It’s easy to come on here and moan about the situation we’re in, but how many are actually up for doing something about it ?

We are not powerless.

Football clubs are bought because for love or money basically.

So why can’t we boycott occasional matches, it’s the only weapon in our armoury.
Our loyalty is to our club, not who owns it, they come they go we’re married to it.
If people aren’t prepared to make the occasional sacrifice ….then carry on coming on here and moaning for eternity, but sometimes you just have to get of your arse into gear and show you care for the long term.

Something seriously needs doing we must have the softest weakest fan base in the country. If this happened in sleepy reading be hell on so why isnt it here?

I can understand fans who have season ticket still attending games but don’t buy anything in the ground no food no drinks nothing hurt him in the pocket only way we will rid our club off Singh

Well I stopped 2 weeks ago and will not be returning whilst that clueless clown is in charge.The only running of the club done by this clown is running the club down. I have been in business all my life like a lot of you have but have never known such a piss poor businessman. How did he make his money He literally fell on the care home money tree after helping a friend financially then he took over. Absolutely the thickest man I have ever witnessed who somehow flucked his way in life. He has always been and will always be a little corner shop owner working 16 hour days 7 days a week. At both Darlow and Pools he brought along his corner shop model so why are we surprised he continually fooks things up.

hes gone :D

They must read the board

makes all these posts pointless. well for a few weeks anyway.

The Board don,t arise as early as you Snowy.

If Ratboy hadn’t decided to charge into the bedroom at 4.32 (as I looked at the clock) for a pee, I wouldn’t have been up either

Well after yesterday I've finally accepted that a return to the Efl under this ownership is never going to happen again.

It was easier to stay there last time than to try n get back there. But we messed that up big style.

We just dieing a slowly but surely painful death.

Loads of local clubs stepping on our heals now.
Stockton Hebburn Spennymoor.
That's how far we have sunk.

Noticed our away supports about 100% down on last season which will soon eat into the Vic.

Looks like a part time future on the way.
Ah well what could of been.
Life goes on.

Didn't a group of fans/locals try to do something about it and made a couple of offers to Raj to give hundreds of thousands to walk away. Wanted to turn the club into a more fan owned and operated model.

Sleepy Reading have been far more accustomed to success so when things go tits up their fans are extra peed off because they are used to winning: they were even in the Premiership at one point. Contrast that to Pools. The Pools fan base are used to a constant diet of defeat and misery so being in the lower reaches of the NL with only one win at home all season is no big deal. I agree everyone should be up in arms but I can appreciate why they are not.

It’s quite simple…you have a day of inaction for one game and find something else to do… that’s the only weapon we have in our armoury.
But…people will chunter and chunter and grumble and chunter and do sod all.
Time to put up or shut up…armchair generals never win anything.

I don’t believe in a boycott, it would give Raj Singh the excuse to put Pools into admin, no skin off his nose.
It’s like when we used to have 1 day protest strike at work, the company weren’t bothered as they we would return the next day like the fans would for the next game.

That’s his choice, but it’s a big difference from a bunch of raggy arsed contractors with a strop on…to a football club. I know.
If as you state he would put the club into admin ….well we can all draw our own conclusions from that.

Bobby Robson (Newcastle) said it was not about the owners, club ,players or supporters etc it was about the town.
When i go i want the town to look in a good light to elsewhere and yes that means winning and having a good ground.
Go to matches and if you are dissatisfied make your voice heard and dont by anything.

Starmers stopped protest n shit like that.
Well if you English English.
The Boaties don't take any notice of him like.
Because it's 2 tier ship for sure.

Roll on 2029 n our SuperNige brings back Z touch of reality n Normalism.

Patience is a virtue.
Wonder what division we in by then.

Championship.
UTP.

Hartlepool Allotments Tuesday Laeague…just outside the playoffs..looks promising.

Relegation battle.

Boycotting is the answer, it takes funds from the meaning the club can’t pay the bills giving Singh the perfect opportunity to put Pools into administration.

we must be the only club in existance where any fan wants there club to go into admin. would love to know what the plan to succeed actually would be if that happened. play a vertual game against another defunct club possibly.

Yes, they seem to think we'll rise phoenix like and stampede back up the leagues in a matter of a couple of years. Just like er, erm, er, oh....... Bury? Darlo?

or someone like new brighton that only exist in memories.

From the experience of the time we had a Go Fund Me Plan to pay a tax bill there was a lot of small individual financial support for Pools, Pools now need some one with bags of cash to invest in the the club.

In the meantime we need to keep our heads above water financially, and stay in this league as a minimum.
Driving Raj out at the risk of going into Administration would be suicidal for the club and perhaps existential.
The drive therefore needs to be therefore to attract money to the club to buy him out, not push us over the edge where we'd be cutting our noses off. IMO.

Darlo get shit crowds , play in a ramshackle ground, but are a massive one league below us. In fact im sure they were in the play off positions just the other week. So fans of their club have somehow managed to pull them within touching distance of us and could probobly beat a fair few of the sides we cant which is quite embarassing really.

We on the other hand now look like a mid table national league side at best have a 120 year old in charge of the team, have a rather weird set up of a couple of blokes taking over next season with very little experience and our best players going backwards at an alarming rate, the gap between both sides should be huge but its now probobly minimal.

And what ground would we be playing on, would the council let us stay at the Vic, could we afford to?
What players would we have or be able to afford?
Darlo are still a level below us after 13 long years of playing really shit clubs, could our fans stomach that? And they're by no means a shoe in for promotion this season are they?
Bury are on an even longer journey by the look of things too. Which club having gone pop has ever come back and surpassed their previous level?

The club is now non sellable.
And declining by the hour.

We all know what's coming whatever your views or opinions.

We shall overcome some day.
Deep in my heart ido believe.
We shall overcome some day.

Off course we would still play from the Vic.

It's in the contract for our extortion c tax.

100% we stay at the Viv.
WSO.

It isn't about trying to put the club into admin. It's about sending a message to Raj. We've had enough. If he decides to put the club into admin then we don't want such a spiteful person in charge anyway. Admin isn't good but week by week we are seeing less and less to lose by it.
Season after season we see the same pattern, the optimists say the new signings are great the sceptics wait and see. Then the season goes off the rails. Another new manager is called for and a few more signings arrive. The season fizzles away to nowt. Year after year. Wouldn't be so bad if we had a EFL place to protect and covet. But we don't, we're being humiliated by pub sides.

So some want us to go down 3 or 4 levels and aspire to be getting back to playing these pub sides. If the ones who want to drive him out are backed by serious money we'd all be behind them. Look what happened when people wanted Hodcroft out, when he went we almost went out of business because of a series of asset stripping shysters.

These type of comments always ignore the huge single factor; we have a protected council owned ground. Darlo were homeless.

Incidentally, Darlo have caught us up. I wouldn’t be over confident if we played them next saturday.

Raj can't sell the club at the price he wants

He's absolutely deluded

If the fans decide to boycott home games, it sends a huge message

If he puts the club in administration- so be it, his overinflated price drops massivey and the club can restart

We have the Vic, no raj

With a never say die mentality, we can fight back in a few seasons

Anything would be better than the status quo, our current situation is likely slow death.

Who says we have the Vic or that we could afford to play their in tier 8?

We can fight back in a few seasons? How would that happen if we don't have any money or players or a structure, it's never ever been done before! It's a huge struggle to get promoted from all of the lower league levels, the odds are that we'd be out for decades.
And of course the new regime could be worse than the present one, hard to imagine but we've recently had TMH, Coxhall, Duxbury before Raj!
Going tit's up shouldn't be on any fans agenda or be a preference.

There are a few phoenix clubs in our division. The path is well trodden.

Do you really think the council are going to deny use of the ground? How bad would that look? Especially as there is a covenant to use it for sporting purposes.

In any case, you advocate doing NOTHING which is bloody useless. Another poster talked about nobody being willing to pay Raj's price. I concur with that. He's going to either have to write off some of his debt to get the price down (lol) or make us go pop. One of those options is so far fetched it's laughable, the other is scarily credible. The current status quo is a slow slow death. There's literally nothing to lose.

We had a fantastic opportunity to gain new owners with links to the town, vetted by actual Pools fans. It has to have been better than the current miserable situation. Raj put an end to that. Maybe they'll come back and realise our potential.

It only needs to happen once as a ‘shot across the bows’ warning.
Simple as that.

Personally I think we might very well find that Raj doesn't commit to fund us past June. Hopefully some money men are waiting in the wings?

Everyone is weary of this saga now, trouble is it makes no sense if you appear have no ambition.
We’re all just waiting.

A distinct possibility.

Well I would advocate going down fighting. It's just not in my nature to just give up.

The thing is we've just signed two players on permanent contracts, and Newcastle made a big deal about getting Miley fixed up. Tom Parkes and Adam Smith have signed up for next season, it doesn't sound like a club without a plan for the future to me. Not rose tinted glasses... Just logical thinking.

I wouldn't say it was some sign of massive investment or a surge in ambition levels but otherwise you're right, it does suggest continuity. Maybe he thinks if he ekes things out then eventually that crazy offer will come in.

His strategy is pretty clear; he’ll keep the club going until he gets his money back, he’s been drip feeding it back to his group for the past couple of years. It’s in the accounts for all to see.

No investment other than revenue generated by the club and with fans becoming more and more disillusioned with falling gates and poor season ticket sales in the summer, it all points to a slow death. We’ll finish mid table this season, bottom half next and so on until something changes.

The next manager will be on the cheap and no great shakes, given our record of sacking managers were hardly the most desirable club to join and that goes for players too. We’ll sign has been and kids.


It’s not a pretty picture but I can’t see any other outlook.

The next Manager/Coach is already there, LL is stepping down at the end of the season and Anthony Limbrick steps up with Featherstone and Skelton as his assistants.

So the bloke who has been intrinsically involved in the current shitshow takes over the reins. I am over fucking whelmed.

He's no Bob Paisley like is he?!?!

Sounds like No Bob Hope.

Funny but simple game football…win games and everything’s forgiven….,the hard part for us is actually winning games.

I think we've waited patiently enough for that to happen, knowing that everything that lies behind success on the pitch is a shambles.