroh and Grey not in the squad! - can only assume Joe Grey isn't fit enough to be considered.

No surprise about Dixon, I assume Grey is injured or has an illness.

Grey is ill according to the HUFC official twitter or X as its called now.

Pools trying to be positive first 20 but not created anything and Southend beginning to twig we are vulnerable

Cooper and dickensen doing nothing to suggest we would bring them in next season, Lacey showing he’s not a full back and cooke having one of those games so
Far where nothing going right

Why he didn’t try Aygemang at right back is beyond me

Southend on top now
Phillips needs to not wait until we 1 down
To change this

Aygemang for Lacey and Mancini
For cooper at half time

Poor first half, Southend not upto much either
Credit to cooke for sticking at it and wanting the ball continually

Not much else positive, mani D dojng well as usual