Winding Up Petitions

[Evening Echo]

A judge has adjourned a bid to wind up Southend United after being told that bosses at the struggling League One club hope to be able to clear outstanding tax debts.

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[Jai]

****ing hell he's used the stadium to pull the wool over their eyes. We're utterly ****ed.

 

[Jay_SUFC]

****ing hell he's used the stadium to pull the wool over their eyes. We're utterly ****ed.

So you're disappointed we didn't get wound up!!!!

 

[FarmdogSUFC]

I am now genuinely concerned for our future

 

[Smiffy]

Adjourned. Christ, that's the closest we've ever come to the end...Ron has 6 weeks or that will be it for sure.

 

[Jai]

So you're disappointed we didn't get wound up!!!!

No but I was hoping for some tangible proof of funds, not a load of tosh about a new stadium that he's been spinning for 20 years. Honestly, I can't believe they've fallen for it.

 

[Jay_SUFC]

No but I was hoping for some tangible proof of funds, not a load of tosh about a new stadium that he's been spinning for 20 years. Honestly, I can't believe they've fallen for it.

They haven't though, they've just given themselves more time

 

[Jai]

He's walked in there, knowing that the club is going to be wound up if he gets this wrong, and he has requested more time on a premise that he has been spinning for 22 years and not even a five-year-old would believe. Praying that would be enough to convince a judge not to call time on a 114-year-old football club.

That man has a set of bollocks, you can't deny that. How close were we to dying today. Unbelievable.

 

[jackj13]

Just a hunch but I reckon he has also shown some evidence of gathering funds that he doesn't want disclosed to the national press hence the new stadium spin

 

[Somerset Ex-TTB]

Can't believe a judge fell for that

 

[Chrisb]

Perhaps he has some outside investment in the pipeline.

 

[Barling Magna]

Uh-oh.....................

I don't like the sound of this one bit.

 

[Smiffy]

Ron has said the club is working more than a month behind as well. So this latest winding up petition will be followed very quickly by another and another, unless he injects millions from somewhere into the club within 6 weeks. Or we are dead. Simple.

I can't believe an experienced judge would fall for his usual spiel. As said above, surely proof of funds/investment must of been shown.

 

[Southminster Shrimper]

RIP Southend United, we had a good run.

 

[londonblue]

****ing hell he's used the stadium to pull the wool over their eyes. We're utterly ****ed.

Not really. He's probably still not completed the deal he's been working on. In a month's time that will be done and dusted and the money paid, hence the adjournment.

Nothing is ever simple with Ron. Things always take longer than expected.

 

[Jai]

Ron has said the club is working more than a month behind as well. So this latest winding up petition will be followed very quickly by another and another, unless he injects millions from somewhere into the club within 6 weeks. Or we are dead. Simple.

I can't believe an experienced judge would fall for his usual spiel. As said above, surely proof of funds/investment must of been shown.

An experienced judge might have fallen for it. How close was it to lunchtime?

 

[gatecrasher]

I still hope we have our own “Tony Bloom” moment. Brighton were homeless, in dire financial straits and a local boy done good steps in and buys the club and the rest is history. Come on Alison Moyet - be a bigger legend than you are and buy off this Victorian snake oil salesman

 

[londonblue]

HMRC's attempt to wind-up Southend United Football Club Limited has been adjourned until April 29.

Senior players and staff have still not been paid for February.

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So, for the pools, is that a "score draw" or a "no score draw"?

 

[Clarky176]

There's no way £668,000 is our monthly tax bill, that's 8 million over the course of the year, there's not enough cash in the club to owe that amount to the taxman

 

[SheldonW65]

These things are never done and dusted on the day, adjournments are normal so don't be surprised if this drags on 2-3 months.