Match report Vs Brighton

After 1 cry off from my hypochondriac navigator, panic stations were starting to set in until I remembered we never ever got lost till he claimed the front seat due to his ailling health, unfortunately there's only his tongue that's yet to start to falter.
Anyhow part timers aside, an early ten to 7 start and it's off to Brighton to claim our first 3 points at the Hove, then it'll be home to witness Parmo with his strides around his ankles in Church street.
For those of you that have not been to the Withdean, you lucky people.
After the usual commotion of how to get in without a ticket, it's easy really, you just go to the ticket booth and buy one, but it's all cloak and dagger stuff, but you always get one and always get in. For those that have ever gone down and not got in, well all I can say is you lucky people.
Sat behind the running track and the goal on terracing no higher than the Town end it's not easy to see exactly what is going on from 3 quarters of a mile away but this is what I observed.
A scrappy game littered with mistakes from both sides, our defence was all over the place, Both Hartley and Austin were caught out of position at virtually every attack, Collins struggled to handle Dickinson, Liddle worked over time to cover and Flinders decidedly suspect.
The midfield put some great 1 touch moves together in the 1st half, right accross the midfield, but the final ball in from McSweeney almost every time failed to beat the full back and after promising positions corners were all we were getting.
Boydy looked dangerous, with Jones supporting, but Behan is looking either predictable or jaded.
Word started to spread among the 120 odd away fans that Boydy had turned in the box and scored, and that's why Brighton were kicking off again.
Wehay hope it's gonna be a cold night when Parmos trolleys come down we thought, but it wasn't to last, after a few scares, Humphreys, (cue the knockers) instead of booting clear, tried to play the ball out from the edge of the box, only to get dispossesed, the resultant shot was blocked by Jones, the rebound scuffed into the ground and over Flinders
should have been cleared but should also have been saved.
Crosses were coming in regularly now, our full backs failling to stop any of them and eventually a ball inside Hartley was crossed into the box, missed by the intended forward unly to run accross goal and side footed in with Austin nowhere.
But hang on a minute, Brighton are kicking off again, that must mean we've equalised, wehay, apparently good work by Boydy to Monkehouse a little Shimmy Shammy (were is he nowadays )and smashed right footed into the net 2-2.
Into added time and after a few minutes of us not knowing were the ball was could only mean we are on the attack, rumour has it that Jonesy has burst forward and curled a right footer from the edge of the box Pools are 3-2 up and Parmos strides are coming down.
2nd half disaster strikes, thigh strain to Jones means a substitution.
Hang on a minute, why are we taking the kick off again, oh no it sounds like a loose ball had not been cleared after a good stop by Flinders following yet another cross into the box and the loose ball was eventually blasted into the net.
More crosses into our box throughout the 2nd half all sounded dangerous, with our best chance of the 2nd half coming after a quickly taken free kick over the top of the defender and over Boydies left shoulder, only one result here, he's gonna cooly side foot it into the net on the volley, but disaster, Mr cool misses the ball altogether and Brightons and Parmos blushes were saved.
To sum up, defence dodgy both halves, midfield good 1st half poor 2nd. Attack bit dis-jointed.
Larkin looked lively, on for McSweeney who got injured during 1st half in what looked like a cast iron penalty incident for us. Greulich wasn't on long enough to show anything for the underperforming Behan, and Sweeney was his usual full of running self, he might have been better suited to the running track tho' and left the football to Rowell or Freddie.
Another game unbeaten, another point away from home, both true but in reality it was another 2 points dropped.
Back in Church Street for Qtr to 10, Halloween masks and Fancy Dress every where, but nothing would have been quite as scary as if we'd brought those 3 points back up North and sent Parmos trolleys South.