Bury fans club AFC start a new life in NWCL

There are sad stories like the report of the 70 year old Bury season ticket holder who was allowed to sit in his seat at Gigg Lane after the closure was announced, saying this is my best place in the world and I'm not going to see it again. And then in a photo of locals outside the stadium there"s a kid in full L'pool kit. Part of the problem is that the younger fans want the instant gratification of following a top team not the hard work of seeing your home town club no matter how bad they are.
 
Heard on the radio this morning that there is some sort of community use order preventing Gigg Lane ever being redeveloped for housing. One bit of good news.
 
None of this would happen if EFL clubs lived within their means. dodgy owners allowed to take charge for some reason.
 
oakiecokie said:
Unfortuately o so possibly true mate.
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You’re in Poynton aren’t you?

Have you heard that the development of Hunt’s old farm land opposite the high school has been stopped because some locals had the plans perused by plannjng experts and found several areas where it does not comply with regulations. One being providing pedestrian and cycle route access which is now compulsory I believe. Another one was their plans to use the brook for drainage. That too is a no no.
 
Imagine if the Neville's had taken over their local club rather than a non-entity non-league kit who they turned into a mini rags vanity project.

Stain on the rest of their existence.
 
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Project1 said:
Feel sorry for the fans and the staff. Though lets be honest clearly a club that can only draw in an average of 3.5k supporters is not going to survive and that is the problem for a lot of the clubs in the football league nowadays. Some clubs are running as professional outfits with Amateur attendances even Stockport who are Semi Pro can drag in 4.5K a week and they are mid table Vanarama.
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They can survive on 3.5k supporters a week, but they just need to be pragmatic about where they belong in the ladder and what they should and can compete for. It doesn't matter who you support, fans buzz off seeing their clubs representing them well and exceeding expectations every now and again. For City fans that could be winning the treble, for a Fylde fan that's winning the FA trophy. I dunno how true this is but I heard a rumour from an ok-ish source that Bury had players on £6-£8k a week last season. If that's true it's absolutely insane and completely unsustainable.
 
only the people of bury should hang there heads in shame, its there own town club around 200.000 people live in the area and not many are will to help or support them so why should other people care, bury FC and other small local north west clubs need to be a feeder clubs to city or united liverpool everton and live in the lower leagues up to the championship if they can reach that level, forget the dream of premier league football for the smaller clubs but youth players and squad players and managers can earn their corn and become premier league players and managers

its the only way clubs like bury will ever survive in modern day football and fans from the big feeder club will go to there games to see squad players playing for bury and it would also benefit the premier league clubs with the trouble of keeping squad players match fit, playing in midweek at bury's ground or the mini etihad would be great to watch and even get kids going with schools getting free tickets, also it should be in groups of north west and london midlands northeast and the south coast like the old setup of northern league 1
even have a play off system that plays north vs south in a final
 
denislawsbackheel said:
You’re in Poynton aren’t you?

Have you heard that the development of Hunt’s old farm land opposite the high school has been stopped because some locals had the plans perused by plannjng experts and found several areas where it does not comply with regulations. One being providing pedestrian and cycle route access which is now compulsory I believe. Another one was their plans to use the brook for drainage. That too is a no no.
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No mate,I live in the heart of Mid Cheshire.
 
Mon Autre said:
They can survive on 3.5k supporters a week, but they just need to be pragmatic about where they belong in the ladder and what they should and can compete for. It doesn't matter who you support, fans buzz off seeing their clubs representing them well and exceeding expectations every now and again. For City fans that could be winning the treble, for a Fylde fan that's winning the FA trophy. I dunno how true this is but I heard a rumour from an ok-ish source that Bury had players on £6-£8k a week last season. If that's true it's absolutely insane and completely unsustainable.
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You can survive as a semi pro club on those attendances but definitely not as a pro club paying those daft wages. There are 6 teams in League 1 and 18 teams in league 2 with attendances less than 5K. Now I am not saying that these are all badly run clubs and some of these are performing far better than their attendances suggest but there definitely needs to be a rethink of the football league. 2 professional divisions instead of 3 should be more sustainable.
 
Gray said:
You're not Alan Oakes are you?
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Yep ... but not my namesake. ;)
Alan is from Winsford where I live and his brother Ken is one of my best mates, who I see every week for doms and a fair few pints.
Way back in the 1960/70`s, travelling all over the country Alan & Glyn would always sort our 12 seater mini-but with Complimentary tickets at away games.
I still see him now and again as he lives just outside of Winsford ... Davenham.
 
oakiecokie said:
Yep ... but not my namesake. ;)
Alan is from Winsford where I live and his brother Ken is one of my best mates, who I see every week for doms and a fair few pints.
Way back in the 1960/70`s, travelling all over the country Alan & Glyn would always sort our 12 seater mini-but with Complimentary tickets at away games.
I still see him now and again as he lives just outside of Winsford ... Davenham.
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Ran on to the pitch at Rotherham back in 1966 when we got promoted and gave Oakes a slap on the back, nearly broke my hand - he was built like the proverbial brick shithouse.
 
Gray said:
Ran on to the pitch at Rotherham back in 1966 when we got promoted and gave Oakes a slap on the back, nearly broke my hand - he was built like the proverbial brick shithouse.
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Facially he still looks the same but with age he`s not built like he was,but still a gentleman.
He hates football nowadays and prefers to play golf and watch rugby.
 
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