Pros and Cons Sixfields (10 Viewers)

dongonzalos

Well-Known Member
Pros

Get the match day revenues.
Cheaper tickets
Better parking.
Puts pressure on ACL to negotiate a better deal with the club.
Stay away from the council whilst pursuing legal action against them

Cons

Club states it wants promotion (sure fire way to earn 5 million) Players admit it comes into their thinking whether to sign for Coventry or not. So on comparable wages Ricoh means you attract better players you get greater chance of promotion.

Crowds down to around 1500 so yes you get the match day revenues however that is less money than the lose in ticket revenues? Presumedly affects us for FFP.

Losing future Coventry fans the youth and those who are finding alternative things to do on their Saturdays.

The longer it goes on animosity is going to be greater against SISU so when we do eventually return this could have a negative impact on the swell on returning supporters.

ACL maintain they can survive without the club. The only positive if been at Northampton could be seriously hampered by this. If ACL can survive the bargaining position is not as strong.

The legal action seems to most to be futile and eventually most the costs will need to be paid back anyway this bargaining chip has diminished in the power it held 3 weeks ago. That was the time to negotiate.

In summary staying at Northampton is financial suicide I fail to see any logical argument for not negotiating now.

You can still offer to drop the legal action. You could incorporate the 590k into the deal. You get back in time for that Cardiff match and a near sell out crowd with the momentum the return will bring.

The squad gets a boost.

Wait till after August 7th or till the appeal is rejected what bargaining chip do you have then. The club that's it.?

Make the phonecall and make it now.

ACL if it comes, negotiations can bloody well take place including the 590k that's the point of a negotiation!!!!!!!!!!
 

Last edited:

hill83

Well-Known Member
There are no pros really. Nice to see another thread started by you though. Only read the title.
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
The pro is I can attend a game safe in the knowledge spion kop, jack griffin, no future with sisu and dadgad will not be polluting my atmosphere.

Edit: scrub dadgad - he doesn't go to the Ricoh either
 

dongonzalos

Well-Known Member
The pro is I can attend a game safe in the knowledge spion kop, jack griffin, no future with sisu and dadgad will not be polluting my atmosphere.

Edit: scrub dadgad - he doesn't go to the Ricoh either

Oi don't derail this thread !!! :)
 
Last edited:

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
the biggest con is the one sisu pulled on the FL by convincing them that they were forced out of the Ricoh and therefore definately homeless.
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
Pros: keeps money out of ACL's hands, therefore increasing their chance of going bust

Cons: keep having random bunch of thugs turn up outside my office tying ribbons and asking me for a drink
 

covhead1

Well-Known Member
The pro is I can attend a game safe in the knowledge spion kop, jack griffin, no future with sisu and dadgad will not be polluting my atmosphere.

Edit: scrub dadgad - he doesn't go to the Ricoh either

now there's a mature contribution to add to the debate:sarcasm:
 

sky blue john

Well-Known Member
Pros -
People of Coventry should feel safe in the knowledge that once a week all the citys village idiots are safely locked away inside sixfields in another county !

Cons -
That once a week those village idiots are closer to my house !
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
Pros -
People of Coventry should feel safe in the knowledge that once a week all the citys village idiots are safely locked away inside sixfields in another county !

Cons -
That once a week those village idiots are closer to my house !
You wouldn't say that to anybody who sets foot in Sixfields mind you.
 

play_in_skyblue_stripes

Well-Known Member
Pros

Get the match day revenues.
Cheaper tickets
Better parking.
Puts pressure on ACL to negotiate a better deal with the club.
Stay away from the council whilst pursuing legal action against them

Cons


Club states it wants promotion (sure fire way to earn 5 million) Players admit it comes into their thinking whether to sign for Coventry or not. So on comparable wages Ricoh means you attract better players you get greater chance of promotion.

Crowds down to around 1500 so yes you get the match day revenues however that is less money than the lose in ticket revenues? Presumedly affects us for FFP.

Losing future Coventry fans the youth and those who are finding alternative things to do on their Saturdays.

The longer it goes on animosity is going to be greater against SISU so when we do eventually return this could have a negative impact on the swell on returning supporters.

ACL maintain they can survive without the club. The only positive if been at Northampton could be seriously hampered by this. If ACL can survive the bargaining position is not as strong.

This is nonsense.

There are NO pros for Coventry City being in Northampton.
Please do not mix Coventry City with SISU.

This is taking balanced thinking to an absurd level Don.
I know you are fully on the side of Coventry City and NOT SISU but don't lowers yourself to even slightly legitimise it.

SISU are NOT Coventry City. I will repeat that SISU are NOT Coventry City.
 

dongonzalos

Well-Known Member
This is nonsense.

There are NO pros for Coventry City being in Northampton.
Please do not mix Coventry City with SISU.

This is taking balanced thinking to an absurd level Don.
I know you are fully on the side of Coventry City and NOT SISU but don't lowers yourself to even slightly legitimise it.

SISU are NOT Coventry City. I will repeat that SISU are NOT Coventry City.

It's more thinking about the psyche when someone is sitting there deciding whether to make a phone call or not.
The one list is outrageously long.

The other has only one point of interest in it. Staying there as a negotiating tool. Three weeks ago was the most valuable time for that.
Now is still a decent time with the money to be paid, the Appeal to be dropped and the start of the season still in grasp.
In two weeks time the negotiating position is much weaker.
 
Last edited:

torchomatic

Well-Known Member

torchomatic

Well-Known Member

rob9872

Well-Known Member
I may refer to the sixfields attendees as scabs but I think calling them prostitutes and convicts is a little harsh.
 

play_in_skyblue_stripes

Well-Known Member
Really? I'm a broken man.

I left Coventry 16 years ago for life in equally shared between living in Manchester and Australia.
For various reasons I hardly ever go to Coventry and to watch the "City" was one reasons to get me back.

No point getting angry about what SISU have done without at least trying to do something about it. So travelled down by train for the march. I really enjoyed the walk to Gosford park. As soon I got there saw someone who I knew from 6 years old who I grew up with and whose family was very helpful to mine in difficult times in the very early 70's.

People who know you from that age know you, doesn't matter if you have hardly seen them in 35 years. Our gang loved football, cricket and other stuff.
In fact our "gang" challenged Coventry City to play us back in about 72. Coventry City turned us down but invited us to pre season friendly and shown round all of the background of Highfield road. I still have the picture of the 11 of us with Eddy Plumley the old Coventry Secretary. We varied between about 7 to 13 years old at the time.

Anyway we discussed our what had happened to everyone in the intervening 35/40 years.

Straight away he said with disbelief that one of our friends went to shit fields. I was equally disgusted!

Great to see him after all this time and a real eye opener on life and how things change for everyone overtime.

So yeah 'torch' with your "not a broken man taunt", you are really hard and tough skinned but you are NOT a Coventry City supporter in my eyes.
 
Last edited:

Nick

Administrator
I would be more disgusted if one of my friends who was a grown man found it funny to say shitfields.

I know people who refuse to go, they know I have been, it doesn't really matter to be honest and I can't say it is an issue in either direction.
 

play_in_skyblue_stripes

Well-Known Member
I would be more disgusted if one of my friends who was a grown man found it funny to say shitfields.

I know people who refuse to go, they know I have been, it doesn't really matter to be honest and I can't say it is an issue in either direction.

Never meant to make a joke about name of the ground we have been moved too. In fact I'll take it back and call it Northampton. I'm actually a person who very rarely uses bad language but the aforementioned ground description has become everyday language on this site.

Pretty sure I've read some bad language from your posts.

What amazes me ,who is an administrator on a Coventry City forum, is so anti-Coventry City and pro SISU in their "commercial tactics".
 
Last edited:

Users who are viewing this thread

Top