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The thread exhorting our support to be the 12th man got me thinking back to games where crowd support did make a difference. To be honest in the 40 years I've been following the team those occasions have been few and far between either at the Ricoh or at HR. The games that come immediately to me...

Depends what your angle is! If they had bought in at that point, by now they would have had 7 years of access to associated stadium income, and would have not moved to Northampton (with the resulting disassociation from our club of much of its core support). In my opinion that 7 year wait wasn't...

I don't agree. The stadium was built with funding through CCC when CCFC couldn't afford it, but it was clearly built for CCFC. ACL was set up to run it until a point CCFC could afford to buy into it. If SISU had exercised that option to buy in when they first took over we would now have a stake...

Yes, better than Mortimer, Carr, Powell, Yorath, Blair, Daly, Hunt, Francis, McGrath, Gynn, Phillips, Speedie, Robson, McAllister, Boateng etc. What were we thinking??

From a defensive angle I can remember a few vintage performances from Lloyd McGrath. I remember him getting the better of Bryan Robson at Old Trafford in the mid 80's when if I remember right Robson damaged his shoulder for the first time when McGrath charged him into the railings at the...

A few of the ones I remember are; Jim Blyth almost single handedly defying a great Liverpool side in 1978 when we finished with only 9 fit players on the pitch; Garry Thompson in the League Cup semi against West Ham after scoring an own goal; George Boateng in a 4-1 thrashing of Villa; Peter...

Unless Richard Shaw was appointed. What was it? 6 or 7 straight league defeats after Thorn was sacked!!

Why would any potential purchaser contact Byng when the club isn't his to sell? He comes across as a complete fantasist, a bit like Dhinsa. At least some of our fans got a free breakfast out of Dhinsa!!

Of course they have promised that. They will work closely in poaching all the good players and handing Coventry a few average ones. Nothing like working closely with your feeder club is there?! Sorry guys but the way rugby works means that Cov are already a feeder club to the likes of...

It's funny seeing all the old players from our time in the top division listed on this thread (I would add Kevin McDonald by the way), but they are all light years ahead of what we are watching now. I often see Julian Darby's name listed on this type of thread, yet he scored a fair few goals...

This has been bugging me for a while, but does anyone know what Steve Waggott's qualifications are that got him to be our 'Head of Recruitment'? I know he had a similarly unsuccessful role at Charlton when they plummeted down the leagues, but as far as I know he never played the game so where...

Yes Money was Nilsson's assistant, but McGinnity got rid because he claimed that Money was sympathetic to Bryan Richardson and was reporting back to him. Jim Smith was then forced on Nilsson, and from then on and being in a play off position I don't think we won a game for the rest of the...

What made it work for Swindon? 1) A dynamic keeper, comfortable with the ball at his feet, who his defence are comfortable with, who releases the ball quickly - we don't have that. 2) Young, quick defenders, comfortable in possession, who still do the pro tuggging, pushing thing when needed. 3)...

Remember travelling to Oxford on the train in the mid 80's, and when it stopped off in Banbury a lot of our hoolies were getting excited about the prospect of some Oxford fans getting on board only to find the platform full of City fans.

I grew up in Rugby and first started going to away games at that time (early 80's). There was a smattering of Leicester fans, but of the football fans that went to games it was a CCFC town. There was a pub in the town (Saracens Head) where coaches travelled to away games and there was a...

I don't believe they truly intend to build a stadium, but I think the gullible souls they have taken into their confidence have been told 'Bermuda Park'. Is that right RFC??

UKIP?? Really????

We are where we are. Franchising in rugby does not have the same resonance as in football where the connections within communities are more ingrained. That has particularly been the case since rugby adopted professionalism, with there being numerous franchise moves and attempted moves (inculding...

SISU to be congratulated on their sharp business practice! - One failure after another, businessmen like Igwe, Brody, Dullieu and Fisher have proven complete failures. Are we any more likely to be around in 20-50 years now, as we were when SISU took over? Some might say it would have been...

http://www.espn.co.uk/scrum/rugby/story/28943.html Hopefully the link works, but story about the Coventry/ Bedford merger from back in the day. As can be seen the aftermath of professionalism in rugby has brought about plenty of attempts at franchising and mergers in order to get a quick seat...