The Poolie Bunker

Harvey Cartwight saved two penalties to help Grimsby win their FA Cup penalty shoot out against Stafford Rangers. Dave Challinor's management career at Shef Wed got off to an inauspicious start when they got knocked out of the FA Cup by Oldham with Mike Fondop featuring in the Oldham forward line.

But what did he feature as……think:

I dont know, Snowy. Remember, I went to Dyke House!

Mark Shelton was on for Grimsby too. There were quite a few other ex Pools players noted across various fixtures over the weekend. They tend to bumble around League 1/2 and the National League divisions.

Oooh …don’t bring that up again

if loan players count then mikael mandron got the equaliser for stockport at cray on the 90 minute mark.

I wish Pools were still 'bumbling around in League 1/2' instead of the EFL looking like an unreachable promised land for us at the minute

When you think that getting on for half our first-team from 5 seasons ago is still in the EFL you realise that Raj, Lee Rust and everyone involved with the fiasco of appointing Paul Hartley as manager in summer 2022 want locking up.
Pools threw away their Football League status with that bit of collective stupidity and can't get it back.

Killip (Portsmouth), Sterry and Byrne (Doncaster), Shelton (Grimsby) and Molyneux (Salford) were all gone by the end of the relegation season. Admittedly Portsmouth fans probably think Ben Killip is stealing a wage at Pompey - he's had 3 contracts off them and only played 6 times But the rest have played hundreds of EFL games between them since they left Pools.

If Managers or players get offered Employment from Pools.
Especially when the majority of the time nobody else wants them they ain't Gunna turn it down.

Problem was Sing trying to keep DC on the cheap when he performed a minor Miracle.

But we managed to create a bit of cup run dosh that in theory went know where near the green grass.

The buck stops at the top man.
It's as basic as that.

Now we in a damage Limitation Period.
And no guarantees that we rise out of it.

It is what it is.

you can argue that the cup money went to pay off the debt the club had before raj came in. if we had to do it then that was that. however there was no excuse for the appointment of hartley as i,d guess there would have been more interest to manage the club then than now. that appointment more or less put us in the position we are in now as we have not had the money to get us out of the shit he left us in.