A few of my thoughts, feel free to comment or provide feedback here

https://justapoolsfan.blogspot.com/2022/10/test.html

Thanks Benjy. There's a lot of food for thought there - probably too much for one reading.

Be prepared to respond if people put an interpretation on the financial figures you have presented that isn't yours.

Good to hear about the investment in the Vic this summer (which, as you say, is the equivalent of a house tenant doing up his landlord's property). Even better to hear that Raj knows he will have to put in more investment to try to turn this season around on the pitch. As you rightly say, cutting corners on recruitment earlier this year hasn't paid off - in fact it's been a bloody disaster.

Well that reads like a report supplied by either Raj or club employee. Noticed quite a few words used often by Raj in his interviews. Also you appear to have got a lot of information from the questions you asked ( unlike others) but somehow forgot to ask the main question regarding size of budget. Its very clear you see him as some sort of god.

We are bottom of the league with many off field problems due to Rajs decision making.

Hes put his money where it counts, now he has a platform to demonstrate he is a capable and successful chairman, as so far any forward steps have been followed by backwards ones.

A new approach is needed.

I think he can deliver, but time will tell!

It was like the 5000 fans n sponsors who put loads of dosh into Pools come out of Sings own bank account.
Then there's all of last seasons unbudgeted incomes.
See were we are this time next year eh

Just read that report again.
If the wages are correct then its nigh on impossible to attract decent players to the club.
Kind of explains the major downfall since DC bailed out to Stockport.
Whats that saying pay peanuts ya get monkeys.

As the league table n 1 win in 25 tells it how it is.
Can now see why Morpeth n South Shields is a resonable alternative.
Ah well what will be will be.

Why should we trust raj Singh to invest or improve things in January? Haven't we been saying this since the day we got promoted? Nothing has happened apart from false promises and the odd rumour we keep missing out on prolific strikers. We are signing national North standard players and that's been kind.

all raj can really do is appoint the right manager and make money available for them to use s hopefully correctly. coming out and telling the truth, no false promises or rumours.

We were fed the excuse after promotion of the short window from late national league finish.
Was still plenty of time if ambition was shown.
Will cut him a bit of slack there. Plus the £1million skytv money allegedy paid 12 months later this summer.
Then last Januarys window was all about off loading as much of the squad as possible to cut the pay roll.
Not a problem if it meant we were really gunna go for promotion this season NOT talk about going for it to sell STs.
Now its excuses of being badly advised for were we are now.
End of the day its a results buisness thats why the fans boycott of the Vic is growing by the week.
Ya cant mug the hpool public forever.
UTP.

Forgot to say weve replaced shit with shitter.
Top notch recruitment that like.
This weeks mini rant over n out.

Kev….you’ve covered all the bases, you must be exhausted, so why not get a pro forma rant fest post to put out every time the anger bubbles up, save you a lot of work.
You can tweak it if things ever change.
Happy to help.

You can sum all that up in a few words, it's never Singhs fault.

Absolutely right that in those periods (both were National league) we couldn't afford good players

It was a miracle that we got promoted, we had a top manager and top strikers, and the rest of the team worked their socks off.

The fact we couldn't afford good players changed last season once we had the cup success, boosted revenue from larger crowds, compensation etc

Raj had the opportunity to bring in an experienced EFL manager and EFL players, we didn't do that and now its costing us.

That responsibility sits ultimately with Raj and if he sticks around he is going to have to spend significantly in Jan to fix this total mess.

You a one man band now Snowy.
Even you best bunker mate the Crank has deserted you.
Like you say only a game.
Respect to the Darlo lads for the pre warnings.
Shame we have to meet again in non league circumstances.

End of the day no regrets in me 47 years of being a poolie. The lifelong mates who are top quality.
The Ones who are no longer with us (purdy), etc.
The end of an era for sure.
Hopefully better times return and the younger generation of poolies can enjoy being a poolie.
UTP.

Always stood by my guns Kev and sometimes it backfires big time, like this time.
But, unless Curle can put a rocket up the teams collective arse, we’re left with the winter break and not signing new players (which I assume Curle is working towards) would be suicide because there’s nothing left and we become dwindling bystanders watching the crash test dummies on the pitch…crash.

Snowy and Poolie1, the bunker’s answer to Batman & Robin! His little mate has deserted him though…

Cos get the pizzas in!

Cos we’re in for 8 or 9 forwards!

Ermmm… hang on a minute.

For your information, I have no idea who Poolie1 is, never met him …. not even a pm, but it’s good to see you’re concerned though.
Mind, you could be bunker’s answer to Captain Mainwaring.

if raj had advertised the job nationally instead of taking advice frnew someone else and their mate recommended hartley then it might have been better. suppose doing that would be better than having suits being paid a good whack for doing it. and ending up in a worse position than we were in.

Keeping appointment’s in the hands of suits and analysts hasn’t really worked…but what do they do when they’re not advising on managerial cock ups?

A Carlisle fan on another forum reckons, Curle WILL get Raj to cough up come january, Or he will walk...

I have no doubt about that, he’s that out of driven bloke.
In fact if he hasn’t been promised money, what would be the point of hanging around?

I am sure he advertised it in the Teesdale Murcury.

Probably under the ‘Animal Husbandry and Sheep Shearing’ Ads section.

I normally judge chairman by their motivation, and in that respect I like Singh--he isn't going to come out of all this any richer and put up his money when no one else would (yes we'd all love him to put more in but have to be realistic)

That being said his recruitment has been very poor, with Hartley in particular a disaster.

Has he put his money in, or will it turn out to be a loan? That seems to be how it is done nowadays.

If its a loan how is he realistically going to get any of it back?

He must be well pissed off. I don’t suppose for one minute he took charge to fail. If he was just in it for the money, you’ll find a successful team is always the more profitable option.

What size feet has KC got so i can order him some Walking Boots from Sports Direct.
Sweeney interim manager from Feb to May.

put yourselves in his place for a minute. you employ someone who recommended him and you trusted. was let down by that person and the bloke you employed. unlimately the buck stops with you when really you are not the person to blame. can imagine he will be as pissed off as the rest of us with the whole affair.

All of the successful businessmen I've known backed their own judgement way ahead of any 'adviser,' paid or otherwise, when it comes to spending money. Raj will have known as well as any football fan that appointing a bloke who had only ever managed an U-21 side, followed by a bloke with no experience of managing in England were both calculated risks. Plenty of experienced English managers were available in the summer - Keith Curle for one.

Yes, the buck stops with Raj. He wouldn't have it any other way. No 'adviser' heads have rolled following Hartley's sacking. He gets shot of managers who fail him quick enough and showed no mercy to Craig Hignett (another Boro connection) even though he was once his right hand man in football matters.

I don’t think Singh can afford to sack anymore staff after paying compensation to the other 3 managers/coaches which must have used up some of the funds for players.

Are football contracts unique? Managers feck up and you still have to pay up on the contract, same with players….can’t think of any other industry where this happens.
There should be some sort of tribunal in football to decide.

Stockport paid us compo.
Since then Sing has introduced a 6 month probation period to avoid compo.
Are you his bunker spokesman

They would have been paid a Non Disclosure Fee to ensure they didn’t go running to the media airing their grievances about being sacked.

Ok.
We call it a draw.

If someone comes along wanting to buy the club, Singh can call in his loan as part of the deal.
Or alternatively, if he pulls the plug then he makes himself one of the main creditors as he did with us.

He can pull the plug anytime he wants, The club will survive just like yourselves.
And if the club reforms doubt he will get a penny, Hope not but you would know better than me.

Need yous to get into the NatLge asap.

selling or pulling the plug out on a stable league club would be more financially beneficial to him as going it after dropping back into non league.

Maybe he learnt a lesson from his Darlington experience…?
Thing is, the thing that really buggered Darlo up wasn’t Raj, but George and his dream.

the arena was the end of darlo as it would have been to anyother similar sized clubs before and after them. where were they ever going to get the extra fans to fill the bloody thing where clubs like bradford city with the size of the local population never put a sold out notice up. there are dreams and then there are nightmares.

Singh was badly advised, whilst he runs a successful Care Home business running a football club is a new ball game. He was badly advised and appears to have surrounded himself with others who have no idea how to run a football club either.
He would pull the plug tomorrow if Pools started to cost him money, he has no allegiance to the club, fans or the town.

The Arena definitely spell the end of the club as it needed a big backer to make it work, all the chairmen we had post George were after it for the land usage around it.
Singh had the chance to buy the lot for £2m which is what was secured against the stadium in way of a loan from Scott & Sizer. He wanted them to take a lot less than that and they rightly dug their heels in.
I have no doubt Singh wanted to learn from his mistakes and prove everyone wrong but all the signs seem to point out that he hasn't. He still changes managers more than most and still blames everyone but himself for bad decisions made.

:Don’t get me wrong Mr Loan Star, I’m not defending hum, just hoping he has learned something. As for not taking the blame, a wry smile crossed my face, what Chairman/Owner ever did.

Could it be that the problem is some people like him have is they built their businesses up from scratch and cannot stop micromanaging the organisation as they see it as theirs and are incapable of delegating to professional managers.
Good managers often do not like working for these micromanagers as they simply are not in control and good work is often scuppered.
If anything goes wrong they blame the managers who have no scope to manage and will never trust a manager again.
Just think of a certain bunker in 1945.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmi0Xts6Y04
Is this the case?

all those managers he did sack gave him very good reasons to do it. really doubt that challinor would have stayed no matter what money he was offered. homesick for his north west.

Chan did what was required of him, Good luck to the guy.

When Raj took over Pools what was required of him?????

I would say....

1. Save us from oblivion.
2. Get us back into the EFL
3. Consolidate our EFL status.

After that hopefully compete successfully in league two and get promoted to league one.
Consolidate league one status and...........................

He achieved the first two but is stumbling at the third hurdle and has the rest of this season to steady the job.

Time will tell on the rest.

One of Singhs biggest faults is finding a good manager. He went through Todd, Staunton, Davey, Kidd & Cooper in under 3 seasons with us.

got a feeling that january is going to be a big month for raj as well as the club. failure to deliver will turn those fans of his to at least fence sitters and the knives will be out from the rest.