Hartlepool Head To Horden For Final Friendly

Hartlepool United will play a mixture of reserves, trialists and youth team players for their final pre-season friendly at Horden Colliery Welfare tonight.

A trialist-heavy Pools side beat Garforth convincingly on Monday night and Chris Turner will take a further look at some of the players again tonight including Jeremy Bossekota and Joe Lamplough.

Horden boss Simon Corbett was delighted to be facing Pools and hopes it will provide a much needed financial boost to the club ”To play Hartlepool is a great experience for the lads. But it is just as important for commercial reasons as football ones.

”If we could get large businesses behind us, I would take us to the Conference if we could. The Northern League is where we are financially at the moment – you are taking major sponsorship to make the step up to the Unibond.” he told the Peterlee Mail.

Pools side to play tonight: Mathias Esterhazy, Jeremy Bossekota, Dan Smith, Jonny Rowell, Ross Harvey, Niall McArdle, Jordan Richards, Alan Power, Billy Greulich, Matty Tymon, Joe Lamplough.

Subs: Jack Sharples, Anthony Wakefield, Callum Hassan, Willy Dyer, Mark Cook.

Join us in the Vital Hartlepool forums during the game tonight as we discuss the match as well as all things Pools.