Ship's sinking and they're flogging the lifeboats.

Can someone tell me how Pools owners borrowing money of a 'dodgy' lender and then investing that money into building cheap houses can help strengthen the team and keep us up????

No idea. But plenty seem excited by it.

We in a major relegation battle its as basic as that.
Id be devastated if we go down but it wont be a shock.
Our Club is in a crisis on and off the pitch.

The chairman seems to be good at buying himself a bit of time and predicting a good 2017.

At the end of the day its a results buisness and that will decide what division we in next season.

i`m emotionally constipated, I haven`t given a shit in days.

Reading are owned by oil rich Russians aren't they?

Arsenal owned by billionaire yanks?

Who the hell said that


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Well after a day of digging things are far from good!!! Expect a very bumpy ride from now on!! If this was dragons den........... well "I'm out"

Spill the legumes.

All this talk of property development being the saviour of the club is an utter irrelevance. Even if it came off it would be a long term solution, assuming it was actually viable. (In the event, I suspect the replacements for Mill House and the bowls club would be shadows of the present structures.)
Our problem is here and now. If the house is on fire you don't send off for details of fire alarms, you put it out. We have a fire, or more like a smouldering fire, team and performance wise that needs sorting urgently.
Forget the pie in the sky crap and get a grip of the core business, because I don't see a future in flogging cheap houses to fund a non league mid table team sometime in the distant future.
Which brings me task what the f**k is going on with all these distractions and labyrinth dealings. If you came to a club to run it, run it. Don't take your eye off the ball, do what you came to do. Which begs the question what did you come to do ....?

The debt is unsustainable, players need to be sold in January to try and balance the books. It's all smoke and mirrors!!! The firm don't have a pot to piss in so they can't put any cash in. The loan alone will cripple the club. As for gc being guarantor of the loan that is laughable. The stand is the guarantor for the loan not gc personally

Which stand ?

I'm not 100% sure which one just know it's borrowed against one of the stands

1. Did your accountant tell you this?
2. Do you still work in the Carlisle Tandoori?

1 no
2 I'm still from the midlands so I'm afraid you have me confused with someone else.

1. Did your lawyer tell you then?
2. From the Midlands? You poor soul.

Not really a poor soul my friend. Live within 5 mins from St. George's park in a great location so far from a poor soul. As for who told me that will remain annonmous. All I will say is that things are far from rosey

Why do you think the firm want the ground??? It's not for the football that's for sure!!

They can't have it for at least six months and in that time we have the opportunity to purchase it instead. It's called an 'Asset of Community Value' and is listed under the Communities Act.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_of_community_value

That is correct and I hope you do purchase it from the council, if the firm want to buy the ground then it would be more finance against the club and assets

Speaking for me personally; I am very concerned about the situation and I see no reason why the ground should be sold to anyone be it private company or even a Trust owned club.

The ground is already owned by the community. It is in safe hands now - the council. They have resisted selling it in the past to IOR and they got criticism back then for not selling. I don't think too many people would say that they were wrong now. I don't believe either that they would now sell to a company who by their own admission do not have funds and have had three winding up orders in the last few months.

The rent is £1500 a month on a 50 odd year lease. Surely the cheapest football stadium in the league so I don't see why the club need to buy it either. There are no grants available that are precluded by non ownership, usually its either ownership or a 15+ year lease so that argument doesn't stand up.

If Pools were to fold the only safeguard we have is the comfort of having the ground available. I see no reason to give that security up for a development that makes no commercial sense whatsoever.

This is all academic anyway as the council are not in negotiations to sell.

Goldberg is still listed as a director at Companies House - I'd have thought that you'd have this cancelled pronto if you were doing a runner?

Mind, the listing of his other directorships is fascinating - I wonder if any are near that St Georges Ghetto in the Midlands?

What is even more interesting is how many of them have been wound up by HMRC.

Even more interesting is why that other message board refuses to see what is going on. Its like someone is pulling their strings and reeled them in.

I wonder if the club are funding some end of season party.

Afraid it's the countryside and not a ghetto so sorry to disappoint you. On the other hand I can always check out morcombe this evening too

Would be better if you could spell it first.

Definitely not Leeds? You after ask.

Ha ha autocorrect on my phone, but I wish all you pool fans well for the future you are going to need it especially in the conference next season

Ha ha you a deluded if you think I'm all these different people, like I said good luck you need it

Defo a Loid on the wind up.

Says nothing concrete, simply regurgitates what has already been stated.

Lifted straight from here but no bad thing to ask the questions in the Mail.

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/sport/f ... -1-8310205

Well done the Mail for that article.

That would be Middleton St George? Between Darloidsville and Trumpton International Airport?

And is Annonmous an unnamed rodent?

Pity The Mail don't do investigative journalism for local politics, re the Council, it took a website to reveal what was going on at Manor Residents Association run by a Labour Councillor now serving time although after she was sentenced The Mail omitted to mention she was a Labour Councillor at the time.
Similar organisation in Jutland Road been closed for weeks run by a certain Mr Cranney.
The Mail will never speak out against the Council as it relies on thousands of pounds of advertising revenue.

Frankly I don't believe any of the local press want to rock the boat. Fair play to this lad though for actually publishing it, I wonder how long it took him to get it past the editor!

Do you mean the rumour about the new east stand at Feethams? If so I think you may be disappointed. From what I heard the stand was dismantled and touted around a few clubs by company that took it down. They had a few half hearted expressions of interest but nothing came of any of it. The steel was apparently sold for scrap in India.

I do recall a rumour involving a stand - was it from Man City's old ground?

Too right Mr I.

1. A mate of mine had learned his trade at the Hartlepool Fail and moved onto a 'regional' title - he came across what he thought was a story about a certain 'regional' businessman with an interest in a football club. He asked me, a young (and very handsome) accountant at the time to look at his findings - he was spot on - a total 'house of cards' scenario - he wrote the story - it never got published, he was moved to a small title in North Scotland and, amazingly, a senior partner at the accountants where I was training 'had a word in my ear'.
2. Some years later I had lunch with the editor of another regional title and, having had a few sherberts, asked, 'why don't you have a go at this effing quango' (no hints - there were/ are too many) - to my astonishment he replied - they spend too much advertising with us.......................