Wrexham Evening Leader

Come and join us plea to Reds' fans

25 October 2005

David AclandTHE administrators of Wrexham FC have issued a rallying cry to people of the region to come out and support the team and encourage potential bidders to complete their plans.

Speaking at a meeting of Wrexham Supporters' Trust at The Racecourse last night, David Acland and Steve Williams, of Preston-based insolvency firm Begbies Traynor, said it was vital that anyone interested in buying the club saw strong support from the people of Wrexham in the coming home matches.

The news comes a day after WST representatives asked other parties interested in purchasing the club to step back and allow fan favourites Neville Dickens and Geoff Moss to complete their deal.

Questions

In front of a packed house at the Centenary Club, Mr Acland and Mr Williams answered questions from WST members about the immediate future of the club in the wake of last week's successful summary judgement, subject to appeal, by High Court Judge Norris.

Mr Acland reiterated his plea to fans to keep the champagne corks in bottles, but asked for the public to come and support the club on Saturday.

He said: "If there are any interested parties still deciding whether or not to do a deal for the club, I know if I were them I'd want to see a big crowd in the coming home games. Our advice to the supporters is to stay positive, we need to get people currently on the fence to get down and do a deal to buy the club.

"Alex Hamilton still owns the shares, but we've got a plan that we're not going to discuss now.

"We had to move quickly, we didn't want to go down the litigation route, but we had to because the Football League won't allow a club to be in administration for two years, and we can't be in May," he added.

Speaking about the time allowed for a potential appeal by Alex Hamilton, Mr Williams said: "CrucialMove has 14 days from last Thursday to submit their application for leave to appeal to a High Court judge. Until we know if he plans to appeal or not we can't really say any more on our next step forward."