City Away Fans present Yetts with 300 Appearances Trophy

Simon Cheetham, author of Twitter's @TruroCityTweet, organised and presented Stewart Yetton's 300 Appearances Trophy on behalf of the ex-pat away fans.  The presentation was made last night at the Camrose Ground, Basingstoke.  Yetts thanked the loyal away fans. 

 

L-R, Paul Condon, Sean Travers, Ivor Mountaineer, Mitch Baynham, John Mara, Stewart Yetton, Simon Cheetham, Neat Baynham, Alan Wilton and TCFC Representative Ray Jennings. City lost 3-2 on the night, narrowly missing out on a draw, only to be denied by a very dubious off-side decision.  Stewart Yetton notably scored his 219th goal of his incredible career at Super Truro.  Well done Yetts and Simon.

 

Truro City Football Club goes into administration

Source BBC. LINK

 

Truro City Football Club have gone into administration but will no longer face a winding-up order in the High Court.

Club spokesman James Moore confirmed an administration order had been granted for the Blue Square Bet South side.

A registrar ruled on Monday that a winding-up petition against the club over an unpaid tax bill would be dismissed if the order was granted.

The club are set to be docked 10 points by the Football Conference as a result of entering administration.

Kate Breese, of the law firm Walsh Taylor, has been appointed as the official administrator.

Earlier this week, the club had their hearing over an unpaid tax bill adjourned for another fortnight.

Meanwhile, Cornwall Sport (local BBC) stated on Twitter this evening that no one was available from the Football Conference to confirm Kate Breese's statement that the club had gone into administration or when the points would be deducted.

City file for Administration

Truro City has formally applied to go into administration in a move that could save the club.

Truro City chairman Chris Webb announced the plan to file for administration on Friday in a bid to secure the club's future.

Mr Webb said he believed the move would head off the winding-up order from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs heard and adjourned in the High Court this morning.

James Moore, of Walker Morris, has formally submitted the administration application to the High Court.

If the winding-up order had gone ahead the club could have folded. The administration application means that the club will be docked ten points but will still be able to play.

However, there is continued uncertainty over the short-term financial future of the club with money needed for player's wages and travel costs.

Mr Webb said: "The application for administration follows this morning's proceedings in the High Court, when a winding-up order against the club, brought by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, was adjourned until September 17.

"As I understand it, the application for administration means that the winding-up order will be dismissed. There will now be a process whereby all the documentation relating to the application for administration will be assessed, with October 3 set as the date for the return of that file."

Miles Davis, This is Cornwall.

Are Truro City bringing us the first relegation of the season?

Posted by Ian, Courtesy of football webzine 200% WEB LINK HERE

A crowd of 329 people turned out at Treyew Road yesterday afternoon to see Truro City beat Boreham Wood by two goals to nil in the Blue Square Bet South, but it seems unlikely that events on the pitch made for too much of the discussion amongst the clubs supporters. As has seemed to frequently been the case over the last year or so, goings-on in the boardroom have been hogging the headlines at this particular club, with Fridays announcement that it is to enter into administration throwing the future of Cornwalls most successful non-league club into doubt. Yet this decision is not particularly surprising. Much of the news coming out of Truro City FC has been building towards this situation, but it was, of course, completely avoidable.

The clubs announcement on the subject came on Friday afternoon, ahead of the hearing of a winding up order brought by HMRC which was to be heard on Monday over an outstanding tax debt of £15,000. The only assumption that can be drawn from this timing is that the club had no way of paying the amount of money outstanding and that to seek to defer the hearing would have merely been postponing the inevitable. The club had previously confirmed that it had secured funding to pay its players wages until the fifteenth of September, but new chairman Chris Webb has already stated that, “Our clear understanding at present is that arrangements which were agreed earlier for funding to cover the players’ wages through to at least September 15 no longer hold good”, which could be interpreted as it becoming likely that – again – the club’s players (who had threatened to walk out before a ball had been kicked this season over the non-payment of their wages) will have to go without pay. How long they will tolerate that is a question that is not easy to answer.

Over the last few weeks or so, this club has increasingly to become less and less about the football. During the summer, the clubs ground was sold to a company called Jojo Investco – about whom the truth couldn’t possibly be more oblique – and there have been those have spotted a potential link between the name of this company and those of Julia Sincock and Jessica Heaney. Sincock, who is understood to have been involved in a relationship with Kevin Heaney, has been in the news before. In 2010, she was cleared of deception after false information was completed on a mortgage application for a mortgage which stated that she earned £85,000 a year while her actual salary at the time was £15,000 a year. More recently, she was named as a director of PAFC 2011 Ltd, one of the companies formed in preparation for what turned out to be Kevin Heaneys aborted take-over of Plymouth Argyle during the summer of last year. With confusion over who exactly is running the club, who owns which company and who is involved in which company, it is small wonder that most connected with the club remain absolutely bewildered with regard to what is going on there at the moment.

Kevin Heaney, meanwhile, remains bankrupt – although his details do not as yet appear on the Insolvency Services register of insolvency. Heaney, who may be owed as much as £1.4m by the club, however, remains bankrupt and any money owed to him would now be owed to his creditors, through the insolvency practitioner dealing with his estate. Considering the tangled webs that he and those close to him have been weaving over the last few months and years, it would be unsurprising to find out that he still held the whip hand in all of this, but the matter of whether he or anybody associated with him should be allowed within ten miles of a football ground of any description or in any capacity is one for the Football Association to deal with, should they see fit to. In addition to this, the involvement of the Salisbury City chairman William Harrison-Allan, who skirted close to a clear conflict of interest in allowing his company to get involved in the companys financial affairs, should also be closely inspected by the Football Association. In fact, it rather feels as if the game as a whole would benefit if, once whatever comes to play out plays out, the FA was to hold a full investigation into what has been going on at Treyew Road in recent years. Valuable lessons could be learned.

The immediate future of the club has to be considered to be in very great danger, though. Football Conference rules on clubs entering into administration are considerably tougher than in other leagues. Truro City will have to sign a CVA which pays all creditors in full in three years or be demoted at the end of this season. There will be no penny in the pound offers if the club wishes to avoid demotion at the end of the season and, as such, it is quite possible that we have already seen our first relegation of the new season. Even if there does end up being light at the end of the tunnel in this respect, the question of how the club can possibly trade through to an even keel is a difficult one to answer positively. Last Saturdays crowd of 329 is in no way enough to keep the club going for any period of time if the clubs other revenue streams – sponsorship money, season ticket revenues and so on – have already been exhausted. We can only speculate on what may or may not happen over the next few weeks, but there is little positive to see in the prognosis for Truro City Football Club at the moment.

And this is something that should cause considerable consternation to the Football Conference. If demotion at the end of this season already looks more likely than not for this football club, then what exactly is the incentive for anybody to attempt to rescue it? Part of the problem for Truro City throughout its rise through the divisions has been the distance that people now have to travel to get to Cornwall in the first place. There will now surely be those involved at other Blue Square Bet South clubs who will be wondering whether, rather than having effectively a ghost club, which will surely be unable to satisfy all of its creditors in full over the course of three years, playing for no more than pride? On the basis of what we know – and it should be pointed out that it feels likely that we know precious little about what has actually been going on behind the scenes at this club over the last couple of years or so – the question of how this club can be saved is beyond our reach. Chris Webb finished his official statement on Friday by saying, “Obviously, this is an extremely difficult time for the club, but I can assure everyone concerned – players, supporters and staff – that I and my colleagues are working tirelessly to ensure that every possible effort is being made towards securing the survival and long-term success of the club.” How that survival can possibly be secured in either the short of long term is anybodys guess this evening.

Some images from the Boreham Wood game

Truro City 2 Boreham Wood 0
Saturday 1st September 2012.

Yetts dummies the keeper to score his second of the season (218th!)

Loyalty to the badge

Yetts battles hard

and celebrates

Joe Broad leads the farewell to the background of Vera Lynn's Meet Again.

Squad do crisis club Truro City proud with fantastic win

By Rhod Mitchell, West Briton LINK Images Steve Rogers


Truro City 2 Boreham Wood 0

If this indeed was City's final game in Blue Square Bet South, then they at least gave their long suffering fans something to remember them by as they moved up to fifth in the table.

Goals by Stewart Yetton, and a first for the club from full back Ben Williams, saw them end Boreham Wood's unbeaten start to the season in a match which saw the Hertfordshire side finish with eight men after suffering three cards.

Ben Williams scored his first goal for the club.

City skipper Jake Ash was also ordered off for a second bookable offence right on half time, following an unsavoury fracas which also saw Wood's Ben Nunn and Blue Square Bet South player of the month Charlie O'Loughlin red carded.

Nunn went for a nasty studs up challenge on Cody Cooke, with O'Loughlin and Ash following after the mid-pitch melee.

An unsavoury fracas led to three red cards

And it got worse for Boreham Wood in the dying minutes when skipper Luke Garrard was sent off after senselessly grabbing Yetton by the neck.

It was yet another fantastic display by City's players after the club announced on Friday they were going into administration ahead of Monday's winding up order hearing over alleged unpaid tax in the High Court, when they could be wound up.

It is totally unclear what the future holds, but this could well have been the club's last match at this level and there is obviously a major doubt as to whether they will play at Basingstoke on Tuesday evening.

But as they have done so often, the squad shrugged aside the horrendous off the field issues to end as well deserved winners.

City took the lead after 27 minutes when Adam Kelly helped the ball through to Stewart Yetton who finished well with a low shot past James Russell for his 218th Truro goal.

Yetts celebrates the first goal. Pure class.

And the game seemed to be meandering into half time, when Nunn's reckless challenge on Cook changed the nature of match, with City then having a man advantage for the second half.

Even so, Boreham Wood missed a couple of great chances to draw level before, midway through the half, Williams rose high to power a header home from Adam Kelly's corner past Russell to make it 2-0.

It was effectively game over and Garrard's 85th minute dismissal only added salt to the visitors' wounds.

And at the final whistle it was an emotional City team and man of the match, player-manager Lee Hodges, who saluted the club's fans, possibly for the last time.

They all deservedly received a rousing send off as they left the pitch as Vera Lynn's We'll Meet Again played on the Tannoy.

And just whether they will may become a lot clearer on Monday.

TRURO CITY: Sandercombe; Green, Ash (capt), Hodges, Williams; Kelly, Broad, Cooke, Afful; Yetton, Moore (Watkins 63).
Sub (not used): Hall.
Red card: Ash (43), two yellows.
Yellows: Cooke, Moore, Watkins.

BOREHAM WOOD: Russell; Nunn, O'Loughlin, Reynolds, Jones, Vilhete (Morgan 76), Isaac, Garrard (capt), Montgomery, Buchanan (Akurang half-time), Riza (Effiong 74).
Subs (not used): Hutton, Scott-Morris.
Red cards: Nunn (43), O'Loughlin (43), Garrard (85).
Yellow cards: Jones, Vilhete.
Goals: Yetton (27) 1-0, Williams (65) 2-0.
Man of the match: Lee Hodges (Truro City).
Crowd: 329.
Referee: Daniel Cook (Gosport).