Here is my concern. With current owners and the set up of the club in the state it is in, we are going nowhere, fast.
Unless something fairly dramatic changes, a stroke of luck or we get an investor and new owners then I just cannot see a change to the past 25 years of mediocrity and failure. Here are some worrying statistics.
Since the cup win in 87 we have:
Owner changes and investment, surely, is the only way to permanently stop the rot. Changing managers time and time again has got us nowhere. Mediocre scouting and signings hasn't helped. With a few exceptions we have produced very little of real outstanding quality. Ground up changes to our system, facilities and ownership of, or at least a share in, a ground is vital.
Chance of an investor? Slim but improving?.
Why would an investor come in, how can they expect to see a return from this club. We are in an area (West Mids) with the lowest Gross Disposable Household Income in the UK (2013). The city is looked down upon countrywide as a concrete hole, there's really very little the city has had going its way.
However, the city has started a bit of a revival of late. Money is being pumped in, the centre is up and coming, new shops, restaurants, bars etc. Coventry University is improving spectacularly and will continue to grow. The student population is superb and getting better as the university attracts higher prospects and pumps more money into the economy.
Coventry is in the running for city of culture of the year also, that would have an enormous impact too. All of this will help but its certainly not enough on its own!
Wasps, as much as we can debate whether or not they should be, they are here. They are undoubtedly aiding the local economy also. The community will probably benefit in ways, the sporting climate of the city has and will change if their success within British and European rugby continues. As it grows into the city, hopefully so does the prospect of CCFC being taken over, even a business link between the two clubs might be of interest.
I, for one, just cannot see it happening though. I just never, ever, want to go back to Crawley on the last day of a season, 30 minutes from League 2. That was enough.
Unless something fairly dramatic changes, a stroke of luck or we get an investor and new owners then I just cannot see a change to the past 25 years of mediocrity and failure. Here are some worrying statistics.
Since the cup win in 87 we have:
- Finished above 10th place in a division twice. 7th in '89 and 8th in '06.
- Been relegated twice
- Lost ownership of a stadium
- Been saved from administration by 20 minutes by SISU in '07
- Been sent into administration in '13
Owner changes and investment, surely, is the only way to permanently stop the rot. Changing managers time and time again has got us nowhere. Mediocre scouting and signings hasn't helped. With a few exceptions we have produced very little of real outstanding quality. Ground up changes to our system, facilities and ownership of, or at least a share in, a ground is vital.
Chance of an investor? Slim but improving?.
Why would an investor come in, how can they expect to see a return from this club. We are in an area (West Mids) with the lowest Gross Disposable Household Income in the UK (2013). The city is looked down upon countrywide as a concrete hole, there's really very little the city has had going its way.
However, the city has started a bit of a revival of late. Money is being pumped in, the centre is up and coming, new shops, restaurants, bars etc. Coventry University is improving spectacularly and will continue to grow. The student population is superb and getting better as the university attracts higher prospects and pumps more money into the economy.
Coventry is in the running for city of culture of the year also, that would have an enormous impact too. All of this will help but its certainly not enough on its own!
Wasps, as much as we can debate whether or not they should be, they are here. They are undoubtedly aiding the local economy also. The community will probably benefit in ways, the sporting climate of the city has and will change if their success within British and European rugby continues. As it grows into the city, hopefully so does the prospect of CCFC being taken over, even a business link between the two clubs might be of interest.
I, for one, just cannot see it happening though. I just never, ever, want to go back to Crawley on the last day of a season, 30 minutes from League 2. That was enough.
