Well since I was deserted by MrBlue for his sons wedding, still no excuse to me, to attended the meeting on my own, it's been left to me to give you a update on what was said.

Well as you can imagine, going in to the meeting a few sour and concerned faces, and Pam leading the netting did not waste any time in getting straight to the point, she made it clear how upset everyone was at the club, upset at the performance and the way things have gone and what fans have been saying.

Right on finance, she made it clear the finances are fine, ok not brilliant but no way in the dire straights a lot of fans have been making out, and as pointed out the only people who would know the finances are her self, Gary and the accountants, so we're all this I have been told this and that comes from is utter rubbish, So I asked about season tickets and hoping others would follow up with questions and may be get more, well no one did and was left to me, so I asked about next season and we're we stand, Pam was very clear and very open and said there is a plan B and there is no way this club is going in to administration or go bust, yes there would be harder as they expect season tickets to go down and sponsorship, but they have plans in place and they would be doing everything to make sure we returned back to football league asap, they acknowledged not easy, but there is plans in place.

In regards to Jones and fans saying he has no passion, was made clear Jones is passionate and she made it clear Jones is sackable and the rumour's of him been unsackable is rubbish, and she is not related to him, she is not in any way linked to him threw former companies or work. Jones is already scouting for next season, and I don't think I got it wrong but it seems he has players in place, but these players will depend if we go down or not, so to me it means we stay up a they sign, we go down and no they won't, that's my view of things any way.

I asked about hotel stays when we are club with not great budgets and money, Pam made it clear she did question and ask jones about this and really went on to it, but understood what jones was saying, preparation and making sure the players are ready and getting everything they need before the game, believing it is in the players interest, team bonding, and they would perform better, so I said, well it hasn't worked has it, but it was pointed out no it hasn't, but if it meant at the time they got the points we would have said it would work, but I said why not have breakfast together at training ground, meeting before set off, can't tell me 2 hours on bus is that bad for the players, but it was pointed two hours can be 3-4 hours with traffic problems.

The big announcement, right there was going to be a big announcement in January, we was told it was about a massive sponsorship deal, GC spent a hell of a lot of his own money, it was made very clear no money was spent by pools, but GC spent a lot of time a money trying to wrap it all, it would have been biggest sponsor ever at pools, but right at he last minute they pulled out, was a big let down, due to the time a money GC has spent setting up the deal, I get a feeling there working on something else on now.

Trust, it was mentioned about rumour's and sorry forgot name of the lad on bunker making out he knows this a that and saying it the name of the trust, Ronnie Harnish made it clear to pools they have nothing to do with the trust and do not speak on there behalf, and the trust are setting up a displinary so they can deal with these problems, Ronnie harnish told pools he had spoke to the people in question, this lead on to other questions and rumour's coming out of the club, the girls from the office Sarah a becky was not happy, becky especially that some rumour's had been near credit from coming from the office and girls, I know something anyone who tells you they have friends working at the club and it's come from there are talking utter crap, after the way becky reacted its clear they was offended to even surgest they would leak anything from the club, like I pointed out it would be p45 time.

In regards to responding to rumour's, like was said the more they respond the more people will pick holes and try to make something out of it, and the turn what they say on the head, so it seems like most clubs it's best to just let people get on with it, but Ronnie harnish remarked it may still be best and put rumour's to rest, the problem is when things go wrong fans fear worse and keyboard warriors come out of the wood work, and the club need to reassure fans, when they hear nothing fans fear, but like mark Simpson said, if they put a staitment out, peoplel would only pick pocket everything and turn it around, but I'm with Ron not his one, I think a staitment could be a good idea.

Badge, by the next meeting on May 4th, there should be images available, and at the donny game people will be given the opportunity to have there say on the 4 that have been chosen and pick the one they would like, the new kit has been chosen, and may be, just may be the players might wear it on the final game of the season, but then auctioned off as there be one off with the old badge on it.

I think I've covered mostly everything, the club in my views are not even thinking of going down, and that we will stay up, and I did agree it's all about focusing on us staying up and everything else is for May 6th.

Oh one final thing, NO pam is not the chairman or the chairman in waiting, no interest in that, and as she said she wishes she had the money, so I said win lottery Saturday and you'll be ok, and take over lol,

Well if Pam said Dave Jones has passion, who are we to question it.


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I can't see how you can call someone gullible when all they have done is give information about a meeting at the club

I will say this, if Ronnie Harnish is talking about disciplining members of the Trust simply for posting the truth on message boards ( which I don't for one minute believe is what he said ) them he should step down as Trust Chairman immediately.

There is no sensible club/fan dialogue.

My main issue with it PJ is that he make what is in my opinion a fairly serious allegation about The Supporters Trust. Namely that Ronnie is going to take disciplinary action against his own membership for reporting factually correct information on a message board.

That has been widely published as Gospel on at least 2 public forums and shows The Trust in a very bad light.

I've discussed with people who were there who state this is 100 per cent not what was said. As one of only two people this alleged disciplinary action could be aimed at I find this a very strange statement to have been made.

I'm sure it also does not reflect well on Ronnie either.

I will be discussing with him tomorrow but to be fair to the folk that have posted on here, it is a fairly serious allegation.

I've spoken to Ronnie H and he has no plans to discipline anyone. Which is bad news for the 3 S and M members that had volunteered for a session.

Unless anyone has anything else they want to add I suggest we just lock the thread and move on .

The world's most gullible man simply reported on what he heard at a meeting he went to in his free time in between spending money he can ill afford taking himself and his kids all around the country supporting Pools ..... show some respect !

I won't even link his latest gem then

Maybe the money he spent was the loan he took out. It may have been in the clubs name but he promised he would repay it personally.

He is basically saying because Darlo have hit a bit of ceiling it proves fan owned clubs can't work at Football League level.

Nobody has mentioned the £1.5 million+ plus extra revenue a Football League club generates compared to a Conference North club though.

Theirs a real misconception that Pools get buttons and our owners are putting in money to keep the club afloat when the reality is the opposite. Since the money went up from the Football League its (£800,000 per season now I think) not that hard to be self sufficient. Especially when our average gate is almost 4,000.

These meetings should have proper minutes to put on the website.