If we get liquidated

Hartleblue · **Posted:** Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:38 pm

Fucked up F.C.

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:03 pm

loan_star wrote:

Lord_of_Stranton wrote:

How strict are the rules? Could we just stick in an 'Association'? HUAFC? HAFC?

We were told no Darlington AFC or AFC Darlington. The rules are still the same as far as I'm aware.
You arent allowed to have a name similar to the old name, other than having the town name in obviously! You wouldn't be allowed United anywhere near it.

Any reason why? Also how did Halifax Town and Chester City get away with it?

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:10 pm

The modern way to do it is Hartlepool United 2.0

UnreliableSalopian · **Posted:** Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:25 pm

poolieinnottingham wrote:

loan_star wrote:

Lord_of_Stranton wrote:

How strict are the rules? Could we just stick in an 'Association'? HUAFC? HAFC?

We were told no Darlington AFC or AFC Darlington. The rules are still the same as far as I'm aware.
You arent allowed to have a name similar to the old name, other than having the town name in obviously! You wouldn't be allowed United anywhere near it.

Any reason why? Also how did Halifax Town and Chester City get away with it?

I think they changed the rules a few years ago, so that a phoenix club would be distinguished from the original one; also, I suspect, a show of petulance from the FA after the success of AFC Wimbledon despite the best efforts of the FA to dissuade them from forming a new club when the original moved to Milton Keynes - "Not in the wider interests of football" was the phrase they used at the time. It then became a sort of shorthand for disaffected fans to set up a new club, or for a pheonix club - there's an AFC Liverpool, there is (or was) an AFC Barnsley, and a few others as well (I think AFC Rushden and Diamonds is another).

Technically Chester are just Chester FC - although all the signs pointing to the ground still say Chester City; Halifax are FC Halifax Town; Hereford United became Hereford FC, although I think they have the motto "Forever United" on their badge.

Bossa Nova · **Joined:** Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:51 am **Posts:** 376

It's all pathetic pissfiddling about by the twatting F.A. (never was an organisation more aptly abbreviated). Anyway Chester City were known as Chester before adding the City in 1983 so shirley we would be able to go back to at least Hartlepool's even if we couldn't have the United.
Ah fuck it, Athletico Crimdon it is.

OddsOnPhil · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:27 am **Posts:** 674

North Seaton Invincibles.

ed-t-ball · **Posted:** Sat Feb 03, 2018 11:16 am

Hartlepool Delighted

kevin pooles gloves · **Joined:** Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:28 pm **Posts:** 9501

HMRC United of Hartlepool.
Ken Dodd as new Chairman.

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 19670

hartlepool wolves. the team that has a real bite.

If we get liquidated

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