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The Hartlepool Mail's Robbie Stelling reacts to Saturday's abject 5-1 defeat to Rochdale.
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The Hartlepool Mail's Robbie Stelling reacts to Saturday's abject 5-1 defeat to Rochdale.
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I'm here at Spottland where Hartlepool United have endured a very difficult afternoon indeed.
00:06
Losing 5-1 to promotion hopefuls Rochdale on the final away game of the season
00:11
as Dale secured their spot in this year's National League playoff places.
00:15
The final away day of the season is always a memorable one for pools fans,
00:19
although this year perhaps for the wrong reasons.
00:21
Despite the effort of the more than 700 travelling poolies who donned their best flat caps
00:26
and were right behind their side from start to finish singing until the bitter end.
00:31
And today it certainly was a bitter end.
00:34
On the pitch pools were outplayed, outclassed and outfought.
00:37
They went behind after just five minutes when Devante Rodney,
00:39
who has a habit of scoring against his old side,
00:42
struck for the third time in three games against pools
00:45
when he scored from the penalty spot after a careless challenge from the onrushing Adam Smith.
00:50
Veteran Nicky Featherstone levelled the scores six minutes later
00:53
following Luke Charman's pinpoint cross.
00:55
But pools soon started to capitulate and were punished for several moments of bad defending
01:00
as well as some questionable goalkeeping from Smith.
01:02
Ian Henderson, who turned 40 in January and could be coming to the end of his long and distinguished
01:08
Dale career, made it 2-1.
01:11
He's a month older than manager Jimmy McNulty and is Dale's record scorer,
01:16
but ran pools ragged at times on a difficult afternoon for the visitors.
01:20
Leon Ayinde was also on target.
01:23
He produced a lively performance and made it 3-1
01:25
after more pedestrian, passive pools defending.
01:28
Devante Rodney added a fourth before substitute.
01:31
Jay Bird completed the route on a very difficult afternoon for pools,
01:34
as an underwhelming season comes to a lacklustre end.
01:38
at least for some examples of the
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