SEVEN draws at Victoria Park this season and it's too many for everyone's liking.

There's been one point returns which have sent people away feeling demented (Swindon), bored (Rotherham), relieved (Scunthorpe) and neither here nor there (Tranmere).

This one, however, left a new feeling for all concerned - satisfied.

Despite conceding a leveller in the last minute after Adam Boyd's first-half goal had given Paul Stephenson's side the lead, there was none of the ill-feeling that has so often lingered around Victoria Park this season.

That went with the old regime.

Because everyone can see that Stephenson has got the team organised, battling, playing good football and playing for each other. Camaraderie goes a long way in football.

They've not lost in his four games, won a game - and the last time they did that kids were starting to write their letters to Santa Claus - and it took a spectacular strike to breach the defence for the first time in 367 minutes of football.

After it looked like Pool had weathered the storm - both Rovers possession and the driving wind - Ross McCormack took possession 30 yards from goal. A quick look up and he cracked a shot across Dimi Konstantopoulos into the top corner.

"I said to the boys that if we are going to lose a lead, then at least it's to something like that and not a mistake or an individual error,'' said Stephenson.

"It was a bit of magic - as was our goal. I felt that we had to get two before half-time because I knew how things were going to be with the wind.

"The wind certainly got up in the second half and made it really difficult. We came within minutes of holding on.

"I felt that in the second half we could have got them a little bit higher up the pitch, but we got pushed back a bit.

"We defended brilliantly, won headers and second balls, but because we were so deep we couldn't get going forward.

"When you've got a strong wind with you like that you can really pen a team back because it's hard to clear your lines and we couldn't get the ball in behind them or around the sides - we only had a couple of chances in the second half.''

He added: "We went close a couple of times in the first half but couldn't get that second. Even though we didn't I just felt we had seen them off.

"I changed it to 4-5-1 because we weren't doing any attacking and if we are going to defend, we might as well do it with another body in there. But the goal didn't come because we sat off, it was an excellent strike which you cannot legislate for.''

Boyd's goal was equally as special. After such an injury-ravaged campaign, Pool's talisman is well and truly back.

Eifion Williams played the ball into Boyd and he took a touch to control before rifling a drive across the drive of keeper Jan Budtz.

The goal brought Chris Turner to his feet, sat in the director's box where all good Directors of Sport should sit.

It was exactly the sort of goal that only Boyd is capable of scoring among the current squad, a strike out of nothing, and acted as further evidence - if any was needed - of how much he's been missed all season.

Seconds later, Ritchie Humphreys preserved the advantage as he kicked McCormack's shot off the line.

After creating Boyd's goal, Williams should have made it two, but pulled his low shot across goal.

The striker, back in the team after becoming a dad for the second time, showed the defence a clean pair of heels on occasions.

Once he gets one goal, Williams is the sort of striker to go on and net a few more on the back of it and that's just what Pool need.

But with the wind in their favour and ever increasing, the second period was always going to be a different story.

Dave Mulligan fired in a cross from deep and Dimi Konstantopoulos and striker Leo Fortune-West collided - the ball hit the back of the striker's head and the keeper stopped with his legs.

Fortune-West was on the wrong side of useless and he was utterly dominated by Micky Nelson. When he was taken off, it signalled a change in Rovers' game plan.

Instead of trying to knock it forward aided and abetted by the wind, they started to try and play their way through.

With four minutes to go, Paul Green's shot was stopped by Konstantopoulos before Michael McIndoe curled wide.

It looked like Pool had saw the game out, but that was without McCormack's efforts.

It wasn't a case of one point gained, it certainly was two points dropped. But not two dropped in the manner it's happened on occasions this season.

The League One table remains a tight montage, with just six points separating second bottom and 12th.

Pool are in 19th spot and face Scunthorpe - three places and two points ahead - on Saturday.

Result: Hartlepool United 1, Doncaster Rovers 1.

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