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    3/10, 7/10 & 9/10 Games

    Hartlepool fan here. You have around 80 minutes to avoid taking our record for a goalless run in the Football League. In 1919/20, Coventry scored in the 50th minute vs Leicester, then had 11 goalless games, and then scored in the 15th minute vs Stoke. A total of 1045 minutes. (990 + 40 + 15)...
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    24th Jan fixtures

    A win against a poor Rochdale (who were the better side while it was 11v11) has raised the spirits among our lot, but I can see that being punctured somewhat tonight. Carlisle, alongside Stockport, are as good as I've seen at the Vic this season, and it's difficult to be sure just exactly what...
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    John Yems

    Lamentable response from the FA. Not a conscious racist? What, all just bantz innit? Pathetic.
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    FA Cup 22/23

    Ben Killip had, in his words, "probably the best game of his career". That, and some indifferent finishing, separated us from a rout as they ran past our flat defence at will. If you replayed that game ten times, with those chances, I reckon we'd lose by 2-3 goals in almost all of them. We...
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    Tuesday 16th August

    The game against Tranmere six months ago is the only time in the last NINETEEN home league games that Hartlepool have scored the opening goal. And even that was a Peter Clarke own goal. We really do need to do something to turn our wretched Vic form around. It seems so long ago that we had...
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    Saturday 13th August

    I've been thinking that for years (and years... and years...) It's a curious one, as it's not as if the two clubs have always been horribly mismatched. Northampton's record up here isn't a great deal better, with Pools having won 24 of the 35 fixtures. Graham Carr's 80s team didn't win here...
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    Saturday 13th August

    Few fixtures on the calendar scream "home banker" as much as Northampton vs Hartlepool. We have managed just six draws there in the 28 visits since our only win there way back in 1969. Nothing about the two squads gives me much hope that things will improve on Saturday.
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    League Cup 22/23

    Nine Championship sides played lower division opponents last night. All nine were knocked out. I can't see us adding to that remarkable tally tonight. Blackburn will be overwhelming favourites and I think they'll put us away by a couple..
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    Feigning a head injury while defending; a new tactic.

    Fans have been blaming "gamesmanship" and "shithousery" for their team's failure to win for as long as I can remember. Can't see it changing any time soon.
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    Preseason Friendlies 22/23

    Having barely been able to field a team against Hibs in Portugal, we have now cancelled our planned friendly at St Mirren on Tuesday. In a reflection of this summer's transfer activity, this friendly has now gone to another club in our division. Northampton will get to experience the delights...
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    Final League matches of season: - 7th May 2020

    It was unfortunate for Northampton that Scunthorpe had such an inexperienced side out in Bristol. We played them a week ago and it was the youngest opposition eleven Hartlepool had faced in a Football League match, certainly since WW2, perhaps ever. (We couldn't beat them of course, dogshit...
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    Final League matches of season: - 7th May 2020

    I still have happy memories of the last day of 1990/91, the tightest title/promotion race we've ever been involved in. With four automatic promotion spots up for grabs, Darlington began the day top of the pile on 80 points, with Blackpool, Stockport, Peterborough, and Pools all on 79. I love...
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    Easter Monday: 18th March 2022

    There's been a lot of hasty rewriting of history on our facebook groups etc., with several claiming that "all Poolies would have been happy with 22nd", which, going by the predictions kicking around last summer, is arrant nonsense. Predictions were varied, but with more tipping a playoff tilt...
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    Week ending 2nd April

    Hartlepool support holding up very impressively indeed considering some of the frustrating stuff that's been served up in the last few months of league matches. There was a time in the dim and distant past (2021) when our home record was among the best in the country/continent/solar system...
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    Week ending 2nd April

    Lee's home league record is 3-6-2. He was unbeaten until the Bradford game but too many draws, especially against teams near the bottom (Scunthorpe, Oldham, Orient, and Stevenage) The main concern is our slow starts. Having scored the opening goal in each of first five home league games under...

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