TOPIC: Hartlepool (A) match thread

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Gillespie, McQueen, Miller, Raynes, Archibald-Henville, Grainger, Hery, Kennedy, Joyce, Rigg, Ibehre

Glad Troy has kept his place from last weekend.

Paynter starts

RonBacardi wrote:
Most pointless and obvious 'mind game' in the history of football


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That's the team I expected really.

RonBacardi wrote:
I corrected that.

I was going to put
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Neither Paynter or Jabo will score and Kennedy will get ours. I think Grainger is better utilised in the role he's playing today.

It's not far off what I expected, but I am surprised Asamoah isn't starting.

Wukkie wrote:
I agree. His best attribute is his left foot. Hopefully he'll get the chance to put some quality deliveries in from the left.
Only concern really in his lack of pace for getting up and down that side.

Like that Starting 11.

Dicker unlucky not to start mind. Think Rigg will cause problems today and Grainger can ping some in from out wide for Ibehre.

Paynter is bound to score though, already put £5 on it.

Don't see any way we can lose today. Rigg was great there last season so hopefully same again today then bring on Degsy late on to score a brace and make it 6-0.

Glad Troy is playing - it's not like Paynter is blessed with searing Bolt like pace so.....

Actually thinking about it it's going to be Raynes TAH Grainger with MIller RWB and McQueen LWB.

RagingBlue wrote:
Good shout that. You could be right actually.

Grainger left wing back lads.

If you are listening at home I may go off air as there is a very good chance I may have to knock the hartlepool commentators teeth down his throat if he keeps tapping me on the shoulder!

Away support looking good,fired up and ready to go! Buzzing!

Go on, drop him Chris.

I have reservations about this referee today Andy Haines. He must be one of the worst about and just hope he let's both teams play and he doesn't spoil it.

Who was the worst referee you came across Lummy, Scott Mathieson?

Yeah he was Poor, the ref against Wimbledon last week also.

Michael Oliver always booked me.

Here we go!

Just pinched all the bandwidth on the rig to listen on the radio............come on you blues!

1-0 already

Still no clean sheet this season.

It needs to stop.

Long afternoon ahead. They've started off well on top.

Ah well, maybe next year for an August win.

F*ck.

Blame me....I went for a Carlisle Win in Deano's last man standing

Is Troy really the answer?

I'm off to watch the rugby.

SquarePass wrote:
I think he warrants a starting place, but I don't think he's as class as some people make out.

We need to sort this defence out. I hope at least one of these targets we're after is a defender.

Moorlad wrote:
Good, take your negative, adverse, gloomy, pessimistic thoughts with you

I'll carry on listening until Hartlepool get their second.

Sounds like we've missed 3 good chances now..

Grainger cross, Ibehre volleys over the bar. Big chance missed.

I'm still see us scoring 3 today. But I've been known to be overconfident, brash, careless, cocky and presumptuous

I do think that if we sort ourselves out defensively, we have enough going forward to be a decent team at this level.

But it's worrying that for the third successive season we're going into September winless and down at the bottom of the table. Very worrying.

That will be 8 different wing backs we've started in game already this season. Ridiculous.

We've simply got to get something from this game.

Winless and 2nd bottom (as it stands) going into September is all too familiar

Second bottom as it stands.

I personally do not think we'll get consistent results until their consistency in selecting the line-up. I agree Crunch the signs are there but is the back line good enough to get us more favourable results.

No doom yet though as it's only HT.

Wukkie wrote:
That's the thing wukkie, there's that feeling that we're only a solid defender away from being a good team. We have strikers with goals in them and technically good midfielders. Maybe leacock will be the man to make us more solid defensive? I don't know, But i don't think we can wait for him to be fit, we need to go out and buy a quality defender before deadline day.

IBEHRE!!!

Come on Jabo it's time to start sharing these around.

lbtufty wrote:
Nah, it is about time we had a striker get over 20 goals in a season

Just 2 more for us.........

bluealf wrote: 8 by September. He'll have 20 by mid October at this rate

crunchblue wrote:
he can start sharing them out after that then.

Up to the dizzy heights of 17th as things stand.

Penalty to Hartlepool

Step up billy

F*** 2-1

Fat boy scores

One thing is for sure we'd be knackered without him. Told u about this ref,he's a clown. Just swung this game with the pen when it looked like we were gonna win it.

16th to 23rd at a stroke.

In the shit