Pools are feeling flat

9:47am Wednesday 23rd April 2008

DANNY Wilson believes a feeling of disappointment is around is Hartlepool United squad.

Pools will play their football in League One again next season, after a campaign of mixed fortunes and emotions.

Their efforts have been undermined by a terrible away record - Pools have lost 15 times on the road - and they enter the last two games of the season with little to play for.

Promotion-chasing Nottingham Forest are at Victoria Park on Saturday, before they end their campaign on May 4 at Walsall.

After starting the season well, Pools couldnt maintain their momentum and the season has fizzled out.

Because we havent lived up to expectations people grumble, whether they were false expectations I dont know, admitted Wilson.

Weve been let down by individual errors at times and Im sure the players are as disappointed as I am.

We stated off like a steam train, but results didnt match performances. Perhaps its the same throughout our division.

Teams at the bottom will be looking at things wondering why they arent up there. But we, as a club and as a team, dont get carried away with things.

Thats my job to do that and thats why Im different to others.

For every result you are going to get criticised C I dont change at all, win, lose or draw. All I ask is to keep performing at the level we set ourselves. I look for a team to be consistent that will gel and will improve for next year.

Since beating Yeovil on March 24, Pools fourth win in six games, Wilsons side have taken one point from 12, sparking suggestions the summer cant come soon enough.

But Wilson retorted: Everyone says that and lots of quotes about it at this stage of the season, that they have their flip flops and swimming trunks on. Thats not the case.

We are safe in the league with nothing to play for in those terms, but as a player I wanted to win every game and it was a test from my point of view, thats how they should look at it.

Weve Forest to come, a great big team, and Walsall who pipped us by a point last season, so there are things to play for.

ö Walsall boss Richard Money yesterday quit the club.

Money, who took charge in May 2006, hinted last week he may quit if he did not receive assurances from the board. He was known to be frustrated following the sale of the clubs two best players C Scott Dann and Dan Fox C to Coventry in January.

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