Just been told from within the club that they WILL be building the new stadium. Council will not sell and talks have finished.
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When you read stuff like this as a Coventry City fan, your emotions get in the way and cloud what is blindingly obvious to a neutral. No stadium will e.v.e.r be built. SISU can identify as many plots of land as they wish (to put the frighteners on you) and they can get outlined planning permission for as many bestest everest stadiums as they like. The small matter of acquiring 30/40/50 £million and spending it with investor guarantees (on a fractured club) remains an insurmountable problem.
So you agree a new stadium won't happen, but actively encourage setting up an AFC Coventry?
Stupot, no one is actually saying start up a new team, we are trying to say lets consider the idea, go down the correct route and see what happens, we can always back out. However, we have to find out more, no harm in that is there, we could be in DIv 2 before any new stadium is built?
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Adds a bit of fun though.
Liking the idea of Gaydon though. Next to the M40, people can pop in the Heritage Motor Centre before a game, Harbury's got a folk club for pre-match entertainment...
No new stadium is going to be built.
V, they are building a major HS2 station round there. I think a likely site is somewhere in the SE corner of the triangle formed by the M42, A45 & A452.
Can just imagine the pre-match sing-song......Kum-bay-yah Sky Blues, Kum-bay-yah.......Adds a bit of fun though.
Liking the idea of Gaydon though. Next to the M40, people can pop in the Heritage Motor Centre before a game, Harbury's got a folk club for pre-match entertainment...
That is almost Stratford or Banbury.. it is 15miles away.. no chance.
Stuart Linnel thinks they will.
So you agree a new stadium won't happen, but actively encourage setting up an AFC Coventry?
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Liking the idea of Gaydon though. Next to the M40, people can pop in the Heritage Motor Centre before a game, Harbury's got a folk club for pre-match entertainment...
Just the notion of an AFC Coventry or CCFC 1883 will put the wind up Sisu.
We have to be a bit more proactive as supporters.
To be honest it is getting to the stage of I'd rather I supported a team playing in our city under one of the above names in Conference North.
Even if this stadium got built we know Sisu would saddle the club with debt, high rents, the usual money accounts musical chairs they do.
I'll be at the away game Saturday, but it is weird these days supporting City. It's like they're my team - but they're not.
To reiterate - an advanced plan to enter a newly formed team next season would change thinking. It might be the Butts, it might be a little ground at Allard Way. It could be the Ricoh. And don't anyone start piling in with - who's going to pay for it - do nothing claptrap.
AGAIN - just developed plans for a new club - would change the landscape. Think about it. Don't think with your hearts. Think with your head.
I love this club as much as anyone - 50+ years. But we've got to think ahead.
We're letting Sisu dictate and call the tune.
V, they are building a major HS2 station round there. I think a likely site is somewhere in the SE corner of the triangle formed by the M42, A45 & A452.
The land there wouldn't be too expensive yet. Possibly look at taking over the Solihull Moors for the ground? Or would they be our new local rivals .........
Definitely think its a half decent shout pointing out that area. Would be perfect for sisu to re-develop the area now, and reap the benefits later.
I cant work out why they need a football club if they want to take advantage of re development opportunities. The Coventry City brand is about as toxic as it get which is why they cant get a sponsor etc. So why do they need the football club to take advantage of re develpment opportunities. Id be grateful for an answer off anyone
I cant work out why they need a football club if they want to take advantage of re development opportunities. The Coventry City brand is about as toxic as it get which is why they cant get a sponsor etc. So why do they need the football club to take advantage of re develpment opportunities. Id be grateful for an answer off anyone
I've said this before, but they'll be telling their investers who probably know absolutely nothing about football, that they 'could' be 2 years away from a £100 million Premier League windfall, and that's just to begin with. Premier league money/sponsorship is insane. We know this won't happen, but there is still the smallest possibilty. That's worth plowing in another £3 million or so if you've got the cash. Purely playing the odds for an individual, it's worth it. Saying that, how long can this go on?
And that's purely on the football side of things. There is money to be made. It's just unfortunate that the current bunch appear to be a massive set of gimps.
Think about it. Sisu need a location for a football stadium. Why not make as much money as they can? Buy the land, lease some land out to retailers, build a hotel, build a football stadium. All of which is located next to a main road, an international airport, and a high speed railway line. It is a council/business dream surely?
Obviously not that easy, but you get the idea .......
I understand the point, but not why it is necessary to own a football club to build a retail site, hotel etc. And I particualrly dont understand why they need a football club which is and will continue to cost them money where they have lost the goodwill of the supporter many of whom I suspect will not return while they are the owners. I can only conclude that they will never build a new stadium because it makes zero economic sense as the football club they run has no value. In the three to five years it would take to build a stadium the value of the club will not have increased without promotion. That is not likely to happen without investment and they are not going to invest anymore (assuming anyone thinks they ever have)
Just seen Hill 83 post. Invest £3m to get promotion fair enough - invest £30m or whatever it is in a stadium makes no sense. Should have invested the £3m when we were in the Championship its much too late now
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