What, moaning about moaners….serial moaners.

Everyone's gotta have a hobby.

Yep sorry. Try again.

Well certainly the published accounts show a sizeable reduction in debt. What makes you so sure, have you seen the sale agreement fro when Raj bought the club? Nah thought not, just speculating or guessing like the rest of us.
At the end of the day the existence of the club takes precedence over what league were playing in imo.

Apart from giraffe breeding and building a full size model of the Eiffel Tower from old toilet roll tubes in the back garden, my life is an empty chasm

Yeah it was only a percentage as well so im presuming he took a nice chunk back by having that cup run, because it certainly didnt go on the team.

Guesswork and presumptions as I don't think any of us know what the budgets or wages have been and none of us have seen the buyer agreement which Raj signed up to.
Besides which if he's lent the club money he's entitled to take it back whenever he wants isn't he?

HUST analysed publicly available information. The sums paid to Sage were on there. But I guess you know that as you've now changed tack to justify taking the money out to repay (his) parent company. It is what it is as you suggest.

There is nothing that's been done in the last 2-3 years since promotion to suggest the current chairman is a net benefit financially to the club...maybe he is significantly out of pocket the last 3 years and its been spent on things we haven't noticed...

Ya come across that getting promoted back to the Efl doesn't interest you.
Could even drop down to division 6 or 7 and ya still be ecstatic.
The club has a better chance of existence by getting back to the Efl sharpish.

It's a last chance saloon season for sure with them admission fees!! And threadbare squad of gambles.
Strange feeling we Gunna smash s Shields up tomorrow 4 1.
UTP

Of course I want us back into the efl. I'd rather achieve that as HUFC than over potentially many more years as HUFC2024 is what I'm saying.
We'll know more about the squad capabilities and depth after a dozen or so games. Or should I just ask for a refund on my ST because Kev is 100% certain we're going to have another shit season?

Fake % reply.
Enjoy the win at SS if ya Goin.

UTP.

That's why nobody has suggested that he's got more out of this than when he started.

we have no god given right to get back into the efl though even if some think we have. even in our first season back many fans were not happy finishing 17th in the league but would jump for that now. howeve if we do get back it will be the same ol story coming up of not being happy with anything but a shot at the play offs. until a rich owner comes up we will at the best be one of the better NL clubs or a struggling league club.

The problem is some on here don’t accept reality Mr A.

We got to the old division 3 step 3 without a rich owner as have many smaller clubs than Pools.
Is this the acceptable level we have stooped to.
Where's the Rope.

If IOR hadn’t come along there might have been no Pools or if there were they would languishing in the lower divisions outside the EFL, have Pools now found their true level ?
Nought is going to change unless some person comes along with money to burn.

The new sad version of Reality.
FFS I've heard it all now.

True Level
The old Fishermen are out in force this morning.
No more bites

Who's going on about God given right? It's clear the club is big enough to be an EFL club. It's clear by looking at our club and other clubs. I know you don't think theyre all run by extremely wealthy people, nobody would be that daft. But they're all run competently with strategic thinking and that's the difference. If others can do it, so can we. Raj, over to you.

We still stand a chance of having a good season, get a keeper in, have less bad luck with injuries and it could be good.

But for anyone who gets a bit down and thinks we may have found our level, think of Gateshead and their great season just gone and how well run that club must be to achieve that. Now imagine them with OUR resources and what they could achieve if they had those. That is what we should be aiming for.

Surely every club aims to be better than they currently are otherwise what's the point?
Our level is temporary at any given moment in time and can be influenced by finance, personnel and competence, luck or any combination.
Got to hope that the stars are coming into alignment and that our level in 10 months or so is efl 2.

yes, getting the club being run better is far more important than gaining promotion and it being run as it is. the last promotion was more or less a total waste for us and has caused a lot of negative feeling about our club and gallows humour.

Anyway, has anyone heard anything from the new directors?

This is NOT Pools level and should never under any circumstances be accepted as that.

Bang on Snowy

But currently this is Pools level like it or not. Definitely not where we want or expected to be and hopefully temporarily.

I accept we are where we are, but our mindset must never be to accept this as our level….we as a club and supporters deserve better than this….. but we have to prove it.

If accepting reality is to be behind the likes of Gateshead etc then you can keep reality. The excuses have got to stop this year or we will never get out of this league. What an opportunity no wrexhams, stockports, Chesterfields or Notts countys clubs we were actually outplaying only a few year back,.

Lets get the keeper situation sorted add 3 or 4 quality players to the squad and lets have a go at it.

Spot on the day we just accept it is the day we will be stuck here for a very long time.

Amen

..’Reality’ is not fixed.. we can’t deny reality, but we can change reality, you don’t have to resign yourself to just accepting reality.
Acceptance is fatal in the long run, because it becomes the new norm.

If you fall overboard you can’t deny you’re in trouble because you are, reality is you’re gonna drown if you don’t accept reality ….so you fight to change reality.

The Board of Directors are just figureheads to try and get the fans on Singh side, they have no real input, it’s Singh cash not theirs.

We don't know that, they may have bought a seat on the board?
They're hardly doing a lot to get the fans on board, they've been virtually silent since the board restructure.
The best way to get the fans on board will be to start the season on a winning streak, at the end of the day if we're sitting at or near the top nobody will be talking about the owner or directors.

I think you and I know and agree the answer to that one.

Aye here's hoping. Would be nice not to have such an elephant in the room but I'll settle for just a distraction from it. If we start hoovering up points from our early games then that would fit the bill

From his history at Darlo as well as here I just don't understand why he's appointed them unless they're bringing something to the party so who knows? Their remits could quite easily have been placed on existing employees desks I would have thought.

actually what can they say thats truthful and positive to get the fans on board. surely nobody wants to hear bullshit or pie in the sky futures about the club. you are correct about if we are top you,ll never hear raj,s name or any of the rest but it will be all about them if we struggle on the pitch again. bring back the days of my youth when i had no clue who any of the directors were or where interested for that matter.

This is exactly why he brought them in they will have virtually no say in what goes on, but they will take some of the rap if we are sat in 15th after 20 games.

Can't see it myself given that neither are involved in the playing side and it's not as if fans haven't already decided who to blame is it. He could surround himself with a thousand directors but it would still be Raj who was the brunt of the fans wrath.

Really struggling to see why these 4/5 Players aren't already in. They need gel time with the rest of the squad.
No good covering injuries as they happen with the previous dog shit replacements over the last 2 seasons.
Free agents after September for the reason of being shite.

No big boys financially this season.
Should and hopefully sharpish we jump all over this Scenario.

Hopeing for the best as usual but ain't got a clue which way its Gunna pan out.
Now or never from my perspective.
UTP.

think what we have now will be what we,ll be starting the season with apart from another keeper. we are no way going to bring in the 4/5 players quality some seem to want unless we can ship a similar number out of the club. unless we have an injury crisis with the wrong players involved again i feel we,ll be having a better season than some seem to be thinking.

Think there'll be a couple more to come including a keeper. The versatility of a few of the midfielders is going to be used to cover defence when injuries and suspensions happen.

Id be shocked if we didnt bring in at least another 3.

These here directors…I don’t believe they really exist…I had a dream they’re inflated before the meeting and deflated after the vote…..

as long as they do not mate with cardboard cut outs we,ll be fine. have a vision in my mind of a 1950,s type of a third rate yankie horror film directed by ed wood called the invasion of the money snatchers.