I know it's late, but the Loids have just highlighted this.

I'll look back in tomorrow for developments.

http://nonleaguezone.com/viewtopic.php? ... 04&start=0

Took a while to come out. Had you not started to wonder something was up when we stopped using their ground for friendlies?

Interesting reading did hear a few things over the last few weeks along these lines but did not think it could get this serious

The allegation of the WUO seems to be coming from several different places so it seems genuine. obviously we've no idea of the details so must tread a bit carefully with statements but either way its very saddening and disingenuous if Pools are winding up a small non league club.

That's the thing though innit, it doesn't sound like anything at the moment cos surely it'd be premature to pass judgement until the full facts are known.

If, for example, they'd been systematically ripping off HUFC and just raising their finger when asked to pay money they owed whose side would you be on?

How about if it was the difference between Pools signing a player who helped save them from relegation and not being able to afford that player cos Billingham Town were taking the piss out of them?

Surely though if it's come to a winding up petition then HUFC must make some kind of statement to let people know what it is all about? Any silence on the matter might just imply that Pools could be in the wrong.

there is no smoke without fire. i thought this story was common knowledge. if they got wound up our catchment area would grow. hmmmm

You more then likely get more chance of getting more information out of a kamikaze pilot after his last mission then you are at pools saying anything on this we all know they like to keep things in house

your joking arent ya?

oh Pools have just destroyed our club, who can we support now...Pools?......NOPE

I was going to post this link - shameful chapter in the history of HUFC

If this comes about then I will withdraw my support for HUFC permanently

ADG why do you keep taking the club's side on this? How can you not have a conscience about this? Why are you behaving like that Iraqi War Minister?

This is black and white - it is bullying and the petition was pinned on the gates of Bedford Terrace

I hope Stockton Council evict HUFC from there

I hope the FA will get involved and impose sanctions on Pools until they drop this

In the summer there was a thing about pools having laid their pitch on the premise that they paid it back over a set amount of time, then the chairman left and the agreement was pushed aside... on this basis, Pools are owed money by Billingham Town who have no intention of paying it back.

Does anyone know the details of this story, no

But if they owe IOR money, should IOR just left them off because they are non-league?

Parmo that is a load of tosh until we know the facts and you know it..

In my eyes what you have said there is just more of an excuse NOT to attend Pool's anymore.. if this is all true however Pool's are owed Money and Billingham will not pay it, It's common sense aint it? Pool's aint the evil ones here, They are just claiming what is rightfully theirs.

i will reserve all judgements until 100% of the FACTS are available. However, it is unfortunate for things to come to this.

As i said "however if true"

This story was put on the intotheblue board weeks ago and the club rang admin and told him to take it off our the legal team from HUFC would be in touch.

read the link to the forum Mr Hodcroft - oh I mean Mr HUFC Poolie

Come and see me about it in the pub if you want to get personal

that still doesn't suggest what the actual facts are,it just suggests that Pools don't want loads of Chinese whispers going round

Trying to find out more is currently difficult. The Winding Up Petition or Order is supposed to go in the London Gazette (not there yet) but even when it does, all it tells you is the bald fact that one organisation has applied to have the company in question wound up, and when and where the hearing is to be. There is no mention of how much might be owed, what for, etc. A hearing would probably be due in about 2-3 weeks. Pools simply cannot afford to say nothing for 2-3 weeks, already they're being painted as the big bad bully picking on the poor defenceless kid, whether that is true or not the longer they go without filling in the details the worse it will be.

I can't see how Pools can come out of this looking good, whether they are legally in the right or not. It's now up to the club to prove otherwise.

I don't see what it's got to do with us as fans.
It's a legal matter between the club and Billingham Town.
If IOR are owed money then they are entitled to it.
We're not a fooooking charity!!!!

Like others have said we need to be in possession of the full facts before judgement is passed.

However imagine for a minute that we had a similar dispute with Sunderland, Newcastle or Middlesbrough and imagine that legally we were in the wrong and imagine that we were about to be closed down by the big club.
What would be the reaction of Poolies and lower league fans everywhere?????

Pools fans would probably be upset about it but the more rational ones amongst us would direct that anger towards whoever was responsible for getting the club into the situation.

The reaction of lower league fans everywhere else would probably be the same as it always was when we were in the shit in the past, i.e. fk 'em, it's only little Northern Hartlepool so why should we care.

I'm not so sure.
The reaction against the big club would be venomous in my opinion.
I can just see Jeff Stelling's reaction if Pools were in a similar issue with a big club..............he would galvanise the rest of football.
This is not seen as a who is right or who is wrong issue like, for example, yer average bounder being evicted for not paying his rent.
This is seen as bullying by a much bigger club and as it's football and being judged by football fans, who's right and who's wrong is secondary.
We shall see.
I suspect quite a lot of Poolies will take a similar stance to Parmo, me for one.

As for directing anger at IOR..............

How many posts have there been on this forum about the greed of the premiershite and the death of solidarity in football. So it's fine when we're the little man, but self interest rules when we're not? I know that we don't have the facts here (either way) but some degree of consistency is needed. Parmo, to me, seems to be providing this; he hates the greed in modern football and really wants our club to act with dignity. Good on him, I say.

they're not going to move us to billingham are they?just if the sale of the ground falls through this could be a cheaper option they might even call us bt pools

Concurring most emphatically.

Calm down there, I dont preach about "them" when were the little guy and "us" when were the big guy as in the Billingham case. I just want everyone to have what they are owed, as in Pompey they were cheating and living beyond there means so should face the consiquences, Darlo going into admin and ripping off the small buisnesses and "potentially" Billingham not paying pools for whatever*.

Wasnt it the same with West when they didnt pay us and we locked them out of the changing rooms at the Vic.





* I reserve my right to come back on this point about pools when the facts are known.

Fkin L, how many people are jumping to conclusions here?

If all you know is what has been made public then I really can't understand how you can be making the pronouncements that you are doing about Pools being bullies etc.

As I said earlier, are Pools supposed to just sit back and be taken the piss out of if that's what is really happening, because until more facts are published neither I nor you lot know if that's actually the case here and that Billingham aren't just looking for sympathy when they're totally in the wrong.

in the dim and distant past Pools were all too happy to sign players from the Northern League just to keep the club going and within its means - HUFC should remember who their friends were, and still could be

The whole of local football will turn on Pools here - the publicity will simply not be worth any money owed (I'm led to believ around 70 grand)

Now IOR write off a million a year allegedly running HUFC - so 70 grand is relative small beer

There is an ulterior motive on there in my opinion, and my solution would be for Pools to walk away from Bedford Terrace and give BTFC the time to pay any outstanding monies

it is THEIR ground, not HUFC's - this is a very embarrassing situation in my eyes

I can also see the big 3 not loaning any more players to Pools in the future if they take an active interest in what is happening here

well don't ever let me hear you complaining about the big shots in football screwing over the little guys regarding tv money etc in the future then

Bookmarked

But Mr Parmo, IF it is £70k then that's a fk of a lot of money that wouldn't build up in a matter of weeks, so it sounds like Pools may have already been patient in trying to get this solved and this is a last resort?

£70million is small beer to the HMRC and Premier league should just right off Pompeys debt then?

Edit:

"I can also see the big 3 not loaning any more players to Pools in the future if they take an active interest in what is happening here"

Only Sunderland do anyway

Not even in the same ballpark though Mr Parmo. Like I've said, if when the facts come out it turns out Pools are being bullies, acting like twats etc then I'll be towards the front of the queue to say so. It's just that on the info we all have up to now it's not possible to say if that's the case or not and personally I'd rather reserve judgement rather than rush in now. It's all got to come out in the wash eventually.

Agree with Parmo the ground and area at BT could be the aim.

the previous BTFC chairman who signed the lease agreement should be the one pursued here in that case - their club made substantial cuts to costs and let a lot of good players go in order to make ends meet - so it sounds like they really don't generate the cash anyway

They are ran by volunteers and there are a lot of community days/fun days etc at the Town - will Pools provide this in future? I think not. You are looking at this from the viewpoint of the debt collector

Pools appear to have no qualms about staying there and killing them off - well I do

They should walk away and get their money back over time, and stop the escalating costs to BTFC

Why can't Pools just do that?

Parmo will you answer my question about pompeys debt?

Mr Parmo, you appear to know a lot more about this than you're able to post on here which is helping you to make judgements on the situation. Are you out for a pint before the match on Saturday? If so, tell me all about it and I might be able to agree with you!

The bit Mr Ripper can't seem to grasp is it is not a case of how much we are owed or for how long. Nor is it a case of who is right and who is wrong.
We are allegedly heading for a huge chunk of bad publicity which, in my opinion, could have more damaging ramifications than £70k.

Maybe this is a bit of brinkmanship whereby the club create a huge amount of interest and magnamaniously back down in favour of their poor neighbours, thus gaining kudos for themselves.
I really hope so.

Oi, You! Compo - but - pardon? But what has that got to do with Pools anyway? This is MY club doing this!!!
Pompey are no different to Cheaterfield, Huddersfield, Bradford, Leicester, Leeds, Rotherham, Southampton etc etc over the years - what they did was cheating!!!!

You are trying to bracket Billingham in the same category!!! I have answered that in my previous post about their cost cutting measures to live within their means

I think you just don't get this at all!!!

[ x ] Stupidest post of the month to date.

Fair enough I was being a bit daft there and I know Billingham are run by volenteers and I have taken measures think your point about Pools taking it up with the previous owner is key here and we shouldnt be trying to kill a club.

However if Pools are owed money we should have it back even if its 70p or 70,000

Aye laddie, it didn't take you long did it.
That's me won that one then.

He's not the only one who doesn't get it.
You are absolutely 100% right here parmo.
Spot on.

Drama queens

People are saying chase the former owner for the debt, yet in the same breath are saying Pompey deserve all they get. Yet surely it was their FORMER owners who got them in this mess, and is not the fault of the current owners?

This has nothing to do with Pompey or anybody else.
It is to do with the potential damage that our club could suffer.
Is that really too complicated to understand.

The north east of England is full of football loving folk....................how many will be on our side...........regardless of who is in the right??????

We could end up in local folklore..............for all the wrong reasons.

How old is the David v Goliath story???????????????

so are you saying we should just forget the debt?

Laddie?

Won that one?

You accuse me of not grasping something then think you're being clever when it's pointed out how stupid your post was.

Congratulations Mr Tickwattywent for finally reverting to type.

He's just trying to be clever and jumping on the latest bandwagon. It's what he does and it seems to make the old bugger happy.

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teess ... -25961882/

£10k is the amount.

What I cant understand is how IOR are willing to write off around £1m a year on a football team that gives them some sort of status with their customers and yet are willing to force shut a small local side over £10k, whilst appearing not being willing to negotiate. Fair enough if the amount was £100k but surely not over £10k!