The Poolie Bunker

I am going for a 1-1 draw with a Campbell pile driver.
3099 including me.Ticket safely stored in Google Wallet.
Cant wait.

To quote ‘stingray’…anything can happen in the next half hour……in this case the next hour and a half, on Saturday.

Who cares!
Not one word since SG was shown the door, They don,t care why the flying should i.

The fans appear to be detached from the club…it’s like two groups travelling side by side but not speaking or listening..it feels like the fans have been left to God and providence and not of any interest anymore……..this is strange.

Personally I wouldn't be bothered if I never heard from Singh, Monks, Lawrence et al again - they have all had a hand in the ludicrous situation that the club is currently in. What can they do or say that is going to make an apeworth of difference or excuse their previous failures?

However, I will be there again on Saturday to support Feathers and the players and have a bit of banter with the lads. 2-1 Pools, injury time winner.

Desmond 2-2 - Campbell & Johnson to score
Snatch another draw from the jaws of victory

Crowd 2857
77 Posh Brummies in attendance

a lot depends on if we can get two CB back to start. yet another draw is on the cards, but a repeat of the gainsborough score line will see a near empty vic by full time. only coming up because i have bought my ticket weeks back but do not expect much.

Nailed on1-1 draw. I am not a betting man but if I was, I would bet a pound to bucket of shoit.

Thing is, I dont think Evans is a patch on Harvey Cartwright so a goal or two will go in whoever plays at centre back. Cartwright's injury is a sure sign that the Football Gods continue to take the piss.

I laughed at the match preview article on the O/S, it says and I quote..Moors sit in 17th in the table with "only" two away wins this season...... we've only won two home games so far this season.

At least the benefit of a low crowd is not having a fat bastard sat next to you who smells of fags, stale beer,piss and farts.
I normally have to move to another seat away from her.

No way to talk about Raj's sister!!!

As the home team playing a team below us in the league we should be attacking and getting the ball forward from the start, not when we fall behind. A win is the hope but:-
1-1 draw is my bet.

Narrow 1-0 win for Pools.

1 up front forget it.

Solihull have just signed a striker on loan from York City, being the ever pessimist he is bound to score against us today.

Would love to see a win, but not optimistic 1-1 at best I think

Did the club just leverage the Michael Maidens memory to try and get people into the ground early and not protest? That is shocking

No one has mentioned the obvious - that the Solihull keeper will also have the game of his career today, given that he's probably normally woeful at best!

1-0 Oliver 16mins

Early days and plenty of time to fook up but a lead is a lead. That is Oliveer's 4th goal for us by my reckoning so he is now top scorer. A lot of Bunkerites were less than impressed by his signing but he certainly knows where the onion bag is.

Doubt if I've ever seen Pools play worse in a 2-0 win. We were particularly bad second half and couldn't string two passes together - till Daly's goal at the death!

Would have been a different story if Solihull had a decent striker. Fortunately we did - Oliver's goal was a cracker and he won everything in the air. Pools really need someone playing up front with him to run on to his flick ons, not two wingers who are always behind him.

Pools looked very disjointed but I won't begrudge Feaths getting a bit of beginner's luck. Still 10th!

Despite the hoped for victory, I stand by my opinion that a playoff spot is beyond the current squad.

Well a clean sheet and three points so well done to Fevs and his players. I understand it wasn't a pretty sight but it is welcome as is any win. Special mention to the Goalie's save near the end.

A win is a win. Well done. Lets hope it is the begining of some sort of revival.

It’s all about the 3 points at the end of the day.

Well hopefully it's not a sign of how we're going to play going forward, that was shockingly bad. They looked the poorest team to play at the Vic in years in the first half but we allowed them to look better than us 2nd half. A draw would've probably been a fair result, but a wins a win and it's 3 points in the bag - probably means 3 away from relegation zone rather than closer to the play offs on that showing. Please god don't let Fev get the job permanently.

We won!!!!!!!!!

Well it was a difficult watch and I didn't quite achieve my pre-match prediction but the three points and clean sheet are most welcome. Oliver is starting to look like a decent striker and hopefully will have Reid alongside him very soon. I would be inclined to leave Feaths in position for the immediate future as none of the touted candidates can be anywhere near regarded as inspirational. Its not too late to launch a serious playoff push although the squad certainly needs strengthening in several areas should Raj prove to be man enough to go for it.

If Fev continues with those tactics the crowds will dwindle further, I won't be going to watch that shite when the weather turns. We were better under Grayson, don't forget that although Fev managed a win yesterday he also oversaw the shit show against Gainsborough, and a poor performance at Sutton - 3 games, won 1, drew 1, lost 1 but 3 god awful performances.

if you listen to his post match comments it might give you an idea why he set the team up to play that way and actually succeed. got to agree it was a long old afternoon and was glad when it was all over. did not feel like a win we have been craving for months. its all down again to managers more worried about the opposition than what there own team is capable of and alter there own game accordingly.

A refreshing, commonsense post Accrington. As Feaths said in his post match comments, Pools found a way to win yesterday which is probably the best that he or anyone else could do with the current squad. There's no way that the disappointing Grayson would have done any better than that following the shit shows of the last four weeks of his 'going nowhere' regime.

I'm not advocating that Feaths be given the role on a permanent basis just yet but hey let's give the guy a chance to see if he is capable of turning the season around. At least his heart is in the club and he's not going to piss off to a former club as soon as an opportunity arises.

Anyone who seriously believes that there's a Dave Challinor waiting in the wings to be snapped up by Raj and handed a huge playing budget is away with the Green Party fairies. And, as I mentioned earlier, none of the rumoured replacements exactly set the pulse racing. Yes, it may all go tits up in forthcoming weeks - and we may yet see yet another different managerial face with different ideas taking the helm - but how many times during the season can the re-set button be pressed before it's too late for a playoff challenge to be launched?

The 'shit show against Gainsborough' is down to the board. Grayson sacked on Saturday night, replay on Tuesday. Featherstone had 1 day to work with 'his' team and no centre backs. The Sutton game was a big improvement because Pools finally scored some goals - we last managed to score more than 1 under Grayson on 23rd August

We were still crap at the back against Sutton with only Cam John available, but yesterday Pools kept their first clean sheet for a month.

And any reasonable person would be able to see that won 1, drew 1, lost 1 is a sight better than won 1, drew 5, lost 5 - which is how Grayson finished his spell in charge.

Yesterday was probably the worst game of football I've witnessed in a very long time. Any reasonable person would have to agree surely.
Sutton was woeful, Grayson got an away draw against Gainsborough whereas Fev got us a home thrashing and humiliation.
Early days for Fev but based on team selections (Hunter before Miley for example) and tactics I sincerely hope he doesn't get the job long term.

PTID moaning about Featherstone! You've done it ever since you came on this board. Some things never change.

he might have started with miley if we had two regular cb starting the game. bet gainsborough could not believe they were playing against a side made up with midfielders and full backs in central defence. grayson got the boot for fielding a makeshift side wothout a choice in the matter like askey did when all our strikers were out injured but somehow fans and owners expect miracles.

No word of a lie, the game against Brackley under Grayson was the absolute worst that I have witnessed in over 50 years of following Pools. Both sides were absolutely clueless more especially Pools who couldn't string more than a couple of passes together - that's when I first had doubts about Grayson - we managed to scrape a draw that day but it all went tits up after that and he was deservedly sacked.

PTID moaning about Fev again, he's done it since he came on the board - not moaning, just expressing my opinions as I do on many matters. IMO Fev stayed too long, should never have been brought back, and shouldn't be getting the managers job yet.
Just a thought, but I think the only 2 constants over the last few depressing years are Raj and Fev? Wasn't Fev the subject of Liam Nobles pizza-gate issue, didn't he question the professionalism around the club at the time and was forced out?

Thing about Hunter is. He is one of those players that goes unnoticed, Gets on with the job, And does a job.

Featherstone's life as a Hartlepool united player is virtually over and he has a record of that time readily available for all to see. No point in going into much detail because we all have formed an opinion over the years.
BUT and it is a big BUT he has now moved "upstairs" or is in progress of doing that and has very little record in that sphere and can't really be judged over the few days he has had in the hot seat.
Imagine we ditch him now and he goes on to better things what would be the outcry on here.
Let's give the lad a chance. Both he and the club will learn pretty soon whether that life is for him. The one thing that impresses me so far is his honesty and openness.

Might as well give Fevs a go, get the injured players back and see where we are in the league come the new year.
My predictor is stating Pools to finish on 66 points at the moment, which would be outside the play offs.
So a bit of improvement needed.

Regarding Fevs and Saturdays match, In case anyone missed it.

We scored our 2nd goal well into stoppage time, Instead of being camped in our own half shit scared of conceding.
We went for the Killer blow which we got, So hats off the Fevs for that.

Funny how we all see things differently, I thought second half we were pretty much camped in our own half, the substituting of Campbell for Parkes was an indication of our parking the bus. We did well defensively but didn't trouble their keeper much all game, the second goal was a good old sucker punch breakaway and although I'm pleased we won I don't think anyone would have said a draw was pretty much what both sides deserved if they'd equalised.
A good indicator of the performance is usually the crowd at the Vic, which was dead pretty much all game, and there's normally a good celebration between the players and supporters after a win, by the time the players made their way over most fans had gone home.
Hopefully there's better to come wether it's under Fev or A N Other but I still feel it's going to be a long winter.

I suspect this season will be like the previous and the one before that. We begin promisingly, fall into the doldrums for a while and gradually recover enough to finish above half way but without seriously threatening the play offs. Enough average teams in this league for Pools to more than hold their own but too many good teams for Pools to get a sniff of the play offs.

We were crap 2nd half, Thats why we looked camped in, But as you say its all about opinions.

Wonder where we would be if our defence had not been decimated.
Have a good defence, Then you have every chance. Have a poor defence, You have no chance and will be found out.

cannot see another team in this league who would not have attempted to bring a loanee in when we had no defenders to play. if somehow we fid fall short by a few points we could look at those points lost with a scratch defence.

those last 3 words are the reason i said he did not sound like a football manager. needs lessons on speaking from sarll.

If your defence is crap, you need talented forwards so you can outscore the opposition. Pools problem over the years has been poor defenders and limited attackers.

And lets not forget our midfield which has also been well below par for a good few years.