Jones: Admin was not on the cards

The South Wales outfit were facing their second winding-up order in relation to an unpaid tax bill to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs believed to be in the region of £2.7million.The order was adjourned for 28 days after £1m was paid in part settlement of the debt, with the remaining amount due over the next four weeks.Cardiff chairman and chief executive Peter Ridsdale was in court to hear of the extension which, considering the worst-case scenarios on offer, represents good news for the club.Administration and a 10-point deduction was potentially on the horizon should the winding-up order have been made, but Jones insists that was never going to be the case."I was assured before yesterday that that wasn't going to happen, and that seems to have gone through now," he said."But we're not looking at that, we're still trying to do our best and keep going."It is difficult times for this football club all the way through."Off-the-pitch matters have come as an unwelcome distraction for a Cardiff side riding high in the Championship and focused on securing promotion to the Premier League for the first time in their history.Next up this weekend is a trip to Stamford Bridge to face Chelsea in the FA Cup fifth round, a clash for which Jones is struggling with a host of injury problems.The Liverpool-born boss was promised funds - estimated to be around £3m - to bolster his squad in the January transfer window following a resounding response from Cardiff fans in taking up a 2010/11 promotional season ticket offer.But having submitted his list of targets to the powers that be, it emerged potential investment had collapsed and that money was instead required to improve the cash-strapped club's financial well-being.With many Bluebirds fans seething at the situation, Jones has been left to battle on with a threadbare squad over the remainder of the campaign, but he had nothing but praise for his players."We're asking the same bunch to go game in, game out and be at their best and when we're at our best we're a match for anybody," he said."But you're asking them to go three games a week, while listening to managers all the way through the division complaining they haven't got the players in they would like."We would have liked to have one or two in but we haven't."We get on with it and I'm really proud of my players because they're giving everything they've got."

Source: Team_Talk