How can another club carry your memories of Highfield road?
But that's part of it isn't it NW, your love for your football club is something you shouldPart of me also wonders (in a slightly pompous way) when we have to stop thinking of ourselves, and move aside for a younger generation (I ain't that old mind!). We've had our club in the top flight, seen the games... now it's a dirge and many of us are here out of habit, as much as anything. A fresh start gives something exciting and positive to enthuse those who've not yet had the chance to be enthused. Ever decreasing circles for another decade... doesn't.
Not another club though, any more than Otium is.
But then this is where people will have their fixed views. No point me tryi9ng to change them as they are what they are. To me it's more about wresting control earlier, rather than watching it go down the shitter.
I think my point overall is that if/when SISU ever did decide to get rid of the club... if they didn't wind it up themselves, no bidder for the mess that's left could well be the best option.
his mums side are all Cockney gunners, I often think it would have been better for him if I'd let him go the Other way.
Same as West Ham fans punching each other because they aren't allowed to stand up in their stadium. Try having some real problems WHU!!Talk to Arsenal fans down this way and you’d be forgiven for thinking their lot was pretty miserable too. I think I actually identify with Arsenal more than any other ‘big’ London club — they don’t have some oligarch or Saudi prince bankrolling them, and they routinely shoot themselves in the foot in a way I’m very familiar with from CCFC. But it’s proper #firstworldproblems for their fans to complain too loudly all things considered.
Oh come off it mate, you can't begin to compare, when was the last time theyTalk to Arsenal fans down this way and you’d be forgiven for thinking their lot was pretty miserable too. I think I actually identify with Arsenal more than any other ‘big’ London club — they don’t have some oligarch or Saudi prince bankrolling them, and they routinely shoot themselves in the foot in a way I’m very familiar with from CCFC. But it’s proper #firstworldproblems for their fans to complain too loudly all things considered.
Since full on segregation, WHU fans regularly punch each other.Same as West Ham fans punching each other because they aren't allowed to stand up in their stadium. Try having some real problems WHU!!
Oh come off it mate, you can't begin to compare, when was the last time they
Finished outside the top 4
What are we talking about here? A successor club before CCFC has gone? I don't think that's a starter.
Supporting whatever comes after the inevitable winding up? Why wouldn't you?
I'm confused. Are we saying the FL would take away the share and wed be stuck in non league division 9 or whatever?
I'm confused. Are we saying the FL would take away the share and wed be stuck in non league division 9 or whatever?
It isn't.What are we talking about here? A successor club before CCFC has gone? I don't think that's a starter.
I think it's more not fighting to save it, tbh. It is what it is, and it'll exist however long SISU want to hold onto it and yes, you're right... nobody would support a 'rival' club while CCFC existed, even if owned by SISU.Supporting whatever comes after the inevitable winding up? Why wouldn't you?
talking about a new club, yeah it would be in non leagueWhat are we talking about here? A successor club before CCFC has gone? I don't think that's a starter.
Supporting whatever comes after the inevitable winding up? Why wouldn't you?
I'm confused. Are we saying the FL would take away the share and wed be stuck in non league division 9 or whatever?
Imagine... a chance to set up our club as it should be.
Wrote this and it reminded me of one of my favourite memories concerningBut that's part of it isn't it NW, your love for your football club is something you should
Be able to pass on to your children. My boy is 15 now and although he's never lived
In Coventry, he's obsessed with CCFC I'm proud of that but his mums side are all
Cockney gunners, I often think it would have been better for him if I'd let him go the
Other way.
We had a brilliant night after in that pub on the big junction, "the seven pins"That was a great game — one of the few times I’ve gotten to see CCFC play in London. Such a good atmosphere considering the severity of the scoreline. I wish there was some way of bottling that good cheer and deploying it right now.
The memories are surely within the mindset of the supporters themselves. A club doesn't have memories, it is the supporters watching the club.It wouldn't, it would be a new club. It wouldn't have the memories, the tradition.
If we had gone bust then cov utd would have been at the time.
The memories are surely within the mindset of the supporters themselves. A club doesn't have memories, it is the supporters watching the club.
Are you saying if a new Coventry City starts up, Coventry City AFC, known as the Sky Blues, playing in Coventry City colours in Coventry would mean none of us would remember 1987 and all the great players we have had over the years because we have an AFC after our name?
Distinctly odd thought process to my mind.
Do Wimbledon AFC fans not remember their team winning the FA Cup?
Last news I heard was that the FL are very much thinking of giving AFC Wimbledon all the trophies they have won, back.
A new Coventry City would still be Coventry City and would still hold all the memories and all the tradition. It would just be a new chapter in our story.
Setting a club up how it should be?
Ok - get some mug to put loads of money into it and then it loses millions a year.
If it fails tell the fucker he needs to invest more.
If he doesn't claim nopm until the club find a new owner - or draw Chelsea in the cup.
Nope.
Get back to the roots of what a *club* is, remember what's important away from the pressures of firefighting a humungous mess (that it'd be naive wouldn't still exist in a major part after any administration) and start planning an actual structure for the club.
What we've lost sight of, is that foundations (physical and social) and community (wider fan, inner club) are important... but to get that back needs us to be unencumbered by past shit, past errors, and past legacies.
Northampton though was a scenario of us playing 34 miles from home.
If a new Coventry was formed and was playing outside Coventry, then I would say it wasn't Coventry City, but we all pretty much know, that if a new Coventry City formed we would end up playing at the Butts for sure.
No one gives a fuck - most want instant success - that's football
No one gives a fuck - most want instant success - that's football
not sure many ccfc fans can be accused of wanting instant success.
Yeah, accept that, but I am pretty certain there will be many with the exact same thought.You're doing exactly the same, you're slipping into an entrenched position of what the club is to *you*.
Interestingly however... nobody has yet bothered to counter in any detail my assertion that the club as it stands is inevitably doomed.
Yeah, accept that, but I am pretty certain there will be many with the exact same thought.
Are you Mike McGinnity?
We'd have success at a low level. Would allow the breathing space to get the foundations right. Get the foundations right, and success is more likely down the line.
Because I am right?And there will be many who would not accept a revived club after ours went pop.
So why bother to tell them they're wrong? It is what it is.
The idea that thousands will turn up doesn't make sense to me.
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