Hignett on Radio Borer now, worth a listen, telling what it was like at Pools and his time at Boro with Karanka, available too listen too soon on the Borer Website.

Owt interesting? Confidentiality clauses probably restrict anything juicy.

For me he didn’t hold back about the financial problems at Pools and his relationship with Karanka, basically they didn’t get on.

Yeah there’s no holding back from hignett here.

Players not being paid on time. Players sold behind his back, or attempts to.
Morale low due to stuff behind the scenes.
Spoke nicely about Pam.

Rightly points out that most of his signings got sold for money and are doing ok.


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Come across very honest and for me should never have been fired. Pools would normally be a great place to start in management under normal circumstances but Higgy was used abused then "thrown to the lions" by a total out and out conman. I believe he will get another chance in professional football and in my humble opinion he will go on to be a very successful manager at a club further up the leagues.

I agree he has potential as a manager for a brief period he had as playing some good football added to us looking a decent team for half a season when Colin Cooper was manager and was assistant but he had to be relieved of his duties for the good of his own health he looked a beaten man.

It’s no surprise either when you listen to what was happening the players and staff weren’t getting paid on time for months. Players were getting sold behind his back, he was eventually told the wage bill needed be slashed massively. He was made to look daft by signing loads of young kids who weren’t ready for first team football now but it was part of a long term plan which was torn up after the ‘fallout behind the scenes’ clearly he alluding to the Goldberg situation. If he knew what was coming he wouldn’t have wasted wages on those players. He was basically lied to, like we all were, but knew what was happening that’s why he told Fleming to get out of it while he could. Basically it backs up everything that we heard last year.

He reckons with another couple of transfer windows we could have had a really good side if ‘the money hadn’t ran out.’

We should club together and take legal action against Coxall for the absolute littany of outright lies he stood up and told us. What is more galling is how flippant and cocksure he was when he did it. I remember on the ‘Sausage Sandwich’ day when Jones was unveiled him joking to guffawing radio Tees presenters when asked about rumours that ‘yeah the clubs fucked’ as if the people suggesting this were idiots. Well it was you fucking arsehole because of you. Can we make a pact, that the first person who ever sees the prick in public be it today or ten years make sure they ‘thank’ him for what he did to our club. I know if Mr Parmo still posted he’d be in

I agree with PJ - I Liked Hignett, but he looked ill as fuck by the end of it and it was probably in his best interests in a way to be sacked. Just hope it doesnt stop him getting another chance at a more stable club.

Hopefully Coxall ends up where Murrall and Harris are.

Obviously there was a lot going on behind closed doors but one thing Hignett didn't do was take any responsibility for his mistakes. We went on a good run of form when he took over until he played a weakened team against Accrington which started a run of 5 defeats at the end of the season and never really recovered. When he lost his job I can't remember many complaining.

Nobody complained because it was the correct decision, I'd have been tempted after the Cambridge 5-0 but I reckon that was right in midst of Coxall being at his most desperate.

Whilst I agree that it was his first real mistake as a manager major making those changes for that Accrington game and that it did have an impact on the back of that was season it had no impact on last season whatsoever.

We started the season pretty well, after the 3-0 at Grimsby things looked fairly promising I think we had only lost twice thirteen games in and sat just outside of the play offs. Then things started to unravel to lead us to where we are now. The fallout behind the scenes happened, on the field some key injuries happened and results took a nosedive. But what I agree with Hignett 100% on, which is what he said and not purely if he'd have remained as manager, if we'd have finished the season with the squad we started it with theirs no way we'd have been relegated. These are my words now, not in a million years.

We got relegated last season mainly because from January 1st, that is when Toto went probably at midnight, the chairman desperately tried to sell players for a month to recoup money to pay the wages, bills and taxman, with no intention whatsoever of replacing them. How do you think moral was in the squad and around the club? Forget about the manager it goes from bottom to top that sort of uncertainty. It's wasn't an impossible job but I can't think of a harder one in the Football League last season.

I find it fairly staggering that I see more criticism aimed at Hignett from some than I do of Coxall and Goldberg, the two worst things to ever happen to our Football Club.

Well Well Well P.J I have to totally agree with every single word from you in this thread Thats a 1st

it shows the phrase be careful what you wish for can be very true.

I still find it staggering how much damage that 'lovely lovely person' done

And completely got away with it


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The bloke is a complete and utter coward, Eddie Kyle called it right on the radio before the Doncaster game when speaking about his resignation as chairman that week and it being all about protecting himself. The games he was seen at after Christmas (which were few and far between) he had a minder with him.

It angers me when I think about such gutless, clueless little worm like him ever got his grubby hands on our football club. I wouldn’t have let him run the chipper club.

Yep looking at what Blackpool's owners are being done for sounds awfully similar

I don’t think he did anything like that. Coxall was a chancer he had no money to start with apart from whatever he was paying himself to be chairman (anything more than minimum wage would be an outrage) I don’t think he nessicarly took anything out of the club. However I would be intrigued to find out the financial implications of the ‘fallout’ with Goldberg that Hignett alludes to. Extremely intrigued.

I see, he's still a c unt either way

I don't know if Hignett would have been a hopeless manager or a world beater in the long run but Cocksall may have ruined his career. How is he supposed to get a job on the back of his tenure at Pools. Not given a fair chance with players being sold/given away from under him and the squad being mucked about with their wages.

That is the story for quite a few of our managers historically like.

I believe it has been alleged that he was paying himself £10,000 a month plus some very nice expenses claims. Even without any extra payments on top, if that is true he'd have had quarter of a million quid. Not bad for running Pools very badly for two years but I've got a feeling he was greedier than that. So much so that we're still far from out of the woods financially.

Be good when some honest people with a bit of expertise finally get to see those books and I'm finding it increasingly worrying that Pam is taking so long. Maybe the delay is because finding what money went where is very difficult but that's a scary thought in itself. Only other reasons I can think of are that Pam doesn't want the overlap period looked into too carefully or that Coxall/Goldberg have lodged claims against Pools to muddy the waters in anticipation of claims against them. All just guesswork though.

It probably goes without saying he will have been paying himself and his pals a nice tidy sum each month, not to mention a weekly train from Essex to Hartlepool which won't have been cheap. He was a conman, I do feel for Pam having to come in and try sort the mess that he no doubt left the club in. An absolute twat of a man, probably won't be the last scam this bloke pulls either.

He certainly wasn’t honest, he’s proven and prolific liar, I reckon he took staggering amounts out of the club in wages and perks, I just doubt any of it was illegal or comparable to the Oystons who transferred tens of millions of pounds out of the clubs bank account to another company they owned.

Coxall was an utter thief, shyster, conman and part of a consortium of like minded people including Murrall, Goldberg and Harris. I don't know the exact level of debt that he left behind or the outgoing money that he stripped from the club but I am sure of the following;

Pam Duxbury took over a financial asylum and I'm sure the more she dug the more she found. We knew about the selection of HMRC 'only glorified red letters' winding up petitions but thats the tip of the iceberg. Looking at it from a purely pragmatic perspective, if there was any more cash to take out then Cox-berg would have taken it so Pam can only be cleaning up after the party.

I know that there is stuff going on that can't be mentioned in public and processes are being followed but HUFC was basically bankrupt when she arrived so even the most sceptical person has to see that its impossible for her to be doing anything other than trying to get it back on an even keel.

I'm also pretty sure that if there is a case for the CPS to take further then the evidence will be forthcoming. Trouble is that Goldberg is an old hand at fraud so he'll have covered his tracks. Probably better than Coxall.

would you have bought a used car from coxall. just another in the long line of chancers in the game. the sorry thing is plenty believe him and them at the beginning.

Does anyone know what he is up to now?

I can't be ar*ed to have another dig on t'net, but guaranteed he's conning some other gullible fools. He was opening fake companies even while he was still officially one of the owners of HUFC.

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I remember finding another "recruitment company" of his, which had copy pasted all of its jobs from a reputable company.