Over recent weeks Mr Nick Pritchard and Bangor City Stadium have posted a number of articles on social media about their vision for the future of senior football in Bangor.

Their vision of creating a strong and sustainable football community in Bangor aligns with ours but regretfully, and despite continued requests, Mr Nick Pritchard and Bangor Stadium have not been forthcoming with any firm written detail around their proposal.

CPD Bangor 1876 was set up to safeguard the future of senior football in the city and the Board has been appointed to protect the interests of our fan owned club. It would be irresponsible for any Board to agree to a partnership without understanding the detail behind any proposal, including documenting and signing any partnership agreement.

CPD Bangor 1876 have three key boundaries for the partnership agreement, these being:

1. Our financial independence is maintained.
2. Our independence to manage and run the team is maintained.
3. We do not inherit any liabilities, now or in the future in respect of the stadium.

In return we will make a commitment to help with the running of the stadium, including reasonable payments to play on the pitch, link up with other clubs using the facilities, and move forwards with confidence and certainty to ensure that Bangor can once again experience top-level football.

Negotiations around any partnership should be done formally and confidentially between the principal partners before any announcements, to the wider public, and we as a Board are only too willing to take part in these negotiations to document a formal partnership agreement with the various stakeholders that are being proposed.

In view of the current deadline of 14th December being held over us of “agree to join us or walk away” and in the absence of any formal detail behind the “agree to join us” proposal we have put forward the same financial offer to play at the stadium that we understand a Tier 3 club from Anglesey have made (and which we understand has been accepted) and we await a decision on this. This proposal from us would also allow the parties additional time to formally agree any partnership agreement.

We remain hopeful that Mr Nick Pritchard and Bangor City Stadium will forward a formal partnership agreement in due course for our Board’s consideration, so that we can safeguard the future of football in Bangor without creating unnecessary divisions.

We will have another meeting for supporters at the Crosville Club in Bangor at 6pm on Tuesday 10 December.