Yeah obviously meant player not manager, having said that based on recent records with managers he could well be manager before the end of next season - or even the start of it!

Thats what i meant!

Well I for one totally got your reply and it was brilliant.

Got it eventually

like featherstone being manager.

and who else will be doing that this summer. there will be some good lads out there and the clubs that do succeed next season is the ones who find the best to make the side into a team. there is no money bags clubs around and in the situation we are now in those recruiting players to sign are far more important than the owner if we can match others budgets. the area has a lot to offer a player who is married with a young family if they are prepared to move up here and could bank thousands by moving house from the south. know where i,d prefer to bring up a family and it aint in the greater london area for start.

Rochdale taken over by billionaire family

Good luck to Rochdale if that means they're solvent and can go forward without the usual worries we all have at this level.

Forest Green will be classed as a wealthy club back at this level

York are... although they may not throw cash at it like they did last year ?

Not sure about being classed as wealthy but dont Oldham and Barnet have a decent backer ?

Southend if they finally get taken over

and now Rochdale

I know we say this is the weakest the league has been for some time but im not so sure at all anymore. Soon be another Wrexham and Stockport - Chesterfield of this league just buying their way out whilst we plod on

It never was a weak league, Competitive is the correct description.

It’s so unfair - I don’t understand is how Rochdale (a team who have been utterly shit like us) get a billionaire owner - whilst we will continue to debate furiously and live firmly in the mind closet for another 16 months trying to understand the mind and future of an elusive, melodramatic and unpredictable owner. Oh, and there’s a high % the team and football will be shit as well.

Well, speaking for myself, if I was a prospective owner I would do a bit of research on the club and especially it's fans. The fans are the club but you would do well to find a bigger bunch of whingers than us lot. As a passionate fan I wouldn't touch ownership of this club if hell had me, so convincing an outsider is becoming a step too far.
All you have to do is read the forums.

We had our lucky period of owners under IOR--best owners we ever had in terms of sensible investment--shame it ended the way it did but we had 10 or so years of finishing way above our average, and a couple of years where we were ridiculously unlucky not to get to the championship

Oh there's a lot worse than us for whingers, have you listened to BBC Tees after a match and the Boro lot phoning in to demand Steve Gibson gets out of their club after every loss?

It's simple. Rochdale's billionaire owner was born and schooled in Rochdale and has been giving money away to causes dear to his heart for ages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ogden

thats another shit hole like accrington who have found local born and bred owners for their football team. both with gates lower than pools. where next will this happen before pools get someone the same, probebly workington in the north and a newly formed club in the london area with an equally dodgy past, AFC Brixton run and owned by someone who has made their pile in the selling of illegal drugs.

Meanwhile some on here are pinning their hopes on "Innovative Commercial Property Entrepreneur" Chris Musgrave OBE. He's got a nice website bigging himself up but doesn't rate a wikipedia entry.

C'mon Chris, you could do with a few good works on your cv - get your hand in your pocket for Pools (He would if the club owned the ground...)

if the question of the ground ownership was a stumbling block for new ownership i,d rather stick with raj. that would be a serious worry for me with the thought of a flatpack just off the A19 to replace the vic which would be odds on to happen.

I don’t see why the Vic would be a valuable asset to acquire, who would want a house there, we have enough retail parks, what could you build there ?

He's a property developer, it's what he does. Not doing it would be like offering a lion a veggie bun.

might have too many retail parks for the future but certainly not prime land for houses so close to the town centre and the railway station. if pools packed it i,d love to know what the price of the land would be if planning permission for houses went with it.

At best with no disrespect it would be for social housing, no one would buy a house there, not a bad idea as we are short of social housing.

Prime real estate the Vic.

Imagine how many greggs, bookies, vape and charity shops you could build..

It not so much that Maguire would want the Vic for its own sake but the ground is a significant asset, unlike the squad, the stock of the club shop and the office computers...

You can raise finance against it, use it as a bargaining chip and, when the new ground at Wynyard is ready, make a tidy profit redeveloping the site

I think you mean Musgrave unless Harry is branching out for his retirement

That or the 4 eyed git who used to be Pools' chief executive. Well spotted

as you said we are short of social housing and some being built there in todays world of poor public transport it makes better sense to build on the vic than another out of town estate on or close to green spaces.

The new board are a buffer between the fans and Raj. Nothing likely else.

I get the feeling the only thing keeping Raj here is property. Houchen has his development arm which includes land around the Vic (but not the ground itself.) I reckon he fancies a piece of that. He’s got a conundrum though as the club is costing him, season ticket sales are rock bottom and there’s a gulf between him and some sections of the crowd. My expectations for this season are extremely low.

It’s just so weird. The club put out an article late on a Saturday night, avoiding social media and fill it with contradictions and what comes across as threats. It’s a sham.

It's what Raj said when they announced the new board members and their roles to be fair. Walter Mitty Shithead overstepped the mark and his remit even he announced himself as the fans rep.
So all about engagement and improving the matchday experience but footballing matters are off limits - bit of a strange one that, the matchday experience is brilliant when we win and shit when we don't imo.
Ground rules for the panel should have just been rolled out to the panel at the 1st meeting rather than publicised in the way they have been. Doesn't sound as if the panel will be anything than a self serving tool for Mr Walter Mitty Shithead to grow his ego as he hands out bans on a whim.

Wise words Mr PTID.

If he wants communication with the fans.
Call an open meeting in a big venue like garry Gibson did in the Boilermaker.
Will always give him credit for doing that.

Will it happen?

Because this current set up is a joke for his arselickers who pretend everything is rosey.

Not a cat in hell’s chance of anyone developing the Vic, even in the heady days of IOR they got a firm no. So far council’s of all persuasions have stood firm…but Houchen ain’t that naive either ….there’d be hell to pay.

A sensible assessment of how it is.
Which will result in cuts to any potential on the pitch.
Manager comes in n states I want transfer business done early
And don't do sideways back passing to our keeper whoever that will be.
Resigns Fevs n Fergy WTF.
Despite a clean slate looks like Sarly Gunna av to work a miracle.
UTP.

We are not in the same league as other clubs, the patience shown by our fans is unreal compared to a lot of other clubs. Boro fans are on steve gibsons back, can you believe that a guy that has continually spent millions for them, brought a trophy had athe likes of juninho ravanelli, gasgoigne gets slated. Derwent needs to look at the Halifax board continually slating their Chairman, they got in the play offs last season. Oh for pools getting their.

So utter nonsense that we arent bought because of the fans.

Couple of things though… I wasn’t talking about the Vic but the area around the ground is part of the Mayoral Development Corporation now. That’s the bit I reckon Raj is aware of.
Also, the ground itself does need redevelopment as parts are aging. You’re right there’d be hell on if the council handed it over to Raj but it does somehow need investment.

Like a few have said.
It's a shit or bust last chance saloon season to keep hold of the fan base.
Big month June regarding recruitment to get the STs Goin.
Reckon 2500 top whack which results in a big ask to pay on the day at league 1 prices.

To be fair that area around the club does need flattening and starting again….Mill House will be for the chop soon when the new centre down the Marina replaces it

if we get some good signings and the team ar winning games by playing positive football everyone will stay around, go to more games and the stay aways will find the vic again. problem is a repeat of a lot seen last couple of seasons will finish some off. true about this being the last chance saloon as we could easily see 5k plus crowds or ones below 3k depending on whats happening on the pitch.

What exactly are we even doing to encourage anyone to buy a season ticket? Nearly 7 weeks in and still nothing to get the fans excited. One of the most expensive to buy and yet once again one of the last to start bringing players in. Get things done was phillips and sarls opinion. Phillips out of a job and we havent even brought one lad in yet, with just 3 weeks until the players are back.

well does the club have to be the first to sign any old player that might put off or encourage fans to buy a season ticket. personally its hard to imagine a fan of any club buying something before they know what they are buying into. when the signings do roll in which they obviously will we know there are going to be some who,ll do a hatchet job on them before they kick a ball. good job everyone isn,t on any social media sites as they,d have cut their throats by now.

Used to like the boilermakers it was my venue of choice on the way to the match, Along with MillHouse. Happy days

No but it would be nice if we could sign some quality players that have done it in this league or the league above. You would think barring two or three clubs we could cherry pick the best players, i think we will be lucky if we can cherry pick the worst at this rate.