DonnyImp
Vital Squad Member
Knew it was something along that lineThey also wanted to move to a ground in east Hull.
Knew it was something along that lineThey also wanted to move to a ground in east Hull.
Not a businessman the Next!The owners who put loads of cash into it were Steve and Eman Forster; Eman is the daughter of Hull City's hugely popular owner Assem Allam. Steve fell seriously ill in (I think) 2015 and they put the club up for sale. They effectively handed it debt-free to a local businessman called Jamie Waltham in November 2017; sounds like things have hurtled downhill since then.
EDIT: Apparently it passed to a local builder called Carl Chadwick in June 2018, who says that he was told it was debt-free. That appears to have been inaccurate...
Losing to North Ferriby was definitely one of the low points for me in the Conference. They literally are (or were) a village team.
This should serve as a lesson to other clubs who are totally reliant on a benefactor.
After that game was the moment I thought we really were doomed. I took my dad as a treat (!) thinking this team is based in a village and play in Conference North, we will win this one! Good lord, how wrong I was...It wasn't just losing either, they absolutely destroyed us in that FA Trophy game. That 11 was awful, with Dixon etc, but nowhere near that awful to get done 4-0 (Nolan, Tomlinson, Miller, even Nat Brown etc). We were just an absolute shower of a team.
When we annihilated them in the early stages of the Cowley reign it did show how quickly they'd turned us around, I think.
This is a bit weird isn't it? How can you can go out of existence over £7k? They won the FA Trophy only 4 years ago
This is a bit weird isn't it? How can you can go out of existence over £7k? They won the FA Trophy only 4 years ago
They will have had many more debts than the £7k. That willl presumably be the debt owed to whoever sought to have them wound up.
Incidentally I've worked out Grantham climb 4 places to 14th. Trinity lose 6 pts but stay in the play off places.