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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Non-League Show Focus On Bulls Troubles


Bulls utility man Chris Carruthers and club captain Luke Graham were interviewed on today's BBC's Non-League Football Show about the Bulls' latest problems.

Carruthers told presenter Caroline Barker: "It's a difficult situation, especially how well we've done this season. The lads have been brilliant. We've not been paid now, we've had trouble through the season where we've not had our full quota of money.

"It's not idea to find out anyway. To find out by text, I suppose, isn't great. You just want a little bit more honesty possibly, where you just want to know prior to the situation if it's not going right so if you're not going to get paid at the end of the month to let us know a couple of weeks in advance so we can sort things out would probably be a better way of doing it.

"I think we'll get our wages eventually, I don't think there's a question of that. There's good things in place with the PFA, so I think we will get our money it's just frustrating not to have it at a time when we're supposed to have it."

The programme also discusses Carruthers' and Graham's off-field work as they prepare for life after football. Finally, Carruthers is asked if the pair of them will be at the club next season: "At the minute we're waiting to see if there's investment coming in to stump up the money so we really don't know what's happing."

Supporters Direct representative Kevin Rye, who will be attending the Supporters Trust open meeting on May 23rd, was also in the studio and commented on the situation: "With Hereford there was a legacy of League Two contracts and that kind of thing. Once you go down you lose £400,000-odd pounds you get for basically being a League Two club, plus all the other monies.

"I'm working with the people at Hereford at the moment, it won't surprise you to know, they're a small market town club getting 1500-2000 people a game. Don't overdo it, just be sensible. It's doesn't take a genius to work that out. So many times this has happened now.

"There's a great bunch of people I'm working with there and, all I'm going to say is that they're not going to solve the financial crisis that the club are in at the moment but get these people on board, if the Trust goes through, these people can bring an enormous amount to the club."

The full interview is on the iPlayer, here, with the relevant piece starting at 20:30.