Any truth in this I read on the Ryman site??...

[Colin Zeal EFM]

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The Conference are very picky about any fiscal irregularities. K's & St Albans won't be acceptable this season to them. 1st place only accepted as well, so the irony is that if either one finishes top, the rest are buggered and the Ryman will not be sending anyone up this time around.

 

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It's not the first time I've heard we won't be eligible, actually. <img src="/forums/images/icons/frown.gif" alt="" />

[AFF]

Hi CZ.

 

The general tone and the use of the word buggered suggests to me that this is unlikely to be an 'Official Statement'. Was it on a message board?

[Colin Zeal EFM]

It was on the Ryman/Isthmian message board on this site (posted by a Stortford fan, I think), but I've heard this from one or two other places also.

[Rob_the_Saint]

I've heard it as well. I think the actual rule is '...placed in administration within the past two seasons' which technically doesn't apply to us but the Conference has a history of rejecting clubs with financial 'irregularities' (Enfield for example). I don't expect anybody will know until the season's finished and the Conference have a meeting to decide whether the Ryman champions meet their requirements.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Also if one of their favorite teams are in the relegation zone then they will keep them up!

[AFF]

Hi Rob.

 

"Technically"? "Technically" has nothing to do with it. The company has NOT been placed in administation with the last two years, or indeed, as far I know, ever.

 

Where does that rule come from? Let me know and I'll look it up.

 

Oh, by the way. Did you have anything to do with the fiction on the Latest News section of the site concerning Scott Oakes or was it Le Patronne?

[Rob_the_Saint]

AFF, I read it (the rule) on a Kingstonian message board, so the chances of legitimacy are slim.

 

P.S. No, it wasn't me but our sources are usually reliable, maybe a few wires got crossed.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Do you realise if Kingstonian win their games in hand they will go 5 points clear of us!

Mind you it seems that any team that gets near the top of the leauge just loses it so I'm not too worried!

[SteveP]

I believe at one stage there was something about the conference which said that they favoured teams with 3 years worth of operating profits. That said, it's been a long time since my beloved Chesham has had to worry about that...

 

To be honest with you I think the conference panel have a whole set of reasons they could apply to reject an application. That said there haven't been many rejections recently and I would think they might take a bond for any team they were unsure of financially.

 

And you can thank us later for doing the shots. They weren't very happy you know, if you saw Barthez against Fulham yesterday, our keeper did the same, to stop them scoring a last minute penalty, funny old life!

[cangull]

Technically - All Admistrative purposes are required to show a clean bill of healthy accounts and no financial irregularities what-so-ever that would in true be evaluated within the period examination bound by the 'inland revenue' and any other higher/lower authoritive body or bodies having been involved or not at any stage within said period!!