IMPORTANT! The council meeting starts @ 2pm so protests should be before then...i.e. from 1pm
They'll all be gone by 6!
Thought it was at 7.00pm.
If it is earlier then we maybe struggling to get attendees Will make it myself if need be.
Totally agree. I think the beer hour is upon us now but regroup over the w/end to see where we go?I think if this is going to happen someone on the ground locally needs to get on the case and get all the details firmed up. To me it is absolutely essential to have a decent group of supporters from Cov RFC and Wasps there. I expect someone who lives locally could sort things with Cov RFC fairly easily but has anyone reached out to Wasps supporters to see what numbers they are likely to be attending in?
So just bumping this thread up to see what people are feeling about a protest on Tuesday.
As I said earlier, I think this works better as a general fans protest rather than having any organised group behind it and as LAST & BHSB kicked it off it is there's really. I'm happy to direct any media to them if we go ahead.
Is Joy going, or is she still not bothered?
Is Joy going, or is she still not bothered?
Wouldnt bother, it's a done deal, bit worrying when the people who will be voting haven't been told what they're voting on, I'm sure it's all perfectly legit and above board, I'm sure our council wouldn't do anything to harm the club
Good point!! With so little information known about any deal what is the issue?Are Wasps and Cov Rfc fans there ?
If not what do we actually want as CCFC fans ?
What harm can it do to the club?
not exactly good news is it,
As I have said, from the council's perspective, if they believe the deal beneifts all parties then of course they will vote yes. Wasps fans won't even enter their thinking, same as with Northampton with us. I'm sure their chairman at Sixifelds didn't think about City fans for more than a fleeing second, if at all.
Well people on thursday night I had an idea of what I was protesting for,and you all know how I love a good protest. However numerous things came to light on friday and saturday that now I am no longer sure what the aim is,it seems the only issue now is Wasps moving,and we don't know if thats a fact do we? Going to the Trust meeting on Monday,waiting for the leak that is bound to come from mondays councillors briefing and will make my mind up.
By the way Rob S if I do go I neither want or need any personal media attention.
So it won't harm the club, thanks that's what I thought.
if you don't mind being second best in your own ground to a rugby team then yes your right, it's great news, let's get the champagne out
Its not great news, it's not harmful, it would be business as usual. We will have an agreement to play, and we will play. We have to accept that if the club is not prepared to pay for exclusivity then we won't get it.
We are second best to gaming conventions at the moment.
guess it cant be any worse than being second best to northampton, pitch will be in great shape with the egg chasers ripping it up , maybe with wasps playing there the 20,000 missing fans from the gillingham game might turn up again, your right it is good news
As I have said, from the council's perspective, if they believe the deal beneifts all parties then of course they will vote yes. Wasps fans won't even enter their thinking, same as with Northampton with us. I'm sure their chairman at Sixifelds didn't think about City fans for more than a fleeing second, if at all.
That doesn't make it right of course, I'm not saying that. As politicians, if CCC think this deal benefits Coventry they will vote yes.
Would also hasten to add, if the deal proposed vote did happened to be leaked out in all its full glory and the deal appeared to favour Coventry City and us as Sky Blues fans were asked to vote on the proposal, I would estimate a very large majority in favour of the deal.
Again, not saying that would be right and proper of course and I am sure many would vote yes with a heavy heart and with thoughts and sympathies towards Wasps fans, but the vote would be yes if it favoured the City.
That's just the way it is and fans are quite tribal and dare I say, selfish.
Same when you get people calling for more prisons to be built ...... as long as it isn't on their soil. They will nearly always put themselves first.
With the Sixfields thing we were all unanimous on not wanting our club removed from its home. If this deal now favoured the City then it would be a different matter entirely, for if people believed it to benefit the Sky Blues they would on the whole support it.
Going to Northampton was something we didn't at all want, a deal that somehow secured our future at the Rioch, nearly everyone does want. That's why you have to be very careful about protesting.
It's the world we live in sadly.
The facts of life
Like I say you can't blame Northampton because the FL allowed our owners to do something crazy. That financially was good for them.
Same here with ACL
I don't want Wasps here, but if it means we stay at the Ricoh rather than play ay Sixfields, I will take that every single day of the week.
It increases the likelihood of us disappearing somewhere else in the future.
It may well do, NW, it may well do.
I'm sure the fact we are now home is guiding people's thoughts too. I think most people will accept any security, however short term that may be.
Most fans do not want a new stadium, they want us at the Ricoh. If we got a 10 year deal at the Ricoh people would take that.
Not saying it's right, not saying it's wrong, just saying that's the way it will be.
Me and Plus 1 will be there.
That's the most shocking news of the lot of late .... that you've actually got a plus 1.
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