Save Our Club - Weymouth FC

[brighton terra]

Apologies for the intrusion, but please spare a couple of minutes to find out how you can help a football club in desperate need.

Weymouth FC. Formed 1890.
Members of the Blue Square Premier League.

IT'S hard to explain to a non-fan what it is that drags us out on a freezing cold night to stand on the terraces and shout ourselves hoarse supporting our club.

How can you describe the highs and lows that football can bring? The feeling of unity, the passion, the despair, the pride and the joy all in the name of sport.

If they don't know how it feels they can't understand how supporting a club simply BRINGS US TOGETHER.

A group of people who would never meet each other in the outside world suddenly have a common bond - OUR CLUB.

OUR CLUB is Weymouth FC, formerly one of non-league football's biggest and most successful sides, its proud history dotted by giant-killing cup runs. The club fell on hard times but after nearly 20 years in the wilderness the Terras (so called after the early terra cotta-coloured kit) finally clawed its way back to the top flight of non-league football in 2006.

However, this success came at a price and a series of near-catastrophic financial crises have followed. The latest situation we have been plunged into threatens our very existence.

But we have followed our team through thick and thin, have ridden the highs and the lows and the challenges have only strengthened the pride we have in OUR CLUB.

We are not going to let this club die without a fight and we are hoping that anyone who has ever pulled on a football scarf of any colour will understand our plight.

Football is not for the big-shots who can buy up a few shares and cast them aside when they are bored. Clubs cannot be "owned" no matter how many shares a person holds because a club is more than a commodity.

It is more than the bricks and mortar of the stadium, more than the players on the pitch, more even than the fans who sing its name with pride.

OUR CLUB is our past, our present and OUR FUTURE.

Please help us protect it.

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[brighton terra]

 

[Jeep]

All the best. I read the Ridley book last year and it gave some great examples of football mis-management.

 

[Nottseagull]

You need to explain what sort of a financial mess the club is in, and more importantly, why. If it's through extravagant expense on players and salaries in order to gain an advantage over your rivals, you cannot expect people to subsidise and encourage this sort of irresponsibility.

 

[brighton terra]

You need to explain what sort of a financial mess the club is in, and more importantly, why. If it's through extravagant expense on players and salaries in order to gain an advantage over your rivals, you cannot expect people to subsidise and encourage this sort of irresponsibility.

This article should help to explain the situation....

Reality Bites Revisited - Twohundredpercent

 

[BensGrandad]

Do Dorchester own their own ground or do Tesco own it. Could this be another case of somebody buying Weymouth and then sell the ground for redevelopement and move to play at Dorchester ground or vice versa.