I'm not sure where Yeovil is says Monkey Hanger

One of Hartlepool's players knew that when he moved from Dumferline he would face some long journeys. But this week Jamie McCunnie will travel to Swansea and then a trip to Edgar Street for Saturday's FA Cup game.

"I didn't realise how long some of the trips would be, but the boys have been filling me in and we've got a few tricky journeys ahead," McCunnie told the Northen Echo.

And what's making life worse, he says, is that Hartlepool has recently thrown games away. On Saturday at Gillingham it took just 48 seconds after the interval for 'Pool to concede.

"It's the same every week and we are all getting fed up of it. It's so frustrating. As we went out at the start of the second half the manager said they would come for us - and then we go and concede a terrible goal within a minute.

"We weren't over running them, but we had the better of them in the first half, no doubt about that. We are giving goals away every week - we are having to score two or three goals to win a game and, away from home, it's suicide.

"It's hard to take, it really is. And it's a long journey back up the road to think about it. It's a pain in the arse, the same story every week - we are in control and playing the better football, but be it at one end or the other.

"There's been too many games like this. It does my head in. We were in the bottom half of the table before this game, it's not good enough."

This morning Hartlepool set off for Swansea.

"It's a horrendous week on the road for us. When I came down to Hartlepool to play in this division, I didn't know where places where - I certainly do now.

"It's like take your packed lunch, we are on the bus again. It's a nightmare and it seems to take forever. We are back on the road today and will get back at God knows when on Wednesday morning.

"Then it's away again on Friday to Hereford, away at Yeovil the week later and we've got one Saturday home game to come and it's back away at Swindon. I've never known anything like it.

"I'm not sure where Yeovil is, I'm not sure I want to know."

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