An insult to the memory of Jimmy Hill (30 Viewers)

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dongonzalos

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So what was the OP?
Pretty sure it wasn't about kids parties or NOPM?
Oh yes we used to be chuffed when we beat Utd 3-2 now we are chuffed if we do Chesterfield!!!
WTF?
Breakeven is a lovely idealism but we need owners who can invest a bit themselves and not limp it as debt on the club. ASAP
 
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Nick

Nick

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dongonzalos said:
So what wa the OP?
Pretty sure it wasn't about kids parties or NOPM?
Oh yes we used to be chuffed when we beat Utd 3-2 now we are chuffed if we do Chesterfield!!!
WTF?
Breakeven is a lovely idealism but we need owners who can invest a bit themselves and not limp it as debt on the club. ASAP
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Maybe just come to terms that we aren't in the premier league any more?
 
Grendel

Grendel

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dongonzalos said:
So what wa the OP?
Pretty sure it wasn't about kids parties or NOPM?
Oh yes we used to be chuffed when we beat Utd 3-2 now we are chuffed if we do Chesterfield!!!
WTF?
Breakeven is a lovely idealism but we need owners who can invest a bit themselves and not limp it as debt on the club. ASAP
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Like when Jimmy hill was chairman lost all our money and sold all our players you mean?

To be fair at least their were real protests then - pitch invasions, players being chased down the streets I suppose.
 
bawtryneal

bawtryneal

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Voice_of_Reason said:
The present day ccfc is an insult to the memory of Jimmy Hill and all he achieved for the Sky Blues. He transformed an ailing club into a major force and built a foundation for it's future only to have it dismantled over the last ten years by successive owners before sisu arrived to virtually finish it's demolition.
I can no longer live on memories of the 60's 70's 80's and 90's,
although they will always remain dear to my heart.
I no longer recognise ccfc as my club, the ccfc I new has been in terminal decline until, to my mind, it no longer exists.
I have no enthusiasm for the team now masquerading as ccfc, to me it no longer is ccfc - my ccfc is no more. It has passed away. RIP ccfc.
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I have to agree VOR. I have being "going up the City" since my Dad first took me aged 6 in 1967. I reckon I have seen in excess of 1500 games since then and consider myself a true "home and away fan". I moved to South Yorkshire in 1995 and remained a season holder for the last 20 years apart from the Sixfiels season. It is no longer pleasure for me. Despite being lucky enough to have many other things in my life (business, family, other sports etc) I have stuck with City through thick and thin. The last few months have been dreadful and no longer a pleasure. So for me too, enough is enough. If the likes of Grendal think they are a better fan than me, then so be it.
I fear we will get relegated again this season and I will be as upset as anybody but unfortunately I will not be there to see it. Live moves on and "if and when" SISU move on, I will consider investing my precious time and money in following the Sky Blues. Last Saturday was dreadful, no passion, no atmosphere, no pleasure !!!! I could go on but enough said.
PUSB.
Hope lots of kids turn up for the Xmas party !!!!!
 
bawtryneal

bawtryneal

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stevefloyd said:
Bawtry i fear a lot of people will be like you and once again our dwindling fan base gets smaller
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Very sad but very true. It's such a shame that our illustrious owners cannot see the potential.
How "not" to run a business. I hope Ms Sepplla is happy with how things are going !!!
 
Irish Sky Blue

Irish Sky Blue

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Alan Dugdales Moustache said:
It could be that both are true. For some reason I seem to have it in my head that the driver deliberately killed himself after the match on his way home , though it could have been an accident. I didn't know about the other event but that's bloody terrible as well.
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I think the boy involved in the incident was a Coventry fan who was a Geordie and actually lived in Newcastle.
 
torchomatic

torchomatic

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letsallsingtogether said:
And for that reason alone the action group use his name.
When his family was asked for permission they said yes 100 percent.
"If Jimmy was still alive he would come down there and join you."
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I bet they weren't aware of the campaign leaders'...erm...views...when they agreed. I very much doubt Jimmy Hill shared the same values as that guy.
 
torchomatic

torchomatic

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dongonzalos said:
Or the championship we are fighting relegation to division 4.
You shouldn't be asking a Coventry fan to come to terms with that.
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Or a Portsmouth fan?
 
NortonSkyBlue

NortonSkyBlue

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I love the passion that VOR has for HIS club and I fully understand that it has been eroded by the events of the last few seasons but I think more to the point the lack of progress on the pitch as well.
I am a supporter since the very tail end of Jimmy Hills reign and I really wish we could share with today's fans that feeling that was shared by all of the Sky Blue persuasion in those days. It was magical, you can only imagine what it felt like to win the majority of games, how proud it was to be from Coventry.
If I was a young boy today then I would probably look elsewhere for a team to follow and I am surprised that so many choose to be Sky Blue and I am delighted to see youngsters wearing our colours around the city and the ground.
I hate what has become of our club but will forever be Sky Blue, I hate it that we run out to a Birmingham song, when it should be the Sky Blue song, I hate it that our team is so weak and so dispirited that it is a shadow of the teams of yesteryear but I am and I always will be a child of Jimmy Hill's Coventry City and nothing including sisu will stop that.
 
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dongonzalos

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torchomatic said:
I bet they weren't aware of the campaign leaders'...erm...views...when they agreed. I very much doubt Jimmy Hill shared the same values as that guy.
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His views about CCFC and the campaign they agreed for his name to be added to?
They must have known what it was about to agree, surely
 
torchomatic

torchomatic

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dongonzalos said:
They ended up taking control because of not accepting bad owners
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True. My point was they are no longer a Premier League team. There are no guarantees and no team has a divine right to be in a particular league.
 
torchomatic

torchomatic

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dongonzalos said:
His views about CCFC and the campaign they agreed for his name to be added to?
They must have known what it was about to agree, surely
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No, not about his views on CCFC.
 
Sky Blue Kid

Sky Blue Kid

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Nick said:
Maybe just come to terms that we aren't in the premier league any more?
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I agree with those sentiments, but it doesn't have to be liked does it? What's wrong with wanting Premiership football? What's wrong with wanting this shower of s**t gone from our Club? None of us have to settle for this.... Oh wait a minute...
 
olderskyblue

olderskyblue

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Nick said:
I guess you will be at the Xmas party to see about the next generation?
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Are you really comparing having a kids party with all the stuff JH used to have the club do? Perhaps you are too young to know all the initiatives he set up, although all the tributes after his death should have given you some idea I would have thought?
 
Nick

Nick

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olderskyblue said:
Are you really comparing having a kids party with all the stuff JH used to have the club do? Perhaps you are too young to know all the initiatives he set up, although all the tributes after his death should have given you some idea I would have thought?
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I was only commenting on the kids related stuff, not the factories etc.
 
Gint11

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It's a shame how ownership over the last decade + has eroded our club. Relating to the OP, we really have declined. 34 years in top flight football although struggling most years but with 2/3 memorable games per season against the big boys. Not once recognised at the time how precious them times were. In saying that, the game has changed loads. Teams back then who were never around or usueless, just look at the likes of Brighton, Reading, Bournemouth to mention a few.

We all know with the right ownership and manager, we could be a high end Championship club or a Premier league club again of which case we would attract 25K + most weeks. We just need to get rid of SISU and start again.
 
Nick

Nick

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Gint11 said:
We all know with the right ownership and manager, we could be a high end Championship club or a Premier league club again of which case we would attract 25K + most weeks. We just need to get rid of SISU and start again.
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Is that assuming the ownership is going to be able to throw silly amounts of money at the club? What is it based on?
 
Sky Blue Kid

Sky Blue Kid

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Nick said:
Because I don't know enough about the other bits to comment on those? Hence I only commented on that.
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No mate... You tried to make it all about the kids party.
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