Would you go? (5 Viewers)

[spider_ricoh]

Yes might as well, pointless protesting as there seems to be zero appetite for it.

Personally I don't understand why every city fan doesn't feel as strongly about wasps being here as me, Ashdown, chiefdave, duffer, michael, torch, Grendel, covmark, etc.

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I'm massively in favour of the Wasps deal if only because it wipes out SISU's attempt to get the Ricoh. The new ground will never happen - give it a while and SISU will leave and our long term residence at the Ricoh will be confirmed. People who disagree seem to fall into two camps - camp one is those who moan about "franchising" as if football is in some way comparable to rugby, and the second is people with a pathological hatred of the council who think that CCFC has in some way been "screwed over".

As CCFC fans we should only care about ourselves - our deal at the Ricoh hasn't changed and we should negotiate to extend our lease on favourable terms, which would suit all parties. Except those who love SISU of course! The priority has to be to thwart their vile attempt to use brute force to get the Ricoh. With this gone, they'll soon leave as there is no reason for them to stick around.

 

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[Nick]

So fucking what if people decide to go and watch, did you go to Sixfields?

I am getting confused by peoples answers lately on here, some say that moving teams to different places is wrong, some say its the mileage. some say that people shouldn't go and watch because it's wrong, some literally froth at the mouth about how wrong franchise is in sport. I wonder, did those same people who cannot shut up about it and how wrong it is go and watch CCFC when Marlon King who is a convicted woman beater and convicted sexual attacker play for us. I cannot work out what people think is worse on here and why

Nothing is wrong if the normal bloke wants to go and watch, however if said person abused or had digs at city fans at sixfields then it makes them look a bit silly no?

 

[The Gentleman]

Yes might as well, pointless protesting as there seems to be zero appetite for it.

Personally I don't understand why every city fan doesn't feel as strongly about wasps being here as me, Ashdown, chiefdave, duffer, michael, torch, Grendel, covmark, etc.

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Maybe because everyone doesn't share your views. Maybe people have other more important things in their lives to get in a hissy fit about. Maybe people are more bothered why our owners are the biggest threat to our club and would rather vent their anger there.

 

[The Gentleman]

Nothing is wrong if the normal bloke wants to go and watch, however if said person abused or had digs at city fans at sixfields then it makes them look a bit silly no?

With you now, so your posts are aimed directly at the people who called Sixfield goers scabs or hypocrites. Is it alright then for people like Stupot to use the term 'hypocrites' about people going to watch Wasps today without actually knowing everyones who is there and their reason for going?

 

[dongonzalos]

Nothing is wrong if the normal bloke wants to go and watch, however if said person abused or had digs at city fans at sixfields then it makes them look a bit silly no?

If their digs about Sixfields was about Franchising in sport. (Which Sixfields wasn't) then yes.
If their digs were dont go to Sixfields if you want us back quicker and now they are going to Wasps then no I don't think they look silly

 

[martcov]

Nothing is wrong if the normal bloke wants to go and watch, however if said person abused or had digs at city fans at sixfields then it makes them look a bit silly no?

Does that mean that all those who abuse or made digs at the "defenders" of Wasps on the basis that moving a club to another town is "just wrong", will look now look a bit silly traipsing to Nuneaton to watch a "parachuted in " league 1 side?

 

[skybluetony176]

Yes might as well, pointless protesting as there seems to be zero appetite for it.

Personally I don't understand why every city fan doesn't feel as strongly about wasps being here as me, Ashdown, chiefdave, duffer, michael, torch, Grendel, covmark, etc.

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Did all of those names and yourself protest outside the council house with LAST and BHSB when CCC had their meeting to approve the deal?

Personally I dont understand why 2000 odd CCFC fans didn't feel as strongly as me about CCFC being in Northampton and boycott it. But their you go.

 

[Otis]

Maybe because everyone doesn't share your views. Maybe people have other more important things in their lives to get in a hissy fit about. Maybe people are more bothered why our owners are the biggest threat to our club and would rather vent their anger there.

And people simply aren't as angry cos it's a different sport and we are football fans and Coventry City fans. Our priority is our football team.

I didn't want Wasps here, but now they are here I am hardly going to beat myself up over it, get angry over it, or protest against it. It's happened and we just have to deal with it.

The easy answer is to not go and not follow any match threads and simply talk about our own football team.

 

[CJ_covblaze]

That doesn't answer the question though does it?

And I notice you still haven't replied to my 'Wembley FC' post yet either.

 

[martcov]

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

No, not all my time. Fact is Wasps tried to get a bigger stadium built in Wycombe, but the residents scuppered that plan. They were losing money and are of the opinion that, playing in a small stadium in a small town does not allow them to achieve sporting or financial success. They are moving to a larger stadium with facilities that bring them 365 days a a year revenue. They will also benefit from naming rights and a new station being built. So, it was either go bust or move. On the other hand, we have owners that annoyed the owners of a premier league stadium to the point that they were glad to see the back of us. These owners are now doing exactly the opposite of Wasps. They are leaving a stadium which fits their needs and parachuting the team into a small town, with an existing football club, building a smaller stadium for lots of money and putting the club into a position where gates will fall and there is no possibility of increasing them to premier league sustainability level. Not to mention that all the fans on here who refused to even acknowledge that there is no great protest movement amongst wasps fans against the move, will now follow their leaders into oblivion and watch a "parachuted in" "franchise" team in some other football club's small town. No, I am not a hypocrite as I can see a case
for Wasps bettering themselves, but I cannot see a case for our club being franchised off to Nuneaton or elsewhere and condemned to the lower leagues forever. There are however enough hypocrites on here. PS I do not think it will ever happen though...

 

[robbiethemole]

I aint going today, but then again it is live on BT Sport. I know quite a few who are going, including players from my son's team Rugby Lions, that wont turn down a chance to see top flight games.

People on here dont seem to realise rugby fans aren't as partisan as we are, like I could never go to watch Fetsa unless City were playing and I would never set foot in V.... Park .

Perhaps our energy should be used trying to fook SISU off and out for all the damage they have inflicted on our Club....................just an aside Fisher was spotted in Subway on Gallagher trying to buy sandwiches for the shop staff, and his credit card was declined and he had to send the lad with him back to get cash. obviously he's not cash positive.:jerkit:

 

[The CableGuy]

I know it's been asked before but with the new rumours and recent events and the backlash from some on here, who would go to watch Coventry City FC play permanently in Nuneaton?

Also, would it still feel like CCFC?

No, and no. It would be hypocritical if we moved into Nuneaton, I'm sure Nuneaton Town would love a Football League team dumped into their town.

 

[SkyBlue_Bear83]

No, not all my time. Fact is Wasps tried to get a bigger stadium built in Wycombe, but the residents scuppered that plan. They were losing money and are of the opinion that, playing in a small stadium in a small town does not allow them to achieve sporting or financial success. They are moving to a larger stadium with facilities that bring them 365 days a a year revenue. They will also benefit from naming rights and a new station being built. So, it was either go bust or move. On the other hand, we have owners that annoyed the owners of a premier league stadium to the point that they were glad to see the back of us. These owners are now doing exactly the opposite of Wasps. They are leaving a stadium which fits their needs and parachuting the team into a small town, with an existing football club, building a smaller stadium for lots of money and putting the club into a position where gates will fall and there is no possibility of increasing them to premier league sustainability level. Not to mention that all the fans on here who refused to even acknowledge that there is no great protest movement amongst wasps fans against the move, will now follow their leaders into oblivion and watch a "parachuted in" "franchise" team in some other football club's small town. No, I am not a hypocrite as I can see a case
for Wasps bettering themselves, but I cannot see a case for our club being franchised off to Nuneaton or elsewhere and condemned to the lower leagues forever. There are however enough hypocrites on here. PS I do not think it will ever happen though...

You said the other day, you didn't care about Wasps. Why are you defending them?

 

[Nick]

With you now, so your posts are aimed directly at the people who called Sixfield goers scabs or hypocrites. Is it alright then for people like Stupot to use the term 'hypocrites' about people going to watch Wasps today without actually knowing everyones who is there and their reason for going?

My digs are aimed at the people who had digs, I have said in other posts if random bill from radford wants to go and watch then of course. As well as wasps fans I hope they have a great day.

I really should do a disclaimer but yes that's what they are aimed at

If people were on her giving People stick then of course people will say something when they come on going on about wasps.

In terms of hypocrites, a random rugger fan of course isnt. Somebody on here giving people shit for sixfields could be classed as that.

 

[CJ_covblaze]

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.

Couldn't agree more. You're right some will have said that. If they had accepted the deal though laid on by SISU it's like me accepting a bid from you for my house at a reduced rate and my mates having a go at you for accepting the deal. Who's fault is that?

Yes Hockey is a franchised sport, football isn't. In hockey you can move a club from it's community (isn't liked in all cases and is rare), you only get put in the penalty box for two minutes for hitting someone with your stick across the chest, get put in there for 5 minutes for decking someone and get no penalty for flattening a player against the boards. None of these things are remotely acceptable in football because it's a different sport.

I've gone into the reasons behind our move before. I won't go into it too far and bore everyone this time so I'll be brief. We had no choice. The rink was falling to bits and we weren't able to renovate it or build a new facility in Solihull. The fans accepted the move, most continued to support the club in Coventry and continue do so now (I fall into all 3 of these brackets).

It's similar to Wasps in a way. Fans are behind it and they've bettered themselves.

None of the above applies to our move to Bermuda.

 

[chiefdave]

This is one of the most bizarre threads I've ever seen on here, and that's saying something! Posters who are openly welcoming Wasps but will never go to one of our games again if we're a centimetre over the city boundary.

To answer the original question if this rumoured site materialises I wouldn't have a problem with it. CCC, by selling to Wasps, have given a vlid reason for SISU to now pursue a plan to build a stadium in the 'Coventry area'. My preference by far would be in the city but I'm not going to refuse to go because it's 10 mins over the boundary.

To be honest the wife would kill me if I uprooted the family to move closer to Cov on the basis I'll be able to get a season ticket and go to every game and then tell her I'm not going to bother as they've built a new stadium a couple of miles away!

Dean Court cost less than £10m when they completely rebuilt it and holds around 12K I think. Something like that would do me. Wonder how much they could get the cost down if they used temporary stands similar to Fulham.

Going to Sixfields was damaging CCFC (IMO). Going to Wasps makes no difference to CCFC.

What happens if nobody from the local area goes to support Wasps, does that not mean their plan will fail and raise the chance of ACL being put up for sale? Surely that would be a benefit to CCFC if it happened?

Wasps were already playing out of their home city and had been for some considerable time.

So if SISU had purchased Nene Park at the end of last season and moved us there that would have been fine. After all we were already playing out of our home city.

I'm massively in favour of the Wasps deal if only because it wipes out SISU's attempt to get the Ricoh.

So you're happy for long term damage to be done to our club because it causes some short term issues for SISU?

 

[Macca]

I just looking forward to an afternoon not sittingl with a load of glazed eyed red faced goons who seem to think it is acceptable to use the word c**t as a punctuation mark

 

[Nick]

I just looking forward to an afternoon not sittingl with a load of glazed eyed red faced goons who seem to think it is acceptable to use the word c**t as a punctuation mark

Skipping the in laws visit this week? *



*I don't know them, but couldn't resist

 

[dongonzalos]

A move to Nuneaton would really upset those who want a campaign against wasps on the basis of how it impacted on Cov Rugby Club.
It would put them in a horrible position not going to watch CCFC because of the impact on the smaller local already established football club. Or they go anyway and get called hypocrites. Not a nice position to be put in.

 

[Nick]

A move to Nuneaton would really upset those who want a campaign against wasps on the basis of how it impacted on Cov Rugby Club.
It would put them in a horrible position not going to watch CCFC because of the impact on the smaller local already established football club. Or they go anyway and get called hypocrites. Not a nice position to be put in.

How many nuneaton fans would we steal by moving 2 miles closer do you think? If they were that interested, wouldn't they be going now?

Genuine question, not saying you are wrong

 

[RFC]

I know it's been asked before but with the new rumours and recent events and the backlash from some on here, who would go to watch Coventry City FC play permanently in Nuneaton?

Also, would it still feel like CCFC?

Less than 4 miles away with a CV postcode!

YES, YES, YES, YES

 

[chiefdave]

A move to Nuneaton would really upset those who want a campaign against wasps on the basis of how it impacted on Cov Rugby Club.
It would put them in a horrible position not going to watch CCFC because of the impact on the smaller local already established football club. Or they go anyway and get called hypocrites. Not a nice position to be put in.

I can't imagine us moving a couple of miles down the road having a huge impact on Bedworth or Nuneaton's attendances but if either club were to object then that would have to be taken on board. And that's a key difference, our potential move to Bermuda would allow for a consultation period with the opportunity for people to object. CRFC didn't get that with Wasps being dropped in the way there were.

Wasn't there talk a while back that NT were looking to leave Liberty Way or was that just speculation on here? If so they may even consider a ground share, stranger things have happened! Not sure their fans would be up for playing a CCFC branded ground the same as I don't want us playing in a Wasps branded ground.

 

[RFC]

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.

Brilliant but OK for London Wasps to play in Coventry? Priceless

 

[skybluetony176]

My digs are aimed at the people who had digs, I have said in other posts if random bill from radford wants to go and watch then of course. As well as wasps fans I hope they have a great day.

I really should do a disclaimer but yes that's what they are aimed at

If people were on her giving People stick then of course people will say something when they come on going on about wasps.

In terms of hypocrites, a random rugger fan of course isnt. Somebody on here giving people shit for sixfields could be classed as that.

So using that logic if Nuneaton and Bedworth Council ship in an out of town football team from the professional leagues you'll have the same problem with anyone who attends that have had a go at people on here who are going to go to Wasps today?

 

[skybluetony176]

Brilliant but OK for London Wasps to play in Coventry? Priceless

I've said that have I?

No! So shut the fuck up you idiot!

 

[skybluetom]

I'd sooner shit in my hands and clap than go and watch the franchised shite.

I find the hypocrisy of certain people on this absolutely staggering, not least Coventry Council.

Given we now need to move 'coz we haven't got a ground, where shall we franchise ourselves to? It's acceptable to go anywhere as long as it's deemed necessary, apparently. If it goes badly for Cov might get myself an MK Dons season ticket.

 

[RFC]

To you,but then again you were very happy at Sixfields and would have been content to stay there. To most of fans the Ricoh was home but then again you would be very happy if the ground was in Nuneaton and if it is you'll have the same number as went to Sixfields. You would love that wouldn't you?

Was not happy at Sixfields and NO I wouldn't have wanted to stay there. Always temporary!

 

[RFC]

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

If the club can't afford to build it then the owners will have to fund it, whoever they are and whether that's SISU or not.

The obsession with the owners is ridiculous, how many of our previous owners have done a good job or who I've liked? UM!

 

[Astute]

The obsession with the owners is ridiculous

You are right. Especially when someone keeps making excuses for them and makes out they know something when they don't. Or listen to the bullshit that they come out with......like a new stadium and then make out that you know it is happening.

 

[Sick Boy]

No, it's Ricoh or nothing for me. It's our home.

haha..no it's not, it's Wasps home. Still cosying up in the hope of getting free tickets?

 

[SkyBlue_Bear83]

I just looking forward to an afternoon not sittingl with a load of glazed eyed red faced goons who seem to think it is acceptable to use the word c**t as a punctuation mark

You may be disappointed, I'd say 70% of the crowd today will have been to a Cov match withing the last 2 years.

 

[Sick Boy]

It is, but as steves said he's going tomorrow, and has been quite active in defending wasps moving to the ricoh, it seems a bit hypocritical to me.


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Once again, shows the Sky Blue Trust is not fit for purpose.

 

[SkyBlue_Bear83]

Once again, shows the Sky Blue Trust is not fit for purpose.

A prime example of why fan ownership here would not work, they'd immediately sign us up to a 100 year rent deal paying 2 million a year with no revenues at the Ricoh. Then pat themselves on the back for securing the future of the club inside Coventry an proclaiming what a wonderful day it is for the club.

 

[dongonzalos]

How many nuneaton fans would we steal by moving 2 miles closer do you think? If they were that interested, wouldn't they be going now?

Genuine question, not saying you are wrong

To be honest with I don't think hardly any. I thought the same about Cov Rugby club as well. However I can't see how someone who thinks wasps coming will have a massive impact on CRFC wouldn't think the same about CCFC arriving in Nuneaton.

 

[Sick Boy]

A prime example of why fan ownership here would not work, they'd immediately sign us up to a 100 year rent deal paying 2 million a year with no revenues at the Ricoh. Then pat themselves on the back for securing the future of the club inside Coventry an proclaiming what a wonderful day it is for the club.

hear hear!