halifax fan here.
these debts are not recent debts, they are debts have been hangning over the club just after we entered into a cva in 2002, essentially when we went in administration back then. We had no sugar daddy to bail us out and basically had to pay something like 48p in the pound(which for a cva is a lot in the pound). Anyway basically a few so called fans(who are rich men) decided to loan the club amounts of money(which were turned into shares), and have not bothered to want their money back until this consortium basically started to try take over. this consortium has put a lot of money into the club, and yet they are still not in total control of the club.
Basically these cretins who supposedly are supporters of the club, want their money back with interest and one(ray moreland) issued a winding up order a few weeks back for the grand total of..........................£8000. They sniff a chance to get their money back and they are clmbing out of the woodwork. Our Proper creditors such as Inland revenue, etc, etc have been paid upto date by the consortium as is our current cva.
The consortium is calling the bluff of these so called creditors, and to me its interesting that we will not go into administration for another two weeks. I feel there will be some wheeling and dealing and that these ppl demanding all this money back will back down and take an offer suitable for all parties.
My aregument is surely no one in this day and age expects to make any sort of money out of football and lower league football at that, and if these men were true supporters of the club, they would have negotiated with the consortium in a far more civilised manner.