The Club have appointed Neale Cooper as the new First Team Coach which will be effective from 28th December.

Neale previously left the Club several years ago due to personal and family issues which he needed to address at the time. However,he has always indicated a desire to return to the Club to continue the good work he did previously.

Although the Club received many applications for the vacant position and studied all CVs carefully, it was decided that by appointing Neale, and retaining Micky Barron as the Reserve Team Coach, it would cause minimum disruption to the team's main focus which is to climb the division and to try and reverse the current trend of home defeats.

In addition, Neale is familiar with several of the existing team members, the staff in the office and fully understands the economic constraints that the owners have to keep in place due to the current financially-depressed climate.

Everyone at the Club, and we are sure we can also include the fans and people of Hartlepool, wishes Nealesuccess on his return and we hope there will be a big crowd to welcome him back at our next home game on 2nd January (3pm kick-off).