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Title: Bury in the Shit Post by: yeo on Monday, January 10, 2005, 02:01:27 Ive taken this from another forum ,the situation Bury find themselves in sounds bad and certainly sounds not unlike one we may move into in the not to distant future...
Quote Right, I feel that I have to some where, somehow express what I am currently feeling. Utter sheer disbelief that my football club could be wound up all because of £180,000. Yeah, that’s right £180 grand. F*cking chump change when you compare the debt that some clubs in the Premier Greed is good league have. What’s £180,000? It probably wouldn’t even get you a semi in some parts of the country. But it’s what is bleeding my club of its very soul, slowly ebbing away everything we have tried to fight so hard to preserve. This is no overnight thing, a few of you will be saying “Oh look, Bury in the shit again because they don’t learn from mistakes”, it’s not that. After going into administration in 2002 the club as a part of bargaining with creditors was tied into paying a CVA over the next four years. It saved our football club, but now it’s killing it. There is at the time of writing 18 months to run on the CVA. £10,000 a month needs to be found and paid off each month as a result. Bury have to meet each instalment whilst also paying players wages, staff wages, the dreaded tax man (a pain in all our lives), all whilst living on some of the most pitiful f*cking attendances you could imagine a football league club could get. Bury as a town is in what I like to call an unfortunate geographical position, too close to big city Manchester for its own good. Bury is a small Lancashire mill town with a population of just 80,000 -add another 20,000 for the residents of the small outskirts of the town who make up the Metropolitan borough of the town Title: Bury in the Shit Post by: Simon Pieman on Monday, January 10, 2005, 02:15:44 EEK! :?
Does sound like we could be in a similar situation. Maybe this is why prices are being increased? Title: Bury in the Shit Post by: Anonymous on Monday, January 10, 2005, 13:34:14 I find it amazing people think they have the right to have a go at Premier League teams. This clubs have worked fucking hard to get to where they are and most clubs worked their way up the league ladder. Tough shit get on with it
Title: Bury in the Shit Post by: oxford_fan on Wednesday, January 19, 2005, 16:15:02 when i went to bury for our away match last season, as i drove through the town pubs were spilling out hundreds of man utd-clad fans who had just watched their early kick-off match. about 2,000 turned up at gigg lane, approx. 400 OUFC fans.
Title: Bury in the Shit Post by: Jesus Loves Porn on Wednesday, January 19, 2005, 17:55:24 Bury is a great little club used to go there as a nipper but as the artical says it is too close to Manchester for its own good. There are so many clubs in the north west that one will eventually have to fall however I hope it is not them
Would be nice if Manchester Utd paid them £180,000 for the use of their ground for one of their reserve matches instead of wrecking their pitch every other week for just a few quid. Wouldnt have thought so however Title: Bury in the Shit Post by: Zurich Red on Wednesday, January 19, 2005, 18:02:05 Good thing there are no Premiership clubs near Swindon - we have no competition like that and still only get 5,000.
Title: Bury in the Shit Post by: Jesus Loves Porn on Wednesday, January 19, 2005, 18:04:35 Too many Londoners
Title: Bury in the Shit Post by: Johno on Wednesday, January 19, 2005, 18:04:56 problem for swindon is that the people who live in swindon have probably moved due to their job and already support a team... i know people who travel around. i even know a Bury Fan!!
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