Maldon & Tiptree FC

[The Crowing Cockerel]

Promoted to the Isthmian Prem having won Isthmian North and an ITV series on the club and its owners due to hit screens next week.

Time will tell whether the following is of any significance: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx21r0x22zvo

A live police investigation, so prudent to neither speculate nor comment any further at this stage.

[ETFC2001]

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15796431/Barrie-Drewitt-Barlows-home-raided-police-probe-human-trafficking.html

No smoke without fire. The deafening silence on their social medias too. Obviously the victims are most important but I wonder what happens to the club if this is found out to be true. Could definitely go under.

 

 

 

[The Crowing Cockerel]

The owners of M&T have now been charged. I wonder what this means for the club? With any trial likely 12mth+ away I suspect M&T will swiftly be in serious financial difficulties:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g09pdx82go

[Albury_Walker]

So If M&T don't come up does that mean somebody at step 4 gets a stay of execution?

[Andy R]

Surely Redbridge should go up after being the losing Finalist against Stanway. 

[The Crowing Cockerel]

7 hours ago, Albury_Walker said:

So If M&T don't come up does that mean somebody at step 4 gets a stay of execution?

Not sure there is much that can/will be done to prevent M&T from coming up. The initial issues will be whether/how the club is able to service it's costs. Provided there's a way of doing that, things will meander along for the time being. I'd think there will have to be a change of ownership - but whether thats some kind of fan-based consortium or a new sugar daddy, we shall have to wait and see. At present the brand has lost a lot of its appeal, so we'll have to see if anyone is willing to get involved with the club.