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We're tier 4, and when I turn up at the start of yet another tier 4 season I usually expect to see Rochdale, Exeter, Northampton, and Scunthorpe waiting for us. Never surprised to see Mansfield or Carlisle pop in, and Colchester seem to be becoming regulars again after a few years of drinking...

Based on the performances in our last two home games, I see nothing other than a comfortable Newport win tonight. Maybe not a hammering, but something like a routine 2-0 with the result never in doubt.

Dull tonight, but not as dull as Saturday, which was up there with the most tedious two hours I've spent anywhere this year. And I live in Hartlepool. I get the need to try to rest and rotate with 4 games in 9 days, but that was one weak midfield, and we made it easy for a Bradford side who...

Well that was more fun and more tense than I expected it to be. Good luck Sutton. Sorry we can't share your big day with you. You've got your work cut out, as they're a good strong outfit, but you've got a chance.

Congratulations to Sutton, and we'll do our best tonight to join you. A nice reminder of the strength of League Two (and the National League, considering where we both were). It's still a horribly tarnished competition, and I wasn't remotely tempted to buy a ticket, but I will watch on TV and...

I've checked with the club. Confirmed number for Tranmere fans is 287

I suspect we announced the wrong figure over the PA. 204 is the exact same number as the Barrow match last week, and there were clearly more Tranmere fans than Barrow fans.

I suspect we announced the wrong figure over the PA. 204 is the exact same number as the Barrow match last week, and there were clearly more Tranmere fans than Barrow fans.

Surprisingly comfortable victory. I can see why Tranmere don't concede many, but I can see why they don't score many either. They barely carried a threat and didn't put up much of a fight either until they started getting frustrated in the last ten minutes, and even then their fight was...

Which, in this strangest of seasons, probably gives us a fighting chance even though it's against a side who are considerably better than us.

Highly rated by the one sensible Hartlepool Mag that I know. Would have liked a permanent signing in midfield, but the two lads we've got on loan should be enough to see us through the season. Then the real hard work will start. Ideally would still like a left sided attacker, someone to...

Happy with Bogle. Just need two or three more and we might just salvage this transfer window.

Which is why I always used to be a supporter of the competition and rarely, if ever, missed a home game before 2016.

I think it would be a tougher dilemma if the old Wembley still stood. I don't have the same feelings about the current stadium.

I haven't given Wembley any thought to be honest. I think it's pretty unlikely that I'd want to go, I certainly wouldn't alter any existing plans.

It's a weird one isn't it. I've always supported the Football League Trophy, and I don't remember ever missing a home game in the comp until youth teams were allowed to enter. I haven't been to a game since, the whole thing just leaves me cold. I was sat at home last night, a couple of miles...

Ah bollocks, is that still going on? I think we might be playing too. End this nonsense.

I've been to the real SJP seven or eight times to watch Pools, though not for a fair while, and I won't make it to Devon this weekend either as I'll be up on Scotland topping up my tan. A win wouldn't startle me. Football can be random like that, but all signs point to an easy home win.

Yeah, that will be a first for us. I don't think I could cope with that every week, the uncertainty of whether or not a goal can be celebrated. The joyless dampening of those spontaneous outbursts of joy that are the reason we love football in the first place. It's just hideous.

68 Stevenage fans at Pools, probably as bored shitless as me