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Wasps administrators report (1 Viewer)

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  • Start date Nov 30, 2022
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fernandopartridge

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  • Nov 30, 2022
  • #71
jordan210 said:
How the hell can you owe 10k to amazon !
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Website hosting?
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 30, 2022
  • #72
Philosorapter said:
Basically, it looks like they were just maxing out their businesses credit cards.
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Well not really as the debt would be to the credit card company. They've just not paid invoices.
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 30, 2022
  • #73
Nick said:
The thing is, they owe multiple companies that do the same thing. There's a few different sign companies for example.

Must have been told no more work and then gone onto another.
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Quite a lot of Birmingham based companies providing standard services so I reckon you're right
 
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Happy_Martian

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 30, 2022
  • #74
What annoys me most is that the biggest creditor is themselves (or Wasps Finance PLC officially) to the sum of almost £29,000,000. So even after Wasps have shafted all the other creditors, if there's any payout from the admin, they'll still get some money back.
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 30, 2022
  • #75
Happy_Martian said:
What annoys me most is that the biggest creditor is themselves (or Wasps Finance PLC officially) to the sum of almost £29,000,000. So even after Wasps have shafted all the other creditors, if there's any payout from the admin, they'll still get some money back.
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No they won't, Wasps Finance was just the conduit for the bond money nothing else. The £29m represents the gap between the £6m or so the bondholders are getting and the debt.
 
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Happy_Martian

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 30, 2022
  • #76
fernandopartridge said:
No they won't, Wasps Finance was just the conduit for the bond money nothing else. The £29m represents the gap between the £6m or so the bondholders are getting and the debt.
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Thanks for the clarification. As I've said previously, I'm terrible at money and legals so I should really stay off these threads.

@Nick can you limit my posting privileges to football threads only ? Though some may say I'm just as crap on them as well
 
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Terry Gibson's perm

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 30, 2022
  • #77
Good luck to Yorkshire cricket club they will need it with Vaughan about
 
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chiefdave

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #78
SBS said:
More taxpayer cash down the drain. Maton reading the room well
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that can't be his real account, someone taking the piss surely.
 
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chiefdave

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #79
fernandopartridge said:
The sheer number of unsecured creditors is massive, the directors should be in trouble really as it is obvious they were insolvent.
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sure someone with a connection to Wasps mentioned they were getting consultants in to do work knowing perfectly well there was no money to pay them

to me it seems they were trading insolently but I doubt its enough for any action to be taken
 

Mcbean

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #80
chiefdave said:
sure someone with a connection to Wasps mentioned they were getting consultants in to do work knowing perfectly well there was no money to pay them

to me it seems they were trading insolently but I doubt its enough for any action to be taken
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Chief I think they have been very insolent !
 
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torchomatic

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  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #81
Liquid Gold said:
Money owed to the ambulance services.

Fucking pricks.

I bet that's not their fault?
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Covid.
 

jordan210

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #82
85k owed to the people that installed the pitch.


There are multiple energy supplies listed. Did they just not pay a bill and then move to a new supplier
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #83
jordan210 said:
85k owed to the people that installed the pitch.


There are multiple energy supplies listed. Did they just not pay a bill and then move to a new supplier
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There's a few different pitch related companies.
 

jordan210

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #84
Nick said:
There's a few different pitch related companies.
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Basically was a case of use a company then don't pay and move on to the next company and rinse and repeat
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #85
fernandopartridge said:
Website hosting?
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Itll be AWS costs, that’s like a months bill for some companies (it’s about a week for mine).
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #86
Is the invoice address for AWS the same?
Just wondering what Wasps would be using it for.
 

jordan210

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #87
torchomatic said:
Covid.
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from wasps forum.....

"Covid crapped on all our planned multiple income streams. It is impossible to guess, but if the pandemic and associated lockdowns didn't happen, would our future have been different? I believe the answer to that is a resounding YES."
 
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jim20

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #88
jordan210 said:
from wasps forum.....

"Covid crapped on all our planned multiple income streams. It is impossible to guess, but if the pandemic and associated lockdowns didn't happen, would our future have been different? I believe the answer to that is a resounding YES."
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that wasps fan is delusional, looking at all of the debts at some point they would have gone under, maybe not this year but within the next 5 years they would’ve gone if Covid hadn’t have happened. They would have never got the income streams up to cover the debts
 
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torchomatic

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #89
jordan210 said:
from wasps forum.....

"Covid crapped on all our planned multiple income streams. It is impossible to guess, but if the pandemic and associated lockdowns didn't happen, would our future have been different? I believe the answer to that is a resounding YES."
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Haha, delusional aren't they?
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #90
I mean tbf it is undoubtedly true that covid impacted Wasps' cashflow to a significant extent, but the underlying debt against the unrealistic projections were going to bite at some point. Covid brought it forward maybe but offset against CCFC returning to the Arena in 2021 with average gates at a level twice what they were 2014-2019.
 
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oldfiver

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  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #91
fernandopartridge said:
I mean tbf it is undoubtedly true that covid impacted Wasps' cashflow to a significant extent, but the underlying debt against the unrealistic projections were going to bite at some point. Covid brought it forward maybe but offset against CCFC returning to the Arena in 2021 with average gates at a level twice what they were 2014-2019.
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But how much Government and RFU support did they get? Never mentioned!
 

Liquid Gold

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  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #92
Did Covid really have that much of an impact?

Obviously they had to play behind closed doors and were down on income streams but a lot of their staffing costs would have been covered by the furlough scheme and they were in receipt of a £12m load from sport England as well as central support from the RFU.
 
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CCFCSteve

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #93
Nick said:
At what point is it illegal when you are getting stuff on credit knowing full well the company is fucked and going to go under?
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Wrongful or fraudulent trading is known to be difficult to prove. If Hsbc were considering the refinance (think I said at the time this was crazy as the arena just wasn’t worth enough) then the directors would argue before that was ‘ok’ as they had a potential solvent solution. I’d imagine any credit/debt incurred after knowing the refinance wasn’t happening could cause them problems

To me it just looks like the whole venture was unviable from day one and the fact directors, bank, CCC, hmrc, bond holders etc etc didn’t, is a bit worrying
 

duffer

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #94
jordan210 said:
from wasps forum.....

"Covid crapped on all our planned multiple income streams. It is impossible to guess, but if the pandemic and associated lockdowns didn't happen, would our future have been different? I believe the answer to that is a resounding YES."
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The sort of fucking idiot that sends money to Nigerian Princes who email him out of the blue, no doubt.
 
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duffer

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  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #95
torchomatic said:
Haha, delusional aren't they?
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Way beyond delusional, anyone who believed that load of rubbish is in the middle of a psychotic break of some kind. I suspect they dress as Napoleon and try not to listen to the voices coming out of the plug sockets telling them to do bad things.
 
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oldskyblue58

CCFC Finance Director
  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #96
my take on it

I cant help thinking that the presentation is overly complex because you have to be careful what you are looking at and which company it refers to. Also why have a joint report at all. They chose to do it that way

The administrators have correctly treated each company as stand alone then lumped them all together in one report why?. Easy to miss things

The effect of treating each as stand alone is that both ACL companies are liable for the full amount outstanding on the charges from bondholders & Compass. If you wanted to calculate the overall deficit for the ACL sub group you would only include those charges once.

Also the inter company group balances appear to me to have been created to some degree. Why didnt wasps finance lend the money directly to ACL not put it through wasps holdings?

I cant help wondering if the priority of the group was to keep the deficit as low as possible on the rugby side and not have the group cash flow to pay ACL sub group liabilities. Cant tell so its not a claim or accusation. By keeping the liabilities on the rugby club low then it allows a picture of a solventish club hard hit by Covid and dragged down by the stadium

Question now that ACL group has cleared the bond by 18% Compass waived their charge does that mean wasps rugby are effectively off the hook ?

I am sure there is a lot i am not picking up on. It all doesnt feel right to me some how
 
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oldfiver

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  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #97
oldskyblue58 said:
my take on it

I cant help thinking that the presentation is overly complex because you have to be careful what you are looking at and which company it refers to. Also why have a joint report at all. They chose to do it that way

The administrators have correctly treated each company as stand alone then lumped them all together in one report why?. Easy to miss things

The effect of treating each as stand alone is that both ACL companies are liable for the full amount outstanding on the charges from bondholders & Compass. If you wanted to calculate the overall deficit for the ACL sub group you would only include those charges once.

Also the inter company group balances appear to me to have been created to some degree. Why didnt wasps finance lend the money directly to ACL not put it through wasps holdings?

I cant help wondering if the priority of the group was to keep the deficit as low as possible on the rugby side and not have the group cash flow to pay ACL sub group liabilities. Cant tell so its not a claim or accusation. By keeping the liabilities on the rugby club low then it allows a picture of a solventish club hard hit by Covid and dragged down by the stadium

Question now that ACL group has cleared the bond by 18% Compass waived their charge does that mean wasps rugby are effectively off the hook ?

I am sure there is a lot i am not picking up on. It all doesnt feel right to me some how
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Did Compass "waive" or was there not enough from the Asset sale. Their charge recognises the BH charge takes priority
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #98
Would be mad for Compass to just say "Yeah you owe us 7.5m don't worry about it".
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #99
oldfiver said:
Did Compass "waive" or was there not enough from the Asset sale. Their charge recognises the BH charge takes priority
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If they hadn’t waived wouldn’t that have been brought up at the court hearing recently? I am but an idiot on the internet but I though that was to remove any charges not just the bondholders. So by not objecting there Compass waived their charge didn’t they?
 

fatso

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #100
fernandopartridge said:
Valuations are interesting, £24-35m without WRFC but presumably including CCFC. Yet Ashley got it for £16m.
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Doesn't acount the millions required for urgent maintaining.
And a valuation is only a number plucked out of thin air, a true value is what someone is actually prepared to pay, not some total BS figure that some no mark comes up with after the sale is concluded.

Fwaw, I was ready to pay £30 million and had 6 players lined up, but I got stiffed right up!
 
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oldskyblue58

CCFC Finance Director
  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #101
oldfiver said:
Did Compass "waive" or was there not enough from the Asset sale. Their charge recognises the BH charge takes priority
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This is on page 26 of the report

"Compass, as second ranking secured creditor, provided its release of security for the sale to the Purchaser."

whatever made them, the charge was released so the sale could take place. But no they were not going to get anything
 
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Skyblueweeman

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  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #102
Criminal.

Wankers.
 
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thekidfromstrettoncamp

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  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #103
Once again oldskyblue58 thanks for your knowledge i notice at the end of post 96 you say"i am sure there is a lot i am not picking up on".If you don't what chance have us mere mortals.One thing i find strange is it looks as though they have been trading insolvent for a while.Will anybody face charges for this
 

tisza

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #104
jordan210 said:
from wasps forum.....

"Covid crapped on all our planned multiple income streams. It is impossible to guess, but if the pandemic and associated lockdowns didn't happen, would our future have been different? I believe the answer to that is a resounding YES."
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Same multiple streams as they had access to in the non-COVID years? The Sport England money stopped them going under during COVID. At no stage had they put themselves in a position to repay the bond.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Dec 1, 2022
  • #105
tisza said:
Same multiple streams as they had access to in the non-COVID years? The Sport England money stopped them going under during COVID. At no stage had they put themselves in a position to repay the bond.
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I mean we all said at the time, to find profit growth beyond the value of the interest payments was unrealistic, thankfully Mary Mungo Midge told us all how brilliant Nick Eastwood was so we were wrong.
 
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