Now that the Council have paid this months wages are we going to wait another 4 weeks?

What's that horrible noise Mr B?
That Baldrick is the bottom of the biggest barrel in Christendom being scraped for all eternity by Satan and the souls of the dead.

no idea mate

It's all gone a bit quiet....good or bad thing ?

Could just he holding on till the end off the season with us to asses the current situation specially with us only having a handfull off games left.

I can't say any more than this but my information is from a very reliable source, but i've heard that Singh's interest in the club also involves some land, whether it's the land behind the Mill House stand I don't know, but it may well be this that's holding it up. Ulterior motive for his interest?

It’s hardly breaking news that Phil that’s how the council have been trying attract interest in the club from the start. That was why Chris Musgrave was interested and it’s probably a big factor in why Raj Singh is. I can’t see it as a stumbling block to be honest.

We were told at the back end of last week that a deal will be completed in the early part of this week, yesterday was only Monday so I don’t see a need for panic yet.

According to The Echo it will go through today, they will be hoping that the announcement will boost the attendance plus they have reduced the admission price.

Is Kennedy still tweeting that the Swedes expect to take charge?

It's a bit naff that Bates hasn't been spoken to at all about his position. You can say the deal hasn't gone through yet but there's nothing to stop Singh or one of his team from having a quiet word.

New owners tend to like to bring in their own manager, but doing it for the sake of it with 8 games left and Pools still in serious relegation danger could backfire spectacularly.

There's no rush for Sing to release his money. We gunna see the season out now without getting relegated. Only about 4 players contracted for next season. Just bring the new players in in July.For sure there will be a few taking a cut from the millhouse master plan. Not a problem for me as long as we regain league status within 3 years.

Yep. We've won a match and the council paid the wages for a month so I'm chilled. Just let things jog along until the summer and then sign a few top lads on low wages. No problem for me as long as win the Champions League within 7 years.

Lets not forget Singh had planning permission to develop the land around the arena but wanted the ownership of the stadium on the cheap too. When he didnt get that he pulled the plug.
Seems to be a typical Singh ploy, try and get other people to lose money on deals (Blackledge, Scott & Sizer etc) while he reaps the benefits.
Also, is he funding any development himself or is he relying on other people to join in? What if he cant get any other interest, as was the case when him and Houghton had lots of plans for the land at Darlo?

At this stage no one has a clue, singh hasnt said anything publically, stelling has and hignett has through the echo but so far he's remained quiet, hopefully if it goes through he will add some meat to the bones.

I really really hope their is a place for the supporters trust on the board, we need to at least try and protect ourselves from this happening again, it's no good getting a bonk on cos singh has took us over then in a years time being right back here again.

Agreed but if on the other hand if there is no Trust on board then they will still have a decent chunk behind them.

Personally I would want to hear what he has to say BEFORE he takes over because once its done theres no going back!
Singh does not take criticism well, if people have doubts or are against his plans after the ink has dried then what can you do?

Absolutely nothing, we will have just swapped 1 rich person who doesnt want to pay for another rich person who doesnt want to pay, we could be screwed either way.

We cant do anything before the ink has dried either.

Exactly Tree I am not sure what Loan Star wants us to do here or what power we have to influence events. As it stands it’s our only hope of survival it would be fairly messed up to try and put a stop to it.

I can fully understand his message as singh's reign at darlo didnt end well, but your both right there is literally nothing we can do.

The fans raised money to pay bills - that aint gunna happen again.

The trust raised a little bit but unfortunately the tree has already been shoock and we didnt get enough to take on the club and all of it's debts.

We can't protest as the players need our help to try and stay up so it would be completely counter productive and there is nothing to even protest over anymore.

All we can do is wait.

As tree pointed out above, if the trust cant get a seat at the table then they can continue to set up a fighting fund to take on a more active role should this happen again.

Maybe I have missed something here, but I keep seeing Hignetts name being mentioned. Is Hignett part of the consortium? is he putting any money in? or is has he been told he is the next manager?

Not rocket science is it? especially with Bates in charge , having pulled us to safety with 7 points out of the remaining 24.

Piss through his letterbox?

All the above suggests that the Trust must retain a contingency fund as the 'money men' are interested in money not HUFC.

A month ago it looked as if Pools didn't stand a cat in hell's chance of getting to the end of March without going into administration, or of winning another game for that matter.

Now there seems to be a better than evens chance of finishing the season solvent and still in the National League. Lots of unanswered questions are about to be answered - maybe some of the answers will be more pleasing than expected, maybe some will be disappointing. We don't know yet but we will very soon, unless a massive last minute spanner goes into the works.

Me, I'm prepared to credit Jeff Stelling 100% with good intentions and Raj Singh provisionally with the same. Loan Star has been saying pretty much the same things about the ex-Darlo chairman for months. Message received and understood, but I don't take Jeff Stelling for a fool and imagine he has had many a conversation with Mr. Singh about his plans for the club.

If it all goes tits up at some unspecified time in the future Loan Star is very welcome to come on here again and say I told you so. Till then, if he hasn't got anything new to say I'd much prefer it if he focused his attention on the Loids excellent upturn in fortunes under Tommy Wright. I wouldn't mind some proper derby games next season if they make the play offs and win promotion.

Is sausage fingers back at Darlow?

He'll need to dig out his phone with the extra big buttons and call Baz Conlon out of retirement

Stelling has only ever got Singhs side of the story, a side which changes frequently. He is a man who wants his club to survive and Singh is the only one stepping forward to keep the club as it is for now. I'm just surprised a lot of you are quite prepared to welcome Singh without even hearing from the man publicly. What is he scared of?

What's he scared of?, Buttons, clowns, spiders, the dark?. I'll go for the dark

Jesus, what do you want us to do? We’re either going bust or Singh can take control and probably with it keep us in Conference for this year.

People are on the fence, iv not seen any welcome parties and he probably ain’t said anything till he officially takes over. No point jumping the gun.

We understand your opinion, you have said the same thing 50 times. There’s nothing we can do but wait and see.

Give it a rest ffs.