Ritchie - goal

By Clarence Rode
March 15 2008

After halting their poor away run with a win at Oldham, it was back to the old routine for Hartlepool as they lost 3-1 at Tranmere. But this was a lot better performance than in many of their other away games this season, and manager Danny Wilson was delighted with his players.

Down to ten men for almost an hour after being victims of a controversial penalty decision, Pools clawed their way back into the game in the second half with a headed goal from Ritchie Humphreys, only to miss a late penalty before conceding a cruel third goal.
To make matters worse, they played without the injured defensive kingping Sam Collins for much of the second half.
Ref Dean Whitestone was the man who sent off Richard Barker and Andy Monkhouse at Rochdale late last season, not that we are trying to make a point with that fact, of course. It just seems a coincidence, that's all.
Mr W showed the red card to Jamie McCunnie (left) after appearing to take ages to make up his mind over a foul on former Pools striker Ian Moore, but when Joel Porter was fouled for Pools' penalty late in the gam,e, there wasn't even a yellow.
No wonder Danny Wilson wasn't happy with the consistency - or lack of it - shown by the officials.
This will probably sound like the usual website bias, but Pools did deserve more than this defeat for a good performance, honest they did.
But luck hasn't always gone their way this season, and they'll be hoping things get better when they go to Crewe next weekend then entertain Yeovil and Swansea on Easter Monday and the following Saturday.
Cross everything.

Pools unlucky in defeat - honest they were

Discussion started by PoolsOnline.tk , 15/03/2008 21:17

PoolsOnline.tk
15/03/2008 21:17

Pools unlucky in defeat - honest they were

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Mikey
16/03/2008 11:53

Contreversial penalty? You gotta be joking, he took him right out! If that wasn't a penalty then neither was the one you got.

I agree that you should of had another penalty, but so should we when one of your guys just pushed Moore right over!

You were unlucky and you probably deserved a point - you may of even got all three if you stuck your penalty away though!

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TT Admin
16/03/2008 11:54

If you had scored the Penalty I think you may have even gone on to win it if I'm honest but contraversial penalty? Never!

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Ward Jackson
17/03/2008 13:18

I read it that the sending off was controversial not the penalty. Still it sojunds like a sparky game and another decent performance if not a decent result.

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Bike Shed
18/03/2008 14:29

No arguments with the penalty but we deserved more than we got

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SportNetwork HQ
18/03/2008 16:26

cant get excited about a 3-1 defeat. lets face it Mccunnie sounds as though he should have got sent off and even if their lads had got sent off it was near the end of the game and wouldnt have made much difference.
What I want to know is who let a lad who is playing his last game before he goes back to his club take a penalty. Ritchie Humphreys should have taken it then we might have got a point

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TT Admin
18/03/2008 17:19

As I said above Wagga, if you had scored that Penalty I honestly think you may have got three points!

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SportNetwork HQ
20/03/2008 14:42

Cheers Sub. At the end of the day its all end of season [if you get my drift!]

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