Bury to start again next season.

They're playing at Radcliffe's ground which has a capacity of 4000 mainly standing. It's about 2 or 3 miles from gigg lane

 

You can't punis the owner without punishing the company owned by the owner though.

 

If he thinks like me mate. I've always had a soft spot for lower league clubs. And wish the diehard fans get to see success at a bigger level. We at Barnsley ( fans) of my age have tasted the lows but have had some great highs also. One of the most used phrases I hate with a passion are "the big clubs ( eg Newcastle) and their loyal fans being the best." Some of them have never seen lower league football. Would love to see how loyal they'd be if they dropped down the leagues.

 

Good luck to them on their journey back.

 

I wish them all the best. Fans are fans & I hope most stay loyal to the team. The man who put them into this situation is the lowest of the low, but I hope they can rise up again. It can be done & I'd expect Bury to be either in the 4th tier, or the 5th in 10 years & I hope that scumbag is in the grave.

We are not exactly happy campers ourselves with the new ownership. The big issue with us is where Mr Conway has gone. An inspirational man of the people has become the football equivalent of Lord Lucan. Our new CEO is even less visible, which is bizarre. You do start to worry in such circumstances, although we do at least to have a viable business model, if for a League 1 team, that may occasionally get back to our second tier home, before selling off most of our best players for peanuts.

It could be worse I suppose, but I doubt such a team would be averaging 13K at home games for long. I remember 3-4K under Iley in a similarly unambitious era. I don't think in the short term it would come to that, but 7-8K is likely, if we don't bounce back next season, which is not a given.

 

They're both in the league below, actually. They would get promotion to the NWCL.

EDIT: Never mind. I was wrong. Not sure what happened there. My apologies.

EDIT2: We were both wrong. They are in parallel leagues!

 

Good news for Bury fans but, as I've said before in response to "fans suffering" comments, this was always likely to happen. Clubs nearly always reform and gravitate back to somewhere near their natural level. If you're a real fan of the club it should be irrelevant what league you're playing in and I'm sure Bury fans will have a whale of a time going to new and quirky stadiums all over the place and seeing their team climb through a few leagues in quicktime.

 

As much as I'm sure every Bury fan would rather turn back the clock and be a solvent league club, they could be about to embark on a magical mystery tour that if managed correctly, could yield some great experiences and fun. I hope it works out for them, but I'd imagine it would have to be quite continuous success to keep enough momentum to see them back at a good level. I did hope they could stay at Gigg Lane mind. That is a proper football ground.

 

Thanks

 

Newcastle have been relegated a few times in the last 50 years, in 1981 after relegation they averaged 16,001, I seem to recall us playing them at Oakwell and there being "a spot of bovver" on the terraces

This site is a goldmine for settling attendance arguments

https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/englandcontent.htm

 

Great News. I actually drink with a Bury fan and he asked me earlier if I'd be interested in going to watch them in their first game next season regardless of what league they may be playing in. Maybe 8th division on a public park.

 

Probably a great way for fans of other teams. To go In support of the Bury fans. Would be a touching response. I was at selhurst park for Wimbledon’s last game. ( v tarn ) Talking to lots of wombles before in the pubs. Was awful what they endured. Great to see those fans back having their own identity back and even sweeter when they overtook MK Dons

 

A recent investigation has revealed that the Bury FC owner Steve Dale having bought the Shakers for
£1 in 2018, didn't have sufficient funds to sustain the existence of the Club and therefore any action
taken by the EFL, would not have had any effect on the eventual demise of this once proud Football
League Club.

To me, it begs the question , if he didn't have the funds, how come this was not revealed at the time his
application to take the Club over was first submitted and was it wise to allow it to be sold for such a meagre
amount of money.?

It's OK to blame the owner, but it looks as though the FA/EFL were also complicit by not ensuring that the
new owner would be unable to cover the future running costs of the Club.


Bury: EFL could not have prevented club's demise, review finds
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51665766

 

Must be because they're in WEST Yorkshire