Aye, and all through the letterbox..

also unpaid creditors, who may not have quite the affiliation with the club that some do, who are now concerned that the club is in a bad place and are not going to hang around with winding up orders in an effort to regain what they are owed. Sometimes you can blag it a bit with the tax man and you may be lucky with when the VAT quarter ends, might give you some leeway on that side.

Looks like I've been banned from the board

Sad really.

I wouldn’t lose any sleep mate.

Haha I'm certainly not.

We’ll look after you mate don’t worry.

Now tell us what your having for breakfast tomorrow n what’s your favourite socks


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And which is your favourite Paul...

You are obviously too intelligent for them....proven by telling them their crackpot ideas won't work!!!!

Handing the players vouchers for food to see them and their families ok....nearly as mental as Hat Cam!!!!

I think we all recognise why the idea won’t work, but as said elsewhere on here in the future there is a good chance that we all need to work as one to raise money, so no point in shooting people down too much for suggestions they make

I think he’s a phil fan


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It would seem so Neil. You can't have an adult debate on there without being banned. My board my rules

You disagree, you get banned and blocked. It's easier to have a go at you then as you can't argue.

....,and then get abused for posting it in here. Allow replies there and that stops. Easy.

Asking why a ridulous idea is ridiculed is clever mind....

I'm bored, can someone amuse me......

A man is walking through the recreation ground of his local park when he notices a huge fight going on in full fury on the football field he is passing.

"What's going on?", he asks a spectator, watching from the side-lines.

The other replies "It's a match between the Masons and the Knights of Columbus."

"What's the score?" asks the first man.

"I don't know. It's a secret."

Anyone else ?

It's all falling apart...

Great shout Phil - Rodney as manager and Dell boy as his assistant - surely a massive improvement on the Harrison/Jenkins combo?

What’s your opinion on Rik n morty

This could make or break us


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You're cut.

I know paulm was the right choice.

Speak to Pro Boards. He cant just keeping banning people that disagree with him or locking threads every time he is losing an argument. I saw the thread and everything you said was perfectly reasonable and it seemed to me like you were just trying to help him out . If he had gone down the route of handing over cash to employees in brown envelopes he would have had HMRC all over him. Like you pointed out, it is illegal for a start.
He should leave this stuff to people who are qualified to do it. Yes he is probably just trying to be helpful but there is laws around this sort of stuff.

He wanted the Bunker closing down last week so censorship and burying heads in the sand in clearly the way forward. I don't know why he just doesn't make the forum closed off because anyone who doesn't toe the party line is silenced anyway. As far as I'm concerned if you post something an public forum it's open for public discussion if you don't want that make it a closed group.

Even from afar this is so frustrating and I feel like banging my head against a wall so God knows how people actually working hard to make a contribution feel. There's only so long you can actually skirt around something, people saying 'they mean well' or 'he means well' Do they? As far as I'm concerned from the start we've seen a concerted effort to deflect members and funds away from the trust due to a few having a personal agenda against a few of the people who set up the Trust, or even more juvenile and pathetic against this forum. That is not meaning well and it could potentially have serious ramifications concerning the future of Hartlepool United Football Club.

Firstly I can see why a bit of mild piss taking has been posted regarding some of those suggestions, they are absurd for a start but let's not get away from the issue that it's not nice to see peoples jobs under threat or the prospect of people not getting paid at the end of January, a notoriously difficult month after the financial demands of Christmas. Even some of the more relatively well paid players I'm sure live to their means and have financial obligations, most people especially young people often live right at the edge of those means. It's a horrible situation especially for staff who have worked at the club for a long time, it's them I feel for most. But any fundraising efforts need to be as one, and good money cannot be thrown at bad. If the club is insolvent then chucking a few grand into a black hole is pointless in the long run. Nobody wants to see the club die, everyone would be devastated and angry if it did. But I read the comment this morning from Mr Blue "about their group" talking about the trust which prompted me to post this. It is the supporters trust, for Hartlepool United Supporters, it doesn't matter who set it up if you are a Hartlepool United supporter it is your group. Most importantly the Trust have the ear and advice of Supporters Direct who have vast experience of the situation Pools are in right now and can help form a plan going forward that has proven successful at other clubs. So for the last time, put your ego's and unimportant agendas to one side and do what's required not for you but for the continuation of the club. No more groups, no more factions. Anyone who wants a voice and has the time to spare can surely offer it to the trust? I have no agenda or affiliation wit anyone on the Trust board I just don't want Pools, a club I have supported since I was six years old to die because some people think they are bigger than it. We have a great little club, and great fans from a Town that is at it's very best when it comes to together and rallies behind a common cause. Surely every Hartlepool Supporter needs to rally behind this one?

Good post PJ

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Well said PJ!!!!

You get the impression that some supporters think anyone calling themselves a businessman is the only person fit to run a club and these upstarts forming Trusts have no business getting involved as it’s not for the likes them.
Even now they expect to be saved by a benefactor, but the bleeding obvious is dawning on them and they’re scrambling around for something, anything, but not the Trust.
Incredible.

Top post on here PJ, I think this issue is what crystallises some of the feelings on the post related to the Echo article.

Was talking to a former Pools player yesterday who still has good connections in the game, he was telling me that an extremely wealthy bloke with connections to another north east team was recently looking to invest in a football club and was pointed in Pools direction, he had a serious interest until he actually saw the total car crash of a club that Pools have become, everything behind the scenes in total turmoil with the books an absolute shambles. I know this is basically what everyone knows but until you actually hear it first hand you still hope that someone would want to invest in the club, apparently not, the person in question withdrew his interest immediately and the prospect of anyone else wanting to throw money at the club must be very, very remote.

I'm not sure I believe that rumour.

Wasnt Raj Singh was it? Not sure that would have gone down well even with you lot.

Yes great post PJ - however the line '.....anyone who doesn't toe the party line is silenced anyway' is bordering on 'kettle, pot, black' stuff. I have never even visited 'the other board' and have no inclination to do so but it is becoming tiresome to be regularly and predictably criticised for posting opinions which differ from those of the majority. As you say surely it is time for fans to stop dissing each other and rally behind the common cause which is to try to ensure that the club emerges from these dark days and squabble another day.

Yep I agree with Smokin Joe....let him have his opinion even if you don't agree with it....Just have an healthy debate!!!!

Rubbish ...

I strongly disagree with everything.

Seriously though I thought you were just labouring your Harrison point a bit. You’re welcome to share it of course but the more threads you kept putting it on the more it was losing its point.

I’m still 50/50 on toto aswell. Never seen a cb be so good n so bad within minutes.

You are contributing to debate on this gaff though and that’s always healthy.


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Yeah you are probably right - I admit that have gone for Harrison virtually since the day he was appointed as I never thought that he was right for our club - even during the brief winning run that is ultimately all that separates us from the drop zone. However, the once-numerous defenders of Harrison appear to have either fallen silent or revised their opinion of him given recent events therefore I feel my initial gut feeling was justified.

As for Toto I watched most of yesterday's cup tie and although he was obviously much more refined than during his spell here there were still a couple of occasions when his fellow centre back had to pull him out of the proverbial. He was of course up against Premiership players - in name at least as West Ham were fcuking awful and the Shrews would have won if not for the much-maligned Hart. It doesn't seem that long since we gave the Hammers a decent FA Cup test following that glorious victory over Stoke City - happy days indeed.

People just disagree, you haven’t been banned or silenced you are free to post whatever you like within reason on here it’s very rare the moderators step in. So it’s not pot kettle black at all is it?

Your posts are often fairly extreme (like the one about Toto which was bordering on bonkers) and provocative so I’m not sure you can start playing the victim when people react to them.

No one has a problem with you expressing your opinion but when after every defeat you say the same "Harrison is totally crap and i told you so" stuff then it get tiresome.

At least you gave him longer than the 10 minutes you gave Nsiala!!

No, definitely not him, someone else, very wealthy and definately not a rumour.