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Club Chairman, Eric Whalley, is quoted as saying: "We have known about this and sought help and I'm 99% sure that we'll still be here next year. Hopefully next season we can kick on and the fans continue to keep the faith and we'll be ok. I've spoken to our local MP Greg Pope and he's hopeful when he meets the minister in charge of the Inland Revenue we can come to some arrangement to pay off the debt. At the start of last season we did a deal with Inland Revenue to pay off the longstanding debt. But our sponsors pulled out and the Football League wouldn't give us any dispensation to bring our ground up to standard. As everybody knows we have the worst facilities in the league, get the smallest crowds and I feel every time we speak to somebody in the league they don't seem bothered. It's not their fault we're in this position but we have to adhere to the rules".
When the Club was promoted to the League, they had a 3 years to bring the ground up to standard, which has meant spending £60,000 to install an extra 1000 seats - which the League has not waivered on.