Please help!!

[Pabloz]

Dear Brann football fans,

Wrexham FC, the oldest team in Wales, is facing a serious crisis after being taken over by property developers who look set to asset strip the club. They have plans to redevelop the Racecourse Ground which we have to stop.

Please help by signing our on-line petition

http://www.petitiononline.com/WREXHAM/petition.html

The full story of what is being done to us is detailed below:
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Please show your support for football and your contempt for the asset
strippers by signing the on-line petition, it only takes 30 seconds -
and also get your friends and family to do the same, in fact tell
everyone who cares remotely about football or the community.

http://www.petitiononline.com/WREXHAM/petition.html

Please forward this on to anyone you think may sign the petition. We
need to keep this moving. We are currently at 3500 signatures but we
need lots more.

The local press are virtually turning a blind eye to what is really
happening, so to be kept informed please sign up for the wrexham fans
newsletter by sending an email to wrexham.fans-subscribe@topica.com .

Many thanks.

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Two years ago the then chairman of Wrexham Football Club, Mr Pryce
Griffiths, who was a real Wrexham supporter and had the best interests of the club at heart, was struggling to cope with the increased stress of running the club due to ill health and decided to sell his 78% of shares in the club to a Mr Mark Gutterman, a property developer, believing after several meetings that he would continue to look after the club and take it forward.

After Mark Gutterman took over, the club won promotion back to Division Two and everything seemed fine, but no money was ever provided for transfer fees by the new chairman/owner and then starting in November last year the players wages started to be paid late and carried on being paid late until his sudden resignation last week. On several occasions the phones had been cut off and also the players had no hot water at the training complex at Colliers Park.

A Mr John Reames had appeared on the scene over the last couple of
months, claiming he was here as a favour to Mark Gutterman and was not deceiving a penny for his help, and on Monday night at a board meeting called due to Mark Guttermans departure he was made Managing Director. He was previously involved at Lincoln City where he was chairman and their fans cannot believe he has been allowed to obtain a position of power at another football club.

Amazingly, Mr Reames has admitted that Mark Gutterman was never owner of Wrexham Football Club and the owner is in fact a Mr Alex Hamilton,
another property developer who is a close friend and business associate of Mark Gutterman, and Mr Alex Hamilton has admitted himself "that he has no interest in football". Mr Alex Hamilton also bought the freehold of the ground from Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries over a year ago for £300,000 and this was never reported in the local press along with several other very important issues regarding the club. The club had a 125 year lease agreed for a peppercorn rent, this is now worthless as Mr Hamilton owns both the club and the freehold and can do what he likes with them.

According to Mr Reames, Mr Hamilton wishes to demolish the Kop and Yale stands during the season after next and rotate the pitch ninety degrees during the summer break to "free up" more space for redevelopment, once this is done Mr Hamilton will walk away from the club with a handsome profit leaving the club debt free. This will lead to the loss of the club car park and a reduction in capacity of the ground by 1500.

Obviously this is very worrying for any Wrexham fan as the current
ground is a very good stadium and is better left as it is, and can it
really be believed that all the work can be done while the team still
plays at the stadium? Why do we need to build a smaller stadium on the same site allowing a property developer to walk off with millions in profit and pay off debts that have been created while he has been the owner, it just doesn't make any sense apart from someone asset stripping the land for their own benefit.

The obvious main worry is that once the work begins an excuse will be
made that we will have to groundshare because of the work taking too
long etc and we will never return as the land will be sold once we are off site, and for anyone who doubts this is a possibility, just ask any Brighton fan who are now fully supporting our cause as can be seen from the petition, along with fans of all other football clubs including not surprisingly Lincoln City.


Please help save Wrexham FC

sign the on-line petition at

http://www.petitiononline.com/WREXHAM/petition.html

[Pabloz]

Hei!
Kan Brannfansen værr med å støtta Wrexham? Spre denna videre så godt dåkkår kan.
I sånne saker så detta bør supporterane samla seg å gjørr motstand!
Støtt Wrexham mot overmaktå!!

[Brann-Peter!]

her må eg si meg enig! tenk hvis dette hadde vært Brann??
eg vet kordan de der nede føler seg, og dette e noe jeg synes dere bør være med på...

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Alt for Bergen, Alt for Brann...

[Ole Brom]

Flott initiativ ! Jeg har allerede signet og oppfordrer alle til å gjøre det samme !

[Stoffi]

Det finnes alt for mange griske pengemenn som ødelegger fotballen.
Jeg gir min underskrift, og skal bidra til å spre linken.

[Stoffi]

4766 Signatures Total.