At the Boro game, nice for him

And….

Do the chairmen/owners of football clubs have to attend all matches home and away?

Raj has never made any secret of being a Boro fan and it was their biggest game in yonks. Better bait needed.

Yeh supppse not as bad as Hodcroft sticking a picture of Shearer in Pools bar

Look, he could have been busy working at his real business, the one that pays the bills and decided the idea of a trip to Fylde was never going to happen anyway due to meetings etc so he went their instead, there could be many reasons.
Let’s not worry about things like that.

He knew exactly what he was going to get at fylde, naff all, its not a great look but who knows might of been meeting investors after the game.

might actually not have wanted to be in the company of the fylde chairman as by all accounts he is more than a bit of a dick politically and football wise. add to that the time factor as he has more than just pools to concentrate on.

I just turned Tee’s off, you thought Boro had won the trophy by all the comments from the presenters, it’s only half time.

must admit i thought they were in the final until i realised the game was over two legs. just why games cannot be decided on the night is beyond me but i suppose yet again it helps the bigger clubs getting a second bite at the cherry.

Don,t have a problem with him going to the Boro, Wish i had watched them instead of a stuttering stream(1st Half)
A lot of fans don,t want him at pools, Calling him worse than shite.

i,m not that keen on him myself but the facts are we have had worse and some clubs will have worse at the moment. he is and has been only a part of our problems that showed last night by losing to the villiage people with less than a 1,000 fans inside their ground.

So what?
Don't think its a requirement for chairmen to attend all away, or home matches for that matter, and doubt many do?
Mr Singh is at most Pools home games despite him and his family regularly getting verbals from "fans".
He misses a 5 hour round trip to Flyde on a Tuesday night to watch Borer V Chelsea and he gets slated.
Toxic culture among some.

i,m sure there was a chairman/owner who earlier this season saw his team play for the first time in over a year.

Such banal comments from some on here leads you to understand why the Club is up for sale.

Raj hasn't got to explain to anyone why he went to the Boro last night but I bet he would be quite willing to send this week's bills to anyone who thinks differently.

A lot of us cant be arsed to watch this shower so a guy who is probobly on the way out has probobly given up on this lot as well. It must be disheartening travelling and conceding in the first 10 to 15 minutes every bloody game.

Raj is entitled to watch who ever he wants, as long as the bills get paid, I don't care if he goes to watch Boro on a freezing cold Tuesday night.

so true. the next thing we will hear is that fans who for there own reasons pick and choose games, do not do away matches are not proper poolies.

I agree, it is disheartening to watch us concede and I can safely say that I hate it but I'm sure not everybody has the same reaction as me.

Well your probobly right raj for starters.

Imagine being Raj at Wealdstone for example and watching Pools go 3-0 down after half an hour (to fecking WEALDSTONE) and thinking to yourself: "It costs me thousands a week to pay this bloody shower". I am amazed he hasn't walked already.

He probobly didnt think like that when we got promoted had 5000 to 6000 there and made a profit of some 800k. Swings and roundabouts but being battered in front of one man and a dog is probobly a final straw i must agree.

Raj is not a Poolie like me, he just pays the bills. A Boro supporter who saved the club, keeps it ticking over, despite abuse from the people whose club he saved and who are bleating for him to get out. It's extraordinary really that such a man should be hated by Poolies, well some of us anyway and, despite that is still trying to ensure that we still have a club. Should we collect for a statue??

In the promtion season the Covid restrictions applied and in the subsequent two seasons back in the league we only ever got one 6,000 plus gate against Carlisle….quite a number of 5,000 gates though.

I think any chairman who has been involved in 2 north east clubs one now in the conference north and one possibly about to enter it should be given the freedom of county durham let alone a statue. You have got to hold your hands up and say to yourself what a job he has done.

Whatever people's views I had to laugh at that very funny

Raj is a Boro supporter so what's the problem?
I think anyone who steps in and keeps our club afloat regardless of how we're doing on the pitch deserves credit because its blatantly obvious there's nobody else was (is?) prepared to put their cash down.
If he hadn't put his money in we likely wouldn't be anywhere near the NLN even, and anybody who thinks he's put his money into the club to destroy us is an idiot imo.
Throwing out figures like 800k profit is absolute guesswork without the full financial figures, as is complaining about budgets without knowing details.
Half arsed players are who'll be responsible for our finishing position, unless Raj pulls a shirt on that is.

Well said.

Don’t have a problem with it, he has put his money in and is entitled to do what he wants for pleasure, just seemed ironic as we were watching pools put to the sword again of the leagues basement boys

Or should that be his Managers/players have done, as far as I’m aware he doesn’t play and never to my knowledge picked a team, made a signing, imposed tactics or done anything remotely related to what goes on in the dressing room, that’s why you employ a manager.
As for Darlo, did Raj get the stick for George’s failure, after all they were all marching behind the Pied Piper after they beat us through there in the playoffs…so part of the blame is theirs too…..and of course like fans everywhere they’ll say …”nowt to do with me Guv”…..

10 out of 10

Hear, hear.

The club accounts throw out the figures. So if you saying nothing of this is down to singh are you also saying during the ior days it was nothing to do with them why we got into league 1? It was all down to the players? It was nothing to do with hodcroft and berg larsens money getting better players in.

What are you on about...again??
IOR had enough money owning Pools to be losing 1 million a year but recouping it on a tax fiddle allegedly.
Mr Singh hasn't had the same funds, or that option, but has saved us from going out of existence with his own money.
Nobody else wanted in..FACT.
We haven't been able to attract the kind of players we once did because we don't have the same money behind us.
This is not rocket science is it??
Listen.. you have done nothing but slag Mr Singh off from day one.. and were even slagging the club off during IOR days as the record on here shows.
What is it with you matey ??

The published accounts are not detailed enough to assess the state of any business, if not then why are the consortium wanting access to the full accounts and associated business accounts. So for the layman to base any financial allegations is naive.
As with any business the Chairman is generally accountable for the operation of the entire business. As its unlikely that 1 person can do everything the Chairman delegate's tasks and responsibilities to others. So as we have Directors of sport or whatever the role is, they are responsible for operating the football side of things, the coaches for coaching, players, physios, kitman, etc etc.
The commercial team responsible for sponsorship, etc. Hospitality for bars and catering etc
If any delegated function is underperforming it is the head of that function who carries the responsibility, not the Chairman. And that is how all businesses work, direct from "Runni g a Business for Dummies".

I've came to a conclusion that people for what ever reason, don't like others. People hate people, fans hate fans, political parties hate each other and don't see eye to eye.

However, club still in business, fans travelling around the country to watch and support the same team, the country still get taxes every month from us, even if you don't do politics.

Most clubs in this league will be on tight budgets, otherwise we’d all be be up there at the top.
No one really knows the budget at the club and why should they, the wages get paid and that’s more than we can say for some phases in our history.
Every manager is a gamble, you take advice from others more knowledgeable and cross your fingers.
Like a prudent business man Raj is quick to face facts and sack an under performing manager who unlike IOR who were so slow in reacting to manager change.
IOR also picked some clowns that backfired and sometimes ran the club like an ordinary business which football is not.
I said somewhere else that Raj and the stigma of Darlington’s demise has really gotten inside some people heads, bitter Darlo fans needed to blame someone but they were just as culpable as George in marching along beside him to glory, no one wants to take the blame when they’re part of the problem that nearly destroyed their club by putting the cart before the horse.
I remember the play off at Feethams where they beat us, they were frothing, on the road to glory, never gonna play us again then it crumbled and remember a year later the players being criticised in public on TV in their presence and they were a decent team.
Like others have said, when we were literally on the edge of football oblivion he pulled us back from the precipice….local investors couldn’t give a monkey’s toss.. despite certain people’s patter.
It’s just been one whinge fest for some who think there are investors ready and willing just around the corner fighting to get in ….nah just muggers.
I still can’t believe how Coxall has been quietly forgotten and quite a few fell for his patter……a bit like the man who saved you from being drowned getting stick, yet the one who pushed you into deep water is forgotten quietly.
Funny old game.

How on earth do you know i slated ior? Even if i did and i will of done for selling the club to 2 con merchants dont you think they should of been criticised? Ior were brilliant for years until larsen got done, that does not mean they are free from criticism or does it?

Should we never criticise managers and players as well on here? Im sure most do their best they just not that good on the whole, but if fans dont like the chairman being criticised dont then start slating players and managers, its double standards.

Its not rocket science is it to comprehend this man has been involved in 2 football clubs that are presently up shit creek? Funny darlo fans dont have too many kind words for him, most of our ex managers have come out and criticised the way the club is run, journalists have come out criticised, other teams fans call us a basket csse club with him in charge, a large majority of our fan base want him gone yet a few wont have a bad word said. Is the majority all wrong? Or do you think he is doing a good job and should be blameless like a few on here ilthink is the case? Thankfully the majority of pools fans have had enough of living off well he did save us, as we hurtle down the leagues.

Like ive pointed out many times if you care to listen the standard of players that singh has brought in compared to the likes of ior is sub standard due to not paying out enough, which is what your basically saying yourself, we dont have the same money behind us, i totally agree but when we are getting butchered off the likes off oxford city and dorkings and fyldes does it ever cross your mind why we cant do better considering we are probobly 4 or 5 times the size? Its not like we are battling with the sheff weds portsmouths and bristol citys under ior.

Club up for sale due to comments that we a badly run club on SM.
Well Aye.

The ‘standard of players Singh has bought’…. he doesn’t choose them , the managers choose them.
He provides the funds…..or why employ a manager in the first place.
What sort of manager would stand for the owner choosing the players….?

Wages provided are from the chairman? Pay good wages you tend to get better players pay cheap buy twice or three times. Snowy you arent daft enough to believe this is just down to poor managers.

Pete Wild knocked us back to go to Barrow a tin pot club with no fans.
Look now how far behind them we are.
How dare he have the audacity to bullet dodge.

Pete wild would of looked a mug at this club, no wonder he wanted to stay close to home. He knew what would happen here. Be out of a job in 6 months because the class of players we bring in arent up to scratch.

How can anyone possibly know the reason why a player/ manager went to a club, there are lots of reasons, not necessarily for what may be obvious reasons. I turned a good job down in the 80’s not for financial and job satisfaction reasons, but because I happened like being with my family and kids.

I’m not obsessed or dumb enough to constantly put the blame on Raj for everything negative in the club.
The managers have a budget, they agree to that budget, or why did they sign a contract to be manager if the budget was impossible to work with….?
Challinor struggled in the first half of the promotion season and surprise, surprise got stick on this very board….. he seemed to manage ok.

But are you obsessed and dumb enough to keep blaming managers or do you see raj as part of the problem too?

We attract managers with decent previous cvs
Plenty of promotions under their belts.

And then bring them down to there worst win ratios in management.

Now there's a bit of fact.
Anyone wanna chew the bones on that?.

Think your wasting your time kev nothing to see here. If its not graeme lee its hartleys fault if its not them its hignett in 3 games be lenny. Could have pep guardiola here and he would struggle,

So what’s the cause then…? Enlighten me.

Challinor ?what happened there then…..or do you just ‘accentuate the negative’….?