The Poolie Bunker

..this whole, farcical shitty little business has for the first time ever has detached me from the club, in as much as the ‘tour round the garden’ mystery tour close season has broken a bond of trust.
I feel let down and disturbed at being kept in the dark and vague promises that may result in a basic ’utility’ season that eventually descends into futility.
I dread the club going off the rails mid season, doubts abound after this travesty.
The club is made to look stupid in my eyes as part of this charade and I am fearful for what lays ahead.
For those who voted yes …..I have no words to express my utter disappointment.
What a sad day this has been when all has eventually been revealed…..

Totally agree. Feel the same way.

Agree

Agreed

Feel the same way

Mine n Mutleys boycott club will grow.
Was/Am busting to go back but never under Sing.

Used to be a superfan.
Cheers Sing
Self pride is more important than you ripping the piss out of HUFC.

There’s a void there now between me and my club that never ever existed in the worst of times.
I feel we’ve all been made to look optimistic idiots ….to find out you’ve just had the piss taken out of you.
There was no bright tomorrow round the corner to meet us …just another new chapter opened in the death of a club.
The void will heal eventually after the exorcism that will eventually come.

What is a boycott going to achieve, it would deprive Pools of funds, it gives Singh every excuse to put Pools into admin, no income and he won’t subsidise Pools. He will have no qualms about people losing their employment, he didn’t at Darlington, do you Pools fans want to be languishing in lower leagues probably lose the the Vic because they can’t afford the rent and possibly ending up playing at Grayfields ?
Fans have to stick with Pools and hope a buyer comes along.

Personally would much rather have the club start again with pride for the club then get taken the absolute piss out of by a bloke who doesn’t care one bit about the club, town or fans. Can’t imagine spending hundreds of pounds to watch shite players and the revolving door of managers continue whilst having situations like the vote thrown on you. You people who voted yes I understand the reasons, but enjoy next season and don’t complain too much when you get shite players who no one else wanted and no takeover and then the same situation next season. 3 years the clubs been “up for sale” only time wasters… makes you think.

Think
This is the tipping point for a lot of people regardless of how they voted, if Raj is still here at the start of the season it will be tye worst ever in terms
Of atmospher

Lets hope you wont have to wait too long, Er can i have your doddgy stick.

He won,t be at the club longer than you Snowy

The last few days have been a tipping point for me. I've never been that anti Raj sort of supporter, was grateful he stepped in when he did, steadied the shop, oversaw a promotion. I never believed he was buying jet planes with gate money etc.
However this takeover business has just sickened me, the club statements have been deliberately aggressive where they never needed to be. The finger pointing, the posturing it's just infantile.
Nob heads within the club on fake profiles on FB and here, stirring the shit is quite frankly embarrassing. Then with one of the most ridiculous attempts to win a popularity contest I've ever seen, to try and cement some sort of power. Jesus.
I had been looking forward to the season until all this nonsense, now I'm just sick of it. The people in charge and the collaborators on the board need to take a deep look at themselves and question what sort of people they are.
Never thought I'd see the day when I'd say, 'im done with it' but that day arrived.

Start again like Darlo,no proper ground languishing in the lower divisions for 10 years, nope it’s not the answer.

Sorry pal but need it for the darts

Ya just a chewy troll.
Always normal for you to go against the majority.

The club's not up for sale.
Otherwise Radgy would of accepted your oil tycoon offer of a few tins of Castrol.

We have had multiple buyers man!!!!

What is doing NOTHING but shutting up and handing over your money going to achieve? Tell me that?

We are one division above darlo, me and many others agree we will be in a relegation battle next season, there’s a very very good chance we are in the same division as them next season. The stuff about the ground is also a complete unknown.

For goodness sake that's all we've done over the years but this bloke is different gravy. He's making it all about him and I can only see us sliding down into oblivion with us hoping and hoping. Totally sick of it now which is why I voted no even if it ends the club as it stands. It's painful but in the end you can only take so much.

we get to watch a Folarin Campbell charman front 3 next season! Exciting times.

And you know do you.
Just feck off …stick to getting worked up over money, which is all that gets any passion aroused in you.

On the bright side, you’ll never need sedatives again….or to worry about going up.

I can guarantee it

I've said this before but its worth repeating; there was a time when a Pools loss would spoil my weekend. I was devastated if I missed a game but getting beat I was inconsolable. I (with others) made a record and got it into the top 30. We formed the trust, got a ground protection order through the council and put on the statues and did a lot of work on behalf of the fans and the club.

Now results can pass me by. I find the club a farcical joke at the moment. This is why I still maintain we'd be better starting again. Yes Darlo are a league below but they have a real connectio to their football club. We don't and nor will we until something groundbreaking happens. Under RS we are in for an extended period of stagnation. We'll do well to stay up next season but whether it be next year or the year after or even the year after that, we are destined to go down and at my age I have more important things to worry about.

I more or less feel the same.

The age n health thing to the over 53 years old Poolies will be getting us on the same wavelength.

BUT REWIND BEFORE SING AND THAT COMMARADARY OF HAVING A LOAD OF GREAT MATES JUST THRU SUPPORTING POOLS. Mainly bad times but boy did we enjoy the rare good times and turn into party animals.

Nobody can ever take the great few memories away from us.
RIP HUFC.

I never supported Pools for glory… I did it because they were my local team.
Most of it was hard going in a sense compared to other clubs but there was a shared camaraderie on the terraces where you learned to be resilient and have a cracking sense of humour.
There were little achievements that kept your attention but never the big stuff (in our terms) till the promotion under Gibson…ok it ended in tears, but I can’t bring myself to slag him off because he showed me what was possible.
IOR were the comfy years, how I always dreamed it would be till the inevitable end came and we’ve been swinging at anchor ever since…even our promotion was never backed to the full hilt and the inevitable happened.
If we’re going to succeed, we need a decent manager, a budget and a owner who steps back and keeps their neb out…,,,and has some patience…running a football club is not like running ordinary businesses because the owner is out of their depth and lacks any real knowledge of the business.
We’re like an old married couple me and Pools and I hate to see the old girl being disrespected and unable to step in .

Fully agree about the Gibson sentence.

I honestly thought promotion to div 3 was just a dream and we would stay in div 4 forever.( never entered my mind of div 5 or below even in the re-election eras ya just knew we would survive).

So basically Mr Gibson should be remembered for fully changing the ambition levels to Pools.
Sort of slowly laid the foundations for IOR without forgetting the exceptional job Harold Hornsey did for Pools.

Never ever thought we could stoop to the acceptable levels of non league and still retain a good fan base which now is going to evaporate at pace.

It's game over

that the problem. these buggers hang around for less time than the fine weather fans but do a hell of a lot more harm.

feel the same as i guess many fans do who did not have an agenda of there own. makes all those years of sticking up for the club, fighting its cause, physically a few times at school, and taking all the piss thrown at me feel futile now for the first time ever. even wearing anything pools related now is like goig out in a clowns outfit.

think that sums up the vast amount of poolies. i,d guess now that any win or promotion means more to us than the glory hunter fan who expects this and goes into a meltdown if there big name club miles from where they live dare lose a single game of football. when i used to listen to phone in football programmes it gave me a laugh when the man.u fan from braintree had a rant when his team managed to lose a rare game in the fergy days.

I think these two posts capture the mood very well. The last couple of days has seen a turning point I think - enough is enough. I’ve not seen more than a handful of posts even slightly defending Raj. The out and out blackmail is unforgivable.

Gibson gave us a brief taste of Sirloin, we weren’t gonna put up with scrag end after that.

That's not quite true Snowy.

He also gets whipped into a frenzy of passion by Belinda big bollocks and Debbie dangly dong down the local tittie-bar.

Me love your shitty white arse long time Mister Jamie...

Is that their real names though

You appear to be obsessed with tittie bars Kenny, I think you are very small minded tbh, maybe a bit perverted as you are obsessed with tits, enlighten me I have never been in one, what are they like inside ? Oh and what part of Thailand have you ever been to, the bars you describe are not the same where I live, searched high and low for tittie bars, can’t find any, send me directions.

Reminder if you haven't been on Pools website.

Early Bird ST Deadline ends on Saturday.

Er….I wouldn’t have said you …’searched high and low for tittie bars’ if I was you.

so does the month of may and that interests me about as much.

Had a ST for donkeys years but will only consider buying this time when I know what the managerial situation and squad look like. Regardless of ownership, takeovers, votes, and any other shenanigans if we start competing at the top of the div all the off field stuff will become secondary to most.

That’s an IFas big as the Eiffel Tower.

Bigger, but true who gives a f*ck about the owner if you're tearing up the league at any level?

Well Stalin waving to the fans at half time after buying the club would be a no no for me, no one would look in his direction but clap enthusiastically…the bonus being the team would never dare lose or draw….joking apart..I think this revival you envision under a rejuvenated Raj is just a tad optimistic .

Not envisioning it at all, just being hypothetical.

My only obsession is ripping the piss out of you Jimbo.

Which I feel I carry out with selfless dedication, and some degree of skill...

He and his nodding dogs are complete Arseholes!

Yeh Raj isn’t enriching himself or anything like that, but he is a thin skinned child unable to take accountability that it’s his consistently poor decision making that has left us where we are , and he is now blaming everyone but himself for the position he is in.

That ‘vote’ really was the final unraveling and there is no way back from it….and ‘the board’ who went along with it instead of resigning are a disgrace to themselves and the club

I think any owner has to take a back seat and leave the team management to the manager.
Owners who want to have their nose in every facet of running a club and constantly interfering is a liability inviting failure.
Get the right manager and stay in the shadows.

its funny how those hands on owners who go into the dressing room pre match for a rant and both unpopular and never seem to succeed. nobody goes to a game because of them but might swerve it due to them. its all about the players on the pitch and a little about the manager and coaching staff who will hardly get a mention if the team is doing well.