Show me a single answer on that. Lots of dismissal but no answers.

That bit stands out.

Maybe implying the winding up orders will continue?


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Aye, until Thomas is sold in the summer and our debts are written off, makes sense to me.

It doesn't make sense.
How can using the money from the sale of Thomas make us debt free?
When IOR left the debt was cleared. So last summer pools were a debt free club.
We know that season ticket sales, gate money and everything else should keep a club self sufficient. So my question to Coxall is simplke. Where has the money gone? Why are we taking out loans? And if we don't find a player like Thomas foor next season to sell on, will we last a season?

Apologies for scare mongering... clearly I'm in the bracket of trouble maker.

This idea gets repeated like a mantra on here, and has been since the last years of IOR. I just don't know how true it is! I imagine it takes a massive amount of financial discipline, unity of purpose and constant fund-raising to be truly self-sufficient, as Exeter City appear to be.

Clubs at every level need a business plan. Professional football is a highly competitive environment and planning just to survive is a recipe for relegation out of the football league sooner or later. Plans to grow and develop a club, however well worked out, contain an inherent element of risk.

For clubs in the lower leagues, the only potential windfalls of cash (that really shouldn't be included in a business plan because of their uncertainty) are the sale of players or a successful cup run. I reckon Pools must have the worst record of all the clubs in the EFL in cup competitions. We are feckin' hopeless; the 'glamour tie' nearly always eludes us.

That leaves the sale of players. Pools aren't doing too badly there just now, but it can't be planned for. It's striking that all of the Pools' players (Toto, Carroll, Thomas, Carson, Featherstone) who have attracted interest or fees so far this season only got to our club because of transfer dealings by previous managers. Nobody has come up though the ranks. That could possibly change if Walker has a great second half to the season. One good game is a bit early to be predicting that!

I think that the kindest thing anyone can say about JPNG's current business plan is that it's wildly ambitious. The trouble is, most Pools fans have been decrying the club's lack of ambition for years. We might think that fans who are happily on the Coxall bandwagon at the minute are a gullible lot, but they're smart enough to know that there are no easy alternatives.

FFP is meant tro ensure all clubs are self sufficient. Pools are/should be no different.

I remember the days we had a squad of about 18 but apparently couldnt sign anyone else according to Ken due to that damn "FFP"

Talking of which, the transfer window closes in a few days, how about a mail article on a couple of new signings?

I wish Ken was still around for Brexit "due to Brexit we can't make any signings"

This is what frustrates me too. We sold approx 3000 season tickets at £250 a pop. So there's £750k right up front, include on top of that sponsorship, match day revenue and other possibly smaller sources of revenue throughout the season. How is it then possible to be issued with a winding up order barely a 1/3 of the way through the season?

Maybe I'm missing something obvious but I feel like the revenue mentioned above should sustain us for the majority of the season before any shortfalls in cash begin to affect us. Were this happening later on in the season I could perhaps understand the issues we seem to be facing.

Ultimately, our financial problems have been apparent from virtually the get go this season. So this begs the same question you asked, where has the money gone?

How many of those 3000 were kids? Or OAPs? Income won't be as much as you state.

Surely the summer is a real concern here. Unless season ticket revenues come in sharp after the season ends, a lot of the bills and salaries still keep coming in. Essentially the club could spend a lot of what should be next seasons revenue before we kick off the first game!

Scaremongerer.

GC has officially stated all is well and the moon is made of cheese.

There is nothing to see here.

Even if it were half adult tickets the rest kids and OAPs, that money factored in with the stadium sponsorship deal would be a very decent chunk of change, possibly enough to see us through to the end of the season at least one would assume.

Of course it should.

But some would rather not investigate/interrogate that.

As an armchair expert, can you tell me how much this would be worth?

I found a tampon down the back so I am assuming it is period furniture

And the old monkeybutt is back. As funny as daesh.