Discuss perhaps what would be the best option for us going forward.
I see that 55.71% of fans on this forum (that voted) believe RM selling a share is the best way forward.
Is this a viable option?
Can this be discussed with the Chairman?
Whilst I don't disagree with your sentiments (or anyone else's for that matter) we really are in the lap of the Gods.
Whichever way you dress it up, Ron holds all the cards. We have a 22/23 man squad, plenty big enough under normal circumstances to get through a season but we have been incredibly unlucky with injuries.
My guess is that we are simply managing cashflow by not paying some staff (not good I'll admit but sometimes unavoidable in business in order to stay afloat). If by managing the cashflow in that way we can pay HMR&C on time and avoid the winding up orders, then it's a result.
If Smith and Phillips hadn't been injured so badly on Tuesday, chances are we wouldn't even know the embargo was in place. No-one could have forseen the bad run of injuries we've had. Also, the club no doubt didn't bank on Mohsni and Hall still being around and not contributing to the team.
Sometimes a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. We have to bear in mind that we have been in far, far worse situations in the past and have escaped. There is only one way this club will survive in any way, shape or form and that is by going to Fossetts. Whilst it won't own the ground, the benefit there is that it presumably won't also be liable for the upkeep either. The question is then "How will the club survive at Fossetts Farm and what money will it receive?"
Well, the club will get appearance money from the FL and the FA, plus some SKY TV money, transfer fees (mainly from generating selling youth teamers which is why there has been so much emphasis on the Academy, definitely the way forward for a modern day club) and the gate receipts for the games.
That will be the clubs future income and it will have to cut it's coat accordingly.
Whilst FF may still seem a distant dream it is closer than ever, inching towards a conclusion. Ron Martin and Sainsburys both will want this to happen. Now say what you like about Ron Martin but a stupid businessman he is not. Neither is Gary Lockett or anyone else on the board. The forecasts for this must have been done and there must be shown some viability in them otherwise everyone would have pulled out by now and Sainsburys would not have bailed us out.
There is absolutely no point whatsoever in keeping this club alive unless there was light at the end of the tunnel that wasn't a train. There have been numerous opportunities for us to go into Administration and we never have.
There MUST be something good at the end of this otherwise the whole last 5 years has been a pointless exercise. That is what we have to keep faith in.
The biggest thing for us is that none of us know more than a fraction of what is actually going on. Forget the accounts, they are historic and won't have any relation to the clubs current financial cashflow. Even sources close to the club don't and won't know everything.
What will be, will be. Personally, I think it will turn out ok in the end, but then again I know as much as anyone else on here. I just choose to look at the logic and think that there is an awful lot we don't get because we don't know. It's not our business and neither is it our problem.
If we really all do want to help the club, encourage more people through the gate, buy shirts, programmes, merchandise, anything. That is what we can do and if we concentrate our efforts on that, we can actively help the club survive.
