Echo News Southend United staff still waiting for December's wages

[Thundersley Blue]

We have to get to a position where we don't have to rely on the owner propping the Club up. The Club has to aim to be self sufficient and not spend beyond it's means.

For us that is awful long way off and the penalty for poor financial decisions made in the dim and distant past.

 

[BoyWonder2]

I don’t get it, where is the non playing staffs who could be an members on shrimperzone, should come out on there, tell us what it’s like to work at the club etc

Well, when people that knew these staff members, you claimed they were making it all up.

 

[Kat_r]

Most staff have to sign NDA's

 

[Kat_r]

Management been paid? Of course. Can’t have those at the top go without

 

[brigg blue]

We have to get to a position where we don't have to rely on the owner propping the Club up. The Club has to aim to be self sufficient and not spend beyond it's means.

For us that is awful long way off and the penalty for poor financial decisions made in the dim and distant past.

If we get to the point where we don't rely on an owner propping us up we are unlikely to be competitive even at this level, we definitely wouldn't be further up the leagues. All clubs to some extent are propped up by outside interests and all of them are spending beyond their means, the whole game has been setup that way

 

[thenobster]

This cannot and should not continue. We require something from Ron. We need something from the chief executive. We need something from the board of directors. And we should have something from Stan. What are the plans? So far, it’s not happening is it chaps. It can’t be a ‘long game’ strategy if we can’t get past the ‘short game’ scenario

 

[Smiffy]

 

[Shrimper]

If people aren't paid tomorrow/tonight - will we see games start to be postponed as was rumoured to be close to happening earlier in the season?

 

[Moley]

I'm not saying he intended to do this as I'm sure he didn't, but Chris Phillips didn't help with the speculation with this one. He tweeted about non-payments to staff then tweets about a staff member leaving. Fans will naturally assume both of those things correlate. We really don't need any more negative fuel to add to the already uncontrollable blazing fire.

Will done to the staff member in question and it actually shows fantastic progression on the footballing side of things. The same as Hobson and Kensdale getting links to teams higher up. It's the new model that Stan and co had promised. It's the way a lower league club should be run. No one can knock or question the footballing department, it really is doing wonders.

Agreed. Nothing related at all not sure why Chris needed to add that as it just winds up fans even more.

 

[Murkey_Mouse]

Agreed. Nothing related at all not sure why Chris needed to add that as it just winds up fans even more.

Agreed, Chris Phillip didn’t help at all, it’s like chucking Petrol into an burning flames

 

[Yer Blues]

Agreed, Chris Phillip didn’t help at all, it’s like chucking Petrol into an burning flames 

Respectfully, you talk a lot of ****e.

 

[Murkey_Mouse]

Respectfully, you talk a lot of ****e.

Like you, I bet farts is your language as you speak arsenic

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

This cannot and should not continue. We require something from Ron. We need something from the chief executive. We need something from the board of directors. And we should have something from Stan. What are the plans? So far, it’s not happening is it chaps. It can’t be a ‘long game’ strategy if we can’t get past the ‘short game’ scenario

Can we leave Stan out of this. He has family problems to deal with at the moment, far more important to him than all this stuff going on at SUFC. He will be back when he's ready.

 

[Murkey_Mouse]

Can we leave Stan out of this. He has family problems to deal with at the moment, far more important to him than all this stuff going on at SUFC. He will be back when he's ready.

You should have seen Chris Phillip “Southend United” Facebook page, he allowed members post vilest comments about Stan & Tom, if I wasn’t on a ban, I would comment on it.

 

[Chris Powell's mate]

Comments like CP is 'winding up' fans is liking saying he and others shouldn't report bad news like Pele's death.
That's CP's job.
He reports news.
We would all like it to be positive, but he's duty bound to report everything.

 

[BALDY]

Henry Winter

@henrywinter
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Events at Southend United, Crawley Town and elsewhere highlight again why an independent regulator is needed across the pyramid. Clubs are the heartbeats of communities and need protecting. PL attempt to kill off regulator looks to have failed, fortunately. Regulator needed asap.

 

[dannypav]

Most staff have to sign NDA's

But surely if the Employer fails to pay their Employee , then the NDA doesn't need to be adhered to ?
The Employer has broken the terms of the contract

 

[GBJ]

But surely if the Employer fails to pay their Employee , then the NDA doesn't need to be adhered to ?
The Employer has broken the terms of the contract

If they were to break the NDA, then I’d have thought the chances of getting the monies owed to them would become even slimmer.

 

[Rayleigh boy]

amazing how all these mickey mouse clubs with gates of around 1k compete at this level year after year after year and how SUFC with gates of almost 6k and a turnover of GBP 7 million in the last accounts can't even pay the mascot ...

 

[Crowstone Crevette]

This cannot and should not continue. We require something from Ron. We need something from the chief executive. We need something from the board of directors. And we should have something from Stan. What are the plans? So far, it’s not happening is it chaps. It can’t be a ‘long game’ strategy if we can’t get past the ‘short game’ scenario

You sound that you feel that you have a right to know all.

You say we NEED something from Ron, on that i dont believe many if any would disagree - you're spot on. But then you add we NEED something from the CEO and the Board of Directors - possibly but we dont know how (especially the CEO') their hands are tied.

However then, you extraordineraly, change the rhetoric. Apparently we SHOULD have something from Stan. SHOULD so much more emotive, personal as if he owes as something. Where the truth is we owe him so much more.