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I invite people to list memories of all the individual, calamitous happenings during SISU's tenure, no matter how trivial. Some of them are so ridiculous, you couldn't make them up!

i'll start....

Onye Igwe (director): I think that we need to address how fat the club mascot is, it sends the wrong message to children about healthy eating.
Hoffman: He's a fucking elephant Onye!
 
KersleyDigs said:
I invite people to list memories of all the individual, calamitous happenings during SISU's tenure, no matter how trivial. Some of them are so ridiculous, you couldn't make them up!

i'll start....

Onye Igwe (director): I think that we need to address how fat the club mascot is, it sends the wrong message to children about healthy eating.
Hoffman: He's a fucking elephant Onye!
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Ranson - this club is debt free
 
KersleyDigs said:
I invite people to list memories of all the individual, calamitous happenings during SISU's tenure, no matter how trivial. Some of them are so ridiculous, you couldn't make them up!

i'll start....

Onye Igwe (director): I think that we need to address how fat the club mascot is, it sends the wrong message to children about healthy eating.
Hoffman: He's a fucking elephant Onye!
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I could go back much further than you and some of the many previous owners haven't been great, in fact many of them worse.

However it's no good keep looking back and playing the 'blame game', we have to look forward and whilst our current owners continue to pick up the 'tab' I don't see too many investors queuing up to replace them.

Often better the devil you know! PUSB
 
My personal favourite

[video=youtube;g7GuWeqji_Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7GuWeqji_Q[/video]
 
Ken Dulieu, chairman: Right, I'm coming in the dug out today, we need a win...
 
CCFC said:
That conversation is a joke made up by you, right?
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This is a conversation on here a long time ago posted by someone who heard this from an ex board member! Highly belivable based on their other ideas and discussions.....
 
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"Better the devil you know"
That's a winner right there.
 
"We're having a beauty parade of architects tomorrow"
 
"Sisu just batter people in court"
This just gets funnier...
 
Joe Elliott talking about Leonard Brody and Ken Dulieu said:
I have met them both, very nice guys and very high calibre. I was massively impressed with them
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Ray Ranson about owning the Higgs share of ACL said:
It isn’t our priority – the success of the team is. The funds should be spent on the team. It is about getting the product right on the pitch.
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RFC said:
I could go back much further than you and some of the many previous owners haven't been great, in fact many of them worse.

However it's no good keep looking back and playing the 'blame game', we have to look forward and whilst our current owners continue to pick up the 'tab' I don't see too many investors queuing up to replace them.

Often better the devil you know! PUSB
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You will never know that until the club is up for sale.
Bit like there are no other investors interested in ACL
 
"It will be a special building and will look tremendous. It certainly won’t be run of the mill.

"Firstly we don’t want metal all over the place like every other stadium and we will be using a façade system that Daimler Benz have on their headquarters in Berlin. It is a system that allows for great flexibility and means that the elevations can change if necessary. It will be a terracotta colour with four glass corners.

"From a football point of view we want to create the sort of atmosphere we have started to see at Highfield Road. Since Jimmy Hill’s day there has been this latent feeling of excitement that has not really been tapped.

"Grounds can help that and there is no doubt that Manchester United and Newcastle have got it right in terms of their design. When you are in their grounds, then all you can see if football.

"At Blackburn you can look up and see Auntie Gladys hanging out her washing in her back garden. It is the same at Sheffield Wednesday, there are gaps everywhere.

"When you are in Old Trafford and St James’ Park you really start to believe it all and that generates a large energy which hopefully helps the team."

Much of the design work has already been completed and the broad principles agreed. Now the vital detail work is being carried out.

"What has already been applied for is what we are allowed to put on the site and now we have to apply for where they go and what they look like.

"We know where the stadium is going give or take a few metres because we have to have the moving pitch on the south site. Where the superstores will be is largely determined but the companies involved have to work on some things.

"We have hit the ground running in terms of the stadium because we had done a lot of the design work but now we have to work out everything in great detail so it can all be accurately costed."

There is little doubt now that the dream will become reality in the next two years and Mann feels the determination of the team behind the project has been key to its success.

He said:

"I have really put my heart and soul into this and so has everyone else. Bryan Richardson has tremendous self-belief – the glass is always half full with him – and he has used that for the benefit of the club. Nothing has been viewed as impossible."
 
RFC said:
I could go back much further than you and some of the many previous owners haven't been great, in fact many of them worse.

However it's no good keep looking back and playing the 'blame game', we have to look forward and whilst our current owners continue to pick up the 'tab' I don't see too many investors queuing up to replace them.

Often better the devil you know! PUSB
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bullshit as Joy as proudly stated the good job sisu have done in making the club self sustainable for the first time in years
 
God, there's so much I could write.
 
Mr Fisher: “They should put a statue of Joy Seppala outside the ground for the £45million she has put into the club.”
 
Ms Seppala: “I do not want to go down as someone who distresses companies. I restructure businesses that are already distressed. I have acted in good faith, and I have an honest reputation".
 
CCFC said:
My personal favourite

[video=youtube;g7GuWeqji_Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7GuWeqji_Q[/video]
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This gets me every time, what a total arse hole this Fisher is.
 
RFC said:
I could go back much further than you and some of the many previous owners haven't been great, in fact many of them worse.

However it's no good keep looking back and playing the 'blame game', we have to look forward and whilst our current owners continue to pick up the 'tab' I don't see too many investors queuing up to replace them.

Often better the devil you know! PUSB
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I can only go back to the mid eighties and can't think of any in that time that have been worse than this shower but please feel free to name and shame and same before the eighties.
 
cloughie said:
bullshit as Joy as proudly stated the good job sisu have done in making the club self sustainable for the first time in years
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5 years since "honest " Ray said it you mean?
 
Seppala: No you cannot have £2.5m to buy this 'Henderson and Carroll', we need to recoup our investors money. While we're on the subject; do accept those bids for Fox and Dann. £2.5m is a lot of money and they'll never play in the premiership....
 
Read it and weep.

"With the successful completion of the share purchase, Coventry City Football Club (Holdings) Limited now has financial stability and a platform to achieve its commercial and sporting aspirations."


Elliott, a hugely popular figure at the club after helping save the club from administration with his efforts to secure the takeover during his short chairmanship, said: "The deal is done and this is a momentous week in the history of the football club.


"We can now look forward to a great future and I believe we now have a young dream team in place, including Ray Ranson, the new manager Chris Coleman, SISU and ACL, all working together.


"I am personally over the moon to be on the board and working with such a visionary chairman who, I am sure, will ensure there are great times ahead.


"It is an incredibly exciting day. SISU have invested heavily and the future of the club is in very safe hands.

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sp...coventry-city-takeover-completed-sisu-3101795
 
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