letsallsingtogether
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The franchise football fans on this thread should aim higher.....
Why buy a shitty little team like Nuneaton.......persuade Dhinsa or Byng or Hoffman or PH4 or any of the other "hot air" merchants to buy Barcelona & put them in the ricoh.....
....for the hard of thinking, I'm being sarcastic, but this thread has put me in a bad mood.
Fucking idiots.
Your right should have been 1500
Add another zero and you could be talking about the ones who only bother for the big games.
If Nuneaton fans were up for it then I can't see a problem.
Moving to the Ricoh may be quite exciting for them, where as moving to Northampton is not.
I suppose you're right. Fisher should envisage his stadium to be at least 32000, just on the off chance we play Chelsea again, sometime in the distant future.
As a Nuneaton fan you are facing a very uncertain future. Your club is for sale.
A multimillionaire says I will buy the club and stadium.
He will sell the stadium for housing.
He will reinvest the money in the team.
He will secure a cheap long term rent deal at the Ricoh free until you rise through the leagues it will then increase proportionately.
You as a Nuneaton fan suddenly from facing extinction now have an opportunity of going for the championship and who knows.
The sticking point is your stadium will be 6 miles from Nuneaton. What would you do?
I think if a lot of Coventry fans believed SISU would build the new stadium and that we were in the Ricoh whilst it was happening there would be a lot less outrage about the Exhall location than there currently is
I suppose you're right. Fisher should envisage his stadium to be at least 32000, just on the off chance we play Chelsea again, sometime in the distant future.
As a Nuneaton fan you are facing a very uncertain future. Your club is for sale.
A multimillionaire says I will buy the club and stadium.
He will sell the stadium for housing.
He will reinvest the money in the team.
He will secure a cheap long term rent deal at the Ricoh free until you rise through the leagues it will then increase proportionately.
You as a Nuneaton fan suddenly from facing extinction now have an opportunity of going for the championship and who knows.
The sticking point is your stadium will be 6 miles from Nuneaton. What would you do?
I think if a lot of Coventry fans believed SISU would build the new stadium and that we were in the Ricoh whilst it was happening there would be a lot less outrage about the Exhall location than there currently is
If I was Nuneaton I would see this as a potential goldmine.
10,000 fans looking for football on a Saturday afternoon, with a little bit of marketing, a subtle name change it may be worth a punt.
With the Ricoh stadium up for grabs (AL) I would guess a lot of people are looking at their options.
So your saying that this new stadium of 12,000 would have been big enough for us this season if it was based in Coventry? with 2000 away fans that leaves 10,000 for us.
We had 8,000 season ticket holders 2 seasons ago not much less last year. And with the good football they have been playing how many would have not been able to get tickets???
So and answer to your question yes you need bigger then you require so that you can get good pay days when they come around, after all that is what all smaller clubs aim for.
I think nuneaton fans are happy watching non league football, otherwise they would never have supported then in the first place. Nuneaton boro went out of extinction before and the fans set up nuneaton town.
If they moved nuneaton to Coventry and started a gradual refranchising to make it Coventry mk2 then I suspect the majority of nuneaton fans will set up another Phoenix, like they did 6 years ago, when they could have easily packed in and supported someone else.
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I suppose you're right. Fisher should envisage his stadium to be at least 32000, just on the off chance we play Chelsea again, sometime in the distant future.
Surely if it is modular and can be expanded easily and we got to the PL they could whack it right up. After all the more fans in the ground, the more money for them...
But presently we are a Coventry team playing in Northampton and could be for upto 5 years whats' the differenceYou reckon Nuneaton Town to Coventry Bantams would be a subtle name change?
If a Nuneaton team came to Coventry they would still be a Nuneaton team, but just playing in Coventry and not a Coventry team. If anyone were to play at the Ricoh it would have to be CCFC or a new phoenix club out of the ashes of Coventry City.
Surely if it is modular and can be expanded easily and we got to the PL they could whack it right up. After all the more fans in the ground, the more money for them...
But presently we are a Coventry team playing in Northampton and could be for upto 5 years whats' the difference
CCFC are one of 6 clubs experts say they believe are perilously close to wrapping up.
There really is very little benefit in having a big stadium just for three or four games of a season.
Who are the other 5?
What are you basing this on? The cost of additional capacity has to be cheaper at the stage of initial build rather than adding at a later date. Having extra capacity doesn't really add a day to day cost, stewarding, policing etc will all be done on the crowd level not capacity. I would say the reverse was true, having that extra capacity for the occasions it is required is of more benefit than not having it.
Surely if it is modular and can be expanded easily and we got to the PL they could whack it right up. After all the more fans in the ground, the more money for them...
Isn't there an opportunity / danger (depending on your view) of a merger between a distressed Nuneaton and a Coventry non-league team like the Sphinx?
In the not too distant past Dagenham and Redbridge evolved from two smaller clubs and have gone on to become a lower league team. Similarly Rushden and Diamonds (who did well and then folded but for a while...), Brighton and Hove Albion (two towns which grew and merged), Bournemouth was originally Bournemoth and Boscombe, there are probably loads of others.
It could be argued that the fields between Nuneaton and Bedworth and Coventry are being continually developed and the towns / City is gradually merging.
Anyway, what sort of crowds a Cov Sphinx/Nuneaton merged team attract at the Ricoh?
Would / Could the Higgs Site be used for a Coventry Accademy to link to the merge team?
Could Liberty Way be used for reserve / Birmingham Cup games or just as a Ryton Replacement?
Would the mere idea of the above prompt SISU to revalue the cards that they think that they hold?
It's my first post after lots of just looking so I expect to be shot down.
You reckon Nuneaton Town to Coventry Bantams would be a subtle name change?
If a Nuneaton team came to Coventry they would still be a Nuneaton team, but just playing in Coventry and not a Coventry team. If anyone were to play at the Ricoh it would have to be CCFC or a new phoenix club out of the ashes of Coventry City.
Ha ha
I thought about the Coventry bantams bit, not very subtle.
It would have to be something like Coventry and Nuneaton FC surely?
Maybe an anagram of the 2 names.
The only one I can come up with is Sky Blues and Borough and that would be 'Knobbly Guardhouses.'
Love to be able to shout 'come on you Knobs' at a game.
Or maybe I already have done thinking about it.
I take it you are happy watching league one football? New Coventry fans (last year)
Would have hoped to see their team progress.
The Nuneaton fans had no other option last time. This time they would have their club 6 miles away doing better.
I am surprised you can not see how this would appeal to many
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