Gone from being well on too to hanging on. When will we learn we can't defend a lead.

He got slated at south shields for doing exactly what he is doing here. Keep trying to defend with this lot will get him the sack.

Riding out luck here, far too many passengers in our team.

fair result in the end. should have done better up top when we were the much better side.

Typical Pools demonstrating all the failings that has let the team down all season.
Leading comfortably for three quarters of the game but failing to get a second goal against the second weakest defence in the league. After the equaliser, there was only one side trying to win and it wasn't Pools. Thankful for the point but it should have been three.

We should have enough to stay up but not out of woods yet, my comment on Askey not looking so bad when you look at table at the end of the season likely isn’t getting as much laughter now…

Well on top first half, only escaped with a point thanks to Jameson.

4 games without a goal now for Mani D and had no impact whatever on this one.

Loved how National League TV fucked up the replay of the 'penalty' incident so we're still none the wiser. £9.95 well spent!

If we dont watch ourselves were going to get dragged back into a relegation battle.

Simple opportunity no excuses to bin these passengers surely.

Unless it's a anutha all talk budget.
Which equals more abject failure.
Hopefully ambition n success for the new season.
Only footy like life goes on.

Just hope we still in this division next season

Lucky to get a point against a team who’ve won 2 in 13 homes games.
Mani on his own just doesn’t work,midfield over passing as usual & going nowhere,Crawford might as well have served pints in the bar,the use he was.
Eastleigh played with intensity for the last 25 minutes,something that we didn’t.
I fear a pasting at Gateshead.

How can he score when he’s getting absolutely no chances?

Apart from goal can’t remember their keeper having a shot to save. As some have said Mani totally isolated

Stay calm Loyal we will be fine.

Blessing in disguise Lacey injured, will force Phillips to play someone at right back who doesn’t get a nose bleed in oppo half

Going from his history with injuries that'll be Lacys season and hopefully Pools career finished.

If the roles were reversed we’d have been complaining about our useless forwards missing chances.
Well done Jameson, never a penalty and the BBC Radio Solent commentary was more of a fireside chat than a match report, and they must have filmed the match on a mobile phone.
I still laugh about Askey…..

It was never a penalty let's hope the biased referees stop hating pools next season. Askey

There were several crosses right across the box in the first half, from Joe Grey and Agyemang. Did you miss them? Mani certainly did... Today there wasn't much link up play from him either - the big Eastleigh defenders had him in their pockets.

Look, he's had a brilliant season and I'm a big fan - but today was poor and we need him to find his shooting boots again. Squeaky bum ends of season are a Hartlepool speciality, but you can have too much of a bad thing.

The first 7 games should ensure that.
Hope of disgrace when we were all hoodwinked.
Shambolic outcome unless ya happy with this shit.
How long does false hope last.
Next season or when ya sink into the Boneyard.

Very lucky to get a point after largely controlling the first half, Cooke and Crawford in particular guilty of gifting them possession in the second half. Jameson, who was excellent, and the woodwork saved us from a pasting in the second half. Usual standard of refereeing, how on earth could he give a penalty for that.

Agree 100% that's three times in a couple of days Loyal.

The most shit side I’ve ever seen

Nothing will change till Singh is gone along with 15 of the current squad.

Dire

But that shit side dominated the first half and started the 2nd half well enough? Why did they take the foot off and revert to defending the lead and sitting back? Was it Raj's half time team talk?
Agree the squad needs a sizeable rebuild, and hopefully we'll be better for it come next season.
Who was chairman last time we got promoted from this division?

Raj back to radio silence

The Shields fans told me that’s how KP managed up there.
After we won those 4 games,I though he must have changed,but after today & the Woking game,maybe not.

I'm sure it was the same Chairman who after promotion said any profit made gets reinvested back onto the
2 cup runs
Great sponsorship
Great support.
We back in the Abyss.
That's how ellish your Messiah is.

The only reason we didn't get beaten today (especially in the second half) was that we've got two good central defenders and the keeper had a blinder. The only players that created anything in a Pools shirt today were Agyemang and Grey. Cooke and Lacey kept passing to the opposition. Not just giving the ball away - but literally passing it, on the deck, straight to their feet (sometimes from 20 yards away). I don't remember Featherstone and Crawford being there but at least they weren't passing to Eastleigh players.

Seriously - if someone at the club hadn't signed Parkes and Waterfall we'd be in so much trouble right now.

No consolation that I predicted the correct scoreline but I thought that it was always going to be so. The previous defensive frailties appear to have been resolved but as an attacking force we are firkin woeful. Only in the second half vs Alty have Pools looked the part recently. KP is somehow going to have to find a way for Pools to win and secure a crucial three points that would retain our NL status. It is absolutely ludicrous that this situation has arisen but here we are, struggling to avoid a resumption of the local derbies with the Darlo next season. Can’t see this win coming within the next three games to be honest but hey, it’s Easter next week - what better time for the Messiah to work a miracle?

But if you question what the chairmans plan is after he turned down an offer--everyone points to the coupel of wins on the bounce we had under Phillips when he first showed up as 'proof' of proper investment....
It's like groundhog day

Hope we can grind out three points. Maybe get them in draws. Phillips blaming the ref but the ref shouldnt have been in the equation. Easleigh are not a good side as their playing record and league position indicates but Phillips says they were a good side. If that is his criteria of a good side, I am slightly concerned. Why is it every team we play always plays well against us?

Phillips not the first time is talking shite if he is saying Eastleigh are a good side, in fairness we were much better than them in the first half but I thought the trotting out of complaints about the ref etc wouldn’t come
Until at least September next year….certainly seems a long time since the ‘we are looking up not down the league ‘ tub thumping

Wonder if Raj bins him off at the end of the season, not saying he should but wouldn’t surprise me

Because despite Phillips making 8-9 signings we have no pace in midfield and play a center back at fullback ?

Of course we were the better side in the first half. We were at Woking as well but something strange seems to happen in the second half. Why? Doe KP give different instructions? Does the opposition change formation and KP does not know how to respond? Can the players not be arsed to give the same level of effort in two halves? Are they all carrying injuries? Surely it cant all be the ref's fault, shite though they undoubtedly are in this league.

Missing Askey still ?

The local commentator’s said that Eastleigh hare usually wanting in the first half and fire up in the second, on that they were right as my eye’s showed me, they also showed me our priorities are an entire midfield and two competent full backs.

Can you count?
KP has brought in 6 loans (Senior, Dickenson, Khan, Cooper, Agyemang, Kwaku).
One has ended (Senior).
That leaves 5.
Yesterdays 16 man squad included 2 KP signings (Cooper, Agyemang)
Spout off as much as you want from in front of your T.V but at least get your facts right.
And FFS give KP the time and opportunity to bring his own players in and put his own team together before labelling the bloke as "rubbish".
It's obvious KP is working with other people's dross at the moment but has still shown a massive improvement in a short space of time on what had been on offer previously.
Only an idiot would disagree.

no defensive capabilities in mid field or at full back. how can you win a game with manny d on his own yet again with a mid field of crawford being allowed to finish the game and cooke and featherstone flitting in and out of the game. KP,s get out of jail card was a penalty which might have not been one so in some ways it would have been better them equalising from open play. if the boot was on the other foot we,d be saying after the second half we were unlucky not to pick up 3 points or moaning about our finishing. you win games by attacking and scoring goals and not just relying on a keeper playing well and parkes and waterfall at the back.

actually thought the ref had a decent game up to the 65th minute when an incident occured where they got a corner that might have been a goal kick. he just lost the plot after that and gave us a free kick for no reason whatsoever when that corner came across. even the commentators found it funny as they expected it to happen. everything he did from then onwards seemed to be wrong leading up to the penalty decision. again i wonder if he is another on a fast tracked promotion and really not up to the job if one incident changes his game.

Eastleigh yesterday were wide open 1st half, Even at times in the second half pushing on for a goal.
And we sat back, Very poor tactilally.

tactics you are having a laugh.unless he was really struggling why take agyamang off and replacing him with someone on the right to expose fergy even more in defense and loosing our best chance going forward down our left. then first half with fergy having the freedom of eastleigh didn,t we push more forward in the hope he,d find somebody with one of his quality crosses he can do. saying that i guess the final result was the one our coaching staff went for in the first place and they,ll be happier than most of us are how the game was played and how it panned out.

I was being generous by giving him Waterfall but if you want to use that laundry list of shite (Aygemang aside) as a way of defending his judgment on players so far you go right ahead

You appear to think recruiting players after January is as simple as you just turning on your TV set to support your team.
FFS there is nothing but a long "laundry list" of shite on offer mate at that stage in the season, whoever you are whatever league you are in.
Dear oh dear oh dear...

Spot on it is ludicrous that we are once again in this mess, its amazing that some still defend whats gone on. We keep thinking things will change but they wont. We will continue to fill the team with utter rubbish. We have had a new manager bounce most clubs get that, but now we have gone back to reality struggling to get results.

Its almost a joke that we are going to Gateshead thinking we will be lucky to get a result. Its embarassing and shows how far this club has slipped.

As you well know most of Pools 116 year history has been spent in the lower half of the Fourth tier.
We now occupy the Fifth tier for only the second time.
And we are playing some other similar sized clubs with a comparable history to ours such as Rochdale, Chesterfield, York, Oldham etc etc.
Even doing a lot better than some others such as Scunthorpe and Torquay.
Yes some slippage that.
Yes really embarrassing that.
Yes "a joke of a club" as you so frequently put it.
Spot on.
Blah blah... blah blah....

Did anyone think there was a quick fix? Most clubs relegated from the league struggle in their 1st season (I'm probably wrong but I think it might be one club has ever gone straight back up). So realistically we need to stay up then have a huge clear out - keep Grey, Mani D, Waterfall, Parkes, Mancini, Dodds and the rest can go for me.
Considering we are NL we started the season with plenty of FL experience so it was hardly filling the team with absolute rubbish.

Even doing a lot better than 2 clubs well thats great, were doing pretty well when you look at it that way. You're right with one thing we have been turned into a joke of a club, slipping from disaster to another.

So out of the 30 players we have had this season you would keep 6? Two of those players, mancini appears to have a serious problem and Dodds has had a dreadful injury, that suggests to me we have filled the rest of the team with rubbish and results tend to back that up.