So Duffus is the latest who wont be playing again this season. KP said on the Radio Tees interview he was not expecting anyone to return from injury for the remainder of the season though an outside chance alex Lacey could make it. He's drafted three youth team players into the squad for tomorrow. So we are down to the bare bones and only two recognized forwards in Grey and Manni D. It seems the Otis Khan loan was nothing short of a fiasco. Not sure if Dickinson is injured or not. I still think we need three points to be 100% safe other than that, the end of season cant come soon enough.

Yes 3 points tomorrow will make us safe, could be less depending on Dorking, Kiddy & Borring's results.

Duffus has been outstanding since he came in, not sure how we will manage without him tomorrow. I would have built a side around him for next season.......for a concerted relegation push.

We have been safe for a few weeks now. Apart from Oxford, mathematically everyone below us can in theory overtake us if they win all their remaining games. However, as they will be playing each other in some of the games, it's impossible for everyone below us to get maximum points. Once we got to 48-50 points we were safe, I don't know why anyone is panicking that we still aren't safe!!

because they can,t add up!

When all the injuries get mentioned in interviews they never seem to mention Wallace! Injured or just out of favour?

He is working for the council as a road SWEEPER.

Dont think anyone is panicking. Just want three more points from the twelve that are on offer to be 100% safe.

He is most certainly not a first choice starter but he is a recognized forward player and without him we are reduced to bit part players if Manni D or Grey get injured. Duffus yet another injury in a frankly bizarre list of injuries.

He was mentioned as another long term injury before the Rochdale game. Don’t know when or how he got crocked.

Duffus is shite as is Lacey
We are safe so fine with me playing a few kids

Injurie’s….. ?…..some of them would get injured if they’d worked on Binn’s perfume counter.

Hastie Patterson and Pruti on the books till their contracts end, not sure how many more out on loan.

Google it.

with all the injuries why has Burton not been brought back from his loan spell.He does not seem to have been given a fair run in the team.

Isn't Pruti worth a recall?

Depending on who else we keep I wouldn’t hate it if we kept him, be more pissed off if we kept Lacey

Really need a complete overhaul in midfield whoever we get can’t be worse than what we have now

not now as he has gone off sick.

be pissed off if we keep anybody who cannot claim a regular starting position apart from possibly burton due to his age. rather have kids on the bench like yesterday that others who will not be with us next season who will be lucky getting another job at our level.

Burton is still under contract after June. Pruti and Lacey aren't and there's zero chance that either will be offered new deals by Pools.

doubt they will myself but there are always shocks both ways when retained lists are published.

Just wondering what is going on with Pruti. He was a regular starter last season in the Football League. This season he played in the opening game at Barnet and that was it. Did shag someone's missus or something? I gather he is not the finished article but isnt he young enough to improve? Interested in hearing from those Poolies he saw him regularly in a Pools shirt: what were his strenghts and weaknesses and why do you think he is out in the cold?

comparing him to waterfall and parkes he,s a second rater. when he came into the club last season he was a big improvement on what we had as it was difficult not to be. its really hard to judge how good or bad he actually is but our last two managers have not rated him this season. could be difficult to manage or a poor trainer that you cannot get away with anymore like the old days.

I’d suggest Pools order a couple of skips in and a mobile conveyor belt went it comes to the retained list.
Our priority must be midfield, end of story.

back to these injuries didn,t KP say he had a theory about what was causing them in an intereview a few weeks back. just wonder what that theory is as we have all had our own.

Given his age, Pruti did ok in the relegation season but was very one footed and prone to givng the ball away. This season he's been in a relationship with a minor celebrity in London and that seems to have been at the root of his falling out with Askey.

KP blames the injuries on training on plastic pitches, but given how much rain there's been these past months and the fact that a lot of fields around Durham still look like paddy fields, finding a well drained grass pitch to train on would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Loads of teams this season have had an abnormal number of injuries, including the Boro and Newcastle.

Thanks to Mr Accrington and Mr Flying Hogans for views on Pruti. Much appreciated.

He will keep the 11 who started yesterday and let everyone else go

Pruti is a young kid, I think he can still make
It but really needs an experienced head next to him and likely needs to move on

Burton like Aygemang has some physicality about him and can see him
‘In the squad’ next year

We need to move on all the one paced pedestrians especially in midfield, i
Suspect/hope ronnie Moore is going to prioritize some athletes, as we aren’t going to do a Gateshead overnight in terms of out footballing everyone

His theory was the 4G pitch that they train on. Think he mentioned it to Rob Law on Tees after the Eastleigh game.

There you are Snowy, loan status at Pools,
https://www.transfermarkt.com/hartlepoo ... erein/2577

That shows Hastie contracted till June 2025.

therefore he should find out which players have a problem on playing on them and find a paddy field to accomodate them. love em myself and gave me back a yard of pace and no knee problems like the mud baths gave me. not ideal, but anything is better than players being out injured due to training.

Graeme Lee also said the 4G pitch was giving him problems with the team's injuries and training in general.

Unfortunately with the climate it isn’t always possible to train on grass, we appear to have more rain now than years ago so there is really any alternatives other than 4G.

When I say ‘Google it’, it’s for your benefit. Happy to help.

surely they could cancel training on the occasions it is bad outside and just do fitness training indoors. anything must be better than having a long injury list. is 4G being used as an excuse for signing players with poor injury records and forgetting our two long term injuries both happened in games on the grass. Must have reffed loads of games on different types of artificial surfaces and still waited for players to go off with non contact injuries in any of them.

Whilst I have no knowledge of 4G pitches I too wonder if this is an excuse for the injuries. Dodds and Mancini were quite serious injuries very early in the season and not muscle injuries whilst Duffers, Khan, Dickinson all appeared injury prone when they came. This season there appears to be a lot of clubs even at top level suffering high numbers of injuries but what about teams in our league who play on 4G pitches do they get high number of injuries?

there cannot be many clubs though who have players available to play on a friday morning but get injured then or go off sick pre match. the odd occasions yes but not like its happened this season. true or not it does give the impression of them doung what we have all done in our working lives, throwing a sicky.

It does make you wonder.

Not when you take into account the number of players who have needed surgery to get sorted - can think of Dodds, Mancini, Crawford, Lacey and Umerah off the top of my head. Not counting the loanees who have had major injuries in the recent past - agree it was a risk signing them that definitely hasn't come off.

As for going off sick - as far as I can recall recent incidents like Joe Grey's have been related to one bug or another doing the rounds in the Pools squad. It's an occupational hazard - like working in a school.

but those are out long term because of injuries sustained in a match. its those who have seemed fine till the friday that we hear of regularly dropping out late on. think there has been more than joe grey also suffering from a late illness making thm unavailable on the day. as for the signing of loanees with a bad injury record, there must be a spares or repairs section on players available for loan that we go off.