Conundrum! (2 Viewers)

[Otis]

Just suppose .....


1. A backer comes along.

2. They will put in £50m into the club.

3. They will only takeover if the fans are in favour and do so by a majority vote.

4. The backer is Geoffrey Robinson.



Would you .....

a) Not care who takes over and vote in favour anyway.

b) Vote in favour but do so reluctantly.

c) Vote against it.

d) Protest.


Any other options?

 

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[gouldberg]

To be honest the current state of our club with Sisu in charge I'd let George Bush and his dad take over CCFC. I don't think even they could be as thick as those currently in charge.

 

[Oliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

a) Not care who takes over and vote in favour anyway.

 

[Godiva]

3. They will only takeover if the fans are in favour and do so by a majority vote.

How would anyone hold a referendum to determine if a majority are in favour or not?

 

[WillieStanley]

That is a dilema!!! :thinking about:

I'd hide in a corner and put my fingers in my ears singing "la la la la" until the whole thing blew over.

 

[Otis]

How would anyone hold a referendum to determine if a majority are in favour or not?

How the fook do I know!!!



They could ask all season ticket holders to vote in a secret ballot!

 

[wingy]

How the fook do I know!!!



They could ask all season ticket holders to vote in a secret ballot!

Would always consider things relating to city ,so woul'nt choose blindly but personally there are no issues witn robinson as far as im concerned

 

[TheParsonsHose]

Welcome back Geoffrey all is forgiven. :wave:

 

[brinner]

a) Not care who takes over and vote in favour anyway.

 

[im-confused]

Can I come in to your fantasy world?

 

[Godiva]

How the fook do I know!!!

They could ask all season ticket holders to vote in a secret ballot!

Next years offer: Buy a ST and get two extra votes for free!

 

[Otis]

Fickle, fickle, fickle!

Better the monster you used to know than the monster you know now!!

 

[Otis]

Next years offer: Buy a ST and get two extra votes for free!

You know as well as I do that Geoffrey would just go out and buy a couple of thousand season tickets so he could vote for himself.

 

[Godiva]

You know as well as I do that Geoffrey would just go out and buy a couple of thousand season tickets so he could vote for himself.

As long as he doesn't take the money out of the £50 million ....

 

[Tonylinc]

An interesting question Otis. My view is that most City fans would vote for anyone other than Sisu and if that happened to involve Robinson then so be it. At least he has some connection and hopefully some passion for the club, unlike this lot. He would also have some influence on the Council and a part share of the stadium would be that much closer. I don't think this will ever happen whilst Sisu are around as I'm certain that the Council have seen through them and will never entertain them as co-owners.

 

[Nonleagueherewecome]

Read my mind Tony..I was just thinking "mmm, Geoffrey..I dunno, 50m is a lot, but Geoffrey..."

Then I thought: stuff it. I'll draw the line at Richardson, but on reflection I'd probably embrace a consortium comprising Thatcher, Hitler, Pol Pot and Blair if it meant seeing the back of SISU. And they'd be good at winning elections so we'd probably be running the F.A. in no time :claping hands:

 

[Wallace]

TOTALLY NO.

Robinson is the reason for all this crap. IF we didn't have such a big debt and when SISU bought us then they would have invested as much as the thais at leicester. They didnt cause the debt Robinson did.

 

[rob9872]

One from the top and five from anywhere else please Carol

 

[wingy]

One from the top and five from anywhere else please Carol

Rachel,. whaaw

 

[torchomatic]

Ok, would you rather have Richardson back?

 

[torchomatic]

Correction. Richardson.

TOTALLY NO.

Robinson is the reason for all this crap. IF we didn't have such a big debt and when SISU bought us then they would have invested as much as the thais at leicester. They didnt cause the debt Robinson did.

 

[Covstu]

agreed torch, richardson is the devil!

 

[torchomatic]

well, there you go. Some fans seriously don't realise how shocking our club was under BR. After him, SISU are ok by me.

 

[Otis]

Geoffrey was the puppet master, yet tis Richardson who gets all the blame.

Interesting.

 

[Covstu]

Hmm who ran away with the money from the ground and keane???

 

[Otis]

He ran away with Keane?

 

[rob9872]

Richardson had a contract where he made a slice on all dealings in and out so hardly a surprise on the inflated prices and high turnover which was the start of the ruin. As for Keane, I have no idea if this is urban myth but I understand we never had teh money to afford him and that he was bought initially for us with an interest free loan by Inter with first refusal and an agreed sale price hence the short stay.

 

[SkyBlueBlood]

So the choice is;

1. Sir Geoffrey who cares about Cov enough to write off millions of his own money to give it a future promised by SISU

or

2. Vote for SISU who have misled previous shareholders, continually misled previous Chairmen and Managers and more importantly misled and showed zero respect for the heart of this football club (it's fans).

Welcome back please Sir Geoffrey or anyone else who shows that amount of integrity and passion for our club.

 

[rob9872]

I don't think GR did quite as badly as you may think out of CCFC

 

[blueflint]

can i join your dream its better than mine

 

[Otis]

Better and probably not as wet!

 

[torchomatic]

Jesus, you are so, so wrong! I'm really amazed that fans exist who think Richardson is some kind of innocent party. While Geoffrey Robinson wasn't my most favourite of people, at least he did put something into the club. Richardson was take, take, take.

Otis, let's see why "tis Richardson who gets all the blame", shall we?

In our first season in the Nationwide (Championship) our wage bill was £18.2M, which equated to 111% of our turnover.


- Bryan Richardson earned £184,523 in the year he was booted off the board, compared to £633,193 the season before.


- Backed by Bryan Richardson, at a time when the Sky Blues were cutting back; making redundancies, players taking wage deferrals, Gordon Strachan sued the Club for £300,000.


- Bob Ainsworth on the end of the Bryan Richardson tenure: "Over a relatively short period they've come to a position where they don't own the ground, they don't own the contaminated land on which they hope somebody is going to be able to build a stadium and they don't own all their footballers.

- The club used to contribute £45000 a year towards his pension.

- In this last three years at the Club, despite his massive earnings he still borrowed the following amounts from the Club: £88,223, £79,214; and £59,418.

- Accounts also reveal that chairman Bryan Richardson's total remuneration package rose to £588,045 in 2000 from £217,432 the previous year - an increase of 170 per cent. Richardson's remuneration included a bonus for his work in selling the shopping development on the Foleshill [/SIZE]site where the club hopes to build a new stadium.

- At one time City owned their own stadium AND the land that the Ricoh was built on.

- The club was also paying £415,000 a year to lease back its Highfield Road ground which was sold to Maclean Homes. The club has extended its option to lease the ground beyond the end of 2002.

If SISU did even half of what Richardson did then I would be wearing a SISU out t-shirt myself. While they've undoubtedly made mistakes they (and we) are still paying the price for Richardson's greed. It's a shame that fans like you have forgotten how BAD things could be.

Geoffrey was the puppet master, yet tis Richardson who gets all the blame.

Interesting.

 

[Nonleagueherewecome]

Never ever forget what Richardson did to our club. I really do think he may well have been Satan, and in his biopic he will be played by either Ray Wise or possibly Jack Nicholson. They're the only actors alive capable of pulling off that evil grin.

If Geoffrey was on the gravy train, it was Richardson sat at the wheel steering.

Not that trains have steering wheels

 

[torchomatic]

Amen .

Never ever forget what Richardson did to our club. I really do think he may well have been Satan, and in his biopic he will be played by either Ray Wise or possibly Jack Nicholson. They're the only actors alive capable of pulling off that evil grin.

If Geoffrey was on the gravy train, it was Richardson sat at the wheel steering.

Not that trains have steering wheels

 

[Macca]

The thing that worries me is that I think any takeover of the club (unless it is a deep pocketed sugar daddy) is likely to end up as unpopular as the current regime. Look at what a new owner who needs to be frugal will do.

1/ Be stingey in the transfer market
2/ Keep wages low therefore struggle to attract players
3/ Sell anybody who becomes good (because that always has and always will be the case)

The only person who will be popular is someone that can afford to continually absorb losses and perhaps even increase them to push for success. Then its premiership or financial ruin, a big gamble.