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Post by philjh on Feb 25, 2019 21:59:25 GMT 1
Oyston removed from Blackpool board by receivers,
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Post by keithb123 on Feb 26, 2019 2:58:36 GMT 1
It will be interesting to see if Bloomfield Road is a sell out for the next home game
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Feb 26, 2019 9:06:52 GMT 1
Post by ssshrew on Feb 26, 2019 9:06:52 GMT 1
But is it all them gone? I thought the daughter was chairman?
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Post by JohnG on Feb 26, 2019 9:21:43 GMT 1
Yes she has been removed aswell along with another director.
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Feb 26, 2019 9:22:38 GMT 1
Post by LetchworthShrew on Feb 26, 2019 9:22:38 GMT 1
But is it all them gone? I thought the daughter was chairman? Natalie Christopher was removed from the board too.
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Post by northwestman on Feb 26, 2019 9:38:50 GMT 1
I see that his son Karl Oyston is suing the Club over wages.
Nice family.
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Feb 26, 2019 9:41:08 GMT 1
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Post by blueboy62 on Feb 26, 2019 9:41:08 GMT 1
Football clubs seem to attract a disproportionate number of bad owners. I'm sure I've read somewhere that we are one of only 3 or 4 clubs in the country said to be well run or genuinely solvent. Does anyone know who the others are?
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Post by ssshrew on Feb 26, 2019 9:43:54 GMT 1
Thanks for the info. Let’s hope the Blackpool fans soon have something to cheer about.
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Post by ssshrew on Feb 26, 2019 9:45:16 GMT 1
Football clubs seem to attract a disproportionate number of bad owners. I'm sure I've read somewhere that we are one of only 3 or 4 clubs in the country said to be well run or genuinely solvent. Does anyone know who the others are? Which makes a complete mockery of the financial, fit owners, stance allegedly made by the footballing authorities. They really are not worth anything - not the rules or the authorities.
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Post by ssshrew on Feb 26, 2019 9:46:32 GMT 1
I see that his son Karl Oyston is suing the Club over wages. Nice family. Presumably until Blackpool get new owners, he is suing himself or his family!!!?
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Feb 26, 2019 9:55:34 GMT 1
Post by northwestman on Feb 26, 2019 9:55:34 GMT 1
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Post by ssshrew on Feb 26, 2019 10:15:12 GMT 1
Thanks for that. As you say nice family.
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Feb 26, 2019 11:26:11 GMT 1
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Post by TheFoz on Feb 26, 2019 11:26:11 GMT 1
Football clubs seem to attract a disproportionate number of bad owners. I'm sure I've read somewhere that we are one of only 3 or 4 clubs in the country said to be well run or genuinely solvent. Does anyone know who the others are? Pretty sure us and Rochdale are the only clubs in League One who aren’t in debt.
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Post by blueboy62 on Feb 26, 2019 11:34:42 GMT 1
Oh that's interesting I rather hope Wimbledon are financially sound. After having their club stolen I wish them all the luck in the world. (Starting 5.00pm Saturday of course.
How on earth did the football authorities allow that to happen???
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Post by wakemanender on Feb 26, 2019 11:46:38 GMT 1
Oh that's interesting I rather hope Wimbledon are financially sound. After having their club stolen I wish them all the luck in the world. (Starting 5.00pm Saturday of course. How on earth did the football authorities allow that to happen??? Its always good to hear supporters of lower league clubs wishing other clubs of the same standard well. I would much rather hear about the Blackpools, the Wimbledons and Accringtons than plastic premier league clubs. Proper football.
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Post by londonshrew75 on Feb 26, 2019 14:11:00 GMT 1
It will be interesting to see what the EFL do regarding a points deduction. My money is on nothing happening especially as Harvey is leaving at the end of the season and lives in Lytham? I say this, as the EFL guidelines categorically states if the "recievers" are bt in there will be a points deduction? The flip side is they are "usually" bt in because of debt occured.. let's see what happens.....?
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Post by venceremos on Feb 26, 2019 17:17:04 GMT 1
Unusual case, this - not your standard overspending club going into admin. It'll be interesting to see whether the points deduction is imposed but I can see why it might not apply this time. Either way, I'm sure Blackpool will be in League 1 next season and hopefully the fans will feel they've got their club back. Good luck to them. This is a topic painfully close to my heart at the moment as my RL club, Widnes, went into admin on Friday and will be liquidated if sufficient investment isn't forthcoming this week. Ours is a classic case of overspending, though unusually not on players. Our team was uncompetitive last year, losing 20 games in a row, and was relegated from Super League. A lot of the money seems to have gone to the directors, who paid themselves handsomely right up until they left last month. The club's average attendance fell from 5,500 to 4,500 last season whilst most of the five directors, one of them the main shareholders' brother, allegedly drew six figure salaries until last month. When a proposed takeover fell through last week, the Chief Exec put the club into admin and went to ground along with the other shareholders and directors, leaving staff and players unpaid, less than £1,000 in the bank, literally no senior management and with an automatic 12 point deduction - all just 3 games into a season that had started well and for which the fans were back onside after some truly acrimonious falling out with the club in recent years. A "rudderless ship" as the administrator described it. Meanwhile, they'd sold 2,500 season tickets, received half of a £400k parachute payment from Super League and sold almost 8,000 tickets on special offer for two home games in successive weeks. Nobody's saying where that money went but it's hard not to suspect they could have been fraudulently trading whilst technically insolvent. The first game last Sunday was postponed because the administrators wouldn't risk any players being injured. Apparently RL clubs rarely insure their players now because the premiums are so high (Widnes' went from £40k to £150k). One of our players needed an operation after our last game - that all the money from an earlier fundraising evening. Unusually, HMRC apparently isn't a creditor. Halton Borough Council, who own the stadium, are owed £350k for unpaid rent and merchandise suppliers are the only other creditors mentioned but none are said to be pushing for repayment. Yet the administrators say we need £500k of new investment this week to avoid liquidation. Very odd. Next Sunday's game is in jeopardy and it's believed the club will fold if that has to be postponed. Yesterday, the administrator ordered the players to stop training in case of injury. To their great credit, the players left the stadium and trained elsewhere. The administrators hope to shed some players to raise funds and cut costs, but why would another club operating within a salary cap pay money for a player whose contract will be cancelled if his club is liquidated? Despite all this, I've never been prouder of my club - the real club, not the version brought to ruin by mismanagement (to think we had Stephen Vaughan in charge before this!). Widnes' population is only about 60,000 but fans have raised £90k from scratch in three days and the target of 1,000 fans signing up for a monthly direct debit of £15 by Wednesday was surpassed yesterday (me included). The support of the wider RL community, ex-players and others who've never been directly involved with Widnes is humbling. None of this money is going into the club until its future is assured. If that doesn't happen, it will be used to start a new club in the town, either fan-owned or backing new owners. Apologies for rambling on (if anyone's got this far!), but this has been a real wake up call to me. I'm seeing first hand what the real risk of the loss of its club does to a community. It's heartbreaking and inspiring at the same time. If Sunday's game goes ahead, it will be as big a game as any in the club's history, possibly the biggest, and an emotional day for everyone concerned. The result will definitely be secondary. Some football and RL clubs spend too much on players they can't afford. We really didn't do that - we've been a weakened team for 2-3 years now. One good thing we did was to keep the academy going, when some of our rivals closed theirs. We shed senior players and brought youngsters in to replace them. Our academy's funding is thankfully ring-fenced, though the administrators wanted to close it. It produces 80% or more of our players, as well as players for other clubs. We've suffered from serial mismanagement; the fans haven't been supporting an attempt to buy a status we couldn't afford. There has been gross incompetence and perhaps dishonesty but fans have been fiercely critical of the club's management for a long time (b&a is a picnic compared to some of the stuff that's been on the fans' messageboard). To bring this back to football I'm grateful, for all its faults, that Salop is so relatively well run. Rotten to the core? I've seen what the last two owners have done to my RL club and, believe me, Salop is a million miles away from that. I don't ask or expect anyone to but we're desperate so, should you feel so inclined, the Widnes fundraiser is at www.viqi.co.uk (VIQI is a longstanding independent fundraising group - the initials stand for Vikings (as in Widnes Vikings) Quids In). Floreat Salopia and Up the Chemics (as we used to be called)!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2019 17:29:45 GMT 1
Football clubs seem to attract a disproportionate number of bad owners. I'm sure I've read somewhere that we are one of only 3 or 4 clubs in the country said to be well run or genuinely solvent. Does anyone know who the others are? Pretty sure us and Rochdale are the only clubs in League One who aren’t in debt. Can’t be easy for Rochdale to do that with the amount of clubs around them.
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Post by zenfootball2 on Feb 26, 2019 17:44:46 GMT 1
Unusual case, this - not your standard overspending club going into admin. It'll be interesting to see whether the points deduction is imposed but I can see why it might not apply this time. Either way, I'm sure Blackpool will be in League 1 next season and hopefully the fans will feel they've got their club back. Good luck to them. This is a topic painfully close to my heart at the moment as my RL club, Widnes, went into admin on Friday and will be liquidated if sufficient investment isn't forthcoming this week. Ours is a classic case of overspending, though unusually not on players. Our team was uncompetitive last year, losing 20 games in a row, and was relegated from Super League. A lot of the money seems to have gone to the directors, who paid themselves handsomely right up until they left last month. The club's average attendance fell from 5,500 to 4,500 last season whilst most of the five directors, one of them the main shareholders' brother, allegedly drew six figure salaries until last month. When a proposed takeover fell through last week, the Chief Exec put the club into admin and went to ground along with the other shareholders and directors, leaving staff and players unpaid, less than £1,000 in the bank, literally no senior management and with an automatic 12 point deduction - all just 3 games into a season that had started well and for which the fans were back onside after some truly acrimonious falling out with the club in recent years. A "rudderless ship" as the administrator described it. Meanwhile, they'd sold 2,500 season tickets, received half of a £400k parachute payment from Super League and sold almost 8,000 tickets on special offer for two home games in successive weeks. Nobody's saying where that money went but it's hard not to suspect they could have been fraudulently trading whilst technically insolvent. The first game last Sunday was postponed because the administrators wouldn't risk any players being injured. Apparently RL clubs rarely insure their players now because the premiums are so high (Widnes' went from £40k to £150k). One of our players needed an operation after our last game - that all the money from an earlier fundraising evening. Unusually, HMRC apparently isn't a creditor. Halton Borough Council, who own the stadium, are owed £350k for unpaid rent and merchandise suppliers are the only other creditors mentioned but none are said to be pushing for repayment. Yet the administrators say we need £500k of new investment this week to avoid liquidation. Very odd. Next Sunday's game is in jeopardy and it's believed the club will fold if that has to be postponed. Yesterday, the administrator ordered the players to stop training in case of injury. To their great credit, the players left the stadium and trained elsewhere. The administrators hope to shed some players to raise funds and cut costs, but why would another club operating within a salary cap pay money for a player whose contract will be cancelled if his club is liquidated? Despite all this, I've never been prouder of my club - the real club, not the version brought to ruin by mismanagement (to think we had Stephen Vaughan in charge before this!). Widnes' population is only about 60,000 but fans have raised £90k from scratch in three days and the target of 1,000 fans signing up for a monthly direct debit of £15 by Wednesday was surpassed yesterday (me included). The support of the wider RL community, ex-players and others who've never been directly involved with Widnes is humbling. None of this money is going into the club until its future is assured. If that doesn't happen, it will be used to start a new club in the town, either fan-owned or backing new owners. Apologies for rambling on (if anyone's got this far!), but this has been a real wake up call to me. I'm seeing first hand what the real risk of the loss of its club does to a community. It's heartbreaking and inspiring at the same time. If Sunday's game goes ahead, it will be as big a game as any in the club's history, possibly the biggest, and an emotional day for everyone concerned. The result will definitely be secondary. Some football and RL clubs spend too much on players they can't afford. We really didn't do that - we've been a weakened team for 2-3 years now. One good thing we did was to keep the academy going, when some of our rivals closed theirs. We shed senior players and brought youngsters in to replace them. Our academy's funding is thankfully ring-fenced, though the administrators wanted to close it. It produces 80% or more of our players, as well as players for other clubs. We've suffered from serial mismanagement; the fans haven't been supporting an attempt to buy a status we couldn't afford. There has been gross incompetence and perhaps dishonesty but fans have been fiercely critical of the club's management for a long time (b&a is a picnic compared to some of the stuff that's been on the fans' messageboard). To bring this back to football I'm grateful, for all its faults, that Salop is so relatively well run. Rotten to the core? I've seen what the last two owners have done to my RL club and, believe me, Salop is a million miles away from that. I don't ask or expect anyone to but we're desperate so, should you feel so inclined, the Widnes fundraiser is at www.viqi.co.uk (VIQI is a longstanding independent fundraising group - the initials stand for Vikings (as in Widnes Vikings) Quids In). Floreat Salopia and Up the Chemics (as we used to be called)! i am sorry to hear about what is happening to the Rugby club you support. it is a tough one to bear fans care,they come rain or shine once you get that kind of connection to a club, it is upsetting and it hurts when things like this happen.
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on Feb 26, 2019 20:01:25 GMT 1
Unusual case, this - not your standard overspending club going into admin. It'll be interesting to see whether the points deduction is imposed but I can see why it might not apply this time. Either way, I'm sure Blackpool will be in League 1 next season and hopefully the fans will feel they've got their club back. Good luck to them. This is a topic painfully close to my heart at the moment as my RL club, Widnes, went into admin on Friday and will be liquidated if sufficient investment isn't forthcoming this week. Ours is a classic case of overspending, though unusually not on players. Our team was uncompetitive last year, losing 20 games in a row, and was relegated from Super League. A lot of the money seems to have gone to the directors, who paid themselves handsomely right up until they left last month. The club's average attendance fell from 5,500 to 4,500 last season whilst most of the five directors, one of them the main shareholders' brother, allegedly drew six figure salaries until last month. When a proposed takeover fell through last week, the Chief Exec put the club into admin and went to ground along with the other shareholders and directors, leaving staff and players unpaid, less than £1,000 in the bank, literally no senior management and with an automatic 12 point deduction - all just 3 games into a season that had started well and for which the fans were back onside after some truly acrimonious falling out with the club in recent years. A "rudderless ship" as the administrator described it. Meanwhile, they'd sold 2,500 season tickets, received half of a £400k parachute payment from Super League and sold almost 8,000 tickets on special offer for two home games in successive weeks. Nobody's saying where that money went but it's hard not to suspect they could have been fraudulently trading whilst technically insolvent. The first game last Sunday was postponed because the administrators wouldn't risk any players being injured. Apparently RL clubs rarely insure their players now because the premiums are so high (Widnes' went from £40k to £150k). One of our players needed an operation after our last game - that all the money from an earlier fundraising evening. Unusually, HMRC apparently isn't a creditor. Halton Borough Council, who own the stadium, are owed £350k for unpaid rent and merchandise suppliers are the only other creditors mentioned but none are said to be pushing for repayment. Yet the administrators say we need £500k of new investment this week to avoid liquidation. Very odd. Next Sunday's game is in jeopardy and it's believed the club will fold if that has to be postponed. Yesterday, the administrator ordered the players to stop training in case of injury. To their great credit, the players left the stadium and trained elsewhere. The administrators hope to shed some players to raise funds and cut costs, but why would another club operating within a salary cap pay money for a player whose contract will be cancelled if his club is liquidated? Despite all this, I've never been prouder of my club - the real club, not the version brought to ruin by mismanagement (to think we had Stephen Vaughan in charge before this!). Widnes' population is only about 60,000 but fans have raised £90k from scratch in three days and the target of 1,000 fans signing up for a monthly direct debit of £15 by Wednesday was surpassed yesterday (me included). The support of the wider RL community, ex-players and others who've never been directly involved with Widnes is humbling. None of this money is going into the club until its future is assured. If that doesn't happen, it will be used to start a new club in the town, either fan-owned or backing new owners. Apologies for rambling on (if anyone's got this far!), but this has been a real wake up call to me. I'm seeing first hand what the real risk of the loss of its club does to a community. It's heartbreaking and inspiring at the same time. If Sunday's game goes ahead, it will be as big a game as any in the club's history, possibly the biggest, and an emotional day for everyone concerned. The result will definitely be secondary. Some football and RL clubs spend too much on players they can't afford. We really didn't do that - we've been a weakened team for 2-3 years now. One good thing we did was to keep the academy going, when some of our rivals closed theirs. We shed senior players and brought youngsters in to replace them. Our academy's funding is thankfully ring-fenced, though the administrators wanted to close it. It produces 80% or more of our players, as well as players for other clubs. We've suffered from serial mismanagement; the fans haven't been supporting an attempt to buy a status we couldn't afford. There has been gross incompetence and perhaps dishonesty but fans have been fiercely critical of the club's management for a long time (b&a is a picnic compared to some of the stuff that's been on the fans' messageboard). To bring this back to football I'm grateful, for all its faults, that Salop is so relatively well run. Rotten to the core? I've seen what the last two owners have done to my RL club and, believe me, Salop is a million miles away from that. I don't ask or expect anyone to but we're desperate so, should you feel so inclined, the Widnes fundraiser is at www.viqi.co.uk (VIQI is a longstanding independent fundraising group - the initials stand for Vikings (as in Widnes Vikings) Quids In). Floreat Salopia and Up the Chemics (as we used to be called)! Very interesting if sad post, hope they pull through in shape or form and start to turn the corner.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2019 20:32:32 GMT 1
Football clubs seem to attract a disproportionate number of bad owners. I'm sure I've read somewhere that we are one of only 3 or 4 clubs in the country said to be well run or genuinely solvent. Does anyone know who the others are? Rotten to the core
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Post by Chief Inspector Swan on Feb 26, 2019 21:53:16 GMT 1
Football clubs seem to attract a disproportionate number of bad owners. I'm sure I've read somewhere that we are one of only 3 or 4 clubs in the country said to be well run or genuinely solvent. Does anyone know who the others are? Pretty sure us and Rochdale are the only clubs in League One who aren’t in debt. Pretty harsh towards Burton. You should issue a public apology to Ben Robinson because he’s quite litigious.
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Post by tvor on Feb 26, 2019 22:07:45 GMT 1
I'm not entirely sure where Kieran Maguire gets all his information from but his twitter feed contains lots of information regarding football club finances. twitter.com/kieranmaguire?lang=en
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Post by TheFoz on Feb 26, 2019 22:10:01 GMT 1
Pretty sure us and Rochdale are the only clubs in League One who aren’t in debt. Pretty harsh towards Burton. You should issue a public apology to Ben Robinson because he’s quite litigious. Going off the clubs who competed last year.
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Post by Chief Inspector Swan on Feb 26, 2019 22:21:56 GMT 1
Let us pray his lawyers see that as a sufficiently clear retraction. I’m not a brief I’m afraid so won’t be much use if chaos ensues.
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Post by tvor on Feb 27, 2019 19:01:08 GMT 1
Blackpool have appointed a new board and lifted all banning orders to fans issued by the previous board.
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Post by LetchworthShrew on Feb 28, 2019 19:58:48 GMT 1
Natalie Christopher attended the EFL meeting in Derby today.
"The Press Association reported that the former Blackpool chairwoman was denied access to the meeting of the 72 EFL clubs because she no longer holds any official position Bloomfield Road. However, The Gazette understands that Christopher was admitted and played a full and active role in proceedings."
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Post by Exkeeper on Feb 28, 2019 23:35:38 GMT 1
Unusual case, this - not your standard overspending club going into admin. It'll be interesting to see whether the points deduction is imposed but I can see why it might not apply this time. Either way, I'm sure Blackpool will be in League 1 next season and hopefully the fans will feel they've got their club back. Good luck to them. This is a topic painfully close to my heart at the moment as my RL club, Widnes, went into admin on Friday and will be liquidated if sufficient investment isn't forthcoming this week. Ours is a classic case of overspending, though unusually not on players. Our team was uncompetitive last year, losing 20 games in a row, and was relegated from Super League. A lot of the money seems to have gone to the directors, who paid themselves handsomely right up until they left last month. The club's average attendance fell from 5,500 to 4,500 last season whilst most of the five directors, one of them the main shareholders' brother, allegedly drew six figure salaries until last month. When a proposed takeover fell through last week, the Chief Exec put the club into admin and went to ground along with the other shareholders and directors, leaving staff and players unpaid, less than £1,000 in the bank, literally no senior management and with an automatic 12 point deduction - all just 3 games into a season that had started well and for which the fans were back onside after some truly acrimonious falling out with the club in recent years. A "rudderless ship" as the administrator described it. Meanwhile, they'd sold 2,500 season tickets, received half of a £400k parachute payment from Super League and sold almost 8,000 tickets on special offer for two home games in successive weeks. Nobody's saying where that money went but it's hard not to suspect they could have been fraudulently trading whilst technically insolvent. The first game last Sunday was postponed because the administrators wouldn't risk any players being injured. Apparently RL clubs rarely insure their players now because the premiums are so high (Widnes' went from £40k to £150k). One of our players needed an operation after our last game - that all the money from an earlier fundraising evening. Unusually, HMRC apparently isn't a creditor. Halton Borough Council, who own the stadium, are owed £350k for unpaid rent and merchandise suppliers are the only other creditors mentioned but none are said to be pushing for repayment. Yet the administrators say we need £500k of new investment this week to avoid liquidation. Very odd. Next Sunday's game is in jeopardy and it's believed the club will fold if that has to be postponed. Yesterday, the administrator ordered the players to stop training in case of injury. To their great credit, the players left the stadium and trained elsewhere. The administrators hope to shed some players to raise funds and cut costs, but why would another club operating within a salary cap pay money for a player whose contract will be cancelled if his club is liquidated? Despite all this, I've never been prouder of my club - the real club, not the version brought to ruin by mismanagement (to think we had Stephen Vaughan in charge before this!). Widnes' population is only about 60,000 but fans have raised £90k from scratch in three days and the target of 1,000 fans signing up for a monthly direct debit of £15 by Wednesday was surpassed yesterday (me included). The support of the wider RL community, ex-players and others who've never been directly involved with Widnes is humbling. None of this money is going into the club until its future is assured. If that doesn't happen, it will be used to start a new club in the town, either fan-owned or backing new owners. Apologies for rambling on (if anyone's got this far!), but this has been a real wake up call to me. I'm seeing first hand what the real risk of the loss of its club does to a community. It's heartbreaking and inspiring at the same time. If Sunday's game goes ahead, it will be as big a game as any in the club's history, possibly the biggest, and an emotional day for everyone concerned. The result will definitely be secondary. Some football and RL clubs spend too much on players they can't afford. We really didn't do that - we've been a weakened team for 2-3 years now. One good thing we did was to keep the academy going, when some of our rivals closed theirs. We shed senior players and brought youngsters in to replace them. Our academy's funding is thankfully ring-fenced, though the administrators wanted to close it. It produces 80% or more of our players, as well as players for other clubs. We've suffered from serial mismanagement; the fans haven't been supporting an attempt to buy a status we couldn't afford. There has been gross incompetence and perhaps dishonesty but fans have been fiercely critical of the club's management for a long time (b&a is a picnic compared to some of the stuff that's been on the fans' messageboard). To bring this back to football I'm grateful, for all its faults, that Salop is so relatively well run. Rotten to the core? I've seen what the last two owners have done to my RL club and, believe me, Salop is a million miles away from that. I don't ask or expect anyone to but we're desperate so, should you feel so inclined, the Widnes fundraiser is at www.viqi.co.uk (VIQI is a longstanding independent fundraising group - the initials stand for Vikings (as in Widnes Vikings) Quids In). Floreat Salopia and Up the Chemics (as we used to be called)! According to the BBC Sport site, the administrators have accepted an offer from the fans consortium and the club will be allowed to continue. Sounds good.
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Post by aghabullogueshrew on Mar 1, 2019 0:20:38 GMT 1
In regards to Widnes RLFC (I refuse to call them the Vikings as I am pre Sky Sports!), I was born and raised in Halton View, Widnes. I was a massive Chemics support in the early to mid eighties before being forced to move to London due to Mrs Thatchers conservative policies, i.e. Feck the north, but I became disillusioned with the sport once Sky sports turned up with there mega money! They wanted us to merge with Warrington, but we refused, and ever since then we have won jack! We have been forced to stagger from one crisis to another and please let us not be like Bradford Bulls and get back to where we belong! Up the Chemics!
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Post by venceremos on Mar 1, 2019 0:39:31 GMT 1
In regards to Widnes RLFC (I refuse to call them the Vikings as I am pre Sky Sports!), I was born and raised in Halton View, Widnes. I was a massive Chemics support in the early to mid eighties before being forced to move to London due to Mrs Thatchers conservative policies, i.e. Feck the north, but I became disillusioned with the sport once Sky sports turned up with there mega money! They wanted us to merge with Warrington, but we refused, and ever since then we have won jack! We have been forced to stagger from one crisis to another and please let us not be like Bradford Bulls and get back to where we belong! Up the Chemics! A fellow Chemic in, or connected to, Salop!? I'm from the other side of the water (Runcorn) but have supported Widnes since my grandad first me. I count myself lucky to have seen the great days of the 70s and 80s, as well as the many struggles. I'll be there with my dad and my brother on Sunday - should be an emotional day and fantastic atmosphere. The fans deserve it, as well as those staff and players left high and dry (and skint) by the old regime. I wish I could find my old ICI C&P jersey for the occasion.
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