Err, Chris Turner, haven't you overlooked something here?

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Mon Jun 22, 2015 11:07 am

Or did I miss the episode between Harold Hornsey and IOR where we nearly went bust?

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/sport/f ... -1-7320415

pooliecrab · **Joined:** Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:31 pm **Posts:** 6028

Chris Turner, whilst I'm grateful for him saving us from relegation and turning us into playoffs, seems to have gone bonkers in recent times.

PJPoolie · **Joined:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:28 pm **Posts:** 15342

It's very good of him to take credit for all of our on field success :laugh:

Harold Hornsey was a good man but he didn't really have the money to bankroll a football club he knew that and found some people who could so I suppose we weren't truly financially stable until IOR bought the club.

It's an interesting article especially the bit about Berge Larsen, as suspected and has been said for years it's his non involvement with the club after his erm tax problems that have directly coincided with downturn in the teams fortunes.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

“From 2007 onwards it was tougher to get budgets and players and various managers have found it difficult."

No chris thats the location.

From 2007 hartlepool moved to the north east and no ones wanted to play for us since.

yloop · **Posted:** Mon Jun 22, 2015 12:39 pm

Plus FFP came in.

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

We struggled cos we kept taking 2-0 leads.

pooliecrab · **Joined:** Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:31 pm **Posts:** 6028

Was that around the same time VAT was introduced?

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

pooliecrab wrote:

Was that around the same time VAT was introduced?

Yeah and we signed left footed strikers like Behan.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

And the LDB

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 22, 2015 1:07 pm

May I apologise on behalf of my father. He's probably drunk.

Monkey Magic · **Joined:** Sat Jan 31, 2015 10:57 pm **Posts:** 58

Tree_With_Hamster wrote:

pooliecrab wrote:

Was that around the same time VAT was introduced?

Yeah and we signed left footed strikers like Behan.

Do left footed strikers incur more VAT then? No wonder we never got a decent one.

PJPoolie · **Joined:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:28 pm **Posts:** 15342

Yubep wrote:

And the LDB

That was Danny Wilsons baby. He signed Danny Coles to deal with the LDB.

But as Chris Turner has taken credit for the entire period between 1999-2007 (apart from 2005/06 which he has distanced himself from) I suppose you're right.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Mon Jun 22, 2015 1:19 pm

To be fair, the “Financially the club was struggling badly [when IOR came in]” bit he refers to was before his time here, so he probably just pulled the statement straight out of his arse.
If I recall correctly, Mr Hornsey chose IOR after much deliberation, not as a last gasp rescue. There again I was getting my updates from the Sunday papers those days, so I could be talking out of my arse too.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

That was my logic.

Who are the players he signed that helped us have 6/7/8 years of success?

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

Yubep wrote:

That was my logic.

Who are the players he signed that helped us have 6/7/8 years of success?

Danny Hughes

ElvisC · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:55 am **Posts:** 4504

Andy Brownrigg

Wommers · **Posted:** Mon Jun 22, 2015 1:29 pm

Kevin Henderson

Rupert Ritzik · **Joined:** Tue Aug 13, 2013 11:38 am **Posts:** 174

For me Kevin Henderson was a good signing at the time. Honest, reliable, didn't shirk, wasn't intimidated and scored 17 league goals 2000-2001 - nearly three times as many as last season's top scorers.
As Pools progressed and strikers like Gordon Watson, Eifion, Boydy, Gabbiadini (briefly), erm Marcus Richardson, Joel Porter came in, we thought we'd left honest foot soldiers like Hendo behind... but we'd have been glad of a Kevin Henderson in any of the last three seasons.

alleztfc · **Posted:** Mon Jun 22, 2015 5:34 pm

Hendo was outstanding for me, like.

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Mon Jun 22, 2015 11:08 pm

Turner's first spell was great. You can't blame him from taking the job at Sheffield Wednesday, but I don't think he recovered from it. Did dreadfully with Stockport, who started playing brilliantly after he left, then scraped along with Pools for a bit until he was royally conned along with Russ into that Wednesday takeover consortium palaver.

I was over the moon he left at that point, Mick the Man showed what the squad could do with a bit of nouse.

Since then he's taken credit for all of the success Pools enjoyed, but never admitted to any poor signings or bad decisions.

Err, Chris Turner, haven't you overlooked something here?

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