Coventry, City of Culture 2021 (6 Viewers)

[Otis]

It's not even about the council, it's just that aside from the things I mentioned there's nothing really enjoyable or a reason for me to venture into there (personally). Obviously the heritage like the Blitz, Lady Godiva, Cathedral etc is also something to be proud of (if being bombed is something to be proud of). Now my daughter is at the age she is learning about it, it means going back over it with her with things like the Cathedral, world war 2 etc.

Most of the out of town shopping parks you mention are taking away the need to into the town too.

If the city of culture means there is more in town to make people like me venture in more then it can only be a good thing.

But the out of town shopping places on the whole are just that, shopping places.

In the city centre you will have the water park. There is also a cinema and a second cinema being built. There are two theatres, two museums, a climbing wall place an an escape room place. There is the old cathedral and the St Mary's Guildhall and Holy Trinity church.

That's going to draw people in. It's not just about shopping. It needs to be an entertainment hub too and that's what is now happening.

 

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[Nick]

But the out of town shopping places on the whole are just that, shopping places.

In the city centre you will have the water park. There is also a cinema and a second cinema being built. There are two theatres, two museums, a climbing wall place an an escape room place. There is the old cathedral and the St Mary's Guildhall and Holy Trinity church.

That's going to draw people in. It's not just about shopping. It needs to be an entertainment hub too and that's what is now happening.

That's what I mean, hopefully there will be more reason for people like me who have no need to go there, to go there.

The water park will save a drive to Stoke so will go there. Museums are very good but only something you can do a few times as year. The Cathedral is something realistically that once you have seen as a landmark you don't really bother, it is nice to walk that way round if possible and cut through it but not going to spend hours there.

 

[Essexyellows]

No dots to count but a hearty well done in the award, we may make the short trip to visit the wonders that it creates.
Those of us from a real "City of Culture" do admire the gritty aspiration that it is something that can be judged & awarded rather than naturally created. :happy::happy:

 

[Johnnythespider]

But the out of town shopping places on the whole are just that, shopping places.

In the city centre you will have the water park. There is also a cinema and a second cinema being built. There are two theatres, two museums, a climbing wall place an an escape room place. There is the old cathedral and the St Mary's Guildhall and Holy Trinity church.

That's going to draw people in. It's not just about shopping. It needs to be an entertainment hub too and that's what is now happening.

Agree wholeheartedly Otis, the city centre now has more people living in and around it with the growth of the university, this is driving more restaurants and entertainment venues to open up. Some people say too much of the city is being given over to students but I think it is the shot in the arm Coventry has been waiting for, we all benefit from this. We will only enjoy the City of Culture if we get out and attend the events that are put on, personally I can't wait for the R.S.C in the forest of Arden and the cathedral ruins.

 

[Moff]

Typically they are indeed having another bash at Jimmy Hill and of course we HAD to have cheated.

Sad, pathetic little bunch aren't they.

A lot of moronic posters as expected on the Sunderland Forum, the occasional decent one including the poster who constantly took the piss out of those that kept cracking jokes about the bid being delayed.

 

[Covstu]

This is really positive for the city but all the better for beating those makam bastards! Hopefully this has a real push on making the city centre a nice place to visit. Would be interesting to see how our city of Rugby plays out also!!

 

[pastythegreat]

Well done.

Apparently there is almost football style chanting going on at the Belgrade at the moment, with cries of 'Coventry, Coventry!'

Are you sure it was "football style"? We are in the city of RUGBY after all!!

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[clint van damme]

Are you sure it was "football style"? We are in the city of RUGBY after all!!

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they were chanting Coventry in a way that I've never heard it chanted at the match!

 

[pastythegreat]

Does this mean another 40 years of Sunderland moaning about the result ???

You do realise Jimmy Hill fixed last nights result right??

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[Skyblueweeman]

I'm not from Cov and have no tie to the city other than supporting 'our club'. But I was delighted for all Coventrians (is that what you call yourselves?!) when I found out. I was on a works Xmas do up in London last night and Mrs WM text me to tell me.

Great news and it can only be positive for us in terms of the council not wanting to lose a club in the run up to 2021.

Oh, and the fact that Sunderland are moaning as well, makes the result that bit sweeter.

 

[Otis]

I'm not from Cov and have no tie to the city other than supporting 'our club'. But I was delighted for all Coventrians (is that what you call yourselves?!) when I found out. I was on a works Xmas do up in London last night and Mrs WM text me to tell me.

Great news and it can only be positive for us in terms of the council not wanting to lose a club in the run up to 2021.

Oh, and the fact that Sunderland are moaning as well, makes the result that bit sweeter.

I am hoping both City and Cov benefit greatly from this.

And I hope Wasps are turned down for any aid due to not meeting the criteria of being true Coventrians!

 

[clint van damme]

I'm not from Cov and have no tie to the city other than supporting 'our club'. But I was delighted for all Coventrians (is that what you call yourselves?!) when I found out. I was on a works Xmas do up in London last night and Mrs WM text me to tell me.

Great news and it can only be positive for us in terms of the council not wanting to lose a club in the run up to 2021.

Oh, and the fact that Sunderland are moaning as well, makes the result that bit sweeter.

they think it could be worth between 800 million to a billion pound to the local economy so great news.

 

[Otis]

they think it could be worth between 800 million to a billion pound to the local economy so great news.

If they get a billion they can buy back with Ricoh from the insects and tell them to sling their hook!

 

[Deleted member 5849]

I'm not from Cov and have no tie to the city other than supporting 'our club'.

What kind of mentalist picks us to support without some kind of connection to the place?!?

 

[pastythegreat]

If they get a billion they can buy back with Ricoh from the insects and tell them to sling their hook!

Buzz off would of fitted better there

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[RB1992]

Farts.

 

[Skyblueweeman]

What kind of mentalist picks us to support without some kind of connection to the place?!?

A then 4 yr old who decided to follow in his Kenilworth step dads footsteps. That sort of mentalist! I was a Liverpool fan after my old man but when my folks went their separate ways, I started to follow Cov after my step day.

What a choice I made then, eh?!

 

[RB1992]

A then 4 yr old who decided to follow in his Kenilworth step dads footsteps. That sort of mentalist! I was a Liverpool fan after my old man but when my folks went their separate ways, I started to follow Cov after my step day.

What a choice I made then, eh?!

m8 so wot ur sayin iz u cud av supportid liverpool insted? aha u want ur hed lukin at m8 wtf hahaha

 

[Deleted member 5849]

A then 4 yr old who decided to follow in his Kenilworth step dads footsteps. That sort of mentalist! I was a Liverpool fan after my old man but when my folks went their separate ways, I started to follow Cov after my step day.

What a choice I made then, eh?!

Family at least saves your sanity ever so slightly

 

[Skyblueweeman]

m8 so wot ur sayin iz u cud av supportid liverpool insted? aha u want ur hed lukin at m8 wtf hahaha

Lolz, yeah m8. Ur so rite

 

[hill83]

I'm not from Cov and have no tie to the city other than supporting 'our club'.

You absolute lunatic! Why would you support us if you aren't from here. It better be an extremely good reason.

Edit: I see its already been mentioned.

 

[oscillatewildly]

A then 4 yr old who decided to follow in his Kenilworth step dads footsteps. That sort of mentalist! I was a Liverpool fan after my old man but when my folks went their separate ways, I started to follow Cov after my step day.

What a choice I made then, eh?!

Well, as the saying goes: "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger". You shall all have to excuse me now as I crack open a few more Brazil nuts with my eyelids.

 

[mullingar]

I am delighted like the rest of you but would just like to say I've always had a soft spot for Sunderland who have had to play second fiddle to Newcastle for so long. Of course some are bitter but I know many Mackems who are salts of the earth and like coventrians deserve better. They have been shafted by successive governments like we have. We should rise above 5he petty bickering and show some solidarity

 

[Speedies_Chips]

Yep and the nonsense of it all is all the people calling Coventry a shit hole.

We all know the city and have lived or traveled around the city enough to be in a position to judge it so and if locals do call it a shit hole, then so be it, but the odds on these Sunderland fans coming down to Coventry to catch a game, but then also deciding to spend a day in the city centre to have a wander round the cathedral ruins and the transport museum and St. Mary's Guildhall etc. would be quite remote.

They come down to games and it is purely based on location of the ground and the local area surrounding the ground, so around Gosford Green area and Ball Hill and Highfield Road.

All fans do it and so many journeys into grounds can take you past rough areas of towns and cities (Birmingham City, Stoke's old stadium, Blackburn, Villa Park etc.etc.).

Their definition of shit hole is based on the journey to the ground and the area surrounding the ground and nowt else.

Completely agree Otis. A few weeks ago when we played at Lincoln there was a group of 3 or 4 City fans outside the ground before the game singing "Lincoln's a shit hole, I wanna go home". They were embarrassing. I had spent a couple of hours earlier in the city centre and found it to be one of the nicest city's Ive visited in the UK.

 

[clint van damme]

Completely agree Otis. A few weeks ago when we played at Lincoln there was a group of 3 or 4 City fans outside the ground before the game singing "Lincoln's a shit hole, I wanna go home". They were embarrassing. I had spent a couple of hours earlier in the city centre and found it to be one of the nicest city's Ive visited in the UK.

some lads were singing it walking down a street in Barnet where I'd hazard a guess that you wouldn't of got much change out of 3/4 million for a house in that street!

 

[Deleted member 5849]

some lads were singing it walking down a street in Barnet where I'd hazard a guess that you wouldn't of got much change out of 3/4 million for a house in that street!

Money doesn't buy class...

 

[oscillatewildly]

I am delighted like the rest of you but would just like to say I've always had a soft spot for Sunderland who have had to play second fiddle to Newcastle for so long. Of course some are bitter but I know many Mackems who are salts of the earth and like coventrians deserve better. They have been shafted by successive governments like we have. We should rise above 5he petty bickering and show some solidarity

They started it :smug:

 

[Liquid Gold]

But the out of town shopping places on the whole are just that, shopping places.

In the city centre you will have the water park. There is also a cinema and a second cinema being built. There are two theatres, two museums, a climbing wall place an an escape room place. There is the old cathedral and the St Mary's Guildhall and Holy Trinity church.

That's going to draw people in. It's not just about shopping. It needs to be an entertainment hub too and that's what is now happening.

I’m not trying to be critical or put the city down but I would say, which city of any substance doesn’t have those things anyway. It’s great that Cov is improving but it’s improving to average as opposed to special. Hopefully this award will push it on to being something more.

 

[Otis]

Completely agree Otis. A few weeks ago when we played at Lincoln there was a group of 3 or 4 City fans outside the ground before the game singing "Lincoln's a shit hole, I wanna go home". They were embarrassing. I had spent a couple of hours earlier in the city centre and found it to be one of the nicest city's Ive visited in the UK.

It is.

Football fans seem to judge shit holes simply on the grounds, the journeys to the grounds and the pubs around the grounds.

Lincoln is lovely.

 

[Otis]

I’m not trying to be critical or put the city down but I would say, which city of any substance doesn’t have those things anyway. It’s great that Cov is improving but it’s improving to average as opposed to special. Hopefully this award will push it on to being something more.

I see it as special bits surrounded by shittyness.

 

[Johnnythespider]

A then 4 yr old who decided to follow in his Kenilworth step dads footsteps. That sort of mentalist! I was a Liverpool fan after my old man but when my folks went their separate ways, I started to follow Cov after my step day.

What a choice I made then, eh?!

It could have been worse, your step dad could have been from Sunderland

 

[Skyblueweeman]

It could have been worse, your step dad could have been from Sunderland

***shudders at the thought***


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[Macca]

I am incredibly proud of my home town and this opportunity. Said it many times too many people are obsessed by the city centre. Yes it isn't great but it's only a small part of a big city. Take it as a whole and as somewhere to reside and it stacks up pretty well. You get people shooting their load about Birmingham or Newcastle or Liverpool but they are taking about the centres. All of those places have suberbs thst make ours look like playschool. Look at good old London outside of zones 1 and 2,shithole, kids under 16 stabbing each other and chucking acid in people's face to rob a couple of hundred quid. Give me good old Cov anytime

 

[shmmeee]

they were chanting Coventry in a way that I've never heard it chanted at the match!

You mean they were happy?

 

[letsallsingtogether]

I’m not trying to be critical or put the city down but I would say, which city of any substance doesn’t have those things anyway. It’s great that Cov is improving but it’s improving to average as opposed to special. Hopefully this award will push it on to being something more.

Well it might be average in your eyes but to me everything about it is special.
Love the place have never wanted to leave.