So sorry for your loss Spartan. Your dad will have taken great comfort from your presence, and it sounds as peaceful as can be hoped for if he was able to share a joke with your wife and doze off. Thoughts with you and your family.

sorry to hear that Spartan,thoughts with you and your family at this sad time.

sorry to hear of your sad loss Spartan. Good that you managed to see him before it happened. Happy birthday John. Keep good as you will be so important for NPL when it happens

So sad for you, Spartan, but at least you were all able to see him and talk to him.

Condolences Spartan.

So sorry to hear that Sparty. Condolences to you and your family and anyone else who's suffered a loss.

RIP spartan's dad. Get well soon John the Don. And is there a link anywhere to the names of the players whose contracts run out soon?

Given our finances will be partly based on use of the conferencing facilities I'd imagine there's a big uncertainty now as to what those finances will look like - will be used a lot less in a downturn. If we don't have a loan sorted then it will be much more difficult to get one now.

Just reading back.... Spartan, My most sincere condolences to your and your family

Spartan I'm sorry to hear this, so traumatic. Thinking of you x

We were allowed to see my dad one at a time and were informed by a nurse to put on gloves, a face mask, and an apron. After we'd seen him we had to take everything off in reverse and put the items into a bin and then had to wash our hands and were then told to go straight home and to wash our clothes and to have a shower.

Sending another cyber hug Spartan.

So sorry Spartan. Can’t imagine how you must be feeling now. Glad you have your wife with you.

Very sorry to hear that Spartan, glad you were able to be there.

Unfortunately, my dad passed away this morning at around 6.40am and has become another Corona virus statistic. After initially being told that only one of us (3 brothers) could visit him yesterday, my younger brother saw him and was told that we could all visit. I personally was able to spend about 30 minutes with him and I told him that I loved him and that we wanted him to fight the illness, but, that if he decided he'd enough and wanted to go, then that was OK as well. I also managed to feed him some ice cream before saying goodbye. My wife was the last to see him and he was lucid enough to have a little joke with her before dozing off.

Trebor - we shouldn't be too dreadful for finances - Furlough everything except the 1st team, wait for EFL to sort aid out for them and win.

If we didn't have a loan signed up before the emergency it would be months away in my estimation. Even as things get back to normal, banks are going to be overwhelmed with the admin of the government's schemes.

Taking all things into consideration, I would imagine that a club that has raised around 7m in the last 12 months externally from normal business dealings and with an asset that will dwarf the size of the loan shouldn't have too much of problem getting it.

FFS, I've just been onto a site to read an article and, as I usually do, checked the tracking cookies and disabled them. The site tried to set 507 separate tracking cookies. One site 507.

I'm afraid another significant bond raise is probably a non-starter. We're facing the worst economic recession in a long time and people (those who have any cash left after the two previous stadium fund raisers) will not likely be looking to place their savings in a relatively risky investment. The fact that no loan has been announced doesn't bode well either. Let's hope loan arrangements are just on hold during the worst of the current crisis and can get over the line in a month or two.

Happy birthday, JtD.

Thanks chaps. Not feeling very well atm but no CV type symptoms.

I always worry when the DTB and FCB stop talking and engaging, it usually means bad news like an 11 million funding gaps - my hunch is we cannot get this shortfall funding loan even with the 5 million raised. Might be wrong but this is usually what the silence is about with our club?

Thought you were all about communication, Trebor?

Yeah, would be interesting to know but would I suspect he accompanied by a complete meltdown by some in the fanbase.