DANNY WILSON wants the anger still being felt after Jon Daly's sending-off a week ago to be channelled by the Hartlepool United squad into overcoming North-East rivals Darlington.

Wilson, despite knowing Daly's red card has since been rescinded, remains incensed by the way in which he was given his marching orders at Chester, and is disgusted by the way certain individuals are ruining the game.

The Pools boss is aggrieved by the way in which his ten men surrendered a one-goal advantage following the striker's wrongful dismissal at the Diva Stadium.

An automatic three-match suspension has since been overturned after the Football Association looked at Tyne-Tees Television evidence, but that hardly helped Pools reclaim any of the points.

Furious Pools players remonstrated with Chester defender David Artell, 25, for the way he collapsed on the floor after claiming he had been struck by Daly's stray elbow.

That fury has hardly eased ahead of the first league meeting between Hartlepool and Darlington since March, 2003, in what always tends to be a fraught affair.

"The lads were very angry and they knew that circumstances had affected the result," said Wilson. "I would like to think they can bottle it in the right way.

"They have to show controlled aggression and take that into playing Darlington."

Wilson hopes for a change in the mentality of certain players in the English league, after witnessing how Artell's theatrics got a fellow professional dismissed.

"The appeal could have been avoided had the Chester player been honest enough not to go down, and honest enough to admit he got the boy sent off. He would have come away with a lot of credibility for that," said Wilson.

"The bottom line is that we lost three points. It would not have been the outcome had Jon stayed on, I'm sure of that.

"We talk about cleaning the game up ourselves. We talk about foreign players diving and this, that and the other, but this is happening in our league, League Two.

"I don't like seeing it, particularly when there is no need whatsoever. It used to be unheard of - if you rolled round it would be seen as a weakness.

"Now it's part and parcel of the game. If you are honest it won't happen. It made it difficult for us on Friday. It helped Chester."

Both Darren Williams and Ali Gibb trained yesterday and are hoping to be involved against the Quakers, although Wilson is not going to make massive changes.

But the fixture looks to have come too soon for the inclusion of midfielder Willie Boland.

"Willie is still not 100 per cent fit," said Wilson. "We will assess everything on Friday after training.

"Ali and Darren have been training and Willie trained on Thursday.

"I am picking my team without them and we will see later on. I have teams in mind for both scenarios if players are fit.