How the Hartlepool United players have been affected by the National League voting uncertainty

Pools currently sit third in the National League table and are in favour of continuing with the National League season after clubs received resolution voting documents earlier this week.

But there is a chance that Pools may not get their way and the 2020-21 season will be cancelled and voided as a result of a lack of grant funding from the Government.

All the speculation regarding the rest of the season and how it will unfold has been impossible to ignore on social media but Hartlepool manager Dave Challinor believes his players remain fully focused on the task at hand.

“You can’t affect what players do away from games and the training ground,” he said.

“They’re sensible enough, the world we’re in now means that social media is the quickest and biggest information gatherer at the moment.

"You can find out things quicker there than what happens in real life.

"All the players will have different views and speculate, some of them will have family members in the game or agents who will have their own opinions too.

"We also have six of them living together so I’m sure they have discussed it with each other.

“We’ve not got that as an excuse and the minimum for us is that in the 28 day period, where we have seven games, we win as many games as we can so we’re in a really good place in the table.”

He added: "That way, if the vote decides to carry on as we hope will be the case then we’re in a great position.

"If it goes to points per game, we’re in a great position and even if the season is cancelled we can still have our own personal pride and go we were denied the opportunity to give ourselves the chance of achieving something special.

"We can’t waste energy and worry about things that, in the main, are out of our control.”

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