New Stadium Announcement!!!!!! (24 Viewers)

[Nick]

Haven't scrolled through everything so if this is repetitive sorry

• If our source is right SISU have probably made several approaches to the University
• In retrospect they are an obvious partner - land / outside CCC area but in 'Coventry' / non-competing usage / scale
• Promotion may just have convinced the Univ that they can allow the talks to go public
• The commitment is so loose that either party can back out with no great loss of face
• You can bet they have identified a bit of land, but maybe not in detail. Or else it would not have got even this far.
• Univ might want leverage with CCC as well. Or might need revenue to replace Chinese students, who knows?
• I think we should call the ground Kenilworth Road ...... oh, maybe not.

Do you think the University needs leverage with CCC?

We are talking a whole new level of political power than SISU / CCFC would have.

 

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[Nick]

How long until somebody moans about playing in Warwick?

 

[fernandopartridge]

I just can’t see this as happening and it’s a bluff to force Wasps hand for a deal / stake at The Ricoh.

People moan that the Ricoh is shit to get too. Warwick Uni / Gibbert Hill on any given day of the week, let alone a Saturday at 3pm will be carnage. The A45 will be an absolute clusterfuck.

Spent years playing hockey at Westwood / Warwick Uni and travelling into there has always been shite. If this goes ahead we’ve done exactly the same as what happened with the Ricoh with regards to a shit location for all transport means.

Why would Warwick uni be in on a bluff?

 

[Nick]

Somebody else seems bitter too.

Funny really, they all seem to be in the Hoffman / Wasps gang.

 

[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

Somebody else seems bitter too.

Funny really, they all seem to be in the Hoffman / Wasps gang.

Has it been deleted?

 

[Nick]

No, It's Stuart Linnell..

 

[Nick]

Coventry City announce plans to build a new state-of-the-art stadium

Coventry Citys long-term future looks likely to be away from the Ricoh Arena after the club announced plans to build a new state-of-the-art stadium in the south-west of the city.

www.skysports.com

For now, Coventry's owners SISU remain in negotiations with Wasps over a potential third return to the Ricoh Arena next season. Failure to agree a deal is expected to see Mark Robins' team return to Birmingham City's St Andrew's stadium.

Is it me or would be the second return and not the third?

 

[Si80]

Well dont drive - use public transport and your legs! Problem solved

It's not though is it. From my house it's an hour on public transport assuming the stadium is located "near" Warwick Uni. That's on a good day. Add in 15K other fans trying to do the same journey using the same roads. It'll be gridlock.

 

[capel & collindridge]

Why would Warwick uni be in on a bluff?

I expect they will say its the same way we sometimes get bogus signings announced on Wikipedia! So, in that case, I'm curious why it has not so far been leaked on Wikipedia? ;-)

 

[Nick]

I expect they will say its the same way we sometimes get bogus signings announced on Wikipedia! So, in that case, I'm curious why it has not so far been leaked on Wikipedia? ;-)

Did their own website get hacked too?

 

[SBT]

I just can’t see this as happening and it’s a bluff to force Wasps hand for a deal / stake at The Ricoh.

People moan that the Ricoh is shit to get too. Warwick Uni / Gibbert Hill on any given day of the week, let alone a Saturday at 3pm will be carnage. The A45 will be an absolute clusterfuck.

Spent years playing hockey at Westwood / Warwick Uni and travelling into there has always been shite. If this goes ahead we’ve done exactly the same as what happened with the Ricoh with regards to a shit location for all transport means.

Lighten up - if we just have some positivity about this project, then we could be the next Shrewsbury!

Anyway, you don't need to worry, this new Coventry stadium will definitely, definitely have a railway station this time.

 

[Si80]

Why would Warwick uni be in on a bluff?

Dunno. What I do know is that they wouldn't be the first company to have "sold" land to a sporting team in Coventry and nothing come of it in recent years. IE Wasps & Severn Trent.

 

[torchomatic]

Stadium construction design changed a lot since Ricoh was built.

Thank God. When they give the brief to the architects, just say "nothing like the Ricoh".

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

Wouldn’t surprise me if wasps try to strike a deal with sisu for part ownership of the Ricoh after this announcement....so many different outcomes could happen lol hopefully we push on with building our own ground

 

[torchomatic]

Don't want to piss on everyone's parade but really can't help but feel this is a smokescreen. Dangling this in front of us because we can't negotiate a deal to play at the ricoh next season. They're looking at this taking 5 years and with so much to be negotiated, there are so many easy ways out. Basically what has happened today is 2 entities have sat down and agreed they are going to look into something which may or may not come to fruition. I can't tell you how many meetings I've sat in with large organisations and salespeople have claimed their deal is the next big thing and then nothing happens.

Would love to believe there is a clear route forward with this but I'm highly skeptical

I would normally agree but with the UoW being involved then I can't see that it's some kind of diversionary tactic. The University wouldn't get involved with any game playing. Not saying it will definitely be happening, but this is the most encouraging news we've had on a potential stadium in seven years.

 

[chiefdave]

Good news. Obviously remain highly sceptical but I can't really see why the Uni would get involved if it was just bluster from SISU. With the exception of the city centre / Butts, which would take a miracle, this is the best location we could hope for. Presume the plan, should we get that far, would be for the academy and training ground to move there as well, possibly sharing facilities with the Uni.

Road infrastructure is already being improved for access to the uni itself and there's been reports recently of a plan for a railway station for the Uni / Kings Hill as well as the prospect of the Light Rail system, although that seems a very long way off.

Any site is going to present issues but thousands of people manage to get in and out of the uni and business parks every day so I don't think there's anything insurmountable.

There's a lot of land on the Cryfield side where a lot of sport pitches currently are, whether alongside or in place of them would be my initial guess for a spot

Been walking the dog up there while there's no students about and the car parks are free. There's loads of building work going on at the uni but they have been doing some sort of surveying and testing on the fields by the new sports centre. May well be completely unrelated but that would be an obvious location. As well as the sports centre there's a load of what looks like 5-a-side pitches (not sure as everything is closed), artificial pitch and several full size pitches.

 

[clint van damme]

Traffic getting home can be an absolute arse most evenings but if it's followed three points in a stadium we own I'll live with it.

used to pick my son up from there when he worked there and sometimes I pick him up from Henley college.
Far worse trying to get to and from Henley. The whole city has an infrastructure issue so there'd be problems no matter where it was.

 

[clint van damme]

Why would Warwick uni be in on a bluff?

backhanders, and to take the spotlight away from the Russia report, common knowledge.

 

[torchomatic]

It's not though is it. From my house it's an hour on public transport assuming the stadium is located "near" Warwick Uni. That's on a good day. Add in 15K other fans trying to do the same journey using the same roads. It'll be gridlock.

What about the people who drive hundreds of miles to City games? Seems to me that if a stadium isn't within a nice walking distance for some fans then the plans are "not viable" or some other similar piece of rhetoric. Maybe they will consult you and lay on a helicopter or something.

 

[matesx]

What about the people who drive hundreds of miles to City games? Seems to me that if a stadium isn't within a nice walking distance for some fans then the plans are "not viable" or some other similar piece of rhetoric. Maybe they will consult you and lay on a helicopter or something.

I live in Banbury, I will get there.

Its only a problem if you make it one.

 

[torchomatic]

I live in Banbury, I will get there.

Its only a problem if you make it one.

It'll be a problem for you - and for me in Warwick. THere will be cars, lorries and stuff on the roads. You might have to wait to get in the ground. Sometimes it'll be raining too. And it'll get cold in the winter. Too much hassle. Boo, hiss, etc

 

[Nick]

I live in Banbury, I will get there.

Its only a problem if you make it one.

Warwick Uni is about 5 times as far from me as the Ricoh.

Like you say, you try a few different options to find the best one that works. It was the same getting / to from St Andrews (Try M6, Try A45 etc)

 

[torchomatic]

Warwick Uni is about 5 times as far from me as the Ricoh.

Like you say, you try a few different options to find the best one that works. It was the same getting / to from St Andrews (Try M6, Try A45 etc)

Yep, I went straight down the A45 to Stans. It was only in late January that I found a shortcut and went a different way that passed Heartlands hospital. Cut out a lot of traffic and the time to get there.

 

[ajsccfc]

Good news. Obviously remain highly sceptical but I can't really see why the Uni would get involved if it was just bluster from SISU. With the exception of the city centre / Butts, which would take a miracle, this is the best location we could hope for. Presume the plan, should we get that far, would be for the academy and training ground to move there as well, possibly sharing facilities with the Uni.

Road infrastructure is already being improved for access to the uni itself and there's been reports recently of a plan for a railway station for the Uni / Kings Hill as well as the prospect of the Light Rail system, although that seems a very long way off.

Any site is going to present issues but thousands of people manage to get in and out of the uni and business parks every day so I don't think there's anything insurmountable.

Been walking the dog up there while there's no students about and the car parks are free. There's loads of building work going on at the uni but they have been doing some sort of surveying and testing on the fields by the new sports centre. May well be completely unrelated but that would be an obvious location. As well as the sports centre there's a load of what looks like 5-a-side pitches (not sure as everything is closed), artificial pitch and several full size pitches.

This is the bit I could see them looking at, building over the existing pitches and locating them elsewhere may also a possibility as the new sports hub was intended to be the main part but with other sport facilities dotted around rather than it all being central

 

[steve cooper]

Was rumoured so foreplay to @WestEndAgro and anyone who dissed him should apologise.

Still not 100% sure they will do it. They basically wanna put more pressure on wasps. But good news . I rarely go to that part of the city so not sure how long it will take to get stadium but the club's issues are bigger than mine!

I know it was a good call by him, but no need to do that surely

 

[usskyblue]

FUCKINGJOKE ... hardly any closer for me ffs

 

[torchomatic]

FUCKINGJOKE ... hardly any closer for me ffs

Don't worry. Think of all those poor souls who will have to get public transport from the other side of Coventry. Your journey is nothing compared to their suffering.

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

This is the bit I could see them looking at, building over the existing pitches and locating them elsewhere may also a possibility as the new sports hub was intended to be the main part but with other sport facilities dotted around rather than it all being central

Exactly my thought process too.

The road that goes from the station down the straight mile (kenilworth rd) could then flank off. Would work pretty well as that boulevard should be easy to widen. Just need a few pubs built and we're good. Equally Kenilworth has a station too. Could make that join up. The track goes pretty close.

 

[Esoterica]

This is the bit I could see them looking at, building over the existing pitches and locating them elsewhere may also a possibility as the new sports hub was intended to be the main part but with other sport facilities dotted around rather than it all being central

That X is what the Ricoh pitch looks like by Christmas every year too, so we might not even need to do much work on the pitch.

 

[Evo1883]

Match day pubs, the sovereign, phantom coach, burnt post, varsity and Westwood social club to became the new supporters club lol... Let the away fans drink in Canley

 

[cc84cov]

Match day pubs, the sovereign, phantom coach, burnt post, Westwood social club to became the new supporters club lol... Let the away fans drink in Canley

Can you imagine tile hill & canley for the away fans

 

[Ring Of Steel]

FUCKINGJOKE ... hardly any closer for me ffs

St Andrews was a short hop from the airport, this would add at least 15 mins to the journey- #SISUOUT

 

[Evo1883]

Can you imagine tile hill & canley for the away fans

Fuck me within 5 years no away fans would come to the games lol

I'm still waiting for Ross kemp to turn up and do his next series in Canley and tile hill

 

[pusbccfc]

Most will drink in Kenilworth and hop on the train. Nice day out for away fans that.

 

[win9nut]

From the newer ones there’s not much to go on. Brentford’s cost £71m. Shrewsbury’s cost about £11m... but we’d be aiming for better than that. Luton’s is hard to find. But I think theirs is a whole complex with lots of other things going on there. Not sure how much the stadium was but there’s an article that says the whole thing cost around £200m.

Rapid Vienna's modular stadium cost just shy of £50m
28k seats

Looks nice though!