Bury Thread

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Totally unrelated but has anyone been to the neuven stadium where these and radcliffe play? It's just down the road from me and I want to visit. Is it all seated? My 2 little ones get restless sitting down into the 2nd half. At other local grounds like Atherton , Prestwich and daisy hill there's bits of space and grass etc that they can mess about in while the games on. Anything like that here?
Seated behind the top goal (ground has quite a slope from end to end). Rest is hard standing/ terracing. There used to be some free grassy area behind the bottom goal, but it looks like it’s all developed, or fenced off nowadays.
Others may know better. I’ve not been there in person for several years.
 
Bury have always been a weird football club. Gigg Lane gave the impression that they were a big club but they aren’t. They are League Two at best, National League at worst.

They complain about no investment then invite a shyster in with a new revolution then they get the buckets out again. Last time they found the wrong shyster.
 
AFC Bury have a good base and level of support and if they get back to Gigg that support will probably increase so they have a future. Not sure about the other group.
The AFC lot wanted to keep a team going to rep the town and for their kids to have someone to support. The plan was aways to merge if GiggLane could be saved and if processes were put in place so a gangster could never steal their club’s existence ever again.
The other mob, with no players, team or league place are fully to blame here imo
 
Seated behind the top goal (ground has quite a slope from end to end). Rest is hard standing/ terracing. There used to be some free grassy area behind the bottom goal, but it looks like it’s all developed, or fenced off nowadays.
Others may know better. I’ve not been there in person for several years.

No you're (pretty much) right! There's a small section of seetinv behind the lower goal, standing down both sides with the 'big' stand at the top. Away fans tend to congregate at the bottom end.
 
Seated behind the top goal (ground has quite a slope from end to end). Rest is hard standing/ terracing. There used to be some free grassy area behind the bottom goal, but it looks like it’s all developed, or fenced off nowadays.
Others may know better. I’ve not been there in person for several years.
There's 2 seated stands one at each end, the facilities are very good now with a top playing surface and excellent clubhouse/bar facilities, some good games to see there both watching Radcliffe and AFC when City arnt playing, give it a go....
 
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Totally unrelated but has anyone been to the neuven stadium where these and radcliffe play? It's just down the road from me and I want to visit. Is it all seated? My 2 little ones get restless sitting down into the 2nd half. At other local grounds like Atherton , Prestwich and daisy hill there's bits of space and grass etc that they can mess about in while the games on. Anything like that here?
Not all seater, you can even stand up with a pint.
Boro get decent crowds and lots of kids go. There's no space around the pitch but they do have training pitches on other side of clubhouse that the kids can run around on.
 
But a majority of Bury folk haven't commented on the merger, just 1% of the boroughs population. Ask them if they want £450,000 of leveling up funding to be put into this.

Using Brexit is a bad example as it was one question to one society (us) with a first past the post rule.

If the boards of City and United put a vote to merge out there and United's 184 million social media followers said yes and our 108 million said no then on your basis we'd merge. But done as individual societies we wouldn't as one party doesn't want to.

It's not bonkers it's the democratic process for each legal entity..
The result is bonkers though, it doesn't reflect what the majority of people with an interest in football in Bury actually understand and think about the situation as it stands, and how to go forward.
 
I get what you are saying but i also get the need to fight for your club and hope for a miracle until the very end and not just fucking off to another club, its a tough one and im not sure where this leaves them
This will be the fourth season that Bury FC haven't played football.

I believe that part of the plan involved AFC being able to change their name to Bury FC within a couple of seasons.

I can see why the animosity started, but in hindsight AFC clearly made the right decision. Even if Bury FC get sorted for next season, it'll be a totally new set up, probably at a lower level than AFC and, given the costs of Gigg Lane, a much more problematic financial position. Why that newly created team, coming back after all that time without football, would be more Bury than a club created by Bury fans the season after they left the League, and supported by thousands of Bury fans now is just sheer stubbornness.
 
Each entity is a Mutual Society and the rules of the individual societies state that 66% of that society must vote in favour of a motion for it to pass. Not sure if the final decision was made by attendance at the EGM with the initial polling just getting it on the ballot paper. Either way you can't look at at the two ballots as a whole otherwise the strong turnout at AFC would override the democratic process of another wholly independent organisation.
Same with the Premier League. Needs 14 clubs to push rules through rather than 11.
 

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