Hartlepool United in Trouble

DiscoCAFC

I'm sure some of you have heard Hartlepool are potentially going into administration.

Obviously it's sad to see any fans feel grieved when their club is in trouble but I thought it's worth starting a new thread considering their fans brought that extra nice memory to the day we lifted the League One trophy.



They have to raise £200,000 to survive this month and their is a crowdfunding to help them.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/savehartlepoolunitedfootballclub

NapaAddick

First of many in coming years, I'm afraid.

DiscoCAFC

NapaAddick said:

First of many in coming years, I'm afraid.

Unfortunately I agree, players wages is the main reason.

bobmunro

DiscoCAFC said:

NapaAddick said:

First of many in coming years, I'm afraid.

Unfortunately I agree, players wages is the main reason.

Being relegated from the Football League doesn’t help either.

DaveMehmet

It’s wrong that with all the untold millions sloshing around the game, a famous old club like this face closure over £200k.

The_President

DaveMehmet said:

It’s wrong that with all the untold millions sloshing around the game, a famous old club like this face closure over £200k.

yeah, but we all know its not just 200k, that's the first drip to keep it going in the short term.

DaveMehmet

The_President said:

DaveMehmet said:

It’s wrong that with all the untold millions sloshing around the game, a famous old club like this face closure over £200k.

yeah, but we all know its not just 200k, that's the first drip to keep it going in the short term.

True

Chippycafc

DiscoCAFC said:

I'm sure some of you have heard Hartlepool are potentially going into administration.

Obviously it's sad to see any fans feel grieved when their club is in trouble but I thought it's worth starting a new thread considering their fans brought that extra nice memory to the day we lifted the League One trophy.



They have to raise £200,000 to survive this month and their is a crowdfunding to help them.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/savehartlepoolunitedfootballclub

Perhaps one of the premierships players could donate one of their weeks wages.

DiscoCAFC

bobmunro said:

DiscoCAFC said:

NapaAddick said:

First of many in coming years, I'm afraid.

Unfortunately I agree, players wages is the main reason.

Being relegated from the Football League doesn’t help either.

True but look how the likes of Portsmouth, Luton, Rangers and even Palarse had suffered. Not only FA but UEFA and Fifa really need to do something about this otherwise it's going to get out of hand.

Neymar's transfer fund to PSG sums it up for me...it's getting beyond a joke. I remember when Shearer moved to Newcastle for £15M and everyone was debating whether any player was worth that amount!

Brendan_O_Connell

What happened to the SE9 Monkey Hangers? All went a bit quiet.

http://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/comment/2872806#Comment_2872806

Bedsaddick

Paul Pogba gets paid £200k every 4 days which would save Hartlepool United. That's how shit football has become.

Friend Or Defoe

Chippycafc said:

DiscoCAFC said:

I'm sure some of you have heard Hartlepool are potentially going into administration.

Obviously it's sad to see any fans feel grieved when their club is in trouble but I thought it's worth starting a new thread considering their fans brought that extra nice memory to the day we lifted the League One trophy.



They have to raise £200,000 to survive this month and their is a crowdfunding to help them.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/savehartlepoolunitedfootballclub

Perhaps one of the premierships players could donate one of their weeks wages.

Perhaps clubs could operate within their means?

i_b_b_o_r_g

If I was an £80k-a-week Premiership player, I'd stick £200k over anonymously

harveys_gardener

Perhaps Beardsley could restore some karma by helping out an ex-club.

i_b_b_o_r_g

Chippycafc said:

DiscoCAFC said:

I'm sure some of you have heard Hartlepool are potentially going into administration.

Obviously it's sad to see any fans feel grieved when their club is in trouble but I thought it's worth starting a new thread considering their fans brought that extra nice memory to the day we lifted the League One trophy.



They have to raise £200,000 to survive this month and their is a crowdfunding to help them.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/savehartlepoolunitedfootballclub

Perhaps one of the premierships players could donate one of their weeks wages.

sorry just seen this

ElfsborgAddick

DaveMehmet said:

It’s wrong that with all the untold millions sloshing around the game, a famous old club like this face closure over £200k.

Famous........for having the most re-elections to the football league, alongside Halifax and Rochdale.

Bedsaddick

ElfsborgAddick said:

DaveMehmet said:

It’s wrong that with all the untold millions sloshing around the game, a famous old club like this face closure over £200k.

Famous........for having the most re-elections to the football league, alongside Halifax and Rochdale.

What does being re-elected have to do with it?

Bedsaddick

Looking at that crowdfunding page warms the heart. So many fans caring about a club they don't actually support.

#FootballFamily

LenGlover

A classic example of the point I tried to make on the thread regarding the Manchester City reserve buying Danny Green's house yesterday.

NapaAddick

Bedsaddick said:

Paul Pogba gets paid £200k every 4 days which would save Hartlepool United. That's how shit football has become.

The world has decided through supply and demand and free decisions of fans and owners and players and all the people watching TV, that Coutinho's transfer is more valuable than all League Two clubs combined. I don't deny the validity of that choice, but I question the sanity. Talking about a £142M transfer in the online community does not provide the same societal value as 20+ clubs worth maybe £142M, who bring people together every week over a common cause and get them away from the televisions and computers and into the real world. Society's values everywhere are increasingly misplaced.

Valley11

Shall we go and start a Charlton baseball, basketball, tiddly winks club?
I’m done with football

clive

The Hartlepool United Supporters Trust have issued the following statement.
https://www.hufcsupporterstrust.org.uk/news-article/trust-statement-11-january-2018/63

ShootersHillGuru

Football is fucked because of the greed of the Premier League. If things carry on as they are now football in this country will be unrecognisable in 15 years. It’s all wrong and I hate it with a passion.

Rob7Lee

Sounds a right mess, hope it all works out for them. Just sold a player to Preston 'undisclosed' - RD's buying them!!

cabbles

DaveMehmet said:

It’s wrong that with all the untold millions sloshing around the game, a famous old club like this face closure over £200k.

@LenGlover I didn’t get a chance to go back onto that mansion thread having started it, but this a good example and I agree with you

The money in football just echoes that in life. Too much for too few

For any club to go under is absolutely criminal. I find it hard to stomach that we’ve got a system where a 20 year old who’s played a handful of games can earn £35k a week, and within 6 weeks of work, earn what’s needed to save Hartlepool

SuedeAdidas

Bedsaddick said:

Paul Pogba gets paid £200k every 4 days which would save Hartlepool United. That's how shit football has become.

Yeah - but he has to pay tax on that remember.

happyvalley

Perhaps Jeff Stelling can chuck in a few bob

harveys_gardener

The Premier League model is in danger of disappearing up it's own arsehole unless they bring in realistic FFP or pools or something new. Park the bus, pass it sideways, back, sideways, repeat is not going to make it the most exciting league in the world, especially if we struggle in Champions League and internationally. If I wanted to make money, I'd buy Championship TV rights. Much better product. Then kick Prem out of Europa league and balance may turn.

Carter

I tell you what I hate, and it's never been the game of football as much as I go on about having football. It's the bollocks that surrounds it, money, fucking wives and girlfriends, the fact that Manchester United are referred to as a global brand, the fact that everything is analysed to the nth degree as far as the rich clubs are concerned, the fact it isn't or at least doesn't feel working class anymore when I go to games.

I don't begrudge players, the artistic, creative, exciting players the wealth they have lavished upon them. I get a bit disheartened when Kyle Walker is worth 50 million, however it's not his fault.

Hartlepool are a club in the shadow of some massive clubs in that area and will never be a brand yet to the supporters that club is everything, like us with Charlton and I bet if they do go to the wall it will not even feature on one of my Kent based, Man United or Liverpool supporting friends Facebook walls let alone a mainstream media channel like sky. Who ironically have done more than anyone else to kill league football at the lower tiers. Cunts

NapaAddick

I believe they should do what the NFL does and equally distribute all TV money. That would make a massive difference to clubs outside the top 6. If on top of that they simply set a rule that wages cannot exceed 66% of all turnover, and then include all transfer fees as turnover in the year of the transfer, it would change a lot of things for the better. In my opinion.

Bangkokaddick

NapaAddick said:

I believe they should do what the NFL does and equally distribute all TV money. That would make a massive difference to clubs outside the top 6. If on top of that they simply set a rule that wages cannot exceed 66% of all turnover, and then include all transfer fees as turnover in the year of the transfer, it would change a lot of things for the better. In my opinion.

TV money in the Premier League is already equally distributed amongst all the clubs. It's actually the top clubs that have a gripe against this believing they should get a bigger slice! The Football League/Championship TV deals are peanuts in comparison. They're different organisations so there's no way the EPL will send money down the chain.