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The day I make my first trip to Spo.... sorry the Crown Oil Arena, to use my shiny new season ticket is fast approaching. So any tips on making sure I have a memorable (for the right reasons) day, will be much appreciated. I will be from London on the train via Leeds. Probably take a stroll to the ground from the station.
'Only happy when you've got it often makes you miss the journey'
Top tips for my first trip on 20:03 - Aug 29 by BURYFC_1885
As us Bury fans keep trying to tell Dale fans ;)
Yes, but like some roller coasters, negligence by those in charge can lead to permanent damage, loss of reputation and millions forked out. Mind you bURY compensation is generally 10p in the pound.
Every Team Needs A John Ryan - The Winger Who's a Ringer!!!!!
Top tips for my first trip on 08:55 - Aug 30 by AtThePeake
When's the last time you finished above us? Some rollercoaster, like.
The comment was of course tongue in cheek, a joke if you will.
However to answer your question, a couple of years ago now. Probably 2013. I dare say before 2004 Dale had never finished above Bury in either clubs history so don't go down this road as Bury are far superior in the achievements department.
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(No subject) (n/t) on 10:13 - Aug 30 by BURYFC_1885
The comment was of course tongue in cheek, a joke if you will.
However to answer your question, a couple of years ago now. Probably 2013. I dare say before 2004 Dale had never finished above Bury in either clubs history so don't go down this road as Bury are far superior in the achievements department.
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" I dare say before 2004 Dale had never finished above Bury in either clubs history "
Would you like to have a little wager on that?
When I was your age, I used to enjoy the odd game of tennis. Or was it golf?
Had I wanted to chase glory I would have supported one of the usual suspects. Not a club whose fans dine out and past glories from before I was in liquid form
'Only happy when you've got it often makes you miss the journey'
Top tips for my first trip on 11:44 - Aug 30 by James1980
Had I wanted to chase glory I would have supported one of the usual suspects. Not a club whose fans dine out and past glories from before I was in liquid form
At least we have something to dine out on, no?
I'm fairly sure you'd have been alive to see us win the league one title? Alive to see us in the Championship? Taking 4 points off City in the process and finishing above them in the league? I'm sure you were alive as we broke the record for scoring 1,000 goals in each of the top 4 tiers?
Or maybe you really are young but your username suggests otherwise. Have fun trying to experience the above at Dale, James!
A reminder if you need it :)
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Top tips for my first trip on 12:20 - Aug 30 with 1964 views
Top tips for my first trip on 11:46 - Aug 30 by BURYFC_1885
At least we have something to dine out on, no?
I'm fairly sure you'd have been alive to see us win the league one title? Alive to see us in the Championship? Taking 4 points off City in the process and finishing above them in the league? I'm sure you were alive as we broke the record for scoring 1,000 goals in each of the top 4 tiers?
Or maybe you really are young but your username suggests otherwise. Have fun trying to experience the above at Dale, James!
A reminder if you need it :)
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All true, but back in the day a roller-coaster was known as a Big Dipper
Top tips for my first trip on 11:46 - Aug 30 by BURYFC_1885
At least we have something to dine out on, no?
I'm fairly sure you'd have been alive to see us win the league one title? Alive to see us in the Championship? Taking 4 points off City in the process and finishing above them in the league? I'm sure you were alive as we broke the record for scoring 1,000 goals in each of the top 4 tiers?
Or maybe you really are young but your username suggests otherwise. Have fun trying to experience the above at Dale, James!
We are still here though aren't we! When lifting that league one trophy or beating City at Maine Road all I could think was "If only we balanced the books like Rochdale"!
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Top tips for my first trip on 12:33 - Aug 30 with 1912 views
Another excellent David Conn article from January 2007 gives a good overview:
"The club had been bankrolled by a fan and stockbroker, Hugh Eaves, until, in April 1999, he confessed to having raided his former partners' money for a spending spree which included Bury FC. Eaves had lent the club £750,000 and guaranteed a larger loan from Lloyds TSB, mortgaged on the Gigg Lane ground, which the bank became extremely keen to have repaid. Desperate, Bury borrowed £1m, also mortgaged on the ground, at 15% interest from an investment scheme run by a Sheffield solicitor, Richard Prentis - who was later struck off by the Law Society and his firm closed down.
In May 2002, Bury's directors put the club into administration just three days before a court was due to hear an application from the Prentis investors to repossess Gigg Lane. Not a penny of the £1m, or the interest, had been repaid.
Bury's debts, including the Eaves loan now owed to his former partners, totalled £4.8m. Bury fans were pioneers of the bucket collection but loose change could not save the club. The administrator, Matthew Dunham, calculated that £370,000 was needed, short term, to keep Bury alive, and Gordon Sorfleet, the club's press officer, launched SOS: Save Our Shakers.
The club offered, for a contribution of £10 or more, to place donors' names on the Gigg Lane seats, and thousands of people all over the country - and the world - rallied to save a historic club. The names are on the seats still, worn a little by the passing of seasons. FC United, formed by Manchester United fans protesting high ticket prices, over-commercialism and the Malcolm Glazer takeover, play at Gigg Lane too, so the ground is a monument to the "football family" and the idea of belonging.
The local greetings card magnate, Ron Wood, bought Gigg Lane from the investment scheme for £495,000, a Corporate Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) was agreed in May 2002 to pay other creditors 10p in the pound, and so the club staggered on."
The halycon days of owing "only" £4.8m and stiffing creditors for 90% of it will be a distant memory when the current debts are called in.
George Bernard Shaw had it right:
"He who can does; he who cannot, teaches."
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Top tips for my first trip on 12:29 - Aug 30 by BURYFC_1885
We are still here though aren't we! When lifting that league one trophy or beating City at Maine Road all I could think was "If only we balanced the books like Rochdale"!
And the relevance of that 20 years later is.....?
As predicted at the start of the thread, when you lot come on here with fake interest and sensibility, it's not too long before your true colours start to emerge.
When I was your age, I used to enjoy the odd game of tennis. Or was it golf?
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Top tips for my first trip on 17:18 - Aug 30 with 1728 views
Top tips for my first trip on 16:12 - Aug 30 by TVOS1907
And the relevance of that 20 years later is.....?
As predicted at the start of the thread, when you lot come on here with fake interest and sensibility, it's not too long before your true colours start to emerge.
But contrary to what you predicted, James is indeed a Dale fan..
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Top tips for my first trip on 17:44 - Aug 30 with 1706 views
Top tips for my first trip on 08:55 - Aug 30 by AtThePeake
When's the last time you finished above us? Some rollercoaster, like.
I've supported Notts since 79 and in all that time I'm sure that we have never been in a division higher than Forest and at the age of 55 I might never see it at all
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Top tips for my first trip on 11:00 - Sep 2 with 1398 views
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