Embargos, HMRC Payment defaults, non payment of wages, the usual under Dai Wrongge

[Sutekh]

You would have thought Carlisle to be an exception to the rule

Couldn't you offer to put them up for the night

[Felt91]

Assuming the wages have been paid today ok as per Dellor's Twitter post last week.

Nothing I've seen on Twitter today either way...

The staff have been paid and not from China is what I have heard from someone who works at the club.

[WestYorksRoyal]

Andrew Sparkes and Eddie Niedzwiecki have been let go. 3 things:

1. They are important staff members so the club must really be desperate.

2. Indicates that no takeover is close.

3. May well effect performances on the pitch. Who is assisting Selles now?

How long until the lights are turned off?

[Elm Park Kid]

Andrew Sparkes and Eddie Niedzwiecki have been let go. 3 things:

1. They are important staff members so the club must really be desperate.

2. Indicates that no takeover is close.

3. May well effect performances on the pitch. Who is assisting Selles now?

How long until the lights are turned off?

You would have also thought that either they were under contract or eligible for redundancy payment. So, we can't have saved much in the short term from doing this.

[SpaghettiHoop]

Perhaps the takeover is close and we're doing the new owners dirty work?

[WestYorksRoyal]

Andrew Sparkes and Eddie Niedzwiecki have been let go. 3 things:

1. They are important staff members so the club must really be desperate.

2. Indicates that no takeover is close.

3. May well effect performances on the pitch. Who is assisting Selles now?

How long until the lights are turned off?

You would have also thought that either they were under contract or eligible for redundancy payment. So, we can't have saved much in the short term from doing this.

Statutory redundancy pay is fcuk all, and £nil if you have worked fewer than 2 years like Sparkes. It will definitely be a saving.

I fear it's indicative that Dai is not going anywhere soon. Instead of selling up, he's turning off his funding tap to the minimum. I appreciate the irony at complaining about this when we've all been asking for sustainability, but it strikes me as a sinking ship as opposed to a sensible plan to become sustainable.

[Stranded]

Andrew Sparkes and Eddie Niedzwiecki have been let go. 3 things:

1. They are important staff members so the club must really be desperate.

2. Indicates that no takeover is close.

3. May well effect performances on the pitch. Who is assisting Selles now?

How long until the lights are turned off?

You would have also thought that either they were under contract or eligible for redundancy payment. So, we can't have saved much in the short term from doing this.

Statutory redundancy pay is fcuk all, and £nil if you have worked fewer than 2 years like Sparkes. It will definitely be a saving.

I fear it's indicative that Dai is not going anywhere soon. Instead of selling up, he's turning off his funding tap to the minimum. I appreciate the irony at complaining about this when we've all been asking for sustainability, but it strikes me as a sinking ship as opposed to a sensible plan to become sustainable.

Definitely stripping everything back to the absolute bone in all areas - clearly got rid of 2 coaches that are probably on a decent wedge but are "least important". Sad times nonetheless - club continues to disappear before our eyes.

[Brogue]

I’m surprised this didn’t happen at the start of the season we still had a back room staff of a championship club. too top heavy, too many staff on our books. We always knew staff were going to be made redundant when we went down. It’s just taken 8 months longer than it should have done.

[WestYorksRoyal]

James Earnshaw saying the club has insisted it wants to retain category 1 academy when asked. Scarcely seems believability. And agree that news of cuts would have made sense in June after relegation and you could argue it's overdue, but it's so much more disruptive mid season.

Amazing how so many people assume administration must be close, without the knowledge that only Dai or his stooges on the Board have the power to do it. Pretty sure he won't.

If he has plan, it must be to hope we stay in and then sell a L1, slightly more sustainable club. But I don't think he has a plan.

[Wycombe Royal]

Do the Beeb know some we don't....check the last sentance..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67895945

[wally bassoon]

Andrew Sparkes and Eddie Niedzwiecki have been let go. 3 things:

1. They are important staff members so the club must really be desperate.

2. Indicates that no takeover is close.

3. May well effect performances on the pitch. Who is assisting Selles now?

How long until the lights are turned off?

Sparkes has been looking to get out for a while, wants to get back to the prem as a keeping coach again, not really enjoying the assistant managers role.

But agree, doesn't look great

[Darlo Royal]

Seems to me that Dai, a proud and arrogant man who is not used to being challenged, has taken umbrage at the very public criticism of him over the past few months, and has decided he is in no hurry to sell the club, and certainly not cheaply.
In the meantime, he has decided not to subsidise the club any longer, hence the need to make these cost savings.
He will be quite happy to sit back and watch the club waste away, as long as it doesn’t cost him any more money. He is taking revenge for his public humiliation on national tv.

[Fox Talbot]

I think that's the third time Eddie Niezwicki has been sacked by Reading - is that a club record?

[Hound]

Bowen can’t be too happy having to let his bestie go

[Sutekh]

Selles next?

[YorkshireRoyal99]

It might be that we got rid of the two most underperforming members of the coaching team. Bowen may have been told that we needed to cut costs and between him and Selles, they moved on the worst ones. That's what a well-run club would do though.

[Sutekh]

It might be that we got rid of the two most underperforming members of the coaching team. Bowen may have been told that we needed to cut costs and between him and Selles, they moved on the worst ones. That's what a well-run club would do though.

EN was head of player development rather than a coach per se. I think he had responsibility for the individual professional development plans for each player incl. any loans while they are at the club which is apparently a "big" thing to have when persuading younger players to join or bigger clubs to loan in players.

[Hound]

It might be that we got rid of the two most underperforming members of the coaching team. Bowen may have been told that we needed to cut costs and between him and Selles, they moved on the worst ones. That's what a well-run club would do though.

EN was head of player development rather than a coach per se. I think he had responsibility for the individual professional development plans for each player incl. any loans while they are at the club which is apparently a "big" thing to have when persuading younger players to join or bigger clubs to loan in players.

He was basically Bowen’s mate. Helping out where he could generally I suspect

Shame to lose him and do wonder what Bowen thinks about it.

[WestYorksRoyal]

It might be that we got rid of the two most underperforming members of the coaching team. Bowen may have been told that we needed to cut costs and between him and Selles, they moved on the worst ones. That's what a well-run club would do though.

EN was head of player development rather than a coach per se. I think he had responsibility for the individual professional development plans for each player incl. any loans while they are at the club which is apparently a "big" thing to have when persuading younger players to join or bigger clubs to loan in players.

He was basically Bowen’s mate. Helping out where he could generally I suspect

Shame to lose him and do wonder what Bowen thinks about it.

I get the impression that Bowen is torn between fury at the situation and a desire to help the club out of it. Presumably at some point he'll realise his efforts are futile and resign.

[blythspartan]

I have given up speculating about the club’s future. Personally, I think we’re well and truly oxf*rd, and I have underestimated just how bad things are.

I see this as cutting our cloth accordingly and I can see several players leaving before the end of the January window. We certainly won’t be making any additions to the squad this month.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this news affects performance on the pitch as it’s a horrible situation all round. Also, there are probably more points deductions on the way which will affect morale.