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I don't want you to shut up, I want all of us to talk loud and clear so the club and the world knows we don't want another 62........

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Well having the balls is a start :) But as you have said we must all pull together.....

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We will be fine if we sort out a payment plan with the Revenue and court! however this is as long as we dont default on any payments that the winding up court will order us to make, for e.g say 10k a month for 30 months or something!

Also i think people are taking it out of proportion a little bit and fans shouldnt be worried, the club is taking us to the winding up court to settle a payment plan with club to pay off the £300,000 worth of taxes etc due , not to close us down! How its got to this stage of £300,000 i dont know, it be better to ask Eric Whalley in person!

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the 75 K is normal for a business of this size most FTSE 100 companies AIM to be 50% geared ( that's in debt to you and I). Every business aims to pay debts at least 28 days late. This really is NOT a problem, i've asked my bank manager!

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Eric Whalley will give an exclusive interview to Radio Lancashire tonight. It'll be between 6pm (now) and 7pm. You'll have to listen on FM (103.9 or 95.5), as the DAB service is Lancashire cricket.

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For those of us who cannot receive it, could somebody post all the juicy bits....... Thanks...

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try this:

BBC player - Radio

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Cheers Bradshaw Boy, but it will not load/work?????

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sorry - might be you browser or firewall - I use Firefox browser and am listening to it now

EW is unimpressed with the FL and says the Club won't welch on its debts - a ground sponsor has backed away due to the betting scandal

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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!

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We'd never have got into this position if Greg Pope had claimed for the FES as his second home.

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Wahay finally something to smile about all week!!:D:D:D

We we gotta laugh, otherwise theres not much hope:(

:cool:

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Cheers anyway :thumbsup:

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Cheers for that brief overview T M :) :thumbsup:

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Now is the time for the council to act.

An extra £1 a month for a year on Council Tax should cover a large part of this. Who in Accrington would realisticlly not be happy to pay this.