Dave Deacon Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 Is it a case of the players being sick or the club dying? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornishteddyboy Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 Perhaps Truro and Penzance should get together and make up one first team between us! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somersetspur Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 We certainly deserve better,than this constant rubbish that is going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Deacon Posted August 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 Sounds like the players have had enough with a meeting being held - although to be fair they would probably have met up for training. Marcus Martin has called Chris Webb! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Chown Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 It would appear at the Truro City players meeting tonight all players have given notice if not paid by next Thursday. Hope things get resolved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattP Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 Even if the players are paid this month,how can they trust the club to pay up next month,and the one after? Presumably some of the players will be relying on their club wage to supplement the time off work they must have to take,and for some it must be their only income? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIT 65 Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 Bloody disgusting.A great manager and team that have given 200% to the club with effort and loyalty. What ever action they take,I don't blame them one bit.Enough is enough. And why has no one at the club come clean about what is going on and let the supporters know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Eddy Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 the alarming thing is this is now turning into a trend,truro and penzance who is next!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Deacon Posted August 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 Rhod Mitchell, West Briton’s Truro City reporter sums up tonight’s events via his twitter @rhod13:- City's future looks bleak after unpaid players issue deadline The future of Truro City as a Blue Square Bet South club was hanging by a thread tonight after the squad gave the club a seven day deadline to pay the wages they are owed. If the money is not paid by 10am next Thursday, then the players will reluctantly quit City, just over a week before they are due to start the new season at Billericay Town on Saturday August 18, plunging the club into further turmoil. The bulk of the squad have signed contracts, which they say they will allow to go into the league, but have also given 14 days notice that if the owed wages are not paid they will be leaving. That notice can be revoked at any time if the money is forthcoming. The latest dramatic developments came after the squad was addressed at training at Tregye, near Truro, this evening by City vice-chairman Chris Webb, in the absence of chairman Kevin Heaney, who he told the players was in London meeting with the investors who want to take over the club. It is understood an impasse between Mr Heaney and the London-based group has led to the present situation with no funds available to pay the long-suffering players who had to undergo a similar scenario last season. Webb refused to comment after leaving the meeting, but the players were not so reticent and many were visibly distraught at the latest sad turn of events. Many fear this could finally be the end of the road after an unprecedented run of success. Bankrolled by chairman Kevin Heaney the club has risen from from the South-Western League to within two promotions of the Football League, with a FA Vase win at Wembley along the way. But now unless the money is forthcoming, the club will face the prospect of either pulling out of Blue Square Bet South attracting severe penalties or fulfilling the fixtures with reserve teamplayers. It will be a reserve team who travel to Tiverton for a friendly on Saturday and it is highly unlikely Tuesday's scheduled friendly against St Blazey will go ahead. Striker Stewart Yetton said: "It is a very sad state of affairs. It does not look very hopeful." Skipper Jake Ash said: "The realism is that as a group of players we do not want to see the club go down the leagues. We have given the club the best opportunity by handing our forms in. It is horrible. There does not seem to be any winner. "We all feel so sorry for the supporters who have been fantastic." Manager Lee Hodges said: "It is a very sad situation two weeks before the start of the season for everyone involved at the club now and in the past. The players are gutted." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Common Tater Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 The reason no-one has been told what is going on is because despite all the personnel changes over the years, secretaries, vice-chairmen, "non-executive directors", groundsmen, announcers, tea hut staff, stewards, there has only ever been one man who knew everything that was going on and he has always avoided answering awkward questions. This was okay before the financial "crunch" because the money was there to keep things sweet on the pitch despite the obvious mis-management of the club off the field, but ever since the collapse of his empire he has not come clean over the many problems, mostly due to his own actions. It seems it was only he who was negotiating with the potential investors in London. There should have been more than just him but the wording in posts above suggest it was him alone. We may never know what it was he asked for that made them hold back. The club has been run by someone who hasn't the first idea about how to run a football club. The players were magnificent over last season, carrying on without pay. Obviously enough is enough and, seriously, unless someone comes in with a few tens of thousands before thursday (so only 2 Lottos and 2 Euromillions to go!) then the club will be completely shafted, Donald Ducked, finito. Cornwall will be back to only steps 6 and 7 football again and the adventure will be over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Soup Dragon Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 messages of support coming in from around the country and abroad, I don't understand how Heaney can even contemplate sticking around these parts if he lets the club go down the toilet for the sake of his own ego, it appears the sticking point is the surrender of his share in the club, he won't go therefore the investors aren't going to put any more money into the club. http://twitter.com/TruroCityTweet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 About time it was sorted one way or the other. Players would need to find new clubs. Makes me wonder what Heaney would have done if had got his hands on Argyle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argyle Fan Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 Surprised he hasn't asked his Irish mates in Gibraltar for some money!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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