Nonleagueherewecome
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It's similar enough for a replication to be a concern. Assuming it won't happen is naive and dangerous.
It's a different situation between ours and Wimbledon's
I live in Binley (when I'm in Coventry). It's a 15 min drive from the train station and a 5 minute walk from the Warwickshire boundary. Coombe Abbey is considered Coventry but is in Warwickshire. If they are looking at Brandon Speedway or Ansty, I'd say that it was close enough.
What's to stop sisu buying nene park and paying the million quid?
The potential Nene Park catchment area hasn't many fans. Even Northampton & Kettering have no history of teams playing at a reasonable level.
Frankly I can't think of a place where a franchise could move.. you'd need a thriving town, population 150,000 or more and no league club.
Milton Keynes was the last place that was suitable.
Why do people keep making this stupid comparison with Wimbledon? Situations couldn't be more different.
Your proof that they won't come back? Because from what I can see Otium (as much as I wish they'd feck off) have agreed a deal with the Football League and the rules state that they (Otium) were required to present plans to return to the Coventry Area within a certain amount of time. No we might not return to the Ricoh Arena again and I can't say it's ever felt like our home..
An if and I mean if we come back to the new shed that will feel like home will it? Grow upYour proof that they won't come back? Because from what I can see Otium (as much as I wish they'd feck off) have agreed a deal with the Football League and the rules state that they (Otium) were required to prck to the new shed thatesent plans to return to the Coventry Area within a certain amount of time. No we might not return to the Ricoh Arena again and I can't say it's ever felt like our home..
THe situation is much closer to the Wimbledon one than any other club in the FL.
Initially no - their move to Selhurst Park was always seen as temporary, but their move to MK was permanent. Their unscrupulous and opportunistic chairman saw the chance to move the club to a large urban area with no professional football team and build the club into something bigger (which to a certain extent he has achieved I suppose).
I just wonder where this large town is with no football team that SISU plan to move us to, a place big enough to provide them with a fan base large enough to sustain a club that can rise through the divisions in order that they can get the return on their investment they so desperately want. I mean, where is it? Because if you are going to make the Wimbledon comparison you have to tell us where that place is, because it sure as hell isn't Northampton.
It is feasible that the club could wither and die if the move lasts more than one season - and for that reason I am desperate for it to not happen, but those that declare with absolute certainty that the club will NEVER return are just being hysterical.
I agree with what you say about Wimbledon ferret.Their Chairman "done 'em up like kippers"But the comparisons are startling. Nothing seems to be beyond these people and I for one believe that we will never come back to Coventry if the Sixfields deal goes through. Non League obscurity beckon with lots and lots more debt accumulated through inter company loans , interest and management fees imo.
Now can't we have a big screen up and watch the match at the ricoh,and get more there then sixfields
I'm certainly not in the defeatist camp that say we should walk away. Well not yet
However, we should not be blind to the fact that the motives of those that own the club are still less than clear.
Put simply I cannot rationalise why a football club needs such a mind boggling amount of companies both on and off-shore involved in its running. Until I can do so, my suspicions are
and will remain, raised.
They are further raised when friends of mine involved in similar Hedge Fund organisations suggest to me that having "distressed assets" such as Coventry City Football Club within the "portfolio" of its business can be seen as a good thing. They suggest that keeping CCFC "barely alive" and losing money could be used as a good tax avoidance vehicle for any monies they cannot effectively off shore to such places as the Camen Islands.
Again, I know not if this is correct.
Motives??? . If only we knew SISU's true motives.......
Nice post Longford - if you are right with your hypothesis, then as a group of fans we may have to force the issue through setting up CCFC2 and starting again. Hate the thought in some way, but if SHITSU are happy to leave us as barely more than dead as a long term strategy, it's the only way I feel supporters can get their club back:blue:
The potential Nene Park catchment area hasn't many fans. Even Northampton & Kettering have no history of teams playing at a reasonable level.
Frankly I can't think of a place where a franchise could move.. you'd need a thriving town, population 150,000 or more and no league club.
Milton Keynes was the last place that was suitable.
I'd say it was much closer to Brighton, Rotherham, Bristol Rovers and Charlton - and even then it isn't all that similar to any of them which were all unique situations in their own way. It's a million miles from the Wimbledon scenario if you ask me, but then I guess if people say it often enough they'll be those that start to believe it.
Wimbledon to MK was a one off never to be repeated. Jack Griffin makes the point above perfectly. It says it all that when they looked at relocating they identified two possible locations - MK and Dublin (that idea didn't get very far) - so MK it was as there was simply nowhere else suitable.
There are cities without league clubs still though.
Do you have evidence to show me otherwise?
I'd say it was much closer to Brighton, Rotherham, Bristol Rovers and Charlton - and even then it isn't all that similar to any of them which were all unique situations in their own way. It's a million miles from the Wimbledon scenario if you ask me, but then I guess if people say it often enough they'll be those that start to believe it.
Wimbledon to MK was a one off never to be repeated. Jack Griffin makes the point above perfectly. It says it all that when they looked at relocating they identified two possible locations - MK and Dublin (that idea didn't get very far) - so MK it was as there was simply nowhere else suitable.
This is fun: http://www.sporcle.com/games/BenjaminoGTF/10_largest_towns_no_fl_team
I got 4/10. Most of them do have reasonably large non-league sides.
Got 5. Would argue I got 6 as Wakefield is bigger than all those that were listed.
Come on Rob...surely you can see what appears to be happening here? Fisher spent 2 months going on about 3 years...3 years...3 years. He said it so much that some started to accept it and were prepared to go along with it. Then out of nowhere he slips in possibly 5 years! The man or his employers are not to be trusted so don't bank on us ever returning to Coventry....only the very naive would take what they say with any more than a pinch of salt.
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