Trust calls for fans to become members (From Northwich Guardian)
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Northwich Victoria Supporters Trust has called on fans to join following the club's expulsion from the Northern Premier League
2:46pm Saturday 14th April 2012 in Sport
By Andrew Simpson, Senior Sports Writer
Trust calls for fans to become members
INDEPENDENT fans group Northwich Victoria Supporters Trust has urged Vics followers to join after the club was expelled from the Northern Premier League on Friday.
The trust’s board issued a statement last night saying it planned to meet urgently to discuss what it planned to do next.
It read: “The situation is fluid and is likely to remain so.
“As ever, we’ll try to advise fans and members as to the latest situation as soon as possible.
“It is with a great deal of regret, but no little surprise, that the trust board views the news [last night] regarding the action that has been taken against the club.
“We recognise that many supporters will be extremely worried about this development and the implications it has for the club that we all love and support passionately.”
Last month more than 100 fans backed the trust’s board to continue working on plans for a new club should the current one cease to exist.
The trust believed a back-up was needed after the club’s owner, Jim Rushe, told supporters at an open meeting that the club’s current income was not enough to support a team at the same level next season.
In the meantime the trust reiterated that its primary objective was to ensure the continued existence of Northwich Victoria.
“It goes without saying that we will be taking immediate steps to contact the football club’s chairman, the Evo-Stik Northern Premier League and the football authorities to discuss the situation,” added the statement.
“In the meantime, we would urge all Vics supporters to become members of the trust as it is important that the views of the whole range of the club’s fan base are considered.
“The more members we have, the more representative our actions will be.”
Comments(12)
THETELLEROFTALES
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8:09pm Sat 14 Apr 12
How about 'Witton Albion Reserves?'
WHS
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9:13pm Sat 14 Apr 12
WHS.
THETELLEROFTALES
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8:32pm Sun 15 Apr 12
How about 'Dane Strollers' or
'Weaver Navigation' or maybe
'Debts 'R Us 11?'
Jim Budden
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8:17am Mon 16 Apr 12
Now I have calmed down after listening to WHS and Teller of Tales spouting their poison. It is people like you who have stopped the two factions coming together many years ago. I am a Vics supporter through and through but I can see the sense in the teams joining and having a Stadium/Sports Facility/Leisure Community centre all in one. Get the Rugby, Cricket and the Footabll community working together to benefit the area, that would be better than tarting up a lame town centre, that is going to the dogs.
JB
INEEDTOSAYTHIS
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3:33pm Mon 16 Apr 12
INEEDTOSAYTHIS
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3:33pm Mon 16 Apr 12
Vics123
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3:57pm Mon 16 Apr 12
THETELLEROFTALES
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4:46pm Mon 16 Apr 12
No not poison Jim....just football banter, the kind you get at a derby match for instance.
You say in a previous post that you have supported Vics for 50 years. In that case you will remember the time Witton applied to join the Northern Premier League and their application was blocked by the then Vics board.
I may be mistaken but I really don't remember any Vics fan writing a letter to the Northwich Guardian or the Northwich Chronicle protesting about this decision.
AM I WRONG JIM?
If there was a rivalry between the Witton and Vics fans it was a healthy rivalry up to that point. That's when I and many Wittoners like me began to dislike the Vics board and all the club stood for.
WOULD'NT YOU FEEL THE SAME JIM?
The Vics have lurched from one crisis to another over the years. Some may call it mis-management, I couldn't possibly comment.
Suddenly the idea of a Community Stadium seems like a grand idea to many Vics fans. What an amazing coincidence....DON'T YOU THINK SO JIM?
What's that old but very true saying....What goes around comes around....or has it got something to do with chickens and roosts?
So no, not poison Jim, just amazement on my part that Vics fans have simply stood back and watch it happen, just like they did all those years ago.
Jim Budden
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5:05pm Mon 16 Apr 12
That was then and this is now.
Both teams are teatering on the brink, Vics more so over the last ten years, the worse thing is the pair of them did worse thing and moved out of town. I still think it would be good to bury the hatchets and see sense as in the not to distant future I can see local football going the same way as all the pubs around Northwich and become extinct. I do see your point but that was long ago and as I say I have calmed down.
Jim
INEEDTOSAYTHIS
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5:09pm Mon 16 Apr 12
WHS
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10:00am Fri 20 Apr 12
Sadly you now have nothing to offer to make a merger or a ground-share worthwhile to my club Witton. As far as I know you now have three new clubs on the go! Which one will you be supporting Jim?
Vics will survive, but not with any help from a club your fellow supporters have spent the last five years or so insulting.
WHS.
WHS says...
5:42pm Sat 14 Apr 12
WHS.