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Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Fri Aug 02 2013 1:05 pm
by Perton Pitman
...somebody made a few quid when Highfield Road was sold, but they are probably lurking in the shadows now
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Fri Aug 02 2013 1:21 pm
by Glyn
Perton Pitman wrote:...somebody made a few quid when Highfield Road was sold, but they are probably lurking in the shadows now
I'm reminded that Geoffrey Robinson was the man at the helm of CCFC at the time
Not that I'm making any insinuations, of course...
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Fri Aug 02 2013 6:31 pm
by Glyn
http://www.football-league.co.uk/footba ... 34_3335621
Football League desperate to avoid club going under despite its parlous state
Lousy management at all levels
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Mon Aug 12 2013 6:01 pm
by Glyn
http://www.welsh-premier.com/index.php/ ... witterfeed
All sorted. Just £50k of FAW money down the drain then
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Tue Aug 13 2013 3:38 pm
by Glyn
Glyn wrote:Just read on Twitter that Farnborough are going into administration.
Fancy.
#cheats
Have made my views known thereon....
Farnborough exit admin at the 11th hour then this nonsense follows:
http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/inde ... &nid=95876
If I'm a ref booking you and you tell me your name's Messi, I'm sending you off
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Fri Aug 16 2013 7:34 am
by Del
So it's a case of 'sod all the people we owe money to - let's spend some more anyway!'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-23718682
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Fri Aug 16 2013 12:07 pm
by Glyn
'twas ever thus, cf Farnborough/Salisbury/Portsmouth etc etc
Financial Fair Play, yeah, right
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Fri Aug 16 2013 7:02 pm
by Glyn
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Thu Aug 22 2013 9:12 am
by Glyn
Latest
Was saying on Tuesday night, the FA as the overseer of the National Game really ought to appoint a non-league football overlord to stop these people (eg Farnborough, Truro, Salisbury etc etc) taking the p***
I'll do it for £50k plus car
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Thu Aug 22 2013 12:18 pm
by Glyn
Glyn wrote:
Latest
Was saying on Tuesday night, the FA as the overseer of the National Game really ought to appoint a non-league football overlord to stop these people (eg Farnborough, Truro, Salisbury etc etc) taking the p***
I'll do it for £50k plus car
More here
http://www.gethampshire.co.uk/sport/fut ... in-5766014
I wonder if talkSPORT will run the story about what a bunch of clowns FFC are, as they did when Paddy Power's ridiculous sponsorship was announced?
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Fri Aug 30 2013 1:30 pm
by Glyn
Glyn wrote:Glyn wrote:
Latest
Was saying on Tuesday night, the FA as the overseer of the National Game really ought to appoint a non-league football overlord to stop these people (eg Farnborough, Truro, Salisbury etc etc) taking the p***
I'll do it for £50k plus car
More here
http://www.gethampshire.co.uk/sport/fut ... in-5766014
I wonder if talkSPORT will run the story about what a bunch of clowns FFC are, as they did when Paddy Power's ridiculous sponsorship was announced?
The saga drags on...
http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/inde ... &nid=96246
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Fri Aug 30 2013 3:47 pm
by Perton Pitman
Wonder if the COnf will break their own rules as they did with Truro last year?!
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Fri Aug 30 2013 5:03 pm
by Glyn
Perton Pitman wrote:Wonder if the Conf will break their own rules as they did with Truro last year?!
Entirely possible/probable
Wonder how many other clubs would/will get away with this nonsense?
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Mon Sep 02 2013 9:54 pm
by Perton Pitman
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Tue Sep 03 2013 1:02 am
by The Beerhunter
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Tue Sep 03 2013 8:44 am
by Glyn
Excellent broadcaster on talkSPORT (I know, there's a phrase you don't often hear) Danny Kelly makes the point that Kettering have gone under for the sake of £58k while one club in Europe is paying another £85m-ish for one player whose weekly wage will be four times the Kettering debt.
That said, if someone owes me £58k, I want it back
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Tue Sep 03 2013 9:18 am
by Glyn
Truro out of admin
http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/inde ... &nid=96331
Have to say, for all we don't like them, I quite like the tone of paras 2-5, however ungrammatical they is
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Tue Sep 03 2013 12:32 pm
by Perton Pitman
Agree with the sentiment coming out of Truro, but it's certain that many other clubs are (and will be in the future) run by people who are blinded and don't heed the warnings around them.
As far as Kettering are concerned, one of the statements talks about them having to sell assets - I'm not sure they have any as they have no ground to call their own and the players won't be much cop
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Tue Sep 03 2013 2:54 pm
by Del
Perton Pitman wrote:Agree with the sentiment coming out of Truro,
"Rest assured it will not happen again under our watch."
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Thu Sep 05 2013 4:08 pm
by Glyn
The FCN season has started for Farnborough
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23973865
Sam Elliott @SamElliott_NLP 47s
Farnborough in, but the name-change idea's out. Paddy Power statement: the Conference had "the greatest sense of humour failure of all time"
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Fri Sep 06 2013 12:32 pm
by Glyn
From Twitter:
Hinckley United face a winding-up order over debts of £130k
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Fri Sep 06 2013 12:56 pm
by Glyn
Glyn wrote:From Twitter:
Hinckley United face a winding-up order over debts of £130k
Note it all started with an unpaid tax bill of £200k
http://www.hinckleytimes.net/news-in-hi ... -33809532/
Same old same old...
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Fri Sep 06 2013 1:36 pm
by The Beerhunter
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Fri Sep 06 2013 1:46 pm
by Glyn
No, but read the previous link and you'll see that the reason they owe money to their former directors is that they lent them the money to pay off the tax debt; then didn't get their money back.
Dead impressed with your link though. If you see my name on there will you let me know please?
Re: Clubs in crisis
Posted: Sat Sep 07 2013 1:54 pm
by The Beerhunter
I did read the link, my point was that the debt was incurred under the regime of the previous Chairman so he was either directly or indirectly responsible and he's now trying to reclaim his loan.
I agree though that it seems that the present Hinckley Board haven't exactly gone out of their way to accommodate him although I'm lead to believe that there was no formal agreement to how and when the money should be repaid.
The link is pretty good, the London gazette list all the insolvencies and winding up orders.