Chairman’s Statement

Pooly_Imp · **Joined:** Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:36 pm **Posts:** 2525

PTID wrote:

I'm sure he wants as much success as he can possibly achieve in both businesses. Or do some genuinely believe he wants Pools to fail?

Desire is good. We just need the competence and we are there. I don't aee it coming though, just the same old same old, one false dawn too many. Don't mind if Raj has his name above the door but as long as he stops being rubbish at this lark.

Pooly_Imp · **Joined:** Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:36 pm **Posts:** 2525

PTID wrote:

I'm sure he wants as much success as he can possibly achieve in both businesses. Or do some genuinely believe he wants Pools to fail?

Desire is good. We just need the competence and we are there. I don't aee it coming though, just the same old same old, one false dawn too many. Don't mind if Raj has his name above the door but as long as he stops being rubbish at this lark.

billinghampoolie1908 · **Joined:** Thu Feb 05, 2015 5:52 pm **Posts:** 4375

Pooly_Imp wrote:

PTID wrote:

Well let's hope he's right rather than relishing in the prospect (hope I suspect for some in here??) that he doesn't.

Ah that old chestnut that always gets wheeled out, the 'some in here' gleefully rubbing their hands together when Pools are shit (they must have sore hands these days). Those mysterious 'some in here' people really know how to be stealthy, its almost as if they don't exist........ unless you have some names?

Yeah utter bollocks i hope raj takes us to league 1, we beat some big teams on our way, we buy decent players etc etc, will it happen? Of course it wont. Its a lazy line thrown out by fans who look like they are quite happy plundering from one crisis to another. Raj has had many chances to stick two fingers up at fans that call him out. Do it then raj lets have a team we can be proud of. Tell you what raj why dont you start by giving us a team that doesnt predictably get tonked at places like Gateshead be a start wont it?

Sigma1908 · **Joined:** Thu Oct 19, 2023 8:40 am **Posts:** 105

billinghampoolie1908 wrote:

Pooly_Imp wrote:

PTID wrote:

Well let's hope he's right rather than relishing in the prospect (hope I suspect for some in here??) that he doesn't.

Ah that old chestnut that always gets wheeled out, the 'some in here' gleefully rubbing their hands together when Pools are shit (they must have sore hands these days). Those mysterious 'some in here' people really know how to be stealthy, its almost as if they don't exist........ unless you have some names?

Yeah utter bollocks i hope raj takes us to league 1, we beat some big teams on our way, we buy decent players etc etc, will it happen? Of course it wont. Its a lazy line thrown out by fans who look like they are quite happy plundering from one crisis to another. Raj has had many chances to stick two fingers up at fans that call him out. Do it then raj lets have a team we can be proud of. Tell you what raj why dont you start by giving us a team that doesnt predictably get tonked at places like Gateshead be a start wont it?

Pretty sure a vastly reduced wage budget due to the Hartley signings has crippled us the last year and a half, lets see what happens in close season

billinghampoolie1908 · **Joined:** Thu Feb 05, 2015 5:52 pm **Posts:** 4375

Only at pools can Hartly still be blamed, we must of had bout 60 players since he left, yes he certainly hasnt helped the situation, but enough players have been through the revolving doors to of changed things massively, instead of bringing players back like Featherstone a novel idea would of been to pour them funds into starting a fresh. We have built these two lads up at the back like they are two stars from succesful clubs yet are still part of a team conceding 11 goals in 3 away games, when will we ever manage to get 3 or 4 quality players in at once? What will be the next excuse for this summers recruitment,? Crowds dwindling? Paying of 5 managers still?

Pooly_Imp · **Joined:** Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:36 pm **Posts:** 2525

billinghampoolie1908 wrote:

Only at pools can Hartly still be blamed, we must of had bout 60 players since he left, yes he certainly hasnt helped the situation, but enough players have been through the revolving doors to of changed things massively, instead of bringing players back like Featherstone a novel idea would of been to pour them funds into starting a fresh. We have built these two lads up at the back like they are two stars from succesful clubs yet are still part of a team conceding 11 goals in 3 away games, when will we ever manage to get 3 or 4 quality players in at once? What will be the next excuse for this summers recruitment,? Crowds dwindling? Paying of 5 managers still?

Its gobsmacking how crap it needs to get at Pools before people wake the hell up.

PTID · **Joined:** Wed Apr 26, 2023 3:07 pm **Posts:** 3918

Or maybe because we're lumbered with the Hartley signings we're severely strained on what budget is left to improve things until they've gone?
Bit like buying a car on tick and finding out it's a lemon, you're stuck with it until it's paid off or you can find a mug to take it off your hands.

Pooly_Imp · **Joined:** Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:36 pm **Posts:** 2525

PTID wrote:

Or maybe because we're lumbered with the Hartley signings we're severely strained on what budget is left to improve things until they've gone?
Bit like buying a car on tick and finding out it's a lemon, you're stuck with it until it's paid off or you can find a mug to take it off your hands.

Oh we are definitely lumbered with something.

Sigma1908 · **Joined:** Thu Oct 19, 2023 8:40 am **Posts:** 105

PTID wrote:

Or maybe because we're lumbered with the Hartley signings we're severely strained on what budget is left to improve things until they've gone?
Bit like buying a car on tick and finding out it's a lemon, you're stuck with it until it's paid off or you can find a mug to take it off your hands.

They want the guy out no point in reasoning with them.. even though this is a huge part in it - anybody can see that

Pooly_Imp · **Joined:** Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:36 pm **Posts:** 2525

Sigma1908 wrote:

PTID wrote:

Or maybe because we're lumbered with the Hartley signings we're severely strained on what budget is left to improve things until they've gone?
Bit like buying a car on tick and finding out it's a lemon, you're stuck with it until it's paid off or you can find a mug to take it off your hands.

They want the guy out no point in reasoning with them.. even though this is a huge part in it - anybody can see that

Wrong!!!! I want HUFC to stop being run badly. There is a difference

billinghampoolie1908 · **Joined:** Thu Feb 05, 2015 5:52 pm **Posts:** 4375

Sigma1908 wrote:

PTID wrote:

Or maybe because we're lumbered with the Hartley signings we're severely strained on what budget is left to improve things until they've gone?
Bit like buying a car on tick and finding out it's a lemon, you're stuck with it until it's paid off or you can find a mug to take it off your hands.

They want the guy out no point in reasoning with them.. even though this is a huge part in it - anybody can see that

We want to be given a chance. Their is a reasoning Hartlepool united becomes competitive against the gatesheads,solihulls, halifaxs and be up their in this shit league for starters is that asking too much? Why would we want raj singh out if he was progressing the club? Does anyone still believe this guy is progressing us?

Mikey76 · **Joined:** Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:02 pm **Posts:** 594

billinghampoolie1908 wrote:

Sigma1908 wrote:

PTID wrote:

Or maybe because we're lumbered with the Hartley signings we're severely strained on what budget is left to improve things until they've gone?
Bit like buying a car on tick and finding out it's a lemon, you're stuck with it until it's paid off or you can find a mug to take it off your hands.

They want the guy out no point in reasoning with them.. even though this is a huge part in it - anybody can see that

We want to be given a chance. Their is a reasoning Hartlepool united becomes competitive against the gatesheads,solihulls, halifaxs and be up their in this shit league for starters is that asking too much? Why would we want raj singh out if he was progressing the club? Does anyone still believe this guy is progressing us?

You've hit the nail on the head there in my opinion. Just can't see him doing anything differently going forward, which doesn't bode well. He may well put some other people in the way of the inevitable flak though.

PTID · **Joined:** Wed Apr 26, 2023 3:07 pm **Posts:** 3918

We seem to have turned a corner since KP came in.
I think in the entire history of promotion from NL to EFL there's only 1 team gone back up the season after going down. I may be wrong? So history says it was always going to be a difficult season.
Next season needs to be an improvement for sure, an extra 4 or 5 wins would likely mean play offs.

Pooly_Imp · **Joined:** Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:36 pm **Posts:** 2525

PTID wrote:

We seem to have turned a corner since KP came in.
I think in the entire history of promotion from NL to EFL there's only 1 team gone back up the season after going down. I may be wrong? So history says it was always going to be a difficult season.
Next season needs to be an improvement for sure, an extra 4 or 5 wins would likely mean play offs.

Yes but its not a rule that they HAVE to have awful seasons.

We didnt turn a corner, we had a slight meander filled with walloping defeats and being humiliated by part timers. At the end of it was a wall with paper over the cracks.

kevin pooles gloves · **Joined:** Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:28 pm **Posts:** 8915

Pooly_Imp wrote:

billinghampoolie1908 wrote:

Only at pools can Hartly still be blamed, we must of had bout 60 players since he left, yes he certainly hasnt helped the situation, but enough players have been through the revolving doors to of changed things massively, instead of bringing players back like Featherstone a novel idea would of been to pour them funds into starting a fresh. We have built these two lads up at the back like they are two stars from succesful clubs yet are still part of a team conceding 11 goals in 3 away games, when will we ever manage to get 3 or 4 quality players in at once? What will be the next excuse for this summers recruitment,? Crowds dwindling? Paying of 5 managers still?[/quot
Its gobsmacking how crap it needs to get at Pools before people wake the hell up.

We had the perfect opportunity to progress to league One ambitions after Bristol.
Ground Bouncing early games. Feel good factor probably the 2nd best ever.
What happened after was almost unreal.

Got promoted to late excuses come out
.
Then the next season n this season is the Hartley excuses.

Next season Dodds n Mancini get reinjured.
Anyhow KP reckons he's got a budget to make the play offs next season.
Soon find out when the retained list is out.
We stayed up absolutely tremendous so next seasons bye bye players should be nowhere near these last 2 games.
And indication of both manager/chairman s ambition.
Some mite agree/disagree. It is applicable like.
No probs.

kevin pooles gloves · **Joined:** Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:28 pm **Posts:** 8915

I wudent rule out Fevs n Cooke being offered pay cuts to stay and they get till June to decide.
Surely to God it can't happen.

PTID · **Joined:** Wed Apr 26, 2023 3:07 pm **Posts:** 3918

In the 15 games before KP arrived we won 3, drew 3 and among the losses were a thrashing off City of Liverpool and a loss to Hampton and Richmond.
In the 15 since he arrived we've won 6 and drawn 4 I'd say that's quite an improvement and a corner turned - from relegation form to top half form.

Pooly_Imp · **Joined:** Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:36 pm **Posts:** 2525

PTID wrote:

In the 15 games before KP arrived we won 3, drew 3 and among the losses were a thrashing off City of Liverpool and a loss to Hampton and Richmond.
In the 15 since he arrived we've won 6 and drawn 4 I'd say that's quite an improvement and a corner turned - from relegation form to top half form.

Well if you consider going from poor to bang average turning a corner then you can cling onto that if you wish.

PTID · **Joined:** Wed Apr 26, 2023 3:07 pm **Posts:** 3918

Don't want Fev anywhere near the team next season even if he offers to play for free.
Cooke will find another club can't see his ego accepting a pay cut to stay.

PTID · **Joined:** Wed Apr 26, 2023 3:07 pm **Posts:** 3918

It might not have been as big a turn around as we'd all have liked but it's a significant one all the same when you consider the downward spiral we were on.

RichyHpool · **Posted:** Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:03 pm

I heard a whisper last Saturday in the crowd that Cooke was 100% moving on. The lad has talent but unfortunately he doesn't show it consistently enough, turning up now and again isn't good enough. He'll probably leave, go to a club higher up the pyramid and have a great season, that's what usually seems to happen!

PTID · **Joined:** Wed Apr 26, 2023 3:07 pm **Posts:** 3918

Think played as a number 10 and with runners and grafters in midfield he'd be excellent. We don't have the players in midfield to get the best out of him.
I'd imagine his agent has got a move lined up for him already.
We hopefully will be playing Joe Grey just off Mani D next season so not sure there'd be a place for Cooke in the team - expecting some width and pace and a couple of athletic ball winning midfielders through the door.

billinghampoolie1908 · **Joined:** Thu Feb 05, 2015 5:52 pm **Posts:** 4375

kevin pooles gloves wrote:

I wudent rule out Fevs n Cooke being offered pay cuts to stay and they get till June to decide.
Surely to God it can't happen.

Heard cooke is defo going.

billinghampoolie1908 · **Joined:** Thu Feb 05, 2015 5:52 pm **Posts:** 4375

PTID wrote:

We seem to have turned a corner since KP came in.
I think in the entire history of promotion from NL to EFL there's only 1 team gone back up the season after going down. I may be wrong? So history says it was always going to be a difficult season.
Next season needs to be an improvement for sure, an extra 4 or 5 wins would likely mean play offs.

It just shows how awful this league is when another 4 or 5 wins could get us somewhere, it wouldnt even take much cash to get a team of play off standard.

billinghampoolie1908 · **Joined:** Thu Feb 05, 2015 5:52 pm **Posts:** 4375

Pooly_Imp wrote:

PTID wrote:

We seem to have turned a corner since KP came in.
I think in the entire history of promotion from NL to EFL there's only 1 team gone back up the season after going down. I may be wrong? So history says it was always going to be a difficult season.
Next season needs to be an improvement for sure, an extra 4 or 5 wins would likely mean play offs.

Yes but its not a rule that they HAVE to have awful seasons.

We didnt turn a corner, we had a slight meander filled with walloping defeats and being humiliated by part timers. At the end of it was a wall with paper over the cracks.

We started off great under Phillips but since the first 4 games or so results actually wouldnt look as great.

billinghampoolie1908 · **Joined:** Thu Feb 05, 2015 5:52 pm **Posts:** 4375

Sigma1908 wrote:

billinghampoolie1908 wrote:

Pooly_Imp wrote:

PTID wrote:

Well let's hope he's right rather than relishing in the prospect (hope I suspect for some in here??) that he doesn't.

Ah that old chestnut that always gets wheeled out, the 'some in here' gleefully rubbing their hands together when Pools are shit (they must have sore hands these days). Those mysterious 'some in here' people really know how to be stealthy, its almost as if they don't exist........ unless you have some names?

Yeah utter bollocks i hope raj takes us to league 1, we beat some big teams on our way, we buy decent players etc etc, will it happen? Of course it wont. Its a lazy line thrown out by fans who look like they are quite happy plundering from one crisis to another. Raj has had many chances to stick two fingers up at fans that call him out. Do it then raj lets have a team we can be proud of. Tell you what raj why dont you start by giving us a team that doesnt predictably get tonked at places like Gateshead be a start wont it?

Pretty sure a vastly reduced wage budget due to the Hartley signings has crippled us the last year and a half, lets see what happens in close season

Thing is do you think a guy that said wants out is all of a sudden going to start spending decent amounts to get that good team?

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36386

billinghampoolie1908 wrote:

kevin pooles gloves wrote:

I wudent rule out Fevs n Cooke being offered pay cuts to stay and they get till June to decide.
Surely to God it can't happen.

Heard cooke is defo going.

I’ll be amazed, disappointed, puzzled , dish3artened etc if him and Featherstone are here next season.

bluebottle · **Joined:** Sun Oct 22, 2023 10:05 am **Posts:** 238

Featherstone is most technical player at the club and with a brain for football

PTID · **Joined:** Wed Apr 26, 2023 3:07 pm **Posts:** 3918

Not imo Cooke is better in every aspect of the game but I'd rather see the back of them both.

bluebottle · **Joined:** Sun Oct 22, 2023 10:05 am **Posts:** 238

paulus the woodgnome and a side salad · **Posted:** Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:53 pm

New board director appointments on the OS now.

pools85 · **Joined:** Wed Jan 10, 2018 3:15 pm **Posts:** 125

Absolutely no surprise with the names on there. One of them been worming his way in for years

Krampesh · **Joined:** Sat Jul 10, 2021 10:14 am **Posts:** 586

paulus the woodgnome and a side salad wrote:

New board director appointments on the OS now.

2 of the 3 have been at the club the last few seasons. Things will definitely change then…

fckpoolie · **Joined:** Tue Feb 20, 2018 11:56 pm **Posts:** 194

Too many chiefs and all that. I just hope they can get a decent team together for next season (because if they can't they're all a waste of a salary).

MutleyRules · **Joined:** Mon Nov 29, 2021 7:38 am **Posts:** 974

pools85 wrote:

Absolutely no surprise with the names on there. One of them been worming his way in for years

Ahhh..so thats why waddell disappeared again off the Bunker. Can't see him coming back under another name after it all goes tits up in his new role.

MutleyRules · **Joined:** Mon Nov 29, 2021 7:38 am **Posts:** 974

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Pooly_Imp · **Joined:** Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:36 pm **Posts:** 2525

Dustin Gee wrote:

pools85 wrote:

Absolutely no surprise with the names on there. One of them been worming his way in for years

Ahhh..so thats why waddell disappeared again off the Bunker. Can't see him coming back under another name after it all goes tits up in his new role.

This club truly now has a rotten core.

kevin pooles gloves · **Joined:** Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:28 pm **Posts:** 8915

Pooly_Imp wrote:

Dustin Gee wrote:

pools85 wrote:

Absolutely no surprise with the names on there. One of them been worming his way in for years

Ahhh..so thats why waddell disappeared again off the Bunker. Can't see him coming back under another name after it all goes tits up in his new role.

This club truly now has a rotten core.

No raggy lads from the terraces who would question thee Messiahs decisions then.
LL brought zero improvements to Pools results and sounds like one of the others is of here.
League One here we come then.
Project 27 to be announced.

Leggie43 · **Joined:** Wed Apr 15, 2020 4:55 am **Posts:** 7286

kevin pooles gloves wrote:

Pooly_Imp wrote:

Dustin Gee wrote:

pools85 wrote:

Absolutely no surprise with the names on there. One of them been worming his way in for years

Ahhh..so thats why waddell disappeared again off the Bunker. Can't see him coming back under another name after it all goes tits up in his new role.

This club truly now has a rotten core.

No raggy lads from the terraces who would question thee Messiahs decisions then.
LL brought zero improvements to Pools results and sounds like one of the others is of here.
League One here we come then.
Project 27 to be announced.

Mikey76 · **Joined:** Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:02 pm **Posts:** 594

No surprise’s unfortunately. This was Raj’s big shot at a new start. Two that have been central to the general malaise and a fan who will captain the ship as it goes down.
It’s actually worse than I expected. Thought there’d be a new name or someone offering a different perspective.

loyal_fan · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2022 7:15 pm **Posts:** 3689

Who was/is Waddell then?

Mikey76 · **Joined:** Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:02 pm **Posts:** 594

loyal_fan wrote:

Who was/is Waddell then?

Not going to lie was wondering this!

loyal_fan · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2022 7:15 pm **Posts:** 3689

Obv no issue with him being anonymous

Leggie43 · **Joined:** Wed Apr 15, 2020 4:55 am **Posts:** 7286

loyal_fan wrote:

Obv no issue with him being anonymous

Think it may be John Walter Mitty Shithead Loyal.

loyal_fan · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2022 7:15 pm **Posts:** 3689

Leggie43 wrote:

loyal_fan wrote:

Obv no issue with him being anonymous

Think it may be John Walter Mitty Shithead Loyal.

Never heard of him, good luck to him if he’s on the board more
Important things than arguing on here

Leggie43 · **Joined:** Wed Apr 15, 2020 4:55 am **Posts:** 7286

Who argues on here like Loyal. :naughty:

kevin pooles gloves · **Joined:** Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:28 pm **Posts:** 8915

Leggie43 wrote:

Who argues on here like Loyal. :naughty:

No one. It's against bunker rules n regs.
But a large minority have different views n opinions.
Sometime overated wordage but not real words because it's keyboard communication.
A bit like fantasy world after the usual non wins.

Flying Hogans · **Joined:** Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:29 pm **Posts:** 5378

Leggie43 wrote:

loyal_fan wrote:

Obv no issue with him being anonymous

Think it may be John Walter Mitty Shithead Loyal.

Seriously? I'd be amazed if that's true. Forget responsibility for "fan engagement" - someone as opinionated as him would be straight onto KP telling him which players he wanted shot of, starting with Mani O.

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 18922

PTID wrote:

It might not have been as big a turn around as we'd all have liked but it's a significant one all the same when you consider the downward spiral we were on.

the signing of waterfall and parkes went a long way towards that happening and would it have been the same with askey still in charge. just wonder where we would be in the league with those two at the club back in august and we hadn,t got the wrong players out long term. all that includes players presently with us that most do not rate.

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 18922

PTID wrote:

Not imo Cooke is better in every aspect of the game but I'd rather see the back of them both.

both good players but not what we need for next season. a team that can really hold their own with the battlers but have skill to make the difference. as for raj, all he can rally do positevly is provide the manager with the best budget he can and leave it to somebody who knows far more about the game than him and ameteur critics on here. there will literally be hundreds of lads looking for a new club and many of them will travel anywhere in the country to keep their jobs as a pro footballer. not many will have a trade or career to fall back on to even go part time and will rely on contacts in the game to find some type of work for them.

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