Let me be one of the first to say I will not be buying any season ticket next year no matter what the price is unless ior are gone or serious investment takes place. By serious investment I don't mean cheap loans or strikers with embarassing goal scoring records The club can come out with the bull of needing the season ticket money in advance like the last few years and still no investment has taken place so as much as it will hurt and be spiting myself but not one penny will go in the ior coffers from me. I will just go to the away games and give clubs who are fighting like hell on 1000 crowds my money.

Bye bye

Lets be honest, you won't be going to home games then

So let me get this right. You will travel to other teams and give them your money when for all you know they could be run nearly as bad as us.

Plus you are prepared to travel to watch your team but not put any money in. Be no fucking team if everyone took that attitude .

A major part of our downfall has been the season ticket prices. Not enough funds and no real chance of attracting match day walk ups.

I will always support the team regardless of who runs the club and what league we are in.

Or I could turn it round and say why the hell would you want to give ior more money? Can I ask you one thing your blaming lack of season ticket money can you explain why Dagenham Accrington morcambe and burton have way better squads than us without receiving a penny in selling players either. If season ticket prices was our downfall how come ior persisted with it? Time you woke up to what's happening

If people think myself and many other hundreds who will now stop going to home games is the downfall of the club then fair enough I will accept responsibility will ior accept their part too? I doubt it. Where do people think we will be in one years time under ior? I tell you were on the verge of the conference north one league above Darlington providing they don't blow it.

How badly other Clubs are run is a concern mainly for the supporters of those Clubs. Our owners are currently giving potential shit owners of other teams a master class in how to successfully run a Football Club very badly. If IOR continue past this season there will, very shortly, be "no fucking team".
Is our only choice to put up and shut up or accept oblivion? If so I'll take oblivion as the Club will not be worth supporting.
The fact that they're trying to screw a last few quid from gullible supporters with this insane pitch sponsorship rip off speaks volumes. I sent a polite e-mail when the TMH deal fell through asking Ken or Russ what their future plans were and I don't think I was the only one. Did I get a reply? Did I fuck. And yet they expect me to subsidize some kind of bonus scheme as a reward for the most disgraceful season in our history!
Oh - and, if IOR are still here when season tickets are up for renewal I'll be declining, whatever offer they dream up.

I'm not sure as to the point of a boycott at this stage; we want them out, they want to leave and are trying to find new investors. We'll be getting what we want when they find that. Its going to have to be some speculative punt from someone to think that if they buy a club loads of fans will suddenly come back.

I think we're stuck at the minute; I don't want to give money to IOR either but I'm not sure what it would achieve. On a plus not there is no FFP in the conference

Oh shit Ken will have to find some other spurious reason for them not reinvesting a penny in the club.

I mean is it because of FFP that they no longer look after the pitch properly? By my money it has fuck all to do with it. My guess is that he'll blame a shortfall on the the lack of football league TV share, VAT, the council and the niggers.

How can he blame niggers apart from Ronnie Moore loving them? I think VAT

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Why wouldn't Ken and Russ be bothered about what division we are in, surely their pay is subject to relegation clauses like the squad. We are run in a businesslike fashion and failure has consequences.

There pay is trousering the profits from selling over £1 million worth of talent and not reinvesting it in the team.

To the fans who are failing to see they are winding the club down before they go its time to wake up and smell the coffee!

It wouldnt surprise me one bit if that were to happen.
They are inteligent buisnessmen who know how to look after themselves.
To them we are not fans merely customers.

Precisely chip that's why any money I have I rather give to new owners

That sounds about right imo.

makes you think how stupid some people must be if they buy a st in may or june. Must be brain dead.

I also think anybody getting a season ticket early would be a bit touched

Regarding the pay on the day prices i fully expect them to be the usual premier league/championship prices under Stan n Ollie!

If its going to end up new owners or fans owned between the start of season and nov/dec.
Then a half season ticket for last 11/12 games would be the best option assuming the new people would have to take this on board.

If new owners came in mid season they would 100% offer season tickets for the remaining fixtures.
It wouldn't make sense for them not to.

Would you book a holiday in advance and pay for it to a company who openly admit they want out of the business?

A bit like travelling back in time and still buying that ticket for the Titamic.

Then they ask you to pay towards the upkeep of the hotel you're staying in...

As was suggested above. The common sense (!) approach would be to refuse to buy season tickets if Ior are still here and if new owners come in immediately prior to the season or even part way through it they would be selling season tickets anyway

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Call me a Conspiracy type fella but....was that all a show orchestrated by IOR....fecking'll even Russ was laughing in the background....FUFOFFS!!!!

Shit....I forgot to say....I think it was btw!!!!

CONSPIRACY mutley of course it was.
I said yesterday hodcroft n green are inteligent buisnessmen and theres no such thing as an honest one.
Rewind back to end of november we lost at home to wycombe 3 1 there was a lot of chants of hodcroft out and sack the board..Then Blyth bombed us out the cup.
There was protests sorted on here and itb for the oxford game it even got a mention on radio tees during the week before the game.
Then all of a sudden we are getting took over with the promise of new signings and the so called £14 mil debt vanishes but green keeps his job.
Peter harris was hired for six weeks to take the heat of ior and get them through the transfer window without getting any grief of the fans.

And did this takeover shit work for ior?
Of course it has because the fans havent said boo to them in the GROUND plenty of rants on here and thats as far as it goes.
Maybe that will change when we lose these next two game!

As for renewing me season ticket not a chance while ior are still here taking the piss.

IOR wont be getting my dosh but we all know there are a number of fans who are probably already waiting for their renewal letters. Its what they live for. The same ones will be excited for the fixtures coming out even though its the conference.

Well for what it's worth....my annual contribution is generally for a season ticket, sponsorship of a players kit, subscription to the match day programme, Goldline and Pools Player. That excludes match day lottery and club shop. Don't know the exact amount but if the Trust gets going then I'll donate all of that instead of giving it to those two clowns running the club. As much as not supporting my club hurts me I can't give them anymore cash.


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its very important to remember that by not buying a season ticket you are supporting the club. Its those getting a one that arent. They are supporting IOR.

Check out the fb page, they are all there

Another reason why this club is f*****d. The FB crew can't see past IOR or even understand what the Trust is for. Happy for there money to be siphoned off to God knows where and yet can understand enough to see that 1 million plus in transfer fees and season ticket money is going somewhere but not on the pitch, the ground or the team?


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This.

And just as the trust is formed, russ green starts talking to the press again about investment... fancy that!

I just poked my nose into that FB thread and getting dogs abuse for it!!

I have to go to work in a bit so fortunately I can duck out of it

I had a look on there n lost the will to live a little bit.

I'm just glad they dont post on here, i kinda like that they are all in the same place so can be ignored easily.

Like a cyber care home.

I like the comment about let's see how many season ticket protestors go to Wembley!

Oh you after agree with leeds a Poolie


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To watch next years fa cup final?? Anything is better than supporting pools I guess.

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i cant find this fb group... what is its exact name, i just get the official one and the trust one...

The fact that FL approval was granted kind of blows the conspiracy out of the water to be fair.


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I don't go for the conspiracy theory for one simple reason... that's because over the years, the owners have been more than capable of stonewalling effortlessly, so why they should go to such elaborate measures in this case is out of character for me.

I cant find the fb èither who are they?

Put me in the "talk of conspiracy is bollocks" brigade too. IOR can basically sit on their arses and never do another thing, without having to answer to anybody. It's not like they haven't spent 17 years perfecting it or owt.
I'll believe in a conspiracy when someone comes up with a sensible motive for their enaging in what would possibly be the most transparent conspiracy of all time.

Might not of been a conspiracy but they certainly managed to drag out till after the transfer window was shut. I wonder what the excuses will be in the summer for signing cheap rubbish

There excuse will be a lack of season ticket sales.

I don't believe in the conspiracy but it was certainly very convenient and at a time that couldn't of suited IOR better. When IOR see there's a significant drop in season ticket sales and see there's a genuinely interested buyer they will hopefully see sense and GIVE the club back to the fans.

I'll probably be renewing my season ticket. Not because i support IOR and not because i'm against a supporters trust but because I like going to watch football on a Saturday afternoon. I don't want to go watch Boro, Newcastle or Sunderland. I don't watch much Premiership on TV.

Is there a way I can still watch Pools and support the trust? That doesn't involve visiting Alfreton away next year?

If ior are genuine about finding new owners then putting the club into administration should not be an option.Only time will tell.