The proposal is raj sells the club to investors, who are capable of running a club worthy of a fan base that can attract 5000 fans while sat 3rd bottom of the football league. He has ran us like a conference north team since promotion. You could argue some of the cheap rubbish signed this year, would struggle in the conference north.

I'd gave more sympathy with raj if we were pulling in 2000 crowds, hadn't had two major cup runs last season, didn't sell virtually every player possible, didn't lie about a play off budget to sell season tickets, didn't keep telling us we were in for all these top strikers each transfer window to be left with 4th or 5th choices.

If these derbie games come off.
Then i dont think anyone is wishing for them .
100% not from me.
By all means future derbie games in the future as EFL games.
UTP.

And thats the same thing that pisses me rite off as well as the shitloads of Poolies who you talk to face to face.
No way should a 5000 fanbase have to accept the shit n shit excuses for zero ambition from the way this club is run. .
And yet some posters think that 3000 difference dosent come into play.
Absolutely mindboggling or failure lovers.
UTP.

Clubs in league 1 half the size, if that of us taking on teams like Portsmouth, Ipswich, Plymouth. Yet for some reason it's acceptable for us to struggle.

Im bored of the excuses from the club and I've been going for 30 year, seen plenty of bleak times. Thing is these don't need to be bleak times, the club has deliberately gone down this road, for no reason after the success of the play offs.

Daft thing is the club will take off now with the slightest ambition shown and some good players.

need to look at the players sogned since raj walked into the club. the good ones have wanted away but only moved sideways and have not done any better from a playing point of view than they were at pools. there moves have been for either money or going to a club with more ambition. then there is the dross who have quickly gone into non league obscurity. its not as if we are making those signings of good players who just do not come off and start to bloom again once they leave. of our present players who are ours and not loanees how many would even get into a rock bottom rochdale side on saturday apart from a small handful. might be wrong but it does feel as if the least money a player will accept is seen a bigger issue than their ability.

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Clubs in league 1 half the size, if that of us taking on teams like Portsmouth, Ipswich, Plymouth. Yet for some reason it's acceptable for us to struggle.

You really mean 2, morecambe and accrington. Both done on a shoestring by good scouting and the ability to improve the players they got. morecambe got cole stockton who did we get, fondop and the likes. accrington got dion charles from non league but we unearthed a dead leg. there are poolies living all over the country who watch non pools games and if like me they have informed the club of someone they have seen they,ll never get a reply.

I'd probobly bring forrest green, Cheltenham, even Burton into it, though Burton have been bankrolled. Even looking at Wycombe no one can tell me they have the potential we would, if money was spent on the team.

Not disagreeing with what you say, But what investors.
Nobody was interested when we were on the brink, Why would anyone be interested now.

Raj has had offers apparently, think he even alluded to that at one point.

is it there are no one interested or that those who are would not touch pools with a bargepole after doing a bit of research about the club. if we owned the vic it could actually be worse with more than a few really dodgy investors getting involved where we could really lose the vic and the club as we know it. playing national league football might then be just a dream like playing in the premier league is now.