Clubs in crisis

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Wed Oct 12 2011 10:15 am

Latest on Plymouth - just see the "saga" -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15256412.stm

... and doesn't the bidder look young!!!

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Mon Oct 17 2011 11:34 am

Club trying to avert a crisis:

http://evostikleague.pitchero.com/cable ... atus-6482/

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Sun Nov 06 2011 2:41 pm

Next!

http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/inde ... &nid=79853

Looks like mis-management in the extreme to me!

Perton Pitman · Post by **Perton Pitman** » Thu Nov 10 2011 1:25 pm

Truro owe HMRC 100K and haven't paid their players for a month. Small beer for Mr Heaney!!

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Thu Nov 10 2011 1:35 pm

Perton Pitman wrote:Truro owe HMRC 100K and haven't paid their players for a month. Small beer for Mr Heaney!!

I say wind them up and promote the team who lost in the play-off final last season in their place....

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Thu Nov 24 2011 11:42 am

Kettering:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15852722.stm

Ridiculous.

Might be a few players there worth looking at though?!

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Fri Nov 25 2011 1:15 pm

Glyn wrote:Kettering:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15852722.stm

Ridiculous.

Sadly BBC link not working as I write

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... efault.stm

but I understand that the club has been placed under a transfer embargo which means that the three players they've brought in on loan this week have to go back, but the three they've shipped out are gone; and they're having to field youth team players this weekend

http://www.poppynet.co.uk/viewtopic.php ... 8&start=10

What a mess.

Perton Pitman · Post by **Perton Pitman** » Fri Nov 25 2011 8:29 pm

I remember a similar scenario at Weymouth a few years back ahead of a home game against Rushden (remember them??). The bookies hadn't twigged what was going on and failed to adjust the odds. As it was Rushden won 9-0 and a few Weymouth fans made more than a few quid out of the game

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Mon Dec 05 2011 7:52 pm

The funeral bells are tolling at Kettering

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/sport ... _1_3309320

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Wed Dec 21 2011 6:59 pm

Everything isn't so rosy at Crawley then:

http://www.thisissussex.co.uk/INCONVENI ... story.html

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Wed Dec 21 2011 7:21 pm

Scott wrote:Everything isn't so rosy at Crawley then:

http://www.thisissussex.co.uk/INCONVENI ... story.html

Hmmm, we can think of one player they might sell for rather a lot of money....

FOZZIE · Post by **FOZZIE** » Wed Dec 21 2011 8:11 pm

Scott wrote:Everything isn't so rosy at Crawley then:

http://www.thisissussex.co.uk/INCONVENI ... story.html

Thanks for the free publicity.

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Wed Dec 28 2011 5:59 pm

Glyn wrote:The funeral bells are tolling at Kettering

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/sport ... _1_3309320

Ah, the situation at Rockingham Road is now made perfectly clear

http://www.ketteringtownfc.co.uk/story.php?story_id=914

Read it carefully, I'll be testing you on it later

What a mess

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Thu Dec 29 2011 12:23 pm

Truro struggling to fill the bench and resorting to "having bodies available"

http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/inde ... &nid=81225

I'm sure we all wish them well...

Perton Pitman · Post by **Perton Pitman** » Thu Dec 29 2011 6:32 pm

In the case of Kettering, promised sponsorship of over a million quid is pretty huge money. Makes you wonder why someone would pump such a sum into a club at Kettering's level and whether the club were wise to budget for such a sum coming in. Such a reliance on a single party to finance the club smacks of blind faith at best and naivety at worst - talk about all your eggs being in one basket!

ALso symptomatic of what is going on at non-league in general. Totally unsustainable and bound to end in tears sooner or later. CLubs must spread their risk and live within their means!!

Don't football authorities conduct any form of audit on clubs to ensure that they are being run on relatively sound foundations?

Post by **PitmanKeith** » Thu Dec 29 2011 6:43 pm

Perton Pitman wrote:In the case of Kettering, promised sponsorship of over a million quid is pretty huge money. Makes you wonder why someone would pump such a sum into a club at Kettering's level and whether the club were wise to budget for such a sum coming in. Such a reliance on a single party to finance the club smacks of blind faith at best and naivety at worst - talk about all your eggs being in one basket!

ALso symptomatic of what is going on at non-league in general. Totally unsustainable and bound to end in tears sooner or later. CLubs must spread their risk and live within their means!!

Don't football authorities conduct any form of audit on clubs to ensure that they are being run on relatively sound foundations?

You're having a laugh Perton, if they let it happen at the top without any control why are they going to bother at grass roots. After all we are talking about the sweet FA here.

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Thu Dec 29 2011 6:51 pm

I'm hearing that Darlington have gone into administration for the third time, though I haven't yet got official confirmation

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16355902.stm

Oh, how loveable we all thought George Reynolds was when he used to be interviewed regularly in the media..... but oh, what an unbearable burden he left the club with, wonderful though their white elephant new stadium is

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Tue Jan 03 2012 3:57 pm

Glyn wrote:I'm hearing that Darlington have gone into administration for the third time, though I haven't yet got official confirmation

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16355902.stm

Now confirmed

I fear it could be final this time....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16395001.stm

Perton Pitman · Post by **Perton Pitman** » Tue Jan 03 2012 8:59 pm

Will probably re-appear in the Unibond Div 1 North next season!

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Wed Jan 04 2012 11:26 am

Perton Pitman wrote:Will probably re-appear in the Unibond Div 1 North next season!

The problem is that, even if Darlington go under, no phoenix club could possibly take on the commitment of the Darlington Arena (or whatever its name is this week) and while there was talk of them moving back to Feethams, it's an overgrown mess, at present, I think.

All very sad - and as ever one's sympathy goes to the fans, it's not their fault that their club fell into the hands of a clown who had ideas way beyond their realistic station in life

Post by **Del** » Wed Jan 04 2012 1:33 pm

It would certainly make a good pub quiz question ..

"Name 5 clowns who have tried to run a football club!"

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Wed Jan 04 2012 6:17 pm

Del wrote:It would certainly make a good pub quiz question ..

"Name 5 clowns who have tried to run a football club!"

LOL, we'd better be careful because of the libel laws, we don't want real clowns suing us for defamation by comparing them to

s like GR, IL, SC, etc etc etc....

Post by **Del** » Wed Jan 04 2012 7:00 pm

Don't forget SV

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Thu Jan 05 2012 11:58 am

Del wrote:Don't forget SV

Funnily enough, that's who I meant!!

Which pillock put the "V" next to the "C" on my kebyaord?!

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Thu Jan 05 2012 12:31 pm

Mr Stimson has left the building at Kettering.... and you can have this on the Old Player Watch thread as well if you wish...

http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/inde ... &nid=81386

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