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[TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe]

Dave Challinor responds to pre-match criticism aimed at Hartlepool United by Altrincham boss Phil Parkinson

Dave Challinor has defended Hartlepool United’s decision to turn down Altrincham’s request of pushing their National League fixture back 24 hours.

By Jordan Cronin
The Hartlepool Mail
Wednesday, 28th October 2020, 4:45 pm

Pools played out a 1-1 draw with Alty on Tuesday evening, just over 48 hours after the newly-promoted club were knocked out of the FA Cup at AFC Fylde.

Robins boss Phil Parkinson said in the build-up to the game at Victoria Park he was disappointed with Pools’ attitude but accepted it was their “prerogative”.

"It was a little bit disappointing in terms of their attitude not to move the game to a Wednesday with what we’ve been through but that is their prerogative to stick to a Tuesday and make it difficult for us, we will certainly remember those types of things moving forward,” said Parkinson on Sunday afternoon.

“When everybody is facing this epidemic you expect football clubs to stick together, Fylde were top drawer in moving the fixture, realising the situation we were in and we appreciate that.

"I wish them all the best, they look favourites to win promotion. They are doing everything right to move in the right direction.

"It is absolutely Hartlepool’s prerogative not to change but it is slightly disappointing with the current climate and what everyone is facing.”

Challinor was honest in his response, admitting self-interest does play its part.

However, the 45-year-old believes it is the same for every club – citing a debate on Monday Night Football between Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher.

“Regardless of what anybody says, everybody is going to look at self-interest,” he told The Mail, when asked about Parkinson’s pre-match comments.

"For us, we’ve got a big game on Saturday on the TV versus Torquay. We’ve then got to travel to Barnet on Tuesday. We then go to Salford in the FA Cup and we’ve got to travel to Yeovil and Eastleigh.

“There was a good debate on Monday Night Football. It’s easy for people to say they would have done this and they would have done that.

“Again, if I want to be pointing the finger, Fylde were accommodating but they weren’t very accommodating for us. Not everybody is looking after each other.

"As Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville said, people were all feeling sorry for Wigan when they had the problems they had but it didn’t take very long for clubs to be taking their players for next to nothing.

“Listen, everybody will have self-interest. My job is to get the best out of the group of players and work for this football club, which I will continue to do.

“I’ve got to look at us and unfortunately if that gets in the way of other people then so be it.”

[rorysgrandad]

Dave Challinor responds to pre-match criticism aimed at Hartlepool United by Altrincham boss Phil Parkinson

Dave Challinor has defended Hartlepool United’s decision to turn down Altrincham’s request of pushing their National League fixture back 24 hours.

By Jordan Cronin
The Hartlepool Mail
Wednesday, 28th October 2020, 4:45 pm

Pools played out a 1-1 draw with Alty on Tuesday evening, just over 48 hours after the newly-promoted club were knocked out of the FA Cup at AFC Fylde.

Robins boss Phil Parkinson said in the build-up to the game at Victoria Park he was disappointed with Pools’ attitude but accepted it was their “prerogative”.

"It was a little bit disappointing in terms of their attitude not to move the game to a Wednesday with what we’ve been through but that is their prerogative to stick to a Tuesday and make it difficult for us, we will certainly remember those types of things moving forward,” said Parkinson on Sunday afternoon.

“When everybody is facing this epidemic you expect football clubs to stick together, Fylde were top drawer in moving the fixture, realising the situation we were in and we appreciate that.

"I wish them all the best, they look favourites to win promotion. They are doing everything right to move in the right direction.

"It is absolutely Hartlepool’s prerogative not to change but it is slightly disappointing with the current climate and what everyone is facing.”

Challinor was honest in his response, admitting self-interest does play its part.

However, the 45-year-old believes it is the same for every club – citing a debate on Monday Night Football between Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher.

“Regardless of what anybody says, everybody is going to look at self-interest,” he told The Mail, when asked about Parkinson’s pre-match comments.

"For us, we’ve got a big game on Saturday on the TV versus Torquay. We’ve then got to travel to Barnet on Tuesday. We then go to Salford in the FA Cup and we’ve got to travel to Yeovil and Eastleigh.

“There was a good debate on Monday Night Football. It’s easy for people to say they would have done this and they would have done that.

“Again, if I want to be pointing the finger, Fylde were accommodating but they weren’t very accommodating for us. Not everybody is looking after each other.

"As Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville said, people were all feeling sorry for Wigan when they had the problems they had but it didn’t take very long for clubs to be taking their players for next to nothing.

“Listen, everybody will have self-interest. My job is to get the best out of the group of players and work for this football club, which I will continue to do.

“I’ve got to look at us and unfortunately if that gets in the way of other people then so be it.”

what a thoroughly nice chap. If Carragher and Neville are talking about it perhaps enshrine it in law. Thank god we’ve got Parky who is obviously a member of the civilised human race.

[MarpleAlty]

Hardly surprising that he takes a pop at Fylde, either.

[AltyFan101]

So Hartlepool, a full-time team that has just rested nearly its whole squad in a cup match against step 4 Ilkeston Town couldn't allow Alty, a small part-time club who have trained once in the last three weeks and played arguably one of the better non-league teams in the country 48 hours ago after half the squad had just recovered from coronavirus, an extra day for recovery.  Just shows how some clubs will use the current circumstances to their advantage as long as it is in their control. Really poor from Hartlepool.

[Mick]

Would have been a nice gesture if they could have accommodated us. But can see their point of view. This is the Conference National, not schoolboy football.

If they were to miss out on automatic promotion by one point having been beat at home by a fresher Altrincham, then I guess there would be some hand wringing.

The way things are looking we will be ok. But cannot help think that we should not have played the Weymouth game and then took 3 points by playing football rather than the poor quality game which was a direct result of the wet pitch. I am not suggesting we accommodated Weymouthbecause we were probably keen to open the season after 7 months, but if we had, then sportsmanship like this can cost you

[distancetraveller]

Personally, I thought  “The Monkey Hangers” could have been a little more  accommodating. Hey ho.. 

[Paul Cain's Chip Pan]

It would have been good if they had agreed to it, but they don't owe us anything. You don't get any points for being "nice".

[Hugh]

Shades of Macc in the snow that time when they had made a herculean effort to get the game on with Alty having a few injuries. A Dean Pritchard hattrick to win it if I remember right. Nearly the same thing at Victoria Park, wasn't it!

Still, I suppose such behaviour must work sometimes...

[robininstockport]

They were quite entitled to refuse to move it.

Be interesting what response they get when they request a move

[rorysgrandad]

They were quite entitled to refuse to move it.

Be interesting what response they get when they request a move

if they are asking alty I wouldn’t give them the courtesy of a reply. Just piss them about.

[JD]

Hartlepool had no obligation to move the game and I accept they wanted to give themselves every chance of a result: in a way it is a complement to us that they feared us enough to take that attitude.

However, I still think it is classless!

[Steve from Sale]

Justice was served when we denied them two points, and almost cost them the game, thought Matty was unlucky with the penalty but it was an excellent save.