The Poolie Bunker

What exactly is actually going on ….?
From the minimal information out there, which is just above zero, are we being run onto the rocks.
I have no hope of a take over now, The club is like a mouse being played with by an indulgent cat……not quite ready to eat the mouse just yet….!.

After being a fan of 60+ years I really cannot recall any owner acting like this.
Things are certainly not positive and if ever there was a master class for alienating your fan base and truly pissing off the fans, this is it.
The rift between fans and owner is beyond repair.

I see a relegation betting scandal on its way.

A bit like them snooker players losing on purpose then blameing they were threatened with there life's.

It's looking like div 6 is nailed on unfortunately.

It's making Vince Barker look like one of the good guys :D

Raj has form in this regard from 3 years ago - Spike Lee sacked on 5th May, Hartley not appointed till 3rd June.

That wasted month helped cost us our place in League 2, but at least there was a bit of communication about 'the interview process'. The current news blackout is unprecedented.

Letting the deadline for early bird season tickets expire without a peep of encouragement or information is baffling incompetence - unless the plan is to wind the club up. 'The fans aren't prepared to put their money in, so why should I?'

It's rotten to the core. You can feel the lethargy, they're all in thrall to a dictator and daren't do anything without his permission.

But…WE are the club, everyone else is just visiting, passing through….…the fans are here for life.
We are continually at the behest of those who come with promises unfulfilled, but you expect it, it goes with the territory.
But this ‘shower’ is a whole new experience of how not to run a football club.
It begs the question, whose football club is it…?
We own nothing, but we are the heart of the club…end of.

its not just raj and pools its across the game where fans are treated badly. clubs only want them when there is something to sell to make money out of them and the yearly season ticket sales. pay up and shut up is there motto. unless you actually think that every fan who attends games is seen by the club as the most important factor a club has then it could be better finding another activity on a saturday afternoon or a club lower down the pyramid where you feel you are really wanted.

He seemed like an ogre at the time - but didn't he mortgage the family farm to keep Pools alive?

I'd agree that this is unprecedented. Raj has no redeeming qualities, he's just a total divvy, blackmailing fans, acting irrationally, he's thin-skinned, greedy and a narcissist. The board/interim board/directors, whoever they are, need to stand up to him and tell him to sell up now, or they should leave themselves.
He's made a basket case of OUR club.
We're losing another pre-season and if by some miracle a deal is done (and given the silence that's probably still being discussed) new owners will have a huge job on their hands.
What we all really want is to get promoted from this league. Right now though, it already seems a case of just surviving next season and building from there.
Thanks Raj.

He's killing the club very slowly. If he doesn't sell soon...as in days...we will definitely be relegated next season or in administration. Thanks Raj.

I think we are being mocked, laughed at and disrespected.

Need a like button for Mutley and Snowy's posts as well.

No other club in the country is getting ran like Pools and how the fans are being treat.

Victoria Park must be built on top of a gypsy burial ground with the amount of bad luck we have had over the years. At this stage I would be open to a Shamen (a wizard, not the band) coming over and trying to lift the curse.

What makes me think it is still ongoing, Is there is NO way he can show his face on a matchday , He has put himself in an impossible position.
And no matter what we think about the interim board, There is only ONE person stopping communication, What he says goes.

And if this season is fucked for new owners then so be it, Lots of time to prepare for next season.
NSD

go back a few years though and there has been many. its not as if its the first time we have suffered. you do not have to go back many years to see the much publicised unrest at blackpool and things were not that rosy either for the fans of oldham, stockport, bury, macclesfield and others due to club owners. got to remember it wasn,t that long ago when we went to oldham there was a massive fans protest there on the day and look at how those fans are feeling now. hopefully we,ll see the back of him and we,ll see better days reurn to the vic in the same way they have for all the teams i have mentioned.

Yeah , I always feel a bit guilty nowadays about it. The bloke got so much stick and to be fair I think he was just doing his best to keep the club going. I remember the last home game of the 80/81 season when loads paid into the old Clarence road stand to surround him in the directors box. He absolutely got a ridiculous amount of pelters. I don't think the story about selling up and moving pools to Scarborough helped matters though.

I suspect the Scarborough business didn’t help.

Once Raj goes the fans will come back.For God sake Go!

Or is he going down with the ‘ship’….?

Aye I understand that Accy but I'm on about now...this moment in time.

have a read on my last comment on the Raj thread about sheff.wed. thing is who are bothered about little old pools and the fans. who outside of us will fight for our existance or actually give a toss.