As you may have seen/heard on sky sports news, bbc, granada or channel m (if you're from manchester) Stockport County today took Manchester by storm. After weeks of planning, I and 5 other Stockport fans began to get together a large group of fans to take the protest march to Stockport Town Hall (to criticise the council for giving us NO assistance during our plight), the PFA Offices in Manchester to gain support from the top dogs in the game - the Cheif Executive Gordon Taylor gave us his full backing and told us that the PFA supports us all the way. Then we marched through manchester and deansgate to the Leonard Curtis (our USELESS administators) Head Office in Deansgate Centre. We sent our two main organisers into the building to discuss our current situation with the president of the company, when they emerged from the building to a chorus of abusive chants which were directed at the administators who remained inside the building - hiding from the Blue Army. Then our representatives spoke to us about the conversation that they'd had with the administrators and told us that we have NO assets NO money and NO deposit on ANY land and that all we have is hope, hope that a buyer comes in to buy a club with NO hope of survival unless a miracle happens.
We gained the media and footballing community's attention today with our protest, but how long will the interest last? how long until we sink? becoming another 'club that was' due to the carelessness of the old board and the administrators.
The reason I have made this thread is to ask you, PLEASE show your support to us. If there's any club in the entire world that needs it right now it's us.
Cheers.
We gained the media and footballing community's attention today with our protest, but how long will the interest last? how long until we sink? becoming another 'club that was' due to the carelessness of the old board and the administrators.
The reason I have made this thread is to ask you, PLEASE show your support to us. If there's any club in the entire world that needs it right now it's us.
Cheers.
@) as we were given an 18 month deadline to pay back the loan in full - something that is near impossible for a Lower League Club ran by a Supporters Trust to pull off. After 18 months, the club were asked to repay the remaining £400,000 of the loan in full within one month or risk going into administration, we failed to pay the £400,000 and David Farms called in the administrators to help the club get back on its feet financially. The administration company Leonard Curtis Ltd made a number of redundancies, including manager Jim Gannon, assistant Peter Ward, Reserve Coach Alan Lord and Physio Ben Cooper, the entire youth academy was also cleared out and the facilities were sold. Now, 8 months prior to the original administration agreement we remain in administration, slowly rotting away while Leonard Curtis' administrators are charging us £300 per hour while working 9 to 5, 5 days a week - slowly sucking the money we dont have out of our club. Today on the march we spoke to Gordon Taylor - Cheif Executive of the PFA and he assured us that he would have a meeting with 2 representatives of Stockport County AFC and the 2 administrators who are working at the club to try and discuss some sort of agreement to speed up the takeover process. However, when we questioned the Leonard Curtis representatives about the situation he told us that due to the lack of support that we are having from potential investors and buyers - the club may cease to exist if it doesnt emerge from administration by May 15th 2010. He also stated that due to the lack of funds and assets, all we now have is the hope and optimism of the fans. 
Good Luck anyway!