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Swindon Advertiser

Don't get the wind up, Town fans told

Saturday, 8th October 2005

FANS of Swindon Town have been hit by another blow after discovering the club has been made subject to a winding up petition.

But new deputy chairman Mark Devlin has reassured fans there is nothing to worry about.

The petition appeared in the London Gazette on Thursday.

It is similar to the situation the club found itself in back in January when HM Customs and Excise ordered the club to pay a six-figure sum following an overdue VAT payment.

If they fail to pay, they will have to face the consequences.

Mark Devlin, the deputy chairman said the club had been as surprised to see the advertisment as everyone else.

"We have until 18th October to pay the money and it is all in place so it was a shock to find the wind up position advertised.

"The money is not due for another 11 days and is on place. It was definitley a surprise to hear they were appealing for people to come forward."

He added: "We had an agreement with the Government agency that thought we were adhering to that agreement.

"As far as we understand it everything is fine and dandy."

The team are currently bottom of League One having lost the last seven games in a row.

Fans hope the new loud and proud campaign will help raise spirits at today's match at home to Port Vale.

I saw that Dazzza.

Seems strange to me. The club are saying it's all ok etc and will be paid, why are the department (or whoever issued this) doing a winding up order then.

Ive had a look on the London Gazzette web site and can only find the one from January (with about 4 others from before that).be interesting to see whos served it.

Devlin is trying to not get everyone panicking.  I know that SSW recently took out a large emergency loan for unknown purposes.

I had a look at that site as well Yeovil.

To get the latest info you have to go onto the winding up etc section, and you have to subscribe to that which they charge for. :evil:

http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/searchResultsView.asp?webType=0&searchString=swindon+town&selDateFromDay=0&selDateFromMonth=0&selDateFromYear=0&selDateToDay=0&selDateToMonth=0&selDateToYear=0&searchIn=Notice&PageNumber=1

Can't find the current one but may not be online yet here is the petition from January....

Nice to see our registered address is Newbury!

I take it that's all to do with Dunwoody Sports Marketing being based there?

If its all going to be paid, then why the winding up order?!

Oh well, I expect Fallon to be flogged now in Jan...

Makes a complete mockery of the statements made by Gray and Devlin regarding the financial state of the company on Wednesday and their repeated promises to start a "new era of transparency". Just like the December AGM at which the board "forgot" to mention the small matter of a winding up order to the shareholders. Same old shit, different day. Anyone else feel they're being treated like a mushroom?

Well the clubs comments make it sound like they are just as suprised as we are,which wouldnt suprise me tbh

I wouldnt have used the word mushroom....but I agree

Saying that Devlin did say we wouldnt go into admin for another 5 years :wink:

I think you'll find Yeovil that what they're surprised about is that the creditors published the winding up order in the Gazette, despite the club pleading with them not to if the experience of Xmas is anything to go by. The order itself would have been served on the club well in advance of it being published in the Gazette - ie well before Wednesday, which was my point.

Pretty sure it is the same address Dunwoody are registered at although not sure without double checking.

I'm sure it's the lawers address rather than the companies.

I see

why do I have to scroll sideways on your posts but not any others :o

Dazzza stretched the paged with the link.

Pauld is the only one who writes sentences that are long!

The registered address could be any address such as the company's accountants' address.

i know where london road is, do you want me to go down and have a mini protest?

in fact my car is being serviced there tomorrow morning  :twisted:

 Rather than a mini protest.....perhaps a huge Marie style artic would be more appropriate.....with Diamandis out wrtitten on the side.

i've only got a focus  :oops:

how about i turn up and get naked and have diamandis out tatooed on my arse?  :D

eww what a horrible though, should get rid in no time  :twisted:

It is on both counts - ie its the same as Dunwoody's myriad other companies and that's because it's the accountant's address. The actual HQ, is of course, in a lead-lined bunker on a secret island in the middle of the ocean staffed by men in brightly-coloured jumpsuits. Diamandis runs everything from an adapted dentists chair in front of a control panel of flashing lights and dials which serve no apparent purpose while stroking a grumpy-looking white cat in a strangely sinister fashion. And one well-aimed cricket ball will be enough to set off multiple explosions throughout the whole complex, causing the whole thing to catastrophically collapse, leaving you to escape just in time before the whole thing disappears into the sea.

NB some portions of this post may not be entirely true. But on the whole it's still a damn sight more accurate than any statement pertaining to the financial state of STFC we've been given recently. Particularly ones preceded by promises of "openness" and "transparency"

Is the not entirely true bit to do with the cricket ball? It would need something more hi tech?

    Ian as well as Harold Fleming are buried within the boundaries of the Borough Of Swindon....one of these statements is untrue, and will self combust in 30 secs.

Mark Devlin said before the match today that the debt has now been paid, still has to go to court though, but that's just procedures.

I've forgotten exactly what he said but when asked where the money came from he said it was from directors pockets etc.

So I think we can all guess who yet again has bailed us out, thank you SSW.

Thank you once again Sir Seton, we are forever indebted to you for keeping the club we all love alive

i vote we offer birdy as a sacraficial offering to him, to show him our gratitude.