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[theferret]

It does have potential to be an asset but not with our current owners who have made no attempt to grow the club but who also won't walk away from it. So we're stuck in Groundhog Day until there's a game changer.
Could this be it?
My hope is that the consortium trying to buy acl will bid for the club as although the running costs of a football club outstrip rugger so do the rewards. Two top sports teams playing in the city with an entertainment complex which operates 24/7. If sisu had brought the Ricoh when they had the opportunity do you think they would pass up the chance of wasps playing there too?

That's wishful thinking on a epic scale though. I doubt for one minute the consortium has any interest in the football club other than to use it as a cash cow. If there was the remotest chance of that it would have leaked out in order to soften opinion.

This will be a game changer, it will make CCFC unsellable. SISU for the foreseeable future.

 

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[samccov1987]

What we need is owners prepared to move clubs to whichever ground offers the best financial deal...

Only works if the fans go.....

 

[torchomatic]

Nope. Selling HR did.

Double standards. And you seem to miss one massive point here. Cov playing at sixfields indirectly has caused this whole mess in the first place.

 

[The Lurker]

Maybe they weren't comfortable with the situation of playing home games outside Coventry?

Comfortable? It was ridiculous and triggered this whole mess. Sisu messed this club of ours up along with Richardson. How fans and posters on here alike can't see that is beyond me

 

[Deleted member 5849]

How exactly does it impact Cov playing at the Ricoh?

http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/49674

http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/49677-Les-Reid-Twitter?p=786774#post786774

http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/49677-Les-Reid-Twitter?p=786935#post786935

 

[The Lurker]

Nope. Selling HR did.

How? Yes selling highfield was a utter travesty however wasps would never dream of coming to the Ricoh if it was "vacant" in the first place.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Only works if the fans go.....

Well the people of Belfast would be sitting arouynd saying how it'd benefit their city, there weren't many CCFC fans anyway, sure some of them don't care really and would quite like the chance to play in a great new ground.

And what other way to save our team?

 

[Grendel]

How? So tell me why only 1,000 went to most games last season?

Because it was 70 mike round trip and bloody inconvenient. Last week we only got 7,000 in a very convenient location. Stop wumming its boring.

 

[The Lurker]

http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/49674

http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/49677-Les-Reid-Twitter?p=786774#post786774

http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/49677-Les-Reid-Twitter?p=786935#post786935

Cov are guaranteed to be playing at the Ricoh for the foreseeable so doesn't impact me watching them. I really do think this will help ccfc in the long run because something is happening behind the scenes to get joint ownership of wasp rugby and ccfc which if it meant sisu do one then good for me

 

[chiefdave]

Somewhere by the sea would be nice.

Maybe we could nick Pompey's plan to build one in the sea

 

[samccov1987]

That's wishful thinking on a epic scale though. I doubt for one minute the consortium has any interest in the football club other than to use it as a cash cow. If there was the remotest chance of that it would have leaked out in order to soften opinion.

This will be a game changer, it will make CCFC unsellable. SISU for the foreseeable future.

Save for a jack walker what football club owner isn't in it to make money. There's the odd local business man made good but those people tend to end up having to sell because of the running costs.
While I don't doubt the consortium expects a return from us and wasps the only way they manage that is by people coming back from success on the pitch something sisu can't manage.

 

[The Lurker]

Because it was 70 mike round trip and bloody inconvenient. Last week we only got 7,000 in a very convenient location. Stop wumming its boring.

And will probably get less next week but still more then sixfields and while sisu are in power those numbers won't grow any time soon. 16k the average when they took over Cov, that's 10,000 fans lost under there ownership. But you and others keep justifying sisu, doing a grand job they are

 

[torchomatic]

Looks nice. We should just go to Belfast as NW suggests. Nice for the people there, good for the City. No one would mind, it would just be business. And we'd have Cov United and Wasps to support.

Maybe we could nick Pompey's plan to build one in the sea

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[theferret]

Comfortable? It was ridiculous and triggered this whole mess. Sisu messed this club of ours up along with Richardson. How fans and posters on here alike can't see that is beyond me

What? Of course people can see that. Are you stupid? But why does that mean we all have to sign up to the utterly pointless and damaging sale of ACL to a group of businessmen with an agenda that is not known? Are ACL losing money? No. Why would the council sell needlessly and expose the football club to all this uncertainty? To get one over SISU? Grow the fuck up.

The council should retain ownership, keep collecting their loan repayments and wait until the club are in a position to buy, and more importantly, until they are happy to sell to the club. It would happen eventually, because a new stadium will never happen.

 

[samccov1987]

Looks nice. We should just go to Belfast as NW suggests. Nice for the people there, good for the City. No one would mind, it would just be business. And we'd have Cov United and Wasps to support.

Serious question torch -how do you think we get out of the current malaise and do you think sisu are the people to action that plan?

 

[torchomatic]

Exactly. If ACL don't need to sell then they shouldn't bide their time and then sell to the club. After all, that who the stadium was built for. It's a disgrace.

What? Of course people can see that. Are you stupid? But why does that mean we all have to sign up to the utterly pointless and damaging sale of ACL to a group of businessmen with an agenda that is not known? Are ACL losing money? No. Why would the council sell needlessly and expose the football club to all this uncertainty? To get one over SISU? Grow the fuck up.

The council should retain ownership, keep collecting their loan repayments and wait until the club are in a position to buy, and more importantly, until they are happy to sell to the club. It would happen eventually, because a new stadium will never happen.

 

[covmark]

If every Cov fan thought it was temporary we would have sold sixfields every week.

Dear god. You really aren't for real, are you.

 

[torchomatic]

No, I don't think SISU are the people for CCFC. Of course they are not. However, they are here and there's very little chance of someone coming in to take over. Now, that the Ricoh is going to another sports franchise then there'll be even less to attract future investors or bidders. SISU have fucked up, of course, and now it's probably too late. I think we'll be stuck with them for years to come yet.

Serious question torch -how do you think we get out of the current malaise and do you think sisu are the people to action that plan?

 

[Grendel]

No, I don't think SISU are the people for CCFC. Of course they are not. However, they are here and there's very little chance of someone coming in to take over. Now, that the Ricoh is going to another sports franchise then there'll be even less to attract future investors or bidders. SISU have fucked up, of course, and now it's probably too late. I think we'll be stuck with them for years to come yet.

Give up. This guy and The Lurker can't be real - they just can't be.

 

[sky blue john]

What? Of course people can see that. Are you stupid? But why does that mean we all have to sign up to the utterly pointless and damaging sale of ACL to a group of businessmen with an agenda that is not known? Are ACL losing money? No. Why would the council sell needlessly and expose the football club to all this uncertainty? To get one over SISU? Grow the fuck up.

The council should retain ownership, keep collecting their loan repayments and wait until the club are in a position to buy, and more importantly, until they are happy to sell to the club. It would happen eventually, because a new stadium will never happen.

Your forgetting one small point Joy and her cronies at every meeting and in every statement are building a new stadium !
Until they say they want the ricoh what do you expect everyone to do stand still and do nothing until queen Joy is ready ?

 

[samccov1987]

No, I don't think SISU are the people for CCFC. Of course they are not. However, they are here and there's very little chance of someone coming in to take over. Now, that the Ricoh is going to another sports franchise then there'll be even less to attract future investors or bidders. SISU have fucked up, of course, and now it's probably too late. I think we'll be stuck with them for years to come yet.

So if your the council and sisu aren't going anywhere how long do you sit tight for? Understand and agree with some of your points but for me the only way I see the situation changing is if something happens to force the issue. My hope is this is it.

 

[Grendel]

Your forgetting one small point Joy and her cronies at every meeting and in every statement are building a new stadium !
Until they say they want the ricoh what do you expect everyone to do stand still and do nothing until queen Joy is ready ?

Why so they need to sell when they've had no need before - why not just attract tenants .

 

[Grendel]

So if your the council and sisu aren't going anywhere how long do you sit tight for? Understand and agree with some of your points but for me the only way I see the situation changing is if something happens to force the issue. My hope is this is it.

Not your council then?

 

[sky blue john]

Why so they need to sell when they've had no need before - why not just attract tenants .

Is it not obvious they have probably had enough of queen Joy. Probably being taken to court every five minutes doesn't help Sisu's cause !

 

[sky blue john]

Grendel maybe its normal business practice ?

 

[theferret]

Your forgetting one small point Joy and her cronies at every meeting and in every statement are building a new stadium !
Until they say they want the ricoh what do you expect everyone to do stand still and do nothing until queen Joy is ready ?

But isn't everyone in agreement that a new stadium will never happen? If that is their justification for this nonsense then they are more stupid that I thought.

 

[samccov1987]

Grendel what's your idea for the club to progress and how do the current owners fund it?

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Grendel maybe its normal business practice ?

And what we need to do is encourage more of that.

 

[sky blue john]

But isn't everyone in agreement that a new stadium will never happen? If that is their justification for this nonsense then they are more stupid that I thought.

I said that TF was spouting bullshit when they kept saying they were moving the club to sixfields !

 

[Rusty Trombone]

Why so they need to sell when they've had no need before - why not just attract tenants .

People often sell profitable businesses, maybe they have had enough, maybe they have received an offer too good to refuse.

 

[sky blue john]

I wouldn't be surprised if its not as simple as the Ricoh situation is taking up to many council man hours. When they should be concentrating on more important issues. And the opportunity has come along to offload it and save a lot of future hassle !

 

[theferret]

People often sell profitable businesses, maybe they have had enough, maybe they have received an offer too good to refuse.

It's this the fete of this city's football club we're talking about here. And the CEO of ACL is against the sale so we're led to believe - it is being forced through by the other board members i.e. the council/Higgs.

Yeah, let's relinquish control of the civic 'asset' we have bleated on about for years in a secret deal with a bunch of businessmen with no historic links to the city. What a sham.

 

[Rusty Trombone]

It's this the fete of this city's football club we're talking about here. And the CEO of ACL is against the sale so we're led to believe - it is being forced through by the other board members i.e. the council/Higgs.

Yeah, let's relinquish control of the civic 'asset' we have bleated on about for years in a secret deal with a bunch of businessmen with no historic links to the city. What a sham.

I've always assumed the stadium to be the civic asset, not the management company.

 

[theferret]

I've always assumed the stadium to be the civic asset, not the management company.

When you have a 50 year lease it amounts to the same thing.

 

[sky blue john]

It's this the fete of this city's football club we're talking about here. And the CEO of ACL is against the sale so we're led to believe - it is being forced through by the other board members i.e. the council/Higgs.

Yeah, let's relinquish control of the civic 'asset' we have bleated on about for years in a secret deal with a bunch of businessmen with no historic links to the city. What a sham.

Are Sisu buying Acl then, because thats who you have just described ?