Incidentally, I wonder how many of the floating fans have been put off by the fact that a traditional town club like vics has been taken to the slaughter house by I cant count how many brainless chairmen over recent years. I guess a lot of the charm has been replaced by despair. Anyone with any sense knows that Rushe will not use this a springboard to financial security, more likely a bargaining tool to seek more resources that cant be justified in the long run.
Actually, it'll be imteresting to see Jim Rushe's appraoch to running Northwich now on two counts.
1. The HMRC deal, before the Chester debacle, they would have held out and put Vics under real pressure to effect a proper cva. However, now they know that the football authorities will not back them up in relegation for clubs not out of a cva - their only bargaining tool, will Rushe try to play a game of brinksmanship with them on the back of the goodwill and attention this sort of cup run brings or will he make a 'reasonable' offer to HRMC (60-75p in the pound) just to get the monkey off his back.
2. Once the debts have been cleared/agreed how will he go? He's been a bit of a Walter Mitty, the Steve King charade will never be fully explained, but he seems to hav egot lucky now. Was all that because they were just in a financial whirl after the drill field debacle and Connett's tenure or is it how he operates. Vics should be on an even financial footing after this (actually they should still be in debt paying off their creditors in full but you know what I mean) so we'll see how much money and backing he really does have.