Bury Thread

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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:

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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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