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Mobile-friendly - 26 Sep 2013 - Coventry City's owner Joy Seppala says she is willing to talk ... club needs 100 per cent ownership of the freehold of the Ricoh. .... remaining at Coventry City,
Coventry City Council is willing to consider bids for the Ricoh Arena and the surrounding land, the authority's leader has confirmed.
Councillor Ann Lucas said the council would listen to "reasonable and sensible offers" for the freehold but stressed the site would not be sold "unencumbered".
She also said it is time to consider a future for the Ricoh without a football team.
Jan 2014
In a Telegraph front page three days before, the club had called on Coun Lucas to clarify whether the council was prepared to discuss a freehold sale, based on independent valuations.
If not, the club said it would press ahead with plans to build a new stadium in Warwickshire, after groundsharing in Northampton for up to five years.
Les Reid
Ann Lucas says she's willing to talk to 'any sensible legitimate business person with any offer to make'
Coun Ann Lucas
Coventry council leader Ann Lucas says she is still willing to talk about selling the Ricoh Arena to anyone willing to make an offer.
If only Lucas hadn't used the word "sensible".
Have also heard from a good source that the home dressing room has been repainted in Wasps colours with the away dressing room Sky Blue as Coventry will be using this going forwards. In effect our opponents will have the more comfortable and state of the art dressing room. You couldn't make it up
You just have if you offer no proof.
Both dressing rooms are used on match day so why would the home football team move into the smaller dressing room and the away team have the big one.
Somethings not right here so come back when you find out what actually is happening.
I think a lot of it is about investment in building up the area around the arena, SISU never made any commitment, question is, did they say they would before they bought the club then fail to deliver?
As I understand it Wasps plan to build a training facility in the area, maybe more. This is very important for the council, they aim to increase employment, that is what a lot of this fall out has been about in my opinion.
It's happening we are loosing a great stadium to a franchise. Sad day and however much I like the Ricoh with the casino, train station on its way etc i will not enjoy being playing in the stadium of a plastic team (wasps).
i hope the city of coventry and the surrounding area reject wasps and they are financially distressed in the near future. Guess we will have to see how that goes but I urge all ccfc fans not to pop along as every penny in wasps pockets, supports franchise sport and also does ccfc no favours.
It's happening we are loosing a great stadium to a franchise. Sad day and however much I like the Ricoh with the casino, train station on its way etc i will not enjoy being playing in the stadium of a plastic team (wasps).
i hope the city of coventry and the surrounding area reject wasps and they are financially distressed in the near future. Guess we will have to see how that goes but I urge all ccfc fans not to pop along as every penny in wasps pockets, supports franchise sport and also does ccfc no favours.
The two Sky Blues badges - ...... - relocated elsewhere on the outside of the stadium.
This the one? I barely remember this
Surely taking the signs down is a good thing? Well to Sisu, fisher, ccfc, and a few on here... Fisher will want them for his own stadium won't he?
If he says they are only staying short term why would he want, or any one expect them to stay? And why would they want or keep blue seats? It's wasps ground, yes Higgs and CCC sold it to them and why are people Moaning??? Fisher told us years ago they were leaving and building their own stadium!
If a council house you lived in is sold because you didn't want it, do you still have a right to say what wallpaper in on the walls? One groups fault... Sisu!
What would be the difference if Wasps put there badge in another place on the outside? Presumably where they plan to move ours to, is it because there not as viewable from far away?
Feels they are doing it just because they can, to show who's the boss. Despite there claims that they want a good relationship with the club.
I don't get what all the fuss is abut. Did we or did we not say we are not staying at the Ricoh? We have consistently and constantly let every man and his dog know that we have no intention of staying.
If the club are not prepared to stay and try and negotiate and somehow find some kind of partnership here, then Wasps have every reason to wipe all our identity from the prominent positions at the stadium. So they are fully justified in changing the bar name and in removing our plaques and also if they want to change all the colour of the seats too.
According to Tim we are not staying, so I just do not see what the fuss is all about.
The problem is as I stated before they could do what the hell they like with the Ricoh because it's their's, they've purchased it, I would love to see the badge kept in the same place, but if that's the most prominent view point then they're going to stick a big insect there, not much we can do about it, as long as the artists impressions are accurate and whereby the Clubs badge is still on the Ricoh but in a different location and still prominent then it makes no odds.
This will be the beginning of it all, seats will change colour, bar names have already changed, the carpets and walls will change colour, there will be more Wasps' historical photos around the Ground, etc. We are going to have to get used it.
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Do you think we will move out now Robo? New stadium or rent elsewhere?
I'm still amazed CCFC fans protested the (temporary) franchise of their team to Northampton by taking 7,000 to the match v MK Franchise. Still perhaps that was just niavety back then. QUOTE]
Bore off you broken record.
MK was about an away ground that was close by that has a huge away end that City fans could attend and have a good day out, few beers etc, and remember what it was like when we used to have a proper team.
For exactly the same reasons we took big followings to Wolves, Walsall and Notts County. I went and couldn't give a fuck about MK Dons or indeed any of the other 90 clubs in the football league.
did they say they would before they bought the club then fail to deliver?
City council leader Ken Taylor revealed that two other "derisory" bids had been received from two other firms.
One, called Sisu, had offered £15million.
The other was from a firm called Shapiro, which offered £26million but wanted the club to pay off its debts and the city council to give it a longer lease on the Ricoh Arena and some spare land to the north of the site.
It's a good question KOK, but what options are available to us, realistically? The Club says it wants to build a new Stadium but 18 Months on there is no progress, we can't rent elsewhere, we have barely any Fanbase whatsoever designating ourselves from our Fanbase would just be asking for a demise..
Probably the only thing to do would be a rolling 5 year rent deal at the Ricoh, whereby the Club can negotiate with Wasps to benefit from the Matchday revenues it generates, from the bars in the Concourse, Casino, etc.
With respect to a new Stadium I wouldn't be against one, but it would have to be in Coventry, more central to the City and suitable to our needs as a Club, a Ground on the outskirts or in Nuneaton, with a capacity of 11,000 and with barely no attraction is going to be useless.. I can't say that the Club have done enough to convince anyone that there is a new Stadium on it's way, but allegedly the Club are "Close" and have been for about 12 months on land..
We will see...
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Mobile-friendly - 26 Sep 2013 - Coventry City's owner Joy Seppala says she is willing to talk ... club needs 100 per cent ownership of the freehold of the Ricoh. .. .. remaining at Coventry City,
Coventry City Council is willing to consider bids for the Ricoh Arena and the surrounding land, the authority's leader has confirmed.
Councillor Ann Lucas said the council would listen to "reasonable and sensible offers" for the freehold but stressed the site would not be sold "unencumbered".
She also said it is time to consider a future for the Ricoh without a football team.
Jan 2014
In a Telegraph front page three days before, the club had called on Coun Lucas to clarify whether the council was prepared to discuss a freehold sale, based on independent valuations.
If not, the club said it would press ahead with plans to build a new stadium in Warwickshire, after groundsharing in Northampton for up to five years.
Les Reid
Ann Lucas says she's willing to talk to 'any sensible legitimate business person with any offer to make'
Coun Ann Lucas
Coventry council leader Ann Lucas says she is still willing to talk about selling the Ricoh Arena to anyone willing to make an offer.
Yeah pretty much. It is all the bullshit emotional crap that makes it worse from the council.
At least with SISU you know what you are getting don't you? With the council they come across like they are going to take you out, buy you dinner, do the best for you, look after you, marry you and then they just give you a quicky outside the sky dome and then they are bastards after all these promises. They don't even buy you a woo woo. SISU are like Cavemen "oi love, fancy a quicky".
Yeah pretty much. It is all the bullshit emotional crap that makes it worse from the council.
At least with SISU you know what you are getting don't you? With the council they come across like they are going to take you out, buy you dinner, do the best for you, look after you, marry you and then they just give you a quicky outside the sky dome and then they are bastards after all these promises. They don't even buy you a woo woo. SISU are like Cavemen "oi love, fancy a quicky".
So why all the emotional crap? They didn't need to sell did they?Not really. As you can see from don's CovTel article, the Council made it clear that they will have to move on if the club doesn't want to cooperate. The club doesn't cooperate, the council moves on.
On the face of it, there's only one party that's good for their word here.
So why all the emotional crap? They didn't need to sell did they?
So why all the emotional crap? They didn't need to sell did they?
So why all the emotional crap? They didn't need to sell did they?
It was the council who sold it to Wasps.
agree .. because it was looking like our beloved owners weren't prepared to pay it.
Which is kinda funny as we've paid more in rent since we've been there than Wasps have paid up front.
Which is kinda funny as we've paid more in rent since we've been there than Wasps have paid up front.
We were signed up to the 'Radio Rentals' deal of all time. Pay £65m over the term of the lease and at the end you get fuck all for it.
We were signed up to the 'Radio Rentals' deal of all time. Pay £65m over the term of the lease and at the end you get fuck all for it.
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