A product of the Centre of Excellence, local lad Martin Young looked to have a bright future at Pools. He was taken on the preseason tour to Holland in 2006, and was offered a professional contract a year later. For the next two years Young was a regular for the reserves but never quite made it as far as the first eleven. The nearest he came was in a game at Milton Keynes in February 2009, when he was an unused substitute. He was released in May 2009.