Abso-bloody-lutelySports clubs and competitions are increasingly being put at risk by short-term vested interests, poor financial management and inadequate standards of governance; we are the UK's leading body working to ensure that clubs are run responsibly and are financially sustainable'"

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So should the club pay a tax bill it disputes? They are holding firm. The taxman is playing hardball. They'll no doubt sort it out.

No doubt they will, by flogging off one of the few shining lights of this season to another club; so long Smurph, thanks for everything.

I think there would only be one winner in that stalemate.

For it to get to this stage there is no dispute the club owe the Tax Man. It's down to now what the HMR will accept. So they will get a Jnr Barrister to negotiate in court a repayment schedule for about £300 per hr or spend Tens of thousands in fees taking on the taxman. Option one me thinks !!

technically speaking you cant get a winner in a stalemate.

I think after this week with people getting letters that they owe more tax because of a mistake,I suppose it could be the same for the club also.

Tax man making mistakes surely not

filed on 29th july???

oh dear, dont like the look of this one little bit, winding up orders are not filed over 50p.

Let us hope people from Franchising panel read this, I am sure they will love it!

Which would fit with the club's timeframes, I imagine.

I don't really buy that the club is being run badly. From the outside looking in, which is the only view I have, we put out a half-decent mid-table side on a shoestring, with a less than impressive attendance average, and so we are always bound to come up to the occasional rock in the water. And like always, we will no doubt steer around it.

People demand decent signings, and then moan when there isn't much money left in the coffers to pay an unexpectedly high tax bill (which appears to be the club's view of it). You can't have it both ways.

And as for Kirmond being released, why keep him for a dead rubber of a game when everyone is screaming for the kids to be given a chance.

There are things I would like to be better, like a more aggressive marketing approach, and a reliable online ticket and webstore (my experience with online tickets has been mixed, and so I haven't dipped my toe into the online shop, and so I might be doing it a disservice), but on the whole, I think we do all right with the albatross that is Belle Vue around our necks.

like they dont already know???????????????????????????????

oh sorry hang on, everythings fine, buy season tickets, clubs on the way up and run like a well oiled machine.

er except we didint pay the big name signings they all scarpered! this is a tax bil incurred during paying dross to play like donkeys!

Pretty true there !! Will probably be PAYE

The playing side is a different issue though. If the team had coped better with losing Brough and fought a bit harder, would we be so down on the club? This tax thing would be an unexpected annoyance if we had got into the top eight on the back of spirited performances. Because people are hacked off with the performances on the field, people are having a go at the club for whatever happens off it too, even if there are good reasons for it.

I agree that there might have been a bit more money in the coffers if there had been a more marketable ticketing strategy, rather than just shoving the price up, or if the shirts had been worth buying, but we've always walked a financial tightrope.