A preliminary announcement – from the Football Club and the Consortium
We hope you will appreciate, following the unexpected and devastating news of last Friday, 9th May, a huge number of Club matters have had to be dealt with.

The current position is that the Consortium, whilst certain discussions take place, are continuing to honour the guarantee made to the Administrators, Begbies Traynor and continuing to fund the ongoing running of the existing Company. This includes the payment of management, playing staff and running costs and represents a significant cost to prevent the Club from being liquidated, which would ordinarily have happened immediately after the events of Friday. This is to provide time for interested parties, including the Consortium, to explore opportunities for a 'reformation' of the existing Company, as near the top of the senior Football Pyramid as possible. These discussions will ultimately need to be concluded with Begbies-Traynor as current Administrators of the Club, with the FA giving approval for whatever offer of membership and approval may be given to join a nominated League, for the 'reformed' Club. We stress, this route is being used to try and retain as high a position up the pyramid as possible and to do this, a transfer from the previous Company is more favourable than a 'new' start. This must not be confused with any activities involving Halifax Town Supporters Trust members, who we understand are involved in their own separate plans for the restructure of the Club, in conjunction with Supporters Direct, within the Football Pyramid.

In having to discuss the various scenarios relating to the current Club, time has been of a premium. Discussions were taking place yesterday at the FA in London, relating to all the Leagues under the FA banner, which is normal procedure at this time of the year. Clubs have to submit 'expressions of interest' to take part in certain Leagues. This we have done and discussions are taking place as we speak.

The Consortium is still seeking to be involved if possible, in addition to another potential group. As mentioned previously, the Halifax Town Supporters Trust, is also taking their independent approach. It is hoped, within the next 48 hours, our position will be much clearer, once ongoing discussions have been completed. At that point, a decision will have to be taken as to which scheme, if in fact there is more than one scheme, goes forward to the FA for final consideration. The FA will not consider more than one option from the town of Halifax, no matter which League the proposals are intended for or under what name the Club is constituted.

We can only stress, the lack of immediate information, is due to re-organising after the failure to pass a CVA last Friday. Whatever the outcome, all the faithful fans of Halifax deserve the best possible outcome from the situation. That is what is trying to be achieved, but it will take a little time yet, from all perspectives.

We hope to provide a further statement, after we have dealt with the short term pressing deadlines, to help clarify the circumstances of Friday and correct some of the recently published inaccurate statements.