The supposed highest paid footballers in League 2 are off the scale.

Matty Longstaff from Colchester on £24000 per week (on loan from Newcastle and presume they are paying most)
Ellery Balcombe from Crawley on £8300 per week
Paris Maghoma from Wimbledon on £7800 per week
Josh Eppiah from Northampton on £6100 per week
Dynel Simeu from Tranmere on £5400 per week

With a further 100 odd on wages above £2k per week

Competition is tough for "decent" players if those are accurate figures

Over £400k per annum to be playing in the lower reaches of League 2.......the world has gone mad.

All 5 of those are on loan at L2 clubs from Prem clubs. The wages quoted will be their contracts at the Parent club and be much, much higher than the amount that the host clubs are contributing.

The only 2 players in the top 10 who are actually owned by the L2 club are..

Dom Telford £4400 pw at Crawley
Fraser Horsfall £4300 pw at Stockport

Telford looked poor against us when we beat them 2-0 in December. Difficult to tell with Horsfall, he could have been sat reading a book for all the problems we caused him when Stockport hammered us.

Are our lads on YTS rates?

Whats the going rate at Pools? £250 & a box of kippers?

What price is neighbourliness. Newcastle can see us struggling but loan a player to Colchester who is on £24k a week. I hope the Poolies who strut around Hartlepool with the wrong coloured stripes on their back are ashamed of themselves and their club but I doubt it. One NE club actually financing the possible ( I should put probable but I'm clutching at straws) demise of another NE club.
STINKS.

I've no idea what our current players are on. I knew a mate of Ben Clarks and apparently we were paying him £5k a week. Another mate dealt with Solano when he went bankrupt and Solano declared we were paying him £11k a week (mate saw his wage slips and it was nearly £18k with bonuses). That was in the days of Norweigan oil, I'd expect 18k might be the whole weekly wage bill now. Still too much for the shite on show.

Good point that Mr Derwent, I’ve noticed some really decent players loaned out all over the place from the so called ‘big three’ and we apparently don’t exist.

We have had numerous players loaned from the big three some of which were on three and four year contracts. Remember Adam Campbell from Newcastle supposed to be on £5K per week and the likes of Dolan, Williams, Cass, Wyke, we’re all on quite big wages when loaned to Pools. There is not many seasons when we haven’t had a loan from the big three.

Maybe the Mags don't want Longstaff to end up playing left back

then how many man.u and city players have gone to their neighbours like rochdale, oldham, bury, stockport etc over the last few years and do everton and liverpool help out their lower division clubs near to them. think they could not give a toss now as they live in another world now and possibly think that the demise of a local club could bring in bigger gates for them. if pools did shut for good at the end of the season many will find somewhere else to go even if they say the will not.

There was talk some years ago when Pools were in the shit then that a hard core would follow York City if Pools went to the wall.

I cant imagine it. I just can't.

If Pools went to the wall never to re-appear, then football would become a distant spectator sport without the passion you feel for your own club.
End of the road.

Eh? That absolutely makes no sense to me.

Sunderland would be the obvious choice, but what about higher level non league teams like Durham City (not anymore) or Spennymoor.

Or what about Easington and Horden, two good honest clubs that work so hard for their villages.

And that's not taking into account that we'd have a phoenix club.

I don’t believe many would transfer their allegiance. Maybe watch the odd game as a neutral but I think most would just give it up as a bad job.

In total agreement Mr I. You can’t just switch allegiances like a pair of trousers.

changing your wives is fine but not your club. cheating on the latter is just not on even with the shit it puts you through. have a relative who lives in north london used to pick ramdom games in the capital to watch as he could not go through the heartache of supporting just one club.