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You say Tez that Witton ‘hold the cards’. Maybe on the face of it they do. But they have done so since 2012 when Vics became homeless and we weren’t even formed.Knutsfordian - How many Witton shareholders would be willing to write off their shareholding for the greater good of unified town team and significantly those who hold the lion’s share? If not written off, what would the mechanism be for compensation?
Wincham Park would seemingly be the logical venue for any new club to play, but that would require one party to relinquish absolute control and tenure, while the other two parties offer nothing in terms of land or finance as their “buy in”? Perhaps the plan would be to rely on the largesse of the CWAC to provide an alternative venue?
Do you envisage a Board of directors made up of local and/or interested local businessmen (obviously fit and proper, with sufficient capital and patience to see the venture through while also having the best intentions for the club) or is it a fan run organisation?
Obviously many more questions to be raised, crucially first and foremost, which individual puts their head above the parapet first to start the ball rolling?
To be honest, too many hurdles and from a Witton perspective too much ground to give. They hold the cards and neither Vics or ‘74 have the money to buy in. There is no incentive for them?
And where have all these advantages got them? A league lower than they were 10 years ago!
Simple fact is that however they may want to dress it up, WAFC will never be the ‘town team’ because no-one (apart from the 300 hard core Albion fans) have any understanding or association with ‘Witton’. In fact I’d suggest that most residents wouldn’t even know that Witton is actually the old Parish Church of Northwich.
What Vics and or 74 would bring to the table re any merged club would be the support of both clubs which has and always will continue to eclipse that of Albion.
But if they wish to continue to plough their own furrow in the belief that their fortunes will drastically change from those they’ve experienced over the last 30 years then so be it. But my view is that history would suggest otherwise.
There’s not much that Knutsfordian and I agree on (and his support of Brexit and the Tories has been shown to have been sadly misplaced ???) but I don’t think that we’re too far apart on this one.