Would you go? (28 Viewers)

[CJ_covblaze]

And why wasn't it an option for wasps?

They came in, didn't mess around, put their cards on the table and did the deal.

No deception, no underhand tactics, nothing hidden, no legal action, treated CCC & AHT with respect and above all behaved in the correct manor to close the deal.

If SISU had behaved like that, this thread may not exist (no reason not the think that Wasps may have still approached CCFC regarding 50/50 ownership at this point) and CCC/AHT's ownership of ACL would've ceased in 2008 or perhaps later on.

 

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[dongonzalos]

Why is a long term rental deal with Wasps our best option?

Not just the best option the 'only' if you want CCFC to survive IMO.

To save me doing lots of typing.

Look at the alternatives for CCFC (not SISU) analyse them and compare them to a long term rent deal with as much revenue access as possible. Plus sharing common areas ( physios, marketing, shop, training facilities etc....)

 

[dongonzalos]

You really are fucking stupid, who the fuck will own our new stadium if it's built ever built, guess who , yes at last it will be Sisu.

my god you really are as thick as shit, and our debt will be well over 100 million by then.
What a great future you complete idiot

Depends who he is and what he means by your own doesn't it?
Unfortunately you are thinking about what is best CCFC

 

[SkyBlue_Bear83]

Take your point but if you remove the legal action out of the equation, how much are they actually losing? £2.25m (Wilson) + £300k (Juke) + retail (haha), ST, MD tickets, corporate and sponsorship = ????

I bet it's not far off the outgoings this season. If it's break even why sell it?

I doubt it covers all but yea exactly SISU have no intention of selling to anyone it seems so we have 3 options as I see it.

Build a stadium in Coventry - Doesn't look like being an option under SISU
Build a stadium in a surrounding area - Reaction on here suggests that would be a disaster
Enter a long term rental agreement with Wasps - Would cement our status as a L1 club with the odd year in the championship, as well as the embarrassment of playing in a Wasps branded stadium if/when they change other things in the future.

 

[SkyBlue_Bear83]

And why wasn't it an option for wasps?

They would have died if they didn't own their own stadium, obviously doesn't apply to us.

 

[SkyBlue_Bear83]

Not just the best option the 'only' if you want CCFC to survive IMO.

Ok thats fair enough, that would mean the bitching about our league status would have to stop though. We'd survive but we'd be a lower league club, would our fans accept that?

To save me doing lots of typing.

Look at the alternatives for CCFC (not SISU) analyse them and compare them to a long term rent deal with as much revenue access as possible. Plus sharing common areas ( physios, marketing, shop, training facilities etc....)

In my mind the best option would be to build a stadium within the city (assuming we remain SISU owned) , if SISU are open to selling then the best thing for us would probably be for Wasps owners to buy us and become part of that. I doubt Wasps owners have any desire to buy the club so then the next thing would be to sell to a person with ambition to build a new stadium within the city.

 

[dongonzalos]

Ok thats fair enough, that would mean the bitching about our league status would have to stop though. We'd survive but we'd be a lower league club, would our fans accept that?


In my mind the best option would be to build a stadium within the city (assuming we remain SISU owned) , if SISU are open to selling then the best thing for us would probably be for Wasps owners to buy us and become part of that. I doubt Wasps owners have any desire to buy the club so then the next thing would be to sell to a person with ambition to build a new stadium within the city.

I know where you are coming from and a new stadium in Coventry sounds great.

SISU have stated it will not be in Coventry. My issue with that is not to do with boundaries. It's to do with attendances. I don't believe they will get any.

I still don't believe a new stadium us a genuine option I think it us purely for negotiation.

I think if I am wrong and it happens it us about getting the investment back. Don't think a 12-15k stadium on Hinckley will ever get 60-90 million back.

A fantastic retail and housing estate will get the most money back.......

 

[letsallsingtogether]

Sisu thought they would get 6000 at sixfields never happened.

Wouldn't happen in their own ground in Beduff ether.

So our ability to compete with other clubs in this league would become even lower, lower attendances no sales in the shop and a big building debt to pay off.

Our local derby will end up being Nuneaton Town, well at least we will have the best ground in non league football.

 

[Otis]

No. Its not Coventry, its not the Coventry "area", its Nuneaton. A different town. Its not about distance for me. If the new ground ended up being in my home town of Rugby and a five minute walk from where I live and I still wouldn't go.

Call me pedantic (wouldn't be the first time tonight) but when I go to watch Coventry at home I expect it to be in Coventry.

This is where I am too. They can build a new stadium, but if it is in another town, or is much closer to another town than it is to Coventry,then that's me done.

I dare say this is the view of the majority. It's not about inches and borders, it's about whether it is closer to an entirely different town or city or not.

 

[Otis]

It doesn't feel like our home anymore, it's a wasps nest. Our badges dwarfed by there's. How long before the colour scheme changes and it feels like molineux?

Again I say, CCFC have said they have no intention of staying. Of course we are dwarfed and of course the scheme will change.

The only way things might not have changed would have been if we had said we intend to stay and want to stay.

 

[Covstu]

If it was at Bermuda I don't have a problem with the travel however are we not just knocking this issue onto yet other teams (albeit non league teams). This move would then affect Nuneaton and Budduf teams as much as the current situation will affect teams now.

The ideal solution would have been a 50% stake in the Ricoh, we could have really made that arrangement work. With this current situation, we will be the poor lodgers and we will see attendances dwindle.

The best thing the club can do is to invest in January and push for a playoff spot, this will bring people back through the gates on a Saturday and not on sunday. Success will ensure we have our fan base back, you are then in a stronger financial and bargaining position to make a more sensible decision about our future.

 

[Otis]

If it was at Bermuda I don't have a problem with the travel however are we not just knocking this issue onto yet other teams (albeit non league teams). This move would then affect Nuneaton and Budduf teams as much as the current situation will affect teams now.

The ideal solution would have been a 50% stake in the Ricoh, we could have really made that arrangement work. With this current situation, we will be the poor lodgers and we will see attendances dwindle.

The best thing the club can do is to invest in January and push for a playoff spot, this will bring people back through the gates on a Saturday and not on sunday. Success will ensure we have our fan base back, you are then in a stronger financial and bargaining position to make a more sensible decision about our future.

Good post Stu.

And 50% stake in the Ricoh has surely to be better than burdening ourselves with a multi million pound debt to build a tinpot stadium miles outside the city.

 

[Nick]

They came in, didn't mess around, put their cards on the table and did the deal.

No deception, no underhand tactics, nothing hidden, no legal action, treated CCC & AHT with respect and above all behaved in the correct manor to close the deal.

If SISU had behaved like that, this thread may not exist (no reason not the think that Wasps may have still approached CCFC regarding 50/50 ownership at this point) and CCC/AHT's ownership of ACL would've ceased in 2008 or perhaps later on.

That doesn't answer the question though does it?

 

[Nick]

Good post Stu.

And 50% stake in the Ricoh has surely to be better than burdening ourselves with a multi million pound debt to build a tinpot stadium miles outside the city.

100% of the ricoh is even better but it's not realistic is it? Maybe you should be asking why the recent offer for 50% wasn't accepted?

 

[lordsummerisle]

They came in, didn't mess around, put their cards on the table and did the deal.

No deception, no underhand tactics, nothing hidden, no legal action, treated CCC & AHT with respect and above all behaved in the correct manor to close the deal.

If SISU had behaved like that, this thread may not exist (no reason not the think that Wasps may have still approached CCFC regarding 50/50 ownership at this point) and CCC/AHT's ownership of ACL would've ceased in 2008 or perhaps later on.

If Sisu had asked for the same deal that Wasps got then they would have been ripping off a local charity and local taxpayers.

Your username says enough about your fluid view of Franchise sport.

 

[martcov]

Brilliant. It's ok for London wasps though.


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Are they coming too?

 

[duffer]

I can't quite get my head around this.

If Wasps' owners say it's move or die, even if its 85 miles, most seem to be saying that's fair enough. Some are even going to go and support them.

But if CCFC's owners say it's move or die, even if's just a few miles, the same people are outraged and would never follow the team again.

Personally that seems like the most remarkable set of double standards to me.

 

[martcov]

Have to move else we will die. Yada Yada all the wasps crap you keep quoting.

Er... That is Tim's line, coupled with 365 days revenue, bläh, blah, blah. Enjoy your parachuted in Club in Nuneaton.

 

[Nick]

Er... That is Tim's line, coupled with 365 days revenue, bläh, blah, blah. Enjoy your parachuted in Club in Nuneaton.

Nothing at all to do with my post is o
It? Funny though, you spend all your time justifying a club parachuted into coventry?

 

[bigfatronssba]

I can't quite get my head around this.

If Wasps' owners say it's move or die, even if its 85 miles, most seem to be saying that's fair enough. Some are even going to go and support them.

But if CCFC's owners say it's move or die, even if's just a few miles, the same people are outraged and would never follow the team again.

Personally that seems like the most remarkable set of double standards to me.

That's because we're Coventry City fans and Coventry City is our priority. Not that strange really that we would get more upset about our team moving over a London Rugby team.

 

[Nick]

That's because we're Coventry City fans and Coventry City is our priority. Not that strange really that we would get more upset about our team moving over a London Rugby team.

I can totally understand that, but surely people still wouldn't go out of their way to try and justify another team doing it? Fair enough it's another team it's happening to so people won't care, so why if they don't care about this other team go and watch or spend hours writing posts defending them?

If my house got burgled id more bothered than if it was bills down the road, doesn't mean I am going to start making excuses for the burglars and justifying it just because it wasn't my house?

 

[bigfatronssba]

I can totally understand that, but surely people still wouldn't go out of their way to try and justify another team doing it? Fair enough it's another team it's happening to so people won't care, so why if they don't care about this other team go and watch or spend hours writing posts defending them?

Very few people have defended the move.

There is a difference between defending the move, and just saying that they have done it in the right way.

IMO moving a sports club out of its home town is wrong, but, from a CCFC point of view, Wasps have done everything the right way.

 

[stupot07]

Good post Stu.

And 50% stake in the Ricoh has surely to be better than burdening ourselves with a multi million pound debt to build a tinpot stadium miles outside the city.

If wasps wanted us to have 50% they could of let us buy higgs share. It's not going to happen.


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[Nick]

Very few people have defended the move.

There is a difference between defending the move, and just saying that they have done it in the right way.

IMO moving a sports club out of its home town is wrong, but, from a CCFC point of view, Wasps have done everything the right way.

There will be a fair few thousand defending the move today when they go and watch, after all anybody who went to sixfields were defending sisu and backing their actions.

Don't you think it is strange the people who do go out of their way to defend wasps on here though?

I can also understand people only being bothered by it happening to ccfc because they don't care about wasps or any other team. Which is why it's strange when they are going to support a team they don't care about?

 

[skybluelee]

In answer to OP - not in a million years. As far as I am concerned if we relocate permanently to outside of Coventry they cease to be my team.

 

[Flying Fokker]

I live in the hallowed land 400 yards from the Oval. I can't see any move to Bermuda damaging the Greenbacks. In fact it will probably increase the interest.

I'm not sure I'm looking forward to non-league derbies. I remember

a crowd of 4500 against the Boro. The Sky Blues will be playing in front of those numbers and will probably be playing in the same league if they move to Bermuda. Why on earth would Skyblues supporters tolerate this? Surely The Sphinx or Coventry U****** would be better options under those circumstances?

The Ricoh was Coventry City. Butts Park Arena is about the right size now. Swap with Coventry Rugby Club?

The new venue would be even closer than the Ricoh for me. I will go.......But not as a season ticket holder and possibly as a neutral. I've had enough of SISU fc. This has been going on for far too long now. Enough. Low league mediocrity is a more honest game.(But not for me as a Sky Blues supporter) or the bullshit end of football they call the Premiership. It all stinks at the moment. Crap owners, crap stadium in the offing, disgusting treatment of supporters, a fanbase decimated by years of failure.....

 

[italiahorse]

There will be a fair few thousand defending the move today when they go and watch, after all anybody who went to sixfields were defending sisu and backing their actions.

Don't you think it is strange the people who do go out of their way to defend wasps on here though?

We just want to go and watch top class rugby and now it's on my doorstep.
Most of people I spoke to at the casino and the match are either going or doing something else. None argued against it.
I think most the arguments are that Wasps obtained our ground after we built it but could not afford to keep it.
It's not there fault.

I feel sorry for Wasps fans that can't be accommodated but I'm not going to fight their battles.
CCFC is my club so I will fight to keep it in Coventry.

 

[Nick]

We just want to go and watch top class rugby and now it's on my doorstep.
Most of people I spoke to at the casino and the match are either going or doing something else. None argued against it.
I think most the arguments are that Wasps obtained our ground after we built it but could not afford to keep it.
It's not there fault.

I feel sorry for Wasps fans that can't be accommodated but I'm not going to fight their battles.
CCFC is my club so I will fight to keep it in Coventry.

It isn't whos fault? Wasps? Proves my point really doesn't it when people say stuff like this.

Amazing how many people suddenly want to watch rugby, could have gone to the butts or Leicester?

I'm looking forward to a premier league team being moved in so we can go and watch them.

Funny how it was people who went to sixfields who were selfish for watching their own team, then you get posts like this.

Imagine somebody from Northampton posting this on here when we moved.......

 

[covmark]

We just want to go and watch top class rugby and now it's on my doorstep.
Most of people I spoke to at the casino and the match are either going or doing something else. None argued against it.
I think most the arguments are that Wasps obtained our ground after we built it but could not afford to keep it.
It's not there fault.

I feel sorry for Wasps fans that can't be accommodated but I'm not going to fight their battles.
CCFC is my club so I will fight to keep it in Coventry.

Once they've lost a few games I'm sure you'll flounce off, or at least announce that you are going to.

 

[Grendel]

Once they've lost a few games I'm sure you'll flounce off, or at least announce that you are going to.

I am waiting for a banner worshipping the Maltese franchise .

 

[Otis]

100% of the ricoh is even better but it's not realistic is it? Maybe you should be asking why the recent offer for 50% wasn't accepted?

Because there is a total distrust and total dislike of our owners?

 

[Nick]

Because there is a total distrust and total dislike of our owners?

So done out of spite then? It's all well and good saying the best option now is to buy half of it, it isn't going to happen is it?

 

[Grendel]

Because there is a total distrust and total dislike of our owners?

Strange as people seem to like hedge funds that pick up distressed and ailing businesses on the cheap all of a sudden.

Wasps do exactly what sisu tried to do and they are honest and transparent business people. Hilarious.

 

[Otis]

Not saying it is right, just saying there appears to be a massive degree of distrust with Sisu and both ACL and the council have said so much. I don't think it was spite, just that they couldn't trust them.

Trusting Wasps? Well, that's a different keetle of fish. Do we know much of them and whether or not then can be trusted? Time will tell I guess.

At no point have I suggested it was right to trust them.

 

[bigfatronssba]

It isn't whos fault? Wasps? Proves my point really doesn't it when people say stuff like this.

Amazing how many people suddenly want to watch rugby, could have gone to the butts or Leicester?

I'm looking forward to a premier league team being moved in so we can go and watch them.

Funny how it was people who went to sixfields who were selfish for watching their own team, then you get posts like this.

Imagine somebody from Northampton posting this on here when we moved.......

Have you never gone to a game as a neutral? If you were in Manchester for the weekend and had a chance to go to Old Trafford are you saying you wouldn't go?

That's all the people going to Wasps are doing. We now have a top European rugby team playing on our doorstep. If your a rugby fan you would have to be mad to not be at least tempted to go.

Doesn't mean they are supporting Wasps, just that they want to see the game.