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Lee K wrote:
Glyn wrote:Worcester having an on-field crisis...

http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/sport/10 ... ite_slump/

With a run of defeats you can see how their manager came to be linked with Telford...

Top journalism though, quoting from the fans' forum and Facebook.

Gizza job, I could do that...

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Worcester plan to sell 1, 500 season tickets next season for £ 100 each playing at Kidderminster. Even at that cheap price they're living in cloud cuckoo land if they really think they can manage that!
I can see them being one of these clubs that leaves their ground when no new one is built and ends up floating around the local area looking for a ground to play at. I should imagine the fanbase will dwindle down as they will get fed up of the trip to Kidderminster. Interesting to note that the supporters group have started to look at alternative grounds and developments already.
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Scott wrote:
Lee K wrote:
Glyn wrote:Worcester having an on-field crisis...

http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/sport/10 ... ite_slump/

With a run of defeats you can see how their manager came to be linked with Telford...

Top journalism though, quoting from the fans' forum and Facebook.

Gizza job, I could do that...

:roll: (muppet)
Worcester plan to sell 1, 500 season tickets next season for £ 100 each playing at Kidderminster. Even at that cheap price they're living in cloud cuckoo land if they really think they can manage that!
I can see them being one of these clubs that leaves their ground when no new one is built and ends up floating around the local area looking for a ground to play at. I should imagine the fanbase will dwindle down as they will get fed up of the trip to Kidderminster. Interesting to note that the supporters group have started to look at alternative grounds and developments already.
Don't forget they will not be getting the use of Kiddie for nothing. quite expensive I think, :think:
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Bob C wrote:
Scott wrote:
Lee K wrote: Worcester plan to sell 1, 500 season tickets next season for £ 100 each playing at Kidderminster. Even at that cheap price they're living in cloud cuckoo land if they really think they can manage that!
I can see them being one of these clubs that leaves their ground when no new one is built and ends up floating around the local area looking for a ground to play at. I should imagine the fanbase will dwindle down as they will get fed up of the trip to Kidderminster. Interesting to note that the supporters group have started to look at alternative grounds and developments already.
Don't forget they will not be getting the use of Kiddie for nothing. quite expensive I think, :think:
Exactly Bob, the money will start to dry up even if they do get the 1,500 season ticket holders they are after!
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Couldn't they groundshare at Evesham??

;) :roll: :twisted:
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If the game's off tomorrow and you've got a couple of hours to kill, you can read this and become an expert on the4 Pompey saga

http://pompeyownership.wordpress.com/20 ... -question/
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Dunfermline have applied to go into admin today

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21936883

Coventry are in the High Court today and the situation there is so complex I'd need a week off to try and make sense of it all...
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Follow this man for all the news on the CCFC High Court case

https://mobile.twitter.com/NickClitheroe?p=s

Lawyer has described it as a "fairly catastrophic insolvency"

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Perton Pitman wrote:
Glyn wrote:Gloucester City need to raise £25k to see them through the season...

http://nonleague.pitchero.com/news/tige ... um=twitter#_

I'm afraid I gave up after para 37, but it can't be doing them any favours playing in BSN, can it?

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...or playing home matches in Cheltenham
Doors "thrown open" tonight!

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Remember when RC Warwick went under?

Ditto now their American sister club...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21951752

I was wondering how you run up $10m of debt to the IRS

Ah, that's just interest and penalties!
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With today's news concerning Dunfermline and Coventry one has to wonder how many more clubs will suffer the same fate. Time for the sport (at all levels) to sort itself out before clubs disappear completely. QPR would be a good place to start, but certain non-league clubs need to look at themselves. Short term success is all well and good, but owners have a duty to fans to ensure that they are in a decent stake once they have moved on
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Bury need £1 million to survive. How have they got into such a mess??!!
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Read all about it!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22095559

Don't FCUM ground share with them? :think:
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If FCUM weren't building a new ground I could forsee a situation where that situation is reversed a la Kingstonian / Wimbledon
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Perton Pitman wrote:Bury need £1 million to survive. How have they got into such a mess??!!

As per the BBC link which Del posted, too few fans, too high outgoings and in a highly competitive area I'm afraid - when Neville Neville's lads were lads you'd support your local team but I imagine 98.76% of the football-supporting public of Bury would now be found at Old Trafford, or in the pub.... and indeed if it weren't for that lucrative groundshare with FCUM they might have gone bump already

:|

There are so many clubs in crisis now, north and south of the border that I'd need to pack in work to find time to post all the relevant stories.

Those clubs which live within a realistic budget might not enjoy the highs (eg Truro, Portsmouth, Colne Dynamoes) but hopefully not the lows either.

The frustration, as we've often said, is that every season we seem to be competing on an uneven playing field (and it's happening again this term) with clubs who may go higher up the pyramid than us, but may not be around in 5 years' time...

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...greater regulation, enforced salary caps etc may be the answer
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More here on the Bury crisis - deja vu, it transpires...

http://twohundredpercent.net/?p=22618
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Rocester potless and managerless

http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/inde ... &nid=93133

Shame, it's a lovely little ground, but how on earth can a wee village like that expect to maintain a semi-pro club?

Especially as Uttoxeter (who, I have to admit, I didn't even know existed, until I latched onto them on Twitter) are firing on all cylinders just down the road...
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Glyn wrote:Llanelli face third winding-up petition - I know I've used this line before, but if it were a horse it would have been shot by now...

http://www.welsh-premier.com/index.php/ ... witterfeed
RIP, subject to appeal - but since they're not going to get a domestic licence to play in the WPL anyway, and struggle to get 100 through the gate these days, is it worth it?

http://www.welsh-premier.com/index.php/ ... witterfeed

By the way, when Cardiff's promotion was confirmed last week, Conor MacNamara on Five Live said "my only concern is the effect this might have on clubs in South Wales playing in the Welsh League (sic)"

I was tempted to tweet him to ask him to name them....
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Highgate United about to RIP....

http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/inde ... &nid=93262

Shame....

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Just read on Twitter that Farnborough are going into administration.

Fancy. :roll:

#cheats

:x

Have made my views known thereon....

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More on it here

http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/inde ... &nid=93298

Hope that 'historical debt' didn't exist when they bought their way to the Zamaretto League title in 2010 :evil:
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cds wrote:More on it here

http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/inde ... &nid=93298

Hope that 'historical debt' didn't exist when they bought their way to the Zamaretto League title in 2010 :evil:
You're not suggesting..... surely.....

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http://www.footballconference.co.uk/new ... ws_id=9585

I'd say 100 points would be more appropriate.

Cheats

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Glyn wrote:http://www.footballconference.co.uk/new ... ws_id=9585

I'd say 100 points would be more appropriate.

Cheats

:x :x :x :x :x :x
Is it just coincidence, I wonder, that they've delayed going into admin and reaping the 10-point deduction until that leaves them just about certain nevertheless to stay up?

http://www.bluesqsouth.com/tables/0,20984,,00.html
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Hereford again.... but at least they're putting paying HMRC ahead of the players...

http://nonleague.pitchero.com/news/here ... um=twitter#_
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