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This has been sent out by the Seadog Trust at Scarborough about their plight. I'd thought I'd let other football fans know what's happening there :

Thought the wider Trust movement might be interested in this:

Dear Boro Fan,

As you are no doubt aware, Scarborough FC announced on Friday that in all
likelihood, the winding-up of Scarborough FC Ltd will go ahead in court on
Tuesday, and that the Club we all support will be going into liquidation.

Although obviously not wishing for such an outcome, Seadog Trust has
prudently been working on a "Plan B" for some time in order that football
fans in Scarborough still have a team to support next season. As such we
have applied to enter the Northern Counties East League (the highest league
in the pyramid that the FA will allow us to enter), and submitted a
membership form to the North Riding County FA. We have also produced a
5-year business plan for the new club - provisonally called Scarborough
Athletic - and have received a letter of intent to enter into a temporary
ground sharing agreement with Bridlington Town.

For further information, including details of how we propose to move forward
with the Supporters Club, please read the latest news bulletin on our
website: http://www.seadogtrust.com/news.php

The Northern Counties East League hold their AGM this afternoon - we should
hopefully know if our application is successful later today.

Ordinarily this application should be fairly straight forward, as we have
proved to the NCEL that we are capable of forming a football team that is
well planned, stable and above all capable of fulfilling a season. However,
Ian Scobbie has also begun the process of registering a new football club,
even though he was fully aware of Seadog Trust's plans following a meeting
with him on Monday 4th June.

The board of Seadog Trust strongly believes that the plan we have in place
is the one best suited to the long term future of football for Scarborough.
It is time for a clean break from the past, and our way forward provides
that.

Boro fan Nick Clarke has started an on-line petition calling for Ian Scobbie
to leave us, the football fans of Scarborough, in peace and allow us to form
a new football club. This petition will be vital in persuading the national
FA that our application is the better option, and we encourage all fans to
sign it as soon as possible. The petition can be found here:
http://www.petitiononline.com/SFCv2/petition.html

For those of you that haven't yet joined Seadog Trust, we strongly encourage
you to do so. By uniting at this stage we will be able to move forward
together to create a successful new football club that the whole town can be
proud of. Full individual membership starts at only £12 per year, although
of course we would be more than grateful if you were to contribute more.
Further details can be found in the membership section of our website:
http://www.seadogtrust.com/membership.php

Finally, please feel free to pass this e-mail on to as many Boro fans as
possible.

Thank you for your time.

Yours faithfully,

Simon Cope
Chair, Seadog Trust

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Seadog Trust - Boro's Future Is Ours

www.seadogtrust.com

Scarborough Football Club Supporters' Society Ltd, trading as Seadog Trust

Scarborough have now been wound up.

This statement from Scarborough sounds familiar :

A statement from Scarborough read: "While it is sad to see the demise of a club with a proud history of 128 years, the club's finances have for a number of years been in a very poor state and the company has been in and out of various insolvency proceedings.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_conf/6221674.stm

I used live near Scarborough for a small while when the were a more stable L2 team.

Sad that they have gone out of business.

Real shame, I remember about 4yrs back watching them give Chelsea a good game in a pub at Notts County.  Looks like they lurched from one financial crisis to another and it all came too much.  Their fans must have known it was coming and organised a place in a much lower league - fair play to them and it'd be good to see them reach the upper echelons of non league football again soon.

There really does seem to be a massive step down into teh non-leagues, once you're there the 'relative' financial stability of league football is very mcuha  thing of the past.

What a shame :( Remember them being a league club, which wasn't even really that long ago.

Could be us soon.

Guess Jimmy glass is even less popular up their now

you know what's worst? a club like scarborough going tits up whilst Franchise get a shiny new stadium.