He's got one of those faces hasn't he? The sort you wouldn't trust around kids.

They would follow a club run by crooks and fraudsters, and blindly hand over cash to someone blatantly robbing them, but would stop going if actual fans of the club took over or were forced to take over ? You wouldn't want them fighting in the trenches alongside you would you ?
One of the things stopping investors getting involved is division among the fans but when you actually look at it there about 6 of them stirring the shit day in and day out. Bloke running that group should just ban them as they are clearly out to cause chew.

Christopher Hackworth Just answer the question. Be open and honest unlike the bloke you were about to bin before he quit. You need to be open and honest
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Does anyone know who this fucking cretin is ?

Currently I believe the Supporters Group (the Trust and Supporters Club amalgamated some time back) has a similar number; the Trust on its own during our crisis years had 1700 at its peak, when we were a quarter partnership in a consortium. My point is that you guys may be all that’s between the club and it’s demise. Hopefully you can count on JS who is a great asset. If extremes such as Admin are to be tackled you’ll need every member (and high quality ones at that) and all the funding you can raise.


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He used to post on here for years and always get my back up massively (I know who doesn't ) as he was a Sunderland season ticket holder who admittedly went to a lot of Pools games home and away but he was always ultra negative about players and managers whilst talking absolute shite, the perfect marriage. I'm not sure what anyone has done to him on here or from the trust he especially seemed to have it in for Mr I but it's fucking laughable reading him talking about 'clearing the air' and 'change' from the Trust when the daft fooker has been one of the main protagonists in it all. Shall we chip in and get him his Sunderland ticket back?

Currently I believe the Supporters Group (the Trust and Supporters Club amalgamated some time back) has a similar number; the Trust on its own during our crisis years had 1700 at its peak, when we were a quarter partnership in a consortium. My point is that you guys may be all that’s between the club and it’s demise. Hopefully you can count on JS who is a great asset. If extremes such as Admin are to be tackled you’ll need every member (and high quality ones at that) and all the funding you can raise.


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At the moment there is a severe lack of them on the trust board. If you are capable of putting together a good business plan and realistic cash flow projections then put you hands up.

Thank you everyone, some of your comments have been quite touching.

While I'm on, I see that Chris Musgrave has walked away. He has said that he was good for £1.5m but the running cost (not the debt, thats written off) exceeded that. This means that all options are exhausted. I was part of the Singh / Hignett / Stelling meeting and the numbers achievable weren't anywhere near that.

That leaves administration as the very likely next step and Pools are going to need every penny. I would therefore urge everyone not to give a penny to Sage including the 'just giving' money. Duxbury has proved herself and incompetent liar. Others trusted her despite her failing to keep her word. I stated this loudly as a member of the trust board a long time ago but was not listened to.

Administration followed by liquidation will probably happen within days. Pools will be in the league below Darlo. I said the other day that a Trust isn't needed if Musgrave buys. Now a Community Club is the only option but it needs business skills to rally round. At the moment there is a severe lack of them on the trust board. If you are capable of putting together a good business plan and realistic cash flow projections then put you hands up.

The good part is that the club will start from a clean slate so costs and revenues are projectable now. More importantly, the ground is not under threat.

We need the Trust and the Trust NEEDS Mr.I!!!!

I have spent 20 minutes putting together the attached file.

There are lots of flaws with this Cash Flow, all figures are basically made up based on an assumption - and some of the formulas e.g calculating the VAT are not 100% correct.

This is for illustrative purposes only but could be used to begin to add figures and develop a picture of the clubs running costs.

If anyone is able to get hold of information regarding rent, rates, utilities, match day staff, sponsorship, emergency services etc then it becomes practical for us to understand what the non-playing staff costs are, figure out what sort of a budget the club under Trust ownership can afford and the difference becomes our playing budget.