[VALAIRIAN]

Originally Posted by Tin Monkey

Rob Heys has just been on and said he was confident that the club will survive and go forward.

Eric says he's devastated and affects him personally. He says he's known about it for a while and that Greg Pope is involved now too. He says that the club had a deal with the Inland Revenue at the start of last season to repay the money, but that was upset by the Fraser Eagle situation and the extra money needed to put the seats in, etc.

He says that he doesn't want the club to go into administration. He thinks that some clubs have done that all too easily. However, if there was no other way, then we'd have to do it too.

Falling gates and loss of sponsorship have affected us badly. Whalley is 99% sure that we'll still be in existence next season and "he'll still be there too". He doesn't think that O'Neil will take over the club and implied that he didn't have the financial clout to take over. (That was my interpretation of the interview, but I may be wrong).

He finished by complaining that the club was still paying Cav and Rocky, which he begrudges as he expects one of them to be banned for life.

That's it!

Cheers for that brief overview T M