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Cooper Goes For Same Eleven Again

Posted: Sat 04 Aug 2012
Author: HUFC
Scott Flinders

Scott Flinders jumps high to collect a cross

Image by: Frank Reid (Hartlepool Mail)

The teams are in ahead of this afternoon's friendly with Hull

Neale Cooper has named the same starting eleven for a third consecutive Victoria Park friendly as Pools welcome Hull City this afternoon (3pm kick-off). 

Scott Flinders is once again in goal after starring in the game with Sunderland and Middlesbrough, Luke James continues his partnership with Steve Howard in attack. 

Colin Nish and Andy Rafferty are both sidelined through knee problems, while Ritchie Humphreys is nursing a slight hamstring strain. 

Trialist Nathan Porritt - who also featured for Pools against Bishop Auckland on Wednesday - is named among the substitutes.

Hull boss Steve Bruce is able to name new signing Abdoulaye Faye in his starting line-up for the first time after he recovered from injury.

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Pools: Flinders, Austin, Collins, Hartley, Horwood, Franks, Sweeney, Walton, Monkhouse, James, Howard. 
Subs: McHugh, Baldwin, Holden, Porritt, Murray, Luscombe, Poole.

Hull City: Jakupovic, Bruce, Dawson, McKenna, Faye, Cooper, Stewart, Cairney, Mclean, Koren, Aluko.
Subs: Oxley, East, Townsend, Cullen, Devitt, Dudgeon, Fryatt, Simpson, Bradley, Proschwitz.