Although Strachan got us relegated it isn't his fault that we haven't been in touching distance of automatic promotion or even the Championship playoffs for the past 10 years. He was sacked after 1st few games so cannot be blamed for not getting back up at the 1st attempt.
As for the new season absolutely no interest for the 1st time in 30+ years
Sure thing bro, but if you never actually paid a penny how can you not pay a penny more? Didn't you used to post as Fortress Arena on GMK and do the match thread for every game? Were you doing those threads from the game?
But surely if we wouldn't have got relegated in the first place we wouldn't have needed to get back up? Also, once we went down we were never going to have the same players/money to spend.
I'm certainly not blaming this all on Strachan but he certainly had his part to play.
If I remember rightly you were delighted about the groundshare as it brought the City nearer to London which saved on travel for you. Even bought 3 season tickets as well-that post stuck out as plain bizarre and reading it again I'm baffled.
Did you go for the 'premium' zone?
So you rate him highly as a Coventry manager?Life is full of ifs & buts though isnt it? It wasn't under Strachen that the team bottled it after looking good for automatic spot with 6 games to go. We had flirted with relegation many times before & was always going to catch up with us
I'm not delighted. Some chap was preaching that I hadn't taken travel costs into account, if memory serves. I bought tickets for my dad, me and my kid as I have done for years. Why do you find it bizarre?
Please point out where I said that. These are plain facts. Some of his tactics towards the end were suspect. You also have to acknowledge some of the football under him was superb, in the Dublin, Huckerby, Chippo, Hadji era. Teams came to Highfield rd and stuck 11 men behind the ballSo you rate him highly as a Coventry manager?
I found it odd that you talked so positively about the revised travel arrangements given how much uproar it's caused across the board.
If I got the wrong jist of it I apologise however once Pressley's youth battalion is being spanked week in week out I take my hat off to anyone still going.
Please point out where I said that. These are plain facts. Some of his tactics towards the end were suspect. You also have to acknowledge some of the football under him was superb, in the Dublin, Huckerby, Chippo, Hadji era. Teams came to Highfield rd and stuck 11 men behind the ball
Nowhere hence the question mark. I have written in a previous post why I think he was shit but so far all I have heard back in defence of him is that he was a victim of circumstance and that our other managers have been shut.Please point out where I said that. These are plain facts. Some of his tactics towards the end were suspect. You also have to acknowledge some of the football under him was superb, in the Dublin, Huckerby, Chippo, Hadji era. Teams came to Highfield rd and stuck 11 men behind the ball
My dad is 75. He's not going to be around much longer. He took me to my first game when I was 2, me wearing a sky blue romper suit knitted by my mum. I live in London and he lives in Coventry and going to games together is the only thing we do together. I'd rather we play in Coventry if for no other reason than him moaning like fuck about having to drive to Northampton.
Sisu and ACL will be gone one day but I'm not giving up the limited quality time I have with my dad because some gobshites on a website call me a scab.
Absolutly spot on. Few players had left & the ones that came in didn't do it that year. By then of field antics were catching up with us & we have, in my opinion never truly recoveredThe 00/01 side was generally poor and by then off field antics were becoming obvious. Bellamy has gone on to be a success which showed Strachan still had an eye for talent but he was being undermined by his chairman.
His record since has generally been decent although unspectacular.
My dad is 75. He's not going to be around much longer. He took me to my first game when I was 2, me wearing a sky blue romper suit knitted by my mum. I live in London and he lives in Coventry and going to games together is the only thing we do together. I'd rather we play in Coventry if for no other reason than him moaning like fuck about having to drive to Northampton.
Sisu and ACL will be gone one day but I'm not giving up the limited quality time I have with my dad because some gobshites on a website call me a scab.
Absolutly spot on. Few players had left & the ones that came in didn't do it that year. By then of field antics were catching up with us & we have, in my opinion never truly recovered
Never used that kind of language. Were it me I wouldn't bother with football and do other things with my old man (decades in him, granted) as the City right now don't deserve any support until someone sees commonsense. I'll leave it at that.
Sure thing bro, but if you never actually paid a penny how can you not pay a penny more? Didn't you used to post as Fortress Arena on GMK and do the match thread for every game? Were you doing those threads from the game?
I wasn't saying that you used that language, but there are plenty on here that do. My dad won't do anything else, we tried fishing for a while but you can't moan as much about the shit peg you've got as you can about how shit we've been since '87 so he knocked it on the head. He's not going to change at his age so you work with what you've got.
What you've got to remember is that none of the people involved actually give a fuck about the fans or the cultural importance of football. ACL don't give a toss, Sisu really couldn't care less. The fact that we're all now au fait with cross-invoicing, food and beverage revenue, administration and liquidation ad nauseum indicates that the game has been ruined by money and greed. When my dad is incapable of attending games, I'm giving up watching football. I'll leave it at that.
Football has always been about money as there has always had to be wealthy men prepared to take a hit to fund local clubs. However the likes of the Coates family and Dave Whelan are a dying breed because English football shamelessly whores itself out to the highest bidder with no questions asked.
In that respect actually little has changed. I am not just disillusioned with CCFC but the game here in general and the direction it's taking. For me at least, that makes football unwatchable-Northampton is just the clincher.
I think that's the crux of the issue. A lot of people are conflating their distaste with what has happened to football and our current situation. That and the seemingly innate need to take sides in any dispute and then defend our chosen position to the death.
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