I see Rachel is complaining the club is stalling over accepting the £84,000 to pay HMRC and other creditors.

Sounds like Pam & Co are trying to find a way to get it for themselves perhaps in some complicated deal with one of the remaining interested parties or through terminating Paul Watson’s contract. We may never know.

Is there anymore required to make sure that not a penny of it goes to the club until this lot vanish ?

Now theres a shock.

Maybe Rachel has asked for a receipt and not one of them is willing to put their name to it. They’ll have been hoping it was going to be in a Morrison bag for life.

Ohh and by the way Pam and the rest of you twats, it’s our club for life!!

Just Fuck them off the thieving kunts!!!!

Put The money in a safe place till this bunch of parasites fuck off then use it for the right reasons.

The won’t be interested as they can’t pocket it and it’s going to delay when they can bail out, they’ve probably took what they can pretty much now maybe Woking can be one last pay day before they are never to be seen again. They aren’t bothered about paying creditors even the Tax Man, they aren’t bothered about the club. This money is probably a problem for the grand plan they’ve had all season.

This is further to support the 99.9% belief I have that they are asset strippers.

If Wrexham was #savepooldday the Woking game needs to be about making everyone aware what these scumbags are doing to our club.

Yes this is most peoples thinking.

If only people had suggested that was the wisest thing to do from the start....

Anyway why is Rachel having problems, I thought they had some accountant doing all this for her?

Bet she wishes she'd never fucking bothered. Pack of thundercunts, the lot of them

If they dont accept the money there hasn't really been a chance that they are prepared or interested in saving the club as it has been concrete clear what their intentions are.
Maybe in the future some truth may emerge as to what has gone on at the club and the money in justgiving is from genuine people old and young and sage will still be trading how ever even by their standards stealing money from the old and young is a step to far even for these parasites.

^THIS THIS & THIS!!!! ^

So how do we do it? stand outside the ground chanting not very complimentary things about the owners ! go in and unfurl banners, and chant not very complimentary things about the owners. Wait for the owners to appear after the game outside official entrance, tennis balls, pitch invasions, don't buy lottery tickets or half time pint.... Or just stay at home and let them stew in their own juices.

Apparently Rachel is paying this tax bill tomorrow according to her tweet. She now has the account details.
Some guy tweeted the Mail about the delay and they replied that they would like to speak to Rachel about it. What puzzles me though is that they also want to speak to "Tony" and "Mike" about it. I thought it was up to Rachel what she did - or so everyone was saying it should be, so why are these two involved.

Bandwagon jumpers

I’m not sure it really matters, paying the Tax Bill with part of the money is good as long as not a penny of the rest gets into the hands of the owners. I’m convinced they don’t want to pay that tax bill to esculate the exit plan.

I agree PJ, doesn't really matter who has what discussion and with whom, so long as that bill gets paid that's all that matters in my eyes.

It throws a spanner in works paying a bill Duxbury had no interest in. Next I’d look to square up local creditors. Moving forward we are going to need the goodwill and backing of the entire Town so it’s important local people aren’t left out of pocket by these leeches.

It's a complete clusterfuck that the justgiving money is having to pay that tax bill, we all know that wasn't the purpose of it to start with. I also agree that any local creditors need to be squared away next. So long as not one penny of it ends up in the pockets of our "owners" we'll all be happy.

Pay the laundrette
Bus company
Stewards
Office staff

Anything that ensures we can get the next game on.

what sort of amounts are the above owed?

Exactly!!!! FACT!!!!

Then no more interference for me this situation has be allowed to move forward. Things might have to get worse before they get better. Unfortunately the powers lies in the hands of dishonest people. Who knows someone like Chris Musgrave could be waiting in the wings just for that, a situation were he has the same deal with the council but the club costs him less to secure. No more fundraising while these cowboys are running the show, don’t spend a penny in the ground. It’s absolutely clear what is going on here.

I'm not totally sure that it is quite as clear as we may think.

Minimum
Input
Maximum
Output

I'm at the Stelling Talk In and he is urging fans to keep propping up the club and is defending the owners after everything that has happened. I don't see him putting any money into the club and he gets to two games a season max. I've paid good money to sit here being patronised. Opinion of the man has dipped massively. All talk and no action !

Propping up as in the justgiving fund or the trust?

I think he would be quite happy for us all to divert 10 per cent of our wages directly into Pams bank account. He seems to have no idea about what is happening at the club and has taken everything Pam has told him at face value. If it wasn't for the fact I've paid good money to be here I would have walked out. Complete oppositie of Hignett and Kyle the other week who were speaking from the heart !

It's club event, he's kind of got to be supportive. Not sure if those in contact with him can advise if he says the same things elsewhere.

I can't believe what I'm reading, have we got to such a low point that fans are turning on the biggest promoter of Hartlepool united bar none ?

But what if he does know more than we do, and what if he is right! Not saying he is, but he could be. How much do we REALLY know?
Why not go and talk to him.

Jeff is absolutely genuine and is desperate to see the club avoid administration. In this he is passionate but I believe, wrong to be so absolute. There is another way which is a lot cleaner and I've said so to him. Mind you, neither he nor I have a monopoly on wisdom.

I have faith in him and he may be playing a long game here. Don't forget he is being paid by the club for this too. I'm sure it won't be long before everything comes out.

I don't think he's getting paid John, its a fundraiser. If he is getting paid then I hope he got it up front. Seriously, its a freebie.

Fair dos.

Came here hoping to hear that club was close to finding a buyer. Instead I have Stelling who is prblably a millionaire telling fans and local busineses to keep pumping money in because another millionaire Blackledge has got bored after 6 month and wants us to pay his tax and his staff for him. Said he was hanging onto his own money for possible future investment but I am pretty sure if the club was liquidated and he wouldn't be interested in a phoenix club. He also had a go at the Trust and the Friends Group even though both of them have been raising money !

without trawling through endless threads and starting a new one - what sort of deadline is in place to avoid administration/liquidation?

Winding up petition hearing is 21st March from HMRC which is covered by the crowdfunding. Apart from that the club has to fund itself week to week. There will be at least one other tax bill overdue as well.

I know none of this is Jeffs fault but the wages are due in 2 weeks time and it sounds like there is no money to pay them so fans and local businesses are now expected to raise the money and give it to the club . They aret brushing stuff under the carpet it is a club event and people have paid money to come here and they should be getting some answers not just being pumped for more money must of us haven't got anyway. Is Steeling has money why doesn't he put it in now to cover the wages. Anyway rant over.

Whos this Mr Steeling gadgie?
I,m sure the real Jeff Stelling will do whats right for POOLS in due course.

I've no doubt Steeling/Stelling has money but it's up to him what he does with it. He has already stated he'd only be a small player in any potential consortium due to the required funds. He's under no obligation to invest anymore than anyone else so just try to remember who the real enemy is in all of this.

I can't understand why the tax bill has been paid today. From here, I see three scenarios. 1) We have new owners before 21st March. 2) We plod on somehow until 21st March. 3) We are placed into Admin before 21st March.

Scenario 1, the new owners would settle the tax bill. Scenario 2, we could settle the tax bill on this date. Scenario 3, we would be placed into admin for reasons not related to the unpaid tax bill. At this point we could decide whether or not paying the tax bill is worthwhile.

Am I missing something obvious?

Also, by paying this tax bill, any money coming into Pools can be used to pay directors wages rather than going towards the tax bill. Unless I'm missing something.

The most obvious thing you are missing Ton is that all of the staff need to be paid on 25 February. Nobody at the club seems to want to mention this though they have suggested the wage bill is around £130k. The business should not really continue trading month after month if it is insolvent and the debt is growing and I am not sure staff will continue working if nobody is paying them. Impression I got last night is that the club has about a week to find a buyer but that it is looking very unlikely unless Blackledge pays the stff !

Bit of a strange way to take what Jeff was saying last night, that. He was actually saying (and this is pretty much word-for-word) "look, we know we can't really trust the owners, but we can't be talking about boycotts and not spending money in the ground. We haven't got much choice but to support the Club and help them through this until a sale is completed, and if there was any time that we could be certain of the money going to legitimate places it's now, while they are under intense scrutiny and police investigation. They're not going to be filtering away money for themselves while this is going on".

I find that difficult to argue with. Jeff Stelling was good value last night. Jeff Winter on the other hand... no comment! The comedian was hilarious, though - and looked like a kind of Peter Kay/Ali Brownlee hybrid.

Kind of agree, but it's not the money coming in NOW that they will be filtering away is it? Surely it's their actions over the past couple of years that have caused this current dreadful situation?

I understand that, but it's a separate issue to the tax bill. It just seems a pointless act to pay it now, rather than wait till d-day, so to speak.

Exactly, that's what he's saying..... There's no point in boycotting them NOW, now is when the money is pretty much guaranteed to be going on player wages, paying ground staff etc. Why Face Paint Army thinks Jeff was saying "Give 10% of your wages to Pam" is a mystery to me, it's a million miles away from what he was saying.

Impossible to give the right answer on this one without being sure about whether a takeover is imminent.