Harry Haddock Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Over the years Clyde have been subject too much criticism and ridicule from across the football world for the mismanagement by a previous Board which almost resulted in our liquidation.I think a beneficial voluntary creditors agreement allowed the Supporters Trust to eventually turn things round.From memory the only creditor not too reach agreement with the Club was North Lanarkshire Leisure-an arms length offshoot of the Council. With all this in mind it was interesting to read in today's Daily Mail that an offshoot of Stirling Council is being investigated for writing off a£150000 debt built up byStirling Albion. Clyde did the honourable thing and paid their debt.Perhaps it is time to focus on the misdemeanours of others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hampden Diehard Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Eh....on the one hand you say that Clyde didn't pay ALL of their debts, and then you say that they did the honourable thing and paid their debt. Before you lay into other clubs, what is the full story? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecto Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 1 hour ago, Harry Haddock said: Over the years Clyde have been subject too much criticism and ridicule from across the football world for the mismanagement by a previous Board which almost resulted in our liquidation.I think a beneficial voluntary creditors agreement allowed the Supporters Trust to eventually turn things round.From memory the only creditor not too reach agreement with the Club was North Lanarkshire Leisure-an arms length offshoot of the Council. With all this in mind it was interesting to read in today's Daily Mail that an offshoot of Stirling Council is being investigated for writing off a£150000 debt built up byStirling Albion. Clyde did the honourable thing and paid their debt.Perhaps it is time to focus on the misdemeanours of others. You can delete this, go on you know it makes sense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeSAFC Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Over the years Clyde have been subject too much criticism and ridicule from across the football world for the mismanagement by a previous Board which almost resulted in our liquidation.I think a beneficial voluntary creditors agreement allowed the Supporters Trust to eventually turn things round.From memory the only creditor not too reach agreement with the Club was North Lanarkshire Leisure-an arms length offshoot of the Council. With all this in mind it was interesting to read in today's Daily Mail that an offshoot of Stirling Council is being investigated for writing off a£150000 debt built up byStirling Albion. Clyde did the honourable thing and paid their debt.Perhaps it is time to focus on the misdemeanours of others. What an absolute word salad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtie36nilhello Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Just now, JakeSAFC said: What an absolute word salad. Tossed or not?! Thousand Island Dressing is an optional extra! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeSAFC Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Tossed or not?! Thousand Island Dressing is an optional extra! Well the poster seems like a massive tosser. So tossed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Haddock Posted January 17, 2017 Author Share Posted January 17, 2017 Elementary Penguin either I have misread your post or you have completely missed the point. MY point is that NLL due to the machinations of one individual on their Board did their best to liquidate Clyde.Over the years Clyde-at great cost to the calibration of player we could sign-paid off their debt to NLL.I don't think on Stirling Albion for getting off with it to the detriment of local taxpayers-I feel bloody angry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Calibration of player? Loving it. Take a greenie... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Haddock Posted January 17, 2017 Author Share Posted January 17, 2017 Calibre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clyde01 Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 I think a beneficial voluntary creditors agreement allowed the Supporters Trust to eventually turn things round. By turn things around do you mean make us eternally shite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clyde01 Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 The current model is holding the club back in my opinion. It's all very well being fan owned when you are Barcelona with thousands of members. It doesn't work so well when you have a few hundred, and many of the members were recruited to try and push though a particular agenda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Haddock Posted January 17, 2017 Author Share Posted January 17, 2017 Clyde01 what a load of tosh. Do you honestly believe in excess of 350 fans each paid £30 for the privilege of voting through a name change.The ones I no voted for a name change was simply because having EK in front of our name was better than no Clyde at all. And for all those Ronnie McDonald lovers out there let me remind you that he changed letterheads etc to Clyde of Cumbernauld. And what has any of the above got to do with Stirling Albion not paying their rent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clyde01 Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Clyde01 what a load of tosh. Do you honestly believe in excess of 350 fans each paid £30 for the privilege of voting through a name change.The ones I no voted for a name change was simply because having EK in front of our name was better than no Clyde at all. And for all those Ronnie McDonald lovers out there let me remind you that he changed letterheads etc to Clyde of Cumbernauld. And what has any of the above got to do with Stirling Albion not paying their rent? I don't believe all the members are fans of the club, I believe a number were 'recruited' to vote in a particular way on a particular issue. Alongside that you had death of the club propaganda to guilt other genuine fans into supporting the agenda being pushed.As for Stirling Albion allegedly not paying rent, what's that got to do with us? Scottish footballs recent history is littered with examples of clubs shafting creditors. Rangers, Motherwell, Dundee, Dunfermline, Livingston (multiple times). We paid our debts back properly and look where it's got us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfcuk Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Clyde01 what a load of tosh. Do you honestly believe in excess of 350 fans each paid £30 for the privilege of voting through a name change.The ones I no voted for a name change was simply because having EK in front of our name was better than no Clyde at all. And for all those Ronnie McDonald lovers out there let me remind you that he changed letterheads etc to Clyde of Cumbernauld. And what has any of the above got to do with Stirling Albion not paying their rent? So you would agree that the people who told you that without a name change there would be no clyde were talking tosh ? Ronnie McDonald took us to a promotion without putting us into debt gave me one of the best seasons for years best fan engagement for a decade Unbelievable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binos123sam Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 2 hours ago, Harry Haddock said: Over the years Clyde have been subject too much criticism and ridicule from across the football world for the mismanagement by a previous Board which almost resulted in our liquidation.I think a beneficial voluntary creditors agreement allowed the Supporters Trust to eventually turn things round.From memory the only creditor not too reach agreement with the Club was North Lanarkshire Leisure-an arms length offshoot of the Council. With all this in mind it was interesting to read in today's Daily Mail that an offshoot of Stirling Council is being investigated for writing off a£150000 debt built up byStirling Albion. Clyde did the honourable thing and paid their debt.Perhaps it is time to focus on the misdemeanours of others. Get it up ye fannybaws! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Haddock Posted January 17, 2017 Author Share Posted January 17, 2017 Cfcuk I think the Board at the time acted in the Club's best interests and as things stood at the time they we'll have been right. No one can argue about season we had under Ronnie McD but you seem to forget that he was the one that signed the totally unviable lease with NLL which committed us to expenditure way beyond our means.The fact that our then Chairman chose not to pay the rent is another story. As for you EP, unbelievable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB_Bino Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 What an absolute car crash of a thread. Just for the record, Stirling didn't "get off" with paying rent, we've supplied many hundreds of hours worth of man power into council (Active Stirling) run courses that would of cost the council hundreds of thousands in wages over the years along with other joint ventures......so yes, they wrote off the debt, but they still had their money paid back, just in other ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Haddock Posted January 17, 2017 Author Share Posted January 17, 2017 BBB almost word for word as expressed in the article.I suppose if the investigation finds that this is the case then we can all do things for the Council and reduce our rates.I'm thinking I'll start cutting the grass verge outside my house thus saving them the bother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB_Bino Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 I suppose if the investigation finds that this is the case then we can all do things for the Council and reduce our rates. As long as an agreement is struck, then why not? It made financial sense for Stirling Council to agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfcuk Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Cfcuk I think the Board at the time acted in the Club's best interests and as things stood at the time they we'll have been right. No one can argue about season we had under Ronnie McD but you seem to forget that he was the one that signed the totally unviable lease with NLL which committed us to expenditure way beyond our means.The fact that our then Chairman chose not to pay the rent is another story. As for you EP, unbelievable. Fully entitled to that opinion But the damage done by the name change I think should have resulted in the architects of it resigning ( only an opinion) to this day I can't see another club in Britain vote for a name change.For me my hope is that the club takes a totally different route from the CIC which is in my opinion a disaster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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