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Vital Hartlepool - Archives for 2012

Barron Seeks Reaction After 'Poor' Show (01/01/2012)

Report: Embarrassing Hartlepool Lose Yet Again (02/01/2012)

Cooper 'Very Disappointed' After Loss (02/01/2012)

Neil Austin Attracts Interest From Hibernian (03/01/2012)

Home Fortune Favours The Bold (05/01/2012)

No More Nice Mr Guy, Insists Neale Cooper (06/01/2012)

Report: Tenth Time Lucky For Hartlepool (07/01/2012)

Cooper Looking At New Signings (10/01/2012)

Matchday Live: Exeter v Hartlepool (10/01/2012)

Neale Cooper Targets Winger As First Signing (11/01/2012)

Cooper Looking Forward To Long Exeter Trip (13/01/2012)

Cooper Takes Positives Out Of Game (15/01/2012)

Collins Feared Season Was Over (16/01/2012)

Cooper Wants Youngsters To Shake Up Squad (18/01/2012)

Free Game: Can You Recall The 2005 Play-Off Squad? (18/01/2012)

Poll Results: Pools Fans Want New Striker (18/01/2012)

Collins Hopes Relegation Fears Are Over (18/01/2012)

Cooper Looking To Bring In Striker This Week (18/01/2012)

Defender Stephen Wright Leaves Hartlepool (25/01/2012)

Cooper Targets Striker After Wright Axe (25/01/2012)

Boyd Notches Winner For Reserves At Gateshead (25/01/2012)

Defender Jamie Poole On Trial With Hartlepool (26/01/2012)

Cooper Sees Role For Youngster Johnson (27/01/2012)

Report: James Stars As Hartlepool Trounce Carlisle (28/01/2012)

10 Things We Learned From Carlisle (H) (30/01/2012)

Hartlepool Trio In League One Team Of The Week (31/01/2012)

South Shields Launch Shock Bid For Nobby Solano (31/01/2012)

No Moves For Hartlepool On Deadline Day (31/01/2012)

Nobby Solano Set To Retire From Football (01/02/2012)

Solano Makes Switch To Newcastle Benfield (02/02/2012)

Hartlepool Deny Nolberto Solano Retirement (02/02/2012)

Bury v Hartlepool Looks Set For Postponement (03/02/2012)

Bury v Hartlepool Postponed Due To Frozen Pitch (03/02/2012)

Hartlepool Frozen Pitch Should Be Fine By Saturday (06/02/2012)

Cooper Halts Search For New Signings (08/02/2012)

Cooper Praise For 'Excellent' Paul Murray (09/02/2012)

Referee Confirms Hartlepool v Bournemouth Is On (10/02/2012)

Haslam Hopes To Hold Down First Team Spot (10/02/2012)

Report: Freezing Cold Stalemate At Hartlepool (11/02/2012)

Paul Murray Postpones Retirement Plans (13/02/2012)

Paul Murray Targets Win At 'Unhappy' Preston (14/02/2012)

Report: Super Strike Pinches Win For Preston (14/02/2012)

No Hartlepool Move For Brighton Striker (15/02/2012)

Cooper Demands More From 'Disappointing' Luscombe (16/02/2012)

Cooper Looks To Send Boyd Out On Loan (17/02/2012)

Report: Hartlepool Cruise Past Lacklustre County (18/02/2012)

Hartlepool Defeat Costs Martin Allen His Job (18/02/2012)

10 Things We Learned From Notts County (H) (19/02/2012)

Cooper Declares Interest In Sunderland Striker (20/02/2012)

Sweeney Looks To Continue Goalscoring Form (22/02/2012)

Former Newcastle Striker On Trial With Hartlepool (23/02/2012)

Sunderland Striker Ryan Noble Rejects Pools Move (24/02/2012)

Report: Embrrassing Hartlepool Thrashed By Wycombe (25/02/2012)

Report: Hartlepool Bounce Back With Bury Win (29/02/2012)

Solano and Poole To Start For Hartlepool Reserves (29/02/2012)

Trialist Adjei Scores As Pools Reserves Beat Hull (29/02/2012)

Nobby Solano Disappears Ahead Of Reserve Game (29/02/2012)

Former Pools Defender Stephen Wright Joins Wrexham (02/03/2012)

Cooper Left In Dark Over Solano Disappearance (02/03/2012)

Hartlepool Sign Newcastle Forward Adjei On Loan (02/03/2012)

Report: Good Home Point For Hartlepool (03/03/2012)

10 Things We Learned From MK Dons (H) (05/03/2012)

Cooper Targets Attacking Midfielder (06/03/2012)

Report: Good Show But No Points For Hartlepool (06/03/2012)

Newcastle's Adjei Has Hartlepool Loan Cut Short (07/03/2012)

Cooper Looks For Boyd To Prove Himself (08/03/2012)

Cooper Rules Out Permanent Deal For Adjei (09/03/2012)

Report: Youthful Hartlepool Draw At Walsall (10/03/2012)

Cooper Sees Big Future For Youngsters, But Not Yet (15/03/2012)

Pools Loan Defender Paul Johnson To Darlington (16/03/2012)

Neale Cooper Looks To Help Quakers (16/03/2012)

Report: Uninspiring Point For Hartlepool (17/03/2012)

Michael Nelson Wins Scottish League Cup (18/03/2012)

10 Things We Learned From Stevenage (H) (19/03/2012)

Mill House Masterplan Approved By Council (19/03/2012)

Hartlepool Sign Sunderland Striker Noble On Loan (20/03/2012)

Neale Cooper Delight At Ryan Noble Capture (20/03/2012)

Cooper Thanks Martin O'Neill For Noble Loan Deal (20/03/2012)

Report: No Goals, No Points For Hartlepool (20/03/2012)

Knee Injury Ends Season For Colin Nish (21/03/2012)

Cooper Challenges James Poole To Improve (22/03/2012)

Johnson Happy To Put Rivalry Aside To Help Darlo (22/03/2012)

Vital Formula One (23/03/2012)

Report: Ryan Noble Strike Seals Smash and Grab Win (24/03/2012)

Neale Cooper Predicts Big Things For Ryan Noble (26/03/2012)

Hartley and Luke James In Race To Face Sheff Utd (30/03/2012)

Wilson Relishes Return To 'Tough' Hartlepool (31/03/2012)

Report: Referee Blunder Gifts Sheff Utd Win (31/03/2012)

Neale Cooper 'Couldn't Believe' Sheff Utd Penalty (02/04/2012)

Sam Collins Has No Plans For Retirement (03/04/2012)

Hartlepool Announce £155 Season Ticket Deal (04/04/2012)

Hartlepool Reserves Lose Final Home Game (04/04/2012)

Boss Cooper Wants To Keep Sunderland Star Noble (05/04/2012)

Baldwin Set To Grab First Team Chance (06/04/2012)

Report: Another Late Penalty Costs Pools Points (06/04/2012)

Middlesbrough's Grounds Interested In Pools Move (07/04/2012)

Report: Another Bore Draw For Goal-shy Pools (09/04/2012)

Darren Holden Handed Professional Deal With Pools (10/04/2012)

More Youth Team Stars Given Professional Deals (10/04/2012)

Gary Liddle Wants To Stay At Hartlepool (11/04/2012)

Club Confirm Five Youngsters Given Pro Contracts (11/04/2012)

'Illness' Rules Nobby Solano Out For Season (12/04/2012)

Cooper Challenges Luscombe To Prove Himself (13/04/2012)

Report: Hartlepool Hit Humiliating New Low (14/04/2012)

Neale Cooper Targets Five New Players (16/04/2012)

Cooper Slams Players Who Aren't Doing Enough (16/04/2012)

Newcastle's Greg McDermott On Trial At Hartlepool (17/04/2012)

Season Ends With Heavy Defeat For Pools Reserves (17/04/2012)

Cooper Praise For Monkhouse, Sweeney and Liddle (19/04/2012)

Cooper To Keep Faith With Familiar Faces (20/04/2012)

Report: Hartlepool Grab Point At 10 Man Tranmere (21/04/2012)

Cooper Hopes Sunderland Loanee Noble Can Find Form (23/04/2012)

Cooper Wants Sunderland, Boro and Newcastle Loans (26/04/2012)

Cooper Rallies Players Ahead Of Final Home Game (27/04/2012)

Cooper Sees Big Future For Defender Paul Johnson (28/04/2012)

Report: Hartlepool Win, At Last (28/04/2012)

Vital Hartlepool Awards 2012: Vote Now (28/04/2012)

Noble Would Love To Stay At Hartlepool Next Year (01/05/2012)

Young Stars James and Baldwin Need Break - Cooper (02/05/2012)

Cooper Adds Right Winger To His Summer Wish List (03/05/2012)

Report: Smurf-backed Hartlepool Unlucky In Defeat (05/05/2012)

Baldwin Pens Long Term Deal With Hartlepool (08/05/2012)

Boyd and Brown Head Hartlepool Released List (10/05/2012)

Jake Kean Makes Premier League Debut For Blackburn (14/05/2012)

Hartlepool Swoop To Sign Middlesbrough Star Franks (17/05/2012)

Humphreys Pens Extended Deal With Hartlepool (18/05/2012)

Nobby Solano Makes Hartlepool Exit (19/05/2012)

Hartlepool Confirm Gary Liddle Release (19/05/2012)

Vital Hartlepool Awards 2012: Poolie Of The Season (20/05/2012)

Vital Hartlepool Awards 2012: Best Opponents (20/05/2012)

Vital Hartlepool Awards 2012: Best Signing (20/05/2012)

Vital Hartlepool Awards: Most Disappointing Player (20/05/2012)

Newcastle Bid For Hartlepool Starlet Luke James (23/05/2012)

Coventry, Carlisle and Yeovil Join Race For Liddle (23/05/2012)

Hartlepool Line Up Sunderland Friendly (25/05/2012)

Adam Boyd Issues Come and Get Me Plea To Gateshead (25/05/2012)

Coventry Boss Thorn Rules Out Move For Liddle (25/05/2012)

Crewe Win Confirms League One 2012/13 Line-Up (27/05/2012)

Vital Hartlepool Awards 2012: Worst Signing (27/05/2012)

Vital Hartlepool Awards 2012: Worst Opponents (28/05/2012)

Gateshead Star Jon Shaw Linked With Hartlepool (29/05/2012)

Hartlepool Battle With Aberdeen For Inverness Star (29/05/2012)

Bury, Gateshead, Shrewsbury Move For James Brown (30/05/2012)

Tommy Miller Would Love Hartlepool Return (01/06/2012)

Vital Hartlepool Awards 2012: Most Improved Player (01/06/2012)

Hartlepool Set For Friendly Date Against York (02/06/2012)

Next Mill House Action Group Meeting Arranged (03/06/2012)

Vital Hartlepool Awards 2012: Best Young Player (04/06/2012)

Vital Hartlepool Awards 2012: Player of the Season (05/06/2012)

Gateshead Sign Former Hartlepool Star James Brown (06/06/2012)

Middlesbrough To Visit Hartlepool For Friendly (06/06/2012)

Gary Liddle Set To Confirm Notts County Switch (09/06/2012)

Cooper Eyes Move For Tommy Miller and Steve Howard (11/06/2012)

Russ Green To Attend Next Mill House Meeting (11/06/2012)

Hartlepool Line Up Trips To Whitby and Spennymoor (13/06/2012)

Hartlepool Handed Tricky Cup Trip To Crewe (14/06/2012)

Nobby Solano Takes Managerial Role In Peru (15/06/2012)

Hartlepool Face Swindon In Opening Game (18/06/2012)

Crewe Cup Date Switch Sees York Friendly Cancelled (18/06/2012)

Hartlepool Line Up Final Friendly With Hull (20/06/2012)

Hartlepool Miss Out As Tommy Miller Joins Swindon (21/06/2012)

Gary Liddle Seals Notts County Move (21/06/2012)

Adam Boyd Set To Seal Move To Northern League Side (28/06/2012)

Cooper Eyes New Bid For Sunderland's Ryan Noble (02/07/2012)

Fans Urged To Attend Mill House Area Meeting (03/07/2012)

Hartlepool Lose Out As El Alagui Joins Brentford (03/07/2012)

Ex-Hartlepool Favourite Becomes Peterborough Coach (05/07/2012)

Former Pools Ace Joins Adam Boyd At Celtic Nation (06/07/2012)

Hartlepool Swoop To Sign Plymouth Star Walton (06/07/2012)

Hartlepool On Brink Of Signing Steve Howard (10/07/2012)

Official: Howard Rejoins Hartlepool (11/07/2012)

Adam Boyd Grabs Debut Goal For Celtic Nation (11/07/2012)

Nathan Luscombe Excluded From Pools' Holland Trip (12/07/2012)

Hartlepool Defeated By Telstar In Opening Friendly (15/07/2012)

Former Hartlepool Winger Butler Forced To Retire (15/07/2012)

Hartlepool Could Be Forced To Enter Loan Market (17/07/2012)

Hartlepool Miss Target As Willmott Joins Cambridge (18/07/2012)

Double Dutch Defeats As Pools Lose To Almere (19/07/2012)

Steve Haslam On Trial With Burton Albion (19/07/2012)

Hartlepool Reach 3,000 Season Ticket Sales (23/07/2012)

Hartlepool United 2012/13 Squad Numbers Announced (23/07/2012)

Cooper: Monkhouse Will Shake Up Goal Shy Frontline (23/07/2012)

Whitby Hold Hartlepool To Friendly Draw (25/07/2012)

Ryan Noble Expected To Start For Sunderland (27/07/2012)

Howard Strike Sees Off Sunderland (28/07/2012)

Micky Barron Nets Winner As Pools Beat Consett (28/07/2012)

Colin Larkin Back At Hartlepool (29/07/2012)

Hartlepool Handed Paint Pot Bye (31/07/2012)

Pools' Strong Pre-Season Continues With Boro Draw (01/08/2012)

Hartlepool Look At Ex-Boro Starlet Nathan Porritt (01/08/2012)

Poole Double Fires Pools To Bishop Auckland Win (01/08/2012)

Hartlepool Line Up Last Minute Newcastle Friendly (02/08/2012)

Franks On Target As Hartlepool Hold Hull (04/08/2012)

Hartlepool Hammered By Rampant Newcastle (07/08/2012)

Crewe Fear Steve Howard Threat (10/08/2012)

Opening Day Embarrassment For Hartlepool (11/08/2012)

Kilmarnock Launch Loan Bid For Colin Nish (12/08/2012)

Kilmarnock Fail In Colin Nish Bid (15/08/2012)

Enter The Vital Hartlepool Prediction League (16/08/2012)

Report: Fair Result As Swindon Hold Hartlepool (18/08/2012)

5 Things We Learned From Hartlepool v Swindon (20/08/2012)

Hartlepool Snap Up Adam McHugh (20/08/2012)

Hartlepool Lose On The Road Again At Notts (21/08/2012)

Colin Nish On Brink Of Switch To Dundee (21/08/2012)

Confirmed: Colin Nish Joins Dundee On Loan (22/08/2012)

Pools Retain Interest In Sunderland's Ryan Noble (23/08/2012)

Murray To Start As Cooper Demands Improvement (24/08/2012)

Former Pools Man Colin Larkin Joins Lincoln City (24/08/2012)

Traffic Chaos Causes Orient v Pools Postponement (25/08/2012)

Cooper Wants 2 New Players Before Window Closes (27/08/2012)

Hartlepool Reserves Thumped In Opening Game (30/08/2012)

Leyton Orient v Hartlepool Rearranged For October (30/08/2012)

No Moves For Hartlepool On Deadline Day (31/08/2012)

Report: First Win On The Board For Hartlepool (01/09/2012)

Colin Nish Wins Penalty As Dundee Beat Hearts (03/09/2012)

We Need To Build On Scunny Win - Cooper (07/09/2012)

Hartlepool Draw Bradford In JPT Round 2 (08/09/2012)

Hartlepool Snap Up Sunderland Starlet On Loan (08/09/2012)

Old Boy Matty Robson Returns To Haunt Hartlepool (08/09/2012)

Ryan Noble Persuaded Me To Join Hartlepool - Lynch (11/09/2012)

Hartlepool Reserves Lose At Oldham (11/09/2012)

Walton and Humphreys In Frame To Face Cherries (14/09/2012)

Late Equaliser Breaks Hartlepool Hearts (15/09/2012)

Colin Larkin Bags Brace For New Club (16/09/2012)

Nish Heads Home First Goal But Dundee Hit Bottom (16/09/2012)

Former Pools Man Steve Haslam Finds New Club (18/09/2012)

Defeat Leaves Hartlepool On The Brink (18/09/2012)

Last Gasp Monkhouse Goal Saves Hartlepool (22/09/2012)

Defensive Disasters Send Pools Into Drop Zone (29/09/2012)

Adam Boyd Abandons Celtic Nation After 3 Months (29/09/2012)

Blades Grab Late Winner, Pools Now Winless In 6 (02/10/2012)

Ryan Noble Back For Second Spell At Hartlepool (05/10/2012)

Defeat At Crewe Leaves Hartlepool Adrift (07/10/2012)

James Brown Makes Long Awaited Gateshead Debut (07/10/2012)

Cooper To Pick 'Strongest Team' In JPT (08/10/2012)

Hartlepool Snap Up Boro Forward (09/10/2012)

Paint Pot Penalty Heartbreak For Hartlepool (09/10/2012)

Yet Another Late Goal Costs Hartlepool Win (13/10/2012)

Limp Hartlepool Go Down At Orient (16/10/2012)

Cooper's Job Hangs By A Thread After Loss (20/10/2012)

Hartlepool Get Chesterfield Away In FA Cup (21/10/2012)

Jonjo Heuerman's Big Football Tag (23/10/2012)

Game Over: Defeat Sees Hartlepool Hit Rock Bottom (23/10/2012)

Neale Cooper Resigns As Hartlepool Boss (24/10/2012)

Barron As Boss: Micky To Take Temporary Charge (24/10/2012)

Barron, Laws and Dyche Bookies' Tip For Pools Job (25/10/2012)

Darrell Clarke Linked With Hartlepool Job (25/10/2012)

Murray and Horwood Set To Return At Brentford (25/10/2012)

Two Own Goals Give Promising Pools A Point (27/10/2012)

Betting Suspended On Brian Laws Taking Pools Job (27/10/2012)

Laws Link Dead Despite Talks With Hartlepool Board (30/10/2012)

Reports Link Sven-Goran Eriksson With Hartlepool (30/10/2012)

Hartlepool Pick Up Boro Striker Boagey (01/11/2012)

Adam Boyd Joins Lincoln On Trial (01/11/2012)

Cup Humiliation Blows Barron's Chances Of Job (03/11/2012)

Colin Nish: I'm Happy To Go Back To Hartlepool (04/11/2012)

Ryan Noble Returns To Sunderland After Loan (05/11/2012)

Interviews For Hartlepool Job Set To Take Place (05/11/2012)

Ryan Noble Makes Immediate Return To Hartlepool (07/11/2012)

Fifteen Without A Win For Hartlepool (07/11/2012)

Phil Brown Eyes Pools Job After Visit To The Vic (07/11/2012)

Craig Short, Colin Cooper In Talks With Hartlepool (08/11/2012)

Another Defeat Leaves Hartlepool Cut Adrift (10/11/2012)

Paul Ince Throws Name Into Hat For Hartlepool Job (11/11/2012)

Gordon Watson Applies For Hartlepool Job (11/11/2012)

Phil Brown To Be Named Hartlepool Manager (12/11/2012)

Phil Brown Talks With Hartlepool Collapse (13/11/2012)

John Hughes Named Hartlepool Boss (13/11/2012)

So, Who The Heck Is John Hughes? (13/11/2012)

Adam Boyd Pens Deal With Lincoln City (17/11/2012)

New Boss, Same Old Result For Hopeless Hartlepool (17/11/2012)

Club Record 18 Without A Win For Hartlepool (21/11/2012)

Neale Cooper Returns To Work With Ross County (23/11/2012)

First Point On The Board For John Hughes At Pools (24/11/2012)

Colin Nish Sees Red As Dundee Stay Rock Bottom (25/11/2012)

Adam Boyd Makes Lincoln City Debut (26/11/2012)

Cherries' Cup Win Sees Hartlepool Game Postponed (02/12/2012)

20 Without A Victory For Rock Bottom Hartlepool (08/12/2012)

Hartlepool Send Ryan Noble Back To Sunderland (09/12/2012)

Colin Larkin Grabs Hat Trick For Lincoln (09/12/2012)

Hartlepool: Record Breakers For The Wrong Reasons (15/12/2012)

Dundee In Talks To Extend Colin Nish Loan Spell (16/12/2012)

Hartlepool Turkeys Bring No Christmas Cheer (26/12/2012)

Defender Darren Holden Pens New Contract (28/12/2012)

Hartlepool Turn League Table Upside Down (30/12/2012)

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Crawley 2 - 2 Hartlepool
Hartlepool 1 - 1 Brentford
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19. Oldham 46 14 9 23 -13 51
20. Colchester 46 14 9 23 -21 51
21. Scunthorpe 46 13 9 24 -24 48
22. Bury 46 9 14 23 -28 41
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