The Poolie Bunker

Divided loyalties in our house today. My wife is from Crosby, been a ST holder at Pools for years, travelled all over the Country with me supporting Pools but today is supporting Marine. She lived five minutes walk from the ground and her Dad and brother supported them.
I suppose just this once.

My loyalties are a bit divided as well. Fond memories of many a pint in The Marine, down Seaton.

I played for Marine FC in the old Sunday league back in the 70's
We were pretty average, to say the least. I remember one game against Brierton Diamonds where one bloke was eating a meat pie & another had a tab on throughout the game . Talk about taking the piss !

Grass roots footy. You cant beat it.

Marine winning 1-0 with about 20 minutes left. Looks like our FA cup dream is once again strangled at birth.

Now its 2-0. I guess this is one of the bumps in the road. Well peed off/

Sounds like we are back to being shite .

We are a disgrace to the town. Just total lack of quality all round . And we were favourites for promotion what a joke

Mick Barron doing the co comms on Tees. Very scathing about the effort all round.

‘There is something rotten in the the state of Denmark’…oops Hartlepool Utd ….. to paraphrase Shakespeare.

I must admit, I am surprised by the 'lack of effort'. I thought Pete Wild was on the case and although I was expecting some losses I never thought it would be due to lack of effort. Maybe they are knackered cos he is training them too hard? Maybe I am clutching at straws?

I said it about a month ago that northern league somewere near the bottom is our level. Maybe Darlo? How much shite can you actually watch or listen too. Crowd booed them off . What a job Wild has ! Aimless punting im sick of seeing it

I really really really really hope that Bromby et al get paid by results.

Don't know why I bothered going - in 50+ years as a Pools fan we've nearly always been shit in the FA Cup. Today just plumbed new depths.

For the first 20 minutes Pools looked a league above Marine. Neo Eccleston was playing out of his skin and causing then all kinds of problems. But chances came and went, our level started to drop off and Marine came into it more. I was sat behind their manager, who is a bit of a character and had good banter with some Poolies.

Second half he got serious because he could see his side were in with a sniff. So could we. Pete Wild used all 5 substitutes and NONE of them affected the game positively. Pools went completely into their shell after Marine's first goal and couldn't string 2 passes together.

Don't know about 'lack of effort' but there was only one TEAM on the pitch in the 2nd half and it was Marine. Saying that, there's definitely a problem brewing with Will Harris. He looked better playing for Lee Clark than he does now, and to be honest I can't see him being at the Vic much longer.

For what it's worth, Lavelle had a good debut but I'm not sure that counts for much. Kouogun will be back soon and Pools real problems are in midfield and up front.

I thought it was quite an even game until the subs were made. A Hughill header hit the crossbar but other than that I didn't think either team where going to score, then he made the subs! For the 2nd Saturday running, we where noticeably far worse and went to pieces after the subs where made. Only players to emerge from today with any credit where Ecclestone (my man of the match), Lavelle and Sheron. Even against part timers our fitness levels looked questionable as well as our decision making in the final third!

Marine thoroughly deserved their win, we were as poor a footballing side as I've seen in many years, worse was that they looked more up for it than us.
Unbelievably we took our target man off then went long ball to Harris? Harris definitely looks as if he's not wanting to be here, have him and Wild had a falling out?
We're in desperate need of a winger or two, clearly Wild like Clark wants to bypass the midfield.

Strange as it is Mr Bromby himself is at Derby county and they are second bottom of their league. None of his company know what they are doing so GET RID NOW.

I thought the same about Harris he looked a lot better under clark and the other 2, He hasn’t looked interested at all last 3 games and is just sulking. Every goal we’ve conceded last 3 games has been with him on the pitch and he’s played less than half the minutes. At least Hugill offers something.

They feature in their new film, CARRY ON FAILING. in $hitevision.

Losing against lower league teams suggests that we could improve our squad by scouring the NLN for their best up and coming players rather than going for EFL cast offs.

The Marine performance today illustrated how to win a game. Had Pools taken a second half lead would they have gone for a second or just tried to see the game out? Marine scored a second and even looked good for a third. Not only do we have a very poor team, our strategy and tactics are rotten.

WTF were they doing in the close season…..?