It was the Yorkshire side who produced the result that saved Pools as they beat Northampton 3-0, the only result of the day to go the way Pools wanted it.
Even Carlisle managed the home win they needed to save their skins, beating Millwall 2-0 while Brighton beat hard-up Stockport to stay in League One.
Crewe lost at home to champions Leicester, so Northampton – whose games in hand made them looks favourites to stay up a couple of weeks ago – go down with Crewe, Hereford and Cheltenham.
Before the game both Chris Turner (right) and coach Colin West said that Pools couldn’t afford to rely on other results going their way ….
WRONG.
In the end they had to rely on other results, and they made it by the skin of their teeth – just one point.
The news that Boyd has signed a deal that will bring him back to his home town club was announced during the afternoon, and there’s no doubt that if he can recapture the form that saw him score 29 goals in 2004-05, when Pools reached the League One play-off final, it will be a major deal for Pools.
But there’s an old saying in football, proved right time and time again, that you should never go back.
Boyd is not the favourite at Orient that he was at Pools, and he never hit it off at Luton after his £500,000 move there four years ago.
But he is a talent, and the club used the right word when the deal was described on the official website as sensational. Coming just days after it was confirmed this season’s top scorer, Joel Porter, is heading back home to Australia, signing Boyd is a great start to the close-season recruitment drive. Getting him on a free is a bonus.
Hopefully, Turner will not ignore the defence as he does his shopping.

On a tense last day of the League One season, the Pools rearguard was up to its old tricks at Bristol Rovers, leaking in two goals in the first five minutes and two more in the first three minutes of the season half.
The fact that Turner has signed Boyd and is talking about other deals in the pipeline suggests he will he installed as manager sooner rather than later … but he will need to prove himself all over again not only with his summer signings, but with results as soon as next August comes around.
Signing Boyd is a start, but there’s a lot more to do. Pools finished near the bottom for one simple reason - they deserved to.

ARE we the only ones who wonder why Stockport, safe from relegation now, won’t start next season with their ten-point fine? It’s made no difference to them this season, so unlike other clubs they are not being punished for going into admin.
Or have we missed something?

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