RB Coventry (10 Viewers)

[Terry_dactyl]

Both Cardiff and Hull made a massive fuss, regardless of league position.

I remember a Cardiff fan talking to me about how distraught he was that they’d changed to red and that he was taking a moral stance by not attending games. I highlighted that things could be worse and, for example, that we were playing our home games in Northampton.
He paused for a moment and just said “yeah, but we have to play in red, RED! We’re the bluebirds”!
The man was an arse.

 

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[Fergusons_Beard]

TBH it really doesn’t share that much resemblance with the club I grew up supporting ATM.

Blame Jimmy Hill’s Skyblue Revolution.

Pretty much down hill from then......



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[Fergusons_Beard]

Fuck it...its close enough

Electric Blue Army....


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[Fergusons_Beard]

Isn’t there a football league law banning sponsor names in team?

Although I know RB got round the same law in Germany.

Racing Ball Coventry City-anyone?


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[hill83]

Roventry Bity

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

Roventry Bity

I love a bit of Bity

 

[NortonSkyBlue]

Anything that protects the integrity of Coventry City and promotes progress then I would be positive of such a move, colors, even a tweak of the badge and a prefix of RB Coventry City would be acceptable to me, as it has been a moving feast in the past history of the club. Even better if we played in a stadium with Sky Blue seats and was sponsored by Red Bull emblazoned across the roof.
I know it is not a real scenario but if it was run along the lines of the other RB clubs with youth development, interactive RB player exchanges and general success on the pitch then it would be a hell yes.

 

[hill83]

I love a bit of Bity

Milk Cup winners 2024

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

Christian Horner, is a local lad who is Principal of Red Bull. Are Red Bull waiting for a championship return before a takeover, I’d love it just love it!

 

[Covstu]

Let’s face it, if they changed our colours to red and white. We would do some half arsed protest, a group of people not attend claiming Not one Red Bull More (NORBM) then we would start doing well and people will come back for some other piss poor excuse

 

[hill83]

I'd start a Monster phoenix club.

Monster United.

 

[Calista]

If we could have the kit on the left for home matches, I don’t see there being many complaints.
Can’t see any evidence that Leipzig ever actually played in the sky blue one though – maybe it was just a Pro Evo Soccer thing?

 

[rob9872]

Happy for them to change tge colours, name the ground, wouldnt even be bothered by RB Coventry City, but we must keep our crest on some form, certainly not their badge.

 

[hill83]

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/red-bull-latest-news-rumour-1776434

Can't actually believe it!! Telegraph at it again.

 

[Paxman II]

Be it SISU or Red Bull or anyone else the ownership is not the principal worry here unless they drive us to oblivion.
British Airways is owned by the AIG Group with a number of investors in it, including 25% by Qatar Airways. BA is still the nations flag carrier and operates as a very 'British' carrier.
Virgin Atlantic only 51% owned by Virgin. New cruise line Virgin Voyages, almost solely owned by the investment arm of Bain Capital, you got it the Mormon senator Mitt Romney, who still pulls the strings even though there is no actual CEO at Bain Capital.
The point is 'ownership' is less important that financial stability and the actual perceived business or football club remains intact. So Red Bull investment? Yeah why not.

 

[ajsccfc]

 

[clint van damme]

Be it SISU or Red Bull or anyone else the ownership is not the principal worry here unless they drive us to oblivion.
British Airways is owned by the AIG Group with a number of investors in it, including 25% by Qatar Airways. BA is still the nations flag carrier and operates as a very 'British' carrier.
Virgin Atlantic only 51% owned by Virgin. New cruise line Virgin Voyages, almost solely owned by the investment arm of Bain Capital, you got it the Mormon senator Mitt Romney, who still pulls the strings even though there is no actual CEO at Bain Capital.
The point is 'ownership' is less important that financial stability and the actual perceived business or football club remains intact. So Red Bull investment? Yeah why not.

You've totally missed the point.

 

[Paxman II]

You've totally missed the point.

Enlighten me...

 

[clint van damme]

Enlighten me...

It's not simply about investment, it's whether you would accept the investment if it entailed rebranding the club which you haven't mentioned.

I don't think any of us would turn it down if it was just investment with no name change, kit change etc as mentioned in the OP.

 

[vow]

It's not simply about investment, it's whether you would accept the investment if it entailed rebranding the club which you haven't mentioned.

I don't think any of us would turn it down if it was just investment with no name change, kit change etc as mentioned in the OP.

Agreed clint, but there is also a very, very small part of me that wants to do things slow and steady, which I feel we're doing at the moment....apart from the Ground issue...I like how MR/SISU have done in the last 3 years.

SISU have learnt from their mistakes on the football side of things, so credit where it's due.

 

[clint van damme]

Agreed clint, but there is also a very, very small part of me that wants to do things slow and steady, which I feel we're doing at the moment....apart from the Ground issue...I like how MR/SISU have done in the last 3 years.

SISU have learnt from their mistakes on the football side of things, so credit where it's due.

Sisus whole strategy in our last relegation season was disastrous and I agree they've learned from their mistakes and ground issue aside (though obviously that's the big one), they appear to be running the playing side well or at least giving Robins and his team what they need to run it well.

My worry is they are so secretive and unpredictable that they could quite easily switch back.
I'd prefer different owners but not at any cost. Not ones that would rebrand the club nor ones that get taken in by treacle town fanasists

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Of course we all remember those heady Singer days...

But the prinicipal is the same. There would have been people then who would have been absolutely against changing the name. Were it to happen and we became successful in 100 years time you'd get someone saying "yeah, cos we all remember those heady days as just Coventry City."

More to the point I mentioned the change from Bantams to Sky Blues, which is within some people's lifespan on here. The badge has changed subtly umpteen times over that period too.

 

[clint van damme]

More to the point I mentioned the change from Bantams to Sky Blues, which is within some people's lifespan on here. The badge has changed subtly umpteen times over that period too.

Those changes didn't include rebranding the club to include an energy drink in the name or an energy drink logo in the badge though.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

The infrastructure that you get from red bull would be helpful as all the teams are linked for training methods etc

 

[usskyblue]

KINELL. 3 pages on bollox that isn’t happening.

Time to put this Red Bull stuff on ice ffs

 

[vow]

KINELL. 3 pages on bollox that isn’t happening.

Time to put this Red Bull stuff on ice ffs

Agreed, but first add some Vodka please m8. thanks

 

[usskyblue]

Agreed, but first add some Vodka please m8. thanks

 

[vow]

Fair enough, ha!

 

[Flying Fokker]

RB Leipzig: How did Red Bull build a Champions League side from scratch?

First, let me say, NO truth / knowledge of this - idle consideration on a rainy day after reading the BBC report.
It is entirely fictional....but, given the current situation, who would be willing to have red bull takeover the club?

Positives - probably build a new ground (called the red bull arena), in Coventry. Money pumped in, so likely to be settled in championship or even perhaps a lower end premier team - all within ten years.
Negatives - renamed RB Coventry, kit change in colour, links to other foreign clubs (with us as a possible feeder in first few years)?

I personally can't decide....if we go back to Ricoh in championship next year, I can only see financial struggles in the future, without a real home.
If we are still in league one / st Andrews in the next few seasons, any recent momentum will be lost and the large gap between us and upper championship will just get wider.
Alternatively, other owners/new stadium in Coventry...all unlikely.

we already have SISU BULLs HIt

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Roventry Bity

Is our new mascot Sky Blue Scooby?

EDIT: Should've been Skooby Bloo.

 

[Paxman II]

It's not simply about investment, it's whether you would accept the investment if it entailed rebranding the club which you haven't mentioned.

I don't think any of us would turn it down if it was just investment with no name change, kit change etc as mentioned in the OP.

See no reason to rebrand the club wth over 105 year history. BA has not been rebranded for example. Yes there would be branding on the kit, the stadium and other areas but if you mean rebranding woud entail a name change from say Coventry City FC to Coventry Red Bull FC then I can't see that would be a likely scenario. even if it were the red bull element would soon get lost in translation.
It will always be Coventry City FC.

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

 

[Deleted member 5849]

See no reason to rebrand the club wth over 105 year history. BA has not been rebranded for example. Yes there would be branding on the kit, the stadium and other areas but if you mean rebranding woud entail a name change from say Coventry City FC to Coventry Red Bull FC then I can't see that would be a likely scenario. even if it were the red bull element would soon get lost in translation.
It will always be Coventry City FC.

What on earth has British Airways got to do with Red Bull's sporting strategy?!?

 

[vow]

What on earth has British Airways got to do with Red Bull's sporting strategy?!?

Red Bull gives them wings?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

I have wondered about whether Billionaire BSB would:

1. Buy the Ricoh and evict Wasps
2. Build a new ground
3. Build a new ground, buy the Ricoh and evict Wasps anyway