GARY COXALL is a football chairman. Getting stick when things go wrong is part of the job. Praise for the 92 individuals holding such a position in English football is rare.

Coxall and JPNG took control of Hartlepool United in the summer of 2015. The club is ran under completely different lines to how it was under the previous regime of Ken Hodcroft and IOR, and it’s not to the liking of some.

Pools have had two winding-up orders thrown their way this season, a throwback to the early 1990s when they were commonplace under then chairman Garry Gibson.

Coxhall is working on altering the mentality of the club and the way it works and the appointment last week of Dave Jones is part of his masterplan to deliver success.

The chairman is not concerned by the High Court issues, which he has said have been resolved and will be dismissed when they come in front of a judge next month.

He has plans for developments off the field as much as he wants them to progress under Jones in the coming months and years.

"The winding up orders? Nobody wants them,’’ he reflected. “We do not plan for things like that happening. "But they are not as bad as people make out, nowhere near as bad.

"It is a transition season for us. We want to move from a club that was constantly losing money, with cash having to be pumped in to a club that is self-sufficient and successfully so.

"The fears come from facts. We have had winding up orders. But we have never been wound up and we never will be wound up. But if you take that as it is and people start worrying. Then it grows legs."

Coxall is prolific on social media, regularly using Twitter to answer queries and questions from both supporters and non-supporters alike.

Tweeting brings about it’s problems, giving all and sundry a platform to have their say, but Coxall said: "I don't think anyone is fighting against the club.

"There is a genuine fear. People fear the unknown.

"No one hates the club, even my harshest critics or Hartlepool United's. Unless they are a Darlington fan or Carlisle then we know that's not the case.

"What they have is a fear that something could go wrong. I get that and I accept it.

"Bad news spreads.

"The society we live in and a generation we are everyone thinks they could do it better. When you are an armchair expert you can say what you like. Your theory will never get tested.

"I have not been here a long time, people do not know a lot about me - that is fine.

"I have got to earn the credit and take the criticism as it comes."

Coxall, who will hold a fans’ forum with Jones a week on Friday, added: "This season there might still be some bumps in the road.

"It doesn't mean to say we are in trouble because we are a long way off being in trouble.

"It is just having the togetherness to get through. I think we have that.

"We have a blueprint - every decision taken at the club is in the best interests of the club.

"This is all part of a wider plan. It is huge.

"The club has to be in a better place than it is now. I get frustrated when people talk about how far this club can go. We are taking half a step back to make a big leap forward.

"That step can be catastrophic in some fans eyes. We have to earn the respect of fans.

"If we are still having this conversation in a couple of years then I will know we are not doing things right."

Jones will take charge of his first game this weekend, when Pools go to Newport.

He replaced Craig Hignett, and Coxall admitted: "We approached him.

"We knew who we wanted to get and we were very surprised at how he reacted to that. He jumped at the chance.

"We feel like we have made a big club appointment. This is not a Hartlepool appointment. We have to start delivering on this belief that we are better than this league."