Investment rumour. (8 Viewers)
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italiahorse
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Sick Boy
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Surprise, surprise...trying to stop any positivity or hope of CCFC being successful in the future. I can't think why you wouldn't want CCFC to move away from Wasps' ground? I guess your pockets would be a touch lighter eh.
Otis
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'Soon be some news' and 'be done with the London rugby club' are years and years apart, you do know that don't you?
italiahorse
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So Tim tells us.
No doubt there is more chance of reaching the PL with owning our own stadium but CCFC will not be owning a new stadium in the next 10 years at least.
What will be the difference between being at the Wasps Stadium or being at the Sisu Stadium? What incomes can we expect?
Try and seriously have a go at answering it.
I think we need to know this information before we decide to blindly go with a new stadium, or the facade of one.
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italiahorse
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Can't see how Sisu building a stadium, renting it back to CCFC and letting us have an income by negotiating with them is any different.
Unless you think 18,000 seater and outside Coventry is better ?
Your right, I would save money by not going to Rugby to watch them.
Malaka
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Far more watch the Sky Blues than Cov, Rugby fans are different ask any middle class snob, hence you take take your beer and watch the Wasps but you cant watch the City, there are a small minded bunch intent on causing trouble (remember Leicester in Earlsdon?) need I go on Rupert?
SkyBlue_Bear83
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I've said this before and I know its hard to grasp after all they've put us through.
I don't think SISU want us to be shit, charging us an extortionate rent and giving the club no revenues would just drive us further down the football pyramid as a result. There's no money to be made by renting out a stadium to a league 2 CCFC team with 6,000 attendances, not to mention any losses that CCFC suffer as a result would then have to be funded by SISU. It doesn't make sense.
There is however money to be made (or at least some recovered) by selling a championship club with a good manager and who have there own stadium.
Astute
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What is the difference between a rugger supporter and a football supporter?
Watching CCFC comes first for me easily. But if I couldn't watch CCFC and was going to a game as a neutral it would be a rugger game unless going with a mate for a day out who supports a different club. Some rugger supporters go to games where their own club isn't playing because it is a good laugh. Both sides drink together. Both sides can sit together. They get pissed together. It is a laugh from start to finish. The best away days I have ever had is when we get to mix with the home supporters. But it isn't very often. There is no snobbery. I work with more rugger players and supporters than football. If it wasn't for my love of CCFC as a neutral I would watch rugger not football. And I prefer watching football.
But before anyone says it I would never go to a game involving Wasps. I don't think I have to say why because it is bloody obvious.
Watching CCFC comes first for me easily. But if I couldn't watch CCFC and was going to a game as a neutral it would be a rugger game unless going with a mate for a day out who supports a different club. Some rugger supporters go to games where their own club isn't playing because it is a good laugh. Both sides drink together. Both sides can sit together. They get pissed together. It is a laugh from start to finish. The best away days I have ever had is when we get to mix with the home supporters. But it isn't very often. There is no snobbery. I work with more rugger players and supporters than football. If it wasn't for my love of CCFC as a neutral I would watch rugger not football. And I prefer watching football.
But before anyone says it I would never go to a game involving Wasps. I don't think I have to say why because it is bloody obvious.
shy_tall_knight
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Baginton is a long way (in relative football ground location terms) from any local population, with hardly any being able to walk to it especially having to negotiate the A46 even after the tunnel has been built there is only 1 access road. unfortunately the "walk up is key" if a 100% need to get their by car or public transport it won't work.
But wasn't you seen sneaking into a Wasps match :wave::sarcasm:
italiahorse
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I agree but I want to see Sisu's figures before I support a move from the Ricoh.
Their will be no stadium, seriously people "stop hanging onto the well it might happen but I dont think it will"
Stop being suckered into arguments of locations and will it work or wont it work.
Their is NO plans not even on the agenda, its all pie in the sky to keep fans on board.
In terms of supporting a move from the Ricoh, we should of never been lead down the garden path by ALL parties involved FFS and it should of been solely used for its main purpose and the reason it was built for, now quite frankly I fucking hate seeing wasps signs everywhere all over the damn place.
italiahorse
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They are our landlords and comparisons will always be made against the plans of our future landlords.
Johnnythespider
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For a minute I thought you were going to say the shape of their balls
I dont give two shits if their our landlords they have nothing to do with Coventry City Football Club and should of never been allowed to even purchase the damn place.
shmmeee
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Put it at Bishopsgate! Let's face it what's planned will never be built. The city centre needs a few buildings knocking down anyway.
italiahorse
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That's why I'm pushing to get our own stuff up in and around the ground.
We have empty walls in the changing rooms and tunnel. Why do people think that is ?
Because Wasps want to be inferior
Grendel
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Because we will get charged for memorabilia going up?
shmmeee
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Could we offer a group of fans that will turn up early and CCFCify the place? Then stay back and collect it all in? I believe we don't rent the ground for the whole day so it's quite a short timescale I think and would need a bit of manpower to pull off.
Sick Boy
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Because it is Wasps' stadium? The only thing that concerns you is being out of pocket when CCFC move away and the free tickets aren't given out any more.
Sick Boy
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All we need to do it ask nicely.
italiahorse
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Sisu should have bought it years ago and wasps should be coming cap in hand to us.
But it didn't happen so we need to get over it. Some will need a larger spoonful of sugar than others.
But their say no and put the rent up 20% then we will say but but then it will be another 20%
italiahorse
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...... prove it !!
italiahorse
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Sisu need to drive it and supply the materials.
But the changing room is solely ours and the walls are blank unlike the Wasps areas.
Nick
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larger wad more like
italiahorse
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If they say no then I'll agree with people but I suggest we haven't/can't really ask.
italiahorse
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Can't we delay it until Sisu say they want to sell otherwise it's fiction.
Like the new stadium then
shmmeee
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I don't think we need a huge amount to make a difference. We're pretty much breaking even and have a decent amount of Academy kids who can fill in, plus the odd decent pro.
I reckon we need a striker or two, a defensive mid a CB and a goalie. At this level you could do that for less than £3m. You'd see a hell of an increase in ticket and merchandise sales if we were near the top and even more on promotion. I'd say stadium aside we are at a decent place to buy in if the debt isn't going to be an issue. Who knows for around £5m investment you could end up with a stake in a championship side owning it's own ground within a couple of years. That's being optimistic obviously.