We're fucked.

Thanks IOR for "Saving us". You might have pulled the wool over the eyes of some but not me. Nothing has changed, you just bought time with all of that takeover bollocks.

Send your sponsored message board posters into this thread to try and make out all is ok, they'll be told to fuck right off along with you and Russ Green.

Get out of our fucking club you absolutely disgraceful excuses for owners. Just go, no more knight in shining armour charades when the chips are down, just fucking leave and let us pick up the pieces. We were here before you came and we'll be here when you're gone.

IOR out.
Green out.

Agreed. We're hopelessly fucked.

Just hope we can get it together and consolidate as a Conference side

There will still be some blinkered wankers who think all is rosy

To add to what yloop has said.....

Nick loughlin hang your head in shame

To have the forward line we are left with is nothing short of shocking. Has any club ever been relegated with such little resistance from their owners. Utter disgrace

If IOR just 'fucked off' would we even be in the Conference? Everyone agrees with yloops sentiment but I think suggesting this takeover was used to 'buy time' is a bit far fetched to me. Buy time for what exactly? Kens hardly the saviour the way the club has been ran down for a number of years is why we're in this position and how Green is still in a job is beyond me but we're would them just pulling out like that leave us? Fucked I'd guess. It's like we're trapped and absolutely powerless to do anything about it.

I cannot add anything to this, as it's exactly how I feel. 5 years of chronic lack of investment. If I hear ONE more person claiming IOR are "Saviours" I will fucking SCREAM.

Please behave.
The boys did us proud today. Not that long ago we would have been hammered.

Today is a moral victory.

Gutted!! Finally accepted that we are doomed

Fuck off you awful awful man

Buy time was to not spend any money in the window. What he's saying is blatantly obvious but you again just come on here to argue with people and say the opposite.

Why any fan would come on here and defend them is beyond me. They bought there time during the window and completely fucked us over yet again. Horrible bastards have got us on life support

There are people who want to come in and run the club, with the income we have had over the past two seasons there is no way we should be anywhere near what we are now. As mentioned on here there are teams getting sub 1,500 attendances that are managing just fine. We've got 3000 in every game, Accrington have less than half that with season tickets at the same price. How are they doing so well? Proper management.

Our club is an easy one to make money from, it seems some people are doing well out of us but it's certainly not making its way to the pitch.

Out of order.

Who is defending him can you even read?

I'm not disagreeing I just feel like we're powerless to do anything about it, which is the worst and most frustrating part of it all.

Powerless yes. If this was 1983 there'd have been fucking HELL on.

I'd be quite happy in the Northern Premier if it meant the end of IOR & Green's involvement in the club.I'm that fed up with them.

"Bit far fetched" is what you wrote.

Far fetched???? It's fucking 100% correct

If it was 93 there'd have been hell on Phil, there's too many people with an agenda now though, IOR have created a corporate air at Pools and there are leeches who've jumped aboard and surrendered their own thoughts in exchange for a ride on the gravy train.

They'll shout down any dissenters and con the less intelligent into following the party line, this takeover being the latest example.

I think we've got enough people to make a go of it now, we just have to get organised and make sure these people don't have a voice.

Time to take our club back.

It's a bit far fetched that the takeover was contrived by them to buy time, that's what I think, it could be true but I don't think they need to go to any lengths to buy time. We're stuck with them.

I don't think they gives you any reason to insult me, I know feelings are running high but that's out of order.

This.

There seems to be more blinkered folk than fans who actually care. Can't word it any differently. If they back ior/hodcroft/green then they don't care

Internet anger and apathy in real life is the way of the modern world.

Sadly though if we use the internet to organise a 1983 style protest it will be shut down before it starts and if we threaten to do anything too severe we'll be in a cell for some terrorist offence or other by team time.

IOR can't just "welcome to the board" as you put us. If they put us into admin, the debts will be transferred to IOR if their current company if profitable. Therefore, they would probably walk away should a suitable offer come in for the club. If that offer was just to walk away and be self run, then we'd have to hope they would just wipe out the fictitious 14m "loan" as they did for TMH.

But as it stands they are happy to took with the club so it runs at a loss. This then makes their other company look rosy. we just need to make hod croft feel uncomfortable every time he sets foot inside the ground. Remember another of Ken's golden rules…

DONT EMBARRASS THE CLUB.

Well uncle ken, you have disgraced the club, yourself and made everyone associated with HUFC. Well I WILL NEVER be embarrassed to be a Hartlepool United fan, but I am embarrassed to be associated to the club while IOR are involved.

PLEASE JUST LEAVE THE CLUB NOW

We've had as many shit years with IOR as we had good ones, but the shit ones have been shittier than the good ones were good. So, the slates wiped clean - we owe them nowt. It is quite obvious that those responsible for our plight are systematically asset stripping the Club for their own benefit. I have heard that the "big two" do not get on but they probably know so much shit about each other that they dare not, at least publicly, fall out. It's highly unlikely, given the fractured nature of our support, but they must be made to feel very uncomfortable during the remaining home games.

IOR are taking us out of the league.

No matter what good times they gave us they are 100% responsible for the most embarrassing thing ever to happpen to us.

The fact that some people seem keen to defend them tells me more about these people than anything else.

I wont say what it tells me but I would say it the their faces.

Who is defending them? Or perceived to be defending them?

There are loads defending them.

The ones who get free tickets.