could be worse he could collect Gnomesfair play to him
In the feature with him watching it being demolished it showed Macca wistfully looking it being razed to the ground,but he's moved on hasn't he ? I loved Highfield Road it was more than just a football ground to me,but it's gone and we can never go back can we ?No dont get me wrong I admire the guy but the bit about watching movies of it being demolished sounds a wee bit you know
In the feature with him watching it being demolished it showed Macca wistfully looking it being razed to the ground,but he's moved on hasn't he ? I loved Highfield Road it was more than just a football ground to me,but it's gone and we can never go back can we ?
Sure the fella is a nice decent guy but 'Paul Sheehy, of Coventry, has items including signs at his home and created a cinema in his garage to watch footage he filmed of the ground's demolition' is it me or does that sound a wee bit saddo? Watching it being demolished? Where does he go on holiday? The tip?
cant help thinking we should be concentrating on more immediate matters than a rose tinted view of a ground that is no longer there. I had some great times at HR and some pretty awful ones too. Dwelling in the past helps how? - just my opinion that others might not agree with of course :thinking about:
Totally agree, OSB.
Very rose-tinted. I too have some great memories of HR, but then some pretty dreadful memories as well. It could be like a library most of the time.
Unlike the Ricoh which is always buzzing. Not.
Moving from HR was the worse decision in the history of Coventry City.
Totally agree, OSB.
Very rose-tinted. I too have some great memories of HR, but then some pretty dreadful memories as well. It could be like a library most of the time.
It is easy to look at the bad parts more. Like poor toilets, poor refreshment kiosks, hard to park within a 5 minute walk if you were late, quiet in 3 of the stands most of the time or even needed updating all over. But it was ours. We owned it. It was a short walk from the city centre. Plenty of pubs nearby. You didn't need over 20,000 to create an atmosphere. Free parking. Great memories.
So what does the Ricoh offer us? I tried to like the place. But I hate home games compared to away games now. No atmosphere, easy to get to but not in the best location. Have to pay to park. Lack of pubs although you have the casino. No easy pub crawl from the city centre. Expensive refreshments. And it looks like it will never be ours.
When I compare the two HR easily wins. No rose tinted or sky blue tinted glasses at all.
I don't know why Torch brought the Ricoh into it, cause this thread is about HR.
Maybe something to do with why we left HR?
The problem I had with HR was that I had been going up since the late 60's and the ground was constantly changing and I mean constantly. I'm pretty sure younger posters will not remember that. Stands changed and ends changed and the ground kept looking different over the years, so for me it kept losing a degree of history. If it had remained the same for decades I would have loved it so much more.
Trouble is from 20 December 1999 we didn't own it. To bring it up to premiership standard would have required millions to be spent on it - millions that events proved CCFC didn't have. Needed development to access income streams properly. Couldn't afford to do that then what?
Trouble with the Ricoh is that it has never seen any CCFC good times so that any fan feels a belonging there. Wont ever be ours of course. The concept wasn't bad but it all got screwed up by ego and self interest
Trouble is from 20 December 1999 we didn't own it. To bring it up to premiership standard would have required millions to be spent on it - millions that events proved CCFC didn't have. Needed development to access income streams properly. Couldn't afford to do that then what?
Trouble with the Ricoh is that it has never seen any CCFC good times so that any fan feels a belonging there. Wont ever be ours of course. The concept wasn't bad but it all got screwed up by ego and self interest
So instead of not having the millions we needed to update it we needed even more than that.
And it would have been even more of a shithole. It just shows they could have improved like they always had. Not risk everything like they did.
So instead of not having the millions we needed to update it we needed even more than that.
Improved? Errr ... at times, most definitely not.
Sure the fella is a nice decent guy but 'Paul Sheehy, of Coventry, has items including signs at his home and created a cinema in his garage to watch footage he filmed of the ground's demolition' is it me or does that sound a wee bit saddo? Watching it being demolished? Where does he go on holiday? The tip?
The decision to leave Highfield Road was right. As pointed out by OSB in #20 it was in need of modernization/bringing up to standard.
That is even assuming you would have been granted planning permission for any expansion or improvements. Don't forget out of 23,500 capacity almost 4000 was given up to away fans which at the time was cause for regular moaning on the radio.
The problem with the Ricoh is the people that run our club gambled with the clubs money and the correct finances were not in place to pay for it.
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