Help Save Bury FC

[jase 07]

Having had bad owners ourselves in the past I am sure most of us have a great deal of sympathy for the thousands of Bury Fans who are devastated by what is happening to their club, I have a very close friend who has supported Bury FC for over 50 years and is absolutely devastated by what is happening to his club. Please can as many people as possible show your support by signing this petition. Many Thanks

Sign the Petition

EFL BRING BACK BURY FC

www.change.org

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

I appreciate the sentiment of the petition,but the club is bust.
The best hope for Bury FC is to start again without the crazy debt that has been hanging around its neck.
False hope given by ‘saviours’ to the club has happened very recently.
The last one I heard was a Brazilian pastor with a spare £7m in his pocket to invest..!

 

[DB9]

MP calls for League Two place for Bury

Bury North MP James Frith requests a meeting with the EFL to ask if the Shakers can be brought back in 2020-21 - in League Two.

www.bbc.co.uk

Not when some people think they should be reinstated into L2, Much as i feel sorry for the Bury fans this problem didn't happen overnight it was months in the making, Although the EFL haven't done themselves much good it had to come to an end and after 6 games postponed this was the right outcome. I'd be very suspious of a £7m bid which someone would suddenly want to waste, Because it's certainly not an investment, At the last minute. Pound to a pound if the EFL accepted this bid 12 months later they'd be back in the same position.

 

[Hants_red]

Bury supporters should have started working on a new phoenix club. They're wasting time.

 

[ramone]

After reading the bit in the Football League paper earlier and this Dave Giffard guy from Forever Bury saying " I fear there may be suicides " trying to tug on the heartstrings of other fans and the EFL isn't going to work.
When they gained promotion we didn't hear a thing from Bury fans.

 

[ramone]

MP calls for League Two place for Bury

Bury North MP James Frith requests a meeting with the EFL to ask if the Shakers can be brought back in 2020-21 - in League Two.

www.bbc.co.uk

Why should Bury get an automatic place in League 2 at the cost of another clubs promotion from a Non League player paying club ?

 

[IndoMike]

Think Bury fans have to bite the bullet. The important thing is that they save the institution. If it is in the lower non-leagues, so be it. Let the fans take over the club : in the end it will be much more satisfying than having owners who are just taking the p+ss.

 

[IndoMike]

Why should Bury get an automatic place in League 2 at the cost of another clubs promotion from a Non League player paying club ?

They shouldn't get that. There's no reason for Bury to receive special treatment. Good luck to them as they restart somewhere in the non-league pyramid.

 

[David Treharne]

In lots of ways the situation is a lot more complex than just 'starting again'. They will need to persuade the local Council to adopt Gigg Lane as an asset of community value (ACV) and they will then be faced with raising money to pay for the compulsory purchase of the land if the council will agree to it. All the trophy assets of the Club are owned by another Company and there are now questions being asked about the validity of the original CVA since one of the Companies that agreed to it has vested interests from a previous owner. There's also the question of relationships with local businesses. The old Clubs level of indebtedness to a whole host of business far exceeds anything that Exeter City had to face in 2003 - and many local businesses IF they were willing to transact with the Trust/Club would only accept cash payments, and this lasted for our entire CVA period. I also sympathise with the views expressed above by Ramone. If there is to be a Bury FC 2020 there will need to be some radical rethinking of what might be achievable with a new start and a new regime. As I've said elsewhere, I don't think Bury will be the last Club to find themselves in this, or a similar, situation during season 2019-2020.

 

[Grecian2K]

Out of interest Dave has our own Trust been in contact with their supporters organisation to offer support, advice and the benefit of hard-won experience?
(And possibly the trust's of AFC Wimbledon and Newport's - two other clubs that are evidence that, however dark things seem, sometimes - with patience and diligence - there can still, eventually, be a way back)