FOCUSED Chris Turner won't allow his season to peter out and end in disappointment.
Hartlepool United have it all to do if they are to reach the play-offs this season.
But Turner, who is refusing to give up the ghost after Saturday's disappointing 1-1 draw with Bristol Rovers, insists there is still everything to play for and has called on his charges to follow the expample set by Pool's promotion winners of 1991.
"I couldn't have a go at the players after Saturday because it was a decent performance,'' he insisted. "We did enough to win.
"I don't want this season to fade away because it is difficult to reach the play-offs now. I don't want to end the season in 12th or 14th place.
"We have 24 points to play for and we probably need 21 to get in there. But in 1991 Hartlepool United won their last seven games to go up.
"And last season Blackpool got in the top seven with the last kick of the season and ended up going up.
"We won't give up until it is mathematically impossible and we will keep going. I will expect performances in keeping with what we have been doing this season.
"It's been a long season for us because of the disappointing start we had.We have been bottom of the League twice and after that we have given ourselves a chance of the play-offs.''
Turner handed Eifion Williams his Pool bow as a second-half substitute after snapping up the striker from Torquay for £30,000 last week and said: "You hope he would come on and get a chance to score.
"He will do well at the club. He's quick up there in the forward line and will get better.''
Pool have a rare midweek free but go to Carlisle next Tuesday and Colin West's reserve side is in action tomorrow at Seaham against Kidderminster.
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