Warren — FM 2011 Hartlepool United October 2010/11

Hi everyone and again welcome back to another edition in the Hartlepool story. After a good first two months to the season I was hoping to build on this can again move up that table to the chance of fighting it out with the big boys at the top of the table. I would have a total of five league games in October and I was thinking big and getting a lot of points this month.

V Exeter 2^nd Oct 2010

The first game this month was against Exeter struggling at the foot of the table so I was demanding three points from my players as I felt that we were the superior team. I am not being cocky but I just felt that we should get three points from this game.

And that’s exactly what happened and like I thought we would we totally dominated the match with a superior number of shots than the opposition. Goals from Chamberlain and Brown ensured the three points.

V Walsall (a) 9th Oct 2010

Next up was Walsall at the Bescot Stadium. Walsall were near the bottom of the table when we faced them so the bookies had me the favourite to win this match even though I was the visiting side.

The bookies were wrong and we were beaten in the end in what was a pretty even match. We had the same amount of chances as Walsall but most of our shot seemed to be outside the area. Goals from Gray and Taundry denied us the three points.

V Dag + Red (h) 16^th Oct 2010

I was now faced to play Dagenham and Redbridge who like the teams I have played so far this month Dagenham were close to the bottom of the table. It was a game that I was looking for yet another three points.

It was closer than I thought and we just managed to scrape a victory in the 89^th minute when Ryan Donaldson who was making his first appearance after coming back from injury and I was delighted that he was able to come off the bench and grab the winner.

V Carlisle (a) 23^rd Oct 2010

The next game I was set to play is the north-east derby between Carlisle and Hartlepool. I don’t think that many fans would really class this match as a derby but it that closest team that I have to play in the league.

It turned out to be a really good result and in a match were I really think that Hartlepool have got used to the way I like to play as this seemed to be a one of my best performance that I felt we have played all season.

V Oldham (h) 30^th Oct 2010

In the final match of October I was playing Oldham from the Manchester area. I was hoping for another three points to keep this good form going.

It was an emphatic win to finish off the month with all goals going from the Newcastle strike partnership of Vuckic and Donaldson with Vuckic getting the match ball with a superb hat-trick. It was a brilliant way to finish the month.

October Results

Yet another good month with 12 points picked up from a possible 15 it was again such a shame that one result seemed to damped the month. I can take positives with the fact that I was supposed to be in contention with the relegation spots.

Table

Again I had moved up the table this time into 4^th position and I was looking good for a play-off spot and possibly even a promotion places after closing the gap of the top spots to just three points.

Thanks for reading

Warren