Spike said they had known about him for a while and asked about the availability of the lad. Im sure from his U23 days with Boro there would have been standout keepers (this lad been one of them). Sure enough Spike knows a bit about him and from other comments he made in that presser yesterday i have a feeling we may see him start sooner than later - maybe the Barrow game.

What we needed this transfer window was a quality keeper and a decent centre forward. Have we got them? Possibly with bogle but the last time he scored regularly was 5 years ago, the keeper well i will be surprised if he plays much.

Think a few have got carried away with the transfer window. 2 or 3 of the signings we probobly are hardly going to see. Anyway proof will be in the results, can't get much worse than what it was, brief signs we may be improving away recently, 2 decent draws. Just be nice to get to Wembley now, think we have way too much to go down now.

Rotherham game for me is the most important game of the season, I'd take a win in that over any other now. Palace game is just a good day out, be a miracle if we got a result their.

Well we might as well all tap dance into the minefield, singing “always look on the bright side of .......”

What the average supporter is failing to understand is the mechanics of the situation

Daley gets recalled and goes out elsewhere ??

Hendrie get contract terminated and signs elsewhere ??

Young lads on loan paying 50% of wages ?

Thomas a great loan but if we can’t afford to pay 50k or thereabouts and comes in on loan again 50% of wages paid ?

He’s waiting for some spare Dosh from the FA cup money or if we win the Papa Johns, what does that say ??

Bogles the only real signing of any worth and notable wages I assume.

Carver brought in on recommendation and can’t hack Pro football at present, can bet he’s not on a lot either

We all want one thing but you just can’t run a Professional football club without serious people investing in the club.

I really hope all the lads brought in do themselves proud and we gel quickly and make a push or stay in L2

But Raj Singh you’re an absolute Moron.

Thomas ?

Nathan?

clubspokesperson......more gibberish and personal abuse....consistent if nothing else...

Club spokesman. Yawn yawn bloody yawn.

Anyone tired go to bed ©

What club are you a spokesman for The Glee Club
From your disjointed ramblings over the months it’s fairly obvious you’re just a ‘sniper’, here to whine and most of your points have the depth of the car park puddle.

snowy....."car park puddle"....waaaaaaaaah...

...and that’s pushing it!

Shallow AL

Club spokesman you are an absolute moron.

Is Club spokesman just SK39DD in drag...... ?

I don't think we've spent a lot of money, that much is true. I don't think we're going to ever be the divisions big spenders under Raj but we do have a club to support. I do hope he can do the honourable thing a la Harold Hornsey, if and when the day comes and another IOR show up.

Until then, more shrewd transfer windows like this one should keep us right, if not seeing the division alight.

Can anyone produce a squad list.
The OS has not caught up yet.

I have long suspected it was always going to be about shrewd signings for the foreseeable future... but I’m not disappointed by this bit of business.

exactly. its not all about throwing money around on every single player who may or may not come off. pools should follow the accrington, morecambe and wycombe way which has brought success for these clubs which their fans never expected. with pools much higher gated than the first two it could be that way with a bit more of money available for wages.

I believe it’s all about the attitude within the team, a good team spirit and lads who get on as a unit goes a long way.

Heard the same thing about Bryn, loan to buy.

Just proves that Raj doesn’t want to spend FA, He’s actually conning some of the uninitiated here

We’ve shifted out loads to pay Bogle and Bryn
We probably paying around half of Bryns wages say £650 a week

Remind me how many have gone
again ?

Basic maths and balancing the books.

Two quality kids from NUFC and Boro who hopefully will do well but paying very little wages .

Think Hendie probably went to pay Bryns wage being honest and he’s probably getting a lot more at Bradford

This is a farse and some supporters especially snowing and Poolie1 need to be a bit more savvy.

Your last line showed your utter naivety. 500k ?

plus if pools ever went down that line you could count me out of ever watching the club again. rather watch a load of lads with a good team spirit even if its not perfect than support any club that knows nothing but signing big cheques.

Nah just a drag

And Ludicrous after that last outburst.

Wrexham are living in Liars Bar.

Pools have done good business this window however you want to look at it - yes we had been promised maybe more perm signings of League standard but in Jan that just doesnt happen - even the mighty toon couldnt persuade every target they had. Even so reported today they threw a mega large sum at one just to get him and he still turned them down.
Anyways what Business Pools have done will be enough to keep us up. Rome wasnt built in a day (hate that cliche) but it wasnt ;and our main focus this year regardless of whos at the helm was to stay in the League. The fact we are still in 2 cups and one game away from Wembley is simply astounding by any level !
If Pools had suddenly thrown lets say all the money earned in this so called war chest at 3 players and they turned out to be nothing more than cash cows not interested wether pools played in the dog and duck league or the Prem and ended up being crap, but simply here for the cash. Then the ramblings around Raj would have been much worse - aswell as everyone wanting Spikes head. We will have money for the summer left over and more to add to that by then may i add. The summer recruitment process is the one. Lets let the men who know how to run football clubs and players do their job - we can do ours by supporting a winning team. Either way Pools will still be around come the end of the season and next and so on !

To compare our budget with Wrexhams is a bit unfair as they are punching above their weight financially for a club that size. What I think is a reasonable expectation of Raj is that he makes the club as self sustaining as possible and allows any extra income generated by success on the pitch to be reinvested into the playing squad. Also for him to a DEGREE of selflessness and step aside if a reasonable and genuine offer came in for the club from someone who could take us further.

As far as sustainability goes, off the field matters are on the up but need great improvement. Matters regarding the playing squad need to unfold further in the summer but there were promising signs from this window. If he sustains us where we should be for a club with our size of support then he is meeting reasonable expectations. Only time will tell.

The whole Wrexham thing... I dont know how much Raj was offered for the club. I look at it like this.... if I had spent a lot of money on a football club (one way or another it's not money you're getting back) then it would be valuable to me. There would be a degree of wanting the best for the club too but it would make me not want to just give it away to anyone. Whether Raj wanted to own a club so he could brag to his mates or rub shoulders with celebs or meet the PM is up to him. I don't know how much he was offered for the club. If it was a semi decent offer then he wasn't being fair to us, if it wasn't much then I kind of understand. In any case, Wrexham are a wealthy club but are still stuck in that nightmare league and we..... well we are of far more modest means but have reached the promised land.

A recurring strand among some posters, is this need to get rid of Raj, what’s your beef ?.......because I don’t like this line that’s being constantly banged out.
He’s the only one who stepped up when we were in the Shiite and we aint done too badly considering..... so for this mantra by some of .....‘You’ve took us as far as you can now f#*k off’, if he hadn’t stepped in as Rumpole would have put it, you’d be shopping on Saturday afternoons with she who must obeyed.
It must be great being told by ‘experts’ with nowt how to spend your money.

Cloughie once said " Rome wasn,t built in a day, But if i was the forman it would have been"

good old Cloughie

Don't where where you get the energy from to keep on refuting the bollocks that some people persist in posting. Pooly Imp's speculation about how much was offered in an imaginary negotiation is right up there with counting how many angels can stand on a pin head. Like Club Spokesman not being able to grasp that bringing in one set of loanees to replace another and allowing a couple of squad members who couldn't get a regular game to leave isn't 'evidence' of anything other than a manager going about his business.

clubspokesperson...you have had the honour of having a thread locked on here because of your personal abuse and defamatory false allegations against raj.....in your ongoing vendetta against him you recently sank so low as to use the colour of his skin in your attempts to ridicule him....and you continue to dish out abuse such as "fuck off" "absolute moron" etc......you are nothing but scum pal......

Raj spoke about the approach himself so I would encourage you to do a little more research.

Harold Hornsey, a true Poolie hero, saved this club long before Mr Singh was even heard of. If he'd have not put the future club to the fore then there would never ever have been an IOR era. Mr Hornsey had the club on an even keel but he recognised that IOR could take us further.... and they did. Raj is undoubtedly just as much a saviour but if the time came, I would expect him to have exactly the same sentiment about passing on the torch.

I think you are getting a little knee jerk in your reaction here. I am actually promoting more reasonable, sensible and realistic expectations of our chairman.

Spot on. Without Raj there would be no Pools. If Raj hadn't sacked Hignett and brought in Challinor we would still be in NL. I understand some people are critical but we are in a hell of a better place with him than we would have been without.

"Research on what? You sound as though he spoke only to you. We all know the background"

Then I didn't make it up and you aren't as bewildered as you make out? Thank goodness.

"Funny, I never recall anyone constantly whining about urging Harold spending more money and to move over for a new owner to step in."

That's what has occurred to me too to be fair. But when the time came.... he did. I was there too.

"
Would that be the reasonable, sensible and realistic expectation to sell up and clear off, because that’s the signal my radar is picking up constantly."

Then I suggest it needs calibrating.

Cant argue with that. I even remember Raj talking about being excited that DC was available after leaving Fylde. The rest is history.

I think a lot of us can criticise raj this season for maybe not strengthening the team when we were on the up, but one thing you can't knock raj for is he saved us and got us promoted. Maybe he is a lucky chairman for us hopefully it continues and gets us to Wembley.

I recall Raj speaking about the approach on Radio Tees and being very angry that the representatives of the Yanks expected him to hand over the club for nowt and walk away. He didn't call that a negotiation! I also recall the Yanks themselves saying that Wrexham was a perfect fit for them because the Wrexham Supporters Trust were able to transfer ownership to them as a debt-free going concern, so that their £2 million could be used in full to take the club forward. That was the deal they were looking for!

As for Harold Hornsey, he was indeed the saviour of Pools but also very fortunate that the unfeasibly wealthy IOR/Norwegians stepped in when they did. I don't doubt that Harold got his investment back in full. The only people in the club's history who wrote off their own investment and sold Pools for £1 were IOR themselves. Unluckily for us, Russ Green failed to do due diligence on the prospective purchasers - twice!

clappp

"Not the way YOU make out and I’d avoid the patronising tone."

I'll avoid patronising if you avoid pompous. Deal?

"You constantly contradict yourself to the point of confusion."

I get its a new concept for you, listening respectfully to another persons point of view so I understand why you might think it contradiction. Contradiction... often confused with contrary.

Calibration was something I know about actually, it’s something I got paid to do .... and in this particular instance we can all draw our own conclusion.... it’s re-calibrate by the way..

I am am so pleased for you. I apologise, I didnt know you'd been pre-calibrated. I assume your radar is constant wave? No facility interrogate a returning signal?

Best if you separate the comments out...I can’t tell my shite from your shite.
MAKE AN EFFORT.

Well said

Harold Hornsey was lucky to have got IOR to take over when they did as I recall him finding running the club single handed out his own pocket, prohibitive. There were even those who whined about IOR, but they were the days of ‘wine and roses’ for most of us.
What came after nearly did do us in.....just nearly, but there weren’t many local millionaires queueing round the block to step in.

raj may not be the totally ideal man for the job but it is what it is. there has been many worse at pools and everywhere else far worse. as soon as the game at bristol ended it was about survival this season and barring a miracle its going to happen. the club can re group in the summer to sign a few more lads to make us a realistic play off contenders which we never were this season. a few good early results got some fans more giddy than they should.

sod bloody rome, he should come back to run all the roadworks that are about.

Snowy, Harold wasn't lucky to find IOR - we were. Those were, generally, great days.

And we were so lucky to find Harold.

Remember the grim decades before Gibson and then Harold?

And yes, I might be in a minority, but I liked Gibson and he delivered some great memories, players and a promotion. So thank you Messrs Hornsey, Gibson and Singh.

I remember the 70’s getting 2,000 crowds was a dream and why were other clubs so good. Remember one sunny Saturday afternoon, last match of the season and we were up for re-election and I had a bad feeling sat on the Mill House terrace after the match thinking will this be the last time?
Pools now are another world from those days, but I suppose we appreciate the difference more....... Gibson was a roller coaster with no brakes, but it was fun while it lasted.

Roller coaster with no brakes....................belting phrase. Aye, the days when you'd get into the Vic and look to see if the bailiffs had taken the goal posts.