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I'd certainly be more keen to contribute to the crowd fund if I knew it would be used to help pay off local businesses we owe money to rather than the pillocks who got us into this position.

The Supporters Trust is delighted to announce that, starting from the Cove game on 28 December, additional bus journeys will be operating to and from the stadium on matchdays, following positive discussions between the Supporters Trust, Stagecoach and the club. Full details are in the statement below, but the additional journeys will enable fans to spend time in Bar 94 before and after the game. For 3 pm kick offs, journeys will leave the Bus Station at 1 pm and 2.15 pm, returning from the ground 10 minutes after the final whistle and then at 6 pm. The additional journeys will also be ideal for anyone attending hospitality. Stagecoach will also be donating fares revenue from the matchday service on 28 December to the Supporters Trust, and we are very grateful to them for the new journeys and the kind donation. We hope that the matchday journeys will be useful to many fans. You can read the full statement here: https://www.ictsupporterstrust.org/post/improved-matchday-bus-service

Wonder where they got that information from...

We're already booked in somewhere else for lunch before the game now and wouldn't like to do to them what others have done to the club by cancelling. Hopefully they fill the spots.

Was going to do hospitality but was too slow and it was sold out pretty quick which is good to see. A D&E coach to take then to their school Christmas party would make a statement 😂

The P&J is reporting Alan Savage as saying we are looking to sign a striker in January, there will be a Press Conference by the Administrator on Monday and he (Savage) may lead a consortium to take the club forward.

Wonder how long Gardiner will keep this "they owe me money!" charade going...

back of a cigarette packet stuff I know, but if we are still losing £10K per week then that is £520K per year. That is less than one third of what we were told was the projected yearly loss of £1.6m just a few months ago (before admin). If you factor in that income is slowly building back up with sponsorships coming back in, more people spending money, the bar taking in more money thanks to the Supporters Trust efforts, the administrators chasing money that the club is actually owed, and hopefully some club shop stock of the cracking black kit to come back in in all sizes then the £10K p/wk deficit might reduce considerably. Let's for sake of argument say it drops to £7K then that is around £360K per year which is our traditional shortfall even in the days when we were being run responsibly. A decent cup run or some income from a legitimate revenue generating idea might be all that stands between us and a break-even point if that happens. My glass remains half-full ... otherwise I will need to top it up later 🙂

I have to say I was surprised at the lack of staff redundancies off field. We do seem overstaffed compared to other L1 clubs? However maybe this picture will improve with Bar94 making money and hospitality restarting? Lots of other commercial opportunities could be utilised again as well with the right folk managing the commercial side. I do think we will need secondary non football related income too but not pie in sky stuff like battery farms

Whatever happened to the good old B&Bs that the likes of Bobby Mann and others used to stay in when here! If we survive, this is the kind of s*** that can't creep back in. It doesn't happen in other occupations ... I could work almost anywhere in the world for my company and if they sent me somewhere, or i was seconded to a location for a period of time, then they would pay me to move, cover reasonable relocation costs, and possibly cover a little extra until I was established, but no way they are paying my living expenses forever. From what I hear it was not just players staying in hotels, but others who had similar arrangements or properties rented for them. ludicrous.

We can see quite clearly why Alan Savage had no choice but to opt for administration as the mess created by those running the club became much clearer to him.

Pretty much spot on & I hope you are right. If we are in League 1 we are somewhat attractive to buyers but if we lose a raft of players in the window and suffer because of it with a relegation to league 2, i think we would be doomed in our current incarnation. For me the key things in the doc seem to be that Alan Savage is keeping us afloat but at some point, that well will run dry. I was also surprised at the fees for the administrator which seem high, but i would assume that initially there were a lot of hours having to be put in but as time goes on, I hope less hours are required to keep things ticking over. There seems to be no indication which way former officials will lean in terms of what they want to do with what they are owed, and the last snippets i noted were the comments about looking at the actions of officials over the last 3 years to see if any of those actions are reportable and the circumstances of the land transfer(s). Also interesting to note there were 21 expressions of interest, and i wonder how many of these are serious or viable.