No we can't take over the club as owners just randomly.
And everyone reads the first post. Maybe you don't, but everyone reads it. Especially in the shiny club, you kind of need to because the form for admission is in the first post.
The threads been up since 2004, and has virtually been dead since 2009, when the owner left. History doesn't matter if it's dead. We were the only two active members. The only two other people posting besides us were just browsing, saw it, and didn't stay active.
I am not killing it. I am remaking it, with new stuff to attract more members. The old one just had "Post a new shiny." The new one will have banner contests, artwork contests, shiny races, and so on. That's what attracts new members, not history of an innactive co-owner and two people posting.