Come on guys..let's start putting pressure on ken Hodcroft to talk to us... To be accountable for his failings, to explain what the hell is going on behind the scenes. Not an open forum....would never work....feelings too high, but a select group of representative fans to put questions Tom that normally would have been answered at the AGM...if h hadn't cancelled it!

I O R would surely be hating the negative press coming from the current situation....and as a result appear to be distancing themselves as much from it as possible. Let's demand answers and them get on with working together to get this fantastic club out of the hole we are in!!!

The chance of that happening would be somewhere between Zero & No!!!!!

3 hopes; no hope, Bob Hope and Antelhope

there is one undisputable fact about the owners... and that is they do not/could not/never have given a flying fuck about the Hartlepool fans!!!!

Well, in two days time they'll file their accounts (IOR) with companies house. They have done for the last 8 years or so anyway, so ideally, in 48 hours time there'll be enough evidence on the balance sheet to suss out exactly what they're hiding. (if anything).

come and get my balance sheet mate and get in early.

Have some faith in IOR. I know things are difficult the way things are with us going down but next season once Collins, Monkhouse, Austin and possibly even Horwood have been released there will be funds to rebuild. I also suspect that Barron will be off to pastures new or will have limited influance and Howard may possibly cut some sort of deal to retire unless his fortunes continue as they have today which is unlikely.

I'm slightly more jovial than I would have been but I honestly think that it will be an exciting summer (in a good way) for the fans of Pools.....

One thing is certain at times like this at Pools, the Gatling gun of grief and disaffection will have a stack of ammunition piled around it, the handled cranked at full speed and sprayed with venomous gusto at everything that bleedin moves ...... lots of noise, lots of smoke, lots of confusion and no one any the wiser.
The predicament we find ourselves in is a result of the performances on the pitch. Unlike our ingloriou past, the players have well paid secure positions, they only have to concentrate on doing what they get paid for. Therefore, the problem either lays with the players ability or attitude, we now know they have the ability, so it's either attitude or the coaching set up which is the cause of our grief .......!