People come on here - who's idea of achievement will be to get their homework done before half-term's over - and spit a vitriolic, worthless diatribe out and it's an embarrassment. Nothing more or less.
Perceived in the press? We're already a national joke because or our tosser owners.
I've noticed it seems OK as long as you and yours are doing the spitting.
Oh yeah and it's great when a so called fan gets in the CT Limelight and decides whe will have a pop as well is it??
Oh yeah and it's great when a so called fan gets in the CT Limelight and decides whe will have a pop as well is it??
What he is doing is telling us the FANS what's happening. Unlike SISU who just sit back and wreck our club. Why can't you see that?
SISU are in receipt of a grant for half a million pounds, not their money, but a grant - and they can't hand over some 2 percent of this value to a charity so that their academy can be held at arm's length from this dispute: and you think it's this bloke's interview that's bringing the club into disrepute?
If your view wasn't so perverse, it'd be funny
he is not telling the fans what is happening - he is putting across his own agenda - big difference
What I have said previously is that I think this interview in the CT has been in parts based on PWKH and solely his opinion of himself at expense of the club and I am sick of it..
Surely he wouldn't have an agenda if the bills had been paid? He's maybe justifiably upset the club have a huge grant to run an academy and are seemingly unwilling or unable to give across a slither for it's intended purpose?
“People have accused me of wrecking it and so on,”
“It was my initiative to build the centre and no-one would be keener to see the Academy back there with proper arrangements in place. I built the bloody thing – it was my idea."
“I spent a year persuading people that it would be a good thing to do and then did the whole of the build. I have put sweat and blood into it so of course I want to see the Academy there."
“It’s a thankless task sometimes and I resent it, to a certain extent, when people say all we’re trying to do is kill the Academy."
What part of that doesn't like he has his own agenda?
So he should keep quiet and let SISU do what they want with the academy grant? He represents a charity. Isn't there a genuine public interest in him speaking out?
I have answered this already, what PWKH could have done instead of jumping in front of the CT and spouting his opinion, is kept it quiet from the media and gone to CCFC (SISU) and said "This money needs to be paid as its owed to the centre and the charity, we give you till the end of the month". Its not like that this would have been hard to do surely in his place of authority PWKH could have pushed this through the right channels to get this money or even discussed this with other people, not jump on the CT and tell them "Well I built this from ground up", "It was my idea", "I persuaded people for a year" and so on!!
That's just trying to boost your own reputation when you have the 15 minutes of fame...
Just a short note to say that there is nothing "in it for me" as was suggested earlier. I am Chairman of Trustees of the Alan Higgs Centre. The Higgs Charity spent £10m building the Centre and gave it to the Trustees of the Centre. The Club's Academy pays a discounted rate for its bookings. The charges are made by Coventry Sports Foundation to the Trust. The Trust then collects that money from the Club and passes it on to CSF. None of the Trustees are paid nor do they get any expenses, nothing. Both the Alan Higgs Centre Trust and Coventry Sports Foundation are registered charities: they are not commercial bodies. CSF have to make the Centre pay but are not out to make profits for owners.
The Alan Higgs Centre Trust and the Higgs Charity are completely separate bodies with different Trustees.
Read my words again. I didn't say he didn't have an agenda. I stated it wouldn't be relevant or am issue if the bills had been paid.
He's upset. Rightly so. Rightly so as the academy are being messed about for no good reason. That's why his points are so emotive.
Still, no unpaid bills: no emotion
So if he is upset go straight to CCFC?? Why take the route to go through CT to then go to CCFC, what does it gain?? It could be all settled with a simple explanation, but it doesn't sound like this option was ever given a chance..
I don't know the full story but surely they would have been chasing CCFC to sort it in the first instance rather than going straight to the press?
Did that, got nowhere. If what you call 15 minutes of fame, and it doesn't much feel that, gets the Academy back into the Higgs Centre with Sisu paying their bills the result will be worth it. I assume nobody on here wants to risk the closure of the Academy.
The fact that they have not paid is not an opinion it is a fact.
So if he is upset go straight to CCFC?? Why take the route to go through CT to then go to CCFC, what does it gain?? It could be all settled with a simple explanation, but it doesn't sound like this option was ever given a chance..
I don't know the full story but surely they would have been chasing CCFC to sort it in the first instance rather than going straight to the press?
I'm taking a wild stab in the dark here, but I'm pretty certain that he probably already did go directly to Sisu long before he went to the Telegraph.
What part of 'Did that, got nowhere' don't you understand?
I think you should reread the CT article again before making more of your ill-informed opinions: http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/co...look-to-sort-out-academy-mess-92746-33141682/
but I am sure that this could have been resolved without taking it to the CT
obv it cudnt
I would guess that it was the CT chasing PWKH for comment rather than the other way round Robo.
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