It is all dead (2 Viewers)

[SkyblueBri]

We can argue all we want amongst ourselves but it does not change anything. Me and my friends were young in the days of Jimmy Hill and got caught up in the Sky Blue Express, now we are old and so are many more of our supporters.
We may never see our team play in Coventry again.
What have the youngsters today got to look forward to?

 

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[shy_tall_knight]

How do you think PWKH would be received on a Leeds fans forum, how do you think councillors would be received -- do you think their fans would be salivating over a management company?

Leeds councilors knowing the passion of these fans would probably have said "don't get involved and let the club sort it out themselves". Our fans are better educated and can see through SISU, who bought the club knowing it had limited revenues but with the opportunity to buy these. PWKH has nothing to hide and therefore nothing to fear.

 

[DaleM]

We can argue all we want amongst ourselves but it does not change anything. Me and my friends were young in the days of Jimmy Hill and got caught up in the Sky Blue Express, now we are old and so are many more of our supporters.
We may never see our team play in Coventry again.
What have the youngsters today got to look forward to?

Immortality , Martian bases , Hoverboards and Jetpacks probably

 

[torchomatic]

Ah, the kind of reply that annoys me. Nowhere in the post you were replying to or any post I've ever seen for that matter has stated "I am happy to be playing at Sixfields". Well, apart from that one. :facepalm:

You must be happy at sixfields playing in league one then ?

 

[torchomatic]

Very confident. I wonder if you'll get anyone demanding you "back that statement up" ? Nah, probably not.

PWKH has nothing to hide and therefore nothing to fear.

 

[SonOfSnoz]

What an insult to Jimmy Hill!
"We'll fight till the game is won"!
Support your team in it's hour/s of need, don't walk away!!
Call yourself a skyblue fan?
Shocking!

 

[Spagbol]

You know I am not trying to be a clever businessman or someone who claims to know more about all this tripe that the next man. I am a coventry city supporter pure and simple, I was there watching Wallace and ferguson and I was there when we went down to Doncaster and relegated to division 1!!
I don't want this crap I want to see my team in coventry and I want to see us where we should be and I believe that should be the top division or fighting to get there and guess what I know all about the ACL/CCC/SISU argument. I mentioned Wolves because they all wanted the same thing right from the board to the fans on the terraces, we don't seem to and I don't understand why not.

 

[shy_tall_knight]

Very confident. I wonder if you'll get anyone demanding you "back that statement up" ? Nah, probably not.

Remind me is this a fan's forum or a court of law.

Higgs Trust paid hard cash for their share of ACL, why ? because the club asked them to as they were desperate. The club under new owners IMO have tried to get this 50% share back at a discount, playing commercial hardball with a charity that previous helped them. That's how I see it the JR might shed a different light on this but at the moment I know who i think has the moral high ground.

 

[play_in_skyblue_stripes]

No, it was last year. Our season ticket prices were some of the most competitive in the Championship/L1 and £5 for the JPT sold the place out - unfortunately our supporters were not convinced.
The Big Club mentality has for years seen us bypassed by smaller clubs but at least their fans stuck by them in troubled times. Would Leeds fans boycott Sixfields if Leeds moved to Wakefield? Of course they wouldnt.

Obviously I have no evidence. but pretty sure Leeds would COMPLETELY boycott games at say Wakefield and WOULD NEVER ALLOW what Coventry City fans have.

 

[play_in_skyblue_stripes]

And the aforementioned leeds fans would most likely smash the adopted stadium up and try their best to get their hands on the abnoxious little shit of a ceo who caused it all.

I also suspect this would be a quite a likely outcome if the equivalent had happened there!

 

[torchomatic]

I'm not disagreeing with you to be honest. I'm just mindful of the hassle Ian got on the other thread. Demands to back up his statements, etc. I just think it's strange that it only seems to be a one-way street.

Remind me is this a fan's forum or a court of law.

Higgs Trust paid hard cash for their share of ACL, why ? because the club asked them to as they were desperate. The club under new owners IMO have tried to get this 50% share back at a discount, playing commercial hardball with a charity that previous helped them. That's how I see it the JR might shed a different light on this but at the moment I know who i think has the moral high ground.

 

[sky blue john]

No ambition? What do you expect when your finances of limited by lack of access to additional revenue??

Championship relegation season - 9 team had lower attendances, yet we were in the bottom 3-4 in size of turnover, which incidentally was circa 1/3rd of promoted reading, Southampton and west hams wage bill.

(Sorry broken record)

We will never be fighting at the top of the championship until access to revenue is sorted, regardless off the owners.


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Lol
The owners are the problem preventing this from happening !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[thelookout]

If people are going to go to sixfields regardless then i think the club should charge £500 a season ticket. The sixfield attendees moan about us starving the club they love of revenue so they wouldn't be bothered about the increase would they?

Ive missed home games so much that if they announced that there back at the Ricoh next season id gladly pay it.

 

[AndreasB]

If people are going to go to sixfields regardless then i think the club should charge £500 a season ticket. The sixfield attendees moan about us starving the club they love of revenue so they wouldn't be bothered about the increase would they?

Ive missed home games so much that if they announced that there back at the Ricoh next season id gladly pay it.

yeah course you would. what a load of jealous tripe.

 

[bigfatronssba]

yeah course you would. what a load of jealous tripe.

I very much doubt he's jealous of watching our once proud club playing home games in an empty, non league style ground in Northamptonshire.

 

[letsallsingtogether]

Sorry but you are wrong what did they do only is season to a director who is going to by them?

So god help anyone who even mentions moving them away.

No they wouldnt - thats just a lazy sterotype

 

[thelookout]

yeah course you would. what a load of jealous tripe.

Jealous of what exactly?

Having to travel a 70 mile round trip to play football in a shit ground watching a poor side in front of 1500 stiffs?

You don't know me chap.

 

[torchomatic]

I very much doubt he's jealous of watching our once proud club playing home games in an empty, non league style ground in Northamptonshire.

True. It's not jealousy. Not sure what it is with our new poster.

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[RoboCCFC90]

Top half of tier 3, that's really great for a premiership club. Thanks SISU .

My commitment to Coventry City is NOT to attend "home" games and try to help prompt an end to this charade

We are not a Premier League Club I am afraid.

 

[SlowerThanPlatt]

We are not a Premier League Club I am afraid.

Well it depends what it's being judged on.

 

[Sky Blue Harry H]

We are not a Premier League Club I am afraid.

I know what we are at the moment Robbo, but I'm ticked off at our team having to start the last few seasons/ future seasons with minus 10/ playing every home game away / transfer embargo. A level playing field (sic) would at least offer us supporters a sense of fair play/hope?

 

[RoboCCFC90]

Well it depends what it's being judged on.

Success is what we will be judged on, of which we have had none since 1987.

We are a Club has been in a free fall since 2000, we don't deserve the right to call ourselves a Premiership Club.

 

[RoboCCFC90]

I know what we are at the moment Robbo, but I'm ticked off at our team having to start the last few seasons/ future seasons with minus 10/ playing every home game away / transfer embargo. A level playing field (sic) would at least offer us supporters a sense of fair play/hope?

I agree with that Harry and applaud your frustration, but only the Club's esteemed owners can answer for it.

 

[stupot07]

Well it depends what it's being judged on.

1998 Shoot Annual he got for Christmas?


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[chiefdave]

Every day we stay in Northampton sees our fan base shrink. People can moan about people not being proper fans etc but that's not going to change things. Everyone on here has to be a fairly dedicated fan to spend a chunk of their time on a club forum yet we get regular posts from people who have had enough and are walking away. If it's impacting people on here like that what impact do you think it's having on more casual fans?

I think if we come back next season the damage done to the fan base will be on the whole reversible but I think a second season in Northampton will be the end of the line for a lot of people.

Being a football supporter is a leisure activity at the end of the day. You're supposed to get some enjoyment out of it, our fans don't have that or even any hope of that so more and more are choosing other, more enjoyable, things to do with their time and money.

I feel it myself. It used to be that case that the first thing I'd do every day would be check online for any club news. I'd rush home from work on a Friday for the phone in. My weekend would be planned around either going to the game or listening to it. Totally different now, it's only really this forum that keeps me up to date. I don't listen to the phone in, I don't plan my weekend around the matches and given the odd kick off times so as not to clash with the rugby and the number of Sunday games sometimes I don't even realise we're playing until the Sky app on my phone pings up an update.

I haven't chosen to not support the club and much but I can feel myself drifting away from it. I've been to less games than any season since I started going in 86, I even attended more games when I was living in Canada. Who knows how much interest I'll have next season. If the JR in the summer doesn't see a resolution to things and us back in Cov I think the speed at which people start to drift away from the club will increase. After all if we believe what Tim Fisher and Mark Labovich tell us the club is never going to play a game in Coventry again.

 

[Covcraig@bury]

I'm with the OP. Bring our CCFC home to the Ricoh or I will be watching rammy utd my local team who play in ramsbottom . A season ticket holder for over 35 years until we moved to Shitfields. Enough is Enough , I have great fond memories of some great days out watching my team home and away, meeting friends from all over . That has long gone and will be hard to get back. Love my roots, my City and my once beloved Football club CCFC.x

 

[Samo]

After being a season ticket holder for longer than I care to think about everything now seems dead, I have never been to Sixfields and never will.
I have tried going to local non league matches but they are not my Sky Blues.
At this time of the year, we should be moaning about the cost of season tickets and discussing who to let go and who to bring in for the new season, but now it all seems pointless.
Even CWR Sky Blue Friday night programme is dieing on its feet, last Friday no one phoned in and even though Eakin tries his best it is hardly worth listening to.
So I hold out hope that June JR may be a turning point, but looking at past performance in the courts I am not that hopeful.

Oh good, another everything's shit thread, just what we need.

 

[thelookout]

Oh good, another everything's shit thread, just what we need.

Well don't fucking read it then.

 

[play_in_skyblue_stripes]

We are not a Premier League Club I am afraid.

No We are NOT that is true currently.
However by population we should be or at least a yo-yo club.
Look at some clubs in there at the moment, Fulham, Swansea, Hull . They are cetainly not bigger clubs than Coventry City. Next year Burnley as well.
Throw in the usual suspects of similar clubs like Norwich and Southampton . Clearly level 3 is NOT our natural level. O

ONLY SISU can be blamed for being in level 3.

 

[RoboCCFC90]

No We are NOT that is true currently.
However by population we should be or at least a yo-yo club.
Look at some clubs in there at the moment, Fulham, Swansea, Hull . They are cetainly not bigger clubs than Coventry City. Next year Burnley as well.
Throw in the usual suspects of similar clubs like Norwich and Southampton . Clearly level 3 is NOT our natural level. O

ONLY SISU can be blamed for being in level 3.

I am sorry Stripes but you can't base an argument of whether we should be in the Premier League on population of the City..

We will be based on success and that is something we haven't had.

A young player can have all the talent to be able to make the highest grade but he still has to put it all together and it's the same with this Football Club, people can look at population and so on, but it makes no odds you need to make all the mixtures in the bag count and we haven't.

Can I also correct you on one thing, it's not ONLY Sisu as to why we are in the Third Tier, yes okay I accept that it's is their fault we were relegated to the third tier but this Club was a mess and we had fallen from the Top Flight and struggled to make a return before they even considered investment in our Club.


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[thelookout]

I am sorry Stripes but you can't base an argument of whether we should be in the Premier League on population of the City..

We will be based on success and that is something we haven't had.

A young player can have all the talent to be able to make the highest grade but he still has to put it all together and it's the same with this Football Club, people can look at population and so on, but it makes no odds you need to make all the mixtures in the bag count and we haven't.

Can I also correct you on one thing, it's not ONLY Sisu as to why we are in the Third Tier, yes okay I accept that it's is their fault we were relegated to the third tier but this Club was a mess and we had fallen from the Top Flight and struggled to make a return before they even considered investment in our Club.


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Of course its sisu's fault we're in the 3rd division. Who else's fault is it?

 

[RoboCCFC90]

Of course its sisu's fault we're in the 3rd division. Who else's fault is it?

In short:

Brian Richardson
Mike McGinnity


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[Samo]

Well don't fucking read it then.

Are you going for the new moron on the block award?

 

[thelookout]

In short:

Brian Richardson
Mike McGinnity


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I disagree.

 

[thelookout]

Are you going for the new moron on the block award?

It would appear that you already have that crown.