The Poolie Bunker

the commentary last night, must have been from a different game than the one
contributors to this board watched.

Although I missed the first 30 minutes, not realising it was a 7:15 kick off

According to Mark Simpson and our own ECG, Pools played some slick football,
we fully deserved to be in front at half time, even though Budtz made three
outstanding saves in the fifteen minutes I heard.
Matty Robson and Willie Boland were both having outstanding games and Michael
McKay was 'nearly' scoring on a regular basis (something he seems particularly
good at ! i.e nearly scoring)

Robson was replaced by Foley at half time, an injury forcing Matty off apparently.
The second half saw Morecambe come back into the game, after the penalty,
Pools response was to take Boland off and replace him with Gibb, McCunnie
taking over the 'creative' midfield role.

Gibb sounded to have a good game at right back, both defending and getting forward.

More saves from Budtz followed, but Pools were stepping it up. Joel replaced McKay
and towards the end Morecambe couldn't get out of their penalty area, but we still
weren't exactly peppering the goal.

ECG's summary was something like 'a very good game, from two teams who believed
in playing neat football, the right way. Morecambe were a credit to League 2 and
looked a very well organised team, with a solid back four.'

I know Mark Simpson, makes Pools sound like world beaters at times, but last night
there were certain passages of play when we were cutting them to pieces at the back
and suddenly they would be one on one with Budtz. How does that happen !
(Answer : there's a hole in the middle of our defence, which is not mentioned in the
commentay)

I'm not having a pop at Phil Dunn, but come on, I rather hear that certain players are
having a mare, than have it glossed over.

I think I might watch the game on Sky, with Pools World on, at the weekend just to
see if they are both from the same game.

Rant over, unless anyone other listeners have any opinions.
Hawklord, you were in the chat room, what was your impression ?

Have to admit that the commentary on PW and the comments on this board certainly don’t tally. I was surprised Robson got subbed going by the PW chat, others on here say he didn’t played well. There were also sharp differences of opinion in how Nelson played.
As PW is an official part of the club I do not expect they are allowed to talk in negative terms and have to follow the ‘company line’.
Everyone sees the game slightly differently. We make excuses for our favourites and quickly get frustrated with those we think shouldn’t get a look in. Last night was particularly frustrating as it was potentially the closest we could have been to a Wembley final.

From all parties there seems to be some consensus – it rained heavily.

Anybody who thinks that we played remotely well last night is either deluded or being paid by HUFC to lie (e.g. Poolsworld).

That's my PW subscription cancelled then, better off in the chat room
were I get to know what's going on quicker than on PW, because my
streaming audio is about 2 minutes behind everyone else's.

What is the point of listening to a totally biased commentary

As I said, I was not having a pop, you gave your honest opinion and summary,
what I can't understand is the difference in the commentary version of the game
and peoples opinions on this board.

Your version of events is pretty much as I remember, I thought Budtz touched one onto
the post in addition to the one on ones, but maybe that was second half.

I'm sure some of the reactions on here are borne out by frustration and they may have
slightly different views this morning, and I appreciate you must be honour bound to
pick out the positives, rather than the negatives, whilst on air.

I'd agree with all of that other than Matty Robson having 'a very good game'. He was shoddy at times and his final ball is atrocious for a a winger. He also wasted two shots spectacularly. 5/10.

The overriding factor is that I've not seen us play well for ages now and I feel that I have a right to be upset about it.

Especially when it appears that some players are not putting the effort in.

I can accept getting beat off good teams, or playing well and being unlucky. It is the poor performances against average teams that get to me.

Don't get me wrong, I like aspects of Matty Robson's game. Just not his shooting and crossing!

Against a pub team?

I couldn't make it down there, but my mates who went reckoned we were nowt special and certainly not worthy of a 6 goal win- that 2 or 3 might have been about right.

Beating a team off the Rec 6-0 doesn't constitute any great result in the general scheme of how we've played against professional teams recently.

But it did get us into the second round of a credible, world renowned competition.......

FFS Ripper, we did what we had to, in comfort, no showboating, I bet your mates could whinge under water