Aren't there any municipal owned stadiums (multipurpose or what not) that the club could rent? Even if they have to share it with say an athletics club it would still be playing within Bury proper?
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Aren't there any municipal owned stadiums (multipurpose or what not) that the club could rent? Even if they have to share it with say an athletics club it would still be playing within Bury proper?
In Bury? Very doubtful mate. There's an athletics track, but no facilities for spectators. Manchester's down the road, so all the small towns around the outside of it are on their arse
The EFL need to hold their heads in shame, not that they are really bothered. Steve Dale has had 43 of his companies go into liquidation yet the EFL stood by and let him buy Bury for a £1. This is, I fear, the tip of the iceberg, Just a few weeks ago, there was a piece in the Times listing the 23 EFL clubs that had been in trouble last season, be it winding up orders, paying wages late, etc. That's virtually 1/3rd of the EFL.
I get that modern football is very much about the PL, CL etc but don't forget there are hundreds of lower and non league teams out there.
I get that modern football is very much about the PL, CL etc but don't forget there are hundreds of lower and non league teams out there.
Since they are just up the road I wonder if Bury and Bolton could do something together.
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I think they will evolve a bit like Halifax Town AFC.... dissolved 2008. Reformed FC Halifax Town in the same year.
en.wikipedia.org
Huge tax debts buried Halifax Town A.F.C. after almost 100 years as a football club. New figures put to a reconvened creditors meeting in May 2008 showed the cash-strapped Shaymen owed over £800,000 to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. The Revenue refused any deal and that effectively finished the club – already over £2 million in the red.[2] Administrators had been trying to broker a rescue package but speaking after five hours of talks that left liquidation near inevitable, administrator Rob Sadler said: "Halifax Town will probably perish." It was originally thought the club owed the taxman around £500,000, which might have left scope for a deal. But the news that it owed £814,000 meant that even if all the other creditors had accepted the 2.5p-in-the-pound offer originally on the table it would not have been enough.[3]
At a meeting of the Football Association, discussing the makeup of the football pyramid for the 2008–09 season, FC Halifax Town were not placed in either the Conference Premier, the Conference North or the Northern Premier League Premier Division. Halifax appealed against the decision to remove them from the Football Conference.[4] Though the appeal was rejected on 11 June, the hope was that Halifax could play in the NPL Premier Division.[5] This did not materialise, and eventually Halifax Town were accepted to play in the Northern Premier League Division One North in the new season under the new name F.C. Halifax Town.[6]
FC Halifax Town - Wikipedia
Huge tax debts buried Halifax Town A.F.C. after almost 100 years as a football club. New figures put to a reconvened creditors meeting in May 2008 showed the cash-strapped Shaymen owed over £800,000 to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. The Revenue refused any deal and that effectively finished the club – already over £2 million in the red.[2] Administrators had been trying to broker a rescue package but speaking after five hours of talks that left liquidation near inevitable, administrator Rob Sadler said: "Halifax Town will probably perish." It was originally thought the club owed the taxman around £500,000, which might have left scope for a deal. But the news that it owed £814,000 meant that even if all the other creditors had accepted the 2.5p-in-the-pound offer originally on the table it would not have been enough.[3]
At a meeting of the Football Association, discussing the makeup of the football pyramid for the 2008–09 season, FC Halifax Town were not placed in either the Conference Premier, the Conference North or the Northern Premier League Premier Division. Halifax appealed against the decision to remove them from the Football Conference.[4] Though the appeal was rejected on 11 June, the hope was that Halifax could play in the NPL Premier Division.[5] This did not materialise, and eventually Halifax Town were accepted to play in the Northern Premier League Division One North in the new season under the new name F.C. Halifax Town.[6]
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If both us and West Ham, for example, went bust around the same time, how do you think their fans would feel about amalgamating with us?
(Bolton are Bury's most hated rivals, but Bolton obviously have had bigger fish to fry in the last few decades so have generally not given Bury much mind, hence the example of West Ham who think they're our big rivals)
Not amalgamate, cooperate to e.g. finance a place to play games and maybe share some other costs.
Whatever the recent history of success on the field the two clubs might be in the same situation a couple of weeks from now.
You could well be right though, at an emotional level fans might still say rather dead than working with them.
Bolton see Man Utd as their biggest rivals, and then maybe Wigan, then others like Blackburn, Bury etc.
That's why I used the example of West Ham who think of us as their main rivals, yet we don't reciprocate. Bury hate Bolton most, but it's not reciprocated to the same level.
They could bounce back.
Bury and Bolton: A message from a football club that bounced back
With Bury out of English football, one club owned by the fans says it doesn't have to be the end.
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Hasn't stopped AC Milan and Inter or Lazio and Roma from sharing grounds.
We'll just share with Woolwich then, yeah?
I am just saying that it ain't unheard of.
I think all those clubs want their own grounds (Roma and Lazio are actively working towards it). But if their finances don't allow it then what can they do?
