Fleetwood will be without Joe Garner for Saturday’s Sky Bet League One clash with Ipswich at Highbury Stadium.The forward begins a three-match ban after being sent off late on during the 2-0 loss at Wigan on Tuesday.That was only Garner’s second appearance after a three-month lay-off with a shoulder problem.The Cod Army have a considerable injury list, which for the last outing inclu...Full Story »

Harrogate are nearing a full-strength squad ahead of the visit of Hartlepool.Only defenders Rory McArdle and Simon Power are unavailable following the midweek draw with Port Vale.Calum Kavanagh was on the bench against Vale following a recent injury and will hope to be involved again.Harrogate can go above their visitors in the table with a win.Hartlepool will assess Bryn Morris ahead of the tri...Full Story »

Bristol Rovers boss Joey Barton was “proud of everyone at the football club” after a 1-1 draw with Exeter in front of a sell-out crowd of just under 10,000 at the Memorial Stadium.Despite seeing Luca Hoole’s first Rovers goal, a close-range shot from a 10th-minute corner, cancelled out by Jevani Brown’s well-struck drive 14 minutes later, Barton was in high spirits after ...Full Story »

Oxford manager Karl Robinson admitted his team’s exciting 4-2 comeback win over Cambridge was a fitting send-off for the late Joey Beauchamp.Regarded by many as Oxford’s greatest player, Beauchamp died last week, aged 50, and the fans sang his name throughout the match.Robinson said: “It’s been a hard week for the club and for me personally too.“But after this you c...Full Story »

Walsall marked Michael Flynn’s first home game as Saddlers manager with an entertaining 3-1 win over Hartlepool.George Miller’s brace and a Conor Wilkinson strike ended an eight-game unbeaten run for Pools, who replied through Omar Bogle.Walsall led on 13 minutes as Emmanuel Osadebe ended a superb solo run by slipping in Miller and he took a touch before wrong-footing Pools keeper Be...Full Story »

Joe Ralls could be in line to start when Cardiff face Fulham in the Championship on Saturday.The midfielder sat out the recent games against Coventry and Blackpool but returned to the squad as a substitute for the midweek defeat to Huddersfield.Cardiff will continue to be without striker Max Watters who sustained an ankle injury last week and could face up to six weeks on the sidelines.Curtis Ne...Full Story »

Plymouth will check on Joe Edwards ahead of the visit of League One leaders Rotherham.Edwards missed the midweek defeat at Cambridge with a niggle and he will be checked ahead of the game.Steven Sessegnon made his debut off the bench at the Abbey and boss Steven Schumacher must decide whether he is fit enough to start.They will remain without Dan Scarr, who faces another four weeks out with a to...Full Story »

Walsall head coach Michael Flynn could make changes in the wake of a midweek thrashing at Swindon as Hartlepool head for the Banks’s Stadium.Flynn fielded an unchanged team at the County Ground on Tuesday evening and saw it routed 5-0.Midfielder Joss Labadie was used only as a substitute on his return from a two-match ban and will hope for a start if Flynn opts for change.The Saddlers had ...Full Story »

Hartlepool manager Graeme Lee was pleased to see his side recover to claim a 2-1 win at struggling Colchester.Pools had trailed after Noah Chilvers had given the hosts a 22nd-minute lead, but Omar Bogle equalised in the 70th minute with a fine shot from the edge of the area.And they grabbed a winner four minutes later through substitute Isaac Fletcher, who stabbed home from close range after Bog...Full Story »

Substitute Isaac Fletcher grabbed the winner as Hartlepool came from behind to claim a 2-1 victory at struggling Colchester.The U’s went ahead in the 22nd minute through Noah Chilvers, who celebrated his 21st birthday by scoring from close range after John Akinde’s shot had been parried by Ben Killip.Cameron Coxe’s shot came back off a post in the 33rd minute for the hosts afte...Full Story »

Colchester duo Noah Chilvers and Tom Dallison could push to start in Tuesday night’s League Two match against Hartlepool.The pair both started on the bench after returning from injury in the 3-0 defeat to Northampton on Saturday, with Chilvers making a 20-minute appearance.Goalkeeper Sam Hornby has kept his spot between the sticks for the last two games despite the return of Shamal George ...Full Story »

Rotherham are waiting on Joe Mattock for their clash against Morecambe.The 31-year-old missed out on the Millers’ 1-1- draw with Wigan on Friday after feeling some tightness in training but could come back into the side in midweek.Rarmani Edmonds-Green has not played since January after suffering with injury and Tuesday’s fixture may come too soon for the defender.Ollie Rathbone scor...Full Story »

Matt Gray was satisfied to have ended a challenging week with a point, even though Sutton were unable to make the most of an early lead they secured at Hartlepool.The hosts responded to Joe Kizzi’s third-minute opener by levelling things up five minutes into the second half when Tom Crawford fired in.Neither side could find a way to deliver that crucial third goal of the game, so a point l...Full Story »

Joey Barton called for his Bristol Rovers forwards to be more clinical despite seeing the Pirates thrash struggling Stevenage 4-0.Sam Finley, Elliot Anderson, Harry Anderson and Aaron Collins all scored for the visitors as they ran riot in a dominant display which Barton described as “men against boys”.The Pirates boss was thrilled with the performance but, after watching his side ta...Full Story »

Newcastle’s revival continued with a hard-fought point in a 1-1 draw at top-four hopefuls West Ham.Joe Willock’s scruffy equaliser cancelled out Craig Dawson’s header as the Magpies made it six Premier League games unbeaten.It was another important point in Newcastle’s survival bid and was all the more impressive given they were without arguably their two most important p...Full Story »

Hartlepool are able to report a near clean bill of health ahead of hosting Sutton in Sky Bet League Two on Saturday.Graeme Lee’s side will eye a fourth successive win and aim to build on a run of six games without defeat in the division.Nicky Featherstone returned from suspension to start Tuesday’s 1-0 win over Tranmere with Joe White dropping to the bench where he was joined by Marc...Full Story »

Graeme Lee thinks Hartlepool are starting to show what they can do under his watch after winning three matches in a row for the first time in League Two.Pools followed up wins over Barrow and Crawley with a 1-0 victory over second-placed Tranmere courtesy of Peter Clarke’s own goal just before the break.While the victory frustrated Tranmere this was a night at the Suit Direct Stadium to ma...Full Story »

Joey Barton was looking towards the League Two play-off zone after his improving Bristol Rovers side convincingly ended Sutton’s 12-match unbeaten run.Harry Anderson fired the hosts into a fourth-minute lead with a shot from just outside the box and they could have been out of sight at the break, most notably when Paul Coutts saw a 45th-minute penalty saved by Dean Bouzanis.Aaron Collins m...Full Story »

Second-half goals from Joel Bagan and Mark Harris enabled Cardiff to make it back-to-back home wins as they beat Coventry 2-0Three days on from notching his first goal for the club, 20-year-old wing-back Bagan opened the scoring in the 72nd minute and Harris sealed the win three minutes from time.Back at the ground where a week earlier they had put four goals past relegation rivals Peterborough ...Full Story »

A Peter Clarke own goal on the stroke of half-time earned Hartlepool a 1-0 win over promotion-chasing Tranmere.Clarke glanced on David Ferguson’s free-kick in the last attack of the first half in a crowded area to find the far corner of the Rovers net.Before that it was a game of few chances and Hartlepool, who had won their previous two matches, created the only other opportunity.That saw...Full Story »