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If I didn't trust what he said, I wouldn't be believing a new stadium would be happening!
Like I say if you lie as much as he does then you have to plan the worst case scenario.
In your heart do you trust what he says? I know I don't. We have to plan for the worst and hope for the best.
Well it would give us a team to support in the city.
The JR wont get sorted for at least 18 months IMO. Another 2-3 years at least to get planning permission for a new ground, another few years to build it. You're looking at at least 7 years away.
The club will most likely be non league by then anyway.
As for the Ricoh, playing in Coventry is the important thing, the Ricoh would just be preferable but not essential.
But we already have teams that play in Coventry.
I'll say it again, AFC Coventry should be a non-starter until ccfc ceases to exist or moves permanently away from Coventry.
If I didn't trust what he said, I wouldn't be believing a new stadium would be happening!
Form a breakaway club to scare the shit out of SISU and force the issue. No fans, no income.
No fans, no income would indeed be the likely result of a breakaway club while the current one lives.
It has to be the Trust ideally. They need to stop making press releases saying they'd "like people to talk".
Their fence sitting stance is useless.
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Well there's 8 or 9 thousand Coventry based supporters wondering what the f*ck to do on a Saturday afternoon - who are pissed at SISU so I don't agree.
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You think 8-9k will go and watch 9th tier football? People obviously do still care about ccfc hence why we're taking over 6k to MK tomorrow.
Rich and Magic - I posted this previously
The trust is by far the best group to do this but my understanding was always the trust would only do so if ccfc was liquidated. If the trust says it would set up a phoenix club for 2014/15 then they would definitely be the best people to do it. But as Broken Hearted says, there is a timetable so can't just wait till the end of the season and decide then. tbh, I am completely torn on this. I can't say I have any burning enthusiasm for the idea but as there does seem to be increasing interest it does seem worthwhile exploring it and I am getting more messages about it and some people actively pursuing it. So if you or anyone else is interested email me at keepcovincov@gmail.com
But I'll also keep on repeating, a big dose of reality is needed. Unless Broken Hearted or someone else knows differently, I'm being told that if ccfc remained in existence then a new club would get no (or at best minimal) preference in terms of what tier it would play at. I also think the likely crowds would be way below what some people think. Imagine a cold, wet night at a non-league venue watching non-league football? How many people would really be up for that?
I certainly want to be involved.
Setting up an AFC Coventry in competition to CCFC (still temporary move with nothing confirmed) is not reclaiming the club, the club will still be in existence and the AFC will only have 5-10% following.
Fine. You can continue watching a team supposedly representing Coventry, playing home games anywhere but Coventry.Nail on head.
I have no interest in an 'AFC Cov City'.
Fine. You can continue watching a team supposedly representing Coventry, playing home games anywhere but Coventry.
Fine. You can continue watching a team supposedly representing Coventry, playing home games anywhere but Coventry.
I take it you're not going to Stadium MK tomorrow then.....
I attended last season, was a great day out as I'm sure the thousands who also went will testify. This year however, I won't be going. The events at our football club this past year have really brought home how the actions of unscrupulous owners can't be condoned by the wider football fan community. Now find it ironic mind, that last season AFC Wimbledon played there and they sold out their allocation!
Bang on. The fans are the club. Based on last seasons attendances (Which were the lowest since we moved to the Ricoh and possibly before that) 80-90% refuse to go to Northampton. If the 10-20% wish to attend home games beyond the city boundary, let 'em go. Set up a new club which truly represents the city of Coventry.We all have to do something.
Despite our arguing on here and elsewhere, none of us want to carry on with being in Northampton or with this SISU horror show.
Come on people. Set up a club to shit SISU up. If we get our club back we can incorporate the new club.
We hold the aces, we all know it - so let's use them.
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The same 'Do Nothings'. Just wave the white hankies won't you.
Stupot you obviously have a view, but you don't seem to read people's post fully. Some posters on here love their club and if you read a few of their posts you'll read that they are not suggesting anything like you say. I think the suggestion put forward is a tactic, nothing to do with competing with CCFC.
Many thousands? Do you not think it safe to assume that the actual 'many thousands' would empathise with a club based in Coventry, born of necessity due to the previous representatives hijacking and slow murder at the hands of an unscrupulous venture capitalist enterprise that couldn't give a toss about any of the 80-90% or indeed the remaining 10-20%?So you don't want him, and many thousands of others to turn up to your club?
If I wanted to set up a club for the hell of it I wouldn't care.
If I wanted to set up a club to represent Coventry City FC, I'd want him there beside me.
Wouldn't you?
And if there was a possibility of that being more likely down the line, wouldn't you hold off?
Yes I read it. About shelving plans of need be but with the premise of kicking off in August 2014. With the JR, we will likely not have a definitive answer by then.
You say not competing, yet earlier in the thread someone suggests ccfc and afc Coventry playing alternative weeks at the Ricoh. So many conflicting ideas on here.
So what is it? If we (ccfc) are still in limbo come August 2014 do you envisage AFC Coventry kicking off the season or not?
Again, I'm not waving a white hanky, I am adopting NOPM and not attending home or away matches or purchasing merchandise.
I think it's far too simplistic to split into those who go to Sixfields blindly follow CCFC regardless, v those who don't go to Sixfields blindly follow a rival club regardless.
Just ideas at the moment, but I really think that this is win/win.
a) we set it up, SISU buckle and sell CCFC and the club comes home (we incorporate/fold the new club when the season is out)
B) we set it up, SISU continue with the madness and we have a Coventry club to support that is all our own.
A few things I propose:
- the club should be fan owned. Wouldn't take much money from those interested.
- the club be called Coventry FC. No need for anything else on the end IMO.
- we play in all black to signify the death of CCFC / or we could just play in Sky Blue if people wish.
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Correct, but when presented with the option of Coventry City FC being based outside of Coventry, or a phoenix club, based in the city, playing in Sky Blue, nicknamed the Sky Blues, with a club crest incorporating the city coat of arms (with a football alluding twist) and a name containing the words 'Coventry' and 'City' set up by the fans, for the fans, who would you plump for?I think it's far too simplistic to split into those who go to Sixfields blindly follow CCFC regardless, v those who don't go to Sixfields blindly follow a rival club regardless.
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