ADAM Boyd admits it's hard to comprehend what has happened at Hartlepool United in the last three months.

Home-grown talent Boyd has helped shoot Pool into the play-offs, with a place in Division One at stake.

A run of 12 goals in ten games, including last Saturday's point-clincher at Swindon, earned Pool sixth spot in the table and saw the the 22-year-old lift both the Division Two player of the month and Nationwide League leading scorer accolades for April.

Pool meet Bristol City at Victoria Park in the first-leg of the semi-finals on Saturday, before travelling to Ashton Gate on Wednesday.

And Boyd confessed: "It's absolutely fantastic for me to score the goal that has taken us to the play-offs. Earlier in the season I was just dreaming about playing in the first team, never mind scoring crucial goals.

"What has happened to me in the last two months is unbelievable. It has all happened so fast it has been a blur."

Boyd, a former pupil at Manor School of Technology, added: "It's fantastic for the fans and for me because I am one of them, but also for all the rest of the lads as well.

"There must have been about 1,500 fans at Swindon and they were tremendous, like they have been all season. We went into that game wanting to win, no question.

"Now we are in the play-offs, there is no stopping this team.

"We have a possible three games, so who knows what we can do?

"There is nothing for us to fear, the important thing is that we keep working hard."

Pool have the best away record in the division and Boyd admitted there were no nerves last weekend.

"Saturday was unbelievable,'' he said. "There was never a doubt among the lads that we wouldn't do it, even when we were 1-0 down.

"At half-time there was no panic, everybody was very calm because we know what we can do. We knew that if we just kept plugging away and passing the ball then we would get a goal.''

* Mick Wadsworth has been appointed as coach of Portuguese top-flight club Beira Mar.

Wadsworth has coached Scarborough, Carlisle and Huddersfield and the Democratic Republic of Congo national side.

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