If that’s what happened. No. But there’s no indication of strong arming and I don’t see how they could strongarm a third party business against their will.
Agreed.
Its been a stitch up since the council took all the money from the Tesco deal for the land.
The club cannot continue to be ‘enslaved’ by the RICOH indefinitely. Regardless of tactics, SISU were right that it was totally broken and unsustainable relationship between the RICOH and CCFC. Issues that wouldn’t go away when SISU leave the club.
Wasps, as an organisation, are vultures. They tried to take over Adams Park and kick out Wycombe of their stadium. Thankfully, their local council had the foresight of safeguarding their local football team.
Our local council, frankly, have let us down completely. In relation to the latest failed talks they put a statement saying ‘it’s an issue between landlord and tenant’, showing a total disregard for the club. Selling 100% of the RICOH to Wasps was, not only a stitch up, but has fundamentally put the club’s future at risk. Bad blood between SISU and the CCC does not excuse the total failure to safeguard the club (and CRFC, to a lesser extent).
Worst of all, CCC genuinely don’t seem to care about the situation CCFC finds itself in.
this!!
the council are the ones that held the power and drove decisions all along, simple as that!
they had the power to look after the club of this city and the supporters of the club during our hard times - through administration and relegation - and they chose to try and hold the club to a rent agreement that was far out of affordability, because the previous owners signed whatever they had to to get the funding to finish the build & expected us to be back in the premier league
they had the ability to either reduce the rent to a token amount and give the club match day revenue to help it survive , and they chose not to and force the club out of the city once
they then. had the power to put aside any personal differences and act as elected representatives Of the city of coventry and do a deal With the football club that has representated this city for over 125 years, and brought millions if not billions of pounds to the city, and they chose to be spiteful because they did t like the owners, and sUR ground to a franchise rugby club from London under dubious terms - a company that are seemingly ridden with debt, offer little stability and carry no history to this city....whatever way you look at it, that was unacceptable
and now it seems they are also preventing the club from now playing at the ground we built and partly paid for, because they are pulling the strings in the background to try and protect themselves from any uncoverings on that deal
and some are still trying to stick up for the council and say it’s big bad SISUs Fault ?
SISU were naive and guilty of not understanding the busines they had got themselves into, but they have learnt and seen the errors they made and have corrected them.
With the exception of the fa cup and the one season under strachan as ‘the entertainers’ I’ve not known such highs... and my kids certainly haven’t. They have backed the manager, invested in players and wages and secured 2 promotions and a cup win. The council should be professional and put the past aside and try to ride the wave with us and indulge the people of coventry, instead it seems their only interest is protecting themselves form any wrong doing...
if you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about! Let the rugby club do the deal
Can’t see it happening personally
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