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After a post I made in the Newcastle thread yesterday that got me looking around at the attendances of the other clubs in our conurbation… out of interest, the highest attendances so far this season of all our clubs from the Championship to the the North West Counties Premier Division - 9th tier - (that includes 18 clubs and there are more lower down who also get a few thousands fan between them but there’s no official stats) combined comes to 75,034!… it stumbled upon a document on the Bury A.F.C. website:

Bury AFC – BY THE FANS. FOR THE FANS

buryafc.uk buryafc.uk

Bury FC, who are still officially a football club but are still league-less, and Bury AFC, who are in the North West Counties Premier Division, could merge and could see a return to football to Gigg Lane.

A consultation phase ended in August and there is a vote from the members of the board of both clubs (I think the Bury FC board is just a supporters trust) but there doesn’t appear to be a date for the vote.

Interesting news though. Anyone know anything more about this? I’ve looked in the Search function but not seen anything on this yet in the GFF.

Bury A.F.C. get 1,200+ fans in the 9th tier.
 
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It's a bit like Northwich Victoria and 1874 Northwich - from the outside looking in, you'd think "why are there two clubs? Surely they should merge and pool the support from both clubs to make a stronger club together?"
When these new "FC" or "AFC" clubs start out there is a lot of resentment from those who stayed and those who left. You only have to look at the Moston Rag Socks to know there are "Big Rags" who hate them for jumping ship and not staying to fight the Glazers.
And also, you then get some in these new clubs who go on a power trip with their newly held position and status (especially if they are on £30K a year) who don't want to merge as it means their cushy little number will be at an end....
From the outside looking in, I hope Bury can have one team with one fan base, it is their best chance at getting back into the football league.
 
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As I said in another thread; there is no reason to not merge unless one of the sides has links to the clowns who wrecked the original Bury FC. As that appears not to be the case then a merger is the only sensible option. Have a double size boardroom if egos have to be massaged.
 
merger dead in the water






Bury Council pretty much saying funding for Gigg Lane probably will be withdrawn as it won't be a viable use of public money without a merged club and larger fanbase.


unfortunatley there will be a continied elememt that consider those fans that formed AFC and went to watch them abandoned BuryFC and are traitors and their stuborness to reconcile will ultimately cost Bury from uniting and going forward
 
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Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Putting their own egos before the benefit of the town having a football club
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There seems to be areal animosity that grew between fans groups when AFC decided to form and the last 3 years has been constant digs at each other, there are some that can never forgive or accept AFC for, in their eyes abandoning the club, the fact 95% of AFC fans wanted to merge with BFCSS and create a new Buryfc shows the will was there to ditch the AFC project unfortunately seems the rift is too deep for some who stuck by the old club waiting for it to be reborn.

sad times as I believe (but am willing to be corrected) BAFC because they use radcliffes ground are barred from moving up the pyramid more than a few divisions and going back to Gigg lane would have made striving to return to the leagues an option and for the bfcss having a ready made team and manager would cut out starting afresh in the manchester leagues as they have no mens team at present.
 
I have a lot of good friends who are Bury fans and they all voted no to the merger, its like civil war at the moment, i know people from both sides have been assaulted over this, its very sad but i can see both sides, i think the main upset stems from abandoning the original club far to early and not helping to get Gigg Lane back, its become far too bitter now, not sure how this will be resolved
 
Gaudion M said:
So they would rather not exist than merge.
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Absolutely bizarre.

In 100 years, the people of Bury will look back at the history books and think these people are idiots.

They were literally trying to get Bury FC off the ground again.

Just because some fans created a new club for a while because they just wanted to watch a local team in the name of Bury, it’s hardly the crime of the century. It’s not like an MK Dons situation yet the FC fans have proper overreacted like it is.

Imagine if people like Joshua Parlby and others, and some of the players, of Ardwick AFC refused the join the newly formed Manchester City after Ardwick had become defunct.
 
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BrianW said:
From what I can make out from the Bury Times there is a bit of a civil war. Some fans hate AFC Bury (about as much as we hate Rags) and oppose the merger. Others see it as the only way forward.

I must admit, I don't know the full SP.
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It's fucking mental. I know supporters of both re-incarnations and have told them all to stop pissing about, get together and become one again.
 
Living in Bury as I do, I get the impression that a fair proportion of the citizens are pig-headed, cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face types. I suspect this is not uncommon in places with a small-town mentality. Not everyone in Bury is like that, obviously, but a fair few are. Bury MBC is actually an amalgam of six small towns. Each with its own special group of backwoodspersons.

Too many people want to live in the past, a golden age that never really existed except in their imagination.
 
As much as it may seem disappointing to outsiders, of which I am one, I can see both sides of the argument. I've spoken briefly to a few Radcliffe FC supporters I know who don't seem keen on AFC Bury being at their club so it's a weird one. My dad was a Bury fan from many moons ago so I have a soft spot for the club and did toy with nipping down to support AFC but at the moment would prefer to stay out of it, I'd just rather follow Radcliffe instead.

I think the merger question will come back eventually though. AFC can't really stay at Radcliffe in the long term so will be looking for a new home soon and there will be pressure to keep any club within the borough and the council will have a major voice on that.
 
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