You can view the page at http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/content/111-10-reasons-to-be-an-optimistic-Coventry-City-fan
5) Whilst the team has been unsuccessful the match day programme won “best value matchday programme in the Championship” award for last season - does this now mean it wont win it for 40years? Full of adverts, waste of money, never buy one.
Kind of wonder how you never buy one yet can still claim it to be a waste of money :wave:
Ok just you I'mARealPedant, I used to buy one many years ago, but became disillusioned with the content of old news, adverts and being imo over-priced. I no longer feel it represents value for money and have ceased purchasing a copy. Is that ok for you?
Sorry I'm with Rob on this. I was hoping it would be a genuine "Reasons to be Positive" article wheras it's now reminded why we don't get more fans; our's are so bloody miserable to listen to.
We actually have a number of reasons to be positive but everyone seems more than happy to ignore them over the doom and gloom bullshit.
1) We have a 32,000 seater stadium but attendances of 16,000 which means each fan gets their own seat to put their feet up on during a game. - show some respect!
2) Twist and Shout and its still only a pound. - still awful, was never even that funny in the pre-internet era now its just old news irelevant and pointless. Should be consigned to history
3) We are the least successful football team in the football league over the past 40 years meaning our time is surely due. - Err no it doesn't and if anything the reverse is true
4) Michael Mcindoe has left the club. - MM was a hard working scapegoat who caused no problems but had no pace and that wasn't his fault, blame who signed him.
5) Whilst the team has been unsuccessful the match day programme won “best value matchday programme in the Championship” award for last season - does this now mean it wont win it for 40years? Full of adverts, waste of money, never buy one.
6) Now Marlon King has gone Ann Lucas can now come back and support her team which means an extra ticket sale each week. - Grrrrrrrrreat! Fickle fan who showed no respect for the law just to promote her own profile. Odious individual like many councillers.
7) We have the goal machine Freddy Eastwood upfront who comes off the bench runs to the halfway line and then is nackard for the rest of the game. - lazy expensive overrated player who has never achieved at this level and not been prolific for over five years. If anyone is foolish enough to take him he must go
8) We sign good young players like Fox, Dann, Westwood, Keane and then we sell them for a profit or let them go on a free to a bigger club. Yeah we are a selling club but hey its always nice to see them go onto better things so we can say “he used to play for us”.- we sell tham at the first opportunity and don't get the fruits of their labour as they make mistakes whilst they learn with us
9) We get a new manager every year which means we get a honeymoon period each season where we earn just enough points to stave off the threat of relegation. At Coventry we don't believe in stability. - We need a balanced management team given time to implement their ideas and a workable open budget available
10) We sold our old stadium which we owned to rent a 32,000 seater stadium that we can't fill but every summer we get to go and see Bon Jovi, Take That, Pink and the Kings of Leon live in concert. Although I'm disappointed my season ticket does not cover these. - and we dont get a penny from any of them only highlighting what an even more ridiculous decision it is not to have ownership due to shortsighted mismanagement for many years.
I've not had a sense of humour bypass and I realise that your article was supposed to be light hearted but it doesn't even make a decent point and tbh isn't funny either!
Our stadium name is on top in big red lights, which looks cool in the dark... This is the best thing about being a coventry fan.
:laugh: if only i had done 11 points
For what purpose should I "give one a go"?
Sorry, we've not conversed prior to this so I don't want it to appear that I'm looking for a bitching match, but I don't see much different in posting an article as opposed to opening a new thread.
If I'm being totally honest then for an article to be published I would expect it to be raising points of interest or debate that re not found on the forum and better written than the average posts on the forum. I don't believe yours ticks any of those boxes, but this is not my excuse to have a 'pop' at you as you're not alone, because I don't think many of the other articles do either. I'm sorry if that sounds harsh, but it would be better imo if the moderators used their editing powers or artistic licence to select the threads that they feel merit an article and move them accordingly.
For what purpose should I "give one a go"?
Sorry, we've not conversed prior to this so I don't want it to appear that I'm looking for a bitching match, but I don't see much different in posting an article as opposed to opening a new thread.
If I'm being totally honest then for an article to be published I would expect it to be raising points of interest or debate that re not found on the forum and better written than the average posts on the forum. I don't believe yours ticks any of those boxes, but this is not my excuse to have a 'pop' at you as you're not alone, because I don't think many of the other articles do either. I'm sorry if that sounds harsh, but it would be better imo if the moderators used their editing powers or artistic licence to select the threads that they feel merit an article and move them accordingly.
What's your problem?
For a start try reading what I wrote!
I have no problem with anything being on the forum.. as I typed! I was suggesting that the articles not the forum posts should be better written and yes I think articles should be written/typed in a higher standard of English. Is that clear enough .. or do you mean by free speech on this forum only if it agrees with your viewpoint?
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