Time to pick this utter guff apart.
"once HMRC collapsed our time to pay agreement..."
Typical RM deflection and "it's always someone else's fault, never mine". Even worse, it suggests a sense of exceptionalism and entitlement. He entered into a TTP with HMRC. The TTP had Ts&Cs attached, and possible punishment in the event of them being broken would have been clear. He broke the Ts&Cs. It doesn't matter how close to the end of the schedule it was - he entered into an agreement and didn't honour it, notwithstanding the fact he's been taking the **** out of HMRC for years anyway. Plenty of other clubs entered into TTP agreements with HMRC, but no other club but SUFC appears to have failed to fulfil theirs.
"...which meant the legacy debt which was nearly all accured during the pandemic when income was very limited with costs the same...combined with double relegations and a large reduction of central income this proved to be the perfect storm."
Was it also the perfect storm the other, what is it, 8 times that the club has been subject to winding-up petitions over the last 10 years? Or when Sainsbury's saved the club from being wound-up in 2009/10? Are we also forgetting the fact that the buck for the double relegations lies with you and the fact that you made a string of terrible managerial selections and took your eye off the ball with the football side of things as you became increasingly desperate for the Fossetts Farm plans to come to fruition?
"We will not let the club be wound up and there are reasonable prospects in train to meet the clubs cash needs in time but it will be close.....Raising the funds is my primary focus, we are advanced but not there yet but i am not a magician."
This message is contradictory. Either the club's cash needs are met or it is wound up. Why are the prospects only "reasonable"? If we assume that you are still pursuing a bridging loan (assumptions and conjectures are all we have since you don't have the decency to tell us what is actually going on), and you are adamant that you won't let the club be wound up, then what are your backup/contingency plans? What does "advanced but not there yet" mean and what is the hold up, especially since it seems to stuck at the same point it was stuck at back in October. We have a right to know more than you're letting on.
"Roots Hall is a cash pit, income once a fortnight for 9 months of the year has always meant it needs a beneficiary, for that reasonthe club will never be sustainable while it remains at Roots Hall."
Whilst there is a modicum of merit to this argument, let's not forget that you've contributed to Roots Hall becoming a "money pit". You've neglected it and let it rot, and you long ago gave up on trying anything new and inventive to get some extra revenue in on match days - and plenty of sound ideas from supporters have been scoffed at by the club's hierarchy. Some might say you took your eye off Roots Hall completely and put all focus on Fossetts.....others might suggest you knew what you were doing and have deliberately backed the club into a corner where it is literally your Fossetts plans or bust.
"The relocation plans will fix that for good allowing us to compete without the constant large cash cold when we get back in the EFL."
This is the hundredth time we've heard all this but there is still a lot of vagueness and secrecy around the extent to which the club will benefit from the new stadium with the current plans. Sure, any additional non-matchday income will be an improvement over the current situation, but where are the details about exactly what ancilliary facilities there will be and forecasts of how much income they could generate? Will it be enough to cover the current losses? What is break-even point forecast to be? Is there scope to expand/add to the facilities? This information, and its importance to the buy-in of the fanbase, has been forgotten and relegated down the priority list in favour of the housing element. Who is truly promoting the club's interests and future financial well-being, outside of your vague, empty references to unquantifiable additional revenue streams?
"However IF we can get past this current trauma the future for the club is bright."
"If" doesn' fill anybody with any confidence and if it is still an "if" at this lead time then you need to be thinking outside the box to get the WUP dismissed, even if that means conceding a slice of your ample half-a-billion £ pie.
Also, please stop deluding yourself that any future for SUFC with you in it is bright. The damage is done, there is too much water under the bridge for you to redeem yourself and this club will never fully drag its reputation out of the gutter and get the fresh start that it so badly needs whilst you are still here. The new stadium, especially without clarity regarding the extent to which SUFC will quantifiably benefit from it, is not enough to be a true light at the end of the tunnel. If you truly love the club then let it move on. Whatever happens on 1st March, you need to go.
"We are advanced with the council, perhaps a little slower than both the club and council wish but with a fair wind and continued support from the council we could be on site in the close season now that the training ground works are completed."
Woah, woah, woah, woah. What's with the "advanced with the council" and "could be on site in the close season"? I thought planning permission had been granted already? You have had us under the impression for ages now that the final key to unlocking the commencement of the stadium build is the vacation of B&L and the occupation of the new training facilities. Now you suggest that there are more hurdles to overcome with the council? So we've been misled. Again. If "a fair wind and continued support from the council" isn't enough to get the stadium build started at Fossetts in the close season, then how can we feel safe that it'll begin before your bridging finance (if successful in getting it) runs out and we're back in this same sorry position again? Shambles.
Outstanding, bravo Sir
