Its good to see that you are taking a keen interest in the matter . The point that I think you are missing is that sponsors at a club have a responsibility to uphold the integrity of the Vanarama League and ensure fair play between competing teams . Transgression by the club can cause significant reputational damage which for obvious reasons is distasteful for sponsors . A good example is Dover Athletic . They stopped playing matches and thereby gained a significant financial advantage for themselves over clubs that did decide to play on . Their actions were not well received and they suffered a points deduction and a hefty fine. It is essential that all monies owing to our staff are paid to them very soon and that is our end goal . Obviously, it will be up to those of us at the meeting to decide on the best course of action but I think we can now safely rule out the possibility of no action being taken - the June salaries were not paid on time as we had all hoped and expected .
I'm still in the dark. I assume from your response that you're not a sponsor. I still don't get how they know for sure that there's an issue when the club haven't confirmed anything. I still don't understand what they expect to achieve in a meeting. I'm not even sure who the sponsors are. Are they club sponsors, league sponsors or both?
I am a sponsor and I think your defence of the club on this matter is misplaced .
Yes exactly, late payment of wages/salaries is likely to lead to other costs, fines, late payment fees, extra interest and, as you point out, damage to your credit score.
I'm not defending the club. I'm genuinely interested in what the end goal is, i.e. what do you hope to achieve? I'm also intrigued as to how you know for sure when the club have said nothing.
IMO of course they should, but of course they won't.
Stange the echo has not brought this up .Iam sure if there was news about non payment of any staff the evening echo would have jumped on that kind of story .And a reported that is well known to us has not reported this either .
Maybe the Echo has brought it up, and realised there isn't actually a story there? Just surmising.
That's actually a good point. I believe that in the past CP has reported such issues. It could also be that the club have kept a tighter lid on it this time, although I would have thought the staff involved would have said something...who knows.
Could be, but you'd have thought CP would then have created an article saying there's nothing to the story, even if just for clicks. So I wouldn't say that is conclusive either way. It's also possible that there is something to the story and CP has been asked not to say anything.
From the information I have it’s all full time staff that are owed money apart from first team coaching staff and players
So that would include Tom Lawrence then?
Sickening and disgusting, but otherwise just lost for words. How can we even think about new signings when these employees are once again going to have to find some way of meeting their monthly bills?
He's taking a lot of bullets, but the problem lies elsewhere.
