Documentary Bury: Bringing Football Back.

Theres a half hour long documentary on the BBC iPlayer on the revival of Bury under their new
name Bury Phoenix. Well worth a watch. The programme is also being shown in the wee small
hours of tomorrow Monday 19 th October from 1.30 am until 2.0 am. I'm going to record it and
watch it again tomorrow.

Surprisingly there are some Shakers fans who still don't accept the new Club and persist in still continuing
to carry out their protests at Gigg Lane. It's great to see scarves, shirts and flags from Clubs up and down
the Country who have offered their support. Our flag has a prominent position on one of their displays.

Also good that the Members bar was opened up on one particular Saturday to provide hospitality for
a coachload of Rotherham United fans, who had arranged to call in en route to their away game
against Rochdale last season.

 

Fvck them: the new Bury were tweeting well-wishes to Wigan on the day of their appeal. Cheats banding together.

I hoped for a successful revival of the club until that point. Now I hope they crash and burn.

 

Never forget. Hope we never have anything to do with them. Never loan them a player and never give them a pre season friendly. Hopefully the Phoenix club won't rise.

 

Was going to say don’t blame the majority of fans, for a few that tweet. Changed my mind after seeing that. Grrrr.

 

There are two separate factions supporting football in Bury. The supporters of the now defunct Bury FC
are totally distanced from those who have founded and support the newly formed Club re- Bury Phoenix.
In the TV programme it's clear that fans across the divide offered their sympathy and support for Macclesfield FC,
because like Bury FC, they had been expelled from the EFL.

I suppose that a very small number from both camps may well have expressed their support for Wigan,
but I suspect, without taking anyone's side, it might well have been from a standpoint of not going out of
business, which at one point looked likely and folding and probably not just for having points docked and
being relegated for financial irregularities.

I actually know a loyal Bury supporter and from his standpoint, he was extremely grateful for the encouragement
and support ourselves and our fellow Clubs in Yorkshire showed his Club when their owner just stood by and let
their beloved Club die.

 

With respect DR note the date. That was the result of the appeal. I am aware a lot of fans will have been grateful of our support.

Are Bury AFC The Phoenix club. ( who play outside the town) If so what will the new team at gigg Lane be called once reinstated to a league.

So to correct myself if I’ve now read it right. Bury AFC can take a running jump. Good luck to the other lot. Whatever they’ll be called.

 

I just watched it Donny. How real sad and I really felt for those true Bury fans losing their club.
And hats off to that coach load of Rotherham fans going there before their game to support theSave Bury cause. This is what real fans do.
In my local we have a Bury flag up on the wall. One of the regulars is a Bury fan who is originally from Bury. And he is devastated over recent events.
I was to be going to Bury’s first home game of the season this year no matter where it was to be played. But covid and the real Bury going under scuppered that.
There was to be a bus load of us from the Occidental Bar making the trip south to support Bury and have a Saturday night out. Unfortunately that did not happen.
That so called owner Dale seems to be a right lovely person.
Hopefully the true Bury can get things together and climb the leagues and re establish themselves. Those Bury fans deserve to have a club to follow.

 

I couldn't weigh that owner up, why on earth did he buy it in the first place ?

 

To the best of my knowledge HF, there isn't a club that has yet replaced the former Bury FC . The new Club Bury Phoenix play their home games at Stainton Park in Radcliffe some 2.5 miles away from Bury Town Centre. The Club has around 1,000 supporters/ members and everything done for the Club is done on a voluntary basis. The playing squad was brought together in under three weeks by Manager Andy Welsh and are paid around £35 per week when they play.

I honestly don't believet that anyone attached to that new Club has any animosity towards Barnsley FC. I can't comment on which faction showed support to Wigan during their appeal hearing, because I don't know, but I sense that if anyone did, they could be in a minority as our flag enjoys a prominent position on their display boards outside Gigg Lane. It could be reasoned that if anyone involved on their committee had an aversion towards us ,that flag would in all probability not be on display.

 

Some people are crazy. I still remember wondering at the Wimbledon fans who started going to Milton Keynes to watch MK Dons (and despised AFC Wimbledon) because in their view that remained the continuation of the actual club, and you should carry on following your club whatever happens.

 

He only paid a pound for it. Perhaps he thought he could make some money out of it.?
He comes across as a complete cretin who doesn't give a stuff for the Club or the folks
that supported it. The House of Commons select Committee got it spot on during their
deliberations. Whilst not exonerating Dale, they laid the blame squarely at the door of
the EFL and rightly so. They were totally inept and are not fit for purpose.

 

Was going on the coat of arms . Of the supposed official Bury AFC. Which appears to be the Phoenix club. And a different COA To the original Bury (gigg Lane) fc.

 

The Phoenix club Chairman is Brian Potter.