In January 2012 the club were informed that they were to be evicted from the Victoria Stadium by their neighbours THOR Chemicals who had purchased the land, despite assurances that the club's purchase of the ground was almost complete.[34][35] At the same time the management team of Andy Preece, Andy Morrison, and Darren Ryan left the club to join Airbus UK Broughton.[36] They were replaced by Paul Simpson,[37] but he departed after only a month,[38] and Martin Foyle took over until the end of the season.