Winning their last two homes games with a 7-1 aggregate suggests their problems at Victoria Park have been put right, so now it’s time for the players to prove Chris Turner’s theory that Pools are a better team than the table suggests right.
Their last point away from home was in October, when they drew 3-3 at Brighton, but since than it’s been a series of hard luck stories and Turner must be fed up of saying that Pools played well but got nothing.
Now they go to Yeovil on Saturday for a game they are quite capable of winning if they can hit their form.
Yeovil are two places and three points ahead of Pools in the middle of the table with a very similar record, so it’s a game that – like the match at Tranmere the following weekend – can be won.
With only 12 points from 16 away games, Pools clearly need to improve their form on the road before the end of the season, and the , and the Yeovil and Tranmere games give them a chance to do so – the last of their three away games on the trot is at Southampton and not many teams manage to come away from St Mary’s with any reward.
Roy O’Donovan’s match-winning hat trick against Southend gave Pools a massive lift and the on-loan striker’s performance put smiles on the faces of a lot of Irish fans who had travelled to see him and the rest of the Pools ex-Cork City contingent in action.

But they can’t rely on him to do the business in every game and Pools could do with others weighing in with a goal or two, like they did when midfielders Richie Jones, Joe Gamble and Antony Sweeney were on target against Carlisle in the previous home game.

The strikers haven’t got enough goals this season, and their cause won’t be helped by the fact that O’Donovan’s fellow Cork exile, Denis Behan, could be out for some time with an ankle injury he picked up playing for the reserves in midweek.

We believe Turner is right when he says Pools are better than their record suggests and too good to go down – now they have to prove it.

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Three chances for Pools to repair away form

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