When will the takeover go through? The Waiting Game...

[dusterman]

 

[SeldomSeenShrimper]

Last year when we were protesting, the threat level was probably a 6 out of 10 ...

We are firmly at a 9 if not a 10 already.

we are 5 weeks from the lights going out. no more extensions and no more lucky escapes.

All the council seem to be worried about atm is who's cutting the councils grass. they don't give a ****.

Ron only wants the deal to save his bacon, if the club dies, he still has a way to make his money.

We need to be louder as a fan base

 

[Tommy2holes]

All of us need to come together in a coordinated effort.

This isnt the time for petty squabbles

 

[RHB]

What did you ask/say and wha

All of us need to come together in a coordinated effort.

This isnt the time for petty squabbles

And hopefully, by tomorrow, we will have the joint statement from the Trust and Supporters joint telling us the bottom line and what they want us to do. Watch this space.

 

[dusterman]

And hopefully, by tomorrow, we will have the joint statement from the Trust and Supporters joint telling us the bottom line and what they want us to do. Watch this space.

Must be a long statement.

 

[RHB]

Must be a long statement.

I'm led to believe that there were several Ents involved, so not surprising really. (Old Lord of the Rings joke).

 

[Liam AAS]

Last year when we were protesting, the threat level was probably a 6 out of 10 ...

We are firmly at a 9 if not a 10 already.

we are 5 weeks from the lights going out. no more extensions and no more lucky escapes.

All the council seem to be worried about atm is who's cutting the councils grass. they don't give a ****.

Ron only wants the deal to save his bacon, if the club dies, he still has a way to make his money.

We need to be louder as a fan base

We are nowhere near a 10. Last year was a 10.

 

[dusterman]

We are nowhere near a 10. Last year was a 10.

Was going to say, we all went ahead of that Oxford game thinking it was lights out literally. I had my knackered son a ticket to see his first and last game. If that wasn’t a ten I’m not sure what it was.

 

[Lester Bangs]

You think a final winding up petition, that to be dismissed will need incredibly complex DD to be completed within a 5 week window, isn’t a 10?

 

[Avl1983]

I'm led to believe that there were several Ents involved, so not surprising really. (Old Lord of the Rings joke).

Musn't be hasty then!

 

[Tinks]

What did you ask/say and what did he say?

We asked him what was happening in regards to the DD and what is their views on it all.
I was told the finances are being looked into thoroughly and we cannot expect the local ratepayer to finance this deal and it is an awful lot of money that could be spent on other local things that need addressing.
The body language and tone was not radiating positivity

 

[Liam AAS]

You think a final winding up petition, that to be dismissed will need incredibly complex DD to be completed within a 5 week window, isn’t a 10?

I do not think our current situation is a 10.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

We are nowhere near a 10. Last year was a 10.

We’re less than three weeks away from a twice postponed winding up order.

The current owner doesn’t have the means to pay and the want to be owners don’t have the inclination to pay someone else’s debts for them.

We’re under a transfer embargo, haven’t filed accounts so are not currently eligible for a licence to play next season.

There is a narrow path to survival but we’ve exhausted a lot of patience and goodwill from the NL and the courts.

The difference is that we’ve only one path forward now. If that path ends our club ends.

That leaves us simultaneously closer to escaping but also closer to dying than we’ve been. Our fortunes rest on a knife edge.

I’d say that rates very close to a 10.

 

[M_Simps]

Doesn't feel much different to last year. Under a transfer embargo, facing a winding-up petition and probably needing to beg the NL to give us a stay of execution whilst the deal is completed. It could be the end for SUFC as we know it.

The only (not to be sniffed at) difference is that at least someone is paying the bills and, more importantly, the staff.

 

[Colblue]

I do not think our current situation is a 10.

As an outsider looking in, (a Col U fan wishing you well as despite rivalry your plight is deeper than that and no supporter should be faced with the prospect of losing their club), my concern from reading these boards is that some of you just can’t accept there is a reality you might fold. In some respects it looks Like some of you are sleep walking into apathy. You all need to have your voices heard, not leave it to the few hundred who can be ar5ed to be seen and heard in protest

 

[Napster]

Who is the Southend East PPC?

 

[Liam AAS]

As an outsider looking in, (a Col U fan wishing you well as despite rivalry your plight is deeper than that and no supporter should be faced with the prospect of losing their club), my concern from reading these boards is that some of you just can’t accept there is a reality you might fold. In some respects it looks Like some of you are sleep walking into apathy. You all need to have your voices heard, not leave it to the few hundred who can be ar5ed to be seen and heard in protest

Last summer we had no indication that a takeover was progressing; the National League were 10 mins away from kicking us out; the fans had to clean the stadium by hand as part of an mass effort to get a safety certificate for the ground; WUPs were in progress with HMRC; the water had been turned off at the training ground; the payers are staff weren't being paid and the Trust had to set up a hardship fund for some staff to be able to pay their bills.

There's more that this but I'm just quickly replying before getting back to work

We are not anywhere near that position right now. It has nothing to do with accepting reality, far from it. I understand where we've been and where we are now. There's no apathy, I have spent the best part of 2 years trying to protect this club. Making our voices heard in newspapers, parliament and outside Ron's house.

The situation now is hugely different. HMRC are no longer breathing down our necks and work on relaying the pitch is in progress. We are not at a 10.

 

[leeblue]

I do not think our current situation is a 10.

If the consortium walk in a few weeks time?

 

[Tinks]

Who is the Southend East PPC?

Isnt it James Dudridge?

 

[Napster]

Isnt it James Dudridge?

Isnt he quitting?