Being self sufficient might be a bit painful to start off, but it would be a good base for a new owner. Then with good marketing and PR they can then start to actually grow things a bit.
However our fan base sees us as a mid to top half championship side that should always have a sniff at the play offs.
And that is the issue isn't it? The club doesn't have the actual income to bank roll that.
How would a fans group run the club if we were fan owned? I doubt they could or would pump millions in.
And that is the issue isn't it? The club doesn't have the actual income to bank roll that.
How would a fans group run the club if we were fan owned? I doubt they could or would pump millions in.
I suppose do a Swansea. Save the club, look for investment, and then promotions, and then eventually sell to the Chinese.
The only fly in the ointment is that they had a supportive Council, and had access to a stadium they could get full revenues from on the football side. If the club were fan owned we may have a friendlier council (but to be honest I have never seen such a self interested self serving bunch of pricks so it may be doubtful) and are Wasps ever going to give us the revenues we want from the Ricoh?
I would hope that new owners or a fan based club would regain the support of the council.
Maybe but that doesn't change the 249 year lease problem on the Ricoh, and Wasps are as hard nosed as SISU, so I don't see them offering us revenue on a plate.
Perhaps Portsmouth will become our biggest rivals as we plod along for the next 50 years in the lower leagues with them, there because we were screwed by a succession of owner's.
It's obvious CCC and Wasps do not want to work with SISU and want to hurt them whenever they can.No Wasps are going nowhere fast. However been able to work with them could be quite significant for the future of this club.
It definitely wouldn't do us any harm.
It seems for a variety of reasons both the council and possibly Wasps don't really want anything to do with our current owners if they can avoid doing so.
That's because a lot of the Muppets on the CT site can't see that Sisu and CCFC are not the same entity.However they are blinded by hate; by hurting SISU they hurt the club. Thw problem is some fans (in particular those that comment on the Cov Tel) don't see that.
This is so damn true ...just imagine little Johnny who is a good footballer waiting for his chance at a 'big' club topping the scoring charts but not getting a look in with the 1st team because they have Jonny Foreigner playing who perhaps isn't quite as good but the club have spent £20 million on him so by default he gets to play at the expense of our own little Johnny who gets a bit deflated and disillusioned with it all ...so little Johnny thinks fuck it I will go and work in an office or something because my hearts not in it anymore and falls out of love with football... Also I really don't see a massive difference in some of the youngsters coming here on loan to our very own youngsters ...Look when we had that idiot Brown from Manure ...fuck me how the hell did he get to play for them if it wasn't for his brother?...The Games too corrupt no wonder our national team is garbage these daysAs a wider subject is The Elite Player Performance Plan helping the English national side, is it producing kids who can go on and play in the EPL. Or is it weighted in such favour of the "big clubs" that they are able to hoover up all the talent and then ultimately a lot fall by the wayside.
I would hope that new owners or a fan based club would regain the support of the council.
That's because a lot of the Muppets on the CT site can't see that Sisu and CCFC are not the same entity.
No they are not the same entity but they have common control/owners
There is a lot of careful word play that goes on when it suits. But the strategic decisions it seems to me are not made in Coventry
Look at the details of the ARVO charges, the powers/rights ARVO has and who signs for ARVO for example. Ask why there is a SISU employee on the SBS&L board of directors. Ask who it is that TF reports to. Consider that Sconset might own most of the shares in SBS&L but who controls Sconset. etc etc as always in this saga the superficial is not necessarily the reality.
Not sure the other parties have to actively seek out ways to damage to be honest. All they have to say now is No. Certain egos at the CCC might be acting out of spite but I doubt Wasps are - they are single minded, calculated, and don't give a damn about CCFC. They also seem at the moment to deliver on what they say they will (leaving aside views on them coming here)
Not sure how any of the parties think they can damage SISU there is no direct route to do so.
Yes there is damage being done to CCFC but the root of that isn't just CCC. We have to get past this notion that we (CCFC) are owed something by right, that people should bend over backwards to help. Because of what has gone on they wont and we are very much on our own and will remain so until either SISU take a different approach or better still leave. Got to get on and make the best of what is left to us, rely on no one.
Yes there is damage being done to CCFC but the root of that isn't just CCC. We have to get past this notion that we (CCFC) are owed something by right, that people should bend over backwards to help. Because of what has gone on they wont and we are very much on our own and will remain so until either SISU take a different approach or better still leave. Got to get on and make the best of what is left to us, rely on no one.
It would be great to have no third parties interfering at all, no council, no wasps, no higgs, no csf. How is that possible though?
You're looking in the wrong direction, the controlling influence is Joy Sepalla and her investors. That is what OSB pointed out wasn't it.
I meant even with new owners.
I would hope that new owners or a fan based club would regain the support of the council.
It would be great to have no third parties interfering at all, no council, no wasps, no higgs, no csf. How is that possible though?
There's only one way that's possible. Either they cut their ties with the club or the club cuts it's ties with them. Something that seems to be slowly happening for whatever reason and whatever purpose. Here's the worrying aspect. When that does happen the club will be truly fucked. The club can't stand up on. SISU won't support it. So the truth is that the club probably depends more on the third parties more than we do the current owners and that's likely to continue until we have owners with A) a vision B) ambition and C) the ability to deliver.
D) Stupid amounts of money they are willing to give to the club and not expect it back to be able to build everything from scratch.
D) Stupid amounts of money they are willing to give to the club and not expect it back to be able to build everything from scratch.
Which makes their hardball (?) stance in negotiations with CCC, Higgs, Wasps...seem either very dumb or just pig headed.
It would be great to have no third parties interfering at all, no council, no wasps, no higgs, no csf. How is that possible though?
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