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Post by kenglowhite on Jul 15, 2019 18:22:10 GMT
So now, administrators, where is your promised statement? Even if it's bad news, we should hear it. !
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2019 18:07:45 GMT
I suppose that it's a case of "hurry up and wait". No news from the BN and I wonder if the confidentiality clause extends to making statements?
Someone posted in the BN that whoever is bidding on the hotel and it appears that there are two ahead of FV, that they want the club also. All speculation, I know, but doesn't it make sense to at least consider the fans in all this. Let's face it, with just over 2 weeks to go to kick off, some fans will already have made other plans. If the senior players don't show at the Chester(?) game, then there definitely is something to worry about.
Anyone got any ideas?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2019 18:39:02 GMT
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Post by kenglowhite on Jul 16, 2019 19:44:41 GMT
A month ago we were assured that there was just a little snag holding the purchase up. Now we learn a month later there are complications likely to take from six to eight weeks to sort out. Seems that the hotel administrators are now seeking their time in the sun irrespective of the little problem the football men promised to sort out quickly. Presumably there is enough information with both sets of administrators to sort things out between themselves and all interested parties without putting our football interest at further risk. Are they perhaps dragging things out to earn enhanced fees?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2019 2:56:58 GMT
I find the whole thing quite bizarre that the EFL have not been in touch with the club to get assurances from them that they can fulfill there fixtures.
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Post by one2many on Jul 17, 2019 11:29:17 GMT
I find the whole thing quite bizarre that the EFL have not been in touch with the club to get assurances from them that they can fulfill there fixtures. I was thinking the same. At this moment there is no guarantee we can put a team out for the first game (am i right in thinking you have a limit on the number of youth players who can figure in a professional match?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2019 15:10:54 GMT
I don't suppose the EFL can do anything until the first ball has been kicked on August 3rd. Only then will we know if a team has taken the field. I imagine that one will, but in what shape, or form, who knows. Wheater is still hanging around, as is McGennis and Brockbank and Parky, so that group must know something has been planned.
I just wonder how many people will show up for the first home game, which ironically is a club with problems of their own, Coventry City.
As for the EFL, when will they decide on the fate of the cancelled Brentford game?
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Post by andyb72 on Jul 17, 2019 15:32:37 GMT
Chester match OFF according to Marc Iles on Twitter.....
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Post by whitesince63 on Jul 17, 2019 17:34:08 GMT
Is it a coincidence the strike news arrives as Wheater comes back? Sick of the lot of them actually, a strike at this point makes even less sense than it did last season. Have these guys got absolutely no sense and what on earth do they think this will achieve now? I have every sympathy for their situation but surely their main priority should be to get completely match fit for wherever they might be in two weeks, not play silly politics in a game they can’t win. They are guaranteed their money eventually even if they decide to walk away and join another club as they are perfectly entitled to do so what have they to gain by this?
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Post by andyl on Jul 17, 2019 19:10:02 GMT
I couldn't agree more, ws63. Also administrator's statement either implies that Phil P has been a poor messenger or confirms that players do not listen to him. Big surprise! The strike is contemptible.
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Post by kenglowhite on Jul 17, 2019 21:48:01 GMT
Totally agree. I have said all along that they would be paid in full. I wonder if they have the backing of their union for this latest action.
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Post by greydad on Jul 18, 2019 7:58:20 GMT
Wots posed the question re: whether or not I have opinion on the current situation....to be honest it's not so much an opinion, more a sense of demoralised bewilderment as to how this sorry state has been arrived at. Other than information or updates gleaned from the various media outlets I have no insight into, or knowledge of the administration process, I have no personal awareness of the level of any financial difficulties that may or may not be affecting employees of the club who have not been paid since March, and am becoming weary of having my hopes for a resolution to the club's troubles raised only to see them repeatedly dashed. For all the frustrations of the past few seasons, be they ownership or football based, I had hoped that all supporters would by now be in a position to be able to experience the familiar anticipations of excitement engendered by the close season....the email outlining season ticket renewal, the release of the fixture list, the eternal optimism that the build up to a new season usually embodies. There are just over two weeks to the start of the season and another week before the first home match. If by then there has been some sort of resolution, there is a team available, there are turnstiles open, and there are enough of the loyal staff whose efforts allow us to actually have a matchday to experience, I will certainly be ready to begin the process of rekindling some of the excitement and anticipation that has always been the lot of the football fan in early August. If P.P. is the manager then so be it, if the club has somehow attained at least a semblance of stability and has an ownership that has it's best interests at heart I will be, if not happy, then certainly relieved and possibly able to allow myself a little pragmatic optimism, points deductions notwithstanding.
All this has really been a long-winded way of saying that until things actually change for the better I will continue to feel, to paraphrase Pink Floyd, uncomfortably numb, but I really hope on the 10th of August I will be taking my seat alongside Andy and Jo, and renewing meetings with old friends on the concourse and elsewhere. This has been an uplifting summer thus far in terms of sport, and the Ashes are on the horizon...the 50 year anniversary of the moonlanding that I and millions of other wide-eyed schoolchildren enjoyed in black and white wonderment is imminent, so too, hopefully, is a positive resolution to the club's future.
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Post by davidm on Jul 18, 2019 9:58:33 GMT
I usually have a positive attitude to our football matches. As with greydad, I usually look forward to the build up to the new season but what is happening at our club is ripping the heart out of me.
How on earth could the Administrators accept a preferred bidder whose business plan was dependant on the acquisition of the hotel – an area that was totally out of the hands of the football club administrators?
How could the Football League accept this as an option?
On the Football League, what punishment are we to receive from the Brentford game? What are the EFL doing on this?
The Administrators latest statement is bordering on “Ken Anderson” style rhetoric - effectively slating the players. As I understand it, these are the same administrators who scuppered Coventry by selling their ground so they have history.
What do the players expect to happen from this latest strike? As W63 said, they should want to be playing and getting fit for the new season. They know that they will be paid, unless the club goes totally bust and is liquidated. Are they going to strike on August 3rd?
If the Administrators comments are true regarding information being given to Phil Parkinson to pass on to players, what is he playing at?
What did Football Ventures and the Administrators expect to happen on August 3rd? How can we put out a team in these circumstances?
As greydad says, it has been a great summer for sport so far this year but the BWFC saga is killing me.
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Post by thegrud1 on Jul 18, 2019 10:06:54 GMT
Still a lot of Holier than Thou posters on here...pretty sure you would all be working at the same place if you hadnt been paid since february......I and the players live in the real world where bills have to be paid not in some pink unicorn world !!!
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Post by thegrud1 on Jul 18, 2019 12:24:16 GMT
******Understand that Football Ventures won't be getting a loan from the PFA but are still pressing ahead with the bid.****** they are supposed to have been vetted and accepted by administrators...WHAT THE F*** IS THE TRUTH !!!!!!!!!!!
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