Rumour has it one consortium has already bailed out, lets hope the other one can strike a deal.

we have 2 consortiums ! ?

You mean one OF the consortium?
And IF that one is Chris Musgrave I fear the worse.
Won't have taken him long to look at the clubs books and decide whether it's a basket case or not tbh.
Doubt there are any others with money to burn.
The Gough family ?
Forget it.

Not hard to spot the difference between you and a Ray of sunshine.

A various of Hopes.
Realistic
False and Bob.
Unfortunately these last 2.5 years the middle one has been more prodominent.

Like i say just a rumour no one group have apparently sacked the idea off but another consortium are supposedly interested. Whether thats musgrave etc even heard savannah marshalls name mentioned god knows.

Not about being rays of sunshines having wild dreams as a poolie etc, its just a bit of common sense. Anyone thats seen us play in the last few months or even 2 years know this club jumps from 1 embarassment to another. It took about 20 minutes last night to jump to another. Its embarassing how far the club has fallen when beating oxford city is seen as some sort of turning point. Standards at this club are pathetic, its not helped by some fans drooling over wins against some other piss poor team.

Think we all know Goughy isent minted.
But the Facebook rumour was that his American pals are and a deal is going thru on 1st March.
But most of online crack is speculation.
But we all read it and give our views good bad n ugly.
On field I'd take a draw at Dorking on last day to finish 5th bottom.
Opinions to be continued as usual.
UTP.

I can’t disagree with anything Billingham has said. Our squad is threadbare and I hate being pessimistic but we are well off the level of consistency needed to stay in this league. Oxford City where poor and we nearly through that away. Let’s see where we are end of Jan but I’m not counting my chickens

we are like starving men who are happy for a stale slice of bread to keep us going. excited if we sign an average player because he is just slightly better than who we have, anything but a defeat is a change of fortune and any new owner welcomed to the fold even though they might more than likely be raj mark 2. standards are dummed down so much that we,ll accept anything now with open arms just in case it might be better.

I see our mate dave challinor was watching last night people putting two and two together and maybe getting 5 but they reckon he is watching mancini. That would be a kick in the guts if he nabs him.

Its not being pessimistic its there for us all to see how bad we are. Shockingly bad. The sooner we face up to it and start showing a bit of fight instead to get us to 50 points the better. We are rolling over so easily its embarassing, a bit of fight passion and effort might go a long way yo getting the points needed. I dont see much of that in this team.

its hardly a big surprise him watching a side who he managed for years before coming to us on a free night. on the showings of all the players on the pitch last night mancini was well down the list of players who showed off their talent.

to be fair to them they showed it on saturday but were the complete opposite last night. think this winds fans up worse than being crap and 2nd rate all the time. some laughed when promotion was mentioned after saturdays win but others have done it from a similar position but would have matched their opponents in effort on the pitch to do so.at least we know they can battle so you,ll never know which pools are going to turn up after yesterdays first half fiasco.

I don’t get the obsession with the last 2.5 years….most of my time supporting Pools has been shit, but I battled on …oh .
IOR was nice, but even they slipped out of the back door and over the railway lines as the reins were pulled in.
55 years of total attendance and the pleasures were few and far between.
I can understand the IOR Baby Boomers get their knickers in a twist, but apart from Gibson’s ride of the Valkyrie’s nothing much of any consequence happened.
But there’s always an Eskimo willing to tell an African how to cope with heat…same with football clubs.

Somebody has said that the speed you are demonstrating in pointing that out smacks of gloating.
I said nah no true Poolie would rejoice when we go behind. Am I right to defend you or has somebody hit the nail on the head ????????

Its not gloating its patently obvious what is going to happen from one week to the next. Its embarassing how predictable this lot are.

If you’ve been supporting this club as long as me or others on here you should know there’s been more and worse ‘embarrassments’ over the past few years than the present set up.
I really don’t get this paranoia over it ….as for these alleged consortiums, if they come and take over, all well and good, but it appears the cast changes daily, but then that’s inevitable as consortiums have different viewpoints and self interests….a ship with seven captains tends to around in circles, work it out.
I await more names with interest……

Some people get angry and panic, some don’t….it’s like being on a ship when it’s a bit lumpy…you either panic or roll with the waves as it pitches and rolls……that’s the thing about football too, you ether stay calm or howl at the moon.
I know what I prefer.

Ive watched us for 40 years but ive not seen us been beaten on a regular occurence by the fyldes, oxford citys, dorkings of this world. Yeah we have had desperate sides in the past, but this is defo up there and it has to be we are 4 points about the trap door to the conference north. Buy cheap buy twice.

As for the consortium as long as someone comes in with the best interests of the club otherwise things will keep spiralling out of control.

think a lot of it now is that football is now just a results business and nothing else. once that draw at wealdstone would be regarded as one of the games of the season to those who watched it. now its 2 points lost by both teams fans and disect all mistakes that were made by both sides defences instead of the goals that were actually scored. once it was relaxing entertainment and an afternoon away from the family but now its life or death wins no matter how they happen.

The 70’s had little moments, the 80’s were abysmal and the 90’s had Gibson and Hornsey….but IOR gave us some dignity at least…..then dumped us onto Coxall
All Raj inherited was the flotsam of Coxall’s glorious ‘reign’….local consortiums didn’t give a monkeys.

I don't think nowadays I would ever publicly predict we would get beat or even consider it. After all if I thought that way I would just pack it in. I could never see me rejoicing in a goal scored against us. I still hope we can achieve something this season.
If these so called interested parties get cracking and take over with an immediate injection of cash we could recruit immediately, win every game, get promoted, win the Cup and get two days out at Wembley. Would you be happy with that???? Or would you also require a pair of top free tickets, first class train fare, free meals, booze etc and a blow job from the prettiest girl on show on the day !!!!!!

Even the 80s had cup runs etc or am i getting the decades wrong? Didnt we beat derby etc and end up in round 4 against bournmouth? Seem to remember playing Luton in quite a big game too.
No matter how bad we were we always seemed to have a bit of fight in the team. We always seemed to get to 50 points this year were going to struggle to get that.

Disgraceful, disgusting, misogynistic, sexist language.
Shouldn't be allowed.
A member of HUST as well.

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Think we shoud wait for the next statement from HUST. They are the only ones who have gone public on their efforts to put a consortium together and you'd imagine an update of some sort is not far off. Any other alleged interest is only that - alleged.

I don't think Billy would mind if the girl was a member of HUST or not.
On second thoughts it would give him a chance to have a whinge.

Just cant help yourself can you lol? Id settle for 50 points hardly ground breaking stuff is it? You do realise theirs only 16 games left dont you?


By the time anyone takes over the season will be nearly done.Nobody is rejoicing when a goal is scored against us. If fans are saying look we arent going to do anything with this team its not rejoicing or being defeatest, its just watching what is put in front of us.

You are obviously happy with the mess the club is in, losing continually against utter dross and the league position or do you still think its possible we can get in the play offs?

Just a girl would do.

You are a bit. Pools had to apply for re-election twice in the early 80s and only reached the 4th Round of the FA Cup once in the entire decade. Yes, it was Bournemouth - went out after a replay. Patronizing bit of video here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Hartlep ... 9doeM,st:0

Beat the mackems away i seem to remember, stood with all the sunderland fans a great night even if it was the sherpa vans trophy.

No obsession. Just stating the obvious.
Would like our younger generation of fans to have a better 55 years service than you.
We can review this when your about 135 ish.

Pure gaslighting, no apology and YOU deserve to be cancelled matey.
I shall be reporting you to HUST DEI committee immediately.
Expect your 20p a month HUST direct debit to be blocked, and membership to be withdrawn in the very near future.

Sorry Snowy meant 125.

If the takeover was immediate, like I said, and the new Messiahs allowed you to dictate how and where they spend their cash, then those 16 games could yield 48 points. Add that to the 31 we have already got and it would be enough to get us into the play offs. We still have a chance to achieve the play offs and get to Wembley. Would you not like that.........maybe not, the joy and excitement would be perhaps too much.
I'll decide what makes me happy, not you. You don't know the meaning of the word as your constant whinging demonstrates.

One of the best things to happen under raj has been the creation of the north west corner, despite some attempts by some in the club to get a fair few banned. Young lads who have turned up in their droves to follow us, we all know they aint perfect but why should they go through 40 to 50 years of garbage.

Its something about Hartlepool people who seem to just accept that their football club has to be shit or the town has to be run down. Who are we to say well because it was dreadful in the 80s you have got it lucky now? If we keep pretending that things arent too bad being in this league future chairman will be happy to keep us in this league too, but if we all said hang on no this aint good enough, were better than this maybe attitudes may change and poor old hartlepool might get a backbone and start improving.

Well what are you waiting for, get a few of yer fellow whingers together and collectively put yer hands in yer arse pockets and buy the club. We can all scrutinize your efforts and whinge accordingly. Put yer money where yer mouth is as they say.
You're constantly advising others how to spend their cash and how to run a football club, let's see you do it. Ill buy the popcorn.

Bang on again Billy.
Ambition doesn't cost trillions.
Just look at all them teams with shit support higher up the football pyramid.

Our fans getting short changed wudent put up with barmaids pissing in their pints.

I think derwent must of had a bet on us getting in the play offs yesterday seems a bit touchy. You havent been upsetting him again have you about his messiah? Funny aint it some dont mind dishing it out but they cant take a bit back.

You dont mind advising managers on their job though do you? Or telling professional footballers how to play?

But we're back to the old argument that we are where we are, we have the players we've got and the coaching staff. So, if no new owners are on the immediate horizon, we need to do better with what we've got, and to be fair we should be doing better - long ball to Joe Grey, hardly a masterstroke was it? Even a new owner wouldn't be bringing in a new team tomorrow would they?
To be saying we shouldn't accept what's happening is as futile as telling the tide not to rise, or the sun not to rise and fall - we have no influence.
Acceptance that we're not very good is accepting reality, it doesn't mean we've no ambition - someone started a thread regarding g promotion after the Oxford game, pretty ambitious by anyone's standards I'd say.
We can shout we want change till we're blue in the face but it's a waste of energy.

Think he may well have been watching Danny Ormerod and/or Siyabonga Ligendza.

Or he just fancied taking a game in near home.

I've never had the opportunity to speak to managers or their players in an advisory capacity, nor have I attended any training sessions. I certainly haven't spent over two years trying to hound any player or manager out of my club, or Chairman for that matter, if that is what you are getting at.

Real success is wining promotion not one offs, Once just fecking once, I want to hear that God awful ‘We are the Champions’ played at the Vic for us.
That’s our trouble, satisfied with scraps….even the Darlo Derby’s were the be all and end all for some.

Sadly that's very true

o hor the good old days where our parents and grandparents never saw a pools side relegated for going on near 50 years from the start of division 3 north until we did. without that promotion we,d have gone on longer with that record and fans still turned up.

What are you taking about.
No one is happy, but till someone else steps up we’re in the waiting room.
What exactly do you propose….because shouting the odds and howling at the moon changes nothing.
Time to come down from the clouds and join us in the real world, because till someone buys the club we’re stuck in the wilderness, unless you have a decent wedge in the bank to step in, but with that attitude your managers wouldn’t be here long.

Snowy you are wasting your time. The man cannot see the consequences of Raj walking without a new owner in place. He is now widening his vitriol to the fans and the people of the Town. He has achieved nothing with his sniping ad nauseam, apart from pissing the owner off to the point that the club is now in limbo and just ticking over. It is to the owners credit that he hasn't walked away and is still recruiting when really no one could blame him if he washed his hands of the whole job.
We warned him that there wasn't a big clamour to buy the club and there still isn't. Yet he relentlessly and recklessly pursues the path of dicing with oblivion.
I really hope this consortium takeover comes to fruition because if it doesn't the only hope left to us is oblivion or the prospect of going cap in hand to the only person willing to keep us alive, that's assuming that, despite all the hatred thrown at him by Billy and Raj haters, the owner is prepared to have a change of heart. He is all we've got, folks and until that alters, leave the man alone.

You mean i told you 8 months ago when apparently no one was interested that their was interest wpuldnt believe it would you? Someone interested in poor old Hartlepool, more than one group as well ,for 100 years we have had owners and i will hazard a guess we will have another one in the next few months. Lets get one thing straight i dont want the man running this club much longer. But do not put words in my mouth there is no hatred to raj.

Like i say fans like you are getting the club they deserve now.thankfully the majority want better.

What a ridiculous statement, how are the fans getting the club they deserve, and when did they ever get what they deserve? The fans have absolutely no influence on any of the issues you rant on about, from tickets and catering to recruitment, team selection and tactics!
It's not a majority who want better, it's unanimous we all want better. But until there are significant changes we have to expect better from what we've got.
As for interest, the clubs been for sale nearly a year and nobody has put an offer in yet as far as we know. Hardly a stampede is there, and that's why we have to put up with the present incumbents because like it or not we can't change a thing.