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Re: The English Football League 2016/2017
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Thu Feb 16, 2017 9:52 pmby yuppie
Aidan11 wrote:yuppie wrote:That does not sound good at all.
Does the owner ever go to the games Aidan? Doing a blackpool? Owner taking out as much as he can get whilst the club is still going.
Yeah he goes to games. A few weeks ago he said there would be a big announcement in January that would blow our minds.
Well it's mid-February and we're still waiting.
Sol Campbell being signed? The new Notts county...........
Re: The English Football League 2016/2017
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Fri Feb 17, 2017 6:18 pmby Alviro Patterson
Aidan11 wrote:yuppie wrote:Aidan11 wrote:We look to be heading out of the league if results keep going like this.
That will be the least of our problems though if our present owners are anything to go by.
A lot of teams down there struggling. Notts county goal difference might still have an impact on who goes down.
What have the current owners been doing?
Nothing. That's just it. It's a long story....
A recruitment firm from Essex took over a year or so ago with big promises.
Since then we find that we get regular winding up orders from the taxman which they always wait until the last minute to settle. The chairman - Gary Coxhall - borrows large sums of money which he says he is liable for but the agreements have appeared online and are quite clearly against the club. The loans are from Asset Management companies rather than the banks. When questioned about this he says that it would take too long to get finance from banks yet he was nit in a hurry for funds.
Coxhall was in partnership with an accountant called Peter Goldberg -a man with a dubious track record - this is traceable online. This man has since done a runner.
The original recruitment firm has gone bust and replaced by a company that owns the club but seems to have no other connection with anythingelse.
The owner has ambitions to buy our ground from the council. He also wants to improve it and build a new estate around it. As the area is pretty run down it would be like putting lipstick on a pig.
So the fans wonder why a small businessman from the other end of the country is interested in a constantly struggling lower league club.
This is only part of the story. Something stinks.
Do those loans come with a high level of interest and are issued by those who have a vested interest in Hartlepool?
Seems a couple of clubs in League One have relative short-term loans from random companies that come with high levels of interest. Having read how Bolton Wanderers have operated this season, a clubs revenue stream (Football League payments, Transfer Fees, Season Ticket revenue) could be used as security when these loans are issued and the interest payments are one way of making money.
Re: The English Football League 2016/2017
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Fri Feb 17, 2017 9:14 pmby Aidan11
Details of the loans are not known. Bizarrely one if the finance companies -Sage- had a connection with former premier League /Championship boss Dave Jones. It seems one of the conditions of the loan was to bring him into the club. He's now our manager and is doing no better than the last manager.
Re: The English Football League 2016/2017
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Mon Feb 20, 2017 10:21 pmby budgetmeansbudget
Henri Lansbury scores an amusing own goal against Newcastle, playing for Aston Villa.
Just desserts for his despicable actions when playing for Forest against Newcastle earlier in the season.
Re: The English Football League 2016/2017
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Mon Feb 20, 2017 11:09 pmby yuppie
Re: The English Football League 2016/2017
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Tue Feb 21, 2017 10:40 pmby yuppie
It seems the Steve McClaren revival at Derby is now finally over. Drawing at home in the local game to Burton.
Derby now 10 points outside the play offs.
Burton still hanging on, 5 points clear of relegation. Clough still working some miracles there.
Re: The English Football League 2016/2017
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Tue Feb 21, 2017 10:52 pmby sussexpob
The job that ends mxclarens career? Derby have a better squad then most teams above them
Re: The English Football League 2016/2017
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Tue Feb 21, 2017 11:01 pmby yuppie
sussexpob wrote:The job that ends mxclarens career? Derby have a better squad then most teams above them
To much player power.
It was the players that pretty much got rid of Pearson, and who chose Steve to come back.
Re: The English Football League 2016/2017
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Tue Feb 28, 2017 9:05 pmby budgetmeansbudget
46 different infringements in the Newcastle penalty area for that corner, not sure how the referee can just pick one out and give a penalty.
I know they've clamped down this season, but it's still pot luck.
Re: The English Football League 2016/2017
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Tue Feb 28, 2017 10:43 pmby Aidan11
4-0 for us tonight.
I can't remember the last time we had a win as big as that.
Re: The English Football League 2016/2017
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Tue Feb 28, 2017 11:04 pmby budgetmeansbudget
Newcastle deserved to win that game, although they left it late.
What a ball from Ritchie to Atsu who laid on Perez for the second goal.
Both players at AFCB last season!
Re: The English Football League 2016/2017
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Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:01 amby Alviro Patterson
There are three certainities in life
Death
Taxes
Bradford City Home Draw
Re: The English Football League 2016/2017
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Wed Mar 01, 2017 12:18 pmby durham_andy
budgetmeansbudget wrote:Newcastle deserved to win that game, although they left it late.
What a ball from Ritchie to Atsu who laid on Perez for the second goal.
Both players at AFCB last season!
Feels like a really important victory. Especially the way we came from behind. As soon as the equaliser went in I thought we'd win, just because of how bizarre it was! On to another huge game on Saturday!
Re: The English Football League 2016/2017
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Sun Mar 05, 2017 11:40 amby Durhamfootman
another good win for pools
newcastle take total charge of the championship
Re: The English Football League 2016/2017
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Sun Mar 05, 2017 1:17 pmby st_brendy
Starting to drool at the prospect now of my Chelsea-Newcastle-Sheff Utd-Doncaster-Tranmere accumulator coming off.
