Its definitely big enough for a 12,000 seater stadium with 2000 fans in it.
We can climb the big oak tree by the bottom fence and watch the games from there, Jimmy's tree ?
What if...sisu buy it for redevelopment but sell ccfc?
I know the chances are very remote, but this might be a return on their losses?
Fisher has already said its not CCFC
Why dont they put the British speedway GP there? Cardiff is great, fantastic atmosphere etc, but its not particularly centralThey would have to buy it at market value.
Its more likely to be housing.
Bees to the Ricoh ?
Or is it a double bluff ???
Fisher has already said its not CCFC
yes just confirmed on CWR not CCFC.
Coventry City FC have secured a provisional deal to buy the Brandon speedway site to build a new stadium. The site has been sold to the Sky Blues subject to contract.
BBC C&W Sport @BBCcovsport 3h
Mick Horton owner of @OfficialCovBees has told us speedway is safe at Brandon for now. Beyond that he needs an longer lease or relocation
Only if they're thinking of buying a house on the new housing development that will end up there.
With regards to otium or sisu etc buying it for a new ground. I just can't see it.
Myself and my family have been following short circuit motor sport at the venue all my life (41 years) and I can never remember a time when one local residents group or another wasn't trying to get it closed down because of noise pollution and traffic chaos, especially when the f1 stock cars are visiting. I was also always under the impression that the dogs only just got agreed to be on as there was a long history of the sport being there in the past, much to the local residents annoyance.
So the chances of getting change of use to a football venue imo is nil.
Just to add. I'm also sure that the site has a 10pm curfew on it. What would happen in a mid week cup game that needed extra time and penalties?
Do you see the speedway team as representing Coventry?
Yes as they have always been situated there as far back as I can remember not the sort of sport you want in the middle of the city with all the noise and pollution.
The speedway team now known as Coventry Bees have always been at Brandon they did not move there same as Grimsby Town always being in Cleethorpes albeit at three different grounds. This is a completely different situation from CCFC moving outside the city
Belle vue ride in the middle of Manchester i think. Happy to be correctedYes as they have always been situated there as far back as I can remember not the sort of sport you want in the middle of the city with all the noise and pollution.
Do you see the speedway team as representing Coventry?
Cofa's tree
Do you see the speedway team as representing Coventry?
Belle vue ride in the middle of Manchester i think. Happy to be corrected
I know there is a lot of gnashing of teeth over being slightly outside Coventry but it really is the least serious of the issues about the new stadium. Much more serious are
1) The cost to build being prohibitive, making no financial sense and being much worse than buying acl.
2) The time taken and damage to the club from playing away from home for years while it's built and I don't accept that the brighton situation in anyway suggests this isn't true,
3) The size of the new stadium firmly cementing us as a league 1 at best club for a long time to come.
and when it comes to the stadium in brandon it drops much further down the list as you can add
4) road network/transport links not good enough
5) probably insurmountable problem of the speedway lease
6) local opposition would likely prevent or at least seriously delay the building of a new stadium.
any new stadium perhaps being a mile or 2 further away from the city centre than the ricoh probably doesn't even make the top 10 list of the most serious issues regarding the current plans.
but of course you need to score cheap points by pointing out the speedway represent coventry despite its location.
6) local opposition would likely prevent or at least seriously delay the building of a new stadium.
My grandma lives on speedway lane (directly next to stadium) and her and all of her neighbours are completely against having CCFC move their.
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