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I'd say 4 years for a civil engineering project of that scale is implicitly assuming some delays anyway. Can you imagine 4 years of the diversions that the project requires? I'd say breaking ground to completion should be under 18 months, if for no other reason than it'd just be too disruptive...

Funnily enough I made this a few years back, when I was messing around with the club logo and we still had Nike kits (this was before they used this template for the playoff final).

I’d say anyone living in Finham has had a good run not having any houses pop up in their area in the past 40 years, when that whole area was obviously ripe for a development. Still, it’s not all bad, and I don’t think it’ll make the area worse. But what do I know, I live in London so I’m...

There’s two main components here — the A46 Strategic Link Road, and the new A46 Stoneleigh Roundabout. Both of these are already in the advanced planning stages and in the latter case already has £18m of funding allocated for it. Then there’s the Coventry South railway station (which would be...

The problem with any proposal like this is it tries to treat this particular division as a vacuum, when it’s not. The whole English football pyramid is connected, and thus so are its finances. The TV revenue of the Premier League should be more equitably distributed, at which point parachute...

I wonder whether the solution wouldn’t be a phased budget changeover multiple seasons. First season after relegation from Champ to L1: £12m, second £6m, then £2.5m from third onwards?

Being out of the city for so many years I don’t hear about most of these developments until they’re built, but it’s interesting reading about that development - I always thought the best site for a new stadium would be where West Orchards is today. Knock it down, build another complex in its...

Somebody posted a PDF of the plans for the A46 Stoneleigh Junction work in another thread, and it contains this map. As you can see the dotted brown line is the VLR as planned, which lined up with a loop along Kenilworth Road as far as Kenpas Hwy, then back around to the city centre. The...

I’d say all of these were fair concerns if it wasn’t for the fact there’s a ton of infrastructure redevelopment already in motion. It’s actually extremely savvy of SISU to pick this site with this in mind: in ~5 years time there could be the new A46 Stoneleigh Junction, the A46 Strategic Link...

Sure, but the turning circle is much broader, so you can’t navigate narrower or twisty roads. I couldn’t see a tram making its way along Gibbet Hill Road - especially with a load of match day traffic clogging it up.

In a nutshell, south of Gibbet Hill Road is Warwick, north is Coventry.

I spent a lot of time poring over the maps today to see if any of the existing plans for the VLR might take it near the stadium, and they don’t. The best guess I have is it’d go down the Kenilworth Road as far as Gibbet Hill Road, but there’s lots of question marks over how it could even reach...

So with that in mind, maybe something along these lines?

Sounds reasonable. So how about this instead… given this will be right next-door to Cryfield Farm, call it… Cryfield Road?

Looking more closely at the map around the Uni grounds, this is another possible site in the area, close to the Gibbet Hill roundabout. Leighfield Road has a nice ring to it for a new stadium, too.

I’ve mocked up what the proposed location might look like with the addition of the A46 Strategic Link Road and the new Coventry South station, along with what I expect will be a necessary linking road between the A46 SLR and Gibbet Hill Road (along with the HS2 route, since that would go very...

Funny, I’ve always thought a halved top would work for us. Two different shades of sky blue. Of course, you couldn’t do it this year as the retro Hummel pin stripes effectively create a halved pattern anyway, but one for the future?

I’m reserving judgment until we see what they’ve got to offer. The kits Hummel did for Everton look pretty nice (the collar isn’t bespoke, but the design is subtly done and nice) whereas the kits for L1/L2 sides look very template for the most part. I’m hoping that being a Championship side now...

No thanks.

In fairness I think the Forward Madison designs are entirely in-house and not shared elsewhere. Most of Hummel's designs I've seen appear to be shared teamwear-type designs. Ours was unusual in that nobody else used the same design all season.