Covstu
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No 3 please! It can be our training ground
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Brighton Sky Blue
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Good point I’ll get right on it
Broken Hearted Sky Blue
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Covstu
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Very good side although spurs were shite
Danceswithhorses
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It would probably have died a death, if you hadn't replied and therefore renewed it.
Somerset Sky Blue
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I started it....with no malice intended.
As danceswithhorses said, you've just bumped it up!
The Philosopher
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I know that this was huge nonsense at the time but with us now on the cusp of the championship it’s perhaps slightly less huge nonsense.
There’s some sense in building a facility at Brandon (keep with me) that houses a stadium for football and has an out-door “Red Bull Racing” karting track (outside the stadium) that becomes car parking on match days etc. There might be less planning issues if the principal use does not change from motor sporting with 20 days football per year.
I’ve heard all the arguments about “planning objections” but this may get round it. I’m unsure, but maybe.
Regular revenue for the ground through one stream (Racing). Maybe an angle having a motor racing car team based in Cov?
Just thoughts. (Awaits barage of negativity that usually prevents people from posting ideas)
The Philosopher
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And I’m not on about changing the name, just having them a shirt and stadium sponsors who own the venue in which we play.
Sky Blue Pete
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Not being looked at
clint van damme
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won't happen, Bill Gates is buying us. With Cov in our name he will use the club to promote his aim of developing a vaccine for the Covid 19 virus.
You heard it here first, see you at the Phylogenetic Research Arena, capacity 60,000, but with social distancing only 20,000 allowed in, in 2022.
The Philosopher
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Well with Red Bull being run by a Coventry City fanatic as it is, Red Bull with a history of investing in football, us having loads of stadia options (not) and us being a homeless club in the Championship (probably) where our chances of competing are helped by division rivals being financially built on sand (and ending up in Sunderland-like scenarios x 10) decent players having less options, the U.K. Government needing to encourage construction development to counter economic depression.
I can see why the notion is worthy of derision and nonsense about Bill Gates.
crack on.
clint van damme
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They were definitely taking us over 2 or 3 years ago. Never happened.
robbiekeane
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Would fucking hate a Liepzig kind of takeover or worse Man City style. No thanks. How any long term man city fan can look at their club now and feel any kind of emotional attachment/belonging I have no idea.
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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Man City’s owners have regenerated the area created 1000s jobs, and turned their club into one of the biggest clubs in the world.
to suggest you wouldn’t want that I would say you have no understanding of what Man City are as a club
COVKIDSNEVERQUIT
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I hear you, but nobody is going to stop me posting my ideas.
clint van damme
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They've had a lot of supporters who've been going for years chuck it.
Of course after years of living in the shadow of Utd there's plenty who are loving it but when you've spent years wearing your shitiness as a badge of honour and taking the piss out of your neighbour for their out of town support and commercialism when you're suddenly the all conquering global brand I'd imagine that's a bit of a head fuck for some people.
As a microcosm of the state of their support you only have to look at two of their most famous, the Gallagher brothers. Noel says he loves it, Liam says he preferred how it was.
Personally, if it was me, I couldn't see myself being anything but delighted with it.
They're a horrific gang of cheating cunts (the owners)
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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Same. I’d be basking in it
You know we’re about to vote to end the season purely because we’re top of the league...
I wouldn’t be upset with a couple of premiership trophies
hill83
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I can't believe you have managed to make me trick myself with my own fake link that I forgot about.
Why would you do this to me.
The Philosopher
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Because often the ridiculous becomes real. I mean, fifteen years ago the idea that we’d be homeless playing in Northampton and Birmingham with a London Rugby team playing in our ground sounded - ridiculous.
The idea 6 months ago that we’d all be locked up at home with the pubs shut because (maybe) someone in China ate a bat sounded - ridiculous.
I put forward a caveat - it sounds ridiculous, That maybe a Cov fan could see the potential of mixing football with motorsport on a motorsport site now that the world has gone batsh*t crazy and (as I think picked up in another thread) the situation has flipped that many other Champ clubs have got massive problems coming down the line. It might be the perfect time for us to go up. Stuff the Ricoh - it was weird (IMHO) and boring compared to scruffy (yet brilliant) HR.
Maybe using the motorsport angle to get to Brandon would be better than hoping to return to a soul-less bowl (Ricoh).
Just my opinion.
But hey, this is just a post on a forum. Sometimes the ridiculous becomes real.
ccfcway
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agreed. Watching Augero, Sane and Jesus up front every week in their new stadium. They must long for the good old days when Bradley Wright Philips was playing up front at Maine Rd in league one.
We are already playing our games away from Coventry with no sign of coming back..there's an argument to say "How any long term city fan can look at their club now and feel any kind of emotional attachment/belonging I have no idea".
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Not quite the same is it?
Tartan Specials
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Tartan Specials
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I get what you're both saying. Maine Rd was a fabulous ground, one of my favourite ever Cov games was when we beat them 3-1 in the cup (Bodiak(?)) scored in the last minute. A proper football club and fair play to their fans for sticking with them during the years of United's dominance.
Tartan Specials
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What do you think about sisu then?
Tartan Specials
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Goodison was a great ground unless you were in the away end, i.e. four foot below the surface of the earth and peering through a fence/ coppers legs! The one time I was there was an Easter Monday game in the Jim Melrose era. We lost 1-0 and I think there was 15000 there (maybe 400 Cov). Kids nowadays think that every EPL game is and always will be a sell out.
robbiekeane
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I have no doubt they’ve created lots of jobs. I still wouldn’t want coventry to become what Man City have. Each to their own I guess. For me when you are the richest club in the world like that and the expectation is to win anything and you just have the highest earners in the world playing for you and it’s just an Etihad advertisement...nah, not for me. Wouldn’t feel as attached and emotionally involved. Do you get what I mean?
robbiekeane
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I actually feel more attached and emotionally connected to my club than ever before, probably because of the terrible circumstances we’ve found ourselves in and still keep fighting on and we have fantastic support.
When we make it back I’ll be proud to say I supported them and went to games in league two league one championship and the premier league.
Frank Sidebottom
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Say what you like about SISU, But they don't hold office in a country where homosexuality is illegal and punishable by death and flogging, stoning and amputation are legal punishments and routinely jail women for reporting being raped.