SO who said Hartlepool United can't score goals?

It might have looked that way for 45 minutes on Saturday as they trailed 1-0 to Kidderminster, but come the second half Pool scored more freely than they have done all season as they chalked up their biggest win of the campaign.

They might have been again been without 11-goal partnership Anth Lormor and Kevin Henderson and Tim Sperrevik, but goals came from an unlikely source in Chris Westwood, an admittedly all-too-rare source in Craig Midgley and a regular source in Tommy Miller.

And Kidderminster didn't have an answer as Pool were transformed following another Chris Turner half-time blast.

Turner in recent months is feeling the need to have a go at his charges at the interval at regular intervals.

It's reminiscent of the late Cyril Knowles, whose dressing room rants are part of Victoria Park folklore, and the results are the same as Pool turned the game round after going in at the break one-down.

Harriers' boss Jan Molby had the temerity to tell his players that they had just been beaten by the worst team in the league and claimed his side were better over 90 minutes.

They might have just about deserved the interval lead, but there was no doubting where the points were going after the triple blast.

Worst team in the league? Better team? We know what Jim Royle would have to say about that!

"I told the players at half-time that we were cheating ourselves and cheating the fans,'' said Turner.

"If we lost, I wanted a team who would roll their sleeves up and work hard and I didn't see that before the break, but you saw the difference in the second half.

"After the game I said that we can still do well this year even with all the injuries we have. We're capable of doing something - they just have to believe in themselves a bit more.

"After 15 minutes we hadn't scored and the players seemed to go in their shells, thinking 'it's not going to be our day' and we handed them a sloppy goal.

"But we came back out and Craig Midgley and Adam Boyd did well up front and we had that little bit of luck we haven't been getting recently when Tommy Miller scored with the follow-up after his penalty was blocked.

"I said all week that we have to get through this month with as many points as we can so that when everyone is back and available from injury we have a chance of success and be able to string a good run together.''

Turner's squad has been ravaged by injury since pre-season. That he has guided them into the top half of the table with a platform to build on should not be overlooked or forgotten.

Pool did start brightly, but as Boyd and Midgley tried to work each other out as a strike partner and Boyd tried to come to terms with the step up from youth team to first team, chances were too scarce.

Boyd flicked a header at goal, but without any power failed to trouble Stuart Brock before Pool fell behind.

As Paul Webb headed the ball back over the Pool defence, Dean Bennett was offside - whether John Durnin was, was difficult to judge.

Pool fans thought so, but the assistant referee decided against it and Durnin homed in on goal to net.

One-down, there was plenty in the ground at the break wondering which hat Pool could pull out two goals to revive their fortunes.

Look no further than Westwood. Yet to open his Pool scoring account in 58 previous League games, he connected with Sam Shilton's right-wing corner to turn the ball in.

Westwood had scored once previously in four appearances for Wolves. Trouble is that it was so long ago, he forgot how to celebrate.

The goal was the cue for an on-field jig and he admitted: "Without scoring too many, I didn't know what to do. Micky Barron was shouting at me because he thought I would have gone over to the bench to celebrate, but the hairs on the back of my neck were standing up and I was lost.

"I scored one for Wolves and I've been trying to claim one from Brighton when the keeper dropped my cross over the line, but there's no taking this one off me.''

Eight minutes later and Harriers' set-piece failings came to the fore as another Shilton corner was met by Midgley who flung himself full length to power past Brock.

In between the goals, Midgley lobbed a great chance over the bar and it looked like his run of failing to score a League goal under Turner's management was to continue.

But Miller wasn't going to let the others have all the fun and he wanted goal number seven of the season to pull level with Henderson at the top of the charts.

Amid a hectic goalmouth scramble, Boyd was pulled back and after Miller's spot-kick was blocked by Brock, it fell for the quick-thinking midfielder who raced in to make it three.

Pool were denied a more clear penalty when Boyd was hauled down, but with such an advantage there was no arguments.

Turner's side have been 3-1 up before this season.

This time, however, there was no repeat of the Mansfield horror show that saw them go down 4-3 and after extending their unbeaten home run to six games Westwood admitted: "When we got one back, there was always the chance that they would cave in and we didn't think we would ever throw this one away - we have learned from the Mansfield game.

"We are now putting together a good home run and the lads are thinking along the lines of last season when we were invincible at home.'