MICK Wadsworth resisted the temptation to make any changes and stuck with the same Hartlepool United side for the visit of Bristol Rovers.

 

Pools lost at Orient seven days earlier and Antony Sweeney was expected to return to the starting XI after a hamstring injury, but instead he stays on the bench.

 

 

HARTLEPOOL UNITED: Kean; Austin, Collins, Liddle, Horwood; Liddle, Murray, Gamble; McSweeney, Larkin, Monkhouse. Subs: Devlin (gk), Behan, Yantorno, Sweeney, Haslam, Bjornsson, Poole.

BRISTOL ROVERS: Andersen; Regan, Sawyer, Lines, Coles, Campbell, Hoskins, Hughes, Anthony, Kuffour, Reece. Subs: Green (gk), Tunnicliffe, Blizzard, Brown, Swallow, Richards, Akinde.

Referee: Matt Haywood (Leeds)