Paul Fletcher (2 Viewers)

Nick · Jul 26, 2020

After the book thread, I just bought his book on the Kindle for £4.99.

Went straight to the ccfc chapter and wasn't expecting it to be so damning.

He explains about the Tesco stuff as well.

"It was clear there was no love lost between the council and Football club, the hostility was obvious"

"The football club is effectively in a straight jacket. I did once wonder what the council's attitude to the football club was"

"I'm 2007 asked about giving the 1987 team the freedom of the city. Told with a blunt "no".

"It made me wonder even more if Coventry city council actually really valued their final club"

Also gives examples of working with councils at other clubs.

"I became the football clubs managing director, from that moment on I was as good as working against the city council in trying to safeguard the football clubs best interests"

covcity4life · Jul 26, 2020

Crazy. I sent that to anti sisu mate and he responded with

Paul Fletcher a knob and sisu lost in court

Oh my

Nick · Jul 26, 2020

covcity4life said:
Crazy. I sent that to anti sisu mate and he responded with

Paul Fletcher a knob and sisu lost in court

Oh my

Does he realise this was before sisu were here?

Evo1883 · Jul 26, 2020

covcity4life said:
Crazy. I sent that to anti sisu mate and he responded with

Paul Fletcher a knob and sisu lost in court

Oh my

Your friend sounds like he's prepared to listen

Mucca Mad Boys · Jul 26, 2020

@SBT

Still think the CCC would allow the club to build a new stadium inside its jurisdiction?

covcity4life · Jul 26, 2020

Nick said:
Does he realise this was before sisu were here?

Yup but Paul Fletcher was a knob so it's ok

Also wasps need ccfc here so havnt lied. NDA is business and proven to be right in court

Also bscks any tactic to get sisu out so actually admits dont care if council corrupt

shepardo01 · Jul 26, 2020

covcity4life said:
Yup but Paul Fletcher was a knob so it's ok

Also wasps need ccfc here so havnt lied. NDA is business and proven to be right in court

Also bscks any tactic to get sisu out so actually admits dont care if council corrupt

Why is he your mate??
Bet he reads the Coventry Telegraph and is on the City Facebook group- and they are his only methods of gaining news around CCFC? ??

Nick · Jul 26, 2020

A couple of pages

Nick · Jul 26, 2020

Not sure how readable?

covcity4life · Jul 26, 2020

shepardo01 said:
Why is he your mate??
Bet he reads the Coventry Telegraph and is on the City Facebook group- and they are his only methods of gaining news around CCFC? ??

Once you stop arguing hes a alright lol just will never agree on ccfc

Frostie · Jul 26, 2020

Very, very enlightening!

As we've known all along the council have a deep hatred for the football club but this even pre-dates SISU.

Why do they not treat the club as a community asset like every other council?

covcity4life · Jul 26, 2020

Cheers for screenshots. I have no idea why council hate ccfc so much csnt even say its just sisu they hate

Liquid Gold · Jul 26, 2020

Coventry City Council are scum. Anybody defending them still have skin in the game or are seriously fucking deluded.

chiefdave · Jul 26, 2020

What a thoroughly depressing read. Once again shows that the idea the councils attitude to the football club is down to SISU to be nonsense.

speedie87 · Jul 26, 2020

Been saying it for years the council issue should be easy to solve by voting them out!

jim20 · Jul 26, 2020

Wow, if the club had just got their share of the profit from the Tesco deal, everything would have been so different. They were well and truly screwed over by the council

Liquid Gold · Jul 26, 2020

covcity4life said:
Cheers for screenshots. I have no idea why council hate ccfc so much csnt even say its just sisu they hate

I think they just see CCFC as their cash cow, they hate Sisu because they've tried to get their greasy paws out of the club.

covcity4life · Jul 26, 2020

Liquid Gold said:
I think they just see CCFC as their cash cow, they hate Sisu because they've tried to get their greasy paws out of the club.

Such a dumb way to about it. Lose so much matchday money for cov community in hope they sell us. Could take abother decade!

I might even buy a round foe my.matesif thid Warwick stadium goes ahead.

Soon as back in cov district I left my wallet at home of course

skyblueelephant76 · Jul 26, 2020

Nice that the council was so concerned about the possibility of illegal state aid back then...

ccfctommy · Jul 26, 2020

speedie87 said:
Been saying it for years the council issue should be easy to solve by voting them out!

Vote who out? Aren't these things decided at full cabinet meetings by everybody?

cc84cov · Jul 26, 2020

The Council are scum who don’t give a shit about the football club we all know that

I’m glad finally people are opening their eyes & seeing them for what they are this will only snowball now more & more people will begin to see this and turn on them

tisza · Jul 26, 2020

All in all a depressing ( but not surprising) read

Specs WT-R75 · Jul 27, 2020

speedie87 said:
Been saying it for years the council issue should be easy to solve by voting them out!

Their replacements would just be the same. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Philosoraptor · Jul 27, 2020

I do have a few questions here.

Who was leaders of the Council when this was happening?

From what I can understand by the text, the Council took the income of the shopping complex away from CCFC because the funding was not there from CCFC.

Was there any other board members or benefactors of CCFC who stepped down or left the board around this time, or a bit earlier?

What has happened to the income from the shopping complex?

I am sure someone quoted this income as being worth £2 million a year to the club.

Just trying to fill in the dots.

djr8369 · Jul 27, 2020

Thanks for sharing Nick. Very interesting. All very well saying vote them out but it never seems to happen, or maybe the issues are too entrenched and there are just too many in the council who have the same view?

Maybe we can launch some kind of guerrilla campaign to help, a la Led by Donkeys, or something.

wingy · Jul 27, 2020

Philosorapter said:
I do have a few questions here.

Who was leaders of the Council when this was happening?

From what I can understand by the text, the Council took the income of the shopping complex away from CCFC because the funding was not there from CCFC.

Was there any other board members or benefactors of CCFC who stepped down or left the board around this time, or a bit earlier?

What has happened to the income from the shopping complex?

I am sure someone quoted this income as being worth £2 million a year to the club.

Just trying to fill in the dots.

As far as I recall there was a Dutch company involved somewhere?
May have been involved with the land cleaning , think they may have taken some of the financial benefit.
Think it was a Spanish bank pulling out that exposed us to vultures.

Colin Steins Smile · Jul 27, 2020

ccfctommy said:
Vote who out? Aren't these things decided at full cabinet meetings by everybody?

Both Labour and Conservatives have backed the decisions relating to CCFC. To elicit change there needs to be a pro-CCFC candidates standing across the city in the next local elections. If a few of those we elected and there was a balance of power issue between the two main parties...that might influence attitudes to the club.
I'm not holding my breath on this!

Flying Fokker · Jul 27, 2020

We need a ‘White Knight’. No not a racist dumbf*** but someone who can rescue the club from years of pathetic posturing from people in meetings.

Fletcher would surely have known that the relationship was adversarial when he worked for ACL? Another ego in the mix of our misfortune.

Nick · Jul 27, 2020

Flying Fokker said:
We need a ‘White Knight’. No not a racist dumbf*** but someone who can rescue the club from years of pathetic posturing from people in meetings.

Fletcher would surely have known that the relationship was adversarial when he worked for ACL? Another ego in the mix of our misfortune.

Yeah, there's a bit in there saying when he started with ACL the council harassed him and made it difficult for CCFC. Then he goes to work for CCFC and was still dealing with the same stuff.

Bumberclart · Jul 27, 2020

I've said it all along, Fletcher was a good bloke who got wrapped up in other peoples mistakes.
He did a fantastic job at Huddersfield and was certainly the driving force which led to the new ground and the agreements with Kirklees Council.

All of our issues stem back to McGinnity and Richardson. Anyone who was on the board at that time has blood on their hands.

Liquid Gold · Jul 27, 2020

I thought he went to Burnley after us, maybe I've got confused somewhere. Is he a Burnley fan?

Bumberclart · Jul 27, 2020

I think he's a Bolton fan, He certainly played for Burnley in his younger years.

chiefdave · Jul 27, 2020

Philosorapter said:
Who was leaders of the Council when this was happening?

Fletcher joined ACL in 2004 and moved to us in 2006 leaving in 2008.
Ken Taylor was council leader from 2004 to 2010 according to this

Ex-Coventry council leader Kenneth Taylor appointed OBE

The former leader of Coventry City Council is among those named in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.

www.bbc.co.uk

Earlsdon_Skyblue1 · Jul 27, 2020

It would be great if someone who knows a bit about who was involved from the council and how to vote them out could put together a quick guide of what us folk not so much in the know can follow. We can then target our voting at the next elections or whatever to really make them unstuck and get the right people out of office.

Their behaviour is totally unacceptable and has been for a long time. Even some of the tweets I have seen this week are quite unsavoury.

steve cooper · Jul 27, 2020

wingy said:
As far as I recall there was a Dutch company involved somewhere?
May have been involved with the land cleaning , think they may have taken some of the financial benefit.
Think it was a Spanish bank pulling out that exposed us to vultures.

HBG, now called BAM Nuttal I believe

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