Bury fans club AFC start a new life in NWCL

[I'm With Stupid]

The one thing I would say is that football clubs are generally pretty resilient and as long as they still have fans, they'll be back soon enough. Look at AFC Wimbledon or Rangers. There are very few clubs who have genuinely ceased to exist. Not that it won't be shit for a while.

Bet we won't see the same sort of clamour to stop this sort of thing happening as we saw to stop owners spending their own money on their clubs.

 

[East Level 2]

It needs the Bury version of the MIBs to pay a visit to the current and previous owners. Not to commit violence of course, just to discuss where things went wrong.
This sort of stuff will continue until greater control of club finances is exerted by the EFL.
One report says the current owner has been involved in 50 businesses, 40 of which have gone bust. Surely he should be banned from being a company director for life, unless all those business failures were due to a limited number of circumstances.

 

[worsleyweb]

It needs the Bury version of the MIBs to pay a visit to the current and previous owners. Not to commit violence of course, just to discuss where things went wrong.
This sort of stuff will continue until greater control of club finances is exerted by the EFL.
One report says the current owner has been involved in 50 businesses, 40 of which have gone bust. Surely he should be banned from being a company director for life, unless all those business failures were due to a limited number of circumstances.

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[I'm With Stupid]

Can someone explain how they decide to eject a club from the competition rather than placing them in administration and deducting points?

And also what happens to the results of matches already played against them?

 

[domalino]

Can someone explain how they decide to eject a club from the competition rather than placing them in administration and deducting points?

And also what happens to the results of matches already played against them?

They didn't play any matches, but if Bolton go as well, those results will just be wiped.

 

[RandomJ]

Awful news. I hope once the dust has settled they can reform in the lower leagues and work their way back up. Can’t even imagine what it would be like for the fans who wake up tomorrow and find they don’t have a club anymore.

 

[domalino]

Just thinking in terms of the stadium etc.

As it stands would they stay as Bury FC but just a non-league team or would they fold, need to form a new club, new stadium etc?

Genuinely don't know, apologies if they're stupid questions!

They haven't folded (yet), they're just not in the football league any more. In theory if someone arrived with money now then they could rebuild as the same club, same stadium (if they could pay the mortgage).

 

[balotellishaircut]

All over twitter there saying City and Utd should have helped them out, honestly people are so thick, City cant help them out even if they wanted to, it against the rules ffs.
But I really feel for Bury fans, for which a good mate of mine is one.

 

[Mraitch]

This is a dark day for football.
I wonder if those clubs that drove the move to keep all home gate receipts and the formation of the premier league are pleased with the outcome.
The premier league hoovers up the lions’ share of the money.
The gap between the haves and have nots grows ever wider.
This could have been us 11 years ago but we got lucky.
Look what had to be invested over those early seasons in order to close the gap.
Now with FFP no other team can realistically do what we did.
It is all driven by greed by a small number of clubs and not the good of the game.

 

[pudge]

They haven't folded (yet), they're just not in the football league any more. In theory if someone arrived with money now then they could rebuild as the same club, same stadium (if they could pay the mortgage).

That's what I was thinking.

So the question is, if they can't find new investment, how sustainable is the club day to day from this point on.